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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1h

When you’ve got to defeat Vigo the Carpathian at five but you also have to get to Avonmouth dump before it shuts at four.

A photo from r/Bristol showing someone driving what appears to be the car from Ghostbusters, with junk strapped to its roof

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first thing I will do when I am appointed global dictator is mandate that PDF/report pages have to match, ie if the report page says it's page 28 it HAS TO BE on page 28 of the bloody PDF.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t think: ‘we are bound by our current manifesto so things are going to be tough for a few years but don’t worry, if you vote for us again things will get better but also taxes will rise’ is a good political strategy.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 28/09/2026

The Zone of Interest, specifically Hedwig, and specifically from the moment in the film at which it becomes extremely clear that not only does she know *precisely* what is going on on the other side of the garden wall, but that she revels in and takes some pleasure in it.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 28/09/2026

If you want a perfect current display of motivated reasoning, check out the Elton John subreddit where people are complaining that £40 tickets for tonight's 600-cap gig in Battersea sold out in seconds because "bots" or some other conspiracy theory, rather than "it's dirt cheap in a tiny venue"

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From the AppleMusic community on Reddit: Tickets for Elton John sold out the second they were available

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God, I love Brian Butterfield's entire shtick so much. I think this must be the first time Serafinowicz has been on tour as himself.

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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A timeline of five pints of DIPA

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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sweet Jesus. So concerned about stopping people right-clicking your public collection of images that you put the whole lot in a private DRM provider that goes under, and the whole lot is fucked. Sweet. Jesus.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, massively speculating, but it sounds as if they were waiting and watching, but a farmer coming home from a party called in the local plod, who jumped into something they weren't meant to be aware of. Quite Slow Horsey.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Fascinated by this Reddit thread. Seven hundred (mainly) Americans discussing how to remove the text from this mug because the owner doesn’t want to look smug. But - am I wrong about this? - my assumption was that any British person with this mug would 💯 be doing it at *least* with tongue in cheek.

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From the CleaningTips community on Reddit: How to remove the lettering from this mug?

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 27/09/2026

saddened to see the death of brooklynvegan, a site I first used when I was in New York in 2008 but also confused that the asset-stripping owners this time are the twins from the emo punk band Good Charlotte, who I interviewed in a very nice London hotel ballroom courtesy of their label back in 2002

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How BrooklynVegan Went From Indie Rock Blog to Ghost Site

It started as an internet outpost for die-hard music fans. Then came success. Then came corporate ownership.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agree with this. The equally annoying counterpart are the people in Eddie’s replies going “I’m proud not to have heard of it!” You shouldn’t be proud not to know something! You should just go “it’s a big world”.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 27/09/2026

This is a bit strange - presumably this person hasn't ever actually read or experienced Shakespeare and so hasn't noticed the dozens of extremely vulgar jokes in the texts, including at least three c-bombs I can think of (not to mention the "your mum" joke in the middle of Titus Andronicus).

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These mugs are awful - and I want one very much. ("Are you going to reform social care?" "Definitely Maybe")

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026

oh we've got a classic one today

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 27/09/2026

"Here's something I made up to justify an existing belief I have" - as Edward says, there are no LTNs on this route, *and* in any case LTNs are placed by local authorities, not the mayor. Hmm, I wonder why an old white person might be out looking for reasons to blame things on the brown guy 🙃

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 25/09/2026

This is my view on such endeavours. It’s far too early to make lists of stuff that’s still going on or that are only a few years old. Things don’t become clear until at least a decade has passed, though as Tom says, the differences can be illuminating.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As in: it's more interesting to think about the ways the list will seem limited in 10, 20, etc years time - like the Gambo book, which was full of great albums but from a perspective that seems very narrow now

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TV list giving these vibes

Paul Gambaccini present The Top 100 Albums (1987)

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 25/09/2026

The NYT is really nailing the "listicle-to-Bluesky-trending-topic pipeline", isn't it? My list of 36 (left image) included things that I've seen an hour of (my criteria was "at least one episode") and so the more-true version on the right is the 20 series that I've *seen* seen.

The list of 36 shows I've seen at least one episode of, generated by the NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/arts/television/best-tv-shows-21st-century.html

The list of 20 shows I've seen at least half of, or know quite well otherwise, generated by the NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/arts/television/best-tv-shows-21st-century.html

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Stop using location information that requires this outfit to continue running a server (looking at you NHS and others).

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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards lol lmao bsky.app/profile/jont...

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

imo stalin would go to the lesbian bar. i think molotov would go to the lesbian bar because stalin went so that must be right. i think khrushchev would go to the lesbian bar to please stalin but he wouldnt like it. i think Malenkov would hesitate before going. Beria, well, lets not talk about that

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a tragic story all around, but this paragraph really sounds like the family is being exploited by *yet another* internet scumbag. Every "autism is actually caused by a common infection" claim I've seen is actually somewhere between an untested hypothesis and a straight-up hoax.

Kate and Henry Tucker said Henry had been diagnosed with autism but actually had a neurological condition that could have been treated with antibiotics.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New belt-tightening indicator just dropped

James Timpson on Twitter:

You can tell Ozempic and Mounjaro are popular…in our Timpson shops we have seen a 680% increase in the number of free holes in customers belts we’ve been doing this year.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the fascinating things about Mogg, whose views I largely despise, is that he has always been a vocal opponent of the idea of ethnicity-based nationality. Notably strongly criticised the removal of Shamima Begum's citizenship, on basis it created two-tier citizenship for different ethnicities

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
@Jacob_R...•22h
The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

This has become my working theory too, because if not it's the most humiliating public breakdown of the British security state in about a decade.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At least you're not working in Netflix's press office, and so on.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 23/09/2026

This is a very entertaining piece. Worth noting this snippet in among the hilarity, though: "It’s not clear how often Waymo is involved in stand-offs with the Secret Service, but its safety record is significantly better than human drivers."

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 23/09/2026

This week's Moral Maze on Radio 4 is about whether Ed Sheeran is obliged to have a public opinion. Far be it from me, but i feel like if you can cover it in an SNL cold open, it's not a maze.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 22/09/2026

the thing about mark wood is that even if he’d ripped out your middle stump with a 95mph yorker you wouldn’t be able to dislike him because he’s got such undeniably good vibes. sad to see him retire from england duty, but hoping to hear more of him in the commentary box #thecricket

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Like, I am sure government bond market pricing is partially a result of worries about policymaker credibility/public finances. But it’s also a story of inflation and what happens when you close the world’s most important waterway for seven months.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is both really obvious and seemingly often forgotten that an awful load of pressing economic problems would be an order of magnitude easier if the Strait of Hormuz was open.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At an extreme-right demo in The Hague on Saturday, a policeman deliberately pushed press photographer Nacho Calonge into a canal, wrecking his equipment. The press association has filed a complaint and demand for compensation. www.rtl.nl/boulevard/ar...

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Persvereniging: in water geduwde journalist verdient compensatie

De Spaanse fotojournalist die zaterdagmiddag door een politieagent in het water werd geduwd tijdens de Malieveldrellen in Den Haag, moet hiervoor gecompenseerd worden. Dat stelt de Buitenlandse Persve...

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Someone posted the Lime bike sketch/song to the London Cycling subreddit, and my main thought was that it didn't contain any actual jokes. Also given that it used the Lime unlock chirp in the middle of the song, why not build the hook around that, which would at least have made it interesting?

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can we please go back to the old internet where Search was a bunch of efficient SQL queries? Please, I'm so done with this

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What is genuinely fascinating about this is in general the answers are not true. The “Gails = Lib Dems” thing is not true! A thing called “matcha” is available wherever there’s a Greggs!

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 19/09/2026

The NES in this picture, 39 years ago, would have cost you the equivalent of £420, roughly what an Xbox Series S costs today. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, eh?

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 19/09/2026

Huge danger with LLM research is the whole thing about it is it produces words and the words make you feel feelings when you read them and you have to remember that the feelings are in your brain not its

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Simon was one of my absolute heroes growing up and it's great to see him doing brilliant work

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 19/09/2026

A fascinating look at the UK's in-hospital cinemas, written by my friend Alex for the New York Times. Also, for those of you of a certain age, a delightful cameo from Simon Hickson (of Trev & Simon fame) who now runs one of them (🎁 NYT gift link).

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Health Screenings: Where Hospitals’ T.L.C. Includes a Movie Theater (Gift Article)

A British nonprofit helps patients escape the stress and boredom of ward life by watching the latest blockbusters.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Face removal” sounds a bit over the top, if you ask me.

Home Office FB post: Break our laws. Face removal.

Photo shows officials and presumably deportees entering an aircraft. Their faces are blurred. THEY HAVE HAD THEIR FACES REMOVED.

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