Max
@mhbluesky.bsky.social
Old liberal gardener type - family, books, classical and jazz music, dogs, wine, laughter, some sport, 60-something centrist - basically a cliché.
Is it me or is @forbes.com becoming weird, worrybait, spam all of a sudden? I used to use it as a reliable benchmark but now it may as well be a Musk-owned organ of hype’
December 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Is it me or is @forbes.com becoming weird, worrybait, spam all of a sudden? I used to use it as a reliable benchmark but now it may as well be a Musk-owned organ of hype’
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
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I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
My (not particularly original) idea is to change the concept of a week to 8 days - 5 days of slog, 1 day for home admin and care, 1 day for family/friends, 1 day for rest and contemplation
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My (not particularly original) idea is to change the concept of a week to 8 days - 5 days of slog, 1 day for home admin and care, 1 day for family/friends, 1 day for rest and contemplation
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
(Normally attributed to)
George Bernard Shaw
(Normally attributed to)
George Bernard Shaw
December 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
(Normally attributed to)
George Bernard Shaw
(Normally attributed to)
George Bernard Shaw
I know you baroque fans already know this but… it’s immaculate and with so much on offer maybe you’re due a return visit?
open.spotify.com/album/1uKORQ...
open.spotify.com/album/1uKORQ...
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Salve Regina
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I know you baroque fans already know this but… it’s immaculate and with so much on offer maybe you’re due a return visit?
open.spotify.com/album/1uKORQ...
open.spotify.com/album/1uKORQ...
There is a secret village somewhere at the back of my mind, where love from forgotten lives, takes gentle, untroubled form. This is the kind of music I hear there.
open.spotify.com/track/3OsZ5z...
open.spotify.com/track/3OsZ5z...
Eesti Kalendrilaulud: No. 5. Jaanilaulud: Kutse jaanitulele I
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
There is a secret village somewhere at the back of my mind, where love from forgotten lives, takes gentle, untroubled form. This is the kind of music I hear there.
open.spotify.com/track/3OsZ5z...
open.spotify.com/track/3OsZ5z...
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from “Lines for Winter”
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
Forqueray Unchained Live, André Lislevand - M. Marais, Plainte N. 55
YouTube video by André Lislevand
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
from “Lines for Winter”
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
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It’s pretty fucked up when president Zelensky has to correct the Toddler in Chief that he didn’t start the Ukraine Russia war and to also has remind him how grateful Ukraine is for the assistance the US has provided.
Here are two paragraphs from Zelensky’s lengthy post.
Here are two paragraphs from Zelensky’s lengthy post.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It’s pretty fucked up when president Zelensky has to correct the Toddler in Chief that he didn’t start the Ukraine Russia war and to also has remind him how grateful Ukraine is for the assistance the US has provided.
Here are two paragraphs from Zelensky’s lengthy post.
Here are two paragraphs from Zelensky’s lengthy post.
No one reads my posts anyway but just in case I want all Ukrainian people to know I and most people I know in the UK are with you and think the US ‘peace plan’ is insulting.
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
No one reads my posts anyway but just in case I want all Ukrainian people to know I and most people I know in the UK are with you and think the US ‘peace plan’ is insulting.
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‘But even the nuttiest writers need to be told that their publisher likes their books.’
Julian Barnes on the tempestuous relationship between Flaubert and his publisher, Michel Lévy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Barnes on the tempestuous relationship between Flaubert and his publisher, Michel Lévy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Barnes · Ouvriers de luxe: Author v. Publisher
Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
‘But even the nuttiest writers need to be told that their publisher likes their books.’
Julian Barnes on the tempestuous relationship between Flaubert and his publisher, Michel Lévy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Barnes on the tempestuous relationship between Flaubert and his publisher, Michel Lévy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Good Morning.
October 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Good Morning.
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As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
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Now Taking Bookings for 2025 Youth Cancer Trust Wellbeing Holidays! (UK)🌟
Are you a young person who is living with or beyond cancer - +18 and diagnosed before the age of 30?
👉 Find out more and apply now! www.youthcancertrust.org/free-holidays/enquire
Know someone who’d love this? Please share!
Are you a young person who is living with or beyond cancer - +18 and diagnosed before the age of 30?
👉 Find out more and apply now! www.youthcancertrust.org/free-holidays/enquire
Know someone who’d love this? Please share!
February 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Now Taking Bookings for 2025 Youth Cancer Trust Wellbeing Holidays! (UK)🌟
Are you a young person who is living with or beyond cancer - +18 and diagnosed before the age of 30?
👉 Find out more and apply now! www.youthcancertrust.org/free-holidays/enquire
Know someone who’d love this? Please share!
Are you a young person who is living with or beyond cancer - +18 and diagnosed before the age of 30?
👉 Find out more and apply now! www.youthcancertrust.org/free-holidays/enquire
Know someone who’d love this? Please share!
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“Twitter is an industrial scale piss factory”. So says the great @aiannucci.bsky.social on the latest @mediaconfidential.bsky.social in which @janinegibson.bsky.social and I discuss how to stop Elon Musk dictating the news agenda mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastto
Media Confidential
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media.
What—and who—drives it?
What do they get right... And what do they get wrong?
Lionel, former editor of the Financi...
mediaconfidential.lnk.to
January 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“Twitter is an industrial scale piss factory”. So says the great @aiannucci.bsky.social on the latest @mediaconfidential.bsky.social in which @janinegibson.bsky.social and I discuss how to stop Elon Musk dictating the news agenda mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastto
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Words to live by, from the great Ian Dunt.
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Words to live by, from the great Ian Dunt.
On this day my heart returns here first. The place of my childhood, singing treble as a chorister. Place where my late mother held my hand, where my family stood joyously together at midnight mass. May love reach each and every one of you all, today and always.
Pax in terra - Peace on Earth.
Pax in terra - Peace on Earth.
December 25, 2024 at 6:06 AM
On this day my heart returns here first. The place of my childhood, singing treble as a chorister. Place where my late mother held my hand, where my family stood joyously together at midnight mass. May love reach each and every one of you all, today and always.
Pax in terra - Peace on Earth.
Pax in terra - Peace on Earth.
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Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
December 24, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
@marcgooderham.bsky.social Your beautiful art arrived safe and sound. Thank you so much! I can now bore my grandchildren about long, stimulating lunches I spent with much cleverer people than me in Gordon’s before the refurb! The cobwebs were legendary, the wine was great!
December 24, 2024 at 6:23 PM
@marcgooderham.bsky.social Your beautiful art arrived safe and sound. Thank you so much! I can now bore my grandchildren about long, stimulating lunches I spent with much cleverer people than me in Gordon’s before the refurb! The cobwebs were legendary, the wine was great!
We displayed a little nativity scene at home and above it used a favourite French proverb:
‘Praise the God of all, drink the wine, and let the world be the world.’
‘Praise the God of all, drink the wine, and let the world be the world.’
December 20, 2024 at 6:55 PM
We displayed a little nativity scene at home and above it used a favourite French proverb:
‘Praise the God of all, drink the wine, and let the world be the world.’
‘Praise the God of all, drink the wine, and let the world be the world.’
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'Gordon's Wine Bar at Night', Villiers Street by Marc Gooderham
marcgooderham.co.uk
👤: @marcgooderham.bsky.social
marcgooderham.co.uk
👤: @marcgooderham.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
'Gordon's Wine Bar at Night', Villiers Street by Marc Gooderham
marcgooderham.co.uk
👤: @marcgooderham.bsky.social
marcgooderham.co.uk
👤: @marcgooderham.bsky.social
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