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stabilo @stabiloffc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My mate sent me this and I was baffled and then fucking hell.

Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching some Radio 2 In The Park. Sadly, 90% of the audience seem completely disinterested with every act and probably wish they were at Giovanna Fletcher's Mindful Meditation and Overnight Oats Festival Instead :(

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate. Behold! For it is the great feast of Saint Michael!

An old Marks & Spencer clothes label featuring the words "St Michael, Crimplene, size 12s, to fit bust 34", to fit hips 36", 5'2" fitting MADE IN BRITAIN. On an item of clothing with an orange, acid green and off white print. Held by someone whose fingers have a chipped French manicure.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My husband got an NHS email out of the blue telling him that he is required to get blood tests every 6-12 months. No explanation given. He's not gravely ill. Probably keeping tabs on everyone over 60 these days until the Assisted Dying Bill is finally pushed through, what?

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Caught up with a friend who has finally found the perfect place to live. Nice community, made loads of friends and is on a street WhatsApp. The last thing is the most horrendous. Imagine having to say something more than "hello" to your neighbours :0

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fighting fit, proud, patriotic, defend R shores, wear a poppy to celebrate R brave boys, kick out the foreigns, start a civil war clutter now want the army to conscript workshy smelly pink haired lefties for the war against Russia instead of them, LMFAO.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A young Jacob Rees Mogg (centre) contemplates other people being prepared to die in war to defend this country, otherwise this country will be invaded by another country.

The three posh boys from the documentary series 7up.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today is International Speak Like A Pirate Radio DJ day. This year's DJ is Emperor Rosko. Do your best. youtu.be/MqLndJfbCNY?...

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Radio Caroline - Rosco (Transferred from Google Video. I do not own this video).

YouTube video by Nigel Broatch

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

England Til I Die is the fash Bad News On Tour. There's a scene where the "protesters" confront a bloke in a Papa Lazarou mask. "Oi, are you anteeefa? Why are you wearin' a mask?" "Fark off, I've got a job, I don't want to be seen. I'm a PATRIOT and I'm even more HARD and ANGRY than you."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At 20 I couldn't have cared less about any 63 year old, least of all me. It was only later, when I was told I was an underachiever and should re-train and ~better myself~ that I became permanently disappointed with myself. Ha! Mind you, "achievements" generally mean fck all.

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Rob McMinn @robmcminn.uk · 18/09/2026

I think your jacket is shit and I hate the colour

Screen grab of a Rohan marketing email headed “The Only Insulted Jacket You Need”

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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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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please accept this puerile offering.

A sign saying "PIDDINGTON" in a field in the village of Piddington with a letter L added on Google photo edits so that it says "PIDDLINGTON".

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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That was a hell of an editorial cockup by Rolling Stone on Steven & Gillian Morris from New Order, jesus h. Also very sad to hear Gillian is ill with cancer again. "Living with" doesn't sound positive for her too.

Facebook New Order post

A MESSAGE FROM GILLIAN

Thank you everyone who has reached out following Stephen's recent interview with Rolling Stone. We have both been incredibly touched by all the kind words and well wishes.

I would like to gently clarify a misunderstanding from the interview, in the course of which comments were misinterpreted leading people to believe that Stephen is seriously ill. Thankfully, he is well. It is in fact me, who like many other people, is living with cancer.

We completely understand how the misunderstanding arose and simply wanted to ensure that the correct information was shared.

We are enormously grateful for everyone's kindness and support and would appreciate some privacy as I continue with my treatment.

Gillian xx

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I see that Reform are bragging about their ever increasing war chest. Yeah, I think everyone else calls them man boobs mate. (Yes, I am writing for Have I Got News For You fyi)

Placid natured Reform UK member Steve Cooling waves a walking stick about in a blue tinted picture.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tonight would be the right time to share Rhys Thomas's end of the year Ed Sheeran video but (a) It is funny but too crude and puerile for the nicely brought up and genteel souls of Bluesky. (b) You can't find it anywhere on the internet despite all of the other shit on the internet.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Regretfully I have to do a Part 2. The floodgates have opened. Iron lungs Mrs Bagley (?) Sweetshop owner, Rita Webb lookalike, terrifying reputation Getting the plague after accidentally touching a dead rat behind a school radiator Pinky & Perky Unlit, dingey Victorian toilets with noisy flushes

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: The dark swallowing me up Smokers who would all die of cancer Various playground trolls who gave you the bumps/threw you down a bank in a field/bruised you until they moved on to the next victim Marty Feldman's eyes The UFO that apparently landed in Pye Green

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In a move that will surprise and delight fans everywhere, Biggie Smalls will be playing himself in the Snoop Dogg biopic. "Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated" he chortled during a press conference yesterday.

A Rolling Stone report shows a picture of the late Biggie Smalls at the Billboard Music Awards above a headline that says "Snoop Dogg biopic casts Biggie Smalls".

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Until about five days ago I was unaware of the existence of Danny Tommo. Wot happy times we lived in. Wot larks, Pip.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

She has the same accent as me. Maybe she lived a couple of streets away when I was growing up, ROFL. (I've just been told my accent has been "Londonised". 'ave a word wiv yourself, silly bollocks.)

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've been watching the set by DJ Kettama at Reading on the iPlayer and there are a lot of crowd shots. I have to tell you now that the Teenage Boy Perm epidemic is now a pandemic 😔

An alpaca chewing straw with trees and blue sky behind it, yesterday.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Jeux Sans Frontières reboot is crap, would not recommend.

A heroic fash granny or RNLI member I'm a canoe? Disputed.

A ship and six boats in water in one of the games from TV show Jeux Sans Frontières.

Fash up to their arse in water having a face off with the RNLI in Portsmouth like the fucking wankers they are. God the fash are concrete brained morons.

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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I see another spontaneous protest has broken out. It's like whack a mole this weekend. Almost as if they're primed and ready to go.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bluesky now puts a helpful thread count at the end of posts (1/78) but still hasn't fixed alt text. Consequently I have to type in landscape and can't see what I'm typing because it's blocked by the keyboard (9/78).

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My El Nino stockpile. A tin opener, a campfire and the world is your oyster (served in a horrible onion sauce).

A tin of Tom Piper Tongues (tongue twister?) with a picture of a sheep next to the words Tongues 110g NET in white against a red background.

A faded red, blue and yellow 1920s carton of Minute Tapioca that requires no soaking on a blue and white gingham cloth.

A tin of absolutely disgusting Heinz Kidney Soup (now rightfully discontinued).

A tin of Brown Curry Mole Crickets with a photo of the critters themselves and the assurance that it is "A tasty nutritious unique snack".

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Donald's removed his TROOSERS. Autocorrect changed that back the third time I amended it the bloody scoundrels 😤 #troosers #autobollocks

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Donald's removed his trousers 🤷

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Of course Gloria SteiMANHATER died sad and alone with loads of empty wine boxes and smelly old cats in her flat 🤣🤣🤣 Meanwhile I'll die happy, surrounded by my 130 earth angel grandbabies and loving family, knowing that I served God, my husband and America 😍🤗👶🙏😇🇺🇸"

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Incredible tribute here from the BBC to Gloria whatshername.

BBC headline: How Gloria Steinham [sic] changed the lives of generations of women

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Ski Sunday ⛷️💔 In happier news Auntie Beeb has pulled out all of the stops with new series of the Onedin Line⚓, Going For A Song🎼💷 and Thora Hird's Praise Be!🙏. Sunday nights in autumn will be crammed to the gills 🐟 with terrific TV📺!

Thora Hird's Praise Be! Book Of Prayers with pink flowers on the cover and a photo of Thora Hird smiling.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Twenty nine years since we lost the Princess Off Of All Of Our Hearts. She healed all who crossed her path like a saint and she is up in the clouds "jamming" with Prince Philip, Dolly Parton, Meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler, Tim Curry, The Big Bopper, Ian Curtis, George Michaels and Ethel Merman 🙏🎸👼🎶

Princess Diana wears a petrol blue skirt suit and white pussy bow tie blouse with blue flecked print. She is linking arms with the Duke of Edinburgh who is wearing a terracotta coloured overcoat. They are walking through a rainy landscape, although it looks as if the rain has stopped. It is a painting heavy with symbolic meaning.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bluesky has followed Reading Festival's example. There, the Introducing stage has been replaced with the Nepo Baby Stage. Here, the Introduce Yourself With ... lists have been replaced with Apple Martin's top 10 fashion week parties and one of Bono's kid's 20 favourite "gifted" long haul holidays.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with five of your annoying but not life threatening ailments. #BankHolidayFun #ItsABitOfFun 1. Childhood hay fever 2. Wear and tear related right knee pain 3. Tinnitus 4. On and off tendonitis 5. Early stage cataracts

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Six great things is it? Ravens Crows Jackdaws Really large dogs The disco and the house music Ynys Llanddwyn

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Went for a walk by the river yesterday. Months of continuous sun meant that I managed to delude myself about the forecast (sun, cloud, slight chance of light showers). Got absolutely Morecambed on for twenty minutes doing the circuit of a field and then had to paddle through three inches of water.

Eric Morecambe dressed as an American cop stands under a drainpipe which dumps water on him during a downpour.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Black over Bill's mother's. There should be a map of the area where the expression "black over Bill's mother's" is used. I saw someone say that it's "very Nottingham" the other day.

A telegraph pole in a street with houses, a lamp post and clouds which range from white to an angry dark blue behind it.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not particularly convincing picture of a rainbow a few minutes ago. No Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain 🌈🚫

A rainbow with pinky blue sky at twilight above some flats.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In this episode of Bring Out Yer Dead: ⭐ Morgan Freeman alarmed to find himself at the Pearly Gates early doors next to Ozzy Osbourne ⭐ ⭐ Tina Turner confronts Big Amy Winehouse about the theft of her missing finger off camera ⭐

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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton lookalike competition contestants, Phoenix, Arizons, 1979 📷 David Hurn

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 2. We're going all around the Wrekin. 3. He's had more chances than soft Mick. 4. Watch the walk my darling as the gentlemen go by. 5. Ye gods and little fishes.

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm *almost* a year older than Courtney Love which means I'm a boomer rather than Gen X. Which means of course that I never pulled a sicky, worked a forty five hour shift at the pits, had seven pints in the snug, slept for an hour, scrubbed the flagstones and JUST GOT ON WITH IT™️ without grumbling.

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Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🇵🇸 This photograph of a football match amidst the rubble of #Gaza was withdrawn from the Deauville Sport Images Festival exhibition in France following pressure from pro-Israel activists. 👇

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Betty Utility @bettyutility.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Norris Greenslade? (One for the youngsters as per usual)

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