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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 10h

Is that the puncher or the punchee? Hard to tell.

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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

"BBC said it continues to provide news and programming for Afghan audiences in [Dari, Pashto, English] through shortwave and medium-wave radio, satellite, and online services." [Which is why shortwave transmitters should not be dismantled.] cpj.org/2026/10/tali...

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Taliban suspends BBC Dari, Pashto, and English FM broadcasts across Afghanistan - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, October 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Taliban authorities to immediately and unconditionally restore the FM radio transmissions of British public broadcaster BBC acr...

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Just made up a word: *enbotted* /en-ˈbät-əd/ verb (past tense of enbot) To have delegated a task to a bot, script, or AI agent rather than doing it by hand.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

ffs. Must they? Wasn’t there already a Beatles film I didn’t watch?

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

BBC News saying “diesel fuel” like Americans. Just diesel please.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I use Alexa. I find her useful. I use AI at work…like CONSTANTLY!!!

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

BlueSky users can be so tedious. Yes I’m talking about you. Do better - lighten up and chill out.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

My Alexa increased the temperature in our house to 24°C when I asked for Jazz 24. Same issue.

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Viriconia @viriconia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh do absolutely fuck off. My last major crisis got me a referral for 6 months time that was going to cost about 800 euro. My last mid-level crisis got me a referral that cost 100 a week. I've to manage my own mental health privately for the low low cost of 190 a month.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

PS to American followers: executions behind closed doors are also barbaric.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Hardly spinning a yarn if it’s true.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

It has been a while since I’ve been to Tramore for sure.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Best train/tunnel euphemism seen on the big screen.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Nothing to fear by going to Erebor. Nothing whatsoever at all.

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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 06/10/2026

Blindboy. I love him

Blindboy:
They didn't print this answer in its entirety because it was too spicy. Here’s what I submitted.

Interviewer:
Who would you award a knighthood/damehood to?

Blindboy:
Fuck off with that English shit. 1000 years ago, some profoundly violent Norman duke carried out savage ethnic cleansing on a little village in Yorkshire. Then he justified his claim to that land by wearing a silly hat full of jewels and performing a solemn ritual.
That's all that is. Royal ritual is a form of public hypnotism. It uses solemnity and the performance of seriousness to conjure a feeling of permanence around inherited power.It makes Royal entitlement feel like the weather. Something natural, inevitable and unchangeable, rather than an arbitrary arrangement created by absolute cunts, and therefore capable of being abolished. They are just people. Ask your King how his cousin Mountbatten fared on that boat in Sligo? They are just people made of flesh and bones who be ate by maggots the same as the rest of us. Id take that knighthood and give it to a snail, because of its role in the calcium cycle. I'd give the knighthood to a wasp, the big stripy butcher priest of the ditch, cutting death into smaller deaths and turning the nutrient cycle. I'd give It to a nettle, the canopy of the muck, who provides a home for worms and slugs and all the wonderful creatures that we ignore because the King Charles wants ye to marvel at the striations of his rectum.
When yere Queen died, the world remained the same and the British people left marmalade sandwiches at the gates of the palace to rot. If wasps, or snails died, we'd all die, it would be over. They are our royalty.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

You seem like folk who’d have the stats. What’s the longest period?

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t suppose you got your their callsign did you? That’s reportable.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s rare enough tho isn’t it? That’s extreme and very much against the ham ethos.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The US military fighter jets that landed at Shannon Airport on Saturday dropped missiles on Iran earlier this year. Micheál Martin lied to journalists when he said armed US soldiers – deployed for the illegal war on Iran – weren’t landing at the airport. www.ontheditch.com/fighter-jets...

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Fighter jets used to bomb Iran land at Shannon Airport

They launched a combined 35 missiles during Operation Epic Fury.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Growing up in 70s Britain the list is too long and that’s just the ads.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No amount of propaganda can make people believe That a lifeless dead zone for nature can ever pass as a real living forest of bio diversity and eco system abundance Though I know some people who think these are actually forests

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Pointless pricks. UK should do a de Gaulle and kick the US forces out. Special Relationship my hole.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Did someone steal some fuel again and scare off the big warrior Americans?

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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 03/10/2026

Same guy also said the Luas made no economic sense and would fail to attract significant numbers of riders. Today, it's so popular it's free.

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Tog Hackerspace @togdublin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Satellites, soldering, callsign patches, radio talks, pizza and retro computers! TOG Radio & Retro Weekend, Dublin 12, 24–25 Oct. Sunday includes POTA in the park. Supported by Dublin City Council. www.tog.ie/2026/10/radi... #AmateurRadio @irts.bsky.social

A tall portable amateur radio mast and wire antenna raised from a trailer in a grassy field under a clear blue sky, with tents and vans in the background.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I know this one intimately as I know I got it wrong on my exam. I still passed so I’ve been able to move on.

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Lord Smelliot @lordsmelliot.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Real chestnuts! Not this fake horse ones.

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