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Cmdr_SamVimes

@cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social
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Be Happiness Itself... The Buddha. LOVE is the only way to defeat hate. Love Music, Films, Reading & Good TV Photography & Buddhism…Love Terry Pratchett’s Discworld & the “Slow Horses” TV series BBC’s RIOT WOMEN! Not necessarily in that order…

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candour and more unashamed conversation.” Glenn Close #Mentalhealth isn’t a one-day topic, it’s an everyday topic… a little more #kindness, understanding and compassion for ourselves and others. #WorldMentalHealthDay Artwork by PositivelyPresent
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks, I’m going to skip dinner now. I think there’s enough calories in that for you and me. How and when did “cheese on everything” start in the USA?
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I understand your point. I just wish to continue to enjoy the monkey cage as it was. The only way to go back in time. Same as I listen to The Goon Show. It’s the first time I’ve listened. My dad used to listen to the Goons when I was young I never got the humour. But now I do 😂
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No I’m not supporting the new Cage. I want to remember and relive the ongoing education of Robin and hopefully every listener, like me. Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face. Personally I think the Prof will have said “no” to continued presentation of #TIMC I’m sure Robin knows the truth 🤷
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Rob Miller @robm50.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I just can't listen to it anymore after the BBC forced Robin Ince out because he expressed support for trans people. And I was a huge fan.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I only listen to the REAL Infinite Monkey Cage Robin and Brian. I’m not listening to the continuation of it without Robin because everyone has the to free speech even if they work for the BBC. Being so rigid with presenters and so openly biased with their programmes makes me 🤮
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did you authorise the war? ie Congress
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just re-listened to episode 3.2 (series 3 Ep 2) of THE Infinite Monkey Cage. Young Squire @robinince.bsky.social I’m sorry I forgot just how riotously funny this show was. (I mean, pretty much every episode of every series) Is there anything now you would “un-invent”? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Programme “poster” for THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE with photos of the heads of presenters Robin Ince and Prof Brian Cox and other stuff like test tubes and other drawings of the world of science.  Link to BBC sounds episode
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00w19cz?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@robinince.bsky.social Jan Morris have read her work? There was a radio documentary on 4extra at 1600hrs this afternoon.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
😂
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I rated Unabomber (2026) 2/10 #IMDb such a basic error send an FBI agent into the woods with a feckin DIGITAL SLR camera. I mean really!? Do you think people can’t tell the difference between film being wound on just a shutter and aperture moving. @netflix.com DO BETTER
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A single sentence on each “banned book” explaining why? If you don’t mind. I’m really interested as to why the spirit dislikes the book it wrote in body…
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The bbc has changed the photo for #THE_INFINITE_MONKEY_CAGE on bbc sounds here is the original photo.
Original photograph from BBC Sounds showing a clean-shaven Robin Ince and Professor Brian Cox both staring into the wide blue yonder appears with the infinite monkey cage name and graphics of molecular structures, test tubes with bubbling liquids and a ringed planet and a number of science based drawings.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dear Prime Minister, that’s you Mr Andy Burnham, #UK_Labour you can take £1 of a litre of diesel and petrol by taking away all the duty as the power of that diesel ATP 8XP for a litre fuel can’t do that and don’t bother talking about BREXIT
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m so sad to hear that Dame Esther Rantzen has died. A great broadcaster and philanthropist. #ChildLine was inspired and an invaluable contribution to protecting young people. I’m glad her pain has gone.
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Josy B @josyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire More than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, mostly civilians.
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you catch the harvest moon on Saturday? I forgot to check until too late & the moon was high in the sky
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/liv... @theguardian.com Your own photograph shows diesel at £2.18/litre. If you can give me a 1/10th of a penny I’ll agree to £2.17! It’s about time we got rid of .9 or whatever fraction for fuel. Oh Mr Chancellor I’d like £1.18 off fuel (55% of the price is tax)
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UK diesel prices hit record high at 199.18p a litre; housebuilder stocks surge on new homes scheme – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bendgate
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Birthday Pauline, wherever you are. x
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two people I knew took their own lives last week - we still view mental health with too much cynicism and not enough compassion - remember @samaritans.bsky.social and @calmzone.bsky.social - it is not weak to share how you feel #mentalhealth #depression #suicideawareness
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WTAF! Really? Ffs I don’t even know what it’s for apart from cutting your fingers off! Anyway I’d rather drink horsepiss. Pass the Pinot Grigio please.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once a week?
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is NO legitimate concern
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@sanjeevbhaskar.bsky.social good to see you again on TV, BBC 1 #TheSplitUp. Looking very distinguished with your beard I must say.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dame Maggie Smith what an actor. Did you ever hear her talk around the UK in all its accents? I can do a number of accents but I need to think in the accent first. She slipped from one sentence to the next and changed her accent en route. Superb. You’re v. lucky Young Squire, Sir Michael Horden too!
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
LUCA. Tell him about that. His head might explode 🤯. With any luck. I’ve definitely strayed off the path…
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Sophia_Nyx 🐰 @sophianyx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Name your dream music concert.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The full lineup of The Traveling Wilburys with special guest Gerry Rafferty. But the Raff would hate it so playing to audience of just me. So hopefully he’d turn up.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Now, I wonder how fast the 51% shareholder & owner dissolves his company? A cap on donations now being discussed. Horse not only bolted but they’re now a grandparent. The cheeto man just brought reform by the back door. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, ‘humbled’ by contributions from billionaires as Harborne addresses ‘media speculation’
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good Morning?
Sunrise over Merseyside from house window view.Sunrise over Merseyside from house window view.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Given the rate of expansion of the universe, the sloth is pretty nifty in speed terms. No?
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
😂
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
😂Very clever.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2... Er, NO! That person is more teflo n (I ain’t breakin TM rules) than the Wotsi t in the USA. Just saying as bent as a nine bob note. As my Dad used to say.
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Reform donations scandal: is this the final blow for Farage? – The Latest
Reform UK has suspended two senior officials after they were filmed in an undercover operation appearing to attempt to get around electoral laws on foreign donations, in a major blow to Nigel Farage a...
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Whoooo! It’s only 60 days till All Hallows Eve. Stone the crows! So in 30 days it’ll be the shortest day festival. Ffs
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New series of Unspeakable starts in 15 minutes. Any good for a serious case of the ‘mubble-fubbles’?
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Y w
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Has he been reinstated or got a job with another newspaper?
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Bloody autotrype and tired “just thought you should know…”
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gene Simmons, eat your heart out.
static.klipy.com
Gene Simmons
ALT: Gene Simmons
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is sprained eyelash playing?
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... Mr Ince. His first poem. Maybe his best. Evokes time had with my children
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My first poem?? | Robin Ince
I had written one other poem before this , a sort of list poem, but this was the one that got me excited by poetry. It still took a while to
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cheeky beggars
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@robinince.bsky.social justice thought you should know Now being broadcast
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@scalawagjack.bsky.social Why scalawag and not scallywag? The traditional US/English dictionary equivalent
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No. Just fascists.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This planet this galaxy in the near future. I, Robot. Asimov could be classed as a prophet but they’re not allowed any longer.
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Cmdr_SamVimes @cmdr-samvimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Not christians then.
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