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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

A cynical person would say that there have historically been a large number of VAT audits due to its quarterly reporting (more reporting = more opportunity for errors). So rolling out quarterly summaries (in addition to the actually legally required annual return) for those making £30k (and […]

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

How does it take an hour to eat a small bowl of gnocci? How? See also how does it take two hours to re-write a single A4 page of notes? #InLocoParentis

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21h

DWP losing millions fighting appeals against benefits claimants, new figures show www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-… Nearly three-quarters of Pip awards refused by the government are granted at tribunal It would be cheaper (and more […]

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

It feels like youtube have suddenly started added way more ads into the long-form videos. Which is a shame, because I watch those long-form as a way of supporting creators who make money from the ads (I can't afford patreon subscriptions with them all). But too many and I'm out. I don't know […]

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Anyone commenting on the Green Party Zionism is racism motion should be forced to replace 'Zionism' with the definition from the motion 'a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the […]

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Watching the results show: is that the new Star Fleet uniform? #Strictly

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one. The effort has prevented an estimated 680,000 premature deaths since 2020 and generated $715 billion in cumulative health benefits. The UN Environment Programme calls […]

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Relocating at 88 screams an attempt to avoid Inheritance Tax and Capital Gains Tax. Though if they were born in Mumbai they may have been able to claim non-Dom status if they haven't later taken UK citizenship (I doubt it was top of their mother's concerns to register as such on arrival in 1950).

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Ooh, just went to remotely turn off my immersion heater (from 120 miles away) and got the option to add a local robot vacuum to my devices. Tempting...

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

RE: chaosfem.tw/@ellieraejaye/117375856… «This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children.» We left the UK just when Labour got into power but the sense of utter betrayal was already in the air then 😔

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Just watched the pro opening dance, and what just happened? #strictly #FeverDream I appreciated the 'key change' though.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Status update: currently trapped in my sister's flat because her unhinged neighbour is knocking on the door at 08:00 on a Sunday morning and we're pretending to be out walking the dog/still in bed asleep.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

At my sister's tonight so I suspect no live #strictly for me. It'll be a game of catch up, possibly over a couple of days. Enjoy!

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Got to use the new entrance at Temple Meads. Much more convenient for me, nice little amphitheatre space outside. Will use again #bristol

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The hardest part of flying home from Japan is adjusting to the time change. For example in Tokyo I got to experience a future where everyone deserves dignity but I’m flying back to a country intent on pushing itself back to the 1950s. It’s hard to adjust your watch to that.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Still feeling a bit wiped out by Tuesday's covid vaccine (yesterday's 5k felt like I'd never run in my life), but I wasn't about to let the bigots win, so cycled to my usual #parkrun in the drizzle (I'm a fair weather cyclist). No sign of any Reality Rules […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

A woman in a pink, blue and white football top and sunglasses takes a selfie in front of the Ashton Court mansion and parkrun sign. Overlaid are running stats: 4.98km distance, 23:30 activity time, 287kcal, 4'43"/km average pace.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Really? Was there a terrorism angle? Just like with Elbit? And was the jury advised that terrorism sentencing was on the table? I'm not saying blowing stuff up isn't a serious crime, but terrorism? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6gr8j0…

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Man jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blast

Kevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection".

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Ugh, BBC Sounds just interrupted on of their own podcasts mid-sentence with an ad for another of their own podcasts.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Oops, being off most social media means that I totally missed the drummer of one of my favourite bands getting married last year (congrats) and the lead singer filing for divorce this year (so that's what's behind the new songs). I just like the music, they should be allowed private lives (and I […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026

Taylor Lorenz is preparing for her "why I left the left" right-wing grifter pivot. Do not trust her. www.thefp.com/p/two-drinks-with-tay… (If you do not know "the free press", it is Bari Weiss's right-wing false-balance propaganda outlet, so talking to them *at all* is […]

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Watching Dune 2 again having read the entire series last year.

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Smylers @smylers.uk · 01/10/2026

Well you should've tied them down better.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

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Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch

Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Cervixal smear sample collected (after a substantial rummage). Not the most fun, but it could save your life - whatever bits you've got, get them checked.

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The Void ザ・ヴォイド @thevoidtlmb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you’d pay for a subscription of daily #cryptic #crosswords by Independent setters, please tell Mike. Comment #152 fifteensquared.net/2026/09/21/indep…

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Poor planning number 203: deciding to change out a flat back piercing after applying moisturiser.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: social.vivaldi.net/@TheVoidTLMB/117… Yes, well James Vince opted to move his wife, daughter and son to Dubai after their family home was attacked, so...

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

After Two Weeks Notice yesterday (with unexpected Donald Trump), this afternoon is Miss Congeniality and Miss Congeniality 2 (I like that Heather Burns turns up in Two Weeks Notice).

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Oh yes, House of Games is back this week - a series of Champion of Champion of Champions with Richard, then Michael Sheen from next week.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The council have helpfully sent instructions on how to use the new recycling containers, but we have yet to have the containers actually switched over. The surrounding streets have all been switched over, but no change here yet #bristol #bs5

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Captain Jack Sparrow @captain-jack-sparrow.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Burnham the 'socialist' is going to make pensioners pay for his projects, so he can avoid taxing the rich

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

20 minutes early for my covid vaccine, because of course. Just as well though as the queue to check in is huge (it's the supermarket pharmacy).

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Caught up with the first episode of It Takes Two and Ellie is such a safe pair of hands. It didn't feel as scripted and rehearsed (though it was). More like the Claudia days, including comments that will have gone over kids' heads #Strictly

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Well having read the latest in the Leicestershire saga, they really should have had legal representation. Nobody seemed to realise that the two different penalties would both be applied. The CDP has no power over the 19 point deduction, but have wiped 8 of what are supposed to be a minimum 16 […]

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katherinedoggrell.bsky.social @katherinedoggrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh one is police bail and the other is court bail; Tommo has been charged and the others haven't. It's a subtle difference that the right will be wilfully ignoring and it speaks to their mentality of running off to the Costas, which they assume everyone will. www.abvsolicitors.co.uk/legal-guides...

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There are two types of bail, ‘Police bail’ and ‘Court bail’. The functional difference between the two types is where in the timeline of criminal investigations or proceedings they are used. What is P...

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I suppose if there's one thing to take from all this, it's if you're going to do low level criminalling in the middle of the night, don't do it next door to the biggest US air base in Europe in a village full of nosey curtain-twitching neighbours. #TopTip

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Hmm, you don't arrest people on suspicion of terrorism, with all of the extras you get (like two weeks to question them) and then let them out on bail after a couple of days, if they were actually terrorists (they can't be associated with Palestine Action in any way then). They were a long way […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Farage dog whistling again, blathering on about allowing people into Britain who intend on doing harm - so far those arrested have been confirmed to be UK nationals. Of course his supporters will lap it up because it supports their ideas of protecting against 'fighting age men' coming over here […]

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Good, I've been thinking about that dog that the police made the owners leave behind. I'm glad they went and got it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c65y7nl29k0…. #Fairford

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