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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jimmy Savile (yes that one) turned up at ours. His photo was taken among us and his arms around two of my classmates. He said, and I remember this, cos it was weird even then: "When I came out from behind the curtain, your mouths were open so wide I could have have popped a tennis ball into them".

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Simon Treanor @simonjtreanor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This guy just constantly doing everything we've been told for decades was impossible and unpopular and making it extremely popular and possible. Makes you wonder what could've been possible, and less negatively, what could still be. And he does the folksy stuff that's all Burnham has managed so far

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As an aside, there is always a family friend who will lovingly buy your kid the complete works of David Walliams for Christmas and there is nothing you can do about it.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some jobs have tried to insist (and I've refused) that I send the edit back to them clean with the tracked changes done and author queries finalised. So no in-house accountability! If you agree to that and have signed a lop-sided indemnification clause, the buck stops with you. As I say, terrifying.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is before we even get to standard contracts proliferating publishing that include draconian indemnification clauses holding the freelancer legally liable for errors and libel claims, no matter how spurious or vexatious. Refusing to sign these may cost you work, but what price peace of mind?

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A recent job I had said I was "a bit over-zealous" with citation requests. But maybe Jason Arday could've done with someone zealously adding a couple of references he'd already attributed elsewhere. I find it terrifying that someone could have their life ruined because I missed a couple of op cits.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Book copy-editor who's come in from newspapers here! What I've found is the book publishing world appears to actively discourage you from checking all those troublesome facts. I've been marked down in industry exams because I was querying too much and it would be too time-consuming for the author!

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Tim Curry on consecutive days is some proper 2016-esque bullshit.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 17/08/2026

kathleen stock: being neurodivergent should be a barrier to entering academia manchester museum: would you like to see one of our snail collections? :) our scientists have more than one :))

Plaque at Manchester Museum:

EXPLORING VARIATION
The Museum has several collections of snails put together by scientists who studied inheritance and evolution. Arthur Stelfox (1883-1972) was interested in the ways that different shell patterns and colours are inherited. He bred snails of different varieties with one another over a period of sixty years. Collections like this are still used by scientists, who are trying to answer new questions.

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every interview with an actor from the new Harry Potter series youtube.com/shorts/QVyIw...

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every interview with an actor in the new Harry Potter series

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If it sport is played on a raised surface, then it is also a tabletop game. This is why I demand Extreme Ironing has its own BGG entry.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 21/07/2026

No, autism is NOT overdiagnosed. It is *under diagnosed*, especially in autistics who aren't white boys from financially stable families. Anyone who claims we are overdiagnosing autism is either misinformed, or cruel, or both. #autism #neurodiversity

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

this is you in meta’s pervert glasses

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Me, a bellend: "this doesn't look sustainable" Tuchel, a tactical genius: "these Argentinan lads don't look like scoring, they keep missing by centimeters"

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Isle of Cats designer Frank West has launched his new penguin-themed Squall's End-set adventure on Kickstarter. So we spoke to him about the new game. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/frank-west...

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Frank West: 'I've always wanted to design a game around penguins'

The Isle of Cats designer returns to the world of Squall's End with new standalone game The Isle of Penguins

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Sinan Kose @handle.invalid · 22/06/2026

The best moment was when he was asked what "change" meant he said it meant "changing the things that need changing and that is the change I will bring about." Just a perfect summary of how much of a middle manager void he was.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 15/06/2026

1. There are a lot of skilled people in this particular pickle. 2. The LLMs cannot do what we do, and they also cannot do what they promise. 3. Some clients and employers are figuring out item #2. Many are not. If you produce text for public consumption, you want to be part of that "some."

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Having to tell my kid we can no longer watch mini golf videos on YouTube together because the government thinks it'll transform her into a rampaging hooligan. Cheers Keir Starmer!

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Fancy your own visit to the @taskmaster.tv house without having to leave your own? We spoke to James Smith about his TV tie-in escape room. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/taskmaster...

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Taskmaster: The Escape Room: 'Alex Horne was so enthusiastic about the game'

Take on Chiswick's most famous grotty little house in James Smith's puzzle piece

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 30/05/2026

just realised that bilal is the closest thing to a british tim robinson

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Well, if that happens, I'll give you the exclusive.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Got to say, absolutely have to play this.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This is precisely why I am now freelance. Why am I going to go to your third interview when you're just going to readvertise the role and ghost me? Why are you making me write your 8-page application form when all the information is already on my CV?

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Some of you are still doing so. And if participating in a genocide, cutting disability rights, abandoning renters, Mandelson, creeping NHS privatisation, 'island of strangers'. criminalising protest and persecuting the left isn't going to stop you, what is? How can you complain when fascism rises?

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There were quite a lot of us who, for several years, warned that voting for this version of the Labour party would create the conditions for enabling fascism. And here we are. Hate to say we told you so. But we told you so.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed

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Six prime ministers in ten years, a disillusioned electorate and the rise of social media are all blamed for Britain's political instability. I BIG READ
Britain is ungovernable.
These numbers prove it

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Voting Green isn’t “splitting the left vote” coz a) Labour is behind the Greens in polling and b) Labour hasn’t been a leftwing party in several years.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Also, and I must confessed it's been a while since I watched it, but I don't recall Slimer the ghost from Ghostbusters having a *forked fucking tongue*

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Us, sobbing: please grandad, stop telling everyone that you believe you brought your imaginary girlfriend to life Richard Dawkins: INFLATABLE INGRID AND I ARE VERY MUCH IN LOVE, SHE WANTS YOU TO CALL HER "INFLATABLE NANNA"

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is why I take what I read with a grain of salt & just ask, “Which party will redistribute wealth downward most aggressively?” & vote for them no matter what. Who’s telling me not to, A NEWSPAPER OWNER? Fuck those cunts.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

NIGEL FARAGE'S SUPPORTERS ARE SHOWING UP AT GREEN RALLIES DOING NAZI SALUTES. 382472343 OF NIGEL FARAGE'S EX-SCHOOLMATES SAID HE MADE GAS CHAMBER NOISES AT JEWISH KIDS. ALL WE FUCKING HEAR ABOUT IS THE ONE JEWISH PARTY LEADER BEING A DANGER TO EVERY JEWISH BRITON. I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING INSANE.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Ah, I see you've also met about 70% of the people I've ever worked in a newsroom with.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I once had to know in detail what was in the news, for work. I can tell you: you would be *horrified* to see how many people, talking about some controversial matter of the day, just repeat the last thing they heard or read about it, sometimes near-verbatim.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Equating mild criticism of police tactics and brutality (which previously saw eg Dalian Atkinson killed in similar circumstances) with being an accessory to attempted murder in the paper of record, and doing it with an antisemitic caricature, is something I hope you all feel disgusted by.

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

If I still have any hope for this country, is that the Worst People in Politics and the Right-Wing Media have become much more unhinged and cranky in their attacks on the left, and far easier to combat. This horror below will be beyond the pale for your Normal Floating Voter.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 02/05/2026

Times Editor: You draw that cartoon of Zack Polanski? Peter Brookes: Sure did boss, real fuckin antisemitic just like you asked. Time Editor: great

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Compared to everyone else here, he's barely online.

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