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Reading this caused spontaneous and unexpected eye leakage. (Look I'm tired, OK?).

Extract from BBC report: Responding to Burnham's comments, French President Emmanuel Macron said it would be "very good news" if the UK wanted to rejoin the EU, while Spain's President Pedro Sanchez said his country would welcome Britain back "with open arms".

You know those little tokens you get in Waitrose to drop into your choice of charity box on your way out? A complete stranger felt it was important to tell me they would have chosen a different one. And yes it was a middle-aged man. Of course it was.

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Mansplaining: A Man Has Arrived

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 11h

I have been asked to review a frying pan I bought yesterday. Heck I haven't even taken the cardboard sleeve off it yet 🤷‍♀️

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 17h

An email from Nextdoor tells me 'time is running out' to vote for my favourite eating place and this is my 'last chance'.

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Alan Partridge Shrugs 'I Don't Know'

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 17h

Most TV is just this now.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 21h

Today's Connections was considerably hindered by me mixing up.Donnie Brasco with Donnie Darko.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 29/09/2026

I find it odd, and slightly unpleasant, that the BBC repeatedly refers to Sir Ranulph's 'former sister-in-law'. His first wife (her sister) died, they didn't divorce. Whatever happens to my brothers my sisters-in-law will always be my sisters-in-law and won't become 'former'.

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Relatives tell BBC it's 'very painful' not being able to visit him

It has been alleged that Sir Ranulph has been admitted to a number of care homes under assumed names.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 29/09/2026

Yes actually I do become eligible for my pension two months after the triple lock will be abolished. Thank you for pointing that out.

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Wayne's World Thumbs Up

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 28/09/2026

Dilemma solved: it turns out I can do both as you can listen to it and instantly forget it 👍

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/09/2026

More excellence from Lev with the bonus of two games this week: @christhebarker.bsky.social's Hortle (at which I am OK but slow) and a word based one in which I find I know more words for cat than I do for bird.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/09/2026

Five year old grandson in Canada has started Scouts. I am told that at their camp ground there is archery 'for the older kids'. And every single one of you thought of Ghosts then, didn't you?

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/09/2026

Instagram ad challenges me "Are you smarter than the average American?", which I think I was supposed to take seriously and not do an actual snort 😳

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/09/2026

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your fucking ears. (Mark Antony trying to get A BIT OF HUSH THANK YOU).

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/09/2026

Meta wants me to pay for a blue tick to 'build credibility'. Sorry but I prefer to remain.... incredible.

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Harry Styles' Iconic Curtsy Performance

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/09/2026

Well if the boiler was going to break down I suppose better for it to be now than in the middle of winter. Glass half full at all times.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/09/2026

I have not posted on Threads since January 2025 🤷‍♀️

From Instagram notifications: You have 2 new likes and 3 new followers on Threads.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/09/2026

The new Gudrun Sjõdén catalogue has a dress called Frigg and I am not sniggering AT ALL because I am a grown up and also cognisant of Norse mythology thank you.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/09/2026

There are a few people on Bluesky who seem not to understand why someone caught bang to rights with video evidence would plead not guilty. Perhaps they think there would still be a long high-profile trial with lots of witnesses, evidence and publicity if the defendant pleaded guilty on day one 🤷‍♀️

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/09/2026

So it turns out that for all those years I didn't bother with nail polish I was actually being a trend setter and influencer. It just took a REALLY long time.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh btw. I'm doing a show called Spunk In My Eyes at the inaugural Plymouth Comedy Festival in February. It’s about dealing with ovarian cancer as an exhausted woman in my sixties with an intense hatred of positive mindsets and spiritual woo-woo. www.plymouthcomedyfestival.com/events/jane-...

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Jane Hill: Spunk In My Eyes | Plymouth Comedy Festival, Plymouth Comedy Festival, University of Plymouth

Jane Hill brings Spunk In My Eyes to the SU Lounge at Plymouth University Students’ Union. Jane’s candid, blackly comic show tackles cancer, courage and the exhausting pressure to stay positive with h...

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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whoever advised Gordon Brown to apologise to that bigoted woman in 2010 instead of doubling down on his original remark should be sent to The Hague. So much of what is wrong with the UK today is a result of that initial craven pandering to ‘legitimate concerns’ that were nothing of the sort.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 23/09/2026

I don't think that's Nigella Lawson.

Google (AI) headline - 'Nigella Lawson joins new Bake Off season' illustrated with a photo of one of the contestants.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 23/09/2026

Just read on Instagram about an art gallery using AI to make the posters for an exhibition (of original work), including using significantly manipulated images of the work to be shown.

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Dede Standish Stressed in The Politician

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 23/09/2026

Ask and you shall receive - thank you to @jrichardsme.bsky.social for coming up with a link to the artist in my last quote post!

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 23/09/2026

Couldn't stop watching this - but I wish the artist was credited.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 22/09/2026

I don't remember the first week being quite this much of a car wreck before 😱 #GBBO

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 22/09/2026

I am very late to the discovery there is to be no more Extra Slice. You can stuff your Second Helpings; I want Jo back.

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Jack Nicholson's Rage from The Shining

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 20/09/2026

"I'm begging of you please don't scroll past". Oh I won't; I'll report and block you first 👍

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 20/09/2026

Just checking, if a passer-by in the street tells you "Jesus Christ is coming back soon", is the correct response "Oh right, OK. Good"? Because that was what I said. Not sure what reply he expected to be honest 🤷‍♀️

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 19/09/2026

I now understand that Chris is a celebrity hair stylist. That makes much more sense than 'celebrity cave diver' which is what I thought was said in the introduction at the start of the show. I was bemused. #strictly

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh my god this has made me laugh like a drain.

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Saskia Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com · 15/09/2026

If you're within reach of Acton in London I'll be at a lovely market in Churchfield Road, 1000-1630. Always very buzzy with lots of great sellers and food.

Image shows four carved vases on a pale wooden surface against a white wall. They are blue and white glazed on grey clay. I made them. Text reads: Acton Makers Market, Churchfield Road W3, Saturday 19th Sept, 10:00-16:30

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 17/09/2026

Caught a few seconds of a BBC interview with Microsoft's Head of AI in which he said AI will inevitably compete with humans for resources 'no matter how much it cares for humanity or loves us'. FFS IT DOESN'T HAVE EMOTIONS.

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Man in Suit Makes Expressive Gesture

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 17/09/2026

Browsing the British Museum shop's Bayeux Tapestry collection and getting increasingly exasperated by the number of things featuring the 'arrow in the eye' figure and labelled 'Harold'. Though I suppose if the BM can't be bothered then why should the rest of us care?

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 16/09/2026

One and a half hours in the studio condensed into 27 seconds. Printing the fourth layer of a reduction linoprint. Five or six more to go, probably.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 15/09/2026

Today's top achievement: remembering to get off the bus one stop early so I could pick up the duvet from the launderette on the way home. If this doesn't seem an amazing feat of memory and concentration to you then I can only assume you are under 45.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 14/09/2026

Someone on Nextdoor posts that their washing machine has lost all power. Replies follow from plumbers offering their services and people suggesting YouTube. Finally someone asks if it has been switched off at the wall. Yes it has. OP didn't know what that switch was. (They do however get to vote).

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 14/09/2026

Gluten intolerant husband went to a work do at an Italian restaurant last week. He's just told me that he ordered the gluten free pollo picante pasta and was just served the chicken, sauce and veg without the pasta. Well I suppose technically that IS gluten free.

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Mr Bean Gives a Thumbs Up

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 14/09/2026

A new phrase that seems to be catching on is 'there's a non-zero chance that...'. So that's a chance then? Because that's what a chance is 🤷‍♀️

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 14/09/2026

Blimey, Connections is VERY American today - one group just isn't a thing anymore in the UK/Europe.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 13/09/2026

Well hearing that AI is going to kill us all within 10 years certainly has an impact on the retirement financial plans. *books luxury cruise*

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 12/09/2026

We've had toad in the hole and roast veg for tea and now I'm convinced it's Sunday. I was just looking at my jobs list for Monday and thinking I have to do it tomorrow. I highly recommend having your roast on Saturday to gain a surprise bonus day off.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 12/09/2026

I wish you could mute words on Instagram because I would be straight in there with 'advent calendar'. (Curmudgeonly post, sorry).

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 12/09/2026

One Instagram story video made with AI = one unfollow from me. Oh yes I'm getting ruthless now. (The account in question won't even notice but still).

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David Dawson as King Alfred: No Mercy!

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