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alpha seven (Pete Roberts)

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Sporadic releases of electronic music. MUST NOT BUY MORE SYNTHS. www.sofacom.co.uk

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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 9h
Autogrill PAVESI Le réseau de restaurants autoroutiers italiens constitue l'une des expressions les plus marquantes de l'expérimentation italienne de l'après-guerre, se développant parallèlement au réseau autoroutier national entre 1955 et 1975.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 8h
Who doesn't love a good spreadsheet error. Especially when it informs policy. Wonderful.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Rétro microcars voitures 🚘 BMW Isetta
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Old International Catalogues @oldincatalogues.bsky.social · 9h
Advert Lucky Dip: From America, Oct 1949: Chateau Cheese ad from Borden's (more at @OldInPrintAds.bsky.social) (+Liederkranz Cheese; Camembert Cheese; and Military Brand Cheese) «Bread and cheese_company style with Borden's Chateau*_ for Real Cheese Zing!»
An ad featuring Borden's cheeses. It includes a recipe for Elsie's Baked Cheese Sandwiches using Chateau cheese. The ad also highlights Liederkranz, Camembert, and Military Brand cheeses as dessert options.

Bread and cheese_company style with Borden's Chateau*_ for Real Cheese Zing!

Borden's Chateau
PASTEURIZED CHEESE FOOD-NET WEIGHT 2 POUNDS
INGREDIENTS: CHEDDAR CHEESE, CREAM, NON-FAT DRY MILK AND WHEY SOLIDS, MINERALS (SALTS), CITRIC ACID AND VEGETABLE COLORING
RECIPES
ELSIE'S BAKED CHEESE SANDWICHES
Hearty and nourishing and rich with
Chateau's melted cheese goodness!
8 slices bread
1/4 cup milk
2 2-oz. cans deviled ham
½ teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
12 slices cut from 2-lb. loaf Borden's
½ teaspoon salt-dash of pepper
Chateau (about 3/4 lb.)
4 slices tomato or 4 tablespoons chili
1 egg, well beaten
sauce or ketchup
Make 4 sandwiches with deviled
table discover the rich, mellow, tan-
ham and 2 slices of Chateau for each.
talizing flavor of Borden's Chateau
Combine egg, milk, and seasonings.
in this good cheese dish!
Dip sandwiches in mixture, and
"Other cheese foods just can't
place in greased 8-inch square baking
match the zip... the firm, smooth-
dish. Top with remaining slices of
melting texture of Chateau. It
cheese. Bake in moderate oven
makes most every dish you make
(375°F.) about 20 minutes. Top
with cheese taste better. It's grand
each sandwich with tomato slice, or
for snacks and lunch-box sand-
tablespoon of chili sauce or ketch-
wiches, too.
up and bake 5 minutes more.
"Do get Chateau. You'll like it!
"I'd dearly love to be on hand,"
1/2-lb. package (plain or pimento)
says Elsie, "when folks at your
or 2-lb. loaf at your store."
LIEDERKRANZ
CHEESE
When you get tired of everyday foods...
When you want a dessert that folks won't
and
BRAND CAMEMBERT has a subtle
forget, just finish off the meal with these
flavor like no other cheese you know!
two great cheeses:
Food-lovers' cheeses, these... and
Lusty, lordly LIEDERKRANZ BRAND
Borden's makes them ...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h
United States of America brings back public executions courtesy of Pete Hegseth. The sort of tyrannical behaviour that ISIS and the Taliban engage in. baynews9.com/fl/tampa/mil...
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Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the execution would be "public"
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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 15h
92 PUTEAUX la Défense 1988 la Grande Arche de la Fraternité de l'architecte Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Maçon Bouygues Construction, 4 ans de chantier nescéssaire pour l'édification de cette mastodonte de béton de 1985 à 89
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Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! We have German freaktronic giants FAUST as this month’s Electronic Sound cover story and we’re bundling the mag with a clear vinyl seven-inch EP featuring four tracks from the four albums the band have just released. Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
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The Charlatans @thecharlatans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our debut studio album Some Friendly was released on this day in 1990!
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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Want the unfiltered facts on #climate change & the #UK? Come to @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Nov 4, 5 pm to 7 pm. Watch. Chat. Act.👇🏽 @nebriefing.bsky.social www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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📐 Maria Picassó Piquer @mariapicasso.com · 08/10/2026
🔵 Margaret Hamilton 1936 — 2026
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 08/10/2026
This dire programme should be cancelled and something completely new made to replace it.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I dunno man, maybe you could concentrate on producing good and interesting things people want to watch rather than trying to out-banal the lowest common denominator crap hosed at us everywhere else? (And make using BBC Sounds a less excruciating experience?) deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-...
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 08/10/2026
ianvisits.co.uk
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of Tower Bridge
Deep under Tower Bridge lies a vast space that seems larger than it is, and during the winter months, the public can go inside to see it.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
Hardly an original take but it is Quite Annoying to imagine how much the UK (and me, and you!) would all have more cash today if Donald Trump hadn't decided to start bombing Iran for *reasons*. Where's the White House impact assessment on my nursery fees. www.ft.com/content/2cb1...
ft.com
Iran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances
FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The government has declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system. This means getting preferential access to water. Yet it has no idea what they're used for. Our dwindling supplies might be prioritised for nudifying celebrities.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Manchester's forgotten underground Market Centre beneath Market Street. Opened 1972, boasted more than 100 stores. Closed 1989, parts of the infrastructure now dilapidated.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Count(DIY) Music @untidymusic.com · 08/10/2026
Got music? New or Old we want your submissions for play on untidyradio.com see form in post below. Looking for Acoustic, Pop and Electronic music. #newreleases get them in early. #music #musicsky
untidyradio.com
Listen Here - Untidy Radio
Independent Non-Commercial Radio
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/10/2026
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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Nick Fuller @nickfbrit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fiercely articulate words from @theanchoress.bsky.social in October's issue of Record Collector magazine. Like @lizpelly.bsky.social, she writes with erudition and authority on the threat of #AI to #creativity in general and music in particular. We must all take notice.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Once again, regretting the decision to hire knuckleheads, goons and feather-brained numbskulls.
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: "'ello!" The first of forty visits to the cellar of the monster's castle that features The Trap Door, by association the glory of a Willie Rushton voiceover, and the stop-motion skill of future Wallace & Gromit co-director Steve Box.
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The Trapdoor - Breakfast Time
Watch more Cartoons here :https://bit.ly/37L30II Berk is busy preparing his master's breakfast - from worms and other vile concoctions, when a strange yellow creature comes out of the trap door in the kitchen floor and eats the breakfast, closely followed by a large Big Red Thing which chases Berk u
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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FASHION LIFE La robe Mondrian d’Yves Saint Laurent (1965) est l’une des créations les plus emblématiques de l’histoire de la mode. Inspirée des compositions abstraites du peintre néerlandais Piet Mondrian, elle reprend ses célèbres aplats de couleurs primaires (rouge, bleu, jaune)
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 06/10/2026
My latest for the PNG Courier... mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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[title]
MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

MR ROGERS:

Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
[We see the cute toy-town diorama of his village famous from the TV show. The camera pulls out…]

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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

MR ROGERS:
I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

[ends]
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Castlefield Locks, Manchester, painting by Ben Ark.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i think it may be conscious
a photograph of a slide rule
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 02/10/2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday! For 24 hours, we waive our revenue share, so even more of every purchase goes to the artists and labels behind the music. Go forth. The music is waiting: bit.ly/4hW8Snx
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is National Poetry Day’s Boxing Day Where we Take back the rhymes That don’t fit And get some sonnets In the sale.
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy 45th birthday to Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club, released as a UK single on this day in 1981 youtu.be/aCWCF19nUhA
youtu.be
Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Official Music Video) [4K]
YouTube video by RHINO
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Sussex has moved away from Turnitin, UEA has indicated that it will, and in private conversations I’ve had with SU colleagues, other universities are signalling that a Southampton-style exit is on the cards.'
wonkhe.com
A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays
Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really like this one. There’s all these little tableaux in it, zoom in and have a gad about.
Same demolition, same flyover, different folk.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A *third* Byline Times journalist has now been barred from Conservative conference – Chief Reporter @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. It comes after Political Editor @adambienkov.bsky.social and the late, great David Hencke were barred last year. bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference
The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 01/10/2026
[1974] The Do-It-Yourself Film Animation Show - BBC series which encouraged children to do animation. Bob Godfrey is joined by musician and composer extraordinaire Ron Geesin, who delivers a masterclass in the art of creating and syncing sound effects. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnHY-OCuwOE
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1974: SOUND EFFECTS with RON GEESIN | The DIY Film Animation Show | Classic BBC clips | BBC Archive
Bob Godfrey is joined by musician and composer extraordinaire Ron Geesin, who delivers a masterclass in the art of creating and syncing sound effects. To cre...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Fenner Pearson @fennerpearson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Like the marketing amateur I am, I totally forgot to mention last night's #electronicears on here :-/ However, it is now up on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/fennerpearso...
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Electronic Ears Ep542
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's Free Wills Month for over 55s. As I say in my book, wills aren't just about property but who can claim your body and call the shots on your funeral. It there's no executor then the entitlement order kicks in. Protect those left behind from any dramas 💀👍 freewillsmonth.org.uk
Cover of Get Ahead of Being Dead by Evie King.
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Vincent Snow Art 🦋 @vincentsnowart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gonna send some more tracks to Untidy Radio and you should too, other musicians!🫵
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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026
In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They waved banners that are as relevant now as they were then as Campbell passed beneath in the Lord Provost's car. 📷 Newqsquest
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 10/01/2025
The only acceptable AI art
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I took some peripheral photos of the current state of the world around the Anglia Square demolition. And it happening as well. It’s still fascinating, all the shapes and lines and alignments of a slowly degrading piece of city opening up and showing a bare layered soul as the world walks by.
The arm of one beast through the arm of another. Very black and white. I’m posting these here because Instagram is so utterly fucking pointless for photographers.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Musician Marc Bolan finds the Jeepster for his love: a Bickerton folding bicycle Happy #BicycleBirthday, Marc! September 30 ((1947-1977)
Photo of a man wearing a leopard-print outfit riding a Bickerton folding bicycle with a surprised expression. He has a guitar strapped to his back.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, we're still at just over 20 months of Trump's second term, and the www.trumpactiontracker.info has reached over 4,000 documented actions :-/
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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US Copyright Office offering an elegant description of the difference between making your own art and using AI "to commission" it. From @dadadrummer.bsky.social substack.
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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Finally, some honesty about the shitshow that is #Brexit
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