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Estelle Hargraves

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Overheard train chat between two tough-looking youths: Youth one: “I got déjà vu, man. I saw this dog and felt like I’d seen it before.” Youth two: “That’s not déjà vu. You just saw a dog twice.”
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let's hear it for Bernard Jewry/Shane Fenton/Alvin Stardust – serial opportunist, pop supersub and not your typical renaissance man. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...
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How Shane Fenton walked his way to pop stardom in a dead man's shoes. And then repeated the trick ten years later. | Pete Paphides
Pre-Fabs Mansfield combo The Fentones get a glancing mention in Bob Stanley’s magnificent new book The Shadows: The Definitive Story. They w
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will just add that when I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student, I tried to rescue her class from being lost, as it were. Such as I could. I've taught a lot of what she taught me over the years and most of it has held up.
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Estelle Hargraves @estelleh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
2000 Light Years from Home is my favourite Stones song. So good, ethereal and creepy. Love this album.
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Lee Healey ✍🏻 @leehealey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” - Albert Camus ‘Carry on Camping’ released this day in 1969. Signed prints available here: shorturl.at/WuJGr @barneyfarmer.bsky.social
Carry on Camping comic strip spoof starring philosopher Albert Camus. As published in Viz magazine.
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Gabriel Roth @gabrielroth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues
A dropdown menu from a website allowing visitors to select their preferred language. "ENGL" has been typed in the selection field. Available options include "English," "English, middle (1100-1500)," and "English, old (ca. 450-1100)"
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Chris Addison has a wonderful riff about art. You can enter an opera house from two doors. The foyer leads you through gilt and red velvet to an opulent space to see magic. The stage door reveals nails and ropes and gaffer tape and greasepaint and mess. >>
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How long was it before you spotted it was Tom and Barbara Good, who led a “good” life, and Jerry and Margo Leadbetter, who “led a better” one? Anyway just time to note that if Penelope Keith’s character had been called Hannah, it would have been Tom & Jerry, Hannah & Barbara. RIP Penelope Keith
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Well, this man is *quite* the delight.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Still better than asking chatgpt
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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Today, while reviewing submissions to the AbSciCon 2026 Creative Writing Contest, I discovered a new tell for gen AI. Now, I had assume that gen AI, when asked to write fiction, would at least come up with unique character names. Turns out, I was wrong. Let me tell you about Eva Rostova
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Watch with @estelleh.bsky.social on No. 73, @scriblit.bsky.social on Press Gang, @jonnymorris.bsky.social on Crackerjack!, @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social on Around The World With Willy Fog and @invaderace2000.bsky.social on Trap Door. timworthington.org/2024/10/24/t...
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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “BBC Controlled Anarchy”
Watch with Estelle Hargraves on No. 73, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Press Gang, Jonny Morris on Crackerjack!, Mic Wright on Around The World With Willy Fog and Garreth Hirons on Trap Door.
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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Testing a new mirror trick
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Estelle Hargraves @estelleh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person
Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses.

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**GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT**

Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell

leaflet text:

**ATKINSON, John**
Reform UK

John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services.

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**HENDERSON, Iain**
Reform UK

Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them.

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**MURRAY, Arthur**
Reform UK

Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Spring is in the air
Cartoon of five little sheep sitting on chairs. Caption: Gambollers Anonymous
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Estelle Hargraves @estelleh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Delighted that I’ve been long listed for the Huddersfield Literature Festival!
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward
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This is usually our busiest time of year at the centre 

2 [Show a sign outside a medical institution reading:]

Centre for Adults Who Still Can’t Get Their Heads Round Daylight Savings

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NURSE:
We have a spike in admissions when BST starts

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CONFUSED PATIENT BEING LAID DOWN BY NURSES:
Is it forward or back?

NURSE:
Lie down love

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We often see the same patients ever year

PATIENT:
So it’s like… time travel?

DOCTOR:
No

6 Every year we try to explain BST to them in a fun and memorable way

[The patients are sat around a fun show, with people dressed in bunny suits jumping around a giant clock] 

BUNNY: And now I *spring forward*...

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[Bunny springs forward one hour on clock]

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PATIENT WATCHING SHOW:
I don’t get it

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The hardest patients are the Summer Time refusers

10 PATIENT [sat strapped to a chair as a doctor talks to him through a screen, through a tannoy]

PATIENT: But why is it better?

DOCTOR [talking through microphone]: 

Because it complicates things.

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PATIENT: 
How is that good?

DOCTOR: 
It makes you more tired.

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DOCTOR [to assistant]:
Fetch the cattle prod

[Ends]
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 23/03/2026
The world’s most honest disclaimer.
Andy’s headline.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A thought from a decade ago, on the other place. I still think this. - A really solid basic joke that I use - and I'm sure loads of other people do too - is referring to something deliberately obscure to denote character.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
marge
Marge Simpson sits on the couch in the Simpsons family living room. 
She says "do you feel inert, like a spectator to your own life-"

She begins to dissolve into smoke, as does the couch. 
"-a thing passing on rails outside your window as you sit there and watch?"

Marge and the couch continue to fade away, half the couch is gone now, Marge's upper half fully gone.
"You don't have to die to become a ghost."

Marge's body and the couch are gone, but her face stares blankly out of the wall.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Just when you’re sure your opinion of Mandy could not be lower… #tomorrowspaperstoday
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Lauren W. (she/they) @livewildly.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I'll never be able to explain it but buildings are witnesses. They have memories.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency
The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.
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Estelle Hargraves @estelleh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ha!
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict www.ft.com/content/eaee...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Something perhaps not mentioned enough about the digitised world is how much it encourages us to be more ruthless, untrusting people. I refuse to acquiesce to that. I refuse to change my default mode from thinking the best of people until they prove otherwise. I will not submit to the icy nastiness.
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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
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Estelle Hargraves @estelleh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Paul McCartney by 'Wonderful Christmastime' but all the lyrics are THE MOON IS RIGHT
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Why was there so much spookiness, horror and dislocated unease - or indeed 'hauntology' - underpinning so much children's television, books and even crisps in the seventies and eighties? The reasons are a lot less spooky than you might think. timworthington.org/2024/05/01/i...
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I’m A Stage Illusionist, Nothing More Sinister Than That…
Where did that weird unsettling sense of spooky dislocation in children’s television, films, books and even crisps in the seventies in particular actually come from – and why?
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 15/01/2026
the bookseller impulse to document early 20th century cloth hardcover design
Two books turned at angles on top of a stack of books so that you can see the red ink, stylized floral design on the light green cover of a 1930s novel by Warwick Deeping called "Old Wine and New", and also the white irises, edged in gilt, on the lavender cloth cover of a 1900s novel by Myrtle Reed called "The Master's Violin"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
1yr ago: innocent lemon pig. a little unorthodox in build-style (no cloves, a 10p piece). he had no idea what was to befall him. NYE 2025: desiccated, spent, clapped. an energetic husk — yet he hoovered up bad vibes like none before him. brave lemon pig. you made it!! happy new year xx 😌🧡🍋
An innocent lemon pig, full of hope, on NYE 2024

Had no cloves so used the heads of matches for the eyes, and a 10p instead of a dime or whateverPoor lemon pig, a wizened husk after 365 days absorbing all the terrible vibes, protecting us for a whole year
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
And if you're teaching medieval history & would like to include the other half of the population, Dr Natasha Hodgson of Nottingham Trent's Royal Historical Society lecture, 'Royal Historical Society lecture: Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World' is free to view. 2/2
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Royal Historical Society lecture: Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World
YouTube video by Royal Historical Society
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025
This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.
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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Distracted boyfriend meme with boyfriend (Tiny Tim) distracted by Not Dying and ignoring Dying
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Rutland Weekend Television, Community, Bernard And The Genie, Futurama, Doctor Who, The West Wing and The Peter Serafinowicz Show - you'll find them all in the Looks Unfamiliar Selection Box. Guaranteed more fun than the actual telly is this week! timworthington.org/2020/12/24/l...
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Looks Unfamiliar Selection Box: The Idea Of An Annual Eric Idle Christmas Special
An all-star festive lineup of entertainment as Tim is joined by a series of guests to talk about television Christmas Specials that seem to have slipped under the radar despite featuring very big n…
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
So thrilled to see this emphasis on the earliest years.
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
New! Time to spread ever more festive 'cheer' with a look through the Christmas 1989 issue of Smash Hits! timworthington.org/2025/12/13/w...
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What Has Happened To Shaky This Christmas?
Time to spread ever more Christmas ‘cheer’ – it’s a look at the 1989 Christmas issue of Smash Hits!
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 12/12/2025
Sorry, I was wrong. Paul's Christmassy tribute to Stevie Wonder – which I INEXPLICABLY FORGOT ABOUT – is even better. It's worth waiting for the chorus.
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a knee jerking into its own human face—for ever.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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Jeremy (Harpsichord Enjoyer) @gogdog.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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Estelle Hargraves @estelleh.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just got this beauty which seems to be right up my alley. “To Die For” by Rosie Grant. Recipes so integral to a person’s life that they were engraved on their gravestone.
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