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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that there is a city in Europe where Russian drones hunt civilians 24/7.

25% Wholemeal, 75% strong bread flour, allspice, cucumber sandwiches. #food #cooking #baking #bread #yeast #flavoured #lunch #breadsky

Tin loaf with diagonal expansion scores in the top that did not expand very much.

450 g strong white bread flour
150 g wholemeal flour
390 g water (65% hydration)
12 g salt
7 g instant yeast
1 g ground allspice (pimento)

Mix all the ingredients and knead until it makes a somewhat elastic dough. The bran in the wholemeal means that it can never be as smooth as all white flour. Eight minutes kneading was enough for this.
Leave to rise in a very lightly oiled, covered bowl until doubled in size.
Tip out, knock back and shape into a log to fit a 9×5" tin. I line mine with baking parchment because the nonstick is disastrously shot, but if your tin is good that may not be required.
Leave to rise until almost doubled again.
Bake in a preheated oven at 220°C / 425°F / gm7 for 45–50 minutes.

Full on the cut end showing a tight dense and even crumb of light brown bread

Slices assembled into cucumber sandwiches, stacked, cut in half and turned to present the cut edges to the camera.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m under no illusions. I know for many this is an uncomfortable topic which you’d prefer to steer clear of, given you have no particular skin in the game. I get that - I’m guilty of that myself on other issues. But if you’ve read this, at least you know, even if you don’t want to publicly engage.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

Anyway, it's 2026 and there are people, in public, saying with their full chest that we shouldn't have fought Hitler and I don't know what you do about that without a set of politicians made of something a bit firmer than slime.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thamesmead Horse Not what you expect to find on a 1970s brutalist council estate #Photography #horse

Mahogany bay horse with a white blaze looking over a fence at the camera.

Canon EOS 70D
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/200
Aperture: 9.0

Lens: 18.0 - 135.0 mm
Focal Length: 24.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 37.8 mm)
Hyperfocal Distance: 3.36 m
Depth Of Field: 0.13 m (0.42 - 0.55 m)
Field Of View: 50.9 deg

GPS Position: 51° 30' 08.2" N, 0° 07' 42.7" E
Southmere Park, Thamesmead, London Borough of Bexley

2015:09:20 14:37:34
Copyright: Matthew Malthouse © 2015

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dawn, 06:35. 3 October. Sunrise was 07:03. #photography #sunrise

Black silhouettes of roofs and a streetlamp, streaks of pastel red and orange cloud, fading to grey blues above.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Start putting DOJ officials in jail for contempt.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can't remember the last time I baked wholemeal sourdough. This was 50% wholemeal and 50% strong bread flour. A bit dense and little oven spring. #food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough #wholemeal #wholewheat

Sourdough boule. Bit of an ear, but generally not an impressive specimen.

Cut to show the crumb. Brown from the wholemeal, close crumb from the wholemeal and only a few larger inclusions.

Making a cheese and sweet pickle sandwich.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday's weather forecast for today: dry, sunny and significantly above average temperature. Today's reality: Clouds so dark you need lights on and monsoon-like rain just starting. #weather #climate #forecasting #meteorology

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

« I say, chaps, this is a bit stiff. Should we really be doing this? Back in a jiffy, got to make a call. » #politics #UK #terrorism #YouCouldntMakeitUp

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fed Horace wholemeal and this is what he did in five hours. #food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough #starter #breadsky

A three liter (4/5 of a US gallon) Kilner jar 95% full of active sourdough starter. A rubber band about a fifth of the way up from the bottom indicates the level at which it started. The remainder is growth.

Canon EOS 70D
ISO: 640
Shutter Speed: 1/200
Aperture: 9.0
Lens: 18.0 - 135.0 mm
Focal Length: 108.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 170.3 mm)
2026:09:29 14:15:56

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love it!! 🤣😂🤣

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Derelict school with broken windows and no roof, Grimsby, from our new series 50 Years On.

A man walks past a large, ornate but derelict building with broken windows

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now you see it. Now you don't. Penne al pomodoro in agrodolce. #food #cooking #pasta #tomato #sauce

A plate of penne with a red sauce and some pieces of bread.

The same plate, wiped almost clean with just a small piece of bread remaining.

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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Political Cartoonists are the best. deAdder rocks it every time he sits down and draws his next masterpiece.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2010 Cameron kills cross-party work on care 2011 Dilnot report… 2014 Care Act… not implemented 2017 May laughed at 2019 Johnson "has a plan" 2020-22 Emergency money, no plan, 150,000 vacancies… 2023 Streeting promises… 2025 Casey report promised for 2028 2026 Burnham hints… #r4today

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teeter.obj 🔜 MIR; MagicCon ATL @teeterdance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The 26 Articles of Impeachment: ARTICLE I: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY—SOWING DOUBT IN ELECTIONS ARTICLE II: ABUSE OF POWER—WAGING WAR ON IRAN WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL ARTICLE III: ABUSE OF POWER—EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS OF VENEZUELA

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this supposed to be amusing? It's just cringe. The second season cringier than the first and still no resolution to the main story. Oh, and somewhat to my surprise it isn't David Mitchell's character that is cringiest of all but Anna Maxwell Martin's. www.imdb.com/title/tt2784... #TV #Drama

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rabbit hole. British-english word file has 662,577 words of which 12,972 have 5-letter. Possibly as many as 2,000 can be rearranged to make another: pikes → spike kinks → skink dozen → zoned That assumes unique letters I can't find a good way to exclude doubles. booby → booby Being a nasty case.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sunrise was boring. Sunset however made up for it.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Camargue horses during the Festival of the Bulls, Aigues-Mortes #photography #horses #riding #Camargue #AiguesMortes #France

Six grey Camargue horses being ridden in a very tight group through the streets of Aigues-Mortes in the south of France.

DMC-LX3
ISO: 80
Shutter Speed: 1/1000
Aperture: 5.0
Focal Length: 12.8 mm (35 mm equivalent: 60.0 mm)

GPS Position: 43 deg 34' 3.00" N, 4 deg 11' 35.90" E

2009:10:15 11:12:38
Copyright: © Matthew Malthouse 2009

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I might have chosen a less decorous word to describe what Andrew Neil is full of.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Christina Patterson on World in Action's "Seven Up!" and its sequels — following people's lives from 7 to 70. christinapatterson.substack.com/p/what-seven... #TV #Documentary #SocialHistory #LongitudinalStudy

christinapatterson.substack.com

What Seven Up! taught me about a human life

Best. Ever. TV.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After a summer of not walking much because heat, laziness, whatever, just done one of my regulars round Parsloes Park and back via Upney. 5.4 miles and blow me, did it in exactly the same time, 2h 25m, as the last time back in April. #walking #exercise #UrbanWalking

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

50 years baking and still make mistakes. Put in the fridge to bake in the morning but after a few hours it was already overproofed. Okay, not a huge mistake, but still… #food #cooking #baking #bread #yeast

One large and one small half-and-half tin loaves on a rack

Side on of the larger loaf showing the sagged crown where it had slumped from over proving and started to deflate

Full face of the cut end of the loaf showing mostly tight even crumb but obviously smaller gas bubbles top and bottom, where it is visibly denser, sure sign of being over proofed

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That was an odd one; line two, all the letters but not the word. Wordle 1,924 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #games #WordGames #puzzles #Wordle

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

« That's how engine go vroom, vroom! » Engines haven't been fully mechanical in decades — and that's good! youtu.be/0KoeY54M5VA #internalCombustionEngine #ComputerControl

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Engines haven't been fully mechanical in decades - and that's good!

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fact of the day: The maximum penalty for a conviction of attempted murder in the UK is life imprisonment. Just sayin'.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We live in a world where Rees-Mogg appears more moderate and tolerant than the current Conservative Party leadership. Give it a few moments. It'll sink in eventually.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.

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