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Stu @pezholio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Our water is served in smaller portions, so we recommend two to three glasses per person”

Screengrab of headline saying "Burnham announces plans for 'very different water system'"

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Is there _anything_ to be said for another crane?”

One, two, priests are here before you. That’s what I said now.

It’s a still from Father Ted. Ted and Father Beeching stand by a blackboard that has “MASS” written on it

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Hazz, lackey of a dead god @glupshitto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I dunno man, if I was a journalist and confidentally posted a quote of Unai saying something devastating (and objectively wrong) about his own players, I'd be double checking it.

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Hazz, lackey of a dead god @glupshitto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lol this BBC journo has done Unai dirty here with this fake quote and also hallucinated a player. Can't tell what's more depressing, this just being the standard of writing at the BBC or if it's just someone popping a transcript into ChatGPT and going "yeah that'll do."

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

Marco Asensio, Amadou Onana, Modou Cisse, Pau Torres, Ian Maatsen, Leon Goretzka and Brian Madjo are all out through injury and will not feature against Tottenham.

He said their younger players - Ibrahim Mbaye, George Hemmings and Brian Madjo - "until now, have not been good enough in the Premier League".

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t know how pissed I was last night but I made this.

Les Dennis hosting a special four minute warning version of Family Fortunes

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is wild: scammers are hijacking real artists' official Spotify pages with AI slop to make $$$. We know this because we did it. We made AI music and put it on a real band's page. It was shockingly easy. There is a gaping hole in how music is digitally distributed www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...

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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy

A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m a (shut the fuck up, it’s true) way off 50 yet but 50th birthday parties are pretty cool cos you can have a sit down and nobody frowns if you have a glass of water some rounds and there’s cake and the bar calls last orders a bit early and now I’m having a cup of tea and watching my stories

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Your Friends & Neighbours funeral episode (For Everything Else, There Was Bowling) enters the canon of great TV episodes about losing folk. It’s no Halt & Catch Fire “Goodwill” or Buffy’s “The Body” but it’s reaching up there.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Was somewhat surprised to even be here today the way the first two days went, even more surprised to _still_ be here at lunch time …but now won’t be surprised if Saturday ticket holders get at least a session tomorrow.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

P.S. Search for lads in 1979 Handsworth photo project: as Derek Bishton plans to have the photographs printed in a book, he has managed to track down the majority of the participants except two, who were boys at the time. Someone must know these two. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Search for Handsworth lads in 1979 inner-city photo project

Photographers want to find two friends who took part in a pop-up photography shoot 47 years ago.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I try to give benefit of the doubt when people say this about our email wall, maybe they're new. It's to stop AI scrapers and build a sustainable journalism site that isn't reliant on social platforms. Here are many words explaining that: www.404media.co/why-404-medi... bsky.app/profile/anom...

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My kid has adopted my favorite beer glass as his favourite water glass and because he starts drinking water earlier in the day than I would have a beer it’s basically no longer mine.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pal just sent me a link to the potential groomsmen suite for his wedding. Fuck me. How the web done fell. I know this sort of shite is table stakes at this point but that doesn’t make it less tragic.

Pop-up-ception. Somewhere under this is the picture of the suit I’m supposed to see

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For All Mankind series 5 is _very_ soapy isn’t it? I think maybe the alternate history schtick was hiding this tendency from me all along in the first 4 seasons but now it’s so unmoored from our timeline it’s much plainer. Still enjoying it all tho.

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Craig Hamilton @craighamilton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Natalie Portman / Tanguy Destable sounds like a UEFA Conference League fixture you’d probably not tune in for at 5:45pm on TNT.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Missed an important part of this review, not that you care: thought Barkley was off in the summer, and would have been fine with it, but he’s running the show isn’t he? Marvellous lad.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#avfc missed Torres today, I think. The CB pairing didn’t have the energy or vision to move the ball like he does (much as I love those two goofs). Not sure Garnacho is the answer to anything but if he is I didn’t hear the question. Love my new keeper. And we go again.

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Jack (tehTrunk) @tehtrunk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can I get from Tottenham to Nottingham using only public bus services?

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

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Bearwood Parish Council @bearwoodcouncil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here's our working. Snobs I was 4.4km from Bearwood, Snobs II was 4.8km away, Snobs III was 3.7km away and Snobs IV will be 3.8km away, representing an overall gradual creep towards Bearwood. Looking forward to Snobs XI taking residence in The Kings Head!

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Bearwood Parish Council @bearwoodcouncil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

With the news that Birmingham's Snobs Nightclub is set to move to yet another new location later this month, we have calculated that, based on its current trajectory, it should reach Bearwood by 2048.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 02/09/2026

“There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane, and yet she smiled, for Jacob's Creek was 25% off with Club card all week”

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Free Henry! He’s a very useful engine!

Henry the Green Engine, bricked up for not working hard enough. Thomas the Tank had no reason to go so fucking hard. This story is still terrifying me after 40+ years

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The Seldom Seen Kid @seldom-seen-kid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They're all dead, Dave.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Villa have made a new signing” “Mbaye?” “No it’s been confirmed”

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Tiny News Collective @tinynewscollective.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Local news needs quick, flexible support to survive, and that's what the Immediate Needs Fund delivers. 🙌 Tiny News Collective just gave 22 newsrooms $5,000 each to cover urgent needs, from paying freelancers to intern mentorship. www.tinynewsco.org/tiny-news-gi...

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Tiny News gives third round of Immediate Needs grants to 22 member newsrooms

These $5,000 grants will help members secure essential equipment, support an internship program, survey their audiences and more.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The weirdest thing in culture I’ve spotted this summer is that without warning Eggs Benedict are now “Eggs Benny”. I saw this in Canada, just assumed it was a cute Canadian thing. But then I came back and it’s all over menus in the UK too. And no longer cute.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve worked remotely for like 9 years so I’ve tended to skip bank holiday Mondays (allowed to take em but they were out of my leave allocation, and Monday was always an awkward day to take off). Bank Holiday Mondays are pretty dope. It took skipping lots of them to appreciate that. 😎🍻

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Once a year I manage to get someone on the internet to try making Gâche Mélée, a very non-photogenic, but delicious apple cake 0.5lb butter+1lb sugar creamed together Add 2 eggs & beat Fold in 1lb flour, 1tsp ginger, 1tsp cinnamon Fold in 3lb sliced apples Bake 170C/gas 3 for 1.5-2hrs Enjoy 🇬🇬

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Bjorn Grainger @bjorngrainger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This sums it up -

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Confidently claiming I don’t have jet lag while getting mad at myself that I forgot to buy tinned tomatoes at the shops, and going back to get tinned tomatoes, then coming home to find I did in fact buy tinned tomatoes in the big shop.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Confidently declaring I don’t think I’ve really got jet lag while making a mug of tea at 2am at leaving my phone inside the fridge

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Going to the pictures in a foreign country is always such a big treat. It’s all basically the same of course but… well… “it’s the little differences” (also can confirm the cinema in Canada is really cheap compared to the UK)

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Not saying these are day one jobs, but, when I’m in charge, hotels won’t be allowed to have fixed shower heads. We are going for mandatory hoses. Also no more Nespresso machines & their bullshit coffee (in hotel rooms, you can enjoy these at home if that’s your thing). These are in the 100 day plan.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 10/08/2026

If the Michelin Guide exists, I feel there should also be a publication where chefs rate tyres

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Some guy explaining the new Sunderland shirt. This stuff is getting sillier than trying to follow the MCU tbqh

“To understand why I like this football top (that costs £120, and I am an adult man remember) you will need to do homework covering the last 90 seasons of The Football”

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Government mandated bilingual fortunes 🍁🇨🇦 The French one is SO much prettier, so je la prends

“You will soon make an important decision”, but written in French so it’s gorgeous poetry

<<L’heure d’une décision importante arrivera bientôt>> but written ugly and in English

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Unklerupert @unklerupert.uk · 07/08/2026

See, porn is always main indicator of direction for these things.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic”

DECODING HOGARTH'S CREDULITY, SUPERSTITION AND FANATICISM
English artist William Hogarth s iconic engraving Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism. A Medley
(1762) expresses the growing tendency, in the 18th-century West, to mock magic. The scene brims with contemporary references and tropes, showcasing different examples of misplaced beliefs.

The print shows a confused scene of various dramatic poses inc a witch on broomstick, preacher etc and crucially a Turkish Muslim looking in through the window

Detail of the Turkish man from larger image “TURKISH MAN
A Turkish Muslim man looks in from the window, smiling at the foolishness of the Christians gathered inside.”

Yes, ha ha ha, yes Sickos meme of man looking through a window.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 29/07/2026

Over 25,000 people are into the website enough to get sent some newsletters and read 6 blogs every month. Converting just 1000-2000 of them into regular paying subs transforms the business! If that's you, try it out this month for just $1! aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

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What Is Music? A Music Podcast About Music @whatismusicpod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

OUT NOW - We begin our analysis of POST by Björk! Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 20/07/2026

excellent because it gets at the weirdness of this spain team: they're utterly dominant without ever capturing anyone's imagination in any way whatsoever and i dont know how to feel about that

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thing is there’s another show between normal time and extra time. Gazza is going to walk out with Bruce Springsteen on his shoulders, a fishing rod, four pack and a bucket of chicken. They’re going to do a medley of Fog on the Tyne and Born in the USA. Very tasteful and classy.

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