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mooseallain.bsky.social
Note the dates.
Screenshot of an exchange on twitter. Starts with me in 2019 quoting a tweet of mine from 2013 that just says “praise”. The qt says “I hope you will forgive me for retweeting praise”. Jenny Landreth replies saying “Extra points for playing the long game”. I reply “I’m all about the length of the game “, to which Jenny says “I look forward to you retweeting that in six years time”. These are all from 17 December 2019. I have now replied “Done” exactly six years later in 2025.
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
My mum has had a few “Oh, mum” moments but I think arguably the biggest was when I wrote about Taylor Swift's Folklore album on my website and she read it then told me, “I bet that singer will be ever so pleased with all the extra sales she got because of your write-up.”
December 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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johnrain.co.uk
'You there, boy! Which Christian policeman are we burning to ensure fertility and prosperity?"
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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megelison.bsky.social
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
Get a load of this. 😆
A post from ViperThreat: Worked as an on-call computer tech for about a year, and I've seen some weird shit. Plenty of Hoarders, elderly men with interesting sexual fantasies, Multimillonaire Lawyers with closets full of gay porn, etc. The weirdest one was this cool old dude who had retired and lived in a double-wide trailer in a fairly nice retirement trailer park. His house had one of those trains that traveled along the walls from room to room, occasionally poking through walls and such. The primary purpose of this train was to carry his bird (a blue macaw IIRC) around the house. From his explanation, the bird had some birth defects and had difficulty flying, so they built the train for the bird to cruise around the house on. This may not sound all that weird to you, but let me set the stage for you: You're a college student removing a stupid browser hijack from some old guy's computer. You're nearly done with the job when you hear a clacking sound and look up to see a toy train crossing your vision. Aboard the train is a decently sized bird that makes eye contact with you and says "choo choo motherfucker" before disappearing into the next room. One of the most surreal moments of my life.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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michaeljstern.bsky.social
Drag him.
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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juderogers.bsky.social
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
There was actually a time quite recently when the Young People still used Tinder

(Published around the time of Dawn Chorus Day)
[Scene is a WOODLAND just before dawn. In a tree, a TEENAGE ROBIN with big headphones on is slouching on a branch, swiping on her phone. Her DAD ROBIN approaches her on the branch looking cheerful with her MUM ROBIN also in tow]. DAD ROBIN: Wakey wakey darling, it's National Dawn Chorus Day! TEENAGE ROBIN: Ugh, Dad... DAD ROBIN: Come on, dear... DAD ROBIN: It's time for us all to shout into the darkness for sex! TEENAGE ROBIN: What DAD ROBIN: You're a big bird now. Time to put down that blessed phone and find a mate... TEENAGE ROBIN: I am. On Tinder. [She swipes on her phone] DAD ROBIN: Oh for heaven's sake. Your generation has no sense of tradition! TEENAGE ROBIN: Right... so you'd rather I found love by bellowing into the woods for a pre-dawn hookup with a total stranger? DAD ROBIN: It's natural! TEENAGE ROBIN: It's dogging. DAD ROBIN: Well that's how your Mum and I had you... TEENAGE ROBIN: OH MY GOD GROSS MUM ROBIN [Singing sweetly into the air]: Sex pleeease... TEENAGE ROBIN: Stop it Mum. MUM ROBIN: SEEEEEX PLEEEEAAAASE... TEENAGE ROBIN: MUUUM! [ends]
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Many elites are concerned that Trump's net disapproval rating is now at 13. But, don't worry, they'll lose interest when it hits 18.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Two paragraphs from the article, pointing out Telegraph hypocrisy
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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roads.org.uk
We think road numbers are beautiful. Not everyone agrees, but we defy you not to be amazed by this incredbile visualisation of all Great Britain's classified roads. #roadnumbers www.roads.org.uk/blog/colouri...
Colouring by Numbers
A data visualisation of British road numbering produces surprisingly beautiful results.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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sjgower.bsky.social
I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.
A street map of Oxford. Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme. Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)." A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley." Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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explaintrade.com
Musk: "Mandani is a charismatic swindler."

Rogan, pulling off his mask to reveal @ichotiner.bsky.social: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?"

Musk:
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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nocatsnomasters.bsky.social
Q: "What did Watson and Crick discover?"

A: "Rosalind Franklin's notes."
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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superbreeze.bsky.social
Big naturals is BBC exec slang for any new David Attenborough series
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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gchernack.bsky.social
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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cqedinburgh.bsky.social
The Channel 5 documentary department right now like...
a group of men are working in a control room with a clock on the wall
ALT: a group of men are working in a control room with a clock on the wall
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October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
Brilliant piece debunking the nonsense claim in the Daily Telegraph. But it’s dangerous nonsense, polarising attitudes & whipping up prejudice.

The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM