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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

El Niño officially becomes El Gordo

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of course the song was a cover of a US song, so she needn't have thought about Ken Dodd's tickling stick at all!

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think I've done a pretty good job of curating things I want to see on here (made easier by the default feed not being "Discover"), so I can avoid the awful stuff. Even just looking at my old Twitter account, the feed there is like a sewer of hate.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's hard enough being called Vagina without people spelling your name wrong

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Who doesn't want to go to the support group where you get sliced in half and put on a table?

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Presumably because it glows like E.T.'s finger

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's what the K in K9 stands for, after all. BB-8 has similar origins

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Shocking, but sadly not surprising in Scarborough these days

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Depends if you prefer the smell of money and plug-in air fresheners or Amber Leaf

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Put a thermometer up there to measure the wet bulb temperature

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Even more impressive when you add up all their brands - Jaecoo, Omoda, and Chery

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An Off-Brand Brand Off with Wiltshire Farm Foods, Oakhouse Foods, and Parsley Box

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That time of year again... processed meats day

A banner hanging from a shelf edge in Sainsbury's advertising the two flavours of Fridge Raiders, with "That time of year again..." and "Chicken for the road?" above and below the product images. At the top of the banner is the Nectar price offer of £1 instead of £1.70. The shelves themselves are quite messy, presumably as people realise it's that time of year again

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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What pure and utter shite.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just been for a trip to Driffield. With the amount of rain going on, they really should call it "Pissing It Down Town"

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nobody else thought to take the obvious name

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's the percentage of words in the submission that rhyme with swear words

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think it counts - i.e. there are 16 stops between the departure point and terminus.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's AliExpress Annie, with a fanny for an arse and an arse for a fanny

Mr McGreg (with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg) grappling Dr Nick Riviera from The Simpsons

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Gives it much more of a Ground Force feel!

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The entire image is AI-generated, hence why the Facebook UI looks wrong.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I know that costs have gone up - e.g. there used to be a good income in rags for unsaleable clothes, and other streams, but that's no longer the case. But it's also amazing what they dispose of and don't sell.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As the name suggests, they're not 100% Prodge but they are indeed Prodigy

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Has Oxfam ever been cheap? I always remember it being pretty much the most expensive charity shop

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They had to change the name as the Bluey film has a similar plot but with Australian racing greyhounds

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Retro Gaming YouTube seems to be chock-full of controversy. Retro TV Adverts Ripped From Videotapes YouTube is where it's at.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

That title would disappoint multiple unrelated groups of people tuning in to watch, and is therefore perfect

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The baseline shouldn't be "doing absolutely nothing".

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There have been multiple tests prior to this, and information put out for people in such situations to turn off these alerts.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A surefire way to stop the sale of disposable barbecues is to start calling them "pervert barbecues"

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Russell Three Davies

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Severe Alert: Russell T Davies has come back for a third go

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's easy to forget just how easy Alex Jones makes it look, until you see some of the other hosts who can't do it quite so well

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In case nobody liking this post so far hasn't got the message across, that is a ridiculous thing to say.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That was prior to the launch of Emergency Alerts in the UK using Cell Broadcast, precisely because there was no system in place at the time.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One real-world example - imagine if the EAS was set off during 9/11 in the US. You'd go from live images of the event and eyewitness testimony to a scrolling message and dreadful quality audio.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Should the government embargo emergency alerts to let the BBC know what's going on? Obviously this one isn't so time sensitive, but others could be.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I doubt it would add much for the cost of implementation - the BBC is entirely capable of switching to rolling news if required (with images and sound, rather than just text), and the figures for people with a mobile phone is about the same as people in households with a TV.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Scotland can set off fireworks with disposable barbecues on them to their heart's content

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I heard the alert on The One Show first before it came to my phone. Alex Jones presumed it was a fire alarm - I suppose an emergency alert about wildfires is a kind of fire alarm

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My one and only prediction for this by-election was that the lowest candidate would get 5 or more votes (which was a betting market).

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Sarah D @pikapies.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ok, fine, let's take this complete and utter bollocks point by point. 🧵

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What is it with Jess Phillipses?

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Also, I can empathise as I hate articles that turn out to be podcasts with no transcripts.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I believe it's a relatively common ADHD experience - if you think that a lot of people's reading speeds are much faster than an audiobook would speak, then it makes sense that you can still fully enjoy an audiobook at an accelerated speed.

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Joe Spivey @joetrev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Listen at ×1, then write a review that the book was a painful read. Rinse and repeat

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