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Daniel Ostrowski

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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rumour has it that some people don’t even know what Fire Emblem is but I just don’t believe that can be true
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The most implausible round of combat I’ve had yet in Fortune’s Weave (Dietrich chapter 10, some spoilers visible if you’re looking hard enough)
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Historians, does anyone have any good recommendations for up to date books on Imperial Japan/Japan’s SWW? I’ve been reading several books around it but realising there’s a big gap in my knowledge and the only book on it I know of (Toland) turns out to be over 50 years old
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Look, I'm a simple man, I just don't think we should have party spokespeople arguing that some British people shouldn't be allowed to run for election because of their ethnicity.
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Great to see Puritans writing the sports news.
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riley 🐇☄️ @smudgebap.com · 01/03/2026
kingdom hearts 4 if nomura locks in
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cover of the unfortunately fictitious magazine Vizier Monthly. Against a red background, a pale man in black sits schemingly, surrounded by headlines
-"they never knew what hit them" Myzithra the Cruel Tells All
-You On Top: The Fierce New Secret to Success
-10 Signs Your Spymaster Is In His Treachery Era (Number 9 Will Shock You!)
-schemes to drive your lord wild
-9 poisons so subtle even you won't know how they died
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If the right is like this, what conversations can possibly be held with the right?
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Josh Broadwell @fionnthebrave.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Magmar's Trolley Problem
Magmar in Pokopia, fast approaching Ditto on a one-track trolley. Above Magmar's head is a speech bubble with text that reads: "What should I do...?"
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's like discussing repealing Prohibition and politicians constantly answering "Well, I don't think we should give double vodkas to 5-year-olds"
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 21/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/r...
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Objectifying women, peddling conspiracy theories and calling for violence: Makerfield Reform candidate’s SECOND deleted account exposed – HOPE not hate
By Paul Kershaw and Sarah Hadley On a deleted social media account, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Makerfield parliamentary by-election, Rob Kenyon, made creepy...
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
[Scene is the Tudor royal court. ladies and gentlemen standing round. In the corner a very fat HENRY VIII is hunched over playing a lute.]
 
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LADY:
Hey Anne Boleyn -
Who’s that lute player?

ANNE BOLEYN:
I dunno 

[Determined face]

But I’m gonna find out.

[Title lettering panel]:

THIS SUMMER

[Scene is now two musicians - one with a harp, the other is Henry VIII again playing the lute]

HARPIST:
Yo Henry VIII  -  

Who wrote that sick lute riff yo’ jamming?

HENRY VIII:
Why...

[Looking around, modest, surprised at the attention]

I did…!

[Title lettering panel]:

SEE THE STORY

[Scene is now a tudor record producer with ruff and wearing dark sunglasses]:

PRODUCER:
Congratulations Henry 
Your lute thing is a hit and your story is now one of uncomplicated musical success!

[Show a panel with lots of Beatlemania-style scenes of success for Henry the musician - swooning tudor girls, playing lute on stage, waving to fans as he descends from his golden carriage. In the middle of it in Tudor lettering are the words]:

“UNCOMPLICATED MUSICAL SUCCESS MONTAGE”.

[Another scene - a man is saying to Henry]:

MAN:
Say Henry VIII -
Are you doing anything outside this narrative that is very bad or weird?

HENRY VIII:
No.

[Title lettering panel]:

…OF A MUSICAL GENIUS
who definitely didn’t do anything outside this narrative that was very bad or weird

[Scene with Thomas Cromwell]

THOMAS CROMWELL:
Hang on Henry aren't you also a - 

HENRY VIII [jumping in front of him with his lute held aloft]:
LUTE SOLO!

[Final film title panel]:

HENRY VIII: 
Rock Biopic
[rated U]

[Ends]
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If the UK ever has a King Philip it’ll confuse people because he’ll be Philip II, but nobody knows about the Philip I, which was Philip II
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/04/2026
‘Bye, bye, old friend’: Ted, the dog from Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, has died aged 13
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‘Bye, bye, old friend’: Ted, the dog from Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, has died aged 13
As well as penning a Sunday Times bestseller, the terrier had been a regular in the BBC comedy series since 2020 Sad news for fans of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. Ted has died. The dog, a patterdale terrier mix, first appeared on the BBC fishing series alongside Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse in 2020 and had regularly joined them on their river-based adventures since. Continue reading...
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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orbán used to sink other people’s campaigns… the torch has been passed on
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
came up in my Facebook memories last time I shared it... man, this SMBC @zachweinersmith.bsky.social cracks me the fuck up
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Razzle Bathbone @razzlebathbone.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
wet_haybale joined PeasantChat. <puddlesipper> wellcome ye back <wet_haybale> ta <puddlesipper> hast tha seen the moon this eve <wet_haybale> nay be it ftrange ? <HimWhatEkes> tis red <wet_haybale> that be new ? <gleanmachine> Zounds man do ye ever look up? <wet_haybale> not unlefs it pleafe milord
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Emanuel Perez @perezsez.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
He has been very unfair to Bowser, very unfair. Bowser is a very good friend of mine, Bowser. I call him Koopa. We golf together all the time, did a lot of deals together, collected lots of coins. His son went to school with Baron.
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a blurred image of a group of cartoon characters standing on top of a green field .
ALT: a blurred image of a group of cartoon characters standing on top of a green field .
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Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
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skippyrook @skippyrook.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
distracting us from corruption which is distracting us from January 6th which is distracting us from Trump-Russia which is distracting us from ivermectin which is distracting us from Access Hollywood which is distracting us from… I think at the very bottom of the list it might be Trump Steaks?
A low-resolution promotional image of Donal Trump’s Trump Steaks, ‘The World’s Greatest Steaks’, sold by The Sharper Image, an electronics retailer, for some reason
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..." www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
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‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Top trivia!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/12/2025
the vice president is a klansman
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b𝚘օO𝚘ₒts @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I heard there was a mighty fish With solitude its fervent wish When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder They're known to bite their prey in two They'd even have a go at you The silver and the salty Barracuda
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: And, you know, the Game Awards, they gave Best Music to God of War instead of Xenoblade 3, and it was very unfair
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/11/2025
tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Timeline clenser
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In fairness if you showed that picture to people 300 years ago they wouldn’t have known who those guys were
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@nintendoplayers.uk #NPUKZASNAP Week 4 entry: Mega Bigleo the Alpha Mega Pyroar lights up my day :)
An Alpha Mega Pyroar from Pokémon Legends: ZA stands facing the left. In the background the sun rises over a tree, and lens flare is visible on Pyroar
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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Legends ZA main story completed, official verdict: Mons Good
My character in Pokémon Legends ZA wearing a pink Aromatisse jacket, sitting at a café, with Flat Mate the Stunfisk sat next to him, eyeing the pastries
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Can’t help but worry for Malala’s fellow bong users, thinking, ‘shit, I’ve killed Malala!’
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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!" [Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/09/2025
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2025
Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t. That’s…not a sustainable position.
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Dave Matthews (aka WiltonSpinach) @wiltonspinach.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Tennessee Williams died in 1983, so he was alive at the same time as Venus and Serena - the other tennis-y Williams
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
And this was done as part of any coherent geopolitical strategy, legal or illegal: it was done to create a fan-service snuff film for social media.
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I was just reading a book which covered the US reaction to the Lusitania sinking, and while of course it was always hypocritical and self-serving at times there was a lot of genuine horror being expressed at this German ‘frightfulness’. And then this
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
What a low, despicable person Starmer has shown himself to be, and for nothing.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is nightmarishly bad. Like this is no longer a joke, someone has to take action. He has to be fired from the premiership.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
'Is it time for the Government to drown innocent human beings for political advantage?' and other questions now apparently deemed acceptable in the British media
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/08/2025
god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I write a lot about miserable game development stories, so it sure was a pleasure to hear that one of the reasons Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry is having too much fun making it and didn't want to stop
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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Caterpie, Metapod…. …Hydrapple, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, Terapagos and Pecharunt.
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