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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h
There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth
Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.
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HEATED RIBALDRY @kneelbeforeclom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Pool Supervisor Keith Mandemant
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"I have tweets older than you" would be a devastating burn to some impudent youth but also simultaneously to yourself of course
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Roddy @josherick3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wassails RIDES AGAIN this December
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When I’m listening to intense music
Blurry image of the creature from the black lagoon with subtitle “intense music”
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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shrek giving his emotional best man's speech at Dragon and Donkey's wedding
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(2) Here is Rich's article, and here , eg the Guardian reporting IDF snipers have targeted kids directly, or reporting a UN inquiry saying the IDF has targeted kids by bombing civilian areas, schools, hospitals www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(1)The Guardian has published this by Dave Rich on the (very real) problem of violent antisemitism. But it contains the disgraceful claim anyone saying Israeli forces have deliberately targeted children (presumably Including Guardian reports) are doing "medieval blood libel".
We think of democratic protest and terrorism as two opposing categories of behaviour, but the world is not so neat. Political violence always draws sustenance from a hinterland of ideas and rhetoric shared by many more people who would never pick up a knife or a gun, but who articulate the same grievances.

The belief that Israel is engaged in a “war on children” is common across the pro-Palestine movement, promoted by major NGOs and found in a thousand Instagram reels about genocidal Zionist baby-killers. Without doubt, it is deeply upsetting that thousands of Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza, and many feel that Israel could have done more to minimise civilian casualties. But to describe this not as the result of a tragic and unbearable conflict, but as a “war on children”, is to imply that killing children is the whole point: a charge that echoes the medieval blood libel. From that assumption to Jihad al-Shamie yelling: “This is what you get for killing our children” as he tried to batter down the doors of Heaton Park synagogue last Yom Kippur is not as big a leap as some might wish.
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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tobias has a new album out - it's a single piece, an hour of electronic drone that captures the raw brutality of being alive
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Roddy @josherick3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Awful game, but on the bright side they were blasting Don’t Look Back by Teenage Fanclub over the tannoy in the background during the post-match analysis
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sharing the links of Palestinian families in need of personal support. Thread below.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 06/10/2026
reposted a fair bit of this but just read the whole thread.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Something that sounds made up but is true is that the first money I ever got for my writing was from Jeffrey Archer, & when I met him just over ten years later he asked for it back.
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This tune oh my goodness
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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Melanie Phillips? Cited in Anders Breiviks manifesto Melanie Phillips?
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please don’t scroll past Om Amir suffering. Her retina is severely damaged, and she lives in unbearable pain. She can see with only one eye and we fear losing her remaining vision She urgently needs treatment and medication Please don’t leave her suffering alone 💔🙏🏻 chuffed.org/project/help...
Selfie of Amir wearing a black tee-shirt inside a tent with tears on his cheeksAmir's mother sleeping in a hospital bed with a patch on her right eye and an IV drip above her connected to her right hand
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My child is asking for a little help to get through these difficult days in Gaza. 💔 Even a small donation can provide food and basic necessities. Please don’t look away. 🙏 If you can’t donate, please share. Every share could help us reach someone who can. ❤️‍🩹 chuffed.org/project/siri...
A girl looking sad, holding a piece of paper with handwriting "PLEASE HELP ME"A girl sitting inside a tent with her hands on her belly
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imagine this is your child,watching his world slowly disappear while you are powerless to save him.My son Elias has already lost one eye,and the last light in the other is fading.I kneel before you,begging with all my heart: please save my child. Verified by:molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611
Elias sitting on a rug, wearing glasses and a patch on his left eye. Hiss right wrist use bandaged.
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Roddy @josherick3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To narrow it down, I’ve gone for 9 albums that had a big contemporary impact on me when they came out in my late teens/20s/more recently
It’s that 9 albums grid. I’ve gone for:

Death From Above 1979 - You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Tv On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
Slow Club - Paradise
Godspeed - Allelujah Don’t Bend Ascend
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
SANAM - Aykathani Malakon
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I read the news today, oh boy
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
please help those kids
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Andy @andykp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anyone watching Italy v France instead of Cumnock v Auchinleck Talbot prefers Coldplay and Snow Patrol to punk.
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 02/10/2026
GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY BANDCAMP FRIDAY! Whin present Summer Visitor, a brand new album several years in the making and featuring a dazzling array of guests … whin.bandcamp.com/album/summer-visi…
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Summer Visitor, by Whin
11 track album
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Green' and 'class' politics are often viewed as mutually hostile to each other. My research explores how British miners, electricity workers and builders articulated a distinctive working-class environmental politics in the 1970s and 80s. You can read my new article here.
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‘The true conservationists’: British trade union environmental politics in the late twentieth century
This article demonstrates British energy trade unionists engaged intently with environmental debates during the 1970s and 1980s. These findings challenge dominant interpretations of the emergence o...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've been doing "let's scrap [benefit] to fund [promised future public service] for close to two decades now, and while we have succeeded in scrapping benefits we do not seem to have funded any more public services. And somehow we still don't have any money.
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Sanitary Naptime @sanitarynaptime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An insufficient number of Alexandrians:
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Roddy @josherick3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I KNEW it
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 24/09/2026
I remembered that seven years ago we made a podcast out of @smaychel.bsky.social’s reinterpretation of Animals of Farthing Wood and listened to it again, it remains funny, brutal and brilliant
poetryasfuck.bandcamp.com
Rachel Plummer: Head Set, by Poetry As Fuck
1 track album
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is what happens though when the government doesn't show moral leadership. Presenters ask ridiculous questions like this. People in the pub chat about 'maybe it's the right thing to do' because there is zero counter narrative from the PM. And that's how this stuff feeds on itself and grows.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I continue to strongly insist that being against *this shit specifically* isn't Nimbyism and that we deserve better housing than this overpriced garbage.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Elvis was a hero to most But he never meant shit to me To you To me To you
Paul Chuckle from the Chuckle Brothers with Chuck D and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this is the thing with "patriots" - they hate the people of this country, they hate the government of this country, they hate the BBC, they hate the National Trust, they hate the RNLI, they hate our universities, they hate the NHS. At some point, someone needs to ask them what they're so proud of.
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Ash Gravestoneman 🎃 @ashstoneman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Time to burn my Ed Sheeran cd
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 16/09/2026
THE TOUR BAND???
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is fascinating. I wonder if p*ss is also connected to our English word piss.
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
my FAQ is making people ask a lot of questions already answered in my FAQ
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Roddy @josherick3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Weegification of our once-proud city continues apace
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 13/09/2026
No, it's one.
Text: There's only one goal in it, that's nothing.
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piscadoro (poochie truther) @piscadoro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
good morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G...
youtube.com
The Beatles - Rain
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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