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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
being haunted by the chicken of this soup
A bowl of clear yellow soup with bright yellow fat droplets on the surface. One of the droplets seems to have two eyes (specks of pepper) and an orange nose and feet (specks of carrot). It looks like a baby chicken (chick)
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well this is depressing, on several levels.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, these are sponge fingers left over from a 1970s sherry trifle, and no-one can convince me otherwise
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎶 We’re off, we’re off, we’re off to see the cloth 🎶 It’s only bloody Bayeux Tapestry day!
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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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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore is a hero now? THIS Macklemore? Really?
Macklemore dressed in grossly antisemitic Jewface costume complete with fake hooked nose, 2014
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We won the Solheim Cup, ⛳️ 🇪🇺 you know.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we get rid of Wellens yet? So weary of him buying good players then shouting at them constantly till they’re crap #LOFC
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m en route, for the first time in my life, to Suffolk
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bluesky can be really annoying but it’s still worth it for things like this
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is real, I checked
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Then they came for the Customer Service team, And I did not speak out, Because I was on hold, owing to an exceptionally high volume of calls. But my call was important to them.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 12/07/2026
All seems good fun but this is how it begins. Retake the island now before the rise of the sealion empire. Because *we* couldn't help but notice.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Me, on day three of the latest heatwave, explaining to the houseplants why they can’t have daylight anymore.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I love this but Lukaku should fill the frame more. He’s huge!
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I got them! I got the Bayeux Tapestry tickets! Let’s go see the (nearly) 1000 year old piece of cloth!
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
By the time I get to the front of the queue for Bayeux Tapestry tickets it will have gone back to France
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is Jonathan jones, right? No one else could be quite that wrong.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"He now saw the Great Patriotic War as a struggle between totalitarian states that crushed beneath them tens of millions of lives." My review in @jewishchron.bsky.social of From The Front Line, a superb collection of World War II reportage by the great novelist Vasily Grossman. Link in reply.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The St. Louis Zoo has a dedicated penguin elevator for transporting their Formal Chickens™ to behind-the-scenes areas where they can get medical checkups, enrichment activities. Kicking myself for becoming a LAB biologist when I could have been a Penguin Elevator operator. (📷: St. Louis Zoo)
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 22/06/2026
That was fucking brilliant. Cape Verde! Total heroes 💙
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It’s just not a World Cup without these guys #SPENGE
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 15/06/2026
Hope we're all a bit in love with this guy x
A series of bad drawings of extremely competent Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
SPENGE! Can’t believe it took me nearly till half time to spot it #worldcup #mexicovssouthafrica #spenge
German SPENGE banner in World Cup match crowd
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It was a privilege to be able to speak to the author of a new book which shows just how deeply involved European Jews were in football before the Second World War, focussing on just 11 of many star players for club and country. www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-lost-wor...
Excerpt from the piece:

Many of us, at one point or another, have laughed self-deprecatingly at the supposed lack of Jewish sporting talent. I have done it, Bolchover has done it, and I suspect that many people reading this article will have done as well.

“Hopefully, my book will play a role in stopping people laughing about it, because when people laugh about it, they're laughing about the destruction of European Jews”, Bolchover says, frankly. 

“Effectively, they don't know what they're laughing at. They should be crying. 

“This is something that isn't maybe understood enough, the Holocaust didn't just account for 6 million Jews, it also shattered Jewish collective memory. There's so much we don't know about the Holocaust, but there's also so much we don't know about the world before that, and it's up to us to restore that memory.”
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@adironjack.bsky.social see this? I have, unsurprisingly, signed up www.netflix.com/tudum/featur...
netflix.com
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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
that 'recreate a photo of yourself as a kid' challenge is doing the rounds again
Baby prince andrewPrince Andrew now
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Shane Reaction @shanereaction.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Andrew, you have been evicted. It's time to leave your big brother's house
Davina McCall hosting a big brother eviction
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Was the moment where I hoped it was a solar Tommy Fleetwood better or worse than the actual product?
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"A rainbow appeared minutes before the signal was found," he said. The most Detectorists news story ever. Lovely. Discovery of 15,000 Roman coins could be nation's biggest ever www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Roman coins found by detectorist could be Wales' biggest find
David Moss discovered 15,000 coins at a "virtually untouched" secret location in north Wales.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Been boring people with how much I disliked Malmö since I visited in 1990, so I’m going to be INSUFFERABLE now.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Despite myself I laughed
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 13/10/2025
If I was a Welsh footballer I would simply not have arms
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I don’t think I want my crisps to be 25% plastic
Crisp packet says ‘now with 25% recycled plastic’
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If they toured I’d be trying for tickets
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
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Emma Forrest wrote a seminal Jewish novel—and was quietly ghosted for it
The British author discusses the muted reaction to her Jewish work and the Manchester attack on Yom Kippur.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Weird that google and other tech firms keep telling me robots should run everything, while repeatedly insisting that I prove I’m not one
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I really really dislike "right side of history" as an expression. Like history has a final season. "We had a big meeting and decided you were right all along."
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Upside down red triangle in bio = Hamas supporter. Not the same as a Palestinian flag in bio. Or a watermelon in bio. It’s not solidarity. It’s overt hate. Just mentioning it cos seen a couple of retweets of red triangle types in my feed today. Blocked now obv.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Heaton Park. My heart is broken. British Jews have been warning you about this for years. It’s Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur. This is one of every Jews worst nightmare. Why we have so much security at synagogue. The anxious thought you try and push to the back of your mind. Heartbroken.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Team Europe trolling Trump after winning The Ryder Cup 🤣💀
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
@kingtubby.bsky.social got the golf on the radio again tonight?
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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
How could this possibly lead to any problems under a Reform-led government? Good grief. Do something. Make ordinary people's lives better. Don't fanny around making authoritarianism easier just to appease racists, you partially-cooked frozen doughball.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Oh no, we’re doing ID cards again
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Even the damn shrimps having a more exciting time of it than me, goddammit www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl....
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Scientists find cocaine in shrimps in Suffolk rivers
Researchers collected samples from rivers in Suffolk and found the drug when testing for chemicals.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I know GL is beyond awful these days, but the lack of Father Ted in this list is odd. Anyway, Detectorists for me.
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Out of bounds
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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Hard to imagine Random Restaurant Bot will ever do better than this
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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is smashing
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 23/07/2025
... what???
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