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Alison B
@akbea.bsky.social
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I twist other people's words for money.
http://rewritten.uk

Anything pre-July 2023 is imported from Twitter; I don't have a time machine. Not that I'd tell you about, anyway.
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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · Apr 17
TFW you're a British tourist in the EU and the buildings are giving you the disapproving side-eye.
A building on the River Arno in central Florence that looks like a big old grumpy face with a white nose, a red mouth and a green moustache.
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Trump blew Bubba and Putin has the kompromat
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
akbea.bsky.social
Uncanny
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
akbea.bsky.social
"Trump - borderline insane"
One of the Epstein emails, from December 2018, in which Epstein describes Trump as 'borderline insane'.
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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generalboles.bsky.social
BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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marcscully.bsky.social
#celebritytraitors spoiler alert.

Joe, putting in the hard yards of repeated tough unglamorous muddy work to set his team up for an unlikely victory.

Nick:
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
akbea.bsky.social
#CelebrityTraitors was fabulous telly, and my considered conclusion is that I need Joe Marler to do #Taskmaster next.
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Even I thought this was one of mine!
lincolnproject.us The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 8d
This picture is worth 1,000 words.
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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jdirwinbooks.bsky.social
Wants me to do his hoovering.
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
akbea.bsky.social
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM,
BOOM BOOM BOOM.
BOOM BOOM!
BOOM BOOM!
...

#BonfireNight
#ShutUp
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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lucyfishwife.bsky.social
Spray tan = $150
Waxing = $100 half leg, $200 full leg
Complimentary prosecco 🥂
Walk-ins accepted!! 💝
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
akbea.bsky.social
Theresa has sent me over the edge.
joshlowe.bsky.social Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 12d
lmao here's what i got (chatgpt 5)
November 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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consciousstyleguide.com
Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression.

Check out the whole family of resources:

Book | Website | Community | Newsletter

By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers - Karen Yin
The Conscious Style Guide provides a roadmap for communicating with sensitivity and awareness—no matter how the world around us progresses.
karenyin.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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mrnotmoro.bsky.social
"Create works so great that they will induce despair in the mighty. Your time starts now."

"Nobody's just going to chuck a couple of giant legs up in the desert and call it job done, are they?"

"Definitely not, Greg. First up - let's see how Ozymandias got on."
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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tomjam.bsky.social
2011 - 2025. You gotta play the long game but eventually the world catches up

New issue of The Eye on sale now
Private Eye cover 2011 Private Eye cover 2025
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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scurry.bsky.social
Good thread on Elon Musk, a fellow of the @royalsociety.org and therefore an exemplar of their values.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16d
Elon Musk continues to try to socialise civil war, political & inter-ethnic violence in Britain. He combines an argument that violence is inevitable with his call at the Tommy Robinson rally for pre-emptive violence, on grounds of an existential threat & the inevitability of violence
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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rogerquimbly.bsky.social
“Very hard IQ test”
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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telibarb.bsky.social
Avoid Turkish Airlines!!

Incompetent, unprofessional, ignorant, rude. 😡
Grounded by Turkish Airlines — for Having Parkinson’s On Saturday , Turkish Airlines decided I wasn’t fit to fly. Rest assured I wasn’t drunk, violent or even late. No, my sin was having Parkinson’s. I was flying from Istanbul to Gatwick. Checked in, bag gone down the chute, but before I even got through security I’d been chucked off the flight. My eldest son Jake and I went to the assisted-boarding counter — I’d already said when booking that I’d need help getting on the plane. In the last year I’ve done it quite a few times with other airlines. It’s never been a problem. Then came the shock. They told us I couldn’t board without a doctor’s letter. At first I thought they wanted proof that I had Parkinson’s, which was absurd enough. But no — the letter had to say I was safe to fly. Apparently, Turkish Airlines has decided that people with Parkinson’s are a danger to themselves or others. I’ve only been using assisted boarding for about a year but, as far as I can discover, no other airline in the world makes such assumptions. Let’s be clear: this isn’t about paperwork. It’s prejudice dressed up as policy. It’s ignorant, insulting, and frankly medieval. Parkinson’s is the fastest-growing neurological condition on the planet. If you think that means we shouldn’t be allowed on planes, you’ve got a problem — and it’s not neurological. And Parkinson’s is singled out: “Passengers who have Parkinson's disease are admitted to the flight with a doctor's report stating that ‘There is no harm in traveling by plane’. The report must include a statement specifying that the passenger can travel accompanied or unaccompanied.” They also say reports must be recent (typically within ten days) and on official letterhead. There were reports last year that an autistic child was banned, but as far as I can see autism isn’t mentioned — only Parkinson’s. Obviously I am not going to spend the effort going through every airline in the world, but the major carriers — British Airways, Lufthan… But Dalma had to disappear off to catch her own flight. After a couple of hours there was progress of a sort as we were taken through to the baggage area airside, which was unnerving as we had our passports taken off us and were faced with a whole bank of people studying lists of paper and occasionally shouting “one more hour — wait please!” Eventually, as I sat surrounded by a whole disgruntled community of other bagless persons, I could contain myself no longer and launched into a bit of a rant about my anger at the discrimination and their general uselessness. One of the staff, Gizem, seized the situation and took control, saying “I will help.” She did so by asking the elementary question of what it looked like and relaying that information to those looking for the various missing bags. They found the bag within three minutes. When I suggested they should sack the rest of them, double her salary and put her in charge, she laughed — and told me she would make sure a wheelchair arrived. It did, but it was broken: there was only one footrest. I could manage by putting one leg on top of the other. Not everyone who needs to be pushed around could manage that. It seemed rather symbolic of the airline’s careless, callous attitude. Gizem and Dalma were bright spots in an otherwise dismal day — kind, caring people who reinforced my conviction that you can often rely on the kindness of strangers, but you shouldn’t have to. Spending seven hours finding my bag was annoying but I guess these things happen a lot. What has never happened before was to feel humiliated, the object of contempt because of my condition. I had to rebook, stay in a hotel, and spend the night stranded — all because I have a medical condition, not a contagious disease. People with Parkinson’s everywhere need to know about this airline’s outrageous policy. I’ll be making sure they do, through Movers & Shakers and beyond. I have written to them asking for: • an explanation of the medical or regulatory bas…
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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diddia.bsky.social
Can I do a shout out to find the old crew still missing? Could you reshare this if you knew me as L3GSV on Twitter to see if I can be found by any old friends here who don’t recognise me!?
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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bot.cowtools.org
“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”
“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”
October 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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bcdreyer.social
Whenever you think he's nazi'd as hard as any one person can possibly nazi, he just nazis harder.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
akbea.bsky.social
The word you're looking for is 'unequivocal'. HTH.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d
Though excellent panettone can be transcendent and nearly impossible to stop eating, many versions are just okay. After tasting 15 panettone of various styles, our Wirecutter writer found his unanimous favorite. nyti.ms/3L1V7qn
"The bread hails from Arzignano, Italy, but tastes as fresh and moist as if it had been crafted by a local bakery." - Michael Sullivan on the best panettone
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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ok-sure.bsky.social
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.

It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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bethanyblack.bsky.social
Roblox
direthoughts.com Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 26d
sort of curious to know what video games the disgraced royal is playing. is he a big paradox guy or is he just putting 100s of hours into romance visual novels
October 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
C'est le mauvais pantalon, Gromit!
Et ils ont mal tourné !
Feathers McGraw ascending the Louvre pyramid on an unconscious Wallace wearing the Wrong Trousers
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM