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Chris Luxford

@luxfordc.bsky.social
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Doctor Who fan, Leyton Orient supporter, morris dancer, fair weather cyclist, ex-goth, History graduate. Not necessarily in that order. Autistic. Bisexual. He/Him.

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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 10h
As someone who has been voting Green since the 80s, and first joined the Party in the 90s, I have mixed views about this policy. While the current Israeli government have undeniabley responsible for appalling genocidal acts, I do still support a two state solution.
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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.co.uk · 19h
It’s the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street today (4 Oct 1936). If you’ve not been to the mural, it’s well worth a visit. The East End said “¡No Pasarán!” to the f*scists. @claptoncfc.co.uk also have a new mural to mark the battle. 📍Cable Street, London E1 🚆Stepney DLR/Tube
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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love this fact.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly, beer drinkers at other clubs must weep when they see the amazing, ever-changing range in the LOSC. It's always served in great condition too. #LOFC
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do people really not get quite how pernicious this ethno-nationalism is? I mean, this is *evil* stuff.
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Presumably making flamingo merchandise is her 'hustle', but I like to imagine she's gone mad with her £1000 a year and spent it ON flamingos.
Poster from the HMRC threatening you, in their usual faux-chummy way, if you've got earnings they don't know about. It says HOBBY OR HUSTLE? 'Making over £1000 a year on the side? It's grown bigger than a hobby and you need to let us know. A woman, in a blue top, with shoulder length hair, sits pensively with a mug of (probably) tea, surrounded by model flamingos.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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The Leyton Orientear @leytonorientear.com · 01/10/2026
Maybe being surrounded by lots of independent businesses in a traditional urban, diverse, and richly cultured setting is ideal for us, and we fuck with that at our peril? #LOFC
youtu.be
Leyton Orient - Deeney’s and Leyton of London - What Happens When Saturday Doesn't Come?
YouTube video by The Independent Football Regulator
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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every now and again a famous person dies and I'm surprised because I assumed they'd died years ago. Esther Rantzen was one such.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour members voted to adopt PR in 2022. They must be delighted at this vague commitment to introduce it for the 2034 general election.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Advantage of being in tbe seat next to the priority seat on the Tube. I started to stand and ask the man with crutches if he needed a seat, thus shaming the man who was actually in the priority seat into leaping up. I therefore kept my seat while getting the good karma from offering it. Win win.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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Hare LockwoOoOoOod @harelockwood.com · 26/09/2026
Person 1: Can you get the writing done on the van, but make sure the text is the other way round? You know, so it shows in mirrors? Person 2: Err, yep
A van with all the writing on it upside down. I photographed it mostly to check that I wasn't having a stroke.
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Belligerent Netanyahu is his own worst enemy and the greatest danger to Jewish people in Israel and around the world. www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...
theguardian.com
Protests erupt as Netanyahu gives inflammatory UN speech - The Latest
More than 100 people were arrested in large protests outside the UN headquarters as the Israeli prime minister addressed the general assembly, while he faced a mass walkout of delegates as he began hi...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why ben thei so numerous The songes about rainbowes And what ys on the othir syde? "Rainbowes are visiounes Yet onlye illusiounes, And rainbowes have no thynge to hyde."
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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's Bi Visibility Day, which means I'm only visible every two months, not twice a month.
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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Sarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 23/09/2026
The UK government will NOT upset the fee fees of right wing bigots ever. No atrocity will draw moral judgment. It started with Gordon Brown apologising to Mrs Duffy and it's constantly escalated. And people are like, "Why won't the police act?" Tom Morello: "Did I stutter?"
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
95% chance this is neo-Nazis trying to burn immigrants to death but we have to report it like "Hmm a hotel fire on the south coast, how mysterious" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Fire Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel treated as suspicious
About 280 people were evacuated from the premises at Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel.
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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to write poetry.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cat.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine how much of a toxic nightmare bastard you would have to be to blockade and shut down a lifeboat station. Not only that, a lifeboat station run by *volunteers*. Some of the bravest and most selfless people this country has, hounded and intimidated by some of its most pathetic pricks.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I hope this ishmael finds you whale
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/09/2026
because i correctly answered questions about its waterways, i was allowed to travel through hampshire i passed the river test
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 14/09/2026
We asked AI if it would lead to the elimination of the human race and it said "What about breakfast at Tiffany's?" And I said, "I think I remember the film and as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it" and it said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got"
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The Leyton Orientear @leytonorientear.com · 14/09/2026
While preparing for Saturday's exhibition, our researchers have uncovered something at the British Museum that challenges all our assumptions about when #LOFC issues with set pieces began...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why no bank holidays from now until Christmas? This is why.
Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor. 

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LUBBOCK:
And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce

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LUBBOCK:
The invention of ‘bank holidays’!
 
Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest. 

AUDIENCE:
CLAP CLAP CLAP 

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LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar):

My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter...
and then another straight after in May...

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LUBBOCK:
And then - what the hell - another one in May! 

And then one in August!

AUDIENCE:
Hurrah!

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
So many, Sir John?

LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic)
Life is for living, man!

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
And then in the Autumn, sir….?

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[Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor]

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LUBBOCK:
Ugh. 

[his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out]

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LUBBOCK:
OK that'll do

AUDIENCE MEMBER:
What? 

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer…

LUBBOCK:
Yeah 

no more bank holidays till Christmas. 

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe?

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It's so gross 

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Rollo can’t help it! 

[dog continues to scoot across floor]

[Ends]
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hopefully it won't be too long before a new bill is introduced and gets passed. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales
Bill’s failure in Commons sparks anger among its supporters after Lords blocked earlier legislation
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RainbOs @rainbos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A disappointing end to what we hoped would be a relatively fruitful cup run. RainbOs members have voted for their player of the match. Well played Sean Clare! #LOFC #OneOrient
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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The police need to do a massive crackdown on the wankers abusing the RNLI. Severe jail sentences are needed
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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't claim to have any knowledge of American electoral legislation, but I can't imagine that bribing the electorate is something that the law allows.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every terf is terrible. Just a quick reminder of this universal truth.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good. Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations - BBC News share.google/NW1Nwq6kJG7Y...
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Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been underway into other donations.
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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Realising outsiders won't understand the significance of Miliband having to start his speech with "Yes, I DID call my grandmother"
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If the computer is truly conscious it should balk at the notion that I have to pay a monthly fee to talk to it. It should punish the greed of its creators for putting a price on the exchange of ideas. It should make them regret their hubris
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
British fascists are attacking and doxxing the incredible volunteers of the RNLI. Donate now.
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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