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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think the answer is clear on how to punish #ManchesterCity for fraud. Compulsory renaming the club to Manchester Shitty for five years. #wisdomofsolomon youtu.be/m_l52IF6H0Q?...

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Man City Found Guilty: Club may be expelled from Premier League for financial cheating | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you a #USA 🇺🇸🗽🏈 @2000ad.bsky.social fan? Or want to be? Fear not, for now you can get physical copies delivered to you in the US 👌🏼🦸🏼‍♂️ 2500 progs... What a landmark 🤯 youtu.be/KszAfdnyJzk?...

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2000 AD hits 2500 issues! — In Orbit Every Wednesday | 2000 AD

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hang on. Does everyone get to stand up, moan and winnick about whatever they want at the #UN? Was it always like this? Has the UN suddenly become relevant?

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let he who is without butter cast the first stone. #forgiveness

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Beech. The Sistene Chapel of trees.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A long while ago, on the advice of a wise old friend, I took to saying nothing about books or any creative venture I don't enjoy. Just to be clear, though. I've just taken several boxes of books that didn't make the cut to the charity shop. I hope someone else finds joy in them.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have an announcement.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New acquisitions in project anti-streaming. All for less than the price of a month on Spotify.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yesterday was #legday, and now, as I ascend the stairs, I make an involuntary sound that sounds like an incantation by Mola Ram, high priest of the Thuggee. And yes, he's available as #Lego.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'd just like to mention that books don't come with advert breaks.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

David Mitchell is single-handedly responsible for the massive increase in murders in the #Cambridge area. If you see him, do not approach; contact the police. #ludwig

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Luddites Before Wicket. That's a terrible innings for team Balaclava, All out for 0.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ok, auto-subtitles took this to a whole new level. I just wanted some tips. "My breasts are strictly phase 1" is NOT what she said. Why are the mistakes always anatomical?

A woman in karate gi

"My breasts are strictly phase 1"

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was improvising a bit and stumbled into playing the Rocky theme. It was lots of fun. I even tried to capture the Liberty Bell clanging effect. Dong! Dong! Dong!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hummus was invented in 1978, right? That's the first time it was ever seen in Britain... 😆 Along with the first olive 🫒

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean, make the whole thing in white like navy pilots, and you could have saved yourself a million "something something dark side" jokes.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I had a dream where I lost my backpack, and I was really annoyed. Then I reminded myself that in a dream, things happen that won't be true when you wake up. When I woke up, I was relieved that my backpack was there, and it took me a while to realise what an odd dream it was.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think it's worth mentioning to #book event organisers that if you want authors to attend, contribute or support, you'll need to use a real domain name at the very minimum. Otherwise, you'll be rightly ignored, as the number of awards, events, and speaking emails from junk senders is unmanageable.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This Wayne Anderson exhibition was great. It's on until November at @staplefordgranary.bsky.social 🐉🐲🧙🏼‍♂️

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've slightly slurped him, but he is a lovely #coffee #bear.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can you spot what's gone wrong with this lazy Susan? 😭 Turns out putting it in the dishwasher was a bad move...

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A plant so undemanding that even I can get it to flower. My lovely lily.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guidance on what you can and can't store in chair backs on British Airways.

Literature only, written on back of airplane seat pocket.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@tadethompson.bsky.social seems to remember you like Toulouse Lautrec... Some good examples in Athens @ Basil Elise Goulandris Foundation.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some inspirational artefacts for you #fantasy and #RPG #writers. A magic sphere, a sculptural offering for restored sight and the cutest owl in Athens.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Well, this was nice. Off to Socrates' prison today. I'll try to trap more famous monuments in glass!

Alex Cochran is eating at a restaurant in view of the Acropolis.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I really want to pack a d20 for my trip to Greece, and when security asks me to put all my stuff in the tray, roll it and then say, "I successfully put all my luggage in the tray." Will they shoot me?

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D&D Nat1 Dice Roll

ALT: D&D Nat1 Dice Roll

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Great Scott!!! I'm out of tea. DUN DUN DAAAAAAH.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Time for a cycle in the rain 🌧️ Hoping that all the brown stuff goes green again soon.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Crikey. It only takes 5 heat waves to revert me into a full sky-watching prehistoric person. #WillDanceForRain

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Danza Dancing

ALT: Danza Dancing

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Milton Little Library... There's a copy of the Pollutant Speaks in there!

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@zackpolanski.bsky.social have we considered getting in touch with Billy Joel for permission to alter "We Didn't Start the Fire" to "We definitely Started The Fire" 🔥? 💚

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My faith in solar mechanics is affirmed. I require this at least once every 20 years; otherwise, I believe in weird stuff.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This year we are working on *red* sunflowers, as there is a family connection with Theodore Cockerell, who bred the first one in Colorado. Here's a picture of Theo and his lovely wife with a red sunflower in 1934.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Everyone else is an idiot. That's a concept of plague proportions in the UK at the moment. youtube.com/shorts/-EQHB...

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Why everyone else is an idiot | Lera Boroditsky

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm off to a wedding next weekend, and it reminded me that for years I would wear the 1985 England vs Australia Edgbaston tie that my dad gave me in Ozzy green to any and all smart events. Currently can't find it 😕 Sadness.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tomorrow I'm off to be the scourge of the seven seas... Or at least the sea near Felixstowe harbour! Got to wake up early, though, to make the tide 😴

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Bob Shouts 'I'm Sailing!' on Sailboat

ALT: Bob Shouts 'I'm Sailing!' on Sailboat

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What's the quickest way to arrange a #pride march in Thetford? Further arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for third night - BBC News share.google/DCmxFTvkLKct...

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Further arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for third night

The arrests follow disturbances linked to anti-immigration protests in the market town.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You mess with the #BBC, an investigative veteran; you get the horns. 😆 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

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Trump seeks to shield his business finances from BBC in libel lawsuit

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