Al Kitching
@itsalkitching.bsky.social
Birder, Beatles, bogs, fen-dweller, tries to finish books but drifts off into…whatever, runs The Fens feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:emtwh7ecdoazomcrvs4rbfdl/feed/aaafa74ch6fxy
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I’m giving an online talk on Thursday evening at 8pm (UK time) about Birds & Flight. It’s free to RSPB members but anyone can join for a donation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...
Talk by Lev Parikian: Birds and Flight
Join nature writer Lev Parikian for a fascinating, entertaining talk about the marvel of flight, focusing on a variety of bird species
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November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I’m giving an online talk on Thursday evening at 8pm (UK time) about Birds & Flight. It’s free to RSPB members but anyone can join for a donation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...
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Gail is great, for proof look at all her cool stuff FFS.
It's been a very quiet week.
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.
So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.
Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.
So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.
Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Gail is great, for proof look at all her cool stuff FFS.
And now…It’s been a while since I last watched Se7en, but here we are.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And now…It’s been a while since I last watched Se7en, but here we are.
I’m rewatching Late Night with the Devil (which is great- David Dastmalchian is *fantastic*) and I’ve just realised it has a great mirror in the contemporaneous “3x3” episode of Inside No.9 (the one with Lee Mack, also brilliant).
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I’m rewatching Late Night with the Devil (which is great- David Dastmalchian is *fantastic*) and I’ve just realised it has a great mirror in the contemporaneous “3x3” episode of Inside No.9 (the one with Lee Mack, also brilliant).
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
I may have missed a memo, but Amadeus still (ahem) rocks. Almost zero cultural footprint these days, but it’s still wonderful.
November 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I may have missed a memo, but Amadeus still (ahem) rocks. Almost zero cultural footprint these days, but it’s still wonderful.
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I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.
🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/
Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says
“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.
www.politico.eu
October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.
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Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.
Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).
September 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).
Evening, everyone. I am watching The Quatermass Xperiment and isn’t that just a cracking image?
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Evening, everyone. I am watching The Quatermass Xperiment and isn’t that just a cracking image?
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Hello everyone…just a PSA to say that all nine hours of Shoah is available for free on the iPlayer. Astonishing.
Shoah - 1. First Era
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
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September 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Hello everyone…just a PSA to say that all nine hours of Shoah is available for free on the iPlayer. Astonishing.
We need to go back to idolising the FA Cup and treating it as the last and only truly great competition in the game.
Plus, they still sing Abide With Me, which, after Nearer My God To Thee, is the best hymn.
Plus, they still sing Abide With Me, which, after Nearer My God To Thee, is the best hymn.
Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.
lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We need to go back to idolising the FA Cup and treating it as the last and only truly great competition in the game.
Plus, they still sing Abide With Me, which, after Nearer My God To Thee, is the best hymn.
Plus, they still sing Abide With Me, which, after Nearer My God To Thee, is the best hymn.
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Lauren Bacall
© John Engstead
© John Engstead
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Lauren Bacall
© John Engstead
© John Engstead
There’s a lot wrong with the world, so maybe we could start with this guy and move outward.
September 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
There’s a lot wrong with the world, so maybe we could start with this guy and move outward.
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One more share for this. The sea, refugees, flags, and helping the people who are helping.
I've done most of my Great North Run training this summer along the North Sea coast. I love the North Sea. I love it (I've always loved it) but it's a monster. (1/?)
September 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
One more share for this. The sea, refugees, flags, and helping the people who are helping.
Years ago, Tokyo did a commission for me of my daughter and her new pooch, Belle, as a pup. (There’s also Cleo the hamster sat on her shoulder if you look carefully.) He’s a great talent and a lovely man…you should take a look at his shop if you can.
August 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Years ago, Tokyo did a commission for me of my daughter and her new pooch, Belle, as a pup. (There’s also Cleo the hamster sat on her shoulder if you look carefully.) He’s a great talent and a lovely man…you should take a look at his shop if you can.
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Please help support my TINY business and either purchase something from my shop (stickers are only £3) or please share this so I can reach new customers.
Thank you!
www.infinitebacon.com
Thank you!
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August 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Please help support my TINY business and either purchase something from my shop (stickers are only £3) or please share this so I can reach new customers.
Thank you!
www.infinitebacon.com
Thank you!
www.infinitebacon.com
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If you believed the producers of King and Conqueror, you'd think the original source material for the Norman Conquest was virtually nonexistent. In fact it's one of the best-documented events in medieval European history. You can even spin a 400+ page book out of it. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/k...
August 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you believed the producers of King and Conqueror, you'd think the original source material for the Norman Conquest was virtually nonexistent. In fact it's one of the best-documented events in medieval European history. You can even spin a 400+ page book out of it. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/k...
Might start popping back here. Hello everyone, I trust you’re all well?
August 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Might start popping back here. Hello everyone, I trust you’re all well?
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Once more for luck. Then I'll shut up about it (for a bit).
We are delighted to announced that we have signed a new book on Fascism and the environment by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social.
Richard Smyth’s 'Greenshirts' uncovers the deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies & environmental thought over the last 150 years.
Publishing in 2027.
Richard Smyth’s 'Greenshirts' uncovers the deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies & environmental thought over the last 150 years.
Publishing in 2027.
July 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Once more for luck. Then I'll shut up about it (for a bit).
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My new FREE TO ALL substack post is up. In a brief diversion from the main structure of these posts I'm taking a break by reading two long-time favorites: Elmore Leonard's VALDEZ IS COMING & Donald Westlake's KILLY. Lots to talk about with both! Please click
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You Ain't Batman
On "Valdez is Coming" by Elmore Leonard and "Killy" by Donald E. Westlake
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April 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My new FREE TO ALL substack post is up. In a brief diversion from the main structure of these posts I'm taking a break by reading two long-time favorites: Elmore Leonard's VALDEZ IS COMING & Donald Westlake's KILLY. Lots to talk about with both! Please click
billryan64.substack.com/p/you-aint-b...
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Hobbys at Lakenheath. More acrobatic than swifts. Ripping dragonflies in half and chomping them in mid air. Bloody great. Sometimes they stopped and took a breath #birds🪶 #ukbirding
June 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Hobbys at Lakenheath. More acrobatic than swifts. Ripping dragonflies in half and chomping them in mid air. Bloody great. Sometimes they stopped and took a breath #birds🪶 #ukbirding