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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13/10/2025

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history: The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

no idea who made this but it’s genius

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/04/2025

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ich auch Duolingo, Ich auch.

Duolingo German translation - I want a glass of wine and a little peace.

Ich will ein Glas Wein und ein bisschen Ruhe

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Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Following you down the antimacassar rabbit hole: the chair protectors were so called after Rowland's Macassar Oil, a hair oil made of imperial plant products, chiefly coconut and palm oil. Its exotic name evoked the Indonesian port of Makassar, then in the Dutch East Indies. Just look at this ad!

Photo of 19th-century domestic interior with two lacy antimacassars on the backs of armchairs (1875)

19th-century advert for Rowland's Macassar Oil. Orientalist interior with white woman reclining on a couch, being tended to by two Asian women, one combing her hair, the other kneeling at her feet.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship. But they *really* don't like the Gulf of America thing. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 28/01/2025

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

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Save The Prince Charles Cinema

The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it

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Jeff Overs @jeffovers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

4.45pm this evening the #London suburb of Muswell Hill

The rooftops of a London suburb as night descends with a bright street light and the even brighter distant cityscape of Canary Wharf.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

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Catherine Evans @catherineevans.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

I made a “bring back National Service” joke only yesterday.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

what's the best email you've ever received? i'll go first.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

I quite like the idea that the Garrick lads had to have an emergency meeting about admitting women and someone was all, "Ok, how about... hmm... ok, who are like the main seven or so women?"

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/03/2024

Vinyl records and air fryers: two things people Will Not Shut Up About if they own them. Now in an inflation basket near you. www.ft.com/content/1754...

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Air fryers join UK inflation basket as vinyl records make comeback

ONS updates list of items used to measure price growth on back of changing spending habits

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Asked who he would be trying to appeal to at the election Mr Rowntree responded "ALLLLLLLLL THE PEOPLE" [I'll get my coat]

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Richard Cann @richcann.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

🌧🌧🌧🌧

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

2024 will mark the 20th anniversary of this great British masterpiece. If you’ve ever fancied revisiting it I can heartily recommend the magnificent audiobook, read by the never less than wonderful Simon Prebble.

A photo of a first edition hardback copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/12/2023

saying things about bitcoin on the internet while female, a visual guide (on.ft.com/3RDwL72)

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Catherine Evans @catherineevans.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Home from a few days away. Look how excited she is to see me.

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