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Sandy Wilson

@sandals-ajw.bsky.social

Instead of seeing adverts to make me use gambling apps, I'm now seeing adverts that tell me *not* to use gambling apps. But I have to not use *their* app, not not use some other app... 🙄

November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Sandy Wilson

@sandals-ajw.bsky.social

Well that's a horrific new development... 😳

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October 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM

Sandy Wilson

@sandals-ajw.bsky.social

I'd never thought about joining a political party. I've been massively disappointed with every political interaction I've ever had - I've only ever voted for a winner in the last General. Despite all this, and *gestures at everything* I'm thinking of joining @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's Green Party.

October 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Rebecca R Helm

@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM

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Jane

@localnotail.bsky.social

oh bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🏆

Photo of page in Private Eye

LATEST 'BIG BEAST' DEFECTS TO REFORM
by Our BBC Correspondent E.Z. Questions

FOLLOWING on from Nadine Dorries, Reform was celebrating another big-name defection to the party after their conference in Birmingham, as rumours swirled that Chris Mason had defected to Reform.

"Chris's breathless coverage of our conference could have come straight from our press office," said a jubilant Reform spokesman. "Watching him fanboy Nigel Farage and talk up his prospects to be the next Prime Minister, despite Reform only having four MPs, left us in no doubt that Chris was one of us."

Chris Mason, however, played down the prospect of him defecting to Reform, saying, as a senior BBC political correspondent, he must remain totally impartial and in favour of the Conservative party at all times.

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REFORM MEMBERS ASK: WHY ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE BEING ALLOWED IN?

by Our Man In Birmingham Lee Vurr

September 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant.
“Reactor Overheating”

2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads:
“Press cancel to avoid critical overload”

3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads:
“Enter password to confirm”
“Incorrect password”
“Incorrect password”
“Do you want to reset your password?”
“Reset link has been sent to your email”
“Please choose a new password”
“New password can't be the same as old password”
The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9.

Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.

Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

September 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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Tim Morton

@timmorton2.bsky.social

From another place

Photo of a mini roundabout painted white with a thin red cross on it

The Daily Politik

11h •
Just Stop Oil
• @JustStop_Oil •'
So you're saying if we'd sprayed stuff white and then put a red cross on it the media would have supported us?
You live and learn I guess.

August 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM

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Len Testa

@lentesta.bsky.social

Dan did a great job on this.

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

August 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM

Sandy Wilson

@sandals-ajw.bsky.social

This arrived a week early, very excited to read it! #booksky #edusky

A copy of Skandar and the Spirit War by A. F. Steadman

August 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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ellycitresist.bsky.social

@ellycitresist.bsky.social

Anyone else feel like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and me?

August 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Reese Reese
Witherspoon. Withoutherspoon

Reese Witherspoon eating ice cream and smiling

Reese Witherspoon with a neutral expression

August 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Sandy Wilson

@sandals-ajw.bsky.social

Right. First day of the summer holidays! What am I up to you ask? Sitting on my work laptop playing with spreadsheets... 😂

July 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM

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Daniel Brown

@brownieathletic.bsky.social

It’s the little moments of grace. Mike Krukow could have used moment to talk about himself. Instead he shifted the focus to how Fernando Valenzuela belongs in the Hall Fame

July 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale

@sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social

Private Eye hits the nail on the head

July 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Sandy Wilson

@sandals-ajw.bsky.social

@wilwheaton.net just want to say how much I enjoyed TableTop back in the day. I'm rewatching old episodes and it's such a great show. Thank you for making it.

July 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Sandy Wilson

@sandals-ajw.bsky.social

Watching Mission Impossible 2 for the first time in about 20 years. I think I saw this at a formative age; I remember an awful lot of what is happening. Plus the accents are amazing! 😂

June 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM