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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brexiters should be rejoicing at Burnham’s speech. They can campaign on all the ways Brexit has improved our lives and the fortunes of our country. They can set their case out clearly and with facts for all to see. Bet they can’t wait.

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Feeling smug, not only did I get the no pain no gain sequence question but came up with “a gin cocktail” as a possible 4th answer in the time.

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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

✨Bullet Shattered Cafe windows in Paris 1944 by Photographer Lee Miller✨🇨🇵💥

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@scalzi.com I’m currently re-reading the Old Man’s War series prior to starting Shattered Peace. Just because you might have one - do you have a series FAQ? e.g. Parallels between CU and East India Company - intended or situational?

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Leonardo da Vinci, Caricature of a Man With Bushy Hair ca. 1495, pen and brown ink drawing on paper

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dictators have often seen books (other than regime-authorised publications and hagiographies of themselves) as a threat. So glad this man managed to preserve his library from Assad's goons.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Have a look at the delightful replies and remind yourself that AI could never

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m 60, I’ve now found that almost every night someone steals a small bit of my body and replaces it with something similar but non-functional.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's only terrorism if it's from the Environmentaliste region of France Otherwise it's just sparkling "legitimate concerns"

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh this is so wonderful

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jason Arday was driven to suicide but this is what counts as normal at Cambridge. It was never about standards. It was always about maintaining white male mediocrity.

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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Let us recall that you cannot, ever, ban abortions. You can only ban safe abortions. Thank you Dr John Sharpe. Thank you Gloria Marie Steinem.

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caryocatactes.bsky.social @caryocatactes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A Spider Potter Wasp (Aupoplus carbonarius), climbed athletically up and down the walls of the church at Thurgarton with its spider prey. Not so far away a stunningly, frilly, Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus) hunkered down amongst the Flavoplaca ruderum @NorfolkNats

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Jan de Laat @jandl.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984) - San Gimignano, San Marco Gate watercolour

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A reminder, last year The Spectator did an interview so fawning & uncritical of the Tate Brothers , that victims of the Tates had to complain to Ipso about it. Editor Michael Gove also champions the IDF & hates people of colour . The Spectator Summer Party is eagerly anticipated & attended 🥂.

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Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article

Complaint sent to Ipso over interview with ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother in Michael Gove-edited magazine

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#FullMoon in #August is also known as the Barley Moon or the #SturgeonMoon Artwork by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist #WomensArt

Stained glass artwork featuring a hare faceubg right lying diwn in a golden field at night under a full moon

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BBC West Yorkshire writing a casual puff piece for Reform in Wakefield, even describing the council leader's "flowing hair". Fucking sickening www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How Reform UK leader Karl Johnson wants to change Wakefield

New leader has already repainted road markings - but will he be able to lower council taxes?

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Appalling article. Basically a Reform puff piece. No balance. No fact checking. Just this guy telling the BBC reporter what a fab job he's done (back with unsubstantiated numbers) & its lapped up and presented as fact. Dreadful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How Reform UK leader Karl Johnson wants to change Wakefield

New leader has already repainted road markings - but will he be able to lower council taxes?

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social I took my uncle (94) to Mansfield today. Thank you for the exhibition. He trained at Derby College like Harry Wingfield and his uncle was at the RCA with Tunnicliffe. He worked as a graphic artist for the gas board, he loves illustration, family card image attached.

An man standing in front of a wall of ladybird books.

A short, old man in front of a display case in a gallery, there is a wheelchair in the foreground.

A cartoon of two dogs carrying a cat on a pole. A piece of doggerel above them says

“A huntin’ we have bin’
A huntin’ we have bin’
We met a great big ginger cat
and we did the b____er in.”

The cartoon is by Roger Bliss from a family card.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a picture that should have been an album cover

A picture of three cows on a grassy hill with blue sky behind them. Two cows are looking at the camera which is below the cows. The hill has bare limestone rock showing through the grass in places. One could conclude the photographer is walking through a gully that passes through the cow’s field.

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Mithos @mithos343.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

youtu.be/PsQ_mT5YSvg?... There's a reason Ken Jennings hosts Jeopardy now. This is a champions tournament but I feel like this category would be something Victoria Coren Mitchell would like in Only Connect

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Initials to Roman Numerals to Numbers | Category | JEOPARDY!

YouTube video by Jeopardy!

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you aren’t in the UK and you see this, could you tell me about your nerdiest quiz shows please. (also please share).

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair.

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels.

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Here are a few actual facts about welfare payments in the UK in response to fairly nasty, baseless headlines like the below, which are numerous and unfortunately widely believed by the UK population. 🧵

Headline
ALLISON PEARSON
Britain must pop the welfare balloon or face ruin.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Historians Reveal Terra-Cotta Army Result Of Perfectionist Sculptor Screwing Up Soldier Statue Thousands Of Times theonion.com/historians-reveal-terr…

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This seems too obvious someone else must have come up with it before but here’s the thing: I don’t want to know. I thought of it, spent time making it. So don’t tell me.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It’s #WorldPhotographyDay and the perfect day to enter the @bsbibotany.bsky.social Botanical Photographer of the Year competition! I’m excited to be one of the judges this year and can’t wait to see all your entries. 💚

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am happy to announce that I have become a patron of @transactualuk.bsky.social

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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good morning - I hope you slept like lichen-stuffed caribou - I'm starting the day with the Eric Ravilious Zodiac. If you'd like to know more, there's a blog post over at the Rather Good Art website, explaining his rather unusual decisions: www.rathergoodart.co.uk/the-eric-rav... #ericravilious

The Ravilious Zodiac - twelve wood engravings depicting the signs of the zodiac for a 1929 almanac.

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Louise R @lulu-mri.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Scam Alert - if your pet is missing and you get a call from a vet’s to say they have been found and need immediate payment for emergency treatment, call them back on their official number.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A female Ectemnius sp wasp, these are taken in almost exactly the same place in my garden on two different days but looking at the white patch by the eye, could it be the same individual? Is it possible to get to species? #wasps #bwars

A close up of black and yellow wasp resting on a leaf. This is a type of solitary wasp.

A close up of black and yellow wasp resting on yellow flower. This is a type of solitary wasp.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just tried this with the small spider in the kitchen window Don't have a misting spray, so I wet my hands and flicked some droplets of water at the web (spider in the centre of it) IMMEDIATELY, the spider ran towards the droplets and started drinking them one by one 🥹 Poor thing was so thirsty

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ok, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

On #worldhoneybeeday Honey bee (Do you Know book, 1972) Artist: Frank Humphris

A detailed close-up illustration of a honeybee collecting pollen from a yellow plant

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I decided to click on Acrobat’s ‘generate podcast’ option for an invoice I just opened.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

OK, so how similar are my prescription sunglasses to pervert glasses. Am I going to have to invest in a new pair. They are varifocal so not cheap.

A photo of just part of a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses on a table. The arms are out, the lenses have a slight reddish tinge to them.

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My name is Rich. @mynameisrich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There are versions with clear lenses too - went to a training course with a wrong 'un wearing them for much of the day. He got offended and very defensive when I said he needed a hard disk check. Wish I'd heard of the term "specs offender" then...

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Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That's not a moth!

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days .

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