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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Incredible work where this entire story manages to avoid saying either Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America even once.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oooft, go on lad, drag her!

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why does she sound like she is speaking through a spinning fan?

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our local council just announced that there is no plan to enforce the firework ban. Announced in October, one assumes, so we have time to go buy fireworks in Belgium? This firework ban feels the same as how cannabis is banned in NL. Illegal but really it's not.

deorkaan.nl

Geen ontheffingen voor vuurwerkverbod in Zaanstad - De Orkaan

De gemeente Zaanstad gaat tijdens het eerste volledige vuurwerkverbod geen ontheffingen verlenen om vuurwerk te mogen afsteken. Volgens de Wet veilige jaarwisseling is dat wel mogelijk voor lokale ver...

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 07/10/2026

20 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia. She exposed the brutality of war. She gave a voice to its victims. And she refused to be intimidated into silence. This cost her life. But her memory is carried by so many to this day.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My now annual reminder that you can be absolutely disgusted by events on Oct 7 AND believe in a Free Palestine. These are not exclusive ideas. See you next year.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An abundance of caution is fine with me!

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Company is being reorganised by a board are the Platonic Form of The Peter Principle. A tale as old as time unfortunately.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of people look to the Good Friday Agreement as a blue print but honestly, I think that's optimistic. Irish Catholics and Protestants have been just squabbling compared to Palestine and Israel's endless fighting.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Polanski has the charisma and leadership skills of a wet fart. That can be the only conclusion following this vote.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Urgh. My boss just got laid off and I have to move into another team to avoid same fate. I have to start looking for another job as a woman at nearly 50 in one of the worst job markets in my working life. I think I might open a bottle of wine, feels like the best available option at the moment

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So this is precautionary, right? Or is it panic time? I didn't think Covid would turn into anything and well, I was wrong about that.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It shows the awfulness of the right recently when JRM has come off as a voice of sanity. I don’t agree with almost all of what he says but he has at least thought about what he says, it’s not blatantly paid for like Farage, Carlson and the rest.

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Ed Miles @brisgasdoc.themiles.es · 01/10/2026

“I have told everyone I am a traitor by mistake!” #traitors #traitorsuk #celebritytraitors

Richard E Grant and Paul McGann soaking wet in the rain during a scene from Withnail & I. The quote is, “We have gone on holiday by mistake!”

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Call me "Ross Kemp" levels of paranoid if you like but if I was Putin, trying to destabilise Europe, this is exactly what I would get my buddy Trump and my pals in AfD to do.

lbc.co.uk

Britain in talks over releasing emergency diesel stockpiles | LBC

Cabinet members spoke to ministers in Germany, France, Italy and Ireland to discuss the possibility of utilising diesel stockpiles on Thursday

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thats as maybe but that Sainsburys would also sell you a slab of mature cheddar and a whole chicken for under a tenner. Albert Heijn does decent coffee but wants your pension pot plus your first born in exchange for the kip n kaas.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dignitas is not executing people but instead people consent to their own deaths so the drug companies will sell the drugs to them. Those same drug companies feel like having their products used for executions is bad for business so they refuse to sell to states or US government.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lads, can you please get on with this before I have to pay to renew my residency cards? And before I go through the drama of inburgering? It will save me about €7k if you can. Thanks!

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As an LUFC fan, I feel like I need to put an arm around the shoulders of Man City fans right now. We've been there lads, it's not your fault but you'll be the ones that suffer for it. And like with Leeds, the people who did it will get away with it, still have all their money and lovely lives.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's got less greasy thanks to UK laws on food has to be half way edible these days. The pasties are god tier. Cheese and onion, steak bake et al have never been rejected by any Dutch person who ate one in the UK. Our NL family are obsessed by Sainsburys too, they wish it was here

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That hiring policy isn’t new. Elon used to review all Tesla hires at one point. Worldwide. He must have spent all day reading CVs

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Starbucks used to be ok but now it tastes rank. I’ve long thought the Dutch love of a saucijzenbroodje would make NL the perfect place for Greggs.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think I am old enough to know how this will go down but I live in hope.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026

SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nick Ferrari on LBC just held an hour phone in that was complementary for Andy Burnham. Is the world changing at last?

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I tried to make a viable AI crochet pattern and none of the free models can do it. Most of the pattern is just basic maths to make a triangle and it still struggles. Makes me happy to know that my corner of the world cannot be colonised by computers.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See also crochet patterns that you just paid €5 for. Fire AI into the sun.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am a bit of a twee gamer it seems :D

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had hoped for doggers, so 280m Americans would have to google the word but alas, fuel thieves.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a legit e bike from a decent brand and I am super paranoid when I charge it indoors. I won't go to bed with it plugged in.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are so many house fires from cheap shitty ebike batteries, the amount started by cheap vapes must be also mad.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like councils need to set standards for some of these shops. If you are a business with a ton of lithium batteries on site, whether a vape shop, a phone shop or a bike shop, you need to have fire protection from tip to tail. Like not allowed to open until the fire brigade have approved it

theguardian.com

Fire fears as vape shop prepares to open next to Glasgow’s Mackintosh Tearooms

Residents say shop threatens Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s last surviving tearoom months after vape shop blaze nearby

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If this turns out to be a load of doggers or fuel thieves, I will never stop laughing. Americans, enjoy finding out what dogging is.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m the opposite, I want a dog so I have an excuse to go poking around places I shouldn’t otherwise be!

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People need educating on free speech first. Those who can’t tell the difference between an unsavoury opinion and incitement to violence are about 3/5 of the population it seems.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like a lot of western countries would be a lot more secure if security services employed all dog owners and farmers. All crimes solved by accident involve one of these two groups.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Adrian de la Touche @anoraky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

90 years ago today the people of Leeds drove the fascists out of our city. It’s more important now than ever that we keep it that way.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lmao, what does Cinderella mean in Dutch if they changed her name to this instead?!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He’s a proper germophobe. He probably thinks Xi has new Covid or similar…..

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ah yes the 3rd lesson indeed. I am starting to think these TikTok fascists are either useful idiots for others or not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty sure all of ours went to landfill. Like to see the vengeful spirit inside Golly rise up from under 5 tonnes of household waste.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I had one and "that" Enid Blyton book. I think my mum quietly disposed of them in the 90s with her old jam badges.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't worry about this all the time but it has crossed my mind more than once since the 00s. I am always nice to ChatGPT after seeing The Mitchells vs the Machines too.

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have learned two things from this thread.....1. Danny Tommo is fucked. Wonderful news. 2. If you plan to commit crimes, do them on land not water. Many more laws covering water crimes AND they've been tested over hundreds of years via navy and merchant navy.

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