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Richard James Foster
@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
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Artist, author & culture writer. History & art buff. The Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. My 2nd book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club is now out. All stuff here. https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · Aug 27
BEYOND delighted to announce that @weare1of100.bsky.social is making a Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt! You can successfully hide in scrub near a cycle path and not look dodgy! In fact, you’re better dressed than Beau Brummell with this on, phwoar! Details soon, add this in your spotter book.
The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt, in grey with white lettering and olive, tan & scarlet design. Made by We Are 1 of 100, Glasgow.
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 18h
Happy 45th birthday to one of the greatest albums of all time. Talking Heads released Remain in Light on this day in 1980
▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/album/3AQgdw...
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 11h
Only 5 places left for Writing From Rage with @markabowles.bsky.social!

Our events really do sell out fast, so don't delay if you want to come to this or the salon after.

(Paris and Madrid fully sold out)
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 1d
✨EWS DOUBLE BILLING✨

Writing From Rage: Turning Fury Into Form
with Mark Bowles
26 November 2025
6-7:30pm GMT

&

Pop-up Salon: London with Insurgent Press
26 November 2025
8-10pm GMT

Both at:
The Queens Larder, 1 Queen Square WC1N 3AR

🎟️Tickets together or separate – see below
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 16h
Come write about the body!

Praise for Julie - 'I am usually not one to choose the highest scores across the board, but I was really impressed by the tutor, the diverse examples, the exercises and the 'spirit' and depth of our discussions.'

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Online poetry workshop Link in text
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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 7h
LANCASHIRE COAST (1957)
An image captured from LANCASHIRE COAST (1957)
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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 10h
“I think I’m going to be a huge rock star…”

In this feature from MOJO’s new deluxe special, Bowie Changes 1947-2016, Kris Needs recalls being backstage with David Bowie the night he played live for the first time with Mick Ronson and his new band, the soon-to-be Spiders From Mars…
David Bowie And The Spiders From Mars’ First Show
On September 25, 1971, MOJO was there as Bowie played live for the first time with Mick Ronson and his new band, the soon-to-be Spiders From Mars.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h
god damn this is brutal defector.com/taylor-swift...
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 13h
"People don’t give a damn about your macro level." - said Belarusian President Lukashenko, who has banned price increases across the country — because, as he noted, things should be done so that people feel good.
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 14h
KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚
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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 16h
Having followed Richard’s brilliant PINS newsletter, this should be great, and may have found the perfect medium in Radio!
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to announce that a radio adaptation of my project, PINS, (taken from my late dad’s never finished game) airs tomorrow. Episode 1: Weds 8th October. 20.00 CEST. God help you all.

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A colour photograph of Accrington, taken from a train. Advertising PINS, a radio broadcast at Radio WORM in Rotterdam, episodes every month.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 19h
The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 18h
Good piece , clever name btw and re students burning books, always worth reading Rex Warner’s The Professor…
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Iikka Korhonen @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social · 21h
[Belgium] has spent three years saying Euroclear is Belgian and so are the benefits,” said one senior EU diplomat involved in talks on the matter. “Now, when it wants to share the risks, it claims Euroclear is European.”
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EU pressure builds on Belgium to allow use of Russia’s frozen assets
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever insists other capitals should cover financial and legal risks of €140bn loan
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 19h
JHC
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 19h
#OTD in 1943. Practise makes perfect. Men from 1/6 Queen's trying out their collapsible boats before crossing the Volturno River. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 1d
“Give it some minge!” he exclaimed.
Write a horror story in six words or less
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d
Tree on the Moon

A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop

Photo: Bernd Nowack
Tree on the Moon A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop Photo: Bernd Nowack
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d
I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race
The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to announce that a radio adaptation of my project, PINS, (taken from my late dad’s never finished game) airs tomorrow. Episode 1: Weds 8th October. 20.00 CEST. God help you all.

radio.worm.org
A colour photograph of Accrington, taken from a train. Advertising PINS, a radio broadcast at Radio WORM in Rotterdam, episodes every month.
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John Robb official @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social · 2d
PLEASE SHARE!
Louder Than War Live Festival - March 2026 with SEA POWER, EVIL BLIZZARD, BENEFITS, HEAVY LUNGS
THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE, WHITE MAGIC FOR LOVERS more TBA! @seapowerband.bsky.social @benefitstheband.bsky.social @evilblizzard.bsky.social

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Louder Than War Live - Manchester Festival - March 2026
Louder Than War is Hosting Its First Festival In Manchester called LOUDER THAN WAR LIVE in March 2026 - Signed Up Form
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d
Wow
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 1d
If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...
Shoreditch Experimental Music School 1969
YouTube video by Elen Nas
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d
Chatterton: suicide.
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Michael Emonds @michaelje67.bsky.social · 3d
Well said, Gary Neville! 👏
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d
I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun
OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”
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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 1d
On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in her apartment building in Moscow. 19 years ago today. At least one of the men who planned her murder, a former police officer, has since been pardoned for going to kill again in Ukraine.

Also today, Putin turns 73.
Archive photo from Novaya Gazeta, her newspaper, of Politkovskaya sitting at her desk with a pen. She is pictured from below, with a stack of papers in front of her.
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