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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 7h
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Milhouse on the Seesaw
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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 9h
A new podcast episode is available now, ahead of our writing workshop hosted by Anna and poet and Chris Sewart. Please enjoy! Dr Anna Stevenson at the Brynm…–Tiny In All That Air – Apple Podcasts share.google/6i7uHYXQxqzp...
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Dr Anna Stevenson at the Brynmor Jones Library
Podcast Episode · Tiny In All That Air · 28 September · 28min
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.
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Stacey Wing @staceynwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@lccmunicipal.bsky.social Glorious 😁😂
London innit not Kent
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
VG
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*plays jingle* Wordle 1,927 2/6 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Labour is a party disappointed by the people who vote for it and by the economy of the country it's running. thecritic.co.uk/the-...
And how will it do that? Healey, it turns out, has the kind of idea of work you’d expect from a man who has been active in politics since 1986. There were a lot of references to the coalmining heritage of his constituency, and even the more modern work he talked about was hard, manly toil like pipe-fitting, the sort of thing that involves bulging forearms and mucky overalls. Aside from his wife, the one woman he mentioned was Reeves, and she’s just lost her job.

It’s far from clear that the Chancellor has a handle on what the more modern bits of the economy look like. There are a million young people out of work, he said, and the solution he pointed to was shipbuilding apprenticeships. Do this year’s unemployed graduates actually want to go into shipbuilding? Are there enough ships for them to build? His first job, he said, was washing glasses at a pub, exactly the kind of work that has disappeared in the face of minimum wage and tax rises. On artificial intelligence, which has destro
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The first rule of being from Yorkshire is that you must always talk about being from Yorkshire at every possible opportunity. And then create other opportunities to talk about Yorkshire
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So depressing to see Drumcree in the news again.
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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy 81st Birthday Bryan Ferry, born 26th September, 1945. #BOTD #BryanFerry
Singer Bryan Ferry, dressed in a suit, and as usual a cigarette in hand.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Been to the home of a famous artist...guess who? 🙃
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Paul ツ @lf-p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We deserve better buses in the North East! Currently there’s a vast range of complicated operator-specific tickets, an array of confusing route names & colours, and MANY duplicated route numbers! (There’s four DIFFERENT number 10s in Newcastle city centre for God’s sake!)
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sooner or later, everything I do (or don't do) comes back into fashion. 👍 #trendsetter BBC News - How the bare nails trend became a class issue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Classy or classist? How bare nails became a hot issue
Bare nails - or nails that appear that way - are a growing trend. But is it as innocent as it seems?
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.
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The Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side | Josimar
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#youbears www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
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Warwickshire win 2026 County Championship: Bears beat Leicestershire to seal ninth title
Warwickshire complete their ninth County Championship title triumph with an innings victory against Leicestershire.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ooh, I did this journey a few years ago, and it involved several bus replacements, and rather elderly carriages. 😃
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More international parkrun tourism, this time in the beautiful city of Amersfoort. My first ever Dutch parkrun! Thanks to all the volunteers. 🇳🇱
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's great that the Man City decision has now been made. That's undoubtedly the end of the matter, and clubs and fans can now move on, with no need for any further legal shenanigans. 👍 🤔
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Emma Payne @fedbybirds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why on earth was Lisa Nandy given the culture secretary post again? Why did she accept it? Has anyone ever bothered to show less of an interest in the department she’s running? It’s ridiculous
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#youbears 🏏🏏🏏
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James Jefferies @jamesjefferies.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Interrail passes are on Sale until 30th September! www.interrail.com/en Thanks for the tip @partim
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Interrail.com | 1 rail pass, 33 countries
Travel across Europe and discover 33 countries by train with Interrail. Enjoy the best rail travel experience in Europe with our Interrail Pass!
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A talented journalist who understood local government. Rest in peace. ❤️ www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Tribute to former Newcastle Chronicle political editor Peter Young
Peter Young was praised for his work in the House of Commons when he retired from his role at the Newcastle Chronicle
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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The next logical step would be a week-long single-author conference with parallel sessions and 100 AI bots of the same author in the audience. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just heard Tom Gordon - Lib Dem MP for Harrogate talking on the radio about his party’s proposed 10p cut in fuel duty. “That’ll cost about £5bn. For that money, you could make public transport free for the whole country, and I know which I’d rather do.” Assuming he means the latter, 👏👏👏👏👏
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/Olfce... I thought for one terrible moment the SNCF jingle was ending, but seems like it's just in Île-de-France. Dommage, quand-même. 😒
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Adieu les jingles RATP et SNCF, voici le nouveau jingle des transports 🎶
YouTube video by France 3 Paris Ile-de-France
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Train window views.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
mit Ed Miliband....
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Morning run. 👍
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James Welham @jameswelham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Chat on the @wsc.co.uk podcast about Bob Stokoe only being 43 when Sunderland won the FA Cup compelled me to look him up. (a) actually on only 42 (his birthday was in the September)?and (b) good grief.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wordle should play a little jingle on these occasions. 😍 Wordle 1,919 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Andreas Wiedenhoff @andreaswiedenhoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Weekend in Valle Vigezzo, where the little trains of the #Centovalli🇨🇭#Vigezzina 🇮🇹 railway, from #Domodossola to #Locarno operate. Some regionals on the Italian side are still being worked by the lovely ABe8/8 #SSIF units from the 1950s. They’ve got opening windows, a delight on a late summer day.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Really enjoyed the Willy Brandt museum. What an incredible life: would make a fantastic biopic. 🇩🇪
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hanseatic League museum was excellent, if quite thorough. 😵‍💫
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Mansplaining, 16th century version.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guess Who, 16th century version.
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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's not the first time that @mikeyashworth.bsky.social has cost me money! I felt compelled to track down this lovely brochure celebrating Newcastle Civic Centre on his suggestion. This is the 2nd revision from 1972 - municipal opulence of the type you just don't get in the age of value engineering!
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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not reported; From the top of the bank to her shop is <checks notes> 0.4 miles, an 11 minute walk. Yet she drives to work? And presumably complains about parking and traffic too? Fears Tyne and Wear Metro plan splits South Hylton in two - BBC News share.google/tzOkdSMfcVhR...
Screenshot from Google Maps. A 1 minute drive, or 11 minute walk to work.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Any chance the BBC could speak to local residents who welcome the arrival of a rapid transit system connecting them to Tyne and Wear, transforming everyday life and massively reducing traffic congestion? 🤔 BBC News - Metro plans 'cut off my link from home to work' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fears Tyne and Wear Metro plan splits South Hylton in two
Business owner Louise King says she faces big diversions if a railway line splits her street in two.
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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well how very French. In the flat (now a museum) of 19th century philosopher Auguste Comte, father of positivism, a voucher issued by a Paris theatre to disappointed ticket holders on February 24th 1848 after the evening's performance was "cancelled due to revolution"
voucher issued to disappointed ticket holders by a Paris theatre in Feb 1848 after the evening's  performance was "cancelled due to revolution"
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The bells of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, left where they fell in 1942.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The upshot is that the party that most hates the first past the post electoral system is using it most effectively. The LDs have experience in 2019 of racking up votes with a divisive message and getting very few seats. Some LDs think the Greens and Reform are making the same mistake.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The comments include calls for unspeakable violence, yet the local Reform spokesperson refers to Colin's "confected outrage". 🙁
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why is it that the *opinion* of a billionaire tax dodger who hates his country of birth is deemed worthy of a full-length feature on the website of the public broadcaster?
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It starts and finishes at the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament. I could have called in and asked if they've solved the question yet. 🧐 #nichepoliticalhistory
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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
International parkrun tourism done. 👍 Runs alongside a fairly busy shipping route. Thank you to all the volunteers! 🇩🇪
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Somebody in Nato, Denmark or Greenland seems to have spotted that telling Trump he can have an enormous victory + then offering him the status quo of the last 25-50-75 years is an off-ramp
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A man who raced over 90mph in a 30mph zone got a £253 fine and a 56-day driving ban. "If these men had caused the same level of endangerment by any other means, it’s hard to believe they would have got off so lightly." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jon Howe @jonhowe1971.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Will someone, ANYONE, please win the fucking Ballon d'Or
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.
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Richard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After horrific events in Teesside, mayor Ben Houchen blamed “drugs trade”. Yet he gave the security contract at Teesside freeport to a co whose “managing director” was still serving 11 year sentence for organised drugs crime - despite having been told this- see @privateeyenews.bsky.social for story
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