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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 10h

I reckon he'll fill the O2 (just checked and it only has 20 000 capacity. Actually feels way bigger than that though, doesn't it? When it's rammed it feels pretty much like a stadium. Genuinely surprised it's only 20' 000)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15h

Tripe Purveyor, painting by Glen Williams, Huddersfield-based artist raised in Rotherham. #NorthernArt

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 15h

The arts are worthless, I see. Well, try watching telly, listening to the radio or to podcasts, wearing clothes, reading books, decorating your homes, dancing to music, driving a nice car or in fact doing anything fun, without the arts. Besides from animals, there would be no joy anywhere.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 22h

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely wonderful.

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Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.

Mindless Jerks artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

Paula NM Jennings (Worst Poet) artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 1d

‘I *loathe* the bloody place. But you know how these things work….’

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 1d

Travel agents! I remember those. Having a ‘meeting’ with someone behind a desk about a holiday or flights. Seems so utterly bizarre now.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 1d

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 3d

I really dislike it when critics attempt to impose arbitrary 'narrative rules' on fiction. It's completely absurd. We spend almost half our lives asleep, in a hallucinatory dream state. And you want rules?

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 3d

Ah yes, that fine noted cider apple: the *granny smith*. Ffs.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 4d

Chuckling at young waitress at library cafe who is doing an ecology degree.

“They bloody took us to Dartmoor on Wednesday & made us sit on the highest rock in the cold & wind, to give us a talk. They could’ve bloody done that on the coach”

😂😂😂

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 4d

‘I often get asked that and do you know what my answer is? You’ll never guess it. Ok…my answer is: Roland Gift. Seriously. Phenomenal talent. *Phenomenal* talent’ etc

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 4d

‘I’m going to take this napkin - this one here - and I am going to write something down. You mustn’t look at what I have written until you get home’

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 5d

Bought this 35 years ago today. One of the greatest singles of all time and the daddy of all dub tracks. Was totally stunned when I heard it for the first time. Earth-shaking, visionary. Seems nuts that it’s almost half a century old.
youtu.be/ztq7-kkygZk?...

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 5d

(I really, really want that wall of court room sketch art)

Maybe:…… @getthebagcoach.bsky.social · 5d

We got new Sean Combs drawings …… this looks like you got the bubble guts in public and it’s no restroom in sight

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

‘He ‘wants fed’ at set hours, Lowe! - like an infant- he has no conception of the bush…’ etc

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

He’s quite Tice and Lowe, actually. Tice would hate him though. He wouldn’t be able to handle Rhodesia. ‘….he hawks and *snucks* constantly, Lowe!’ etc

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

😂🙏🏻

harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

'The smile of the boss, huh'....'the smile of the boss?' 'oh yes, the smile of the boss. No price increase. that and the list' - poetry.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

The Cheapest Restaurant in Paris (1981)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_q...

1981 : Le restaurant le moins cher de Paris | Archive INA

YouTube video by INA Paris Vintage

www.youtube.com

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

This as well - the whole archive is *gold*

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Iy...

1976 : Que mangent les hommes ? | Archive INA

YouTube video by INA Société

www.youtube.com

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

Butchers at Les Halles (1971) - stop watching nonsense and watch 51 minutes of Parisian butchers in the early 1970’s.

youtu.be/fvsLpzyWwjo?...

1971 : Les bouchers des Halles de Paris | Archive INA

YouTube video by INA Paris Vintage

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 5d

Preview: The Complete 2000 AD by Alan Moore Vol.1 – Rebellion Announce New Archival Series. @2000ad.bsky.social

www.brokenfrontier.com/preview-the-...

Preview: The Complete 2000 AD by Alan Moore Vol.1 – Rebellion Announce New Archival Series | Broken Frontier

www.brokenfrontier.com

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 5d

Country music was really big in Ireland, 70’s/80’s right?

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