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Andrew Heenan 💚

@bsky.heenan.net
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He/Him. Shock trooper for MAWL* Wide ranging experience and opinions. Founder Member Level Earth Society. § = sarcasm, when I remember. *Militant Atheist Woke Lefties.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Will we "all be in it together" again like last time? The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities share.google/fuhu2zdJgh48...
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The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities
The size of the UK's wealth gap is not only unfair. It poses major risks to our economy, society, democracy and environment. How should policymakers respond?
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 30/09/2026
They are legal tender - I wrote a cheque on the back of a postcard once, and the Magistrates Court had to accept it. But Big cheques cost £15-20 each; pure waste, and puffery for donors.
bbc.co.uk
Why charities are still clinging to using a giant cheque
Despite bank transfer and internet banking, the giant cheque photo opportunity refuses to die.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 29/09/2026
chadbourn.substack.com
The Man Problem
The Cornell Rape Case is a feature not a bug
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 29/09/2026
The oldies are the bestest.
A doctor comforts a barely conscious patient:
"Will I be OK, doc?"
"Doubt it. Mercury is in Uranus right now"
"I don't believe in Astrology."
"Me neither, my thermometer just broke."
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 29/09/2026
Bargain of the Day; an item most people will use about twice a year*. Ideal present for that person who has nothing. *If that.
Picture of "Caran d'Ache Metal Pencil Sharpener, £141.88 at The Range.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 29/09/2026
[shrugs] "She wasn't a keeper"
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 27/09/2026
"Andy Fucking Burnham is coming to Dunsinane!"
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Benjamin Slyngstad @slyngstad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In honor of Dolly, happy nine to five day
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would suggest that interested parties should look up into the sky after dark. It will be the round white thing.
Where to see the September Corn Moon in
Sussex this week
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Conservatives want to restrict people on benefits from buying alcohol. Yet they’re uninterested in restricting the cheaper alcohol sold in Parliament’s bars and restaurants. Why is one use of public money treated as morally unacceptable while the other is apparently fine?
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 24/09/2026
I used Wetherspoon's pub search to find a pub near Blackfriars, London. Top results: - Abraham Darby, Merry Hill Centre, Merry Hill, Brierley Hill, West Midlands. - An Ruadh-Ghleann, 40 Main Street, Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire. You'd think I'd been searching for their toilets. Fuller's wins again.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026
Time's up on Thames Water. Since privatisation in 1989, Thames has handed out over £10 billion to shareholders, while racking up over £20 billion in debt. Now a consortium of US hedge funds want to take control... Get private profit out of water. Nationalisation now.
Background image of a sewage treatment works. Text reads:

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

TIME'S UP ON
THAMES WATER

NATIONALISATION NOW.

In the centre of the graphic is a screenshot of a Zack Polanski BlueSky post, which reads: Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 22/09/2026
Online conversation of the day.
Mike Batt, commenting on a BBC report about 'dismal' UK Eurovision song choices:
"Eurovision is 'dismal' and always has been. It's a clown show. It's not a song contest. Just stop doing it. Or do it, but don't debase and insult the craft of songwriting by dragging that word into the mess."
Nigel M: "Dude, you wrote 'Remember You're A Womble'."
Mike Batt: "I did. And it's a banger. Now fuck off."
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 21/09/2026
#Bluesky/Twitter
Left: Obama
Right: Trump
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 21/09/2026
Ludwig is *so* good.
Picture of Ludwig, after he was outed as a non detective, being offered a job as consultant by DI Russell Carter:
"We don't want to lose the best detective we never had."
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A man stands at the ticket counter of a movie theater. An employee asks if he’d like to upgrade his ticket. “Would you like to upgrade to Cinema VIP? You can pause the film for bathroom breaks.”  Our man is intrigued by the offer. Next slide. Inside the movie theater. The film has been paused and the movie screen lets the audience know: “PAUSED FOR VIP.” Our man stands at the center of the theater with his hands raised and a VIP badge attached to a lanyard around his neck. He’s part of the Cinema VIP program but at what cost? The other patrons have become increasingly upset with the pauses. A chorus of angry voices rain down on the VIP from around the theater. “Sit down, toilet boy,” one woman yells. She’s had enough of his potty breaks. “Oh COME on.” “Get this guy outta here.” “He ruined the trailers, too.” “Take his badge.” “3 times?!” “Put a diaper on.”
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Interesting that all of Trumps shitty decor look like the inside of Putin's house.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 20/09/2026
Most disappointing story of the day. (You have been warned) style.news.am/eng/news/116...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Well Harvey’s his name!” HARVEY (1950) Jimmy Stewart describes how he met Harvey — a 6 ft 3½ tall white invisible rabbit — in this wonderful film.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 20/09/2026
But did he acknowledge the genocide in Gaza? £1 says he didn't.
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Ed Sheeran overcorrects, joins Hezbollah
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 20/09/2026
Stolen from Bahaish Kapoor (on Insta)
Rendition of a Bollywood female actor pouring a cup of tea: "I'm Aries. We don't believe in astrology."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Russian puppet basically says he wants NATO to protect him, but he doesn’t want to help NATO. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico: “I do not want Slovakia to become part of some military conflict because of Article 5.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 18/09/2026
Hiding in plain sight in a cat sanctuary for ten years:
bbc.co.uk
Spotted wildcat from Bolivian forest revealed as new species
A spotted wildcat long mistaken for relatives has been identified as a new species in Bolivia.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
nbcnews.to
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Localnlive @localnlive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes Released this day in 1979
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Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
YouTube video by Rupert Holmes - Topic
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Shannon Nosurname 🏳️‍🌈 🏴‍☠️🐸 @theshayd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Breaking. The Blues Brothers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
static.klipy.com
The Blues Brothers Performing Live
ALT: The Blues Brothers Performing Live
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Elvis Presley will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
Elvis Presley; with an acoustic guitar. Pre-fat Elvis.
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026
The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 16/09/2026
Trust Elon Musk? r-i-i-i-i-ght. §
bbc.co.uk
OpenAI's Sam Altman says world 'right to be afraid' but 'should trust' AI firms
Sam Altman and other tech CEOs say there are incentives to limit advancements in AI, as fears grow over the threats it poses to humanity.
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was honoured to take part in this discussion. The point I want to underline: European governments can't just rely on Ukraine to take the whole weight of defending Europe forever. Europe needs to help UA much more actively, not just praise the resilience of the Ukrainian people.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 15/09/2026
This could cost Reform £72m. So please don't do it. Thank you. §
Announcement: "I understand that people are buying RNLI Christmas Cards, in order to add money to all the donations which are flooding in. 
More it appears that some people are planning to buy them and send them to Reform's FREEPOST address.
Really, if you did that, it would cost them an awful lot of money.
But people want to know if such an address exists. It does. 

Reform UK
FREEPOST RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC
83 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0HW
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 15/09/2026
Second Greatest Surfer Ever.
1960s advert: "Are you a good enough sister to join the J. J. Moon Surf Club? If you are, send $3.50"
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 15/09/2026
HAL would circumvent that in a nanosecond.
bbc.co.uk
AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
US President Donald Trump dismisses calls to slow the development of AI, saying that claims of it "taking over the World" are a "HOAX".
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Jonjust @jonjust.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Take use freely. History repeats
Yeah this happened
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Jonjust @jonjust.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
You can have the window seat
You can have the window seat
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Jonjust @jonjust.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There will be signs
Yeah this actually exists
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 13/09/2026
"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs changed its rules to permit the labelling" of a completely different species of fish. DeFRA should be challenged. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 13/09/2026
Bollywood star in scuba gear: "I just released my fragrance. Nobody in the submarine seemed to like it."
Stolen from Bahaish Kapoor on Instagram.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 13/09/2026
The Trash Talker, up just off Grafton Street, Dublin. "The work of Wexford artist TinKicker, it first appeared in August at a street art festival in Co Carlow. It's now on display outside a gallery in Dublin city centre."
Sculpture of Donald Trump in rubbish-filled wheelie-bin, doing a vaguely fascist salute (fist not flat-hand). Rubbish bags around the plinth. Plaque says "The Trash Talker".
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 13/09/2026
Tickets still available for people who don't want to see Giselle at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, this October
Extract from La Scala booking page showing seats still available with "No View".
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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Delighted to have this #cartoon published in @theguardian.com #datacentres #environment
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 12/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 12 88🎉 94🏅 90👑 97🔥 92🏆 Final score: 929
maptap.gg
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 11/09/2026
Stolen from Instagram; by @roberthack.bsky.social , but I can't find it on his timeline here.
Foreground: a multi-tentacled, snaggle-toothed monster is about to swallow a baby. 
Behind it, a man reaches out towards to monster, presumably to save the baby: "Oh God, not again!". 
Behind him, a woman looks on in horror: "How do these babies keep getting into the house?".
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Ali Hancock @alihancock.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I reckon the Bayeux Tapestry was made by just one person who had an important deadline approaching and decided they needed to take up embroidery.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Please don’t call it man flu. Its correct name is manchester flunited.
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Andrew Heenan 💚 @bsky.heenan.net · 10/09/2026
Stars going out...
Meme: write a horror story using only three words.
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Beowulf6561 👺 @beowulf6561.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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