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weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · 8h

Shocked, nay stunned, to discover that Clive Dunn's 1970s novelty number one hit "Grandad" actually merited a Japanese 7" single release.

Japanese cover art for Clive Dunn's "Grandad"showing Dunn in Dad's Army military attire holding a gun in one hand, standing to attention next to some kind of hewn stone monument, possibly a gravestone. The song title is rendered in katakana in a curiously artistic font, as is the name of the B-side. Other Japanese script informs potential local purchasers that the disc is a British number one hit.

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 14h

Won’t lie, I wouldn’t have spotted the gardening business/Placebo lyric crossover potential

Gardening van with the slogan “A friend in need is a friend indeed but a friend with weed is better”

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even I'm getting sick of the generational cohort talk. Me, against whom you only have to brush lightly to provoke me into saying many of the classic 20th century British sitcoms are expressions of Silent Generation pain and confusion.

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CNN @cnn.com · 02/10/2026

Mexico’s National Guard has a recruit: a 15-pound chihuahua named Comando, who is helping officers connect with the community.

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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Alexander, How is your love life? Human females appreciate flowers and soft talking. I hope this helps. Father

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You really do find some weird things on Rightmove. For instance, I have discovered that in this, the Year of Our Lord 2026, people are offering houses for sale that still have outdoor toilets.

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Codes @fiver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is huge! If you didn't know, the first cartoon to ever air on Cartoon Network was the Looney Tunes film "Rhapsody Rabbit." Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry are an important part of Cartoon Network history and I'm glad these are passed down to a new generation of kids! Timeless entertainment!

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Bugs Bunny Playing Piano

ALT: Bugs Bunny Playing Piano

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 01/10/2026

I love Sabrina Carpenter using "brand collaborations" as an excuse to just do sketch comedy c. 1996. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8v3...

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Sabrina Carpenter for new collab with Redken 💋

YouTube video by Sabrina Carpenter All-Videos 💌

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ross Kemp: “Did you just rub me on the arm like that, cos you were cold?”

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our obsession with unfeasibly large vegetables. It continues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gloucester man grows
'world's tallest cucumber'.

It’s a big yellow willy.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m now the proud owner of the newest Jonny Trunk publication, ‘Holiday Exotica’, which came with an extra holiday brochure. It has quite the illustration:

The illustration is of an oddly proportioned young woman in a bikini.

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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 01/10/2026

All of it was terrible but at the end we found we find that the Russian copper who, helped by Interpol and DHS, found and rescued a five year old boy who’d been kidnapped and raped for fifty days was imprisoned for treason in 2025 and absolutely fuck Putin.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This can only mean one thing... Yes: time to trot out the old story about Holloway and Rex Harrison when legendary arsehole Harrison gets twatted at the stage door...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 01/10/2026

I see the Canary, never afraid to stoop to disgusting lows, is at it again

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 01/10/2026

Yes, yes, dogs saying "sausages", but this video of dogs in a pub catching squirts from a soda siphon is the greatest That's Life video of all time. youtu.be/IahcZyBsDG8?...

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Three German Shepherds In A Pub

YouTube video by kd fr

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is what it's like doing social media in heritage

A (sadly fake) Wikipedia page for 'Jester's Privilege', cropped to just show the first sentence: 'Jester's Privilege is the ability and right of a jester to talk and mock freely without being punished; for nothing he says seems to matter'.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even if I rarely watch the programme in question, I will always read a Dempster review.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The coverage of the tooth decay caused by parents giving their toddlers sugary cordial on That’s Life terrified young me into brushing my teeth properly, so thank you, Esther. RIP.

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Makes “attitudes night” look near the knuckle

Radio Times letter complaining about swearing on the cover

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I still remember Esther Rantzen on That’s Life holding up a small ad from a Local Authority in the early 70s advertising for an Equal Pay Officer but offering a lower wage for women. I’m part of generation of teenagers mildly radicalised by amusing trivia.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think there’s always time for a photo of a good boy.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The perfect illustration of how America has gone to war on itself and is now less able to face external challenges.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues

The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Explaincars Drama: we believe this to be the first time in recorded history that a bowel movement has been assigned an ICAO threat level

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/09/2026

*hums Rule Britannia*

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes!

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember when Radio Times had to print a correction about this. It said something like “Today’s The Day will return in the autumn. Contrary to our previous assertion, there are no plans for a new series of The Day Today”

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Before very long you people are going to be wondering what the hell to buy your dad or your aunty or your weird cousin for Christmas. And when that day comes - and believe me it will - you will wish you had ordered a custom crossword from me.

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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As Calvin & Hobbes pointed out, there's a reason why Batman fights grandiose maniacs.

Calvin & Hobbes discuss the obvious problem with a superhero who fights subtle, realistic bad guys by attending council meetings, writing to newspapers, etc.

Punch line: "Quick! To the Bat-Fax!" (This was 30+ years ago when fax machines were a thing.)

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The 2002-05 pre-smart phone era of Nokia and others making utterly mad or far too small phones as they needed a gimmick to convince people to part with their trusty 3310s is fascinating to me. You got some utterly batshit ones.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always love the Bill Bailey story that he went to see Marilyn Manson in Milton Keynes and thus they were all treated to the sight of a 6 ft man in a rubber corset and with different coloured eyes laying on the stage and chanting ”Milton Keynes…Milton Keynes…MILTON KEYNES”.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Ultimately we created an entire culture around the idea that buying property was a one way bet, that policy would underwrite.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t get why you wouldn’t try and take a ‘white heat of technology’ line instead, because that is surely more desirable and achievable.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know who the SWV fan is at my usual hairdressing salon, but I was amused at me identifying ‘late 90s RnB’ before ‘Right Here’ started.

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

16.00 FILM: O.H.M.A.T.E.
James Bond received a talking to from his best friend about his misogny, violence and womanising.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Something in this very well-written FT article tells me that there’s more going on in Hammersmith & Fulham than a government initiative on its own can address: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The west London high street fighting against bookies and chicken shops

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The west London high street fighting against bookies and chicken shops

Residents’ campaign to diversify Uxbridge Road comes as prime minister pledges to tackle UK’s ‘hollowed out’ neighbourhoods

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 26/09/2026

I know it’s slightly different as it’s the real people, but as @bohaynowell.bsky.social just said, this bit in Married With Children has the air of a Spitting Image song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfJF...

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Al Bundy - Old Aid

YouTube video by Szabolcs Horváth

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading ACARS Drama has increased my already quite high level of admiration for flight attendants.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In Tigray, from 2020-2022, six million ppl were cut off from the outside world, which enabled an Ethiopian state campaign of genocide that killed 100s of thousands. Comms outages trigger fear & trauma as a result. For background context on the two year outage, my @reuters.com reporting from 2022.

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Six million silenced: A two-year internet outage in Ethiopia

She had just been crowned world champion, but Ethiopian marathon runner Gotytom Gebreslase broke down in tears when asked if her family was celebrating her win back home in war-torn Tigray.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 26/09/2026

So I am going to argue this has the chance of being amazing, because everybody says what an amazing dancer Ginger Rogers was, but not as many point out how funny she was too. Sabrina may be able to capture that. deadline.com/2026/09/marg...

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Margaret Qualley, Sabrina Carpenter Join Tom Holland's Fred Astaire Film (Exclusive)

Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter will star in the Tom Holland Fred Astaire biopic as Adele Astaire and Ginger Rogers, respectively.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One time a girl poked me in a boring lecture & hissed "you were sleeping!" I hissed back "I know! You fucking woke me!" For some reason that caught the row's funny bone, & then the laughter spread outwards like an ink stain until the whole room was shaking so hard the lecture had to be stopped.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you missed the story behind the title, it relates to this Substack comment.

God Bless you Jane. Chemo is the worst but you've got spunk in your eyes. Go Jane Go!

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A year ago today I went to my GP’s surgery after a summer of being treated for IBS, feeling somehow that we were missing something. By the end of the day I was admitted to hospital with Stage 3 ovarian cancer. Here’s the blogpost I wrote about it. janehill64.substack.com/p/have-you-g...

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Have you got somebody with you?

Thoughts from the longest day.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/09/2026

There's a movie in this, but it also feels like it should've been made in about 2009 and been fairly problematic.

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