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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Stretch. Your lower back will thank you.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

I've said before that the ideal level of fame is to be Gene Hackman's character in THE CONVERSATION - anonymous nobody on the street but treated with awed reverence at your industry's trade show bsky.app/profile/shai...

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 2d

Science fiction author John Scalzi talks about the happy medium of fame for him, where people that are really into your work recognize you, and it’s rare enough that it’s generally an enjoyable experience, but you’re completely anonymous otherwise.

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 2d

This is what put me off Mandy, an otherwise clever and well made film that should have regarded that kind of plot device as beneath it.

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 3d

I am an authority on Classic Doctor Who, to the extent of being able to recite every episode broadcast between 1963 and 1989 in order from memory, and yet I have never seen a single episode of Blake's Seven.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 4d

I tried to think of something that would encapsulate the whole of Led Zeppelin in a single line and all I could think of was "squeeze my hobbit"

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t know who originally coined the observation that all Led Zep songs are about shagging or goblins, or both. This felt like a wise nod to that.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 4d

I particularly enjoyed the line about how Plant wrote on Led Zeppelin II "about his wife, about his conflicted feelings for his sister-in-law, and about hobbits, sometimes all in the same song."

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 9d

The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! This one looks at the formation of Led Zeppelin, and looks in detail at the inspirations behind the songs on their first album.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

well, there's that one song about how visiting Iceland makes you feel like a Viking, but generally feels spot on

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t know who originally coined the observation that all Led Zep songs are about shagging or goblins, or both. This felt like a wise nod to that.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 4d

I particularly enjoyed the line about how Plant wrote on Led Zeppelin II "about his wife, about his conflicted feelings for his sister-in-law, and about hobbits, sometimes all in the same song."

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 4d

Every working, professional poet in the world today would give their right arm for one of their poems to have had the exposure and impact that this six year-old's has had over the years.

Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 4d

Today's animal theme for #BookWormSat wouldn't be complete without Nael's classic poem 'The Tiger' 🐅

🎨 by Brian Wildsmith

The Tiger by Nael, age 6, from 'They're Singing a Song in The Rocket'

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

Painting of a tiger in dense undergrowth by Brian Wildsmith

https://www.brianwildsmith.com/wild-animals

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 6d

Honestly flawless scansion.

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 7d

Don,t forget to occasionally refill your apostrophes with helium or they,ll sink

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

How cancel culture came for everyone

Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 6d

I mean to be there.

chicentreffsf.bsky.social @chicentreffsf.bsky.social · 6d

Coming soon to the British Library - a Fairy Tales exhibition! Explore enchanted lands, magical creatures, iconic characters and timeless tales, brought to life through books, theatre costumes, puppets, pop-ups, artwork and illustrations. March - August 2026.

events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

Fairy Tales | British Library

Take your family on a magical adventure in a new interactive exhibition! Explore enchanted lands, magical creatures, iconic characters and timeless tales,

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chicentreffsf.bsky.social @chicentreffsf.bsky.social · 6d

Coming soon to the British Library - a Fairy Tales exhibition! Explore enchanted lands, magical creatures, iconic characters and timeless tales, brought to life through books, theatre costumes, puppets, pop-ups, artwork and illustrations. March - August 2026.

events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

Fairy Tales | British Library

Take your family on a magical adventure in a new interactive exhibition! Explore enchanted lands, magical creatures, iconic characters and timeless tales,

events.bl.uk

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10d

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 10d

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 9d

"Heathrow, it's me, I'm Cathay"

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 11d

This might be the most concentrated centrist campaign in history. "Farage is racist" out of one side of his mouth while saying "Farage is right" out of the other. A worm ideology for worm people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

Keir Starmer attacks ‘racist’ Farage plan to deport people settled in the UK

Prime minister says Reform proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain could ‘tear this country apart’ * Labour conference – live updates Keir Starmer has attacked Reform UK’s plan to deport thousands of people already legally living in the UK as “racist” and “immoral”, as he said that Labour had a generational struggle ahead with the populist right. The prime minister, in Liverpool for his party conference, said he did not think that Nigel Farage’s party was trying to appeal to racists, and that he understood people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated and wanted change. Continue reading...

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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · Aug 14

I know this is old man stuff, but it's so funny that Robert Plant does one reunion show with Led Zeppelin, it works great, they threaten a tour that would make a billion dollars, he says nah, then he promptly runs away to make slowcore bluegrass for the rest of his life.

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 11d

What would the graph look like if they counted the state violence?

Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 11d

Thweet and thucculent.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 11d

There's a story about the bride who asked for "the song from Robin Hood", meaning Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. The organist, being from an older generation...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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