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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 29/08/2026

'Foreign' things are bad, apparently.

Satirical graphic showing a Nigel Farage's tweet arguing "Political parties in Britain should not be able to campaign in foreign languages. British elections should be for the Britiish people" with bold red caption below mocking the hypocrisy: "Anything 'foreign' bad... unless it's a foreign-based billionaire giving you five million quid."

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Worked on desktop, I think. Probably my security settings or something.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Same donation problem on an iPad. If they accepted Apple Pay it would be much easier 🤷‍♂️. I’ll try tomorrow on desktop.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When I see that I have wild thoughts of scythes on the bike hubs. Would ruin the aerodynamics but would make my day!

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by sharing or not as you wish.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Because many have already listened to it and are just showing that they liked it? Nice photo anyway.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

On iPhone it’s called “Optimise Storage”. Do you see anything like that? If not I’m afraid I can’t be of any help. Sorry 🤷‍♂️

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I don’t use a Google phone, but is there a setting in the photos app to only download thumbnails to your phone, then only when you select the photo it fully downloads? Just a suggestion.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Love it! Do you have a year for that?

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Andy, the Maintainer @spreadsheetmonkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Quick and dirty, but it was fun doing it

Spooks Molloy's photo of an overturned industrial size bin and dumped mattress with a red "St. George's" cross crudely spray painted on it, cropped to resemble The Clash album cover "London Calling" only it's "Clacton Calling" by "The Fash"

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

After seeing the reviews I decided not to bother watching it and bought your book (audio) instead, so there are positives!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/08/2025

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate theonion.com/left-wi...

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Imagine our shock when we saw it was a BMW…😏 #WorldBollardAssociation

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Works for me. Lovely episode BTW!

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

If it’s as good as your previous books I certainly shall.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I presume there'll be an audiobook eventually?

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

There's this, and others, on YouTube. Hope this helps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKBg...

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What a Platypus Sounds Like / Animation / mp3

YouTube video by John Tramp

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is the point where it turns out that, thanks to EU packaging regulations, a cardboard Tesla is less flammable than a real one.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I remember many of those names. Thanks for reminding me I'm old! I'd just got my first motorbike.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 09/01/2025

Number of Reform MPs in attendance for today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls = 0 Number of Reform MPs with criminal convictions for violence against women or girls = 1

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Right (German) BlueSky. You up for a quest. While at my dad's at Xmas, i found a picture and postcard from my godfather, who i have never met. He was a German student. Manfred Maywyrm (?) from Bad Homburg studying in the UK in 1980. Good friend to my parents. They lost touch. Help me find him?

A photo of a brown-haired German man, next to a postcard that reads:

"Dear Moira and Mick, after a long and boring journey i arrived quite well at home, although my parents were already there. Yesterday i slept the whole day long and today i had my first day at school. Dear Moira, i'm very sorry for i could not tell you good bye before i left, but i just did not think of it last night. Also i want to tell you again that the most beautiful day for me was when you asked me to be Gareth's Godfather. I'm looking forward to see you in August. Thank you for the presents and for the nice time we had together, the world's second best darts player and family.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Future historians identify this as the spark that ignited the debilitating Museums War of 2025-2040. Displays would be ruined, collections broken up, gift shops ravaged. This conflict of course evolved from the 2024 Library Emergency, although little is known about this earlier, largely silent, war.

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer. 1/

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!" No sense of humour, some people...

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the loss of RNLB Mona and her crew. Overnight in gale force winds the North Carr lightship dragged anchor off the tip of Fife. A distress call was sent but due to the sea conditions only the Broughty Ferry lifeboat, sheltered in the Tay, was able to launch. 🧵

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Luke Kelly The Lifeboat Mona

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It's been a while, so I thought I'd share this again. It makes me happy.

Cartoon drawing in blacks and whites and grays, showing two currants, each in it's own box. The title of the cartoon reads AC / DC. The first currant it labeled: Alternating Currant and it is saying, "Let's take turns!" The other one is labeled Direct Currant and it is saying, "We need to talk."

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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Most common question working at Hampton Court Palace...what's your favourite bit? Always tough to answer as I tend not to have favourite things, they change with the context. But if pushed, it would be time like this. 1/3

The empty Tudor kitchen at Hampton Court Palace, waiting for an evening function function to begin. There is an island of two oak tables in the middle of the room, they are lit from above.
There is a large fireplace on the right hand side of the room and a fire burns within it

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

NEW! Episode 247 - Natural white noise from the firs of Kielder Forest (47 minutes) The willow warblers in the fir trees delight in the May sunshine in this peaceful place. bit.ly/LenKldrB2

fir trees, heather and bracken on the edge of the forest on a bright May day. No one else around.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’ve been expecting a letter that was sent days ago. Luckily I remembered to check my junk folder and sure enough, there it was.

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Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My old man has Xiled and has joined the big party in the blue sky. Give him a follow!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Meet Louise of Prussia. Politician, diplomat and beloved queen and wife. Rode into battle while pregnant. One of my heroes. Famously described by Napoleon famously as "the only real man in Prussia" Gonna ask you to think a bit about that in a sec, but first you need to know about her life. /1 🧵

painting of a young woman, in a red dress, staring at the artist with a firm gaze.

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Alan Litchfield @alanl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I listened to it again yesterday. Lovely track👍

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The bliss of slipping into total irrelevance on a new platform is not to be underestimated.

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Northumberart @northumberart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Feel free to give me as many shout outs as you like!! I've a Rothbury galllery, and am online crownstudiogallery.myshopify.com

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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Today, I made an error of judgement...again! Yes this is a real thing, no it's not AI, but i think it may have been better if it was. As mentioned earlier, thanks to @dranniegray.bsky.social I've had this tin for a couple of years and today was the day to try the contents A thread. 1/9

a can of SPAM limited edition Figgy Pudding flavour pork & ham

top view of a can of spam with a label written on masking tape that says "for Richard Fitch, I'm sorry (!) Annie x"

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Élodie Marissa: ExDeath, Vampiric Overlord @elodieexdeath.northsky.social · 11/11/2024

This is the Wurst Käse Scenario we were warned about.

Sausage cut in the shape of a radioactive sign with cheese and bread in the background.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/11/2024

#GöbekliTepe 's monumental T-pillars are actually giant #anthropomorphic sculptures. Got to admit, though, that in the beginning of my work there, meanwhile more than 17 years ago, I found it ... challenging to recognize this likeness. Until we finally excavated the "hands & loincloth" part ...

Drawing of a T-shaped pillar of the Göbekli Tepe type with arrows pointing out and labelling specific features like arms, hands, belt, and loincloth carved into the stone.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

No starter pack for Independent Kings Who Hate The Danes And Just Want To Make Mercia Great Again, more mainstream monkish bias against honest kings who've pulled themselves up by their father's bootstraps and hoard.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A film I did in 2018 to record a very special day at Newchurch in Lancashire: vimeo.com/372080313 #RemembranceDay2024

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The Peal

St. Nicholas, Newchurch

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

A bit of evolutionary biology for a Saturday morning*: all toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads. And the distinction between toads and frogs is just that toads tend to be terrestrial, whereas frogs tend to be more aquatic, with wet skin. 1/6 www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2024/02...

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What is the difference between a frog and a toad?

Ever wondered what the difference between a frog and a toad is? Find out all about these amphibians and why they're so different.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I keep looking at this stuff and going to say "how is this even close, the guy is a crook and a fucking embarrassment" and then remember this country voted en masse for Brexshit, Bullshit Johnson, and latterly Farridge and the Nazi-Revival party. Bonkers. All of it.

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