Lynne
@lynne2024.bsky.social
Lancashire-raised, Lincolnshire-domiciled; retired OU-er; mother & grandmother; fond of semicolons.
bld2013 on Twitter - for now.
'No pets, just a computer'
bld2013 on Twitter - for now.
'No pets, just a computer'
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They threw apple crumble at the display case; police have taken them into custardy...
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
They threw apple crumble at the display case; police have taken them into custardy...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Quite mind-boggling!
@jameshut.bsky.social
@jameshut.bsky.social
This is a fascinating & kind of terrifying piece, the way it rules out various reasons for collapse you might guess (famine, climate) to leave the impression these people just decided to slaughter each other
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Quite mind-boggling!
@jameshut.bsky.social
@jameshut.bsky.social
Informative & entertaining!
My reflections on 17 years as a female doctor in sexual health performing vasectomies in Glasgow | Dr Julie Cumming
Will it hurt?
My reflections on 17 years as a female doctor in sexual health performing vasectomies in Glasgow
bylines.scot
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Informative & entertaining!
Thread well worth a read.
Rachael Johnson: "Boris did his best".
Only because his best has always been fucking awful.
Let's consider Boris Johnson, a moral man and a great politician: I'd love to talk about all three of them, but I only have space for Boris.
Only because his best has always been fucking awful.
Let's consider Boris Johnson, a moral man and a great politician: I'd love to talk about all three of them, but I only have space for Boris.
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Thread well worth a read.
Meanwhile in France...
The company making Babybel has devised a new environmentally-friendly easy-open paper wrapper for the iconic mini-cheeses, to be rolled out (ha!) nationally next year & worldwide by end of 2027. But grey?!
www.francebleu.fr/emissions/l-...
The company making Babybel has devised a new environmentally-friendly easy-open paper wrapper for the iconic mini-cheeses, to be rolled out (ha!) nationally next year & worldwide by end of 2027. But grey?!
www.francebleu.fr/emissions/l-...
"Cinq ans pour choisir le papier" : le Babybel, fabriqué à Évron, change d'emballage - ICI
À Évron, l'usine Bel, première productrice mondiale de Babybel, investit plusieurs millions d'euros pour changer l'emballage du petit fromage à coque en cire rouge.
www.francebleu.fr
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Meanwhile in France...
The company making Babybel has devised a new environmentally-friendly easy-open paper wrapper for the iconic mini-cheeses, to be rolled out (ha!) nationally next year & worldwide by end of 2027. But grey?!
www.francebleu.fr/emissions/l-...
The company making Babybel has devised a new environmentally-friendly easy-open paper wrapper for the iconic mini-cheeses, to be rolled out (ha!) nationally next year & worldwide by end of 2027. But grey?!
www.francebleu.fr/emissions/l-...
The post is amusing; some of the replies are even more so.
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The post is amusing; some of the replies are even more so.
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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This is gold.
I promise it's safe to click.
I promise it's safe to click.
Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now? 😂😂😂
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now? 😂😂😂
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is gold.
I promise it's safe to click.
I promise it's safe to click.
Great thread!
That tawdry xmas ad from the fizzy drinks manufacturer only makes sense if - stay with me here - you read it as POST APOCALYPTIC SNOWPIERCER FANFIC.
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Great thread!
Ohh- *that* kind of ball-room!
Whole thread is fascinating.
Whole thread is fascinating.
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ohh- *that* kind of ball-room!
Whole thread is fascinating.
Whole thread is fascinating.
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Few experiences are more stressful, spooky, uncanny & disruptive for the Neurodivergent than international travel.
Here's why it's the stuff of nightmares, & how the travel industry can change that. (& may be starting to.)
This felt good to write, at last.
www.businesstraveller.com/insights/fea...
Here's why it's the stuff of nightmares, & how the travel industry can change that. (& may be starting to.)
This felt good to write, at last.
www.businesstraveller.com/insights/fea...
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Few experiences are more stressful, spooky, uncanny & disruptive for the Neurodivergent than international travel.
Here's why it's the stuff of nightmares, & how the travel industry can change that. (& may be starting to.)
This felt good to write, at last.
www.businesstraveller.com/insights/fea...
Here's why it's the stuff of nightmares, & how the travel industry can change that. (& may be starting to.)
This felt good to write, at last.
www.businesstraveller.com/insights/fea...
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Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
Hurry up, Caerphilly - I want to go to bed! Reports so far: record turnout, Plaid Cymru may have edged it over Reform, Labour in historic wipeout.
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hurry up, Caerphilly - I want to go to bed! Reports so far: record turnout, Plaid Cymru may have edged it over Reform, Labour in historic wipeout.
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Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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NEWS! Least popular government in decades attempts to change its fortunes by reintroducing least popular policy in decades newsthump.com/2025/09/26/l...
Least popular government in decades attempts to change its fortunes by reintroducing least popular policy in decades
In a bold bid to reverse Labour’s record-breaking slide in the polls, Sir Keir Starmer has announced plans to dust off Tony Blair’s famously doomed digital ID scheme, the political equivalent of tr…
newsthump.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
NEWS! Least popular government in decades attempts to change its fortunes by reintroducing least popular policy in decades newsthump.com/2025/09/26/l...
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Bless those who think the Home Office can successfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.
September 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Bless those who think the Home Office can successfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.
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In one day, at least 2.5% in some Westminster constituencies have signed this petition to say they don't want a British digital ID card forced on them.
Unpopulat, but a huge distraction from the stuff Labour doesn't want to discuss.
petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com?petition=730...
Unpopulat, but a huge distraction from the stuff Labour doesn't want to discuss.
petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com?petition=730...
Petition Map (by Unboxed)
Visualise UK Government Petitions
petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In one day, at least 2.5% in some Westminster constituencies have signed this petition to say they don't want a British digital ID card forced on them.
Unpopulat, but a huge distraction from the stuff Labour doesn't want to discuss.
petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com?petition=730...
Unpopulat, but a huge distraction from the stuff Labour doesn't want to discuss.
petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com?petition=730...
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph: