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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The same thing he’s always thinking: 1. How to personally profit off of his position. 2. About Ivanka’s boobs. 3. How to personally profit off of his position. 4. How to make Putin happy.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 25/09/2026
FFS. Really important infrastructure projects shouldn't be subject to the whims of whoever happens to be in Downing Street. HS2 is a clusterfuck because twats just keep changing their minds. We should commit to big, important projects and see them through, not faff about every time we get a new PM.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 22/09/2026
Jon Stewart on Trump banning news outlets from the White House: "Maybe f**king president better!"
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remarkable that Trump understanding the consequences of his decisions makes the news
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You guys, lettuce is dumb. (gift link) wapo.st/3UfdzR5
washingtonpost.com
Column | Why we should stop eating lettuce, cyclospora or not
Lettuce makes us sick, wastes resources and has minimal nutritional value. Why are we still consuming it?
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Andy Burnham has defended the government’s early release scheme, citing one example with a very positive outcome. “There was this man – let’s call him ‘Keir’. He was sentenced to five years inside. It was a living hell for him.” From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m off to Edinburgh today ahead of my seven shows at this year’s Fringe. As ever, my train ‘journey’ has got off to a spectacular start.
The Poet Now Standing at Platform 3A
 
The poet now standing at platform 3A
is the delayed 16.40 speaker for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 
calling at: Longwaite; Anguish; Bleakside;
Much Wallowing-in-the-Mire; Little Hope; 
Hangdog Manor; High Dudgeon; Irk; Fuckham; Mope; 
Doldrum Parkway; Wearyside Central; and Wits End.
                                                 
We are sorry to announce this poet is delayed 
by approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. 
Please listen for further announcements.
We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.
 
The poet now standing at platform 3A
is the delayed 16.40 speaker for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Please note, this poet will now NOT be stopping at:
Great Ease; Serenity Junction; or Arrival-on-Time.




This poet has been delayed by approximately one hour 
and forty-eight minutes.
Customers are advised to stand well back from the poet, 
who’s on edge.
Please listen for further announcements.
We apologise for the disruption to your journey today.
 
The poet currently standing at platform 3A
is the delayed 16.40 speaker for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
This poet consists of nine elements: 
oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, tedium, delirium, 
odium, caffeine, shortbread, and despair.

A trolley service, featuring mild palpitations and a selection
of hot and cold sweats, is trundling through this poet.
This poet has been delayed by approximately two hours 
and twenty-three minutes.

Please listen for further disruptions.
We apologise for the announcements to your journey today.
There has been a platform altercation.
The agony at platform 3A does not stop here.
The 16.40 speaker for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 
has been disrupted.
Customers should not bore the poet at this time.
 
The platform now standing on poet 3A has been delayed
by approximately three hours and forty-two minutes.
We apologise for the apologies to your disruptions today.

If you hear an announcement that doesn’t sound right,
seek your stash. Or text a local dealer on 61016 
to help you through this. 
He’ll sort it. Seek it. Pay it. Snorted.

Please note that for your safety and comfort 
this station operates a no trains policy.
 



The fringe now standing at festival 16.40 is the delayed 
3A platform for the Edinburgh poet.
We are sorry to announce that this poet has been waylaid
by approximately four hours and twenty-two minutes.
Will passengers intending to travel on this service
make their way to the platform as the poet is now ready to jump.
 
Please note that longings must not be left unattended 
at this station. Any hope left unattended 
may be removed without warning, or destroyed.
 
This is a customer announcement.
The 16.40 speaker for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 
has terminated here.
A bard replacement service will be in operation.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.


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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
With more rivers running dry and reservoirs getting dangerously empty as Britain sweltered in another heatwave, there was an urgent call today for people to stop using water for unnecessary purposes. From the new Private Eye, out now.
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We took two hours to go from the government telling everyone it’s an emergency if you have a bbq to the emergency services begging everyone to stop calling about the bbqs that were apparently such an emergency that we used the emergency broadcast system. Incredible work. No notes.
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I mean this is absurd. No one who is such an idiot will care what the government thinks and I don’t appreciate the government treating me like an idiot.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Another problem is a load of people are now going to disable the alerts...
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Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert.
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I hope this isn’t the new stage of the Burnham comms strategy
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I do not need to be jumped scared into not buying a disposable BBQ. Fucks sake.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 14/08/2026
I wonder how many car crashes were caused by that emergency alert?
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dear UK government: emergency alerts are for things that are going to kill people imminently unless they take immediate action. They are not for warning against barbecues. You have an entire state and commercial media apparatus with which to disperse the second, non-emergency sort of message.
An emergency alert warning of wildfire risk, ie not an emergency
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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
TEMP REQUIRED for an office based in Central London – apply in writing to Number Ten. Previous experience not essential – you’ll be out of there by five pm.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Thought I should probably update this poem.
(Billionaire) Trillionaire in a Midlife Crisis
 
He’s swapped designer jeans and flashy cars
For designer spacesuits and trips to Mars
Where he watches Earth turn on its axis
With its stupid people paying taxes
He’s indulging all his whims and vices
He’s a (billionaire) trillionaire in a midlife crisis
                
He’s got plans to end world poverty
Once his new hair’s lost its novelty
He’s dropping rap tracks and dissing pronouns
His kids have names they cannot pronounce
He’s choosing who his next young wife is
He’s a (billionaire) trillionaire in a midlife crisis
 
He’s an outspoken champion of free speech
With a mute button in easy reach
He’s building an army of online abusers
More spambots equals more X-users
Cause he’s been left too long to his own devices
If truth be told, he’s not the nicest 
I hope he comes down with (gastroenteritis) pneumoencephalitis
He’s a (billionaire) trillionaire in a midlife crisis
 

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/06/2026
Every news cycle for the past 18 months has been: "Trump administration has made a wildly inaccurate claim, here to debate if words still mean things are..."
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I too think the Falklands should go to Argentina, there should be greater barriers to trade, police should rough up suspects, windmills should be torn down because of TV signal interference and abortion should be illegal.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"I'd have had so many more medals than that if it wasn't for these damn bone spurs"
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘The Cost of Loving’.
The Cost of Loving

I love you more than life itself
but I swear I’ll love you better
if you let me turn the heating off
and you wear another sweater.
 
I cannot get enough of you –
I’m completely in your thrall.
I love to watch you bending over
to unplug the telly at the wall.
 
Yes, you’re the only one for me,
my sweet and fragrant flower –
now you’ve ditched your daily bath 
for a cost-efficient shower.
 
Make no mistake, I love you loads,
you send my head into a spin.
Our cycle’s set to eco-wash:
let’s cram as much as we can in.
 
My cup of love’s full to the brim, 
it overflows, my petal.
So make yourself a brew with me,
but don’t overfill the kettle.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 18/04/2026
I suppose this could make his Presidency seem more normal
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/04/2026
"The New York Times thinks the 'A' in NATO stands for 'American', but experts are sceptical."
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
OK then...here's "NATO", to the tune of Y.M.C.A. 🎶 old man, there's no need to feel down, I said old man, take your hands off that crown, I said old man, 'cause you don’t take your meds (There's no word that rhymes with orange) 1/
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 13/03/2026
EXCLUSIVE - I've just been passed the latest copy from the Papua New Guinea Courier's USA correspondent. Subscribe to my Substack for more! mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-latest...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/03/2026
Ah yes, the great theories of international relations. 1. Realism. 2. Liberalism. 3. We have never before reached the FO state of FAFO and are thus supremely confident we can keep the FA up indefinitely with no consequences whatsoever. Plus, shit exploding is great content. Let's fucking goooooo!
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 09/02/2026
Morgan McSweeney AKA the 'mastermind' behind Dominic Cummings' lockdown breach, partygate, wallpapergate, Matt Hancock's penis, Owen Paterson's lobbying, multiple sexual misconduct allegations, Michelle Mone, the PPE fast lane, and those betting scandals.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it fucks underage ducks, is mentioned 5000 times in secret documents about fucking underage ducks, is best friends with other underage duck fuckers & holds a competition to find the prettiest underage ducks, it's Donald the Duck Fucker. 🐤🦆
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
They're there to stop American athletes defecting
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Britain is Broken, parts of it are lawless, crime is out of control, says person who was Home Secretary 18 months ago and previously Attorney General.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 23/01/2026
Trump HAS lived up to what he promised us, as long as you define "us" as "Donald Trump" @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Worrying that Trump has misspelled "bored"
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20/01/2026
Who comes up with the Trump administration's heilarious slogans?
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
1/ Ukrainians are said to be funding their war effort by systematically fleecing billions from Russian citizens and businesses through online and phone scams. It's a hidden front of a hybrid war that employs both kinetic means on the battlefield and hacking on the home front. ⬇️
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Lots of talk again about China, the US, and Russia dividing the world into spheres of influence. One problem with this idea is that after 30 years of trying, Russia's sphere is limited to Belarus, Georgia, and 20% of Ukraine. Another is that if China has a sphere, it includes Russia.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"if you are pronouncing a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people, even though it's happened internally, there the United States shall enter, then we are going to have really terrible wars in the world". Margaret Thatcher, 1983. www.margaretthatcher.org/document%2F1...
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Poem with a subliminal message.
Resolution
 
Having failed to keep
A new year’s resolution for
Pretty much ever, this year I resolve to
Play it safe. The trick is to know
Your limits. Keep it simple.
 
Now what I resolve to do is to
Eschew a poetic form. Abstain from
Writing an acrostic for a whole
 
Year. A resolution, I think,
Easily done. Eminently achievable.
A piece of cake. Oh,
Rats.


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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 23/12/2025
Out of Christmas gift ideas and/or money? Get your kid a Tariff Tilly, the perfect doll to ride out Trump's trade war
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🧵1/ The Christmas @bmj.com is always an opportunity to use satire as a vehicle for serious health messaging. Borrowing from Jonathan Swift, I ask, if public health is to “work with industry,” why stop at alcohol and gambling? Why not go all the way… and collaborate with organised crime?
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Good luck to all the children taking part in their school’s nativity play this week. You’re all stars, no matter what your role.
Roles 
 
He never got to play 
the part of Joseph; 
he was one of those kids 
who no one noticed. 
 
The type barely seen
and more rarely heard,
not a Herod or Innkeeper,
no Second Shepherd.

He never got to wear 
the crown of a king 
nor the wings of an angel
(no one knew he could sing). 
 
No, instead he would be
Brown Cow Number Four,
A Rock or A Bauble,
The Stable Door. 
 
And now – forty years on –  
it still made him wince, 
for it seemed that his life 
hadn’t changed that much since. 


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Rem Korteweg @remkorteweg.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What if the US National Security Strategy is actually less important than we think? Since Waltz' departure, NSC-job is done by Rubio, on top of his role as SoS NSC seems less powerful in this WH And Trump is Trump. He won't allow himself to be guided by documents What if it's just trolling? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/12/2025
2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years." 2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..." 2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 05/12/2025
Got a close up look at Trump’s medal
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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