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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
GM mayor election: 2nd preference votes split 19.1% Labour 12.7% Reform. Even if ALL Green and Lib Dem 2nd pref votes went Labour (which isn't a wild assumption), and all Restore went Reform, a majority of Tory votes went to Labour rather than Reform (size depending on how Ind votes were split).
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
So happy for Hannah Spencer. And I'm so so happy for my Levy friends. Well done everyone, and all in Gorton & Denton! A fantastic and clear result. And that was a blistering speech from Hannah Spencer - I can't wait to see her in Westminster. 💚💚💚
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Andrew P Brooks @andrewpbrooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
1of3 #WorldEarlyStrollDay me & poet Ian McMillan invite you to get up early or early’ish this Saturday(14th)& document the place you live, through writing, photography, drawing, however you like Here’s a few pictures as inspiration More info in the next tweet about how to take part
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
At this point we can only assume Labour's plan is to make everything as shit as possible so that at some point nearer the election they can undo it all again and everyone will go ahhh, that's better.
The book A Squash and a Squeeze (where the wise old man tells the woman who thinks her house is too small so he says to take in all her animals and then take them out again) but changed to vaguely look like Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🧵 On 17 December 1976, Thames TV aired a debate about paranormal beliefs. And it turned out to be one of the greatest half hours in British television history. Believe me: it's the best thing you'll see all week. First off, host Sandra Harris gets things rolling: (1/12)
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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The other highlight has been the latest podcast from @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social - on Donald Trump, climate change, Roman mythology, mental health. Give it a listen, gwan.
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
On a train to London today, through a frozen and flooded landscape. Highlight has been a pile of manure, steaming away, as if it was a boiling pot. This is the man I've become - a composting obsessive, rubbing my thighs at a steaming pile of manure. Well, I guess there's worse things to be.
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is a useful tool on Bluesky - showing posts from people you follow but who don't post so often - Quiet Posters: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Picnic for Penguins 2pm Pebble Beach NO SEALS
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I sold out Hammersmith Apollo a few months back, but could easily bump into a school pal who thinks I haven’t released anything since horse outside. The parameters of what is considered fame or success have changed massively. Fame is a construct that’s decided by corporate media, in my experience
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Have come down with a bug so I'm staying in bed today with books, chess, and this get well card.
'Get bet(ter)' drawing for me from my daughter (almost 5), with me and her smiling
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
How I spent my day yesterday. That's some good shit.
A compost heap with a pile of horse manure, in the shape of the bag it came from
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
For anyone with a Rail & Sail ticket, booked with Trainline, that can't be used due to #Holyhead closure, Trainline customer service are very helpful on Twitter. Sorted my refund that I wasn't able to do on their app/site (due to Advance ticket). Hope you can get sorted.
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Mr. Kennedy has privately expressed interest in having Mr. Siri serve in the Health and Human Services Department’s top legal job, general counsel.” Mr. Siri “has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine”. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Look at this guy - I'm so happy for him. And just such a mind-boggling achievement. Gukesh♟️👑
Two photos: one of Gukesh Dommaraju with his parents after becoming world's 2nd youngest chess grandmaster in 2019; the other of Gukesh and parents, yesterday, recreating earlier pic, after becoming youngest world chess champion in history.
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Fantastic photos in this thread
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I was made aware last night of the practice of eating Weetabix with butter.
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Sébastien Fauconnet @daryo.me · 01/12/2024
La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton
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Gerry McDied 10 years ago, on a night just like this @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Frozen pond
Photo of a garden pond, frozen over, showing crystalline shapes in the ice. Taken from low angle, with water forget-me-not protruding through the ice in the foreground, other rocks and greenery blurred in background.
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 19/11/2024
Leading up to Christmas is a time that indie businesses make the majority of their income for the whole year If you want to support indie bookshops there's a growing list/directory at www.indiebookshops.com
Map of the world with pins where indie bookshops are
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
All the chat today has made me reflect that I've always had an echochamber, without actively pursuing one. I even looked at twitter today for the first time in months (to check something), and I don't see the cesspit that others do. I've always relied on others' screenshots. I don't mind this.
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Emu Hp @emuhp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#GTTO #FBPE and #SocialistSunday etc people: please read the thread quoted Let's leave that shit on twitter, shall we
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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.
The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as
"Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator.
"The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A Brief History of Kids Today Have It Easy 🧵
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A British friend of mine had a father who belonged to a group called "The Campaign for Real Custard," and it was just a bunch of old guys who went to restaurants, ordered a dessert with custard, and if it came with instant custard, they pounded on the table and chanted, "WE WANT REAL CUSTARD!"
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Nothing but blue skies do I see open.spotify.com/track/33LQxf...
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Blue Skies
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Saw something on Twitter I had to fact-check and it looks like it's true. Matt Gaetz grew up in the house from the Truman Show.
From the Atlantic: Few items in Gaetz’s biography are more on the nose than the fact that his childhood vacation home—which his family still owns—was the pink-and-yellow-trimmed house along the Gulf of Mexico that was used to film the The Truman Show, the movie about a man whose entire life is a performance for public consumption.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Onion has purchased InfoWars. theonion.com/heres-why-i-...
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Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Wet wipes
Simon Harris Wet Wipes
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Happy 85th birthday Wendy Carlos, who revolutionised the synth with Bob Moog, made electronic music before Eno & Kraftwerk, & composed scores for Tron, Clockwork Orange and The Shining. A trans icon, Carlos gave few interviews but this BBC one features her beloved cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ca...
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
truth and beauty!! nerve-tingling!
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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 13/11/2024
Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
Excerpt from technical report
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In the golden days of Twitter (pre-2012), I was known for hosting cheeseparties. These days, however, it's more likely to be a chess party. Or not even a party.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 12/11/2024
If youre still looking for your tribe, here’s a directory of hundreds of starter packs covering all interests and searchable by keyword. Repost and check it out.
blueskydirectory.com
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Most jokes and even hope are ringing hollow for me today. They'll come back to me, but not now.
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Whether in hope or desperation, Trump went on the bonfire last night. Please do the right thing, America. ✊
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Trish 💟 ☮️ Australia @trishmelbourne.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Writer, John Birmingham has called J D Vance, Hillbilly Vanilli 😂🤣😂
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I'm at an event in a school today, for work. The what3words address is: likely.prom.fight
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Cormac 🆑 @cormaggio.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Hello Bluesky. I've become largely mute on social media platforms - will it be so here too? Time will tell.
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