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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 22h

Can you imagine it: a People's Choice public vote for Consultant of the Year - the masses are demanding their say ... I think I might give this one a miss...

A snippet from an email:

SOUTH WALES
A WARDS
SOUTH WALES AWARDS 2026-27
Hugh, your nomination is waiting
for you
You have been nominated at the South Wales Awards for Consultant of
the Year Award, and we have not yet heard from you.
It takes a minute to confirm. Only confirmed nominees go forward to the
judges and to the People's Choice public vote, so we would hate for you
to miss out
Confirm My Nomination
You can check every detail before you confirm, and change anything that
is not right. Entry is free

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reform have conducted an independent inquiry and announced they won the Holborn and St Pancras byelection.

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OK, but how about broad consensus that what is being done is evil? Could that have an influence, Tom?

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(a) Does anyone developing AI have a clue what a cheque actually is? (b) Apart from anything else, surely 'cheque amount' not 'cheque size'? It's giving cheesy vibes to me

A fake picture of a host talking about two people, cheering in a semi-jubilant fashion, holding a massive cheque on a stage in front of an audience

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I saw these pigs at the Birmingham Museum and Gallery!

An oil painting of two pigs snuggled up together, with root vegetables

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 09/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @pembroke1347.bsky.social Its formal name is The College or Hall of Valence Mary (commonly called Pembroke College) in the University of Cambridge If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing ancient college buildings in an empty Cambridge street; top right is an image of the college's arms in an escutcheon

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well this needs to go straight onto a sculpt

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 09/10/2026

Sorry Not Sorry

A classical portrait of a man with a powdered wig and velvet robe, overlaid with the text: “Due to foreseen circumstances totally in my control, I will be late.”

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Freya is celebrating Golden Fleece Day

Freya, a small brown and white terrier, snuggled on a quilt with a golden fleecy blanket

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Splendid cartoon by Martyn Turner

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The daily British history map puzzle.

britmap · 9 OCTOBER 2026 ○ 28 ● 100 ● 83 ◐ 68 ● 80 Total: 738/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 16 Highs and Lows today

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Wordle 1,938 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Halfren the Hare stopped in his tracks - what was this? A smooth and shiny round stone with a handle? Martha and Saga exchanged knowing glances, Muttley woofled happily: curling season was back! Señor Llama grunted: such things were not known in the Andes

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“My room marked with an X”

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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I don't expect you will go far.

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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK

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Monkeys in a bed? What is this madness?

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Depends how camp they are

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Maybe, but that Ever-Ready ship wouldn't have blocked it, and 1956 would have played put very differently!

It's a supply-your-own-context sub-bleat

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TIL that the Statue of Liberty was originally designed to celebrate the opening of the Suez canal, and to be located nearby

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It's Catullus; I thought it might have multiple uses at the moment

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Utter indifference to your welfare, Caesar, is matched only by ignorance of who you are

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"Uncle Norman is coming for me August Monday Bank Holiday" @uniofleicester.bsky.social #HigherEducationPostcard

An old colour picture postcard showing a grand college building in brick and stone, with green parkland in the front and blue cloudy skies

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It's bound to be a better guess than any I could make!

Actually I would much prefer an Ig

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I'm hoping to get the literature prize next year

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Brilliantly, this isn't AI

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I was on it once Defending my then employer because we'd been a rubbish neighbour Which we had, to be fair, so I went with a mea culpa

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

- Knock knock! - Who's there? - The No-bell prize committee!

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This is out next month, preorder yourself a treat! Remember: when you preorder a book, it is free when it arrives because your past self paid for it. There is no true continuity of self. Ergo. Free book.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Look at these! Convertible rail/road vehicles at Birmingham New Street A whole squadron of them!

A yellow flat-bed truck with some sort of cable laying equipment (maybe) with tyres and wheels for rails

It's on the tracking an underground station

A whole bunch of similar vehicles to that in picture one, parked behind it on the tracks between platforms 7 and 8 at Birmingham New Street

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