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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sheffield! Tonight!

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now that Man City have been found guilty of all that dodgy dealing, I wonder how many points Spurs will be docked as a punishment

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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A.I. companies are not trying to figure out how to protect you from their technology. They are trying to figure out how to monetize it without liability. Since we won't pay for it directly, they'll convince companies that to compete, they HAVE to have it. Enjoy your newly priced streaming services.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

High risk stuff, painting a boat on a blowy September day. All I need is for the rain to hold off for about the next 8 hours and all will be well 😬

The all-steel front cabin of a working narrowboat, painted in light blue with a red roof and red top to the front tool locker. It is pictured in a countryside setting with a farmyard in the background. It looks smashing, if I do say so myself

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd imagine what Jim Ratcliffe knows about immigration and welfare policy could be written on the inside of a ping pong ball, alongside what he knows about football of course

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of modern civilisation’s great moments. THE SWEDISH CHEF RAPPER'S DELIGHT

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thinking about all those conspiracy thrillers from pre 2016 that relied on the belief that the American government are on the whole really cunning, ruthlessly efficient and not in fact as dumb as bricks.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Happy Peter Falk Day

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Each day stranger than the last.

The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but the boyfriend is now Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, his girlfriend is a furious Hitler and the object of his attention is Ed Sheeran.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know I'm late to this, but my mate Jake and I will not be demonstrating dry stone walling at any Ed Sheeran events. I should add that it has nothing to do with recent events, I just can't stand him

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I am but skin & bones..."

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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Middle England today

Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The 'AI destroys humanity/we must slow down' bullshit is simply because the guys got spooked that floating that company might've finally burst the bubble & ruined all their fun, and this is just another gambit to string out the 'recycled free money that doesn't exist' train for as long as possible

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Digger Dog at work this morning. We are glad of the cab glass recently, it's bloody miserable again

A small dog with a pink collar sits inside a tracked excavator, looking at the camera

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In other "late to everything" news, I had latterly discovered Sudoku. Tonight I have had the footballs and the tennises on the old Medium Wave whilst I've been engrossed in the numbers 1-9. I am so rock and roll baby.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Angela Raynor has apparently just suggested nipping out to shut the stable door, and perhaps even going down the field to check on the horse

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Rue - I Have Guns in my House (for murder) 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 @rueshine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This has lived in my head for 2 years and counting

Tweet from lil h
I was raised on silk shirt rnb so all that incel shit never hit for me. I believe in beggin for the pussy, outside in the rain, cryin, throwing up, just for a sniff. Thats your role as a man

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sharpened and oiled, but am I getting ready for Winter, or making plans for Nigel? (It's Winter, obviously)

Two axes lying on a pallet next to an oil can and Engineer's file. The axes are shiny and very very sharp

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The pinnacle of British culture.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dick ridge. Unbelievable girth.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 11/09/2026

“My God! Vikings! And they mean business!”

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?” ~ Anne Carson

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They’ve all forgotten their kit and are having to do fascism in their pants.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

POLICEMAN: Name WOMAN: Cheryl Cole POLICEMAN: Your FULL name. WOMAN: (Quietly) Chernobyl Coleslaw, Sir.

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Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh god. I've actually watched the video now. What a whining pissbaby. And as for his "yes Mr Tommo, whatever you say, Mr Tommo" disciples, grow some fucking self respect, you cretins.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'Many feet make one path. I like to walk on a foot path. I walk over the grass and turn to see if I have made a path. Two feet once only is not enough. I return to the foot path to fill one of the bunch. I add my feet. I look back. What a path we made.' The Path by Ivor Cutler 1976

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We regret that due to unprecedented demand, Tesco has run out of school shorts ahead of the new term.

The big bold face-hiding right-wing racist lads at the Back2School Shop in Tesco.

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In just 4 weeks I'll be in Warwick, a town with no shortage of ancient buildings! I'm there for Warwick Words Festival, the very first event on The Buildings Archaeologist tour. As its pre-release, we're sneaking in advance copies of the book! More info: www.warwickwords.co.uk/index.php?vi...

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Working weekend in Brighton, so am in the Grand of course (I'm not paying for the room thank god!)

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Col @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope if I ever get divorced I don't get THIS divorced

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 03/09/2026

Are we all in need of a medieval hug? We think so. ❤️

We are looking at two figures hugging. One is dressed in blue and is wearing a brown pointy hat. The other is an angel with wings and an orange halo. It looks like both are in need of a hug.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Saying “Why I oughta!” when my doctor checks my prostate

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Your semi regular reminder to buy books (and pamphlets) from Longbarrow Press. They are some of the loveliest things on my shelf, and both publisher and their stable of authors are absolutely smashing people

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Fickle Filly @ficklefilly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How to enjoy a staff meeting: 1. Stop listening. 2. Imagine you’re down at Fraggle Rock.

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Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Carbon capture and storage

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CfP for our TAG Exeter session 'After the Election: Archaeology & Cultural Heritage in a Post-Reform UK'. Imagine it's 2029, Reform wins a landslide election victory, the Department for British Culture has oversight of all cultural output. What next for archaeology, museums & cultural heritage?

Screenshot of the call for papers for the session for Exeter TAG, which says:
This session imagines the archaeological and heritage implications of a Reform UK government following its victory at the 2029 general election. The newly created ‘Department for British Culture’ oversees urgent revisions to Britain’s heritage and cultural sectors, operating under a mandate to suppress ‘woke’ approaches to the past. Institutional overhauls are in progress at museums and archives, at National Trust properties, in media, and publishing, and the DfBC are revising how the past is taught in schools as part of the new ‘National Curriculum Reformed’. Government policies call for the withdrawal of funding from museums and heritage sites that address difficult histories, particularly those related to colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, and migration. New national guidance has been issued that prioritises narratives of ‘traditional’ British culture, economic and wartime achievement, and Christian heritage.

This session seeks reflections on this imagined future, focused on its implications for the present:
Is this prediction accurate? To what extent? How can we better understand the structures and dynamics that shape the far-right framing and usage of the past? In what locales, and through what narratives, is the past mobilised towards far-right political goals? What about in 2029?
Can archaeologists contribute to avoiding a future such as this? Where are we going wrong? How might we prepare? What does activist-archaeologist resistance to far-right state power look like?
What are the political responsibilities of those who work with the past? How can we attempt to prevent political harms and marginalisation through our work? Conversely, should archaeology remain politically neutral?

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Your semi-regular reminder that Allison Pearson is a fucking idiot

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Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 31/08/2026

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Off to an outdoor music event in Nottingham today. Thunderstorm warnings all afternoon. If all goes according to plan @salix.bsky.social and I might just get to see Badly Drawn Boy electrocuted on stage, which I think would be a perfect way to finish the summer of live music off

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