@andyinmilan.bsky.social
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Hot take: "I'm fine with gay people, I just don't want it shoved in my face" almost always means "I'm fine with gay people as long as I never see one hold hands." Visibility isn't an attack. It's just us, living.
October 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Hot take: "I'm fine with gay people, I just don't want it shoved in my face" almost always means "I'm fine with gay people as long as I never see one hold hands." Visibility isn't an attack. It's just us, living.
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NEW
The diabolical defending of Manchester City
Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(Prospect paywall is down currently.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
The diabolical defending of Manchester City
Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(Prospect paywall is down currently.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
October 1, 2026 at 11:56 AM
NEW
The diabolical defending of Manchester City
Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(Prospect paywall is down currently.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
The diabolical defending of Manchester City
Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(Prospect paywall is down currently.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
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Yay!
The Wolf That Chews Rocks has been accepted for sale in Waterstones and other bookshops, and should be in stock in around a month. Globally.
In the meantime, it's 25% cheaper to buy direct.
Link on russelljonesauthor.com
The Wolf That Chews Rocks has been accepted for sale in Waterstones and other bookshops, and should be in stock in around a month. Globally.
In the meantime, it's 25% cheaper to buy direct.
Link on russelljonesauthor.com
September 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yay!
The Wolf That Chews Rocks has been accepted for sale in Waterstones and other bookshops, and should be in stock in around a month. Globally.
In the meantime, it's 25% cheaper to buy direct.
Link on russelljonesauthor.com
The Wolf That Chews Rocks has been accepted for sale in Waterstones and other bookshops, and should be in stock in around a month. Globally.
In the meantime, it's 25% cheaper to buy direct.
Link on russelljonesauthor.com
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Time for this classic again.
September 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Time for this classic again.
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Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:
September 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:
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The Prospect paywall is down!
These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...
These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...
September 26, 2026 at 7:54 AM
The Prospect paywall is down!
These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...
These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...
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Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
September 24, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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"I don't fucking think so"
September 24, 2026 at 8:35 PM
"I don't fucking think so"
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Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
September 23, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
September 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Around this time 40 years ago, our headmaster was away and handed assembly duties (which normally consisted of songs like 'Cross Over The Road') to our PE teacher who got the entire school to dance and sing along to The Birdie Song. He was arrested soon after for sexually assaulting 6 students
Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”
Some dancers once came to our school once and did a routine to Uptown Girl in the middle of assembly. I've still no idea why.
September 23, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Around this time 40 years ago, our headmaster was away and handed assembly duties (which normally consisted of songs like 'Cross Over The Road') to our PE teacher who got the entire school to dance and sing along to The Birdie Song. He was arrested soon after for sexually assaulting 6 students
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The whole "small boats" issue is a problem created out of thin air by successive right wing governments and amplified by a racist media who don't want a single brown person in this country. It's so simple it fits in one post and I can add this sentence too.
September 23, 2026 at 6:17 AM
The whole "small boats" issue is a problem created out of thin air by successive right wing governments and amplified by a racist media who don't want a single brown person in this country. It's so simple it fits in one post and I can add this sentence too.
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Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
September 22, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
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'Italy has recorded its hottest summer since 1950, as extreme weather takes a growing toll across the country. Northern Italy was hit by torrential rain, flooding and landslides, while the south grappled with prolonged heat, drought and water shortages.'
newseu.cgtn.com/news/2026-09...
newseu.cgtn.com/news/2026-09...
Northern floods, southern droughts: Italy’s hottest summer since 1950
Contrasting weather made it a tough season for residents across the country.
newseu.cgtn.com
September 22, 2026 at 9:46 AM
'Italy has recorded its hottest summer since 1950, as extreme weather takes a growing toll across the country. Northern Italy was hit by torrential rain, flooding and landslides, while the south grappled with prolonged heat, drought and water shortages.'
newseu.cgtn.com/news/2026-09...
newseu.cgtn.com/news/2026-09...
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one of my proudest moments was being told by a former Gove staffer that he once angrily proclaimed:
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
The War Game, Sky's terrifying new docu-drama, which paints a haunting picture of a near-future scenario in which the Prime Minister is somehow now Michael Gove
September 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
one of my proudest moments was being told by a former Gove staffer that he once angrily proclaimed:
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
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The alien writing in ARRIVAL wasn't just squiggles. Artist Martine Bertrand designed a complete language of around a hundred circular logograms, each carrying real meaning, so the heptapods' communication would hold up to scrutiny. Follow us for more behind-the-scenes facts.
September 21, 2026 at 9:45 AM
The alien writing in ARRIVAL wasn't just squiggles. Artist Martine Bertrand designed a complete language of around a hundred circular logograms, each carrying real meaning, so the heptapods' communication would hold up to scrutiny. Follow us for more behind-the-scenes facts.
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Cats and witches and... taxidermy? Oh my! #Stuffed director #TheoRhys weighs in on the importance of theatrical musicals while on the #TIFF red carpet. 🐈⬛
#redcarpet #TIFF2026
#redcarpet #TIFF2026
September 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Cats and witches and... taxidermy? Oh my! #Stuffed director #TheoRhys weighs in on the importance of theatrical musicals while on the #TIFF red carpet. 🐈⬛
#redcarpet #TIFF2026
#redcarpet #TIFF2026
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Moderated by Matt: 2026 Toronto Film Festival: Stuffed
youtu.be/yD5LCX2OYE0?...
#stuffed #theorhys #harrymelling #moderatedbymatt #jossholdenrea #Tiff #jodiecomer
youtu.be/yD5LCX2OYE0?...
#stuffed #theorhys #harrymelling #moderatedbymatt #jossholdenrea #Tiff #jodiecomer
Moderated by Matt: 2026 Toronto Film Festival: Stuffed
YouTube video by Moderated by Matt
youtu.be
September 11, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Moderated by Matt: 2026 Toronto Film Festival: Stuffed
youtu.be/yD5LCX2OYE0?...
#stuffed #theorhys #harrymelling #moderatedbymatt #jossholdenrea #Tiff #jodiecomer
youtu.be/yD5LCX2OYE0?...
#stuffed #theorhys #harrymelling #moderatedbymatt #jossholdenrea #Tiff #jodiecomer
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Drill down into this thread and check out the early versions of Take on Me. The very first version sounds like ‘60s garage rock, and Morten Harket’s initial stab at the song is completely bonkers.
Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)
41 re
September 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Drill down into this thread and check out the early versions of Take on Me. The very first version sounds like ‘60s garage rock, and Morten Harket’s initial stab at the song is completely bonkers.
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My son has a play on at the King's Arms in Salford next month - 6/7/8. You can buy tickets on this link: linktr.ee/cormackeating And if you see me, say hello. I'll be the grey-haired woman sobbing with pride. Thank you 🙏
September 19, 2026 at 9:05 AM
My son has a play on at the King's Arms in Salford next month - 6/7/8. You can buy tickets on this link: linktr.ee/cormackeating And if you see me, say hello. I'll be the grey-haired woman sobbing with pride. Thank you 🙏
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I am so excited to see Andrew Scott play Ian Charleson in Elsinore.
Ian Charleson, star of the Oscar winning Chariots of Fire, was just 40 when he died of #AIDS.
He was one of a generation of artists taken from us by the disease.
We cannot calculate the full extent of that loss: the roles never played, the songs unwritten, the canvasses left blank.
He was one of a generation of artists taken from us by the disease.
We cannot calculate the full extent of that loss: the roles never played, the songs unwritten, the canvasses left blank.
September 19, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I am so excited to see Andrew Scott play Ian Charleson in Elsinore.
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Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9
Kākāpō population reaches new milestone
The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.
www.doc.govt.nz
September 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9
Loved this song.
Oh go on then. The evolution of Take On Me...
'The Juicy Fruit Song' by Bridges (before Morten Harket joined them www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhi...
'The Juicy Fruit Song' by Bridges (before Morten Harket joined them www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhi...
Bridges - Miss Eerie (The Juicyfruit Song, earliest recording of Take On Me)
YouTube video by The A-ha Archive
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Loved this song.