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Tim Aldrich
@timaldrich.bsky.social
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Regulator, policy person, writer, runner, school governor. Not necessarily always in that order.
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I generally tolerate email marketing at best but this from BackMarket is rather good:
Headline: Can you spot the difference? [two pictures: one of a Canadian lake taken by an iPhone 15 and the same image but with the lake dried up purportedly by an iPhone 92] Text: What will the iPhone 92 look like? We've no idea. But we do know what the planet could look like if fast tech continues to release new “upgrades” year after year.
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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A conventional of plastic bollards in Strutton Ground SW1. They are all fixed to the ground. Any thoughts on why? @londonist.com
Five random plastic bollards on a street in London
August 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Watching the men’s Wimbledon final and as ever struggling not to see Ron Howard instead of Jannick Sinner…
Ron Howard in 1995 - or is it Jannick Sinner?
July 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Search up “Teambuilding” in Getty Images for the same energy
Front page of The Guardian with photo of Starmer, Macron and Merz in casual clothing
May 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Someone in East London woke up this morning with a raging hangover and a mysteriously large green ‘a’ at the foot of their bed
Outside of Waitrose in Canary Wharf - the ‘a’ in Waitrose is missing
April 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Top trolling from @backmarketofficial.bsky.social
Email ad from Backmarket: “text: Penguin-approved discount, Tariff Special! We can’t stop the US from taxing penguins, but we can offer you £10 off your next order* Use code ELON”
April 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Puts me in mind of this glorious @theonion.com cover
Newspaper front page: THE ONION. Headline: WORLD’S BIGGEST METAPHOR HITS ICE-BERG.
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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From the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social: it works, if Musk’s nineteenth child isn’t Yoda Fairfax Encarta I’ll eat my hat
Text from Private Eye: Talking of which, Elon Musk has fathered another child - his 14th, by most reckonings - called Seldon Lycurgus, a brother for Strider, Azure and Arcadia. (Want to know your Elon Musk Child Name? Take a sci-fi or fantasy character and mash it together with a Windows software package, ancient general or US military jet. I'm Gandalf Office 360.
March 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Morning! Greenwich from the north bank of the Thames today
The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich with the Queen Anne’s House and the Royal Observatory in the distance on a misty Spring morning from across the river
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Scenes in Saudi Arabia right now
Cartoon by James Gilray, The Plum-pudding in danger - William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte sit at a table carving up the globe like a roast joint
February 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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I’m sure Federico Chiesa will be delighted to be compared thusly… (From the ever readable @jonathanliew.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Text from The Guardian: “And as the months rolled away, it was possible to view the Chiesa signing as a kind of misplaced opportunism, a bargain for the sake of a bargain, the footballing equivalent of those ready meals with a yellow sticker in the supermarket. You don’t strictly need it. But how wrong can a 39p beef rendang really go?”
February 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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KLAXON: we’ve hit #peakchiles! This is NOT A DRILL! #peakchiles
Headline from the Guardian columnist Adria Chiles: “I’ve lost all faith in zips”
January 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Very much the mood here in wet London
Two dogs lying on a sofa (and pillows)
January 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The Samuel Smith one is startling, maddening and bizarre - Humphrey Smith seems to be a Wonka-like character. This particular gem did amuse though
Guardian text quote: “As if heralding a Yorkshire invasion, the brewery often re-christened its new purchases: the Tudor Rose became the Rose of York, Henekey’s Long Bar on High Holborn became the Cittie of Yorke.”
December 19, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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What’s even more brilliant about this is the list of contributors writing about these women of 2024 who are no less inspiring
Test from the Ft: Taylor Swift by Sheryl Sandberg | Chemena Kamali by Sienna Miller | Sally Rooney by Lena Dunham | Emma Stone by Kathryn Hunter | Elyanna by Arwa Haider | Charli XCX by Gillian Anderson | Adejoké Bakare by Maria Balshaw | Margrethe Vestager by Lina Khan | Rachel Reeves by Mariana Mazzucato | Lisa Su by Tsai Ing-wen | Ursula von der Leyen by Kristalina Georgieva | Kamala Harris by Rana Foroohar | Cristina Junqueira by Luiza Trajano | Fei-Fei Li by Melinda French Gates | Claudia Sheinbaum by Gillian Tett | Christine Lagarde by Minouche Shafik | Julia Hoggett by Sharon White | Ruth Porat by Jane Fraser | Arundhati Roy by Naomi Klein | Bisan Owda by Heba Saleh | Gisèle Pelicot by Leïla Slimani | Yulia Navalnaya by Zhanna Nemtsova | Simone Biles by Anna Wintour | Jasmin Paris by Eilish McColgan | Anne Hidalgo by Leila Abboud
December 6, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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To all celebrating Thanksgiving in the US and further afield here’s wishing you a very happy Thanksgiving! It not being a public holiday we celebrated early last weekend with this 9kg bird. Needless to say we are eating a lot of leftovers…
Kitchen counter with a cooked turkey in which two knives are stuck and the words “Turkey meets ninja 🥷 “ below
November 28, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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Always enjoy @barneyronay.bsky.social’s takes. This one on Mbappé at Anfield last night (which is really and rightly about Conor Bradley’s majestic performance)
There is basic lack of viciousness. Later in the half he confronted Bradley again, did at least 40 whiffling stepovers, a man dancing quite near a game of football, then lost the ball.
November 28, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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I sent this to a friend turning 50 this week. Seems apt
November 22, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Morning!
Mickey the border collie sits and offers his hand to mine
November 22, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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Something tells me that “romps” in this description of the famously Virginal future Queen were more innocent (on her part only perhaps) than how anyone brought up on 80s British tabloids might understand it…
November 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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“…and throughout her life [Elizabeth I of England] would try to set aside three hours each day to read historical books.” ~ Alison Weir. Three hours. 👏
November 19, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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It’s cold and bleak so felt it was definitely time for another sourdough loaf #breadsky
1kg wholewheat sourdough loaf fresh from the over on a resting rack
November 18, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Eating breakfast and reminded that my colleague told me this week that she and her kids call crumpets “Butter Sponges” - which is perfect 👌
Two boiled eggs and two buttered crumpets with Marmite
November 16, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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Am reading Alex Clark’s review of @jonathancoe.bsky.social’s latest and was much struck by the reference to ‘the early days of Liz Truss’s premiership’
November 12, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Saw this post and the next in my feed from @ianmartin.bsky.social which seemed appropriate and on brand:
Screen shot of Bluesky feed - with bottom half of a post advertising the next edition of The F-Word edited by Jesse Sheidlower and beneath that the “Shakespeare of Swearing” Ian Martin responding to BBC Radio 3 playing Scott Joplin with the response “please, fuck off”
November 5, 2024 at 4:35 PM