Kurt Hoyte
@kurthoyte.bsky.social
Former illustrator turned running retailer.
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse.
Stalked by a weirdly aggressive urban fox while running.
Felt weird to be quite so frightened by this.
On the plus side, Strava thinks it was a killer workout.
Stalked by a weirdly aggressive urban fox while running.
Felt weird to be quite so frightened by this.
On the plus side, Strava thinks it was a killer workout.
December 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse.
Stalked by a weirdly aggressive urban fox while running.
Felt weird to be quite so frightened by this.
On the plus side, Strava thinks it was a killer workout.
Stalked by a weirdly aggressive urban fox while running.
Felt weird to be quite so frightened by this.
On the plus side, Strava thinks it was a killer workout.
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A few words on an important new book by Olivera Simic observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Inside the mind of Madam War Criminal | The Observer
Biljana Plavšić was the first woman to be convicted of war crimes, for her role in the bloody conflict in Bosnia. Olivera Simić tracked her down in Belgr...
observer.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
A few words on an important new book by Olivera Simic observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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New substack: a portion of a dictionary of politics: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/a-short-le...
A short lexicon of politics
A brief guide to understanding political terms.
chrisdillow.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New substack: a portion of a dictionary of politics: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/a-short-le...
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A short piece commemorating 100 years since the signing of the Locarno Treaties and some discussion of territorial integrity today
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today
On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatori…
progressivegeographies.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A short piece commemorating 100 years since the signing of the Locarno Treaties and some discussion of territorial integrity today
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
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On the late, great, Steve Cropper who most people probably remember from the backing band in The Blues Brothers. The HBO documentary on Stax Records (currently on NOW TV) is well worth watching both to understand his contribution and why, to me at least, America is such a strange place.
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
On the late, great, Steve Cropper who most people probably remember from the backing band in The Blues Brothers. The HBO documentary on Stax Records (currently on NOW TV) is well worth watching both to understand his contribution and why, to me at least, America is such a strange place.
Repeatedly glancing at ones Garmin watch despite the battery having died mid run.
This needs a name.
This needs a name.
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Repeatedly glancing at ones Garmin watch despite the battery having died mid run.
This needs a name.
This needs a name.
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🔴Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that infiltrated European politics, ...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🔴Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Men’s field at the Ageo Half Marathon in Japan today.The depth is just astonishing. (Yearly evergreen post.)
433 people sub-1:10 at Ageo City Half Marathon: japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2025/11/kgus...
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Men’s field at the Ageo Half Marathon in Japan today.The depth is just astonishing. (Yearly evergreen post.)
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Streaming of tomorrow’s Ageo City Half: www.youtube.com/live/TZDLr93...
第38回2025上尾シティハーフマラソン
YouTube video by テレ玉
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Streaming of tomorrow’s Ageo City Half: www.youtube.com/live/TZDLr93...
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This week's Substack post tells the story of Brighton's interwar council housing. There's a new post every Thursday in your inbox if you subscribe.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This week's Substack post tells the story of Brighton's interwar council housing. There's a new post every Thursday in your inbox if you subscribe.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
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tech bro cultists telling us the singularity is nigh meanwhile the checkout robot at the supermarket keeps getting surprised that I put a bag in the fucking bagging area
October 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
tech bro cultists telling us the singularity is nigh meanwhile the checkout robot at the supermarket keeps getting surprised that I put a bag in the fucking bagging area
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Author Richard Condon is sadly overlooked today.
He wrote Manchurian Candidate, a devastating Holocaust novel, An Infinity of Mirrors & brilliant alternate view of Kennedy assassination, Winter Kills.
#Booksky
He wrote Manchurian Candidate, a devastating Holocaust novel, An Infinity of Mirrors & brilliant alternate view of Kennedy assassination, Winter Kills.
#Booksky
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Director: John Frankenheimer
Director: John Frankenheimer
October 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Author Richard Condon is sadly overlooked today.
He wrote Manchurian Candidate, a devastating Holocaust novel, An Infinity of Mirrors & brilliant alternate view of Kennedy assassination, Winter Kills.
#Booksky
He wrote Manchurian Candidate, a devastating Holocaust novel, An Infinity of Mirrors & brilliant alternate view of Kennedy assassination, Winter Kills.
#Booksky
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Fascinating R4 programme by my friend @josephrizzonaudi.bsky.social about how not-seeing can bring new creative, collaborative dimensions to visual art
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Artworks - Ways of Not Seeing - BBC Sounds
Exploring how blind approaches to art description bring galleries to life for everyone.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Fascinating R4 programme by my friend @josephrizzonaudi.bsky.social about how not-seeing can bring new creative, collaborative dimensions to visual art
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Before deciding to make a comedy, Kubrick originally tried to adapt the 1958 novel “Red Alert” by Peter George (writing under the pseudonym Peter Bryant and originally titled “Two Minutes to Doom”). “Fail Safe” is an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.
October 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Before deciding to make a comedy, Kubrick originally tried to adapt the 1958 novel “Red Alert” by Peter George (writing under the pseudonym Peter Bryant and originally titled “Two Minutes to Doom”). “Fail Safe” is an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.
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Here is the original trailer for the film:
Fail Safe (1964)
YouTube video by TweeterFlix
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here is the original trailer for the film:
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![[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]
1
SOCRATES:
Plato..
PLATO:
Yes Socrates?
2
SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?
PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates
3
SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?
PLATO:
Um, yep
4
SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then
5
[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]
SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?
6
PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel
7
SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.
PLATO:
No.
8
SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]
So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?
9
PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really
10
SOCRATES:
So are we not human?
PLATO:
‘Spose not.
11
[Bleak pause]
12
PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock
SOCRATES:
Yeah
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiazbuxbxnuyt5etli2cjseaychvbuym6n6z33nwx2mutlvoqjdhge@jpeg)
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Government officials operating on a quota system of some kind will continue to treat brown people in bad faith regardless of what piece of laminated plastic they carry.
September 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Government officials operating on a quota system of some kind will continue to treat brown people in bad faith regardless of what piece of laminated plastic they carry.
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Reform aren't really objecting to immigrants because labour markets and housing. It's racism. Hence the lies about eating swans and sexual assault.
September 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Reform aren't really objecting to immigrants because labour markets and housing. It's racism. Hence the lies about eating swans and sexual assault.
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This week, a 1964 film about accidental nuclear war from an acclaimed director, featuring a mad scientist who plans to kill millions. That's right, it's... "Fail Safe"
Expecting something else?
An amazing film and the amazing story of its battle with Dr Strangelove. With @markpackuk.bsky.social
Expecting something else?
An amazing film and the amazing story of its battle with Dr Strangelove. With @markpackuk.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This week, a 1964 film about accidental nuclear war from an acclaimed director, featuring a mad scientist who plans to kill millions. That's right, it's... "Fail Safe"
Expecting something else?
An amazing film and the amazing story of its battle with Dr Strangelove. With @markpackuk.bsky.social
Expecting something else?
An amazing film and the amazing story of its battle with Dr Strangelove. With @markpackuk.bsky.social
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September 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It shouldn't have taken a UNGA speech for a lot of people to face the reality that Trump's brain is mush, and the United States under his rule is useless to allies abroad and facing mounting instability at home.
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It shouldn't have taken a UNGA speech for a lot of people to face the reality that Trump's brain is mush, and the United States under his rule is useless to allies abroad and facing mounting instability at home.
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My goodness the Thuringian Forest is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. The natural beauty of the German countryside doesn't get talked about enough - it's stunning. You can spend hours just sitting in a field staring at it, and that is enough.
www.germansights.com/thuringia/th...
www.germansights.com/thuringia/th...
Thuringian Forest Germany: Nature's Paradise & Hidden Gems | GermanSights Guide
Embark on an unforgettable journey to the Thuringian Forest in Germany with our in-depth travel guide from GermanSights. Discover stunning landscapes, outdoor activities and historic treasures!
www.germansights.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My goodness the Thuringian Forest is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. The natural beauty of the German countryside doesn't get talked about enough - it's stunning. You can spend hours just sitting in a field staring at it, and that is enough.
www.germansights.com/thuringia/th...
www.germansights.com/thuringia/th...
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Absolute legend. MORE of THIS from all our politicians
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Absolute legend. MORE of THIS from all our politicians
