Steph Boland
@stephanieboland.bsky.social
Alright in a sort of a limited way for an off night
New publication in the SCROLL series! The collective monograph 'Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions and Revisions', edited by Camille Manfredi, Fiona Paterson, and Philippe Laplace, is now available as an e-book from @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. brill.com/display/titl...
Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023
"Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023" published on 04 Aug 2026 by Brill.
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Stockport Gloom: From Rostron Brow To St. Mark’s, pencil drawing by Dave Hartley.
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
It’s not until this pops up on your playlist that you remember how huge it is, an absolute beast of a track. And I doubt you remember how freak out it gets at around 1 minute 57 open.spotify.com/track/6kooDs...
Black Betty
Ram Jam · Ram Jam · Song · 1977
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Lead The Way Boy, painting by Borders-based artist Mal Burton.
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Mr Thomas's Chop House, Manchester, painting by Anthony Marn.
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When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.
There won’t be a cow milked on the Holloway Road tonight
In pictures: Shetland, its people and culture at turn of 20th century. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Elevator Doors Chrysler Building, NYC Designed by William Van Alen, ca. 1928-30 Photo: Angelo Hornak
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
It was as if the clanging of bells around the cows’ necks at the summit of Le Markstein had called the people to worship. Paul Seixas is in the white jersey at the Tour de France and bearing down on the podium. His thoughts on a remarkable stage 14: www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/tour-...
'I'm living a dream' – 19-year-old Paul Seixas is closing in on the podium at the Tour de France
Teenager dropped two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard to finish third on stage 14 to Le Markstein
cyclingweekly.com
Clearly what I was trying to say earlier is that I would like to shake that man by the hand and congratulate him on his fine and necessary innovation. Apologies for any confusion
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3w agoTrying to find out who invented the third-place playoff in 1934 and why
Painting here - Gustave Moreau • Helen at the Scaean Gate •
The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c
Just realised I will be in Paris during the World Cup final - a direct betrayal of my husband, who the other night turned to me in the back of a cab and (very earnestly) said “I really do think it could come home, you know”
World’s worst pint or totally off the wall environmental data, dealer’s choice
Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w agoThought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?
There’s a brilliant episode of “Moving Pictures” on BBC Sounds that talks you through this painting while you look at the gorgeous high-res on Google Arts & Culture. Pod: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Painting: artsandculture.google.com/asset/a-bar-...
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère - Eduard Manet - Google Arts & Culture
The Folies-Bergère was Paris’s first music hall. A magazine described its atmosphere of ‘unmixed joy’ where everyone spoke ‘the language of pleasure’. It w...
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Des@desdelboy.bsky.social · 3w agoCheers all, no need for time travel. The oldest masterpiece featuring a beer you can still buy today is Édouard Manet's 1882 painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere. It prominently displays two bottles of Bass Pale Ale, recognizable by their iconic red triangle labels. #BskyBeer
Pair of charts from Citadel making exactly the same point, using exactly the same data, side-by-side. But weirdly effective. www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-ins...
This is very sweet www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I was like, “Oh my god, I can be taken seriously”’: the women inspired to become lawyers by Legally Blonde
As the classic courtroom comedy drama turns 25 meet the associates and attorneys who took Elle Woods’ pioneering spirit and ran with it
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“genius,” as a concept, should be binned, it isn’t useful or productive or true, however we must make an exception for Vampire Chess
videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 4w agovampire chess, screenshot, macintosh (1994) www.macintoshrepository.org/2928-vampire...
Birthday bank holiday but husband busy that day, got it
The first time that “drop dead” remix drops in spin class the girls are going to lose their MINDS
