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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 14h

Not to sound like my dad insisting on it being pronounced "Nessles", but when did we start calling it Cadbury Dairy Milk and not Cadbury's?

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EarlyShowerBot @haha.yes.goalbot.dev · 03/10/2026

🟥 Red Card 83' — Scott Mckenna (Scotland). FYR Macedonia 0–2 Scotland. UEFA Nations League #fyrmacedonia #scotland #nationsleague

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Retired Mascots @retiredmascots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Animated Howard Halifax 2002-2006 To keep fans of HBOS staffer Howard Brown occupied when he wasn't available to sing and dance, a cartoon counterpart was designed for him by Paris-based Numéro 6 - recognised back then for their grotesque CG animation style - and voiced by white actor Paul Shearer.

A short, grotesque, bug-eyed CG cartoon caricature of Howard Brown - a bald Black man wearing round glasses and a dark blue business suit - grinning as he drives a square orange car

Animated Howard sitting in the middle of a road while employees in a Halifax office lean out of every window and sing

Howard presenting a Bank of Scotland credit card in a spaceship

A money box designed after Howard - resembling both his real and animated counterparts - that like the first picture portrays him driving a blue square car

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, I don't really need to stay in touch with all the new developments in cars or golf clubs as I don't need to use either, so same diff??

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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name

Closeup of the photo from the Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name .

As one pal put it, " a very John Conner look "

Closeup of the text for the photo that says

" Ticket wars

Left: The line of area residents waitinng for advanced ticket sales for the May 19 release of "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace" stretched outside the Grand Central Mall's Regal Cinemas onto the sidewalk outside. Above: Inside, Jordan Baker, Joe Peyton, Mat Lyons, Josh Lemley and Steve Roberts passed time by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit as they awaited the Lucas epic.

Photos by Tony Kemp

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

England currently thumping Croatia like I am thumping this bag of Aldi Yummyverse Sour, maybe they should have put one of the sweetie sharks in goal

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's got a direct hotline to the omniscient, mate, put down your GROK and pick up a GOSPEL

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind Your Language was on ThatsTV when I turned it on earlier, truly we are living in Woke2.0

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

75 today! Happy birthday Sting.

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At Liverpool-Spurs the small child behind us kept shouting "Manc bastards!" at the Spurs fans giving it some, and his dad had to say "no, they're Cockney bastards" but I like the idea of Manc just becoming a general slur

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh shit don't deport me have you seen how expensive houses in Ireland are

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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Japan still use hanging but to avoid personal culpability, the trapdoor gets released when three people press a button in a room next door, only one of which works. Like when firing squads have one gun that’s loaded with blanks. The Wiki image is darkly funny. It’s like something from Zero Escape.

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Wirtz Month to all who celebrate

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Switch us off. Just turn humanity off now please

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very big "My dad actually works at Nintendo and we have all these games that haven't been officially released" energy in this Dezső Kosztolányi story ('The Liars') from pre-WW2 Hungary

One morning, as I was walking to school with the youngest boy, he said:
"Hey," and here he stopped and stared straight into my eyes, "last night I was up on the moon with my father."
Surprise and jealousy struck me dumb.
"My father has a little electric machine," he continued.
"No bigger than a match-holder. It takes you there in two and a half minutes."

"And do you sleep there as well?"
"Of course, we have two beds on the moon."
"That's impossible," I said, and continued to question him on the means of travelling to the moon, which my friend divulged to me in detail. The words flowed from his mouth in a continuous stream, and not once did he flicker so much as an eyelid to give the game away. I started pleading with him, begging him to admit he was only having me on. But this he refused to do.
Later he informed me that Jókai's novels were in fact written by his uncle Géza.
At that time I already knew who Jókai was. My mother had seen him at the millennium ceremonies, and had often described to me his tall frame, his blue eyes, his grey wig. And then I knew Uncle Géza too. In the autumn he rattles through the city in a farm wagon, wearing a green Tyrolese hat decorated with a tuft of bristles. He hunts rabbits, and sometimes sends us one as well. I did not consider him to be as clever as Jókai, and the whole thing generally seemed quite incredible. But Károly explained that Uncle Géza writes his novels at home, sends them by post to Budapest, and has them published under Jókai's name out of modesty, Jókai being a good friend of the family; he often comes to visit them. At night, when there's no one to see.
He greeted me with news of this kind every day. One time he boasted that he had a real crocodile in the bathtub, another time that he gets a thousand koronas a week pocket-money from his mother, which he spends on keeping horses outside the city. These fibs vexed me. I resolved to tell him straight out that I knew he was lying,

but when he began to speak my courage failed me and I continued to listen to him, because I was truly interested.
"What do you usually have for breakfast?" he asked me.
"Coffee."
"We, if you please, have chocolate and raisins."
"How many rooms do you have?"
"Three."
"We have fifteen. Four rooms above, and eleven underground, so people won't see."

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nobody's talked about A Year In Provence for a good while

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Am I Pragnent? @am-i-pragnent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[Q] Are you more likely to die from embarrassment from wearing.......? a) A Loverpool football shirt ? b) An Arsenil shirt ? c) A Milan shirt ? d) Your choice ? [A] d) France jersey [2008]

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

James Trafford is dressed like one of those nice orange cremes from Quality Street.

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Turns out this Man City stuff is actually....worse than everyone thought last Friday? Erling Haaland might get renationalised?

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Greatly enjoying the attempts to skirt copyright here www.funtimemascots.com/all-characte...

funtimemascots.com

All Characters | FunTime Mascots

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@nickwalker.bsky.social TV Burp episodes from 2003 are on RewindTV at 1pm each weekday, btw

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Look I was so busy last week that I didn't even know the Man City bomb had dropped until someone asked me if I'd heard, I'm not sure this news coverage has been as incessant as they think it is

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Alex Stewart @afhstewart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sudden desire was due to the enormous amounts suddenly being pumped in, with a backdrop that the collapse of ITV Digital sent a lot of clubs into insolvency in the early 00s. Add Leeds and Pompey into that and the rationale is pretty obvious

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Bob Heller @bobheller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you put a lasagna on top of another lasagna, it’s no longer two lasagnas. It’s one giant lasagna. THAT is the power of lasagna.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love Tony O'Donoghue talking about Saipan like a Marvel cameo making and in-joke

RTÉ Sport's Tony O'Donoghue: "There definitely is turmoil in the camp, it's the worst possible preparation. There's only one other time I've used that phrase, and that was a long time ago on an island off Japan..."

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gone with the least bald manager they could find after Stevie

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kudos to the director for getting the visual interest going here #totp

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This song is hilarious, haters gonna hate #totp

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"the pictures never look like the ones on the menu"

An AI-generated image to illustrate a takeaway's chip muffin. Rather than showing what it is (a bread roll with chips in it, I assume) it has created a sort of cake-chip fusion food

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“No! I zed I want to fuck errrrr!”

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry but I refuse to countenance Ryan Gravenberch ever having beef with anyone

Screenshot from FC27, letting the team manager know that Gravenberch and Wirtz had a massive argument and now Gravenberch refuses to ever play with him again

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Episode of TV Burp on RewindTV. Not sure how old it is, but we've already had a reference to Huw Edwards and a FIIIGHT with a man dressed like Jimmy Saville

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Weirdly found out about this due to Borja Iglesias posting about it (and pointing out that he is fortunate but most of us are much closer to Maricarmen than not). That's a shocking situation and I wonder how much things like the 'digital nomad visa' contribute in Spain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Maricarmen: Eviction of woman aged 87 highlights Spain's housing shortage

The tenant of the flat in Madrid, Maricarmen, was unable to pay the rent set by the firm which recently bought it.

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kind of feel - and I say this as someone who had to sit actual exams on phonetics - that if you have to bust out the IPA on the reg to ensure people pronounce your pet's name correctly then you should probably consider a different one

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whoever invented cheese well done it's dead nice x

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