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Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
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16 June 1971: The death of Lord John Reith 16 June 1971: The birth of Tupac Shakur

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Thanks for reposting the Bookshop Week thing earlier. Lots of talk about whether Bluesky is too under-powered etc, but sharing stuff rather than just ‘liking’ is a good DIY way round. Twitter began to decline when the Like button came in and ‘the algorithm’ started to have more heft.

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It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them: -Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you! -Get them to order books in, they almost always can. -Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

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You’ve probably seen this picture before, but did you know it’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of the man in it – Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, who bankrupted his vastly wealthy family estate in under six years?

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A Middle Earth cockney is someone born within the sound of Bilbo’s.

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A Middle Earth cockney is someone born within the sound of Bilbo’s.

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Eating cherries Watching swifts #SummerNights

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As @levparikian.bsky.social would say, this weekend I've been wanging on about Six Things on his brilliantly birdy Substack site...

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god: it's called a snapping turtle angel: so cute, why would he call you a sna - snapping turtle: OMG SHUT THE FUCK UP

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A guest Six Things this week, from the lovely and excellent @nicwilson.bsky.social Snickets BFG Labyrinth Gaslighting Reciprocity Birds open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

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What’s your sign?

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Sharing conducting duties at our Edinburgh residential course this August is Johann Stuckenbruck, announced last week as the new Music Director of l’Orchestre Symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (OSSLSJ) from 2025/26! jstuckenbruck.com

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Brent Symphony Orchestra has been going for 114 years. It’s had three conductors in that period – I’m a relative lightweight, in that I’ve only been conducting them for 25 years. Last night’s concert marked the occasion, and they did me a wonderful card.

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A guest Six Things this week, from the lovely and excellent @nicwilson.bsky.social Snickets BFG Labyrinth Gaslighting Reciprocity Birds open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

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I wrote about birds. Or, rather, I didn’t. open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

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just so happy for all those south african greats watching this - people like robin smith, kevin pietersen, allan lamb, andrew strauss, tony grieg, nick compton, keaton jennings, jason roy, jade dernbach, matt prior, jonathan trott, brydon carse and basil d’oliviera #thecricket

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I dunno, I still think South Africa can lose this #TheCricket

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Beautiful banners and lovely quotes on my new book, from @robinince.bsky.social @dunnjons.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social Melissa Harrison and Katherine May. ‘Neurodivergent, By Nature Why Biodiversity Needs Neurodiversity’ is published on the 31st of July by Bloomsbury Outdoors. #booksky

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The batsman standing ready at the wicket was not one of the England cricket team. He was not one of the Australian cricket team. It was one of the robot Krikkit team. It was a cold, hard, lethal white killer-robot that presumably had not returned to its ship with the others.

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I wrote about birds. Or, rather, I didn’t. open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

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Please give some money to help support refugees, because they could really really do with it. Me running around Newcastle is neither here or there, really, let's face it.

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It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

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I’ve been told I use too many long words that people don’t understand but if you ask me that’s just extravaganzational intramescatulorification.

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In the 1970s, when I was pursuing a career as a small child and sports fan, I saw Frank Bough on the television every Saturday afternoon.

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Oh go on then: P G Wodehouse Douglas Adams Agatha Christie Dorothy L Sayers Hergé Goscinny/Uderzo Kate Atkinson Jane Gardam Dick Francis Georges Simenon And @janecasey.bsky.social

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