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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · May 27

Williamson’s Tunnels and the heritage centre were obviously a massive part/influence for our Flux series of Doctor Who. Would be amazing if the Who community shared this appeal widely and/or were able to help before this looming deadline. See below and please RT!

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · May 27

If you've ever marvelled at the vaulted Victorian subterranea of Liverpool's Williamson tunnels you have The Heritage Centre to thank. Unfortunately, it will be closing for good on June 1st if they can't raise £12k.

Here's how you can help

www.gofundme.com/f/adcnrn-sav...

Donate to Save the Heritage Centre, organized by David Bridson

It is with huge regret and great sadness that the Joseph Williamson Society has to report that,… David Bridson needs your support for Save the Heritage Centre

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Richard Norris @mrrichardnorris.bsky.social · May 27

I am launching my new 6 album psych compilation 'Mr Norris Changes Brains' (Eskimo Records) at Rough Trade, Denmark St, on June 10th. I will be in conversation with David Keenan, and we'll both be signing things. There will be DJing. 5.30 - 7pm. It's FREE! Free tickets here - dice.fm/partner/roug...

Richard Norris: In Conversation with David Keenan + Signing Tickets | From Free | 10 Jun @ Rough Trade Denmark Street, London | DICE

Rough Trade Denmark Street is very excited to present an in-store In conversation with Richard Norris and David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue, This Is Memorial Dev...

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Jamie Taylor @coldtapfilms.bsky.social · May 19

Mighty grateful that the book’s gone down well. If reading the book has made you want to see me point at Sheffield buildings, join me on Sunday 15th June at 2pm for a free walking tour organised by @labiblioteka.bsky.social

Only 9 spots left! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · May 15

I may have watched every episode of PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE, but I only noticed today that that J.R. "Bob" Dobbs appears in the opening sequence.

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Tristi Bee @tristibee.bsky.social · May 15

Playing I Like Trains - #Kompromat It’s probably 5 years old but just as excoriating and blissfully bleak now as it was then. #ILikeTrains #BandsWhoShouldBeMassive #HowDoYouSleepAtNight #TheTruthIs

I LIKE TRAINS - The Truth (Official Video)

YouTube video by iLiKETRAiNSofficial

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Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · May 15

My most listened-to Eno is his wondrous collaboration with John Cale in 1990. A tense recording not borne out by the results. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/w...

‘…With my pencil turning moments into life…’

When I wrote the following review, I stole forty minutes from helping my parents put shutters up in anticipation of Hurricane Frances, a soggy nuisance that inched towards the Palm Beach-Martin cou…

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John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social · May 15

The bliss of going rogue. A wonderful interview with Patrick McCabe in the @irishtimes.com on the publication of GOLDENGROVE by @unboundsocials.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Patrick McCabe: ‘This whole idea of making money out of novels started in the 1980s with Martin Amis and Ian McEwan’

McCabe, who found himself adrift in the 21st-century book business despite his huge impact on the culture in the 1990s, on the bliss of going rogue

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John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social · May 15

I'm very pleased and not a little relieved that this fine book is published today by @unboundsocials.bsky.social . It's GOLDENGROVE the fourteenth novel by the great Patrick McCabe.
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Goldengrove a book by Patrick McCabe.

‘Wild, anarchic, and wonderfully head-spinning’ Neil Jordan, award-winning film directorA dark theatrical comedy about the vexed and violent relationship between Britain and Ireland, from twice Booker...

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

that is weird

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

sorry my typo, should be 'turned on'

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · May 15

It's hard to be bored when your on All Fours – Miranda July's tender, irreverent, sexy literary explosion of a novel is out today in paperback! Shortlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social for fiction, it's a book you need to experience. Join the #AllFoursGroupChat

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A paperback copy of the novel All Fours by Miranda July floating against a grey background. The novel bears a sticker reading 'Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction 2025'

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

You can see the same thing happening with Substack. It does newsletters really well but if you go to their website or app now it is just a hot mess - you have no idea what it is for.

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks to @harkaway.bsky.social for pointing this one out. As he points out this is obsession with continual growth and the desire to be everything is pretty mad. The boss sounds like a complete tool.

www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

Brian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything App

Airbnb's CEO is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an all-purpose service app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

www.wired.com

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

Sorry awkward phrasing from me! It is from this week's magazine. There is paywall but it only gets turned after you have read a couple of articles a month.

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

I heard the Ben Jamin song in Jon Sa Trinxa's first mix of 2025 soundcloud.com/jon-sa-trinx...

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Recorded at the Standard , Bangkok. Special thanks to Rui Rodrigues Playlist --- World Is In Danger Intro Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (Extended Version) Andy Kidd - Lay It All Down (Final

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

One for the weekend. This art fair in Peckham looks brilliant www.peckham24.com/a-bigger-boo...

A Bigger Book Fair 2025 — Peckham 24

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

Our track of the day is Ben Jamin's Balearic take on Lay Lady Lay

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Lady Stay (Free Download)

After watching the Dylan film, I was inspired to edit one of my favourite songs of his. You can download the edit for free via the link below: https://hypeddit.com/4xp4fp

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · May 15

If you read one thing today make it this piece of classic reporting from the New Yorker

www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump

At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and...

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Rcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · Apr 11

Our Book of the Week is @harpercollins.bsky.social Uncommon Ground by @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social exploring what the countryside means to different sets of people from farmers to naturists, gamekeepers to activists.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · Apr 9

🎧 PODCAST 🎧

Zarina Muhammad & Gabrielle de la Puente – aka @thewhitepube.bsky.social – discuss the bizarre world of contemporary art and their book POOR ARTISTS with Olivia Sudjic

Listen here: lrb.me/x23

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Pato Pato Pato @fakenodj.net · Apr 8

Still the best #debut lp for me, dear #vinylcommunity. 2006's Passover, by The Black Angels on @lightintheattic.bsky.social. They said everything there was to say with this album and I never considered it necessary to listen to any other of their work since. #nowspinning #vinylsky

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · Apr 9

Happy 97th birthday to Tom Lehrer, who confirmed his status as a Great Man a few years ago by releasing all his work into the public domain. tomlehrersongs.com

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · Apr 5

John Higgs has now turned his eye to #DoctorWho. In this fabulous extract from Exterminate/Regenerate, he considers #BenWheatley's snow globe and the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis...

The Story Of Doctor Who by #JohnHiggs

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Exterminate! Regenerate! by John Higgs book cover. A Dalek in the centre of a multi-hued spiral.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · Apr 3

Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Jem Finer speaks about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues

#JemFiner on #ThePogues and his 1000-year Longplayer

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