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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 14h

I had no idea this was an option.

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah, good old Jimmy McEnroe. Loved his epic battles with John Connors.

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

HERE IS A LOVELY STORY: a friend lost his wallet on his way home from work the other day. (that's not the lovely bit) 1/2

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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remember: it could be someone you know.

[Scene is a parody of a 1970s Public Information Film. A young girl is going home from school.]

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[She leaves the school gates].

VOICEOVER:

The world today
is full of people.

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You meet lots of them every day.

[The girl crosses the road with the help of a LOLLIPOP MAN]

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LOLLIPOP MAN says ’to camera’ [girl’s POV]:

Mind ‘ow you go, love.

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But every time you meet one,

[She gets on a bus]

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BUS DRIVER [also talking to camera]:

That’ll be 40p, please

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[She enters a sweet shop]

You must always think to yourself:

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[The kindly looking woman behind the counter hands her a bag of pick n mix]

KINDLY WOMAN:
There y’are, sweet’art...

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[Voiceover again]:

Could *they* be a person who leaves one-star reviews for things when they get sent the wrong item?

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[The woman picks up a smartphone to write something]

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[Cut to a view of her phone screen, it is an Amazon review page for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro]:

Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
[one star]
THIS ISN’T A PRIT STICK

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[Woman looks ‘to camera’ at the girl, sinisterly]

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[Girl’s terrified face behind the ad’s final text line]:

Always have one-star-reviewers-of-things-for-not-being-other-things sense.

[Ends]

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

TFW you really shouldn't have had that last slice of zebra

A big male lion lying on his back, legs akimbo, holding his fat belly with one of his front paws.

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A story in three acts, Cape Town.

Flyers stuck to a bollard in Cape Town. They say "Bring Back Lost Lover • Penis Enlargement • Financial Problems"

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dawn is breaking over Cape Town. There really is no more magnificent sight than giraffes at sunrise.

Cape Town docks at sunrise. There are half a dozen large cranes that look a lot like skeletal giraffes.

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The man in the corner @lexidays.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Oh no. I've got a little bit of cheese on my salticrax

Salticrax with cheese on

Cracker on a white plate with a little bit of cheese on. The cracker says "salticrax".

Its funny because salticrx sounds like salty cracks which sounds like a sweaty bottom and I am very much a child.

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Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's been warm outside for quite a time now.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 09/08/2026

I bet all the people who had to sell their homes because of HS2 are kicking themselves for not just saying a CG/puppet sequence for a kids film was filmed at the location. Makes you wonder how whole film studios get flattened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave

Potter fans complained after a project manager suggested cables would go under the grave in a BBC interview.

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Missing an ingredient. It's actually: Swede, carrot, lime. Ba-na-na.

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Grumpy about: the pervasiveness of AI in society and its erosion of human-to-human interaction. Not grumpy about: having the tail of a completely different animal grafted onto his furry arse.

A piece of AI slop art that purports to be a coloured pencil drawing of a grumpy Winnie the Pooh. He is saying "I don't want trains without staff. I don't want to order food only through an app. I don't want supermarkets without cashiers. No matter how convenient AI may seem, I don't want a life without human connection."

Which is a noble sentiment, but the AI slop machine has given Winnie a fox's tail.

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

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Gill @crikeys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I think I need contact with anyone else who's gone through the breast cancer rollercoaster recently. I've no family, nor anyone else I know that has been through it. I appreciate that you may not want to discuss this, but if you do I'd appreciate it x

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Katherine Hardy @kardyology.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m all for paying more tax to fix social care and the NHS as long as the private equity parasites that have infected both are eradicated. What I’m not up for is paying more tax to line the pockets of shareholders of companies that have been invited to enshitify our essential public services.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So, happy 22nd birthday, this photo caption – which appeared in Selkirk paper the Southern Reporter below pictures of St Ronan’s Games Week and Cleekum Ceremonies in Innerleithen

Picture caption from the Southern Reporter: Caption, caption about these pious little bleeders and the lady busser doing that interminably boring thing so cherished by Border festivals. What on earth is going on in this picture – these people have got to get out more often for their peace of mind and sanity.

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Not Space Karen @rowan68.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Annoyed with myself that I've done zero drawing so far this week. Means I haven't listened to any more of Middlemarch either. Anyway, here's one I did at the weekend, whilst wanting to slap Fred Vincy upside the head. #colouredpencil ##womensart #catsofbluesky

Coloured pencil drawing of a stray kitten drinking from a puddle

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Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Well... Legit? bsky.app/profile/down...

bsky.app

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ah yes, a song about nuclear war because honestly that would be preferable right now. #FIFAWorldCup

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

KNIGHTHOOD FOR ROONEY

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

ICE sitting back saying “let the kids do their song first.” x

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The winner of the World Cup third place playoff should play the loser of the World Cup final to decide which team really deserved to be in second place. Then the winner of that match should play the winner of the final.

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If only the Labour leadership had changed a month earlier, eh. #TheFootball

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If anyone hears a distant explosion this afternoon, that will be my theatre-mad youngest daughter coming home from school to find that she has received a personal reply from a fan letter she wrote ages ago to her absolute idol, Lin Manuel Miranda. Don't ask, don't get, ask, sometimes get.

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

i first met sam neill in the late 80's on the set of jeremy brett's sherlock holmes. i think it was manchester studios. he and jeremy were pals. i was moving a light wi'out gloves cause i'm a tosser. i burned my hand. yelled "FUCK!" jeremy came right over, sam (who was visiting) in tow. (1/4)

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/07/2026

hey let’s do uk/us food discourse again! i’ll go first: british lettuce *doesn’t* make you shit yourself now, your turn

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Not a foul, play on #ENGARG

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Just watched the first episode of #Evolution. Packham is sneaking Eels lyrics in, right?

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Why I could never take Star Wars seriously: 🎶DUM DUM DUM, DUM DA-DUM, DUM DA-DUM DUM DUM DUM, DUM DA-DUM, DUM DA-DUM DUM DUM DUM helps the medicine go down The medicine go do-own, the medicine go down...🎶

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wordle on a mission to break everyone's streak today. #Wordle 1,852 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wardy™ @tdward.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Me when I've got £23.46 left to spend at the airport in foreign money

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The White Horse, Merthyr

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Are... are we all suspects now? 👀

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I haven't got anything nice to say, so I'll stick with 'vile old trout'.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Electoral maths: Farage won in Clacton with 21,225 votes. 32,014 people did not actually vote at all. 24,884 people voted not for Farage. So 56,900 votes are 'out there' for Count Binface. If Clacton really thinks it's British, it has no choice.

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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There are times when I feel like the English language needs more synonyms for 'no'.

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

When I hear about the Whiny Little Bitch being 'victimised' I think about my MP friend who has had rape threats to her and her daughter, kidnap threats to her daughter and panic alarms installed in her house. And I only know that because we're friends, because SHE isn't a whiny little bitch

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