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Jeffrey Archer’s death narrows the competition to be the last surviving real person mentioned in “Hello” youtu.be/l3F2z4UPwQI?...

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The Beloved - Hello (Official Video)

YouTube video by TheBelovedVEVO

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am generally against both prisons & capital punishment but I would gladly man the electric chair in the dungeon where the people who made this magazine belong

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Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love the fact that in most places back then, rumours of a vampire in the neighbourhood would have had the local kids hiding in their bedrooms, while in the Gorbals, they were like: "Let's get tooled up and leather the cunt."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks, Adobe, but I think I can manage without an AI summary of a boarding pass

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Incredible that a circumstance has been found in which I must hand it to Lukas Graham

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Based on the attract screen, you won't see the name of this 90s arcade game coming...

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In case you thought you’d already heard academia’s worst thing this week: you were wrong.

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A great piece about something that's long had me feeling uneasy. (Besides, personalised media gifts peaked with youtu.be/_wudnjvvxS4?... and everything since has been a pale imitation)

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A Personalised Birthday Party Record For Charlotte (1982) 45rpm

YouTube video by CWL Record Show

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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Probably not, but the British journalist class has gotten very good at constantly amplifying the roughly 20% of the dickhead population who are.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You would never get the "£50 doesn't even buy a meal quote if the topic was the benefit system, then you would have a guy going "sack of potatoes and a carrot, and you can feed a child for a month at just 3.2 pence per meal"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

you guys this is the greatest thing ever to have happened

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Londonist: Time Machine @londonist.com · 15/07/2026

Previously unseen aerial photos of London in 1983 show the city on the cusp of change. And we've recreated each one in Google Earth, so we can do the 'Now vs Then' thing londonist.substack.com/p/london-in-...

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London in 1983 From Above (and Recreated)

Then and Now photos from the air.

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

What choices have to be made in order for *this* to end up being the photo you go with for your leaflet?

Conservative party leaflet for the Fletton & Woodston by-election with a badly cropped photo of the candidate looking like she's in a police line-up

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"the best Les Bleus" [eyelid twitches]

BBC Sport article headlined "France cruise into the semi-finals - could this be the best Les Bleus ever?"

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Yessss. It's just perfect 🍋

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"They've only got 8 MPs, but they get a lot of headlines..." WE ARE ALL TRYING TO FIND THE NATIONAL BROADCASTER WHO DID THIS

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

One of the very worst aspects of the modern Labour Party is the way in which it has internalised a deeply old-fashioned view of Proper Work as “things people do without a degree”.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day

A drain snake sink and toilet unblocker on Amazon says “arrives before Father’s Day”

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

Some woman from the 2022 Romanian Eurovision final, I don't even remember the context tbh but she is clearly a badass

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I enjoyed this and thought it was a pretty fair and balanced summary of the #Eurovision situation

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

this is the greatest product name of all time to such an extent that following this every product in every sector of commerce should have been renamed "product" as a gesture of respect

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

New meme just dropped

A still from the Snooker World Championship semi-final between Wu Yize v Mark Allen; day 14 at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK.

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Damn it. Fond memories (many of them blurry).

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

Photo of three men standing on top of rocky terrain. One is wearing a blue zip-up jacket with a blue chambray shirt and tan chinos. One is wearing a green-black checkered jacket with red chamois shirt, white pants, and cowboy hat. The other is wearing a blue parka with with blue jeans.

Two photos. In the first, three men are wearing bomber jackets with blue or white jeans. In the second image, one man is wearing an off white (possibly chamois?) shirt with blue jeans. Another is wearing a blue denim trucker with blue jeans. A third is wearing a blue quilted parka.

Two photos of groups of men. They are wearing Nordic sweaters, olive bomber jackets, flight suits, black-green checkered jackets, cowboy hats, beanies, and jeans.

Two photos. In one, there's a man wearing a brown tweed with a checked shirt. In the other photo, men are wearing bomber jackets and high-waisted cotton pants.

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Ventriloquist slurs

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Love Love changes everything Heads and shoulders Knees and toes

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Kellalena @kellalena.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

How long does it take a Happy Meal to start working?

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Canadian Christian children, confidently: Christ died on the cross at Calgary

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Overweight, overpriced, overheated: if anyone out there is in the market for a 12-ton metaphor for Boris Johnson’s contribution to British national life, you’re in luck.

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Farewell to the Boris bus

Overweight, overpriced and overheated – it was a 12-ton metaphor

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is a lovely and great piece. My choices to add: Grandstand, and the non-presenter-led, perhaps even non-narrated documentary strands, like 40 Minutes.

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

These start well and get progressively better

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I'm going to hazard a guess it might be "Lola"

Guardian article with the following header and subheader:

‘The lyrics to Lola by the Kinks are gross – I was really taken aback’: Moby’s honest playlist

The DJ and multi-instrumentalist thinks Donna Summer still sounds like the future, but which ‘unevolved’ Kinks staple can he no longer stomach?

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escgo! @escgo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

#Eurovision fans! Our community has found the 12 most ROBBED songs of the 2026 national final season - and now it's over to you to help us crown the winner. You can check them all out in the playlist if you need a reminder, then vote - every day! - in our public poll: www.escgo.com/2026/03/15/s...

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SongHunt 2026 - The Final | escgo!

It’s the grand final of SongHunt 2026 – and YOUR votes will help us find the most robbed national final song of the season. Vote now, vote often!

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Imagine you’re a Viking who was frozen and gets unfrozen in modern times and you go to Viking.com to try and find out what happened to your community and it’s just a website about cruises

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day

A small book with limbs made of rolled-up paper held between the covers and a crudely drawn face sticking out from the top

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Problematic Mineshaft Gap @wirelessw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

To the surprise of nobody outside 10 Downing Street, most Labour voters want left policy of some description and not fascism in a nicer coat of paint.

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Martin Faulkner @faulknmd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I know one shouldn't get wound up about obvious clickbait articles, but seeing Time Out describe Bamburgh beach as "a short trip from London" (and having a "direct train connection to King’s Cross") is genuinely a little mindblowing even by the standards of the genre

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

RETVRN to the times we had to only guess the richest and most powerful people in our society were full of shit rather than them announcing it in our phones on a daily basis

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