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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 8h

Free download on Bandcamp from Curtain Twitcher. curtaintwitcher.bandcamp.com/album/underg...

Underground Genius, by Curtain Twitcher

2 track album

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 8h

Kinda is.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 9h

Shine.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15h

It's doubtful isn't it Daniel.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 16h

I'm off to see Clark tonight, I never go out these days, so this is quite a (noisy electronic) thing.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 17h

Worth mentioning you can get that here. www.thebookhive.co.uk/product/sea-...

Sea-Change by Jessica Streeting - The Book Hive

In their ancient London taxi, Jessica Streeting’s family move east, deep into the Norfolk countryside. It is 1975 and her father, the Reverend Paul Farnham, has a new position at […]

www.thebookhive.co.uk

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 18h

Life is such an odd-shaped circle.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 18h

I found out this morning they were found by the children of the then vicar in the late 1970s. What makes this feel so odd and makes my skin prickle is that I know one of them. And it’s Jess Streeting who wrote Sea Change, which is an amazing prose poem about the loss of her father.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 18h

I was searching for something to do with a specific person on Picture Norfolk, this was an exceptionally random return. It’s a late 19th century glass plate of a moth collector. What makes it interesting is it was dug up from the garden of Cawston Rectory in Norfolk along with others.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve been working on a fairly long project which has involved writing, loads of research and double checking volunteer submitted info. Plus, some picture research. It does mean you bump into interesting things. Here’s one.

A black and white glass plate which shows a man displaying his moth collection. It’s badly damaged.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

As is the use of a Jerusalem Cross which has ultra right/fascist connotations.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Current belter I’d forgotten and now can’t stop listening to.

youtu.be/7IGrTxyMohk?...

Sad and Young

YouTube video by Trans Am - Topic

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

I did that the other day. The main British ones Facebook page is ‘interesting’.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Hard drive checks all round.

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

We are through the looking glass:

An evangelical group in gold-black uniforms are blocking traffic in Soho to protest against the 'sex district'.

A friend points out that political uniforms for marches have been banned here since the 1930s.

www.thenational.scot/news/2551868...

'Lunacy': Evangelical group in black uniforms target Soho street in bizarre protest

BIZARRE footage of an evangelical group dressed in black chanting “Jesus Saves” in Soho has been described as “lunacy”.

www.thenational.scot

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Says woman whose father-in law-has a special diamond studded gold hat, 30 palaces and three-quarters of a million acres of land.

Sky News (Mirror) @skynews-m.bsky.social · 1d

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Kate
https://news.sky.com/story/phones-creating-epidemic-of-disconnection-in-families-says-princess-of-wales-13447487?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Princess of Wales

"Our undivided attention is the most precious gift we can give another person. Yet, increasingly, it's the most difficult gift to offer," Kate writes in a joint essay.

news.sky.com

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Salle

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Tacolneston

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Costessey

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Happisburgh, Wymondham, Hautbois, Belaugh, Bylaugh.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

I never did trust them. Based largely on the amateurishness with which they dealt with being vaguely present on our local council. Proper Keystone Cops stuff. Useless.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. See final comment in thread.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

*I’m not taking questions. The rot started with Cameron, the infighting he made worse that caused the rift with the EU.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

The boasting post is frankly something to behold. www.nickclegg.org.uk/2025/01/02/w...

Nick Clegg’s Salary & Net Worth: A 2025 Perspective - Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg’s Career Evolution Nick Clegg, once a household name in UK politics as Deputy Prime Minister during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, has successfully transitioned int...

www.nickclegg.org.uk

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Nick Clegg, vacuous unthinking AI evangelista, former tory austerity enabler, vice-worst British Prime Minister in history*, didn’t bother getting anyone to proof-read his frankly shit website.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t it just basically ‘the allies’.

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