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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Saw a SEAL running towards him and thought it was a dog :(

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Both the Trashcans’ and Eddi Reader’s versions of Wild Mountainside (composed by John) are gorgeous. A real tearjerker of a tribute to leave behind. RIP x

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The algorithm really trying its damnedest to make me watch this clip – but I’m not falling for it…

A thumbnail from a YouTube short from The Rest Is Science, displaying Professor Hannah Fry discussing “The horrible irony of Alan Turing’s final theory” – with the closed caption subtitle “breasts”

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

More details including the exciting revelation that I have a driving licence here.

A picture of me doing stand-up comedy in front of a rainbow background and wearing my second-favourite dinosaur jumper, with the message "Nuts and bolts. Why limit visits to World Book Day? I’m available pretty much all the time. I think I’m best suited to Years 3-6. I live in Cambridge but can drive. Vroom vroom! I’m not putting what I charge on here because it seems vulgar, but it’s very reasonable. Email me! Happy to do smaller sessions, but might go a bit peculiar by the third. Delighted to sign books, send followup messages, keep in touch etc. Email mikerampton@gmail.com if interested!"

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS ETC. I am available for school visits around World Book Day or, in fact, pretty much any time. I insist on the nastiest staff-room coffee available.

Page one of a flyer saying "Does your school need a visit from Mike Rampton? That’s me! I’m the author of fun, funny non-fiction books for kids and am available for school visits and entertaining talks. Consider getting me in, I’m very good."

The message "Look ay my books! There's SO MCUH stuff in them to talk about!" with the covers of four books I wrote: There's No Such Thing As A Silly Question, Become A Genius In A Year, Solve The World's Greatest Mysteries and Poo! What? Where?

A picture of me, a scruffy middle-aged author, gesticulating while doing a speech. The message says: "I'll talk about: Poo, space, pooing in space, really huge things, how to be an author, spiders I’ve met, using your genius for good (not evil) and being sick.

And lots more! I might also do some clumsy magic tricks, put a bucket on
my head for a while and/or transform a tea towel into a chicken. And I
might shriek a bit. It’s all good stuff."

Picture of me looking smug in a school near a poster advertising my visit. Message reads "I've done a bunch. I'm quite good! This means the awkward, difficult ones (like my ill-fated attempts at playing a character inspired by 1970s wrestlers) are hopefully consigned to the past. I sweat a lot and gesticulate too much but generally hold it together by this point. The kids will laugh, learn and be excited about books: a good time for all!"

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

JOB(S) ALERT We're looking for TWO new members for the editorial team - send your application to editorial@the-fence.com.

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Cowardly to only bring it up now he’s dead, but I - like many - was floored when I first discovered that the Driving Home For Christmas guy is (/was) from Middlesbrough. But he actively tricked us. “Top to toe in tail-lights”? “But soon there’ll be a freeway”? Mugged us all off. Anyway, RIP.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

By the way, the episode of Would I Lie To You? featuring the episode where David Walliams reportedly did two Nazi salutes (which the BBC edited out and said were unacceptable) will be on BBC One on Boxing Day at 7pm.

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I took precisely one singing lesson in my youth and absolutely hated it. But I will remain forever grateful for that hour, because the singing tutor introduced me to Tom Lehrer. youtu.be/WSwYID-u71M?... (Not this particular song, I hasten to add - but it’s a fun one that often gets overlooked…)

youtu.be

Smut

YouTube video by Tom Lehrer - Topic

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/07/2025

I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So they *can* edit down sets without removing them completely…?

A screengrab of a Billboard article entitled “Amyl & The Sniffers Get Political During Fiery Glastonbury 2025 Set”

Screengrab of iPlayer showing that the BBC has trimmed the playback of their set down to 12 minutes

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

Get your war on 1 #1

A three panel comic showing a white clipart business man having a phone conversation with a Black clipart businessman sitting at a computer.
Panel 1: White man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Freedom is in the house"
Panel 2: Black man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Our Freedom is in the motherfucking house!
Panel 3: White man says "Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom to Bomb the Living Fuck Out of You is in the house!!!

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The lyrics to that Muppet sequel are a bit punchier than I remembered…

A lyric sheet to We’re Doing A Sequel from Muppets Most Wanted which transcribes an indistinct bit of scatting as “Wank, wank, wank, wank”

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Archie Bland @archiebland.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit. Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

theguardian.com

The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max

It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“Look at my eyes, murderer. You killed me. What the hell did you do that for?!” youtu.be/46B4KFFQ85E?...

youtu.be

Brass Eye: Message to Murderer

YouTube video by eggstruck

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“For too long, your actions have gone unpunished. This ends now. We'll use drones and new tech to identify your vehicle. Then we'll crush it.”

Craig Charles, host of Robot Wars, delivering Starmer’s latest policy to camera - as if Sir Killalot is going to implement it

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

That dipshit banjo player from Mumford And Sons co-owns a luxury cigar company - and it has the most embarrassing corporate copy…

The website reads:
1573, fateful year.
The year the great leaf queen nicotiana, Lady Tobacco, first rolled out onto Albion shore.
The New Worlds heavenly offering, humble gift to the Olde. And so began a centuries long love affair; fire of Sir Francis; Rothschild Robusto; Churchillian cheroot.

Importing only the stellar stick, only the premium puff, 1573 will be your first port of call for all things cigar. Exclusive tastings, smoking evenings, the finest tobacco twists. And we want you to be part of the family.

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Paw Patrol meets its toughest foe yet…

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New Wet Leg sounds like it could have been on the second Elastica album. (If Elastica had ever made a second album.)

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tossed salads and price of eggs

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Sophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Me firing up Wikipedia to explain how many members of Eurodance band Rednex there have been from 1994 to 2014

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Genuinely historically accurate version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_D...

an imagined whatsapp exchange:

Stagg - What's the latest on the weather?
The weather looks good for June 6.
Ok, mark that as D-Day for Operation Overlord, got that everyone?
This is Montgomery, confirmed for the British.
Tedder here, confirmed for the air.
Leigh-Mallory, same.
Ramsey -confirmed for Neptune.
This is a crossword compiler for the Daily Telegraph,
should I be on this?
??? !!!

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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 24/03/2025

These leaked national security group chats are wild:

National security chat with JD Vance messaging Pete Hegseth about potential Middle East war plans, and then Bri texts “oh my god did you see Elon’s hat?”

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If Trump was serious, he’d stop fannying about with the Kennedy Center and order the release of the fabled “Bumhole Edit” of Cats (2019)

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

They should make a Beautiful South jukebox musical, starring Jennifer Aniston and Phillipa Soo

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Every so often I remember one of the earliest displays of Musk’s censorious nature was getting the Italian Elon Musk account nuked from Twitter. (“Ayyyy, I make-a da rockets!” etc)

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We absolutely cannot let James Watt achieve his ambition of becoming a serious media figure. If he wants to carry on making pineapple flavoured beer, he’s very welcome to. Anything and everything else needs to be immediately checked and throttled at the root.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Balenciaga has a very strong brand identity. Whenever I see someone wearing the most hideous outfit imaginable I think "oh I wonder if that's Balenciaga".

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’ve just booked in to give blood tomorrow afternoon. If you can, you should. (Tuc crackers. Seabrook crisps. Lemon squash.)

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

No one doing it like @garbageday.email right now. The venom. The concision.

Welcome to 2025. No one reads your website or watches your TV show. Subscription revenue will never truly replace ad revenue and ad revenue is never coming back. All of your influence is now determined by algorithms owned by tech oligarchs that stole your ad revenue and they not only hate you, personally, but have aligned themselves with a president that also hates you, personally. The information vacuum you created by selling yourself out for likes and shares and Facebook-funded pivot-to-video initiatives in the 2010s has been filled in by random “news influencers,” some of which are literally using ChatGPT to write their posts. While many others are just making shit up to go viral. And the people taking over the country currently have spent the last decade, in public, I might add, crafting a playbook — one you dismissed — that, if successful, means the end of everything that resembles America. And that includes our free and open and lazy mainstream media. And they’re pretty confident it’ll succeed because, unlike you, they know how broken the internet is now and are happy to take advantage of it. While I’m sure it feels very professional to continue playing stenographer in your little folding chair at the White House, they’re literally replacing you with podcasters as we speak. So this is it. Adapt or die. Or at the very least, die with some dignity

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If Musk ever does make it to Mars, this is how he’ll achieve it…

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Feels like a lifetime ago when the spiciest the Regretful Gesture news cycle got was Paul Ryan attempting to dab…

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Putting aside the astonishing idea that the President Elect has just launched what appears to be a competing currency to the US dollar for just a tick - that graphic has a certain Elon look to it, no?

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Rory Bunk @rorybunk.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This is just about my favourite cartoon ever and I think of it all the time. But the awesome @daveyjones.bsky.social could make it even better by replacing the now almost forgotten Sting with maybe a space enthusiast we'd all line up to send off

Send Sting to space. Send Bono on an undersea version.

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Fascinating article in here on the composition and creation of the Duck Tales theme tune

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Peter Thiel had been doing such a good* job of flying under the radar, exerting heavy influence without drawing much attention or public scrutiny. But clearly the ongoing Dickhead Parade were being treated to has caused him to feel as though he’s missing out on something.

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