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That section and the letter written in French in Clouds Of Witness are two sections I tend to skim through on re-reads I have to say; can't imagine it in audiobook form

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BBC said remarks were 'off the cuff' which does not directly translate to the 'out of his arse' they should have used

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'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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You've got to admit, if you were going out to steal fuel, branding up the vans with a sham fuel company would help explain being found with a van full of fuel...I think I still like the fly tipping possibility better though. Absolutely incredible work from all involved, 5 stars.

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I mean it legit does have unique stained glass; but that's probably best viewed from inside during daylight so might not be as incredibly convincing as the Salisbury alibi

Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'Ay, but *I* know...' 'What dost though know?' 'Too well what fucks women to men may owe' (Or from the same play, the rain it raineth every fucking day)

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not a fan of the dentist so I don't think I could manage what you did, but I have had a micro sleep at the hygienist. During covid when they couldn't do water/loud bits of kit, laid back in a comfy chair with just some quiet scraping going on

J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(It's also a victory for common sense - regardless of everything else, you can't decide you're going to refuse to have an emergency. That's like me saying I've decided I'll never catch another cold; I can take steps (don't lick a snivelling co-worker) but it's not actually in my control)

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If nothing else, that electoral make up should confirm that a few dozen bozos in balaclavas CAN'T represent the whole city

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hearing about this on local radio this morning was a reassuring glimmer of hope. (For context, R*form are the second largest party in the city council behind the Lib Dems; both MPs are currently Labour, having flipped from a Tory/Labour split at the last election) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Portsmouth council rejects call to bar migrant landings

Portsmouth City Council votes against a motion to bar future small boat landings in the city.

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remember hearing an affectionate bit on the radio once about the squelch as you serve trifle and my brain was just NO THAT'S THE PROBLEM, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am so here for shows just quietly doing things that will make a certain type of person foam at the mouth. Referred to a throuple on Bake Off and then just moved on. Did a Ramadan fast breaking mass catering episode of Celeb Masterchef where the head chef went off to pray 15 mins before service.

Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was upset that the throuple only had 2 sausage dogs.

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know reasoning with the idiots is impossible, but the whole point of 'we rescue anybody without judgement' is that the lifeboat crew tell you you're a prat for being swept out on a inflatable crocodile, or taking up yachting with zero knowledge, or not knowing the tide will come back.

Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quite. 'Oh congrats on the result, we obviously won't be round to collect your bins next week' wouldn't go down well I suspect.

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I saw a child fully dressed as HP today and it was surprisingly jarring (largely because they weren't in a context you'd expect fancy dress tbh), but as one of the other replies said I'm pretty sure that'd be hugely influenced by the age of the parents

Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Deleting apps cos I wanna meet someone the old fashioned way (he finds the real culprit after I'm mistakenly accused of murdering the berk I've been living with, then I spend several years wasting both of our time (whilst solving the occasional murder) then we finally get together (& solve another))

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This and the other vid in the replies are incredible. I could happily watch a several hours long compilation of the different ways this can malfunction

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't know how they cast Love Island and I've never watched it, but every ex Love Islander they've ever had on 'celebrity' Masterchef has come across super well

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026

Summer xkcd.com/3299/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From my UK perspective I'd say I'm not sure you want to totally copy it BUT you should absolutely take the concept of 'delay repay' back to the powers that be, because then it doesn't matter so much if you can't nail down the rest of it

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You mean hearing Shape of You against your will for the 48,372nd time isn't enough for you?

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(Chose this clip because it was just her, and also because it had the most bizarre audience? I feel like she's disturbed a meeting about the plans for the new church hall?)

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KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See (The Quay Sessions)

Anyway, on that, KT Tunstall was looping on records while Ed was still in short trousers www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4iZ...

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Sure, when my gramp was a butcher in a small town in the post war years shopkeepers wouldn't have put a poster in a window at an election because you'd starve if your business dried up. Once you're onto the second hundred million [currency], you can probably ease up on that policy.

There's another v big artist who, as a casual observer, I've never noticed come out for/against anything even slightly controversial (maybe if you super follow their career they might've) and I've always assumed it's for the same reason.

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fundamentally, a wealthy artist going 'oh but it's important I'm not political' at any point, about any topic, really is just greed isn't it - it's refusal to risk cutting off any chunk of the massive income stream.

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My mum was in London on a course on 21/7, I was outdoors at my summer job with obvs no smart phone/outside world connection. When she sent me a text saying 'on way home, nobody's tried to blow me up' I thought she was making a bad joke about 7/7, had no idea till later what had gone on!

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Same, I remember the radio news being on in the shop we stopped to buy chocolate in on the way back from the bus. By 7/7 online news and Sixth Form common room radio were giving us the initial 'power surges' story but couldn't piece together much for a while.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Policy has intended effect, now here’s the traffic and weather.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The reason *everyone* should care about this - whatever their politics - is that nobody is safe from having an uncontrolled mob descending on the hotel they are staying at. And that's what is becoming permissible by the lack of a robust response.

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you’ve succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone…What People are saying is: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!’”

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The fact she's stunning in both pics also seems to have passed him by. Clearly somebody who would still be confused by Peekaboo, "Hold up, if you go on a date with a woman in a blue dress and next time you see her she's not wearing the blue dress then she was lying to you."

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every time I go to the theatre, a huge majority of the cast of all ages (unless they didn't start out in the UK) will have Casualty or The Bill on their profiles - it's definitely great to have a show where people are constantly needed for one/a handful of episodes.

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Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Not trying to make light of the others reasons, but how you can do your thing while that's going on around you Lord knows. Happily Diana Rigg was in the play I saw, so you could do your best to ignore the 'choices' being made by other cast members.