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@richardbsmeeton.bsky.social
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A Player of (Video) Games. Easily Distracted. Armchair Nottingham Forest fan. Renegade Data Scientist
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andrewmueller.bsky.social
The FCO four-stage strategy. Spectacular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYHw...
Yes, Prime Minister - Foreign Office Crisis Management - the four stages
YouTube video by John Doe
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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clairehistory.bsky.social
Its the accompanying image that makes this story great 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man sought over trousering of Stamford hedgehog statue
Lincolnshire Police say a man was seen putting the statue down his trousers.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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theoatmeal.bsky.social
All aboard the diet train!
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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riseupcomus.bsky.social
I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.

This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
Young man in a red tunic bearing a sword surrounded by armed glassy-eyed monsters A red robed horseman with a skull face and stag's antlers rides through the forest, the horse rearing back, a shaft of light falling onto the scene A red haired woman in a red dress and a boy in a blue doublet stand in front of a huge black cauldron. In the foreground, three cackling hags. A boy in a blue tunic with a dagger tries to get a sword away from a giant orange cat
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
Headline from The Onion: Opinion Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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dominicervolina.com
Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation

They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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mattthr.bsky.social
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
We begin today with a content warning: this dispatch from history is not for the faint-hearted. However, if you wish, do please join me for the tale of the Sun King’s anal fistula and the three-hour operation performed on it without anaesthetic on this day in 1686... 🧵
Louis XIV in 1685, the year before his operation. Image shows a large man in huge long black wig and long blur robe trimmed with white fur and decorated with gold fleur-de-lis. He is clutching a sceptre in one hand and a laurel crown in the other, and one stockinged, gartered leg is sticking out of the robe
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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johnfreeman.bsky.social
B7 Comics has teamed up with bestselling author and screenwriter Alex de Campi and top comic artist Marc Laming for a three-book reimagining of the classic British adventure strip Dan Dare, with the full approval…

https://downthetubes.net/dan-dare-relaunched-as-graphic-novel-project-from-b7-comics/
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November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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roberthutton.co.uk
"Trying to raise large sums with lots of tax changes that we hope no one will notice, although it actually just infuriates everyone. We thought it would work last year, but it didn't. It never does.
But...
It might work for us this year."
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
Clear out toys now!
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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seantcollins.com
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
a silhouette of a helmeted warrior impaling an enemy with a spear against a glowing red sky it's freakin' dracula a black-haired woman and a red-haired woman in pastel dresses sit in a marble courtyard and talk face to face Winona Ryder's circulatory system is visible in bright red
November 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Matron.

(H/t Nick Cohen)
Telegraph column: Sydney Sweeney is the only woman who could pull off Bond LARA BROWN
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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newblood.games
There's only *TWO DAYS* left to enter the New Blood ROG Xbox Ally #Giveaway 🫵

Win a ROG Xbox Ally OR Ally X plus copies of Blood West and FAITH: The Unholy Trinity to play on them 🤠🙏

RT + Follow + Enter to win NOW!
October 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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direthoughts.com
sort of curious to know what video games the disgraced royal is playing. is he a big paradox guy or is he just putting 100s of hours into romance visual novels
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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2dforever.com
By using *REAL SCIENCE* I can officially say that Britain was in fact, NOT better in the olden days
Scientific apparatus consisting of a packet of Opel Fruits and a packet of Starburst. The results are: starburst taste better
October 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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threadotweets.bsky.social
@reniadeb in england, they don't say i'll kick your ass, they say i'll see you on the (photo of a sign) Public Footpath to Butt Lane
November 25, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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gabrielmilland.bsky.social
Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.
October 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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warringtonruncorn.com
NEW ALBUM NEWS
Public Works and Utilities, the sixth Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan album will be released on Friday 10 October via @castlesinspace.bsky.social.
A mockup of how the new Warrington-Runcorn record might look. It has a red a black cover with the words Public Works and Utilities. The record is also red and black. The front cover of Public Works and Utilities depicts a 1970s library in stylised red and black.
August 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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stuarthoddinott.bsky.social
The result is that we get another round of small, tightly ringfenced pots of money, with civil servants trying to control how local areas spend it

That will survive until the next minister comes along at which point they want their own announcement and the cycle starts again
September 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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dubiousdevil.bsky.social
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
September 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM