Chris
@missingintheslips.bsky.social
Trying to watch more cricket than I write about. 🏏 The next book is about Nancy Sharp [https://tinyurl.com/2736jaw4].
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Celtics majority owner Bill Chisholm getting in on the 4th-quarter t-shirt toss:
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Celtics majority owner Bill Chisholm getting in on the 4th-quarter t-shirt toss:
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Jayson Tatum stops by for a quick moment with ex-Celtics teammate Luke Kornet.
January 10, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Jayson Tatum stops by for a quick moment with ex-Celtics teammate Luke Kornet.
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Found what the England cricketers were looking for 🏏
January 9, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Found what the England cricketers were looking for 🏏
Next up, after a break for #theashes and some @thetls.bsky.social reading (and a return to wok) is the next Christmas gift.
January 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Next up, after a break for #theashes and some @thetls.bsky.social reading (and a return to wok) is the next Christmas gift.
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The ivy enfolded grave guardians of Ashcourt necropolis exist in lithic time. We flicker and fizz in their slow seeing. For the most part we hardly register. When we do, we are trespassing ghosts. Edge of eye phantoms moving against the speed of stone. – #CLNolan
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The ivy enfolded grave guardians of Ashcourt necropolis exist in lithic time. We flicker and fizz in their slow seeing. For the most part we hardly register. When we do, we are trespassing ghosts. Edge of eye phantoms moving against the speed of stone. – #CLNolan
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“For those of you watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.”
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
“For those of you watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.”
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Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
It is time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter
Grok is just one of many reasons why Westminster should finally get off the website.
www.politicshome.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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Good morning here is your emergency sloth
January 9, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Good morning here is your emergency sloth
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Dad got a bed after 32 hours waiting in Emergency Treatment. I made friends with a 90-year-old 4-ft-tall Malaysian ex-nurse when I gave her a coronation chicken baguette that dad didn't want to eat. She tried to palm me a fiver to pay for it, and said if dad doesn't appreciate me she'll take me home
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Dad got a bed after 32 hours waiting in Emergency Treatment. I made friends with a 90-year-old 4-ft-tall Malaysian ex-nurse when I gave her a coronation chicken baguette that dad didn't want to eat. She tried to palm me a fiver to pay for it, and said if dad doesn't appreciate me she'll take me home
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Just been to the supermarket and seen that my article celebrating the centenary of #Portmeirion is the cover feature for this week's @countrylifemag.bsky.social
What a nice start to the year!
What a nice start to the year!
January 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Just been to the supermarket and seen that my article celebrating the centenary of #Portmeirion is the cover feature for this week's @countrylifemag.bsky.social
What a nice start to the year!
What a nice start to the year!
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Thanks for all these, Dan. You've made our regular 4-yearly walloping almost bearable
January 8, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Thanks for all these, Dan. You've made our regular 4-yearly walloping almost bearable
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Welcome to our new followers!
Looking for historical inspiration (or distraction)? 150 UK galleries, libraries, archives & museums - all active on Bluesky - are highlighted in this new pack.
Excellent and diverse collections, info about online events, heritage snark and more.
go.bsky.app/Ms7endH
Looking for historical inspiration (or distraction)? 150 UK galleries, libraries, archives & museums - all active on Bluesky - are highlighted in this new pack.
Excellent and diverse collections, info about online events, heritage snark and more.
go.bsky.app/Ms7endH
January 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Welcome to our new followers!
Looking for historical inspiration (or distraction)? 150 UK galleries, libraries, archives & museums - all active on Bluesky - are highlighted in this new pack.
Excellent and diverse collections, info about online events, heritage snark and more.
go.bsky.app/Ms7endH
Looking for historical inspiration (or distraction)? 150 UK galleries, libraries, archives & museums - all active on Bluesky - are highlighted in this new pack.
Excellent and diverse collections, info about online events, heritage snark and more.
go.bsky.app/Ms7endH
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Soooo, we now have more followers on BlueSky after 2-3 years than we did on Twitter in the 9-10ish years we were there. First of all: THANK YOU!!!!
Second, that's a long time to be a bookstore on social media, so seeing this is something of a milestone, just a couple of thoughts...
Second, that's a long time to be a bookstore on social media, so seeing this is something of a milestone, just a couple of thoughts...
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Soooo, we now have more followers on BlueSky after 2-3 years than we did on Twitter in the 9-10ish years we were there. First of all: THANK YOU!!!!
Second, that's a long time to be a bookstore on social media, so seeing this is something of a milestone, just a couple of thoughts...
Second, that's a long time to be a bookstore on social media, so seeing this is something of a milestone, just a couple of thoughts...
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Goodnight from young Kevin Millson, unable to face sleep after reading a heavily-illustrated book on spontaneous human combustion. Goodnight from Meon Hill, dreaming of opening its occulted green gates to allow all of its hollow wonders to spill out. Goodnight from Hookland.
January 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Goodnight from young Kevin Millson, unable to face sleep after reading a heavily-illustrated book on spontaneous human combustion. Goodnight from Meon Hill, dreaming of opening its occulted green gates to allow all of its hollow wonders to spill out. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Us trying our best to remind everyone to add alt text.
Be a guaranteed alt text hundy. It’s very easy to start adding. After you’ve uploaded your image, click "Alt", write a short description and post.
Be a guaranteed alt text hundy. It’s very easy to start adding. After you’ve uploaded your image, click "Alt", write a short description and post.
January 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Us trying our best to remind everyone to add alt text.
Be a guaranteed alt text hundy. It’s very easy to start adding. After you’ve uploaded your image, click "Alt", write a short description and post.
Be a guaranteed alt text hundy. It’s very easy to start adding. After you’ve uploaded your image, click "Alt", write a short description and post.
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I'm not trying to be an ass, but alt text that does not include the actual text in a screenshot of text does not help the blind and low vision people that alt text is actually for. Please be accessible. Especially when it's so easy to copy and paste that stuff. Screen readers don't read the image.
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I'm not trying to be an ass, but alt text that does not include the actual text in a screenshot of text does not help the blind and low vision people that alt text is actually for. Please be accessible. Especially when it's so easy to copy and paste that stuff. Screen readers don't read the image.
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To be fair, the books of Dickens are full of mentions of The Workhouse, which I presume is an employment agency of some sort
January 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
To be fair, the books of Dickens are full of mentions of The Workhouse, which I presume is an employment agency of some sort
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"It's quite nice when they're still asleep isn't it" - parents of toddlers and Europeans before America wakes up.
January 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
"It's quite nice when they're still asleep isn't it" - parents of toddlers and Europeans before America wakes up.
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He looks the real deal. (I still wish we didn’t poach so many players.)
A young Jacob Bethell with Brian Lara in Barbados
www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2024...
www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2024...
January 7, 2026 at 11:48 PM
He looks the real deal. (I still wish we didn’t poach so many players.)
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Someone in management where I work once asked me in a meeting for my ideas of what would improve wellbeing. I said a 10% pay rise, two weeks extra paid holiday and more opportunities for working from home. Apparently that wasn't "in the spirit of the question".
January 7, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Someone in management where I work once asked me in a meeting for my ideas of what would improve wellbeing. I said a 10% pay rise, two weeks extra paid holiday and more opportunities for working from home. Apparently that wasn't "in the spirit of the question".