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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fabulous! Thanks for posting! Que maravilla. 😍

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This, simply this⬇️⬇️ thanks for the thread.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oi!!! Some of you people out there that follow me (for reasons unbeknownst to me but there you go) do a damned fine writer a favour…and yourselves when you open the pages… go on. Do it! Press those buttons whilst you’re doom-scrolling and sipping something nice. 👩🏼‍💻🍸

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The idea of Farage trapped in an eternal cycle of resigning & fighting by-elections against a bin like some shit Sisyphus is immensely appealing

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026

This is serious. If Reform blatantly, intentionally and knowingly broke election law, they should be held fully accountable. Liberal Democrats have asked the Police and the Electoral Commission to investigate.

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The wonders of day-drinking Spanish crisp white wine during a heatwave? You forget that you’ve pre-ordered books! Just got home to this lovely surprise. Thanks for the prompt delivery @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social …I was on the verge of buying it again over the weekend 😂😂😂🤭

A copy of Tom Cox’s latest book with a fabby cover of a hagstone and a wonderful woodcut bookmark of three frolicking hares

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just one of the best people on this planet. ❤️

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How gorgeous are these?! Can’t wait to wear them on my tours, the hill carvings especially on my Stonehenge/Wilts tours. Thanks so much for your speediness and bonus gifts @irishashyt.bsky.social ❤️ I’ll be sure to review when Etsy lets me! Well done @garius.bsky.social on the repost! Chuffed!

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

if last of the mohicans was already too hard for you and you're an editor in chief i'm not sure whether that reflects worse on your baseline reading comprehension, the schools you went to as a child, or the current state of journalism overall. i don't actually know if you can blame ai for this one

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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

To raise your spirits here’s a donkey 😹❤️

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Con artist scum ..." via We Demand UK"

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This tree was alive before London and England even existed Perhaps a Roman soldier out of their new town of Londinium set eyes on it The oldest tree in London +2000 years - The Totteridge Yew 🌲

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Be still my beating heart 😍 Love this post!

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Olé! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 Que orgullo! ❤️‍🔥

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I really really really should engage more in my dna’s history - and I think it’s because it’s often so gloriously bonkers that it makes me 😵‍💫🤯 . Thanks for this, I can feel a deep delve coming on. Classisic Garius Thread everyone ⬇️

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron. From Mörigen, 900-800 BC. 📷️ me

A corroded metal arrowhead displayed upright on a thin stand. The triangular point is heavily weathered and rough, with two short side barbs extending from the base. Its surface shows a mottled texture of rust and mineral deposits, giving it an uneven, pitted appearance

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thanks for this post - what a beautiful quote, I’d better get the book then. RIP lovely Sam Neill, had a crush on him since Reilly, Ace of Spies. Beautiful on the inside too. This one is one of those gutting ones😔

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Farewell to the extraordinary Sam Neill. Among his brilliant highlights, we'll remember him for his wonderful social media updates about his farm and his many brilliantly-named animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaK...

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Sam Neill's farm animals have celebrity names: The Graham Norton Show 2016 - BBC

YouTube video by BBC

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Do read the short story in this repost folks…it’ll make you do things like this. I peeked through my hagstone at the window, not realising next door’s cat was watching. And now I think he’s dialling 999 on me.

A hagstone - held in the light of my window so that I can peek through it, not realising I should be pointing it at next door’s garden.

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SURIEL @1simikiel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS TOO

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Sound advice. It’s permission really. *starts plotting 🤔

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

A tote bag depicting the three lions of the England team crest but one is Henry’s Cat and one is Bagpuss

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 12/07/2026

I guess this year's Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree won't be one of the better ones.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'd appreciate if you read the alt text on this. Thank you. www.tom-cox.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Worth noting that "lol I've resigned" doesn't reset a parliamentary investigation into an MP btw. If they get reelected it resumes, and they still face the consequences if found guilty. Because the people who came up with the process for investigations were not, in fact, idiots.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 06/07/2026

The nice things about books: once you own them, you own them, forever. No one will be eye tracking your reading habits. No one will make money of you reading the book as many times as you'd like. And the very same book can be read by generations to come. It can last centuries, literally. It's great.

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Get in! Fruitful commuting no than scrolling. The last and most recent @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social paperback 'Everything will swallow you' just arrived to complete a birthday literary splurge. Well done @blackwellbooks for free p&p. Anticipating annoying fellow pax with involuntary sounds. Good!

Stack of paperback books by author Tom Cox in descending order - Everything will swallow you, Help the witch, Notebook, The Good, the Bad & the Furry, 21st Century Yokel, 1983 and Villager. Bought from Blackwell’s Bookshop online with free p&p - I’m going to be busy now!

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

The photo shows a Lower Paleolithic Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. Likely made by an early neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) population or an alternative Middle Pleistocene hominin species (H. heidelbergensis s.l.). The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to seemingly retain the shell in a central position. The shell’s central display has often been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. A recent study (“The West Tofts handaxe: A remarkably average, structurally flawed, utilitarian biface” by Emily Flanders and Alastair Key) concluded it was likely ‘an average utilitarian tool’ in the eyes of its Acheulean maker, and that the aesthetic intent is assumed by the present-day beholder, and not supported by objective evidence.

Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm. Weight 0.375kg.

Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

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Joanna Rial @joriro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sometimes…when I close my eyes at night….I still see them 👀

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

8. The Goats! How on earth did I forget the goats? bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

A cat on a wall, ranting relatably to me about the way modern TV documentaries are so frantically, pathetically worried about losing the viewer’s attention, employ endless precaps and recaps, lazily emotionally manipulate the viewer with overplayed songs and talk to that viewer as if that viewer is a small child, rather than a fully grown human, or cat.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A stunning amber bead necklace, dating 6th century BC, from Saal a.d.Saale-Waltershausen. It appears that amber served a dual purpose, enhancing the appearance and protecting the women who wore it during the Hallstatt period. The intriguing material, sourced from the Baltic region,...🧵1/2 📷 me

A large necklace made of polished amber beads in various shades from deep brown to golden yellow, strung in a gradient from small to large and back. The central beads are the largest and most vibrant, featuring natural inclusions and striations. The necklace hangs against a warm brown background.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

btw if you ARE going to do a PM transition then summer recess is absolutely the least-worst time to do it. especially if you can do a no-contest transition. gives bored journos something to write about that isn't nigel farage. who loves to use the summer gap to shove himself in front of cameras.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Kids just spitting out facts.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 19/06/2026

Yesterday’s result shows that Reform can be beaten, just as the Liberal Democrats have done in local elections across the country. But while Labour fight over the keys to No. 10, people are struggling. We need real change, not more chaos, starting with a new deal with Europe.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

RIP Anthony Head. Loved many things he was in, including the Nescafe Gold Blend adverts. But best of all, he showed us that, whatever the problem, a librarian can find an answer for it. #LoveLibraries #AnthonyHead #LibrariansRock

Anthony Head as Rupert Giles the librarian in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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