Rich
@rbett.bsky.social
They named the Streisand Effect after me.
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Someone found a digitised free version of the actual source, here you all are!
archive.org/details/chri...
archive.org/details/chri...
Christian names in local and family history : Redmonds, George, 1935- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1 online resource (xviii, 190 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :
archive.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Someone found a digitised free version of the actual source, here you all are!
archive.org/details/chri...
archive.org/details/chri...
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As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
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A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
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If you want kids to read:
-Reopen the closed libraries
-Give them free books
-Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students
-Work on adult literacy
Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
-Reopen the closed libraries
-Give them free books
-Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students
-Work on adult literacy
Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests
Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you want kids to read:
-Reopen the closed libraries
-Give them free books
-Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students
-Work on adult literacy
Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
-Reopen the closed libraries
-Give them free books
-Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students
-Work on adult literacy
Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable.
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
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The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
🏺
November 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable.
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
🏺
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
🏺
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It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
So I'm going to watch all the Predator and Alien films. In chronological order according to setting.
Why?
Shut up, that's why.
Why?
Shut up, that's why.
a close up of a predator 's face with red lasers coming out of his eyes
ALT: a close up of a predator 's face with red lasers coming out of his eyes
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So I'm going to watch all the Predator and Alien films. In chronological order according to setting.
Why?
Shut up, that's why.
Why?
Shut up, that's why.
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pitching cosy British crime dramas in 2025
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Is this the greatest music video ever? @eleanormorton.bsky.social and I discover what might be the sexiest/spookiest performance of Tim Curry's career in The Worst Witch (1986). linktr.ee/readthat
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Is this the greatest music video ever? @eleanormorton.bsky.social and I discover what might be the sexiest/spookiest performance of Tim Curry's career in The Worst Witch (1986). linktr.ee/readthat
Finished reading Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon. Makes me want to be a better writer.
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Finished reading Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon. Makes me want to be a better writer.
These days, every time I read anything on TV Tropes I end up sighing with frustration, as there's invariably huge points being missed while relatively minor trivia is blown up out of proportion as world-shaking Canon.
October 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
These days, every time I read anything on TV Tropes I end up sighing with frustration, as there's invariably huge points being missed while relatively minor trivia is blown up out of proportion as world-shaking Canon.
As Terry Pratchett said, we tell little lies to children so that they can accept the big lies they need to swallow to survive.
Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing.
I like to think your dad would have approved of the Dummy Elephant, @rhi.bsky.social .
Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing.
I like to think your dad would have approved of the Dummy Elephant, @rhi.bsky.social .
Kiddo, like many toddlers, used a dummy. We weren't dead keen on it but it helped her soothe so 🤷♂️
Anyway, eventually she got to an age where it felt okay to encourage her, gently, to give it up.
It was about the age she started losing some of her milk teeth.
Anyway, eventually she got to an age where it felt okay to encourage her, gently, to give it up.
It was about the age she started losing some of her milk teeth.
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The frogs have made it to Exeter.
October 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The frogs have made it to Exeter.
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Went through the "White House" today. It was just beautiful.
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Went through the "White House" today. It was just beautiful.
So obviously I'm loving #hadesii but I can't help but feel that the music isn't being ambitious enough. I like that the instruments cut in and out in accordance with the action but there's more that can be done.
I've had an idea. 🧵
I've had an idea. 🧵
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So obviously I'm loving #hadesii but I can't help but feel that the music isn't being ambitious enough. I like that the instruments cut in and out in accordance with the action but there's more that can be done.
I've had an idea. 🧵
I've had an idea. 🧵
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Andy Serkis has titled his forthcoming memoir "My Pressures" which puts him streets ahead of the competition for "dad joke of the year" if nothing else. Wonderful.
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Andy Serkis has titled his forthcoming memoir "My Pressures" which puts him streets ahead of the competition for "dad joke of the year" if nothing else. Wonderful.
"I wanna live like Marple people..."
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"I wanna live like Marple people..."
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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The Uncanny Valet
our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so
October 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Uncanny Valet
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A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.
What Badenoch (and many, many others) are saying with this is:
1) Are you making money right now?
2) Are you making ME money right now?
They honestly struggle to view life through any other lens than the profits of a minority.
1) Are you making money right now?
2) Are you making ME money right now?
They honestly struggle to view life through any other lens than the profits of a minority.
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
What Badenoch (and many, many others) are saying with this is:
1) Are you making money right now?
2) Are you making ME money right now?
They honestly struggle to view life through any other lens than the profits of a minority.
1) Are you making money right now?
2) Are you making ME money right now?
They honestly struggle to view life through any other lens than the profits of a minority.