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samknives.bsky.social
At just two correct answers before the music round, I have no idea how I managed a 19/135 by the end.

The Kilburn White Horse is the only one of those chalk figures I’ve visited and the only one I couldn’t name 🐎

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Back to Earth with a bump tonight. Oof. 9/55

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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donni.bsky.social
When will scientists finally invent a large frog for the home
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Would the rain ever just fuck off?

It’s fucking boring now.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Feel like I got into a bit of a rhythm finally. 21/130

Nailed those Aussie Rules teams at least.

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
Jesus Christ
malwaretech.com Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 20d
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
samknives.bsky.social
A scrappy little 13/80 tonight. I blame the jet lag

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
samknives.bsky.social
I’m tellin’ ya! Having three large beers and shouting at hockey is the absolute best.
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
samknives.bsky.social
Pleased to get Mutations from the Cymraeg part of the question only 😌

24/175 tonight.

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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supernicebob.bsky.social
Which means that after the first round of 14 matches, it is as close as always between me and @samknives.bsky.social #UniversityChallenge
October 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Tuesday eps feel weird right? Heading into the repechage with a sub par 18/115

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
October 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Ha! iOS26 looks like shit.

Nice one dickheads.
October 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
samknives.bsky.social
My weekly Rightmove email sending me new properties “in Barbican” and all five are outside of the estate 😒

I’m not playing Euromillions to buy this boring shit mate.
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
samknives.bsky.social
That thing Susanna Hoffs does with her eyes during the breakdown in Walk Like An Egyptian.

#TOTP
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Mya.

Phwoarrrrr.

#TOTP
October 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Peter Andre still in his well tanned beetle era #totp
October 10, 2025 at 6:10 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
samknives.bsky.social
A late flurry nets me a 21/130

Mad I couldn’t remember Journey, a joy of a game I played through multiple times.

A fitting tribute to Jilly Cooper at the end.

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
samknives.bsky.social
I’ve only been to 3 gigs this year and they’ve all been bands I loved and first discovered between the ages of 14 and 19.

Need to modernise a bit.

Sadly next gig is AFI so we’re only moving on to bands I discovered aged 20.

👴🏻
October 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
samknives.bsky.social
On tonight’s drive home, a car in front of me drove slowly past the red light and came to a stop within the junction.

I immediately called them a habitual line stepper.
Charlie Murphy in a screen grab from his appearances on Chapelle’s Show. He is wearing a blue sweatshirt, a brown kangol hat and a silver chain. He is standing in front of a green background gesturing with his right hand.
October 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Got into a good rhythm for a 24 / 165 but am miffed I couldn’t remember Modric. Was literally picturing him knowing he had that record but the name was not forthcoming.

#UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
samknives.bsky.social
Was tough going but I got some momentum with the music round.

I’ve broken down on Clive Sullivan Way, nice little Slumdogesque explainer for knowing that little gem 🏉

18 / 125pts #UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
September 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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paulmcmc.bsky.social
People getting the internet at home meant young men no longer got a basic grounding in arthouse cinema while looking for nudity on TV.
yeeeerika.bsky.social erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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theguyliner.bsky.social
In 2019, my world was blown apart by the death of my best friend Nichola. This week I wrote about how much she meant to me, and the specific challenges that come with grieving a close friend, in @theguardian.com
‘It was a bad dream – but I never woke up’: what it is like to lose your best friend
For 25 years, Justin and Nichola were an essential part of each other’s lives. Then, one random Wednesday, came a terrible, wrenching phone call
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM