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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A brand new Halloween Countdown case! Could Troy’s dad have predicted tragedy before it struck?! Or is there a sceptical explanation? Let us know your theories and come back here tomorrow for another real-life mini case! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's expensive and a bit boring

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They're going to turn out to be hare coursers, I reckon, in which case I hope they get hit with full force of the law

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To my naive eye, it looks like you could easily be geolocated from that pic

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This fundamentally is what he wants to do, except he wants the cameras there and to be paid extraordinarily well for doing it. He doesn't want to do real political work, he didn't when he was in Brussels and he doesn't now

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Farage doesn't want to do the daily work of being an MP. He was the same in Brussels when he never turned up, unless it was a plenary and he could make a short speech and get on TV. For him it's springboard to greater wealth, that's all

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three sticks in the ground with a bail on top; can be sticky

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think no one is surprised that the Danes managed to put one over on Trump

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This is what I was asked to do. Eighteen inches, it's specified right here..."

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good stuff, keep following the money, looking very Ponzi scheme-ish

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hasn't changed much, though those railings have gone

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Presumably supporters are then offering their labour and any income should be subject to tax

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it does. It came from Jim O'Neill and his point was large emerging economies were starting to take larger shares of the global economy (the acronym must be 20 years old). The S was added later and doesn't really fit and it's turned into a real group, but that wasn't foreseen

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Looks like the ghost of Widdecombe

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Problem with this is I manage an inch of movement fine, but also have a mile of intentions, and I judge the former by the latter

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The show I was at had the usual mosh pit. A guy in a wheelchair rolled into the middle of it. Shane got him up on stage and plyed him with beer the rest of the night

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hmm let's think, Ted Chippington Motorhead Daevid Allen Blurt The Pogues Pixies The Fall Eugene Chadbourne Half Man Half Biscuit Clockwork Earwig Project

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Genuinely held but I suspect unpopular opinion: Johnny Cash's version of the Mercy Seat is WAY better than anything Cave has done, and the Birthday Party were magnificent but Cave was at best the third most talented member

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Lagavulin looks easy to pronounce but that's deceptive

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Greatly enjoyed this by @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social, reads like a thriller, review at johnsalem.co.uk/book-review-...

Killing Maradona, book by David Arrowsmith

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This should be a huge scandal; it's one thing the Reform populists making undeliverable promises from outside government, but ridiculous someone should be able to force a change of govt and PM on the basis of something they obviously didn't think through

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jack stood by the bed. Smiling. More sinister perhaps?

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Death of an anarchist; sad to learn of the death of custard pie thrower in chief Noel Godin, always on the lookout for "pompeux cornichons", including Bill Gates and various politicians

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Noël Godin, le célèbre entarteur, est décédé - RTBF Actus

Noël Godin est mort dimanche à 80 ans. Il était né à Liège le 13 septembre 1945. Il s’était fait connaître du...

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#FallFriday As the Premier League season starts today, here's Mark E Smith reading the football results 21 years ago youtu.be/EBUiPs1PxKo

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Mark E Smith reads the football results

YouTube video by m0ggieboy

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Magatech" -- is that what we should call AI from now on?

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reminds me of the stories of Geordies trying to make appointments at a practice that had both a Dr Shaw and a Dr Shah

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Pretty staggered to learn he is in Ghent, clearly an issue there judging from this VRT interview (lower down in page, in English), in which he manages to look very sweaty and shifty while answering most questions by saying things like "but what does racism mean?"

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UGent zal "gepaste opvolging" geven aan uitspraken van 'rassenrealist' Nathan Cofnas na dood Jason Arday | VRT NWS Nieuws

De UGent zal "gepaste opvolging" geven aan de uitspraken van postdoctoraal medewerker en 'rassenrealist' Nathan Cofnas na de dood van Cambridge-professor Jason Arday. Die raakte verzeild in een medias...

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The violence is certainly implied by the fact that someone died

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yet they think Sadiq is better than Boris...

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

19 Aug 2026, 90th anniversary of the murder of Garcia Lorca; "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace"

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Un hommage au fromage du cottage ?

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The league of bald-headed men

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A great man of Gloucestershire

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As for Chatgpt, you first need to know what question to ask and then the response has to be checked anyway

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was more making the point that ideally such an article would be run past someone in the newsroom with the relevant expertise, but those people are no longer around. In mid Aug under deadline pressure it can be hard to contact an external expert (I'm not criticising academics for taking holidays!)

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ten years on from the vote, I think there are even fewer UK journalists now who understand how the EU works, with the loss of old hands etc (people like David Gow). And there weren't that many Brussels specialists even before the vote. Basic homework won't make up for the loss of deep expertise

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Those are exactly the ones most likely to get vociferously annoyed by any nationalisation

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And would presumably annoy those who have their some of their pensions invested in utilities

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Circular stone patterns aren't guesswork. Each block gets its own angle, cut piece by piece as the radius grows outward, a mason's trick used for centuries in patios and fountains.

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Cannily, I've just written canny

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Might have been shut down just so something very similar with a different name can be set up by the same people

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looking forward to this week's eclipse…

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/08/2026

Dario Amodei of Anthropic claims to love American values, and I can think of nothing more American than competition. Yet his approach - masked as an "AI arms race with China" - is focused on crushing open source models that are competing with Claude at a lower price.

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm British and can confirm we learn this from a very young age

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Optimistic Pessimist @dnky27.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think Lydon's issue was that he was effectively in McClaren and Westwood's version of the Monkees. Our mistake was attaching thinking the SP's were CRASS or The Clash. Although the unsung political hero of punk is Robert Smith. Still espousing leftist punk values despite his riches and success.

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is why the billionaires like global warming

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

So basically it's the old EFTA idea, except EFTA now doesn't want the UK back because the UK is far too large

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