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Neil McLoram
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Northern. 50ish. #SAFC
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“And then they made me The Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, which was nice.”
“A Video Message for Christmas from The Dean of Salisbury” shows the Dean in his well-appointed kitchen, wearing a striped apron, looking like Mr Which Was Nice out off of The Fast Show.
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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davallone.bsky.social
This is really smart and true and, in its way, the source of what makes him terrifying. Not one shred of recognizable humanity.
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 17d
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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jsinclair.bsky.social
12 US gallons = 80 pints. Also if UK milk was sold in US gallons at the same per/ml price as UK 4 pints, it would be over $4.00. Shut up America.
nick-pettigrew.bsky.social Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 21d
Who the fuck needs twelve gallons of milk a week? Is Cleopatra popping over to have a bath?
Milk is expensive in America, especially when you buy it by the tanker.
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
mcloram.bsky.social
Obviously correct, and really only FIFA could fail to see how much more sense this would make.
joescaramanga.co.uk Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 27d
I reckon they should do the draw backwards. Start at Pot 4 and build up to the seeds.

#worldcupdraw
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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trudski2012.bsky.social
Guy Fawkes signature before and after watching this World Cup Draw
December 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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flashinthedan.bsky.social
BBC recap fella losing his mind here
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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andygilder.bsky.social
The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award For Outstanding Achievement In The Field Of Excellence looks genuine compared to this
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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anonopin.bsky.social
If you advertise a subscription with a headline monthly price, but the only way to achieve that is by paying a full year up front, then that's annual pricing, not monthly pricing and should be illegal.
December 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers https://theonion.com/trump-announces-5000-increase-in-all-numbers/
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Ah yes, the economic Golden Age of Trump where grandma goes without.
A screenshot of a tweet from “FactPost @factpostnews.” The tweet reads: “Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays: ‘Remember, adults don’t need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn’t need slippers. If they don’t live by you, don’t get them a gift.’” Below the tweet is a split-screen from a Fox News broadcast. On the left, a woman with long blonde hair sits in a newsroom, wearing a red blouse. On the right, a woman with curly hair and a green sweater speaks against a blue background. A banner reads: “TIPS TO SAVE MONEY DURING THE HOLIDAYS – AMERICA’S NEWSROOM.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Unimprovable response.
*chef's kiss*
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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jamesomalley.co.uk
No idea what Powell’s plan here is supposed to be, other than undermine the government.
leithmotive.bsky.social LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · Nov 6
Well this is fantastically unhelpful and also not what a left winger is supposed to say when faced with a choice between collapsing public services or increasing taxes... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lucy Powell says Labour must stand by promise not to raise key taxes
New deputy leader also calls on government to lift two-child benefit cap urgently and in full
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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sarahvanpelt.bsky.social
Just an amazing bit of television all round. I can’t believe I ever had my doubts about a celeb version.
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
donald trump won 2 elections when he was out of power by making over the top promises uncritically reported on by a compliant media

hes lost every election held while hes holding power because he doesnt actually care or follow through or even really try if it doesnt benefit him personally
jessicashortall.bsky.social Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · Nov 5
not to be that Hamilton-quoting lady but
winning was easy, governing's harder. turns out when you're in charge of everything, voters know that.
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
mcloram.bsky.social
It just "looks like" there's less left than there really is.
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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quantick.bsky.social
No way, I thought they'd be on top of this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m
PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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theonion.com
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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jonoread.co.uk
She's a 10 but Excel thinks she's October.
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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radosh.bsky.social
This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"
The David Bowie Song You Didn’t Know Was Dedicated to Bob Dylan
In Song For Bob Dylan, Bowie fearlessly critiqued one of the biggest names in music. But what was the real story behind this enigmatic track?
collider.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM