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gerard01.bsky.social
its about that time*

* time to fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
an autumnal or fall if you're american, evening street scene featuring a greengrocers shop with an illuminated sign reading 'Fruity Season'
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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jasonthorne.bsky.social
The 9.5 metre tall “Seated Bear With Friends” by artist Dean Drever, overlooking the new park and playground at the Crosstown development in Toronto.
A large bronze bear sculpture sits prominently, depicting the bear in a seated position. The background features modern high-rise buildings and a partly cloudy sky. The sculpture is mounted on a black base.
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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lasrina.bsky.social
I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
Oxford researchers say octopuses 'likely to take over the world'
Oxford University boffins say the octopuses are likely to take over the world after humans.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
All my comics have happy endings!
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
gerard01.bsky.social
Yer ma collects Labubus
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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typejunky.bsky.social
Wanna see a really tiny damp cardboard box of grot mags? Course you do.
A box of jazz mags in front of a skip 1/24th scale. It’s all about the research. The skip is from 1991, (don’t ask), so the mags had to be 70s vintage to have been in a shed for long enough… anyway, it’s how my mind works. Linen tester for scale and cheap laughs. Grot mags in skip Grot mags in box. For US/RoW viewers, RAZZLE has a sort of comedy element about the title in the UK, oft quoted.
October 5, 2023 at 8:34 AM
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defenddemocracy.bsky.social
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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warrenjwells.bsky.social
Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.

sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco
The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.
sfstandard.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
gerard01.bsky.social
Call Me!
September 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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samthielman.com
goodnight everyone
September 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
gerard01.bsky.social
Resist the urge to watch some prurient true crime documentary and watch this one about hummingbirds and the point and purpose of everything instead.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYgV...
Every Little Thing – Official Trailer
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
gerard01.bsky.social
Finally the inherent violence and chaos of my name 'Gerard' has been recognised by the Met Office.

wait up. 'Wubbo'?
September 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
"In fact, almost everything worthwhile that has come out of British culture for the last century, from music hall, to street kebabs, to standup comedy, rock 'n' roll, and the rave scene, has been primarily a working-class phenomenon. Essentially, these were the things the working-class created when they weren’t actually working. The sprouting of British popular culture in the 60s was a product of the UK’s then very generous welfare state….and a surprising proportion of major bands later to sweep the world spent at least some of their formative years on unemployment relief." David Graeber
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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stevemullis.net
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social
Berlin police, again and again.
This happens all the time to people protesting the Gaza genocide and Germany's complicity in it
owenjones.bsky.social Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Aug 29
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide.

The German state is a disgrace.

It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide.

It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
August 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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whatsontvclass.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Stephen Graham is right. TV has forgotten how funny working-class people are
The British actor has said that TV needs to stop making working-class families look miserable. Chris Harvey, who couldn’t agree more, argues that if you don’t have a broad enough spread of writers, st...
www.independent.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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jackboot.bsky.social
There aren't many celebrity interviews where anything genuine happens, but this is an exception. Ben Mankiewicz interviewed Kathy Bates. Wait until she gets to the part about not thanking her mother when accepting her Oscar and what he reveals to her.
youtu.be/YlEjyItb-Y0?...
"Matlock" star Kathy Bates
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
youtu.be
May 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
gerard01.bsky.social
Another sunny day then is it?
a man wearing a head scarf and a turban looks at the camera
ALT: a man wearing a head scarf and a turban looks at the camera
media.tenor.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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ficklenuts.bsky.social
I’m tired of people expecting me to do something just because I know how to do it and they’re paying me
April 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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righttoroam.bsky.social
Join us on the 26th & 27th of April at Kinder Rising for a mass rally and swim trespass to celebrate the 93rd anniversary of the kinder Scout mass trespass.

Check out the link for more info and to sign up for free ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/kinder-ris...
April 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
gerard01.bsky.social
Might login to my icloud today. See what Jeff Bezos has been up to with my most intimate thoughts and memories...
April 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
gerard01.bsky.social
Top notch Florida Orange Harvesting Tractor, that is cunningly disguised as an Orange. So as not to scare them off i guess
April 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM