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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We always say Phoenixfest sells out as quickly as Glasto but it turns out we’re a lot quicker 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyway. Reminder that if you're a historian - particularly a postgrad - doing a research project your brainworms tell you only you care about... DM me. It's more interesting than you know. Talk to me. We can do a pod ep. It's all about framing. I hope those who've been on already would agree.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
your da shouts at hotels and your mum lives in Piddington
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The waves out at sea were up to 60 feet high (18 metres). The wind was force 12: hurricane conditions. 100mph. The Solomon Browne launched from Penlee at 8.12pm, with its crew of eight men, and headed to the Union Star. They never returned.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The radio call to the Solomon Browne unanswered. The seconds of static that seem to drag on into minutes, hours, days. The repeat call, out into radio silence. Anyone attacking the RNLI is no mariner, has no concept of the power of the sea and should sit down and shut the fuck up.
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There's never a bad time to immerse yourself in the world of Taiwanese puppet action.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any person or organisation questioning their actions or loyalty to this country should be corrected and ostracised. Anyone can drown, but no one should. rnli.org/support-us
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Charity Support For The RNLI - Save Lives At Sea Your Way
Discover ways you can get involved and provide charity support for the RNLI. As a charity, we rely on the support of people like you to save lives at sea.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW The legal agony of Wile E Coyote Coyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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The legal agony of Wile E Coyote
Coyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made
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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 24/08/2026
Vanquish foes or cook them where they stand? Shroom and Gloom lets you season, skewer or roast your foes, then eat them to restore lost health. You can even make soup! Coming to Steam on September 10.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026
Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fuck yeah
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
✨RELEASE DATE REVEAL!✨ Shroom and Gloom explodes onto Steam September 10th! Early Access Launches with: 🔮 2 pathways w/ totally unique card pools! 🐀 5 playable characters! 🍄 All the mushrooms you can eat! So much more to come! Spread the spores! 🦠 #gamedev #indiedev #shroomandgloom
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A Review of the Guardian’s Review of Channel 4’s ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’ theneuroscienceofeve... I reviewed the Guardian's review of The Great ADHD Myth, and found it... well, lacking doesn't really do it justice. #ADHD #Channel4 #Guardian #Neurodivergence
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 20/08/2026
Following recent legal developments, we have refreshed and reaffirmed our policy on providing trans-inclusive toilet facilities at Friends House in London, and Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria. ow.ly/ZNuo50ZBRZc
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Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice
Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Trump Clown Show continues, now with added Hegseth.
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Daily Briefing
Trump failures in Iran, South Korea…and Canada
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Remembering that time we catalogued a book about birds and found all the new insults we could ever need.
Entries from Collins Nature Guide to Birds. The entries are:
Gadwall, Great Crested Grebe, Little Bittern, Rough-legged Buzzard, Great Reed Warbler, Ferruginous Duck, Little Bustard, Red-necked Phalarope, Shoveler, Bearded Tit and Short-toed Treecreeper.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
PSA If you encounter someone who dismisses your #ADHD because they watched 'The Great ADHD Myth?', feel free to tell them to contact me via my site so I can explain, at length, why they're an idiot Hell, send my their address and I'll do it face to face. I'm willing to go full 'Punisher' over this
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Tom Lum @tomlumperson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I can’t BELIEVE I fell for this 🎟️ www.caveat.nyc/events/our-f... 🎟️
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Broke: churches using AI to make boring generic posters Woke: whatever the hell these weird things are that I made for St Nicks...
A poster for pride placard making at st Luke's stocking farm, friday 04th September 2pm to 6pm, free event, all materials provided.

The image is an old photo of a woman holding a banner, but the banner has been turned into a progress pride flag and the eyes are replaced with a drag queensAdvert for the rainbow Eucharist at st Nicholas church Leicester on sunday September 06th at 18:30

There's info about the guest preacher but she's not able to do it anymore so thats wrong, pls hold while we find someone else!

The poster has an illustration from the 1800's of the angel Gabriel holding a long banner that's now rainbow colours
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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We are here to help each other get through this thing...whatever it is. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK. It's French. DELIGHTED to welcome @juliekalman.bsky.social onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France. Listen below, Youtube or your pod app of choice
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Episode 27: The history and cultural impact of Asterix the Gaul
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
René Goscinny would have been 100 today. Here’s my version of his most famous creations - Asterix and Obelix.
A drawing of Asterix and Obelix
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Taking medication you don't need has unpleasant effects? You'd think a qualified medic would have known this already. So either he's not actually qualified and his involvement with this is fraudulent, or he is, and is knowingly spreading dangerous misinformation, so this is genuine malpractice
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Nothing says "legitimate concerns about children's wellbeing" than depriving a 10 year old child of medication prescribed by qualified professionals and broadcasting the results to millions of strangers. My critique of this whole debacle: theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/some-quest...
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Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’
Channel 4 have announced a new documentary exploring the ‘myth’ of ADHD. There are so many questions they need to answer about this incredibly reckless endeavour.
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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
At Alnwick Castle’s frankly crazy children’s playground, and something I deeply love is when adults put the correct amount of thought, effort and money into children’s play experience.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Time for the EU to punch Trump in the face.
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Greenland Next?
Trump won’t stop until he’s stopped
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Researchers at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark have conducted multiple landmark, population-wide studies tracking hundreds of thousands to over 1.2 million children using national health registries to examine potential links between vaccines and autism. Every major study found no connection.
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Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions
A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’ theneuroscienceofeve... Channel 4 have many questions to answer about their upcoming 'documentary'. Here are some of the most pressing (and snarky, because when dealing with brutal cynicism, why not join in?) #ADHD #C4
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Image: In a childrens library, a small boy contentedly reads a small picture book, while an angry-looking small girl storms past, carrying a very heavy book.

Caption:
Unfortunately for Charlotte, the adjudication committee decides that, for the purposes of the under-nines summer reading challenge, the six volumes of proust's 'in search of lost time' is considered to be one single narrative, whereas each of Roger hargreaves' mister men' books is a distinct work, thereby awarding the library's 'top reader' sticker to her brother Toby.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Bang Racists in The Widge With Bricks Again
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Lynn™ @lynn.cat · 01/08/2026
“How strong should the eject mechanism on this miniSD card slot be?” “Ah, just fuckin’ send it mate”
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Burning Wheel HQ @burningwheelrpg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Are you at #GenCon this weekend? If so, stop by the BW booth 2703 for 2 new releases - Special Patrol Group: Interceptor and Middarmark. We also have Dungeon World 2 Beta by @primarchspencer.bsky.social, and titles from our talented friends @jaredsorensen.bsky.social and @keithsenkowski.com.
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Burning Wheel HQ @burningwheelrpg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At #GenCon2026 Luke is running Interceptor every day at 12pm as well as Inheritance on Saturday at 8pm. Spencer is running Dungeon World 2 every day. There are talks with both Luke and Spencer and live game design with Christopher Badell. Sign up or just SHOW UP. www.gencon.com/event_finder...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On the Untitled History Podcast this week, I'm joined by @philistella.bsky.social to discuss letter writing in the 18th century, and the insights it gives us into the lives of women. WARNING: Contains MULTIPLE chaos Torties on screen Available below, on youtube or your pod app of choice! #history
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Episode 25: 18th Century letter writing and the hidden history of women
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