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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 17h
What a prat.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 18h
16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
Vintage black and white photo of a young girl holding a toy and standing next to a stuffed animal, set against a patterned backdrop.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 17h
Enjoyed the film Bridget Jones's Diary; thought the book was awful.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Recognised this 😊
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The question is not "why has Donald betrayed Ukraine?" The question is "how big a cut of unfrozen Russian assets will Donald get for betraying Ukraine?"
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So sad to read this. I am sorry you had to experience this.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Didn't PA supporters organise a couple of demonstrations on the assumption that the police couldn't arrest all of them? That the police did might explain the huge increase.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My apologies that I missed this. And I am old enough to remember it too 🤣
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No such thing as bad publicity 😉
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Oh, that's a good question. Hope you get an answer.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Does she make money from audiobooks? If she does, and she continues to pledge her money to PA, I would guess that they come under the same ruling.
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🎃 Simon Threadgold 🎃 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Jesus Hamilton Fucking Christ, what were they thinking? Or snorting?
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Gosh, I find myself shocked that someone is happy to state the obvious. Declining to just call everyone a xenophobic racist comes as a pleasant surprise. Well done.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ok.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Exactly this. Improving this awful deal in increments, like the Windsor framework, has to be better than another howling argument.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
But importing people to prop up the care system means that it doesn't have improve. The pay is awful and there's no career progression; it needs to change.
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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Silk cravat worn #onthisday in 1905 by actor Sir Henry Irving, 67, when he collapsed and died at the Grand Hotel in Bradford, UK, after a performance of Tennyson's "Becket." His valet, Walter Collinson, gave it to Dr. Carroll, the local doctor who tried to save his life. #OTD @nationaltrust.org.uk
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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Slaw". The word is "Coleslaw". It is only two syllables. It does not require abbreviation. Especially not to a word that sounds like it ought to be the pluperfect passive subjective form of "to slay"
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Haven't you left out the fact that the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was a Brexiteer?
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
But not as terrified as you would like.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Tyne Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead was officially opened by George V on this day 1928. Designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, who later designed the Forth Road Bridge, and built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Smartly dressed village children in Scholes, near Rotherham, south Yorkshire, 1906. Almost all the working population in the village were coal miners.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I thought the criticism came from his lack of leadership on that vote, rather than the byelection result.
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unworthy as I am, you will save me, in accordance with your great mercy,
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Codebreaker, 103, kept his WW2 heroics a secret for decades
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Codebreaker, 103, kept his WW2 heroics a secret for decades
Fred Vanke was sworn to secrecy but has now been honoured by Bletchley Park.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There must be something in the water in Argentina.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato. www.ft.com/content/5993...
Drift through its rooms admiring the oversized sculptures, the overstuffed seating and the passive-aggressive war on colour. I was tempted to give myself a quick nosebleed just to introduce a splash of red. While there, do take a look inside the utterly magnificent restaurant at the back of the ground floor, housed in what was once a banking hall. The cathedral-high ceilings are coated in gold leaf and dangle with giant golden chandeliers like crystal udders. There are pillars, acres of polished wood veneer and lots of soft curved seating, picked out by pools of light from dainty table lamps. Gawp at it. Gasp at it. But whatever you do, don’t book a table in it. On my recent visit, the whole operation was a bloody shambles.It starts in the second-floor cocktail bar, designed by Anouska Hempel, where the £16 Margarita comes from a bottle of pre-mix with a hand-scribbled label, and they can’t make any classic cocktails which aren’t on the list. Ask them for a Daiquiri then watch the panic flicker in their eyes. Online, the cheapest bottle of wine offered up here is a Riesling at £68. When you arrive, it turns out to be £86.Back downstairs in the restaurant a bottle of sparkling water is brought. It’s warm. We ask for ice. None comes. We ask again. None comes. Third time’s a charm. At least we get water quickly; the wait for food is interminable (if you don’t count the £56-worth of mini lobster rolls we didn’t order, that they tried to foist on us). We watch one of our dishes being offered to a nearby table. The diners look baffled. The waiter returns to the pass in the open kitchen where a row with the chef appears to ensue. He waves a ticket at her. Finally, 10 minutes later the plate comes to us. In a functioning restaurant you should be able to spot the person in charge immediately. There is no one in charge of this room. It’s chaos.Our missing dish is the cutely named “Parisian petite potato”. I wanted to see what a £22 baked potato was like. Small, is the answer, and topped with the now obligatory caviar. Honestly, there’s so much caviar washing around London at the moment, I’m convinced there’s some bloke with a lock-up in Camberwell who has got hold of a surplus that fell off the back of a knackered old sturgeon. Now he’s pushing it out to W1. Anyway, it’s a baked potato with fish eggs. I’m not sure which bit of it is Parisian but it’s definitely petite, I’ll give it that.
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Making the Original Apple Pie of Medieval England
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Husband the same 🙄
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was talked about on #PM on radio 4 this afternoon.
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
our common life depends upon each other's toil
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's hard to see how the Green party's motion today will avoid an investigation by the EHRC, given Labour was previously found in breach.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Doesn't everyone just abstain and accuse Burnham of playing silly games instead of dealing with the serious business of governing the country?
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 02/10/2026
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god!
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And morally it's fine for affluent countries to import labour and pay abysmal wages that the native population won't stand for.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A definition of optimism!
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why do technical and academic education need parity of esteem? When did children (and parents)stop thinking 'what's best for me (my child) and sod the rest of you?'
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of my favourite films 😍
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ladybird book in the spotlight. The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen (1968) Artist: Robert Lumley
The front cover of the ladybird book, featuring a smart red hen winding up the drawbridge on her treetop Home as a fox approaches 
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A magistrate has been reprimanded for serious misconduct after publishing four posts on Facebook that were said to show he “held a prejudicial view of matters involving Jewish people and Israel”. It's the most serious disciplinary finding short of removal. rozenberg.substack.com/p/magistrate...
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Magistrate reprimanded
Comments on ‘highly controversial matters’ could undermine public confidence
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Octobre Le Palais du Louvre, Paris In a field by the Seine, a man sows seed, raked into earth by a stone-weighted harrow behind a horse; magpies & crows ignore scarecrow archer & peck stray seeds. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry 1412-16 Musée Condé Château de Chantilly
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEW EPISODE 💥 Wasn’t supposed to but Had to respond to.. - Andy Burnham giving the greatest speech since MLK & probably Moses - The PM then wading in to praise the Man City owners Apple: bit.ly/GeoffNorcott... Spotify: bit.ly/GeoffNorcott... YouTube: tinyurl.com/ymkvsxrz
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How many days until he is no longer in office?
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Early release latest: a man was released from Wandsworth, outside of which British Transport Police immediately arrested him for bike thefts he was wanted on from June and August.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I thought the polarisation was between Blair and Brown. I am not convinced that the electorate has given joining the Euro a moment's thought.
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The machinery of fishing, in minimalist form. (Thanks to the street artist.) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery
A line drawing of a man sitting fishing using street furniture as part of the image
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Linda @lindylou9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did you not watch Channel 4 News last night? Lisa Nandy explained how both Labour and the Conservatives had rubbished each other's plans for social care and that it is time to stop. It's a shame that you are not a sufficiently serious politician that you want to join her in this aim.
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