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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From Graham McInnes - FB 😹😹

herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just reading a news article about the latest stand-off re parading in Northern Ireland. I can’t help thinking that the Financial Times’ instruction “use two fingers to move the map” sums up what both sides have been trying to do for years.

Plan of Derry taken from the Financial Timea website, with text saying “use two fingers to move the map”

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s Pavlov’s birthday. Pavlov was famous for making his wife, the ballerina Pavlova, salivate and ring a bell whenever he fed his dog a meringue-based pudding.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*receives email from person A* Me - forwards email to person B Me- replies to person A Microsoft outlook “Ah, you previously forwarded this email to person B. Clearly when you hit “reply”, what you meant was “forward this to person B as well.” I’ll help you out by doing that instead.” Me: aaaargh!

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just completed a (mandatory) online course at work which has awarded me a certificate of AI proficiency. In the assessment I had to build an AI Agent. I couldn’t do it but asked AI to write a plausible looking paper on how I had built an agent. I can’t decide whether this was cheating or not.

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Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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I understand that people are buying RNLI Christmas cards in order to add money to all the donations which are flooding in.
Now it appears that some are planning to buy them and send them to Reform's free post address.
Really, if you did that, it would cost them an awful lot of money.
But people want to know if such an address exists.
It does.
Reform UK
Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC
83 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0HW

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was there. It was fantastic. Lots of EU flags throughout the hall.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If anyone on the 10.24 from Euston to Birmingham would like a free dog, there appear to be three available, running freely up and down the train.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m so glad this building is going, or at least being substantially changed. It was the second biggest eyesore in London (rated by my personal opinion, by criteria of ugliness and prominence of location). In case you are wondering, the biggest eyesore is the Guoman hotel next to Tower Bridge.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Few things are more disconcerting than seeing a bunch of people obviously setting out on a cycling holiday getting on the same train as me from Euston to Birmingham. Either they’re on the wrong train, or I am.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 07/09/2026

I can’t have been the only person to spend half an hour working out that LEGITIMATE CONCERNS is an anagram of EGOCENTRIC AILMENTS

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You can tell it’s an El Niño year. Christmas food’s migration cycle has been disrupted, and items are arriving in the UK two months earlier than normal. They will struggle to cope with the warm weather and there’s a risk that they may not breed this year, leading to long term population decline.

Mince pie packets on a supermarket shelf

Christmas themed chocolate lollipops on a supermarket shelf

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There’s a useful explainer in today’s Financial Times about the danger of Iran’s hypersonic missiles, but I think the bigger risk is these London busses which apparently go at Mach 2.5.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

While walking in Herefordshire, I am inspired to write a book on our architectural heritage, entitled “Britain’s hundred worst churches”

A parish church in a rural village. The church is medieval with a traditional square tower. But an ugly hexagonal spire which is far too narrow and too tall has been added.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Batman Returns with proof of purchase within 30 days

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

'Safety first' when sacking Rome.

The same young lady with goth makeup, a black Victorian-style dress, and dark hair: the classic 'goth look'. The original image is labeled "goth", while another one has been composited on with a high-vis yellow work vest like those used on construction sites, and below it it says "Visigoth".

Stolen from the Internet.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Still life for the modern era: corporate office space with fruit.

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Keep On Truck Kun @keep-on-truck-kun.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The poster for ‘Saving Private Equity’?

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Official Communiqué on the Canada/US Tariff Dispute

FLIPPERS UP
GOVERNMENT OF HEARD ISLAND OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER • OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH CANADA
The Government of Heard Island expresses its profound disappointment following the failure of recent U.S.-Canadian trade negotiations and the imposition of 50% tariffs upon Canadian goods.
Having ourselves been unexpectedly introduced to American tariff policy, Heard Island stands firmly with Canada.
Effective immediately, Canada is offered exclusive preferential rights to Heard Island's future sustainable fisheries, scientific facilities, cold-weather rescarch, and responsibly collected guano.
Canadian vessels are hereby granted Most Favoured Flock status, including priority access to Heard Island waters and exemption from all tariffs imposed by this Government - which, admittedly, is none.
Canadian universities and scientists are likewise invited to establish a permanent research mission. They will be welcomed warmly, insofar as anything here can reasonably be described as warm.
Canada and Heard Island share much: vast wilderness, unreasonable weather, an abundance of ice, and increasingly complicated relations with the nation immediately to Canada's south.
To our Canadian friends:
You are not alone.
Our waters are open.
Our ice is yours.
Our penguins stand with you.
And unlike certain larger trading partners, we do not renegotiate every 90 days.
PM Mccormicki
Prime Minister of Heard Island
Guardian of the Rookeries & First Flipper of the Republic
DIGNITY • SCIENCE • SOVEREIGNTY • KRILL

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

FFS! someone on this Heathrow express pressed the emergency alarm because she left her suitcase on the platform. And now we are stopped.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Business idea: an App that broadcasts noise-cancelling on speaker from my phone, to be used on public transport when some arse is broadcasting music on speaker from their phone.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If I can quit Twitter, you can too

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I just misheard a security announcement at the station: “If you see something that doesn’t look right, speak to a member of staff, or Textus.” Being a classicist, just for a second I thought “Who is Textus?” It’s quite an unusual name. Perhaps he’s a Latin American?

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I hope an ice-cream flavour called “Manchester Tart” is something other than I imagine it to be.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

‘A delivery was attempted today.’ From the new Private Eye, out now.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Stabat Mater at the Royal Albert Hall last night was lots of fun. But Rossini goes straight from Mary weeping at the foot of the cross, to Mary walking in the park with Bert the chimney-sweep and dancing with the bunny rabbits. #BBCProms

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This hotel room has a wardrobe so I can hang up my suit. Which is nice. Except that the hanging rail is over the wardrobe shelving. Since I’m more than 30cm tall, I can’t actually use it to hang clothes. Thanks, Radisson.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is going to do wonders for my Scrabble scores.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s been quite a contrast to return from the pleasant, rolling, green scrubland of the Western Australian desert, to the hot, arid, brown wastes of South East England.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have a joke about film: Odyssesy’s hexameter format. I won’t post it on here, ‘cos someone’ll screw up the punch line.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 27/07/2026

Omg. Omg omg omg. Emily Wilson (as in, the famed translator of Homer) just published her take on Nolan's Odyssey in @lrb.co.uk... and it is SWEET, JUICY HATERADE: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey into iambic pentameter. In at least one interview, he cited my version of the first line of the poem: ‘Tell me about a complicated man.’ But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: 1984 Television

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ok so which antisocial fuckwit is having noisy fireworks at midnight and waking up the whole neighbourhood? Who the hell celebrates the arrival of 9 July, and why can’t they do it quietly?

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was going to get Kafka’s Metamorphosis from the Apple bookstore, but the AI generated blurb is just too hilarious. Kafka would love it.

Screenshot of web page giving a dictionary definition of metamorphosis in biology.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 08/07/2026

Oh I think we'll all be listening to the Count!

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