Peter Swanson
@peterswanson.bsky.social
Guitar, books, rugby, art, music, history. Welton, Northamptonshire.
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The Ashmolean has, this week, welcomed its millionth visitor in 2025. This will be the first time the Museum has reached a million visitors since the reopening of the Ashmolean in 2009. This is 14% ahead of this time last year - visitor numbers to the Ashmolean have grown steadily in recent years.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Ashmolean has, this week, welcomed its millionth visitor in 2025. This will be the first time the Museum has reached a million visitors since the reopening of the Ashmolean in 2009. This is 14% ahead of this time last year - visitor numbers to the Ashmolean have grown steadily in recent years.
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Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.
October 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.
Autism causes vaccines
September 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Autism causes vaccines
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COMPETITION TIME! These are two A3 prints I’m not happy selling for various reasons.
Rather than throw them away you can win one (First place picks)
If you’d like the chance to win a print then please RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner Friday 1pm
My shop www.infinitebacon.com
GOOD LUCK!
Rather than throw them away you can win one (First place picks)
If you’d like the chance to win a print then please RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner Friday 1pm
My shop www.infinitebacon.com
GOOD LUCK!
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
COMPETITION TIME! These are two A3 prints I’m not happy selling for various reasons.
Rather than throw them away you can win one (First place picks)
If you’d like the chance to win a print then please RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner Friday 1pm
My shop www.infinitebacon.com
GOOD LUCK!
Rather than throw them away you can win one (First place picks)
If you’d like the chance to win a print then please RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner Friday 1pm
My shop www.infinitebacon.com
GOOD LUCK!
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Happy National Hot Dog Day! Go slam a wiener!
July 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Happy National Hot Dog Day! Go slam a wiener!
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New survey of UK SMEs:
👉🏽 66% would now vote to remain in the EU (an increase of 14%);
👉🏽 56% say #Brexit directly reduced their global competitiveness;
👉🏽 65% report that friction has significantly impacted overall profits. ~AA
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
👉🏽 66% would now vote to remain in the EU (an increase of 14%);
👉🏽 56% say #Brexit directly reduced their global competitiveness;
👉🏽 65% report that friction has significantly impacted overall profits. ~AA
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Two-thirds of small businesses would vote to rejoin EU after Brexit blow: survey
www.independent.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New survey of UK SMEs:
👉🏽 66% would now vote to remain in the EU (an increase of 14%);
👉🏽 56% say #Brexit directly reduced their global competitiveness;
👉🏽 65% report that friction has significantly impacted overall profits. ~AA
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
👉🏽 66% would now vote to remain in the EU (an increase of 14%);
👉🏽 56% say #Brexit directly reduced their global competitiveness;
👉🏽 65% report that friction has significantly impacted overall profits. ~AA
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Breaking News: Brian Wilson has died
The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Dies at 82
The beloved musician had been living with a neurocognative disorder akin to dementia
pitchfork.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Breaking News: Brian Wilson has died
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Ingenious 😂
FFS
FFS
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ingenious 😂
FFS
FFS
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Pasquale Taraffo looks at all those rockers and modern pop artists with their shiny flashy wacky guitars and just sighs while he readies his harp guitar.
April 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Pasquale Taraffo looks at all those rockers and modern pop artists with their shiny flashy wacky guitars and just sighs while he readies his harp guitar.
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Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)
April 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)
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Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.
April 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' and other intimate hits, dies at 88.
February 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' and other intimate hits, dies at 88.
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Obama knew
February 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Obama knew
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When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.
February 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.
I can’t imagine how puritanical, repressed and regressive you would have to be ban life drawing classes. When I have participated in them (as a bad artist) they were relaxed, distressing and, frankly, beautiful.
Life classes: is it time to draw a line under nude modelling?
Life classes: is it time to draw a line under nude modelling?
A row over an art class raises potentially difficult questions about the traditional method of learning to draw
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I can’t imagine how puritanical, repressed and regressive you would have to be ban life drawing classes. When I have participated in them (as a bad artist) they were relaxed, distressing and, frankly, beautiful.
My review of The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky
Peter Swanson's review of The Pale Criminal (Bernie Gunther, #2)
3/5: Private detective Bernie Gunther is enticed back into the state Security Service with the rank of Kriminalkommissar to investigate the murders a number of blond and blue-eyed teenage girls. It be...
www.goodreads.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My review of The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky