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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 6h

The BBC News is wittering on about the Duchess of Sussex’s (irony alert) desire for privacy and an award-winning fat brown bear. These are not important enough to merit coverage.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 10h

Bon voyage et bonnes vacances. I fluked a 3.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you @alcs.co.uk for today’s payment. Already earmarked for the new biography of M R James by @profdarryljones.bsky.social Now I don’t have to wait until Christmas.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That excellent series of TRIH has me wondering whether Magdala Crescent in Edinburgh was named after General Napier’s exploits.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The visiting cleric began, unforgettably: “I first knew my wife when she was 16.” Badly suppressed mirth from the teachers who were familiar with the Authorised Version. The colleague on my left whispered “Legal, but only just”.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nancy Mitford updated.

Sign with arrow in one direction saying Non EU and the other EU.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Daughter asked a friend in RE if she was 'Catholic or prostitute'.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just heard a BBC journalist interviewing a chatbot and then thanking it. Can we have more human intelligence at the BBC?

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The BBC’s coverage of the dangers of AI pussyfoots round the fact that the companies developing it are owned by extremely wealthy men who are hoping to make even more 💰💰. Competitive greed is a significant part of this story.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wordle 1,913 2/6 🟩⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fluked a 2 for the second day running.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Might Burnham call a snap General Election so that the spending rules would kick in immediately & stop Reform using much of the crypto billionaires’ donations until after the election?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a grad student who did supervisions they happened in my digs. Happy days.

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Was James Orr on The Moral Maze on Wednesday? Asking for a friend … 🤣🤣🤣

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Lily Fiore @lmfiore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry, prophet and poet. Rest in peace.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Any chance @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social that the profiteers you have allowed to litter the city with hire bikes could be persuaded to label all of them with the message WHEN YOU PARK THIS DON'T BLOCK A PAVEMENT? A pedestrian can sidle past these, a wheelchair user cannot.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wordle 1,898 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Since when was that a word rather than an abbreviation?

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Kelvin Holdsworth @thurible.net · 29/08/2026

Following the example of the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, I have decided to change the name of our local river here in the West End of Glasgow. I have signed an executive order to change its name to the RIVER KELVIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry, Old Kingswoodian. His talent was already evident in a school production of Wm Golding’s The Brass Butterfly in which he starred as Phanocles.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So they’ll know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Hard Times are coming.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Chuffed to hear my punch needle Rooster is heading to Turkey once the St Martin's Art Exhibition closes. The exhibition is on this week, 12 noon - 4pm Monday to Friday and 10am - 2.30pm on Saturday. Cafe with home bakes. St Martin's Episcopal Church 232 Dalry Road Edinburgh. Admission is free.

Circular punch needle embroidery of a rooster.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

At Princeton the joke was that Unitarians believed in the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man, and the Neighbourhood of Boston

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@stephenjenkinson.bsky.social For the second time in a fortnight pavements at this corner have been blocked by the bikes hired out under the Council initiative to inconsiderate & in some cases reckless cyclists. How was my wife supposed to get past in her wheelchair? Answer - take to the road.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Great that “A House Through Time” by @davidolusoga.bsky.social is now looking at a property in Edinburgh. Episode 1 includes a Pisky priest who helped French POWs to escape.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Wordle 1,881 2/6 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pleasing.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You can find out more about the Church of the Good Shepherd in Murrayfied, Edinburgh, on our website here 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/churc... (3/3)

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Been there, done that...

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wordle 1,873 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pleasing.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wordle 1,868 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pleasing

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That’s a must read. I first read Last and First Men as a teenager & enjoy periodic rereadings. There’s plenty of tragic disorder at the moment.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wordle 1,866 6/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Phew indeed!

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Wordle 1,863 X/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 It soon turned into a guessing game & I guessed incorrectly.

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George Harris @historylecturer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This summer there is an increased awareness of the climate crisis. Please, BBC, show again that excellent documentary "Big Oil Versus the World". It will be right on trend. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

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George Harris @historylecturer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

History? "Oh, I just have not time to read those long books." No worries: my pieces are brief but not superficial. Here are a few reviews. (NB the review of "Getting to Know Edinburgh" is of the first edition. There is now an up-to-date Second Edition) georgehharris.blogspot.com/2020/01/my-h...

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My history pieces reviewed

No doubt I have many faults. But not even my close friends could accuse me of enticing, forging, doctoring (or whatever) the reviews my Ki...

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I have just heard someone on the BBC refer to the Bayeux Tapestry as depicting “the Norman invasion of Britain.” She clearly wasn’t paying attention in History lessons.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@BBCNews Your 1pm bulletin is increasingly tabloid. Obituaries of pop singers isn’t my idea of news.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sorry, this had to be done

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Dear @BBCNews why is some technical row about a football tournament dominating the 1 o’clock news?

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Birthday, USA. Thanks for Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, the Marx Brothers, John P Marquand, Art Tatum. All these & many more outweigh Donald Trump in the balance.

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David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Also odd. Kerensky’s father was Lenin’s headmaster. Russia - big country, small world.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is cultural suicide and intellectual vandalism. In an era where humanities-illiterate tech bros have unearned god-like powers, we need historians, philosophers, ethicists, classicists more than ever.

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