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The Daily Mash @the-daily-mash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

RAF Fairford withdrawal leaves pensioners unable to trade sex for stockings buff.ly/8ps0lLR

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It takes a loading error to produce such candour.

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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw someone yesterday describe those morons outside Basingstoke Police Station as the Provisional Wing of Sports Direct, and, yeah, that’s pretty much it.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This day in history. 1844. The first international cricket match began in Montréal between Canada and the USA. The losing American captain complained that the Canadians treated his team very badly and was one of the worst teams to deal with and when a reporter questioned that he said quiet, piggy.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Once you poop you cannot stoop!"

"That English idiot who thinks he can speak our language"

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First New Cat Species in Over a Century is not opening for Ed Sheeran

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Ben Yates @benyates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

Richard E Grant performing the Soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet to the Wolves in Regents Park Zoo, the last scene of Withnail & I

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

‘Danny Tommo’, leader of the balaclava-clad blackshirt rallies, says he will travel to Piddington “in the coming days” following the Parish Council’s stunt referendum: “I want to hear about safety concerns for their women and children.” Tommo was jailed for two years in 2016 for a knifepoint kidnap.

Daniel “Danny Tommo” Thomas. Indigo Nolan at Flickr.com, CC-BY-SA.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Around 10am on 17 June 1940, a small plane landed on the island of Jersey, in need of fuel. Strapped to it with rope were four suitcases, whose contents included 100,000 francs of French government money. Inside were two passengers. Sir Edward Spears, British liason to France and Charles de Gaulle

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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QuipperWill @quillquipper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Let's see what is happening through the Overton window.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The media treating this story as some hilarious 'village that roared' nighy-dench-mirren movie is pissing me right the fuck off. It's soft-selling fascism. We have become an inward looking, xenophobic joke.

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I learned today that Piddington is not a South African bear.

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Skinnie Talls @skinnietalls.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Careful, that’s my load bearing delusion

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Ben Yates @benyates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not shouted into the void before. Something hit me yesterday that has absolutely broken me. Part of me suspected it was coming but it stings worse than anything I've ever felt. I really don't know what to do. No need to reply, I just needed to say.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/09/2026

Even the crickets were embarrassed.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It wasn't just Norman yoke. There were Bretons egging them on.

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 25/08/2026

It’s at times like these that we remember those who sadly haven’t passed away this year.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This reminds me of Simon Armitage's brilliant entry in the book Mortification: Writers' Stories of their Public Shame.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Beck Saxon @becksaxon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Left to right: David Bellamy, Bill Oddie, Maurice Gibb, Dominik Szoboszlai.

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Beck Saxon @becksaxon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Like a jar of Hellmans shagged a bag of medical waste.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well. Glad you had your fun, I guess.

Sonia Sodha post on X: A lot of chin-stroking over on BlueSky about why there's so much interest in the Arday story. It's because it beautifully and hilariously exposes the intellectual dishonesty of your worldview guys, of course you don't get it! 🤪

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Scousers 🤝People without eclipse glasses Not looking at the sun

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Fido Dido's let himself go.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I see that Toby Young had written about an elite university messing up by elevating someone who may not have been actually qualified to be there. Interesting stuff

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Maybe I will write that sequel after all.

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"You warned me father, that if I flew too high I would fall"

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Morning all. Photographer Martin Parr. “Tenby is the best. It’s like a postcard." Beach scene of the Welsh town of Tenby 2018.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Your fact of the day: Adrian Bell was the first cryptic crossword setter for the Times. Martin Bell, his son, was THE Martin Bell - legendary BBC journalist and (briefly) independent MP. But know who Adrian's DAUGHTER was? Anthea Bell, the translator of Asterix comics into English.

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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

hello here is a crow painting shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #crow #painting #artsky

mixed-media stylised crow walking along with a human skull in its beak, heavily-collaged yellow/green jungle-ish background

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Weaponised Dunk Quote is my new band name

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

God I love it when the fourth wall gets broken like this, just imagine things like when dogs stare off into the distance like that they're staring out of a painting in an alternative universe

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 31/07/2026

All the best technologies require special pleading to get users.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

AI could never

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Tom @tdawks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A good name for a bus stop, and also a fun party game for bishops.

A photograph of a London bus stop. The stop is called Tooting, The Mitre'.

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