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Where can you find a dial telephone sculpture on a building? One of a number of relics of 1930s technology at the Faraday Building of Queen Victoria Street from my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

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On the queue to see Jazz Emu tonight, I was distracted by the people behind me talking about Jazz Emoo. Mr Emu had the yod-ful pronunciation, though, so phonetic identity crisis averted. In case you don't know @thejazzemu.bsky.social, you might enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69...

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White House reports AP will not be invited to its sleepover where all the other press agencies will be playing truth or dare and talking about cute boys.

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@flannobriensoc.bsky.social this title maybe of interest : edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-alt...

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I missed that Jules Feiffer died this week. Thank you, Mr. Feiffer.

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I just published my annual report on life with me at lb42.github.io/Diary ... should get rid of some of my weirdo followers.

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Spent most of the so-called holiday period trying to track down online biographical trivia for a bunch of 19th c playwrights, with moderate success. 30 out of 300 remain entirely elusive though. Full disclosure at foxglove.hypotheses.org/994 -- do get in touch if you can fill any gaps

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I’m gonna spend 2025 reading books and thinking about them.

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There are over 1,000 copies of Eastgate's most renowned "serious" hypertexts—e.g. Patchwork Girl and Afternoon—in libraries throughout the world. Most of them are in circulation (as opposed to Special Collections). But guess what? Unless you have Windows XP or a circa 2005 Mac, you can't read them.

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Call for Participants: Volunteer Readers for a Study of Serial Form in Victorian Novels (Deadline: 6/30/25) bit.ly/3VEqMkh

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My #dayofdh2024 started with me deciding to give up on sparql for a bit, achieving something promising with ceteicean, and then sinking into a boggy morass of javascript syntax.

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First rule of Polite Club: Please don’t talk about Polite Club. Many thanks in advance and enjoy the rest of your day.

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As i approach my next birthday i realise that the number of people who might appreciate the #dadjoke "its a record" is fast dwindling away

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Have you seen these dramatists? A plea for help... foxglove.hypotheses.org/957

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Such a cool article about Francis Williams in a recent LRB (@lrbbookshop.bsky.social) - focused on this fascinating portrait. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.

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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Happy Fenton 13th anniversary to those of you celebrate youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

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You saw it here first : foxglove.hypotheses.org

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I grew up with this and other George Mikes books on the family shelves. My dad loved them I suspect because they were in fact rather flattering. But now I'm writing about how he was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man in 1940 and I don't think I'll ever look at them in the same way again

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Whats a feed

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I have been doing data laundry for WEEKS. Check my update on the lacy blog at foxglove.hypotheses.org/865

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Do not go gentle into that good night

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Today however the train is arriving 25 mins late ... And not for the first time

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Did some more #victoriantheatre research and blogged about it at foxglove.hypotheses.org/814

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Last rose of summer ... Shutting down la vergne for the winter

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The oboard robot just announced next stop Villeperdue ...

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Landscape round here is very different from haute vienne or creuse.. no forests, huge fields, little towns, mostly flat... But it has stopped raining

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No i was wrong. Nobody goes to futuroscope. The mass exodus was at chatelleraut.

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