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Groucho Merckx

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Mostly cat pictures. 🇵🇸 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He/him

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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 1h
It's time the Green Party kicked out those in its ranks that are still promoting the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 19h
If you could use a pick-me-up, check out the Smithsonian’s live cheetah cub cam. The five-day old cubs are beyond adorable, and an important addition to the captive breeding program for this vulnerable species.
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Cheetah Cub Cam
The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 3h
I talk a lot about major transport investment, but one of the biggest bangs for the buck policy-wise would be a full pavement parking ban and more rigid enforcement of traffic rules. Enforcement is so lax that this stuff is just completely normalised now, and it's unacceptable.
a YSS Scaffolding truck parked on double yellows and blocking a pavement in Tang Hallan MG5 parked fully on the pavement as if it's a parking spot, blocking buggies from passing
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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 7h
Another classic on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social , Went the Day Well? aka 48 Hours is a remarkable movie made during WWII about a Nazi invasion. Adapted from writing by Graham Greene, this resistance story makes the blood run cold. 5 out of 5 #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2020/12/12/4...
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48 Hours - film-authority.com
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18h
1937’s utterly gorgeous Penguin Books building in Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Several decades after Penguin moved to central London, this lovely, historic Art Deco gem was pulled down. Which was just wrong.
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 17h
You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 23h
I will never, ever consider my audience when making art. You are a disgusting flesh piano I manipulate to make the noises that please me. That’s the Rob Delaney promise.
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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 21h
This graph is literally on the Guardian website
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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 18h
Zack Polanski will never be accepted as a serious politician until he has materially assisted in the commission of a genocide and I can’t decide if I’m joking here or not.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 18h
If the @greenparty.org.uk can run Labour this close, under their new and currently popular Prime Minister, enjoying his temporary 'bounce', what will they be able to do once the novelty wears off? 👍
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h
We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 21h
Seeing commentators saying that the Greens have run out of steam now that Labour have ditched Starmer and moved their pitch to the left - and I’m like, you realise that’s why people were voting Green? That’s the successful application of political pressure
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h
The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I urge you all to remember Nick’s radio interview with Morgan McSweeney - the only one that bland psycho has given. Morgan simply denied he would ever do factionalism, denied being mates with Peter Mandelson and said he wanted to bring the Labour family together, and that was just fine by Nick.
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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 09/10/2026
‘Not that he would have welcomed the description “folk” singer. Not for Bob were the definitions of folk music promulgated by the early 20th-century collectors such as Cecil Sharp’ www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
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Bob Davenport obituary
Folk musician who recorded a succession of celebrated albums and shared the stage with Dylan and Baez at the 1963 Newport festival
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Hmwhatnow @hmwhatnow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wellington was the absolute king of pass agg memos, telling accounts to get fucked.
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 09/10/2026
this analogy falls down because dividing zero by zero is actually really easy and the answer is definitely zero (say you are dividing a pizza, and the amount of pizza you have is zero, nobody is going to get any pizza simple as that. & luckily you don't have anyone to divide it among either)
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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Done. The great thing about free will is that my caps lock is now extremely loud.
CAPS LOCK BUT WITH BRIAN BLESSED

GORDON'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms!
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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Not sure who needs to know that John Kirkpatrick once appeared on Harry Hill's TV Burp being attacked by a model pig, but here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyX2...
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Harry Hill's TV Burp: Series 8b Episode 3 (14/02/2009)
YouTube video by Oscar Barnett
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS
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Matt Round @mattround.com · 09/10/2026
Product idea: caps lock key with Brian Blessed’s face on it
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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
The cones hotline, except it doesn't even have government backing www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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What would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UK
Finance expert launches Small Ideas Initiative to gather ‘practical, low-cost’ ideas to put before cross-party panel
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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Can't believe I've once again been passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the piddling technical grounds of "never having actually written a book"
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Proud ‘n short @proudnshort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know what I love most about this picture?? The range of wonderful people. That’s my London, that’s my greens, that’s why, secretly inside me, no matter where I live, London is always home. The very best of luck tonight @zackpolanski.bsky.social , for you have the best of people behind you
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
POV anomalocaris says to you" "Hey, you're finally awake! That rock must have hit you hard! What do you mean, 'this is the onion person who was firebombed for not masking at a warehouse orgy?' What's an onion? Not to mention, what's a person? And what's fire? Eh, it probably doesn't matter. C'mon, let's go eat some trilobites!
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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Report from the frontlines of the Holborn & St Pancras byelection: the Greens are still out knocking doors, while the Labour activists have gone to the pub
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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oct 8th 1984 - After catching their first ghost at the Sedgewick Hotel, business quickly picks up for the Ghostbusters with more paranormal sightings. On Oct 8th they were featured on the front page of USA Today. 📽️📅 Ghostbusters (1984)
3 Screenshots from the movie "Ghostbusters" (1984): First, the Ghostbusters, wearing their iconic uniforms with proton packs, stand in a lavish hotel interior, engaging in a serious discussion with a man in a suit. Second, a woman with curly hair sits in a living room, watching a news broadcast about the Ghostbusters on an old-fashioned TV, with a cityscape visible through the window blinds. Third, a newspaper headline "Ghost Fever Grips New York" features an image of the Ghostbusters team.
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Tom Sykes @tgcsykes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't know about you but it's enjoying these kinds of rights and freedoms in this country that really makes me want to fight and die in an unwinnable nuclear war against Russia, China or anywhere else where they censor people who disagree with their elites.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
*The fucking Guardian* is now printing columns by fash crank Israel partisans demanding that the government Take Swift Action against protestors, Muslims and migrants, as an urgent defence of national security.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
holy shit this might be one of the most offensive cartoons i've ever seen
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 07/10/2026
The Italians won’t tell you this, but this is how you do a truly great carbonara
Secret Italian carbonara sauce
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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My non-Blueskying wife has been following this conversation and adds this contribution:
An old yarn advert, dating from the 40s or 50s. "I've robbed the rainbow - to make you GAY", thr jester representing Jester Wolls (for gayer garments) is saying to a confused-looking woman in a blue knitted dress, as he unravels a rainbow into balls of wool.
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025
…🤔 Your belly button is just your old mouth. …🙃
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know what? I’m feeling generous today. This is Chapter 13 of Space Opera, justifying why in the world sentience would be determined via an interstellar battle of the bands.
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Ben JJ @benjjgeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Greens don't get an alloted slot of media attention that they can choose to fill how they want. If they do something "bad" the media splash it everywhere. If they do something good, the media ignore it.
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This isn't even in the menu at this cafe, so as best I can tell, he ordered it specially and is now angry with the restaurant for his own choices.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Once again, the framing on this sort of stuff is so poor: a) the Labour right have already made clear they’d rather disembowel themselves than share power w the left b) if compromise is impossible, why should the Greens agree to a coalition with the party of genocide support and legitimate concerns?
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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OPPOSING GENOCIDE MAKES ZIONISTS FEEL UNSAFE
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Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So the Greens aren't pandering to the 'genocide doesn't bother me vote.' Good on 'em 💚
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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
*considers the hell out of it*
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1. I myself proposed a plan to Frank, without anyone else involved, for this evening with dinner. It was a long and very positive conversation. 2. I know how much he loves dinner and the weight he carries in the world, and even more so, the weight he has had on my lap for 5 consecutive years.
Frank, a handsome tabby cat, on top of thr wardrobe
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd is currently being enthusiastically dunked on by western Discourse Guardians for the supposed incoherence of this post & I gotta say the irony metre jst exploded cos Mohammed wrote an entire book addressing exactly the rhetorical policing of Palestinian resistance
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Your definition of Zionism does not matter. Nor does mine. Zionism is defined by its material manifestations. The purpose of a system is what it does. And the Zionist system does racism and genocide. Simple. Please spare me the arrogant insufferable graaating Oxbridge debates. Your opinions are irrelevant. People are dying.
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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The press and broadcast media are never gonna let Greens win If the party doesn't work out a way to sidestep them, it's doomed anyhow. Might as well have an open discussion about the true nature of zionism in the meantime.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cats are a community resource
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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
The news
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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