@philoates.bsky.social
One broke into my house, down south
06.10.2025 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fact check
Amish Autism
Autism exists in Amish communities, just like in the general population, despite myths suggesting otherwise.
The myth of low autism rates among the Amish likely stems from limited healthcare access, cultural misunderstandings, and underreporting—not actual lower incidence.
Don’t tempt me
18.09.2025 08:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also Stanley's Cafe - best egg butties in town!
17.09.2025 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
15.09.2025 23:35 — 👍 5527 🔁 1903 💬 163 📌 134"Part of me thought: you have enough books already. The rest of me disagreed"
Yep, that.
Jamie Raskin's full speech roasting Farage and free speech imposters like him/Trump is now online here.....
Watch it all.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
They’re called medians, you know, the metal things that are always, somebody had a great, a great lobbyist, because I've never seen them look good. I've been looking at these things with the little, right? They're always broken and bad." - DJT
Still got DEI in, so your point still stands
Don't just get the single, buy the album
moon2025.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...
Image shows framed collage of damaged Arthur Rimbaud photograph. A framed image, part of exhibition at Dorothy, Liverpool
Haunted Paper exhibition continues at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. Weekdays, 9-5. Come along and see the Wild Twin and Ghost Town notebooks and collages!
26.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 53 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
If you're interested, Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated author and US Consul to Liverpool 1853 to 1857, moved to Manchester to be close to the Art Treasures Exhibition. Here's his report on his first visit
Nathaniel Hawthorne explores Old Trafford | Liverpool Miscellany share.google/UjjC2kK0uqyC...
How was it? We had a Beatles Day last week - the NT Mendips/Forthlin tour, the Magical Mystery Tour, the Mathew St Beatles Museum, the Cavern, plus the previous day a self led walking tour taking in Ye Cracke, Gambier Terrace, Blue Angel, Jac, Pier Head statue, Dublin St (of course) etc etc etc
13.08.2025 19:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My dad was an apprentice at Lairds when the Ark Royal was handed over to the RN in Glasgow. He had a choice to go on the delivery run or go on a blind date with my mum. Guess which he chose?
Ark Royal, obviously, the blind date was postponed until the next week.
Grok sounds like they're trapped in a basement, sending a cry for help
03.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was listening to Fats Waller only the other day. Introducing the grandkids to "Your Feet's Too Big"
30.07.2025 06:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's about the jetpacks.
30.07.2025 06:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Liverpool legend, and lifelong friend - David 'Yorkie' Palmer's latest band venture - Moon. Debut album out today. x
moon2025.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...
I have to admit, I recognised the cranes.
24.07.2025 08:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Andes pictured Berth 106, Southampton in the 1960s. She trade between Southampton and Rio.
The luggage tug in the foreground is, I think, the Calshot, built in 1912 and is till around
Jeff Young, @wildtwin.bsky.social, accepting the #AckerleyPrize last night. He knows how to combine the words.
24.07.2025 06:52 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations @wildtwin.bsky.social !
23.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
23.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 58 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 9
He's only gone and won it!
23.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good luck to writer Jeff Young whose "Wild Twin" is up for the @thetls.bsky.social Ackerley Prize tomorrow @Foyles
He's our wonderful guest in #MisadventuresinMusic podcast with @ianprowse.bsky.social & Mick Ord
Check it!
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
urbanistamagazine.uk/jeff-young-o...
Excellent photo.
23.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sleeve notes for the new MOON album, The Green Lilac Park, by the inestimable and altogether wonderful Jeff Young.
17.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Views across Canning Dock #Liverpool comparing changes from 1970's & 80's through to present day modern architecture @yoliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social
14.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0When you see the photo of anonymous modern architecture blotting out the view, the first reaction is 'ouch', but the second is 'it's great to see Liverpool moving forward'
And that black glass building is responsible for keeping the black gaffer tape trade alive
The Dylan Steps, Clarence Warehouse, Dublin St, Liverpool.
14.07.2025 09:21 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0"Attaboy! Sock it in the net sack, you crazy kickball bastards!" shouted Bob Dylan at the tv screen in his suite at the Adelphi Hotel where he was watching the 1966 FA Cup Final. Everton were clawing their way back from two nil down to beat Sheffield Wednesday and win the Cup.
May 14th, 1966
