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❌ Myth: The far right are “defending Christianity” against secularism, Islam and “cultural Marxism”. ✅ Fact: Church leaders aren’t having it. Churches Together in England said “the Cross and the Gospel must never be co-opted to support messages that breed hostility towards others”.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 20h

🟥🟩🟥🟩 equaled my best time 😊 I just completed today's WordSweep hard puzzle in 01:00 🔥 Can you beat me? wordsweep.io

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WordSweep - Daily Puzzle Game

I just played WordSweep – a fun daily puzzle game! Can you beat me?

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The new Sense and Sensibility film is properly good, a very satisfying emotional rollercoaster. Ok, the hair and choreography were a bit off, but the relationships and characters were BANG on. I had loved the Ang Lee version, this stands alone nicely as a different, and really good, production 👏

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#ows949 🔎 5/5 (00:34) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🔥 streak: 14 🏆 #owselite puzzlist.com/onewordsearch Krillion #73 🦐 485 🫧🌟🦑🦑🏮🏮🏮 krillion.io

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Krillion #68 🦐 460 🐟🏮🐟🏮🏮🦑🏮 Better than 99% of today's players 😊🎉

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wordle 1,916 3/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 One more for the Jail list. Tut.

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Lorna the Sloven @duffycaramole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As many of you will know. my oldest friend's g/daughter was recently diagnosed with glioblastoma. It's inoperable; treatment options on the NHS are limited. So they're exploring other therapies too. If you're able & happy to contribute even £1, they (and I) would be so grateful. gofund.me/ea5c2d9ca

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Donate to Please help Riven fund her cancer treatment, organized by Mia Von Scha

Our 18-year-old daughter, Riven, has recently been diagnosed with glioblast… Mia Von Scha needs your support for Please help Riven fund her cancer treatment

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just ordered my RNLI Christmas cards * * I said "Christmas" in September but you can't be mad at me because you're a nice person who supports the RNLI 😊

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

By the time HS2 is opened, they will have invented the teleport, I'm guessing.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bosses at my husband's work made redundant the lady who used to organise the company Pork Pie day every couple of months 🥲

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here is ‘The Turn of Summer’ in full, by Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841–1903), capturing that subtle moment when summer is still all around us, yet the first signs of autumn have begun to appear.

A vintage printed copy of the poem ‘The Turn of Summer’ by Augustus Radcliffe Grote. The poem describes the subtle transition from summer towards autumn: fading flowers, fruit beginning to form, spider webs among the grass, birds preparing to fly south, and the almost imperceptible change of the season. It ends: “My love, my dear, the summer days have been.”

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Diving Belle" statue on Scarborough Harbour. #SundayPixStretch

Looking up at a high statue from the front. She's a steel coloured swimmer stretching with her arms out to the side, as if about to dive. Behind and above is a white tower of a lighthouse and deep blue sky. Sunny.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The first, historic, stretch achieved by cast iron, at Ironbridge Gorge #SundayPixStretch

Ironbridge, taken from below so it stretches from lower left to the top then down to the right on the far side. Blue sky, green trees on the bank.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Scrolling Bluesky looking at jokes and pictures of cake, avoiding doing the bins...

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As a guitar rock fan myself, Dolly was not on my radar. Radio 2 thought for the day today followed by "I will always love you" made me sob and I realised that it's a love song from Jesus, and my new flex is that it should be played every Ascension Sunday. Come on #CofE let's update the liturgy! 💃

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Things I thought were dead posh when I was a kid (70s/80s) 1. Broderie anglaise 2. High ceilings 3. Electric carving knife 4. TV ariel on your caravan 5. A through lounge-diner 6. Waiter service 7. Car head restraints 8. Spain 9. Spectrum 64 10. Milk Tray

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Your favourite Disney Prince (Wrong answers only)

Michael Praed as Robin Hood, looking rather devastating with his bows and arrows and excellent hair.

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MajorFlake @majorflake.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I spent literal days on this one

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I like Bluesky but it does get me down that people who were mutuals for yonks on Twitter have not followed me back on here. Makes me feel like I can't reply to them anymore because *maybe* they never liked me that much. #PlaygroundProblems! #YouSmell

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 20/08/2026

Man on the platform (looking up from his book about mindfulness): Shit. I’ve missed my train.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you have involvement in a large old public building like a church or village hall, then read the booklet available via a link from this page. This is a superb project to switch over to efficient green energy, and it's so well explained! Top tips.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Timeline still has people opposing the wildfire alert. Folks, I am not with you on this. If it stopped (e.g.) someone doing a firework display at their wedding, it was worth it. Also, timeline is peppered with people complaining that their neighbours are ignoring the alert and having bonfires. See??

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

DID YOU KNOW that if you search on Pinterest but add a rude word (e.g. "fuck") to your search, you get NO ADVERTS and actually *useful* search results?! #hack 😅

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It chucketh it down here in Yorkshire. 🌧

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Explain it to me why, of all the delectable boozy beverages in the world, Asda's only alcoholic flavour frozen treat is just a pack of "cider" lollies? Pina Colada and Mojito would have got me more interested.

Screenshot of Asda Cider Falvour Lollies, 6 pack, £1.40. 4 star reviews.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I thought we wouldn't be able to see this because of houses in the way, but I'm standing in my kitchen cooking tea and hubby is using binoculars to project the partial eclipse.

Binoculars projecting two semicircles of light onto a white plate. Eclipse viewing.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There's another partial eclipse in the UK next August. And one the following January. And another 18 months after that. Then there's a 6 year gap ...

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Astinished to learn that non-fatal strangulation is, currently, NOT attempted murder 🤔 and obviously this is causing problems in dv justice. Petition: Treat non-fatal strangulation as equivalent offence to attempted murder So close to reaching 10k!! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

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Petition: Treat non-fatal strangulation as equivalent offence to attempted murder

Amend section 75A of the Serious Crime Act 2015 so that non-fatal strangulation is treated as seriously as attempted murder, reflecting the intent and potential lethality of the act and ensuring perpe...

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Now this is a timely post, and actually helpful, considering what I've just asked about on here!

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You know those moments when your offspring ask a question and you feel the weight of responsibility to explain at length and make sense of the world for them? Well, I've been asked why most people hate Jamie Oliver. Please pitch in 'cos I'm stuck. (FWIW I don't have much truck with hate.)

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Lady Weathergirl @ladyweathergirl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This will brighten your day 😍

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is Aquapigeon. S/he is getting their money's worth out of their bird bath membership by sitting in it for hours of every day, for months, now. All this bird needs is a kazoo and it would be a duck.

Blurry long distance shot (sorry) of a pigeon sitting in a stone bird bath. Taken from a first floor window at some distance. Stone patio behind shows signs of raindrops, quite newsworthy. Brown patches on the lawn in the foreground. Astilbe to the right has dead patches, blame the drought.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Episode of Antiques Roadshow from 2013 with Fiona Bruce, introduced with "this programme contains outdated language." I could not be more intrigued!

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Utter first world problem, but is there a national run on feta cheese or summat? I've been to 4 shops in 3 days and not found any. I even ordered some and it was substituted.

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Wallace and Gromit: CHEESE!

Alt: Wallace and Gromit: CHEESE!

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The DWP are asking for people to contribute evidence for a forthcoming review of Carers Allowance and how it operates. Admittedly this is niche, but please spread the word so it reaches the right people. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Carer's Allowance: call for evidence

This call for evidence is being administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to gather information and views to build on the Department’s existing evidence. What we hear will help shape ...

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Yorkshire day to you, Bluesky. Enjoy your morning cup of Yorkshire tea, prep your pudding batter for later and plot your fiendish scheme to force rhubarb on (or up?) someone.

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Sean Bean's Energetic 'Do It For Yorkshire' Speech

Alt: Sean Bean's Energetic 'Do It For Yorkshire' Speech from the Yorkshire tea advert

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If I had my grandparents jobs from 1926 I'd be a railway director. Or a vicar. Or, tbh, the wife of thereof. I didn't see "what would you do on the commune" but I'd be the community cohesion person (aka party thrower).

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Storm on Facebook over using RAF Linton on Ouse to house migrants. Some telling objections like "The number of single refugee men will outnumber the villagers". But what I want to know is, did they protest at the number of single RAF men when *they* outnumbered the villagers?

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Spiky/fuzzy (borderline definition) thistle patch in the Dales. #SundayPixFuzzy

Striking, bright, puce pink thistle in the foreground against a background of more distant, blurry (fuzzy?) thistles in a field. Trees and cloudy sky beyond.

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Feeling guilty that I haven't read a single email from my new vacuum cleaner.

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b𝚘օO𝚘ₒts @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I will be thinking about Angrypennies forever

Tumblr post from user kat: i had a dream last night that the entire world used a currency (?) called angrypennies which as the name implies are obtained by experiencing anger. the stronger and more intense your anger was, the more angrypennies you'd gain. an all-consuming rage would earn you more than a slight irritation, etc. so people were always searching for ways to fuel their anger and purposefully keeping themselves angry all the time because they wanted to earn angrypennies. unclear if angrypennies could be exchanged for goods and services, or if they were just a collectible.

anyway, as if this wasn't heavy-handed enough, at one point british comedian greg davies appeared and explained that angrypennies couldn't be worth feeling angry all the time. this was a real revelation to dream-me and i was finally able to break free of the angrypenny grind and allow myself to experience emotions other than anger.

it goes without saying that i will be using the word angrypenny as if it was part of the common vernacular instead of a term that my dreaming brain conjured up i.e. "he's all about the angrypennies" (derogatory way to refer to a guy who searches for reasons to be angry and possibly lacks introspection)

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