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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · 7d

Dear Mr Trump, announcing something is not the same as it happening.

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Peter Glaser @peterglaser.bsky.social · 8d

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · 15d

‘They must have built it at night for it to look this good.’

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · 18d

9 years ago a man came up to me outside Cologne Cathedral and told me that the Rothschilds had decided that George Osborne was the next UK Prime Minister.

Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 18d

A man genuinely came up to me on the street and said the Fabians were part of a new world order of control. Baffling that they can fit it in between pamphlets on prison reform.

Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · 18d

I knew it was Boccherini too

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · 18d

Reassuring to see that the traditions of 70s socialism can still be revived. No mass movement is complete until its membership is reduced to a single person.

Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 18d

A group called 'Our Party' is trying to take over 'Your Party'

A group called ‘Our Party’ is trying to take over ‘Your Party’

They've called for Corbyn and Sultana to 'hand the reins over to the grassroots membership'

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · 19d

‘Your name?’
‘Jeremy Corbyn.’
‘Your specialist subject?’
‘Self-aggrandising factionalism.’

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · 21d

iceorg.org/news-updates...

An Update from ICE — International Contemporary Ensemble

The International Contemporary Ensemble announced today that at the end of March, after serving for five years as its Executive Director, Jennifer Kessler will leave the Ensemble for a new position in...

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Sep 8

Gotta love a typo. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great North Run medals show Sunderland instead of Newcastle

Medals given to participants use an image of Sunderland, which has no connection to the event.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · Sep 7

Researchers closing in on how to release microbrew IPA on cassette.

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Sep 7

Shocking! 36% of all film fans are joyless cinephobes! Boo!

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Sep 7

ENRAGED by the newfound knowledge that The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) has an average rating of 6.4/10 on IMDb, who are the people who disliked it, were they all born without a soul, or capacity for joy

Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Aug 28

There’s no ‘we’ at Old Trafford, just a handful of millionaires and their customers.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Aug 16

Like a well oiled machine

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Aug 5

A drum solo so long that Rick Wakeman used to have a curry delivered to pass the time

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is a good way to greet a new month: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDI...

Sofia Jernberg - One Pitch - Resonant Bodies Festival NYC 2016

Sofia Jernberg, vocalist One Pitch: Birds for Distortion and Mouth Synthesizers September 6, 2016 at Roulette in Brooklyn www.resonantbodiesfestival.org

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Aug 1

Burglar Bill was a big favourite for my children (but failed to tempt them into a life of crime).

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ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hildegard of Bingen enjoys a scalp massage from Cthulhu while she repairs a convent radiator

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Jul 11

Music for a summer morning m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaT...

John Cage: Melody No. 4 / Patricia Kopatchinskaja

YouTube video by Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Jul 11

Covering the small boats 'deal' without referencing Macron's irrefutably accurate observation that blame for the 'crisis' lies with Brexit involves contortions so violent that the people doing it should be in a circus.

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Jul 6

The problem is the drivers not the signs.

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · Jul 4

Unless I’m missing something, Labour have done some pretty good things both at home and internationally in their first year - certainly the last year much better then prior 14 - so interesting how negative the media and commentary are

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Jun 22

Taking my girlfriend to see Last Tango in Paris was not well received by her dad when we got back to her parental home.

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Jun 22

Centuries, minutes later, one might ask / How the hilt of a sword wandered so far from the smithy. / And somewhere they will sing: 'Like chaff we were borne / In the wind.' This is the wind in a field of corn. (Wind, James Fenton)

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Christopher Fox @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social · Jun 17

10 minutes of tv anywhere else makes one realise how good the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 (even Sky!) are.

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