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No. Next question
BBC World Service headline: ‘Is the new pope woke?’ with a picture of Pope Leo XIV giving a blessing of some sort or other.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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when you said Sprinter I thought you meant~
A British Rail Class 158 ‘Express Sprinter’ diesel multiple unit train, at Starbeck railway station.
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Are we sure Kippax is a place and not something I can buy from IKEA
A departures board for Leeds City Bus Station at 11:34, Sunday 2 November. The third service on the board is the number 165 bus to a place called ‘Kippax’, due to depart from stand 5.
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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me too, river song, me too

(BBC photo, not mine, etc)
Publicity photo for Alex Kingston. While it isn’t obvious from the photo, the context is that this is from the BBC Strictly Come Dancing contestant profiles for this year. Below her photo is a pull quote attributed to her reading: ‘Aaaaagghhh!!!!!!’ (that is, five ‘A’, two ‘G’, three ‘H’, and six exclamation marks)
August 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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love too see the BBC just seemingly full on running ‘legitimate concerns’ interference for trump in the last paragraph here, absolutely normal behaviour
BBC editorial by Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent: ‘Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to the streets of Washington DC was hinted in advance. His move to take over the city’s Metropolitan Police Department is an unprecedented step, injecting the White House deep into the day-to-day management of one of the nation’s largest municipal police forces. Section 740 of the law granting Washington limited self-governance gives the president authority to take over city’s police department in emergency circumstances. The provision was included in the aftermath of the civil unrest of the 1960s, but no president has every used it – until now. This authority expires in 30 days unless Congress extends it. Trump has identified a very real problem – homelessness and crime are a cause for concern in many American cities – but his means of addressing it is once again testing the limits of presidential power.‘
August 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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but please tell me, which are the real bad guys
Two BBC news headlines stacked. The first is ‘Police launch criminal investigation into Bob Vylan and Kneecap Glastonbury sets’. The second is ‘Israel strike on Gaza seafront café kills at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses and rescuers say’.
June 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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keir starmer’s theme tune
Apple Music lyrics sheet for Criticize by Alexander O’Neal, with the lyric ‘All you want to do is criticize’ highlighted
June 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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if I never finish this game creation system side-project I've been sidetracked on for the last 6 months, at the very least I'll have designed a novel way to draw cat faces
A screenshot of a character editor for a tile-based video game creation system I'm working on. There is a four-colour picture of a cat's face being drawn in the centre. The user interface is primitive but slowly taking shape.
June 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Decisions were made at Morrisons
A pack of beef mince sits on a supermarket shelf flanked between two cartons of skimmed milk
June 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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what even
A public information advert featuring a young woman adjusting her rear view mirror to look into her own enigmatic gaze. In a separate frame is a kid in a trolley with a happy devil may care expression, and it’s implied that this would be the view from her rear view mirror if she was paying attention, and consequently she is almost certainly going to reverse into the toddler. The overall vibe is strangely abstract, staged, and liminal. A callout says ‘MIND THAT CHILD WHEN REVERSING!!!!’
June 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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wait I remember this episode
A self storage unit with pink Daleks visible through a window on the first floor
June 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Uh, I’m not one to advocate for the rights of sex offenders any but there are very specific historical reasons that this particular policy idea makes me EXTREMELY uncomfortable, especially given the direction of travel with LGBTQ+ rights
BBC article saying: ‘As part of this blizzard of news, there is an eye-catching idea from the Ministry of Justice that it wants to castrate sex offenders - using chemicals. The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is exploring whether the approach could be mandatory, rather than voluntary, although such a step appears a long way off.’
May 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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sadly, the Ambassador has had to make cutbacks because of a rise in the cost of living
Two, and only two, Ferrero Rocher™️
May 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Merry Christmas?
BBC news article link showing members of the Royal Family of the United Kingdom in a Christmassy pose. The headline is ‘What are royal Christmas cards trying to tell us?’
December 21, 2024 at 9:55 AM