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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 3h

Stephen Welsh has made two appearances, ironically enough, for Scotland this international break. To add to the confusion Bobby Wales (no relation) scored for the Scotland U21s v Azerbaijan today. And to make it even weirder: they both play for Swansea

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 6h

Staggered at the number of supposedly intelligent, right-thinking people who still think they are immune to X’s powers. Boromirism.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 9h

Government data releases to be titled with puns until further notice

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 11h

Remembered it's the first home game of the URC this season... against Ulster. All ailments cured. All stress has left my body.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 15h

These guys are calling the freight warehouses a "trojan horse" for more warehouses. Apart from anything else that's as if the thing the greeks were trying to smuggle into Troy was... an even larger wooden horse

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Protest at start of Oxfordshire rail freight scheme planning process

Campaigners oppose plans to build 6.5 million sq ft of warehouses near Ardley in Oxfordshire.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There was so much stuff in that conference speech. Mind when the best Rishi Sunak could come up with was A Level maths and cancelling HS2? (I am not sure I can tell you something KS announced in a conference speech)

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just called the building society. Told me next time I call them I won't need to answer security questions as they have a new voice verification system which was recording my voice on this call for next time. The future is now.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very much agree with this. It is genuinely infuriating to listen to people equate delays on congested routes with a bad railway - a similar trend is also present in the UK where people are addicted to taking reasonable complaints about railway flaws and blowing them way out of proportion

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Baked bean curry? That's real Britain.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"After he retired to the cave prayer grew in him like a forest, sowed its seeds inside his psyche, rewilded his heart. He didn’t see that centuries had passed without him."

A Saint looks up from his prayers to
discover he’s been dead for some time
For St Robert of Knaresborough
By Jay Hulme - from 'The Vanishing Song'

After he retired to the cave
prayer grew in him like a forest,
sowed its seeds inside his psyche,
rewilded his heart. He didn’t
see that centuries had passed
without him.
One day he
looked up, hearing requests for
intercession, and the woods were
older than expected, the riverbanks
shifted by the years —
and as he
knelt before the altar in his hermit's
church, his knees disappeared below
the edges of his emptied grave.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dropped my phone in the supermarket this afternoon and it is now in two clean halves. So if anyone has an android for less than £400 or so that they'd really recommend, advice appreciated!

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

City away at Crawley Town in League 2 next season will be fun

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A large vegetable live blog on the national broadcaster's website? You know what maybe this country isn't completely cooked after all

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think once countries pass legislation making both the prompt writer and the agent's progenitor liable for the actions of the agent this kind of stuff will stop and I am not even convinced this will hamper AI development by much

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It should be actively torturous and financially ruinous to drive a car anywhere in zones 1-3 (minimum)

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Deep rooted: trees as economic infrastructure in subsistence foraging and hunting practices of Endor's 9th moon in the pre-Imperial period

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good evening from the magazine aisle

A magazine entitled "seniors guide to chatgpt"

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yesterday I ordered a pickleback at a bar, and they said they didn't have pickles but they'd got pickled onions so used that instead. It wasn't until after I'd drunk it that I realised the crucial difference that gherkins are pickled in brine and I'd just done a shot of oniony white vinegar.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Disagreement over what type of wine to use in mass causes a schism in the Catholic church. The Avignon Blanc.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Edinburgh University created the first ever Chair in Celtic in Scotland in 1882 (Donald Mackinnon of Colonsay). This is a cultural retreat happening before our eyes where there was once leadership.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm starting to think these concerns aren't legitimate all

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am *so excited* for this. Look at this art!

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

DW tender is out. Editorial (extract below, my emphasis) certainly does not suggest an appetite to move away from the show's all-things-to-all-people approach. The line about lore is a fairly solid criticism of the last (possibly last two) showrunners. Door is open for a pretty hard relaunch though.

We see this pitch as an exciting opportunity to innovate and surprise us. Stories should balance high concept science fiction with strong emotional narratives, ensuring that spectacle is always grounded in character and human experience. Episodes should transport audiences to extraordinary times and places, ranging from historical settings to distant futures, alien worlds, and contemporary Earth. Successful pitches will deliver ‘back of the sofa’ scares, jeopardy and tension, whilst remaining suitable for a broad family audience. Doctor Who embraces themes that celebrate curiosity, courage, intelligence, and compassion, themes that interrogate the human condition and most of all, it should and will always be distinctively British storytelling. We are flexible in the way the series is structured i.e. serialised or ‘story-of-the-week’ and the number of episodes which make up the series.
Iconic, established villains are a mainstay of the series over 60 years and we invite you to use them, but we will want to begin to get an understanding of the original characters, aliens and themes that producers wish to bring to the show and are keen not to be overly reliant on existing Doctor Who lore. We are looking for a new perspective that ensures Doctor Who remains relevant, surprising, brave and inspiring for both long-standing fans and new audiences.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is really cool! But there is also an extent to which part of what is driving this is that the surge in bike-delivered food, frequently on illegal e-bikes by a heavily marginalised/informal workforce!

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Parish and Community-level councils exist almost exclusively to allow NIMBYs to claim they are representative of their area by spreading the definition of democracy so thin it breaks

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'

heraldscotland.com

Fear and anger as university set to announce 'massive course and programme closures'

Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Public support for net zero is still close to two thirds of voters. The recent shift against it is almost entirely an elite thing! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Cut ‘net zero’ from name of UK net zero department, MPs urge

Cross-party group says term has become ‘lightning rod for opposition to climate action’

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't worry folks, bluesky's many wise posters have decided to take out the heat of "when you think about it, the union is an imperial entity to scotland?" by tacking to the much safer, less contentious ground of "but is Irish reunification *really* a good idea?"

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No matter how many times I think about how much change Britain has undergone in the 200 years since the beginning of the industrial revolution (which is a lot since it is my literal job) it still boggles my mind. In 1831, 28% of families worked in agriculture. In 2025, just 0.58% of people did.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my least favourite things about the way we have built the modern world is that I'm forced to make an account with almost every football club I travel away to. Anyway the first people to wish me happy birthday this morning were Hibs.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 16/09/2026

waah waah nudify apps bad, doxxing bad, very online nazis bad, blah blah blah. But X? Oh yeah that's a really important communication channel.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm sorry but if you want to do devolution you do actually need to do devolution which requires democratic structures and a civil service! This should be blindingly obvious to someone who made his career complaining about not having the tools to do things as a mayor!

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nine regional bodies, made up of local representatives, which are responsible for public services you say? What shall we call them... some sort of assembly perhaps?

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You see, the big problem with water companies is that there's no accountability because private companies inherently concentrate too much power in the hands of too few people, with limited oversight. Metro mayors on the other hand...

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BBC doing their best Reach PLC impression here of not doing any reporting of their own, just reprinting the perpetrator's press release and smashing the publish button without any further work. Hence the article-as-pushed made no mention of assault or coercive control!

bbc.co.uk

Reform's Dan Thomas resigns as Welsh leader after being reported to police

Dan Thomas says he was been released without charge by the police.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Should have guessed that the thing that would eventually kill off the right's interest in grammar schools would be non-white kids doing too well in the 11+.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Indeed, in 1987 Morocco's EC accession application was turned down because it was not considered European

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Education sector: Please, Education secretary, will you express an intent to defend the regional university, as anchor institutions which spread access to and benefits of education and world-leading research across all of Britain Education sec (Oxford/KCL): *slams table* More! Sparkies!

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Look I love the Premier League as much as the next guy but when I turn on five live on a Saturday afternoon at 12:30 and there are no premier League games, but loads of EFL, non league, WSL games on I find it baffling/frustrating that they'll spend the whole time talking about the Big 6.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Genuinely gasped. This is why leaving Nandy in post is such obvious vandalism, the BBC does not deserve to survive like this.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 11/09/2026

GOOD THINGS: 🦽 low floor train for full level boarding 🚲 4 horizontal bike spaces BAD THINGS: ⭕ TPE is a 125mph intercity service, these trains aren't 📏 200m platforms, 121m trains, we did it again 💰 GBR brand but trains owned privately at high cost 🔋 batteries instead of wiring measly 45km

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why stop at 13? Why not 100? Why not, to ensure everyone in the country is represented by the court, have say one, maybe even two, from each state? Hold on, I'm just being handed a note...

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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“It smells rather metallic . . . Ugh, just like cheap rubbish tuna,” said canned seafood reviewer Marcus Ansell, who has more than 650,000 followers on Instagram, in a recent video about Lidl’s jack mackerel.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Home Secretary should be relieved of her duties and the entire operational command of HIW Police should be subject to disciplinary action. Thugs are currently feeling empowered to attempt pogroms because police continue to be disinterested in preventing them. It really is that simple.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It also pushes us further down the destructive path of viewing university education as only valuable as a means to a job, which has contributed greatly to the crisis the sector is in now. Plus, it's nonsense in an economy whose modal job requires a degree, but also has no interest in those degrees.

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