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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 20h

I agree - our giant hedgehog that can take out an electricity pylon with a single bite (as illustrated) should definitely be on our banknotes. Because who knows what damage he might do if he’s not included.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps we all gravitate to Bluesky… I am also mildly face blind. I once tried to pick up the wrong child from school, which was embarrassing. Uniforms shouldn’t be allowed.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can we have the traditional “Jesus saves” goalkeeper joke please?

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Perhaps they’ve been on an alpha particle course.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Bluesky meet-up “Dress as your favourite Girls’ Own illustration” was a great success. The fact that few of the attendees had usable hands had pros as well as cons. #GirlsOwnCc

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Estne Avis? Estne machina? Minime! Est superfrater!

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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

This is what the upper classes call tennis. Wimbleball.

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

And schools in the early 1980s had vending machines. And there was plenty of pre decimal coinage lying around at home in those days.

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

Any teacher with more than 2 brain cells wouldn’t announce “…because you can use an old halfpenny to get a free drink”, would they?

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The buffet culture clash works both ways. In a Uk hotel breakfast buffet I saw a chap (whom I think was Japanese) eating a fried egg with strawberry jam.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you! I’ve not quite reached your standard though… yet…

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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OUTLIER · Day 134

player-8274 scored 812 on Day 134. Can you beat them?

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

If I were mourning someone I’d damn well make sure the sod lay flat.

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

I find What Three Words very easy to use. Too easy, in fact. So I think it’s time for a What Three Words: Difficult setting where your location is something like //Sesquicentennial.Autoclave.carbofluorocarbon.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026

fascinated by the sitcom premise of some braindead influencers holidaying in Dubai and finding themselves accidentally befriending the Assads observer.co.uk/news/interna...

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

From Graham McInnes - FB 😹😹

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

“Easy ways to Acupuncture your poodle” was turning out not to be easy at all. Emily sighed and ordered another puppy. #GirlsOwnCc

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

A big part of my early childhood. Thank you, Floella.

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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 · 21/09/2026

On my 18th birthday, with the best part of a bottle of wine inside me, I turned up to sing evensong and found that Kelly in C was on the menu. “Kelly All at Sea” might have been more accurate. Apologies, Brian Kelly, for what happened to your Magnificat that day.

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

“Mutant jellyfish? No point hitting it with the brush, ma’am. There’s another four climbing the back of my skirt already.” #GirlsOwnCc

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Or just send each household a letter saying “if you want to, please fill in this form to renounce your uk citizenship”. It might focus minds.

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have of course never been back to that city…

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The waiter just looked at me and said “Most people come in through the door, sir.” (2/2)

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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I went to a posh restaurant in a cellar of a Georgian building in UK. A sign outside said “entrance”, pointing to a low archway. I ducked through the archway … and slid down the steep inner embrasure of the window I’d walked through, and landed on a restaurant table below with a loud crash. (1/2)

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

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

“The Borrowers: Deep Impact”, Arrietty is wiped out by a falling coin while trying to hang a postage stamp on the wall. The movie was not a success. #GirlsOwnCc

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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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herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I misread that as “travelling through a womble”. Which was disturbing.

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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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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

How can London Bridge be rated above Paddington? Paddington wins every time on architecture, facilities, seating, trains, shops, and statues of bears.

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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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