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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 35m

Good. Juries are important, not so much for the decisions they make, but for the decisions they prevent others form being able to make. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...

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Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry

Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 11h

Denis Healey on David Owen

Healey kept a shelf of Spitting Image puppets as latex mementoes of his turbulent political life - among them Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and David Owen. As he picked up the Owen puppet and squeezed it to make it squeak, I quoted Owen's view that when Healey stood for the Labour leadership in 1980 he “didn't have the guts to take on the left wing of the party”. “That's absolute bollocks," snorted Healey. “David Owen was a very self-centred person. He was good-looking, he was intelligent, he had immense charm and all these presents were given to him by the good fairy and then the bad fairy came along and tapped him on the shoulder and said, '... but you'll be a shit.”

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 15h

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 03,1944

P1- NANCY IS WEARING A PAINTER’S HAT AND SMOCK, SHE IS SHOWING SLUGGO A PAINTING SHE HAS JUST FINISHED
NANCY: HOW DO YOU LIKE MY MODERN PAINTING?
SLUGGO: PHOOEY

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NANCY:WELL --- STEP BACK A BIT ---
MAYBE YOU’RE STANDIN’ TOO CLOSE TO IT
SLUGGO: COULD BE

P3-SLUGGO: YEP --- DAT HELPS ALOT

SLUGGO IS STANDING AT THE OTHER END OF THE STREET LOOKING BACK AT NANCY HOLDING HER PAINTING

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 13h

Take the figs to make your body live, the beer to rejoice your heart. (OGC)

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14h

Today's Profiles in Courage

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 19h

I liked computers more back in the days when you clicked to save a file and the next day there was every chance you'd be able to find it again.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 20h

Things which are not like the “Third World”: Lack of fibre broadband in a nice village in Kent where the average house price is between £700,000 to £900,000, where residents can go about their business openly and shamelessly wearing red trousers.

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‘Don’t let Kent village become a third-world broadband dead zone’

A rural Kent village is in danger of becoming a “third world dead zone” when a broadband provider pulls out, residents fear.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 21h

That's a quarry near Rickmansworth.

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking up into the central tower at Durham Cathedral. The nave below was fairly complete by 1133, and the end of that century saw the building of the galilee chapel and the twin west towers. The choir was rebuilt in the 13th Century, and then 200 years later this tower was the finishing touch.

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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · 21h

Fantastic. I'll be on it like a scotch bonnet.

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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 21h

Jimmy Hill in his Musketeer phase.

Jimmy Hill in a fetchingly coloured suit jacket with a blue spotty tie and a haircut and facial hair combination that would not look out of place on a musketeer.

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Paul Garrard @paulgarrard.bsky.social · 21h

It's a good film.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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Mandeville was cavendish_maid 📎 🇺🇦 @mandeville24.bsky.social · 22h

I found this on Sky News about 3/4 of the way down the web page. Even below cricketer Brian Carse being charged by the regulator following his arrest on night out! Retired engineer jailed for blowing up ULEZ camera using homemade bomb news.sky.com/share/13594406

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Retired engineer jailed for blowing up ULEZ camera using homemade bomb

Kevin Rees destroyed a camera using a rudimentary improvised explosive, in a "terrorism-linked" blast that caused damage to cars and homes more than 100 yards away.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 23h

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t stop laughing

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Margaret Thatcher in NE England (© Ella Murtha) #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a girl juming on top of an abandoned car near a wall with graffiti and houses beyond

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Blakes7Bot @blakes7bot.torpidity.net · 03/10/2026

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown KAYN: I'm a surgeon. I'm not terribly interested in spaceship design. FARREN: You're one of our senior men. You share the responsibility for the safety of this station. blake.torpidity.net/m/110/359

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dundee, 15 February 1959. Pic: Michael Peto

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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Blondie, there. #TOTP

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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week, Mr Pip has barked at The empty space on the sofa The Veterinary Industrial Complex Thews Puppy pads Perfect lawns Shrinkflation Dubbing (footwear) Dubbing (forin) Kagools The moving finger having writ Kevin Kline Porcelain Lutefisk Weebles and Norham.

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Some call me... Tim? @tjmoore.co.uk · 02/10/2026

"Sooner or later we're going to drop into one of these holes in the ground and never come out"

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🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

Lego ancient Greece. As seen on Flickr. The build is by Lasse and Anne Mette Vestergård.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy little accidents

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We don’t do the Mail, but this piece, with its finger firmly on the pulse of the nation, is behind a paywall so we will never know who is on Lady Sybilla’s list. The world, we feel, is much better for this.

Lady Sybilla Hart's guide to truly posh baby names.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This whole article is just a list of ways they're thinking of making disabled people's lives even harder, to save money. And a list of other places that've already done it, as if that makes it right. Nauseating.

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Golden Beryl @goldenberyl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Robert Mutt. Patron Saint of urinals. Both on this day in 1917.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

how are you going to start a war that creates fuel scarcity then tell the world to make up for it? what a cunt

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Her dress was of turquoise-colored silk, bright and soft as the evening sky. It belled out full from her hips, and all the skirt was embroidered with thin silver threads and seed pearls and tiny crumbs of crystal, so that it glittered softly, like rain in April.

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M.C. @mcmgoptimist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

GM 🌄 ☕️ 🍂 🎨 Kerry Phippen

Watercolour on paper painting called "Couple on Barra Beach".

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 01/10/2026

While much more trivial, he said he wanted pints back in the stands at football and football fans went 'shut up'. Are we sure he actually knows what football is? He said nice things about the City owners after the verdict. Football fans want City obliterated for what they've done.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*The British press* spent this year dumping on their once-favoured son Nigel, and Badenoch is clueless that she is being deeply indulged by media outlets that mostly want her to shut up and pretend to be somewhat normal.

The Telegraph • @Telegraph • 5h
A year ago, Kemi Badenoch faced calls to resign after disastrous local election results.
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Ed Cumming meets Badenoch and examines how her Thatcherite policies, sharper Commons performances and revamped shadow cabinet have helped steady the party, and put Nigel Farage under pressure.

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The Phantom of the Mead Hall Bard @themeadhallbard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#YuletideSproutsKPI Report Fire: Raging Liquor Level: Nominal Cauldron Status: Rolling boil Miasma Toxicity: Tolerable Rat Contamination Level: Low Sous Serf Safety: Fair to middling Product Safety Assessment: Meh

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ALT:

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am Dentist x

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excellent post/thread. 👏 Fwiw, here's my rather less data driven response.

Screencap of tweet by Rupert Lowe followed by my response

"London used to be the best city in the world. I loved living and working there. Genuinely loved it. The whole world wanted to be in London. Now? It is a dump.

Outside a few select posh areas right in the middle of the city, it increasingly resembles the third world."

7:25 13 Dec 25

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paulusthewoodgnome!@woodgnomology

"London 'depresses' you because you're a racist cunt. Most people who live in / visit London aren't racist cunts. This allows them to love London in all its diversity. My advice to you? Stop being a racist cunt. You'll not only have a renewed zest for London but life in general."

11:28 14 Dec 25

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Lost in History, OBC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brexit - Year 0 - 5 'Get over it, you lost' Year 5 - 10 'This is great, but can we pretty please have...' Year 10 - 'Let us back in' All predictable at the time

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.

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