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Achilles Micawber
@achillesthe2nd.bsky.social
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Runner. Reader. Music and history. Poetry. Shakespeare. Film. Tweets in English and German.

Currently listening to a lot of music from 1977 and 1978.
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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · Nov 15
Might as well introduce myself:

I'm an English and history teacher (favourite subject: the short 20th century) who likes big books but often doesn't finish them. I'm obsessed with music lists, and especially the music from 1977 and 2000. I wish I had more time to watch movies.
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anthonyetherin.bsky.social
FOR IDRIS ELBA (Palindrome)

Able sir,
did nobody fit recognise it ties in?
Go, certify — do Bond, Idris Elba!
January 5, 2026 at 8:17 AM
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social
It is scary how they are more and more emboldened every day.
January 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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hipcrimevocab.net
The Billboard Modern Rock tracks from 30 years ago

Jesus Christ
January 4, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social
By the way, my 3|2 chess series has started very well: 3.5/4.
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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threadotweets.bsky.social
Jon Bois @jon_bois there's ANOTHER year? holy shit how many of these things are there
December 10, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.

No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.

Impeach. Convict. Remove.
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Perfect
January 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social
Buddy Holly died aged 22. One of the greatest musicians that ever lived.
January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Rafael Cadenas, translated by Rowena Hill
Thanks for the riches to which you compelled me. Thanks for building my home with clay. Thanks for pushing me aside. Thanks.
January 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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juliabarnwell.bsky.social
Jean Shrimpton at a Dolls’ Hospital 1964 by Terry O'Neill
January 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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roisinnineachtain.com
If anybody is interested in tackling Ulysses this year, Ulysses Unbound by Terence Killeen is great companion to the book.

I read Ulysses the first few times without fully understanding it but since I painted the Ulysses series for the centenary, I have been studying it more deeply.
January 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
What a great day for Vladimir Putin! I can picture him in the Kremlin, watching the EU & the UK play dumb while Trump trashes Int. Law, their media reporting Maduro's abduction as an 'arrest'. I bet he's thinking: Should I also detain Zelensky and subject him to Russian justice?
January 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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ianmartin.bsky.social
pleasing
ariaa.bsky.social Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 2d
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 4, 2026 at 2:13 PM
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social
Tag yourself.
January 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social
Now is the time of ghouls.
January 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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jasondashbailey.com
Literally using the same language that Mario Savio ripped to shreds 60-plus years ago, but at least you're being a condescending dick about it
And that -- that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
Digital illustration based on the Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Fantasia (1940). Chernobog, a black and purple horned demon with huge bat wings is at center. He is gigantic, seated within the peak of the titular mountain with flames rising up around his waist. His wings are outstretched across the greenish-blue swirling sky and he is waving his arms around to direct the howling winds and spooks and ghosts to do his bidding. Some of these apparitions surround a swirl of ghostly lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
January 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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kirasecura.bsky.social
It's been a rough year.
Bob's burger cartop . Girl With bunny ear hat and a moustached man coming up stairs. Text. It's been a eough year. It's the first week of january
January 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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richards7370.bsky.social
Hi folks, thanks to all who took part in #5albums25 around 500 of you nominated an incredible 789 different albums! I’ve attached the top 200 result chart for your perusal, with your album of the year being…drum roll…Geese with Getting Killed. The debut albums competition will resume later today 👍
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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abbyhiggs.bsky.social
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Tyler Austin Harper: I’m not going to send you to die in another pointless fucking war in the Middle East. Specific enough? https://x.com/cmclymer/statu/cmclymer/status/1847341785229775238 Quote Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer · Oct 18, 2024 Can someone please explain to me what exactly it is that young men want to hear from VP Harris that she’s not already saying? And please be specific. I want to hear *exactly* what you’d have her say to them. x.com/travishelwig/s…
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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arnesemsrott.bsky.social
ugh
what a week-meme: What a yeah, huh Captain, it's 3 January
January 3, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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alexsteed.bsky.social
I know we have bigger first to fry but this sucks so fucking bad.

Location: Midtown Hotel Boston
Plaque at hotel reads: Art throughout the hotel was entirely created by Artificial Intelligence. Al was asked, "What if Andy Warhol painted Boston luminaries?" Represented are John F. Kennedy, David Ortiz, Barbara Walters, Larry Bird, Donna Summer, Bill Russell, Arthur Fiedler and Thomas Menino.
January 3, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think

Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM