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Major Clanger

@majorclanger.bsky.social
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Cat minion, collector of Lego / old calculators / cake moulds. Baker, middle-aged weightlifter and convert to gardening. Has a growing assortment of Master's degrees including electronics, law and forensics.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Week 1 of making the #GBBO technical challenge. We start off with a recipe from @nigella.bsky.social - Coffee and Walnut cake.
A later cake, with light brown coffee icing, eight icing swirls on top each topped with a walnut half, and the side covered with chopped walnut.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some rather unfortunate word-wrap there.
A printed sign saying
100 YEARS 
OF FASH 
            ION
AT M&S
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There's a very cool BBC drama in this vinyl fraud story, with the investigating officers buying himself a turntable and getting into modern country music and the guy from the British Phonographic Industry being a fan of The Cure. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud
Thousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Script for the next season of Deadloch just leaked.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This has just come to my attention and OMG I WANT ONE.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When I got my Dwarf Mini earlier this year Orion was disappearing into the evening twilight but it's now high enough before dawn that this morning I could finally have a go at capturing M42, the Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula, a roughly round region of glowing pink gas, much brighter near the centre top where gas and dust are illuminated by a tight cluster of young bright stars.
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Gwen McNamara @timeandagwen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I didn’t expect to be posting this SO often…
Fake KANGAROO PRESS Star Trek book:
WHEN KIRK SHOWS UP YET AGAIN, PIKE MUST CONFRONT HIM AND ASK ONE QUESTION.

WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS
On MY SHIP?
A NEW NOVEL BY CHRISTOPHER PIKE
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In risk management, risk is usually assessed as a combination of impact (how serious is it if this happens?) and probability (how likely is this to happen?) "10% in the next decade" and "end of humanity" puts you squarely in the bit of the AI risk matrix labelled "Butlerian Jihad Right Now".
bbc.co.uk
Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am always up for some Gilbert & Sullivan homage, but this is especially good!
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO STIR-FRY www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/c/coll...
lecreuset.co.uk
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, he doesn't need to worry about being pushed out of the window, does he?
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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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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 08/09/2026
It’s not every day you get to pinpoint the collapse of a liberal democracy and its institutions to the precise minute but 07:33 this morning both UK Labour and the BBC failed.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A sad but not unexpected day; my mother passed away this morning at 94 after a long illness. Our thanks to the NHS for the care over her last few weeks in hospital and the last few days in particular when it was clear that the end was near.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW The legal agony of Wile E Coyote Coyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
The legal agony of Wile E Coyote
Coyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Faaaaarking hell - it's basically the Kuznetsov of rust.
USS Abrahan Lincoln finally entering port. Streaked unevenly with a weird orange colour, visibly decaying and in a position that embarrasses not just the crew of the carrier but the whole USA,  the Commander in Chief etc etc etc
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We drive over this bridge several times a month and so get a regular reminder of the time the local police ended up re-enacting the ending of The Italian Job. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Worcester Bridge stonework from police crash to stay in river
Highways officials believe the missing stones are damaged, and recovery would be expensive.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Any aspiring mad scientists want to set up their own genetics lab for a knockdown price? Buyer must collect. www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auctio...
bidspotter.co.uk
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A question from Coyote vs. Acme: in US civil cases is it normal for the Defendant to open a case, or was this pure dramatic licence to give John Cena the first word as Acme's General Counsel? [1/2]
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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The diversity within phylum Chordata, of species whose ancestors diverged 450 million years ago
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Warren Oates @warrenoatesgto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Night of the Not the Sharpest Knives
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ozymandias shoulda made two monuments so he could have told people to look upon his works ye mighty and de spare
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Caitlin Cooper @caitlinmaycooper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Best plural forms ranked: 1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac) 2) ending in -i (magi) 3) is to es (oases) 4) suppletive (people) 5) vowel changes (geese) 6) f to ves (thieves) 7) adding en (oxen) 8) no change (moose) 9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies) 10) adding s
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.
Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I TOLD YOU SO.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
RIP Frank Beard of ZZ Top. Alas, I can’t find a video anywhere of Spitting Image’s parody “We’ve Got Beards (Except For Him)” but here’s a still. Lyrics (by Grant and Naylor of Red Dwarf fame) in the Alt text.
We got beards
Beards like beavers
We got hair
Coming out of our chins
We got beards
Flowing like rivers
We got beards
Except for him
We got beards
We don't use razors
We got growth
Of the longer sorts
We got beards
We sure ain't shavers
We got beards
And we don't mean short
So what else
Can we say about us
Apart from beards
Which you know we've got
Erm... hey, what about the beards?
Hey yeah!
We got beards
Down to our trousers
We got beards
That's what we've got
...except for him
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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When you think about it, it's actually pretty cool that the UK government has a button they can press to make everyone with a phone immediately shit their pants.
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 14/08/2026
Every single person in the UK just shat themselves.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
WHAT THE HELL! Thought for a moment it was UK Attack Warning Red.
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is not the conduct I expect from a cat who has just released a live mouse into my home, and lost it.
Grey cat fast asleep on an armchair with a complacent smile.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Time lapse of eclipse from Worcestershire, UK. Taken with Dwarf Mini, 5s intervals. Cloud rolls in about 3/4 way through but then it wouldn’t be a British eclipse without some.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
First contact, Worcestershire. Taken with Dwarf Mini plus solar filter.
The sun’s disc with a tiny bite out one side.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mrs Clanger has asked me to ID the very large squash growing in our pumpkin patch. Google suggests a couple of possibilities.
Three images. One is a large yellow squash, about twice as long as it is wide. The second is a still from the 1950s version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers showing a man reaching warily towards a large vegetable-like pod. The third is a xenomorph egg from Alien.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
GOOSE: A romcom set in the early 1980s following a US Navy Radar Intercept Officer through training before his assignment as backseater to a hotshot young F-14 pilot.
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Jaime “Ni!” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
CONSTRUCTING THE TITANIC critics call it riveting
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
ST: Strange New Worlds S4E3. I am entirely up for a full album of Rebecca Romijn belting out Jim Steinman bangers IN KLINGON.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Nearly happened to me in the stacks at the Science Fiction Foundation archive at Liverpool. I had a vision of a coffin the shape of a pizza box being carried into my funeral while all my family and friends tried to stifle their sniggers.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So, the Disaster Area Sun Dive tour meets the Golgafrincham B Ark?
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pervert Glasses were just the start, we now have the Upskirting Robot. mondorobotics.com
mondorobotics.com
Beni — Your First All-Terrain Camera Robot | Mondo Robotics
Meet Beni — the AI camera robot that follows and films you in 4K across any terrain. No crew needed. Super Early Bird pricing now available on Kickstarter.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A new candidate for what @lmbsaflavin.bsky.social proposed as the WTFLR, the law reports for judgments that have you muttering "What the f...." as you read them. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2026...
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Amar Lodhia v Twelve Trees (Bromley-By-Bow) Management Company Limited & Ors - Find Case Law - The National Archives
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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The best Companion the Doctor never had. Held his own in a story memorably described as ‘90 minutes of Tom Baker and Julian Glover insulting each other with Douglas Adams dialogue’.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Apple TV on what motivates Russian cosmonauts.
Anna Maxwell Martin as Raskova in Star City. Wearing the uniform of a KGB colonel, plus headset and microphone.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Not now LEGO, we have already run out of shelf space.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We’re sourcing our reshuffle news from an alternate timeline of the 1980s…
To summarise yesterday evening, Mr Benn is out of the Cabinet, Mr Healey has returned to the Cabinet and Mr Kinnock has joined the Cabinet for the first time.

Quoted as an image because it’s a friend’s joke from Facebook and I can’t take credit for it.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Actual footage of the power source for the HMCTS virus scanner. The mouse gets a little tired now and again which is why your emails to the court can take a while to get through.
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klau @toweringklau.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video
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