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  Don't forget that tomorrow marks the end of #BritishSummertime, which means that the clocks go back one hour and your cats don't, so good luck sleeping in past their breakfast time.

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  Weird coincidence. I was thinking about this film earlier today, considering a terrible pun about titling it Star Copse. Niche. https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/117499206714855200

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  "I feel a bit stupid, but obviously wanted to just put the praise out there for LGI, even down to the nurses on the ward who had a good laugh." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq5nq58nq10o #Yorkshire #NHS #Surgery

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  BBC Archive: “1968: The Super Cities of Tomorrow | Towards Tomorrow” https://youtu.be/za60PkAxyG0 “London isn’t a city, any more than Stoke-on-Trent is” — As someone from Stoke-on-Trent I reckon that must *really* sting if you’re a Londoner. Reyner Banham (who later wrote the excellent book Megastructure) puts in an appearance, defying death on his Moulton bicycle as well as discussing the subject at hand.

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  Mississippi? https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBot/117500085677683037

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  The ukulele isn't only the sound of Hawai'i and vaudeville, it's also behind some of the greatest expressions of culture and art from the hundred years or more. And then there's this. I've posted a song sheet for this number before, but I was transposing it to C and thought I may as well throw this version out there as well. "Doc" Cox, AKA Ivor Biggun, made it to number 22 in the UK charts in 1978 with his uke-driven single "Th...

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  Music tagged "ukulele" on Bandcamp, should you be in a shopping or listening mood: https://bandcamp.com/discover/ukulele #Music #Ukulele #Bandcamp #BandcampFriday

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  Is it Bandcamp Friday? https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ #Music #Bandcamp #BandcampFriday

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  That’s the spirit! Thomas Benjamin Wild is working on a new album with a very deliberate theme. #Ukulele #Politics #Protest

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  Meanwhile, in the world of Amazon reviews…

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  Charlotte Pelgen: "Love (Your Spell is Everywhere) – 1929" https://youtube.com/shorts/mDzTIFPbTeA #Ukulele #1920s #PleaseRotate

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  “In the days that followed, a number of Wellington publicans and shopkeepers displayed signs welcoming Māori while making it clear that Americans were unwelcome” http://beretandboina.blogspot.com/2026/09/americans-not-welcome.html #NewZealand #WWII #History #Race

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  The Beret Project: “The Wandering Moustaches” http://beretandboina.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-wandering-moustaches.html #France #Berets I think I’ve found my brand! 😁

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  “The practice ended in a draw and took 18 months to complete alongside their jobs and everyday lives.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmvgyqyzk947o #TheCampaignForNorthAfrica #SPI #Wargames #Games

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  @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social Not great, is it? The battery on my iPhone Mini is slowly deteriorating, but I’ll stick with it until the end!

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  Madness! Leave them be: THEY EVOLVED BEAKS FOR A REASON.

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  That’s going to make an awful mess of the Plasticine.

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  Here’s another reason I would rather do my own research than fob it off on whatever they’re referring to as AI this week: finding unexpected and deeply intriguing mentions of something else entirely, such as the attached snippet from Wikipedia. I don’t mind getting sidetracked, it often leads to a more interesting destination and I get to learn things along the way. #MidWesternRuralJazz

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  Current Status: Cacophonous Nightingale.

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  “…in the UK alone, an estimated 400,000 people live with the condition… The number of people with long Covid… was estimated in 2024 at 2 million in England and Scotland.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/24/abandoned-dismissed-and-gaslighted-me-sufferers-betrayed #ME #LongCovid #CFS #ChronicFatigue

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  Accessible Games Blog: “A New Look and Feel” https://www.accessiblegames.biz/blog/ #Accessibility #Games #RPG #FudgeRPG

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  There’s been very little happening in the world of Fudge RPG publishing lately, but recent a couple of products have appeared! They’re in Spanish, which unfortunately I do not read, but if you do then here’s a link to “Acero Y Brujería” (“Steel and Witchcraft,” the machine translation informs me). Always nice to see something new for Fudge, even if I can’t directly enjoy it myself. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/573246/acero-y-brujeria-un-juego-de-fantasia-oscura-para-fudge-basico-mode...

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  Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq: “Let’s Put the King in a Nice Little Flat” https://youtu.be/bHn3jeEEqGc #Ukulele

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  “Middle English edition”? Do you really mean that, Amazon? Ich doute nat that Chaucer wolde be wel plesed. #Language #Ukulele #MiddleEnglish

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  Eanáir: “The Old Man From Over The Sea” https://youtu.be/MXrIVaf5bbE #Music #Folk

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  Honestly, it's a little crazy how difficult I have found it to make a playable (to me) version of this song. Most ukulele chord sheets for it leave out the introductory verse, but trying to piece together a full version from someone else's chorus with my attempts at writing up the verse has been quite a struggle. I *think* I might have got there at last. Even so, this won't be anything like the way that Cliff Edwards played it: he tended to use what would be chord shapes from the ke...

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  What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast: “Skylarking at 40 with XTC’s Colin Moulding, Blur’s Dave Rowntree, MP Rupa Huq and presenter Samira Ahmed” https://www.xtclimelight.com/2026/09/18/skylarking-at-40-with-xtcs-colin-moulding-blurs-dave-rowntree-mp-rupa-huq-and-presenter-samira-ahmed/ #Podcast #XTC #SwindonsFinest #Music #1980s #Skylarking

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  @Printdevil@dice.camp https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/117283318215756646

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  Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge!: “Interview With a Vampire” http://kelvingreen.blogspot.com/2026/09/interview-with-vampire.html #RPG #CoC #CallOfCthulhu #HorrorOnTheOrientExpress

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  “It is a cut down Rolemaster, in exactly the same [way] a small pile of cocaine is a cut-down version of a large pile of cocaine” https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/my-101-favourite-ttrpgs-59-41/ #RPG