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Andy Pandini
@andypandini.bsky.social
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Actor. Comedian. Musician. Writer.
Bath, Somerset, UK
https://andypandini.com
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whalepetunias.bsky.social
Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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rhodri.biz
Just been reminded of the Crackerjack team attempting XTC’s Making Plans For Nigel, which I’m sure Andy Partridge would agree is the the definitive version

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Crackerjack team take on XTC's Making Plans For Nigel
YouTube video by Paul Putner
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November 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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brlsi.bsky.social
🐴 Black Beauty in Bath 📖
Discover how Anna Sewell’s life in Bath inspired Black Beauty. Join Dr Celia Brayfield to explore the story behind the beloved novel.
🗓 5 Nov 🕢 7:30–9pm📍 BRLSI & Zoom 💷 £3–£6
👉 brlsi.org/whatson/bl...
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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gailmyerscough.co.uk
My Brutalist Christmas cards are back by popular demand!
Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...
Brutalist Christmas cards featuring Forton, Trellick Tower, Barbican and Birmingham Central Library
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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moderntoss.bsky.social
Bit late posting this. Couldn’t be fucked to get it up any quicker. #fuckmondays
October 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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richardnicholls.net
Day 297 of #365DaysOfSmiles
When you are not the baby but still want to be part of the moment
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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davidbelbin.bsky.social
Charity shop jazz: a thing I haven't seen before. The owner has (I'm presuming) meticulously recorded each time he played the CD. Looks like he (and surely it's a 'he') got his money's worth.
six jazz cd by Miles, Coltrane, Lester Young, Zoot Sims etc, each with a date list showing the seven or eight times they've been played.
October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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jonathancoe.bsky.social
I've had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mishal Husain three times. One of the most intelligent and accomplished people I've ever met.

Here's Nigel Farage trying to shut her down with the words "Listen, love ..." like it was still the 1970s. I'd say it was unbelievable, only it isn't.
Nigel Farage says"gotta shoot" down Russian jets | The Mishal Husain Show
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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October 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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nostalgicthing.bsky.social
The publicity stills from Carry On Doctor look like they could be Caravaggio paintings
A publicity still from Carry On Doctor where the patients confront Dr. Tinkle A publicity still from Carry On Doctor where the patients give Dr. Tinkle an ice bath
October 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.
Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social
Well the Basil Brush Show has totally gone to shit.
October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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folklorewales.com
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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paullewismoney.bsky.social
The very uncharitable profits of JustGiving which takes fees, a cut of gift aid, and then asks donors for a tip! bit.ly/4nzZpDV much better to give directly to the charity, but if you do use JG always set tip to zero. But you can’t stop it snaffling some of the Gift Aid
JustGiving pays £25.8m dividend to American owner
The charity platform made the payment to the Nasdaq-listed Blackbaud after revenues rose by 9.7 per cent to £64.5m
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October 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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franticplanet.bsky.social
"Stop moaning about rubbish old telly and find something good for once!" From the creator of Rentaghost, my new video looks at the sci-fi hi-jinx of Galloping Galaxies.

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Galloping Galaxies: Rentaghost in Space?
YouTube video by Stuart Millard
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September 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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cancienne.bsky.social
Yes. We can learn that it’s much better to spend your limited time on earth eating cheese and feeling joy.
September 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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ofalafel.bsky.social
You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.
September 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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petepaphides.bsky.social
Newly added to the word pile. In praise of Free As A Bird and songs within songs. www.patreon.com/posts/in-oth...
“In other words Free As A Bird becomes a song about a song called Free As A Bird”: In Praise of Songs Within Songs | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
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August 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns.

They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.

That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.
August 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Cartoon. A living room with a coffee table, two armchairs, a standard lamp. One armchair is saying to the other "FUCK OFF" to which the other is replying "NO YOU FUCK OFF". Caption: The Internet of Things
August 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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tuc.org.uk
"And then at the end of the month, my billionaire gives me the tiniest fraction of that money, so I can give it to the millionaire that owns my house" - Rich Spalding
August 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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daveybot.bsky.social
Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography
A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.
August 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
Exhausted and dehydrated, I slowly walk the last few steps. “This has to be it,” I think to myself. Taking a deep breath, I close my eyes and turn the handle, whispering a little prayer as I step through. I open my eyes and the last trickle of hope leaks away. I am still in IKEA.
A framed yellow door sits at the end of a path between two rows of hedges. Behind the door is an open meadow.
August 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
In 2022 I received the wholesome DM in the image on the left on the Other Site, tonight I received the one on the right 🥹🥹🥹🥹
A Twitter DM from June 2022 reads: Hi Mollie, I hope you're well. Just sending a message to say thanks. Early this year you tweeted a Guardian Blind Date, where the guy dragged the girl a little bit. After seeing a couple of people saying some pretty shit things about her on Twitter, I DM'd her to balance it out a bit - just say I thought she came across as really funny and fuck the haters etc (but with no other real intention other than that). Well we hit it off, talked every day for a month (I was working out of the UK at the time) and agreed to meet as soon as I returned. I ended up coming home early and we've been dating ever since. It might sound a bit over the top but l've never felt like this about anyone else before, and I'm pretty sure she feels the same way. I've honestly had some of the best months of my life with her around, and I want to say thanks A Twitter DM from tonight reads: Hey Mollie, I hope you don't mind an update on the above. I asked her if she'd marry me, she said yes! She's my world. I'm so incredibly thankful for you tweeting that thing that led me and meet - I'm eternally in your debt. Thanks!
August 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM