Coates is Odd This Day
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Purveyor of “meticulously researched idiocy”
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Matt Round
about 6 hours ago
Having a dog involves many poo-related humiliations
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In case anyone is still concerned about my appalling mistreatment of the tiny defenceless baby, she has now been fed. When we have salmon later, she will have no recollection of this, of course
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“You’re watching ‘a bit of Star Wars while the shepherd’s pie base simmers’? While I waste away? And it’s the version where Greedo shoots first? You disgust me”
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Matt Muir
about 14 hours ago
It's Saturday - you could, it's true, go outside, but then you run the risk of having your day ruined by seeing terrible street 'art' like this, whereas if you just stay in and click this link you will instead enter a MAGICAL PORTAL OF WEBBY DELIGHTS. A simple choice:
webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-07...
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Joe Noonan
about 17 hours ago
This is good
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5
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To say he has made unforced errors as PM would be putting it mildly, and to suggest that things have gone swimmingly since July 2024 would be... well, inaccurate, let's say, but this is one thing I can wholeheartedly approve of (or rather: of which I can wholeheartedly approve)
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about 16 hours ago
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Today is the 102nd anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, when Hitler made his first attempt to seize power in Germany – and therefore also the 86th anniversary of someone trying but sadly failing to assassinate him
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Horace Dorrington
about 17 hours ago
Also "Life Story" is currently on the iPlayer so go and watch it.
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If you’re reading about James Watson, and trying to find out if it’s true that he and Francis Crick stole Rosalind Franklin’s work, denying her a Nobel Prize, I can help. It’s... complicated
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about 17 hours ago
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“I have deigned to allow you to sit on my sofa. I did not agree to have my photograph taken”
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In slightly unpleasant news from history today, it’s the 327th anniversary of the first time entrapment was used to secure a conviction for homosexuality: Captain Edward Rigby of the Royal Navy’s assignation with William Minton was a set-up – but Rigby had the last laugh...
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Got so excited talking about wombats yesterday, I missed the 20th anniversary of the first showing of this advert. Wombats are more culturally significant, of course, but even so...
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Rejigging my settings after that post about ‘rude’ accounts, and discovering once again that I’ve led a very sheltered life
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This, from the last chapter, is rather good - on different definitions of liberty
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
2 days ago
I am going to break one of this account’s cardinal rules, which is not to have political posts on here, especially not about *them*. But I was intrigued by the erotic novel at the centre of the story and went to see if it was any good. (Spoiler: Ha ha ha ha haaaargh)
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Reform facing legal challenges over treatment of members
Embattled Reform UK council leader Linden Kemkaran and her party face legal challenges by two former members.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/reform-facing-legal-challenges-over-treatment-of-members-332186/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN5gkNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBZVnp1eHRNVml0YTRvQVRuc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrqQihMs79aW2T3Txj2stvRDLPjQ4Hau3P9d11nUkeaXUBfAGbXsW0o3ETQD_aem_K4utSlvHwZne9u08dKve8Q#
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Watching the penultimate Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Landis has turned up as a jeweller whose place gets done over. Bloody punk rockers
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It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
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Do you mind? This is a respectable neighbourhood
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You’re all making a big deal out of this, but an elderly man in cognitive decline lives there, and needs this for orientation
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Evil Bat Witch
4 days ago
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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Having now binged all of this (again), I was struck this time by how well cast the kid was. Absolutely believable as a young Joanne Whalley, and a really natural performance, too. A minor detail, but the whole show is made of them
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Today is the 79th anniversary of a perfectly ordinary party at the Officers’ Club of the Army War College in Washington, D.C., to mark the disbanding of the task force that organised atomic bomb tests in the Pacific, at which the attendees enjoyed a perfectly ordinary cake
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“Yes, I have had a snack. What you fail to appreciate is that that is not the point I was making”
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Fifth anniversary of this tweet…
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Lev Parikian
4 days ago
I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated.
gofund.me/9b5b74984
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Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone, Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
https://gofund.me/9b5b74984
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Andrew R
4 days ago
Happy 10th anniversary to this magnificent take, brought to you by the members of the "James I? Never heard of him, mate" society.
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Morning
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺
5 days ago
Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...
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Today, I, a gnarly old thing, have been outside to look at gnarly old things
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christhebarker
5 days ago
www.thenewworld.co.uk/chris-barker...
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Charlie Kirk and the end of my Sgt Pepper dead celeb montages
The far right activist’s assassination was the catalyst for an artist drawing a line under his annual memorial project
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/chris-barker-charlie-kirk-and-the-end-of-my-sgt-pepper-dead-celeb-montages/
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In important news from history today, it is (although I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you) the joyful 10th birthday of this unimprovable tweet
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
5 days ago
Now that Roisin Agnew's doc "The Ban" is up on The New Yorker's website, here's a piece I wrote about it, and the broadcasting ban itself, on the 30th anniversary of its lifting last year, and which involved me quizzing Chris Morris about *that* sketch.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Been reading my new
@thefence.bsky.social
magazine. Very much enjoyed this sentence in Yoel Noorali’s ‘The Miracle of Childbirth’ about visiting a fertility clinic
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Hahaha no
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In this context, the phrase “Sotheby’s will be accepting crypto” is... well, not wildly surprising, I have to say
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Maurizio Cattelan: 'America' – One of the Most Influential Artworks of Our Time to Make Auction Debut at Sotheby's
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/maurizio-cattelan-america-one-of-the-most-influential-artworks-of-our-time-to-make-auction-debut-at-sothebys
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Well, I’d like to tell you in depth about the 35th anniversary of the dedication of Kryptos, the coded artwork at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, but I can’t. Not because it’s top secret. It isn’t, really. Although the solution to its puzzle is (or possibly was)...
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Monday
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“No, I shall not look at the camera for you. I am rather too busy being fabulous”
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
8 days ago
View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.
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It’s the 65th anniversary of Penguin Books’ victory in the Lady Chatterley obscenity trial, so – because I’m going to go off on a massive tangent later – let’s get the obvious bit out of the way first: yes, the prosecution’s not brilliantly judged opening remarks
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Dear god, that’s unsettling
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If you, too, first saw this as a teenager, I regret to have to inform you that they are making it available again to mark its imminent 40th anniversary
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Important update
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Well, if it’s 1 November, it must be 269 years since Casanova made good his escape from ‘The Leads’ – the prison under the roof of the Doge’s palace in Venice where he’d been shoved for “grave faults … public outrages against the holy religion”, aka shagging
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Thirty pages in. Absolutely gripped, and highly entertained. Remarkable stuff so far, and I can’t imagine it getting less interesting as it goes on
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Well, if it’s 1 November, it must be 269 years since Casanova made good his escape from ‘The Leads’ – the prison under the roof of the Doge’s palace in Venice where he’d been shoved for “grave faults … public outrages against the holy religion”, aka shagging
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Andy Marshall
8 days ago
🔆 Sending warmth and light to you all. One for All Hallows' Day - not taken today, but still worth posting. My favourite photo I've taken of York Minster at first light - it seems to magically exude warmth and light - after the darkness recedes and night turns into day...
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She Who Is Not Called Mrs Coates points out that an ailing 79-year-old has installed a hell of a slippery floor here…
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HE’S A BIG FAN OF DOGMA
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