Rob Tyers
@thexclaim6.bsky.social
Leeds via Leicester. Project Manager. Band member. Ex-zine author. 📚 and records. Punk. Cinema. Old stones. The Long Sixties. Modernism. Weird fiction. Film Noir. JG Ballard. You get the idea…
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First time properly visiting Cambridge. I’ve hit up a bunch of medieval sites, museums, pubs, bookshops etc, and it’s been GREAT. Who knew?
Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
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Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
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December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
First time properly visiting Cambridge. I’ve hit up a bunch of medieval sites, museums, pubs, bookshops etc, and it’s been GREAT. Who knew?
Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
🧵
Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
🧵
First time properly visiting Cambridge. I’ve hit up a bunch of medieval sites, museums, pubs, bookshops etc, and it’s been GREAT. Who knew?
Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
🧵
Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
🧵
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
First time properly visiting Cambridge. I’ve hit up a bunch of medieval sites, museums, pubs, bookshops etc, and it’s been GREAT. Who knew?
Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
🧵
Also read on for the obligatory spotting of a famous person (a good one too)…
🧵
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A stop off for a night in Stamford, en route to Cambridge for the weekend. Bizarrely only 35 mins drive from where I grew up but I’d never been before now
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A stop off for a night in Stamford, en route to Cambridge for the weekend. Bizarrely only 35 mins drive from where I grew up but I’d never been before now
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
A stop off for a night in Stamford, en route to Cambridge for the weekend. Bizarrely only 35 mins drive from where I grew up but I’d never been before now
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A stop off for a night in Stamford, en route to Cambridge for the weekend. Bizarrely only 35 mins drive from where I grew up but I’d never been before now
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
Check out this 12th century Norman arch. Originally a house entrance
Short 🧵 of other sights
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Cafe review appreciation
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Cafe review appreciation
Cafe review appreciation
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Cafe review appreciation
Lest we forget the smooth Mars bar
!["The only reason I emailed [Mars] was because I was interested in what might have caused it to happen. That is all I wanted to know and they kept side-lining that question," he told BBC.
"I think £2 is great, it will be two free Mars bars. Maybe they could have sent me more but I'm not being ungrateful. I think it's amazing after everything that's happened that I got the £2 voucher."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mqzh33g6litm5olul4dwonx5/bafkreiemwlrzcm4j3sp3kxt6bfohcennoqjp64wa2cjzlo3sm6r6xvuztu@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lest we forget the smooth Mars bar
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My algorithms are fucked
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My algorithms are fucked
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Another excellent Simenon with a familiar theme to much of his non-Maigret work - the slow crack up of mundane men. Claude Chabrol could have done a great adaptation of it (Chabrol did in fact adapt two non-Maigret Simenons, neither of which I’ve seen - Betty and The Hatters Ghost)…
#booksky
#booksky
Now reading - The Hand (1968) by Georges Simenon
I usually love his non-Maigret novels and so far so good with this one 🤌
#booksky
I usually love his non-Maigret novels and so far so good with this one 🤌
#booksky
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Another excellent Simenon with a familiar theme to much of his non-Maigret work - the slow crack up of mundane men. Claude Chabrol could have done a great adaptation of it (Chabrol did in fact adapt two non-Maigret Simenons, neither of which I’ve seen - Betty and The Hatters Ghost)…
#booksky
#booksky
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To continue the SHIP THEMED architecture content from Amsterdam, a few years ago we also visited Het Schip - pioneering social housing from over 100 years ago that (you guessed it) was designed to look like a ship 🤌👌
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
To continue the SHIP THEMED architecture content from Amsterdam, a few years ago we also visited Het Schip - pioneering social housing from over 100 years ago that (you guessed it) was designed to look like a ship 🤌👌
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I very rarely re-read books - I can’t even remember the last time - but I’ve been inspired by @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social revisit of To The Lighthouse, and the recognition that books hit different at different ages
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I very rarely re-read books - I can’t even remember the last time - but I’ve been inspired by @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social revisit of To The Lighthouse, and the recognition that books hit different at different ages
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
The rising of Pazuzu starts earlier every year
Debenhams is selling idols of Pazuzu, in case you were wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in…
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The rising of Pazuzu starts earlier every year
I very rarely re-read books - I can’t even remember the last time - but I’ve been inspired by @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social revisit of To The Lighthouse, and the recognition that books hit different at different ages
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I very rarely re-read books - I can’t even remember the last time - but I’ve been inspired by @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social revisit of To The Lighthouse, and the recognition that books hit different at different ages
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
Another excellent Simenon with a familiar theme to much of his non-Maigret work - the slow crack up of mundane men. Claude Chabrol could have done a great adaptation of it (Chabrol did in fact adapt two non-Maigret Simenons, neither of which I’ve seen - Betty and The Hatters Ghost)…
#booksky
#booksky
Now reading - The Hand (1968) by Georges Simenon
I usually love his non-Maigret novels and so far so good with this one 🤌
#booksky
I usually love his non-Maigret novels and so far so good with this one 🤌
#booksky
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Another excellent Simenon with a familiar theme to much of his non-Maigret work - the slow crack up of mundane men. Claude Chabrol could have done a great adaptation of it (Chabrol did in fact adapt two non-Maigret Simenons, neither of which I’ve seen - Betty and The Hatters Ghost)…
#booksky
#booksky
My algorithms are fucked
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My algorithms are fucked
To continue the SHIP THEMED architecture content from Amsterdam, a few years ago we also visited Het Schip - pioneering social housing from over 100 years ago that (you guessed it) was designed to look like a ship 🤌👌
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
To continue the SHIP THEMED architecture content from Amsterdam, a few years ago we also visited Het Schip - pioneering social housing from over 100 years ago that (you guessed it) was designed to look like a ship 🤌👌
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Rewatched GOODFELLAS (1990) for the umpteenth time. There’s nothing that hasn’t already been said about it, so I’ll just say…the bit where Liotta breaks the fourth wall in the court scene at the end? Surprises me every time 🤌
Probably the most exhilarating film of all time tbh 🤷♂️ #filmsky
Probably the most exhilarating film of all time tbh 🤷♂️ #filmsky
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Rewatched GOODFELLAS (1990) for the umpteenth time. There’s nothing that hasn’t already been said about it, so I’ll just say…the bit where Liotta breaks the fourth wall in the court scene at the end? Surprises me every time 🤌
Probably the most exhilarating film of all time tbh 🤷♂️ #filmsky
Probably the most exhilarating film of all time tbh 🤷♂️ #filmsky
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Everyone agrees that making art is to be constantly frustrated by the inability to externalise what you can see/hear in your head and inevitably compromising when you realise it’s impossible, right?
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Everyone agrees that making art is to be constantly frustrated by the inability to externalise what you can see/hear in your head and inevitably compromising when you realise it’s impossible, right?
Thought Chas and Dave were headlining Leeds Fest for a minute (which would be banging)
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Thought Chas and Dave were headlining Leeds Fest for a minute (which would be banging)
Everyone agrees that making art is to be constantly frustrated by the inability to externalise what you can see/hear in your head and inevitably compromising when you realise it’s impossible, right?
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Everyone agrees that making art is to be constantly frustrated by the inability to externalise what you can see/hear in your head and inevitably compromising when you realise it’s impossible, right?
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Just watched SHOOT (1976), a slice of post-Deliverance drive through exploitation at the centre of a recent plagiarism scandal… and which actually rocks
A group of NRA-nut hunters bite off more than they can chew when they unwittingly become prey of a rival group of hunters. SIGN ME UP
#filmsky 🧵
A group of NRA-nut hunters bite off more than they can chew when they unwittingly become prey of a rival group of hunters. SIGN ME UP
#filmsky 🧵
Apple TV series The Hunt postponed due to plagiarism allegations
Apple TV series The Hunt postponed due to plagiarism allegations
French thriller starring Benoît Magimel has been accused of stealing its story from a 1976 action film
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just watched SHOOT (1976), a slice of post-Deliverance drive through exploitation at the centre of a recent plagiarism scandal… and which actually rocks
A group of NRA-nut hunters bite off more than they can chew when they unwittingly become prey of a rival group of hunters. SIGN ME UP
#filmsky 🧵
A group of NRA-nut hunters bite off more than they can chew when they unwittingly become prey of a rival group of hunters. SIGN ME UP
#filmsky 🧵
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Want to go back to Amsterdam. Some photos from last time I was there of Scheepvaarthuis, the Amsterdam School building built 1913 to 1928 as offices for shipping companies 🔥 #architecture #amsterdamschool
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November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Want to go back to Amsterdam. Some photos from last time I was there of Scheepvaarthuis, the Amsterdam School building built 1913 to 1928 as offices for shipping companies 🔥 #architecture #amsterdamschool
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