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shardcore @shardcore.org · 07/10/2026

morning

MOM, DAD!
I HAVE ENNU!!

WELL,
YOU SHOULD'VE MADE PEACE WITH THE ABSURDITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE BEFORE WE STARTED DRIVING!

Dad eventually pulled over at a frozen lake, which represented the sublime beauty of impermanence, but he was pretty annoyed about it.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Uncertainty over Bond casting means it’s time for the English Cricket Board to put Question Time on hold, according to FaceTime.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Annoyingly the clip cuts off a bit of it but you get the gist. Ed’s protestation about rules is quite funny because of course Richard was in the lovely sweet spot of not having been given the talk yet. Like his Traitor elect period

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you’ve ever set up to shoot trains at the pedestrian level crossing in Sutton Park at lunchtime chances are I’ve run past you! Seems very popular around 13:30 on weekdays, which is also peak jogging time for me 😅

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh my. Winter is looking great isn’t it?

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Daz @dazwright.com · 02/10/2026

The next in a series of occasional posts about emails from my local Chinese takeaway. I'm sure you'll agree, a classic of the genre

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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 · 27/09/2026

Seems an obvious, hack point maybe but does anything get the time to actually build into such a show? It was hard enough when Buffy was made but the streaming era is brutal. Lockwood & Co for example. My kids loved it but have probably forgotten it now. Dead after 8 episodes. Buried in the catalogue

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can confirm I bumped into people coming away from the pub at 4:15 and they said it was still a long wait so I just got to my digs early. Enjoy the show!

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Aww. You know, I’m just pleased for him tho

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

Happy belated 40th dude! (You young whippersnapper!)

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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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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Instagram just served me up the ref’s view of the goal and I did notice that you left a like on it. Also new euphemism just dropped

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sunstinger and Wotjek the Bear

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Couple here I don’t know but will instantly look into given the company they keep 🙏

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

thinking about Buendia’s goal, yeah?

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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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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fuck me I have played games of champ manager that have been more real

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can only give the video 4.5 out of 5 stars because he didn’t fire one of his epic jumping archery trick shots at the end. It was nearly perfect.

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We can go deeper. A NOtiFICTION. Sorry I have had a beer.

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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...

404media.co

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 · 12/09/2026

Exactly what I thought as I was sharing it! Misery starring Cameron Diaz and Jude Law. Oddly I’d not given that cover much thought til now but it’s really off. That said the 80s one was maybe a bit too much the other way

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

This is the current or at least recentish cover I bought when I needed a pile of books for my kid

Stephen King’s Misery but it’s about a nice little cabin in the woods

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

We had this copy of Misery knocking about when I was a kid. Worth noting that I’ve read lots of King but never got around to reading this

Stephen King’s Misery but Kathy Bates seems to be Iron Maiden’s Eddie on a really fucking bad day

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

She doesn’t look like a _nice_ friendly school girl… The cover of The Spear was very malevolent, and I particularly remember not enjoying seeing that one lying around

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

Oh yeah that one. He had some really creepy covers in the 80s

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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

They are lovely seats. Glad of the cloud cover though.

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

Yeah I’d already started spending it in my mind 😅

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

Now if they can just keep the Guinness pumps at Edgbaston running for more than five minutes, it’ll be a great day out

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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 · 08/09/2026

There’s probably a market for the following: An elegiac water colour of an English country garden, a green e-type Jaguar parked by the wall and a spade is in the foreground next to a table with a tankard of best bitter Caption: “for a dad who doesn’t care about these things”

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Jon Hickman @jonhickman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What a magnificent chap or chapess The angle makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy getting told off

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

Actually sounds kinda delightful!

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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

How did you get on? It’s been really nice up here 😅

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

We’ve had a downpour here in Sutton immediately followed by absolutely baking sun—Hopefully it’s on its way to you too! I’d like a Goldilocks option inbetween the rain and it being too hot tbh but on the plus side the garden chairs dried in about 2 minutes so I was able to have lunch in the garden

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