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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@femlfm.bsky.social Hi Lisa. Just a little update in case you thought I'd died on you. They've prescribed me an opioid for pain relief, which turns out to disagree with me violently and colourfully. So the advice was right: kids, don't mess with hard drugs...😧

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@femlfm.bsky.social You might need to look this up (I did): Crystal arthropathy. It's what I've been diagnosed with and it's kept me from being as sociable as I'd like for months and I'm missing our language chats. Here's some Susie wisdom. To my gradual return! 🥂

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Brexit ‘no mates’ Britain still sitting in a sulk outside the room because yet another prime minister doesn’t have the courage to say how geopolitically insane and economically illiterate this is. Or admit the lies they’ve all told about immigration and freedom of movement. What failure.

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Nobody seems to get this. It's from the 1970s Andre Previn: You're playing all the wrong notes! Eric( hoisting Previn up by the lapels): No. I am playing all the right notes. But not necessarily in the right order!

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Eric Morecambe would approve. Wordle 1,783 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

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Lisa F. Moore @femlfm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry."🗡️⚖️ -Sonja Johnson #WomensHistoryMonth

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Albert King's Born Under A Bad Sign has the refrain " If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all". Looking at the papers lately, does anyone else feel like replacing "luck" with "news" throughout? 🤔🙄

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I got savaged by a puppy today on the way home from the shops. It was a tiny black smudge on the end of a 30ft extendable lead. After a brief hump of my shin it ran around me until my legs were tied together with its lead. It's owner had to run around me in the opposite direction to free me! 🥰

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Christmas everybody! 🎄 🥳 🎉 🎊 🥂

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

"Making America great again" Cartoon: Ramsés (Cuba)

Trump on a golf course, hitting a package called 'American credibility' into the distance. The cartoon's title: "Making America great again".

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Hello everybody, I'm having a tough one, please send animal pics if you can

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

@antonyhopkins.bsky.social Yo, amusing dogs aside, can I urge you to persevere with Supergirl? I've just seen the last ever episode with a feeling of satisfaction and beautiful closure. But there are some frustrating earlier episodes where they make a pickle of the Multiverse. It's worth the effort!

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@mrodesmi @mrodesmi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Good one 👇🏼

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@wrenkh.bsky.social Hello Wren 👋 Don't I know you from several lifetimes ago on the platform formerly known as Twitter? 🤔

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Washington Monument in D.C. from my visit in April. Figured I better visit again before Trump has it knocked down. I mean, anything is possible...

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

@femlfm.bsky.social Yo, I don't like to brag* but I'm going to see the wonderful Susie Dent at a wordy event in Wimbledon tomorrow. Confidently expecting to learn things! Will report. *You know it's a lie, don'tcha

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

When it comes to a choice between cock-up and conspiracy, most MPs naturally gravitate to conspiracy. So much more exciting. Life’s too dull when it’s just some unelected apparatchik doing a job badly. -John Crace on the China Spies imbroglio

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MJ @m-jones.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A scathing essay on Donald Trump, entitled "Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into the White House", reportedly first published by Oliver Kornetzke on his personal Facebook profile on 18 August 2025.

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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Good morning and Happy Thursday 👋 If you are a #NeverTrumper let’s see your hands 👋 and let’s make more friends. I need names for a starter pack comment starter if you want to be listed. Have an awesome day. ❤️☮️ Repost

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a dog is leaning against a wooden fence with a good morning message on it .

ALT: a dog is leaning against a wooden fence with a good morning message on it .

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 11/09/2025

Commentary about the performative “grief” being demanded of us all, written by Stone Erickson Mims, a Black man I do not know personally. It was passed on to me. I’m passing it on without comment. None is necessary.

A post passed on to me by Stone Erickson Mims: “In the matter of Charlie Kirk, I cannot mourn on behalf of a man that has made statements such as “empathy is woke" or that "gun violence is worth it to maintain our second amendments rights" in context to mass shootings and school shootings.

I cannot, as a Black man, mourn for a man who has, at every avenue, spewed racist filth in order to cast hundreds of thousands of people who share my hue, in a bigoted light.

To mourn a man such as this would be a moral betrayal to the children killed in the hallways of their schools and the 14 percent, the darker Americans, that he blamed for civil unrest.

I cannot mourn for a man who refused to extend that same mercy to George Floyd. Some say that he only spoke words—-that he was merely demonstrating his first amendment rights. But how many bigots felt empowered by those words? How many Proud Boys, how many Klanophiles saw him as their beacon?

I cannot, as a writer, an advocate of language, pretend that his rhetoric did not contribute to the nullification of millions of people's safety and agency.
Words *are* violence. Every war, after all, begins with a manifesto, every act of hate fueled by a corresponding propaganda piece.

A man died today—-but do not ask that those of us who he spent his life discriminating against to perform grief.

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 30/08/2025

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Using up the odds and ends of the chocolate stash in the house before I buy more. There is a box of After Eights that must date from Christmas. Did you know that a serving, according to the box, is two? Did anyone, ever?

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

@femlfm.bsky.social I can confidently recommend @susiedent.com ,though, whom I pretty much worship. She knows everything and more about words and has a series on YouTube about swearing, all enunciated perfectly like your fucking lady. You think: Does she kiss her mother with that mouth? 🥂 🇫🇷 💙

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Hands up who's sad about Terry Reid's death. ✋😥

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Tesco takes more from you than it costs for Asylum Seekers, and the Banks take more in 2 weeks than Asylum Seekers cost in an entire year. But of course, there is absolute silence about that.

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David Grinyer @malonegranger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I really don't think attacks onA&E staff are funny. But I couldn't help smiling at this juxtaposition of headline and picture. I mean, fancy that pelican following her all the way to the park to vent its spleen!

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sad news. Why does the BBC struggle so much to put on a decent book show?

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Happy #InternationalCatDay to all who celebrate! 💙 #ProudBlue Caturday

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.

Title: Doubts cast on another beloved inspirational tale

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Our investigations team has learned that the names "Jack" and "Jill" were invented to conceal a less than salubrious past.
(image of smiling Jack and Jill with a bucket)

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The pair claim to have climbed a hill to "fetch a pail of water" but we found a number of water sources much closer to their cottage.
(image of a water pump, atwo fountains and a drinking trough)

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(image of a book with the title "WELL: a memoir" by Jill)

Jill now concedes that her account of Jack's fall and her own "Tumbling After" was intended to convey feelings, not "Cold facts".

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Multiple medical experts expressed Surprise that a broken crown was successfully treated with "Vinegar and brown paper.
(Image of Jack with is head wrapped in brown paper beside an xray of his damaged skull).

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Nature @nature.com · 31/07/2025

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

thanks to our education system

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🐧 april Ⓥ 🌱 @harmlesslife.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

GP is threatening to offroll me unless I agree a harmful care plan that removes disability adjustments that were helping me access care. It seems there is no way to stop this Any ideas? Anyone come across anything similar? If you can’t help please repost/like to help reach someone who can 🤍 1/3

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Flexible working From the latest Private Eye, out now.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

10 prevalent misconceptions regarding asylum hotels, clarified and refuted with accurate information for you to share, particularly if you are sick of hearing the same tired and often racially motivated arguments. from Community Integration and Advocacy Centre via @westcountryvoices.bsky.social 🙏🏻

❶ “They’re living in luxury hotels at our expense!”
Fact: These accommodations typically comprise budget hotels or repurposed facilities. The rooms are basic, frequently cramped, lacking kitchen access, and providing limited privacy.

❷ “They get £40 a day spending money.”
Fact: Asylum seekers residing in hotels receive approximately £9.58 per week in cash, equating to about £1.37 daily—insufficient to cover even fundamental necessities.

❸ “They’re taking hotel rooms from paying guests.”
Fact: The government specifically contracts hotels that often have available capacity or are unsuitable for typical guests. Most were not fully booked prior to their use.

❹ “They should be working to pay for their stay.”
Fact: Asylum seekers are prohibited from working while their claims are being processed—a policy decision rather than a personal choice.

❺ “They’re just waiting around doing nothing.”
Fact: The majority of asylum seekers aim to contribute positively. Many engage in volunteering, learning English, or participating in community organisations, despite facing significant uncertainty.

❻ “We’re spending millions on them!”
Fact: The high costs associated with hotel use stem from a broken and backlogged asylum system, not from the individuals utilising it. Delays perpetuate a state of limbo, resulting in increased long-term expenses.

❼ “They’re given better treatment than our homeless.”
Fact: Asylum seekers are housed in hotels due to the government’s legal obligation to accommodate them. Homelessness is a distinct and also underfunded issue; one should not be used to justify neglect of the other.

❽ “They’re all men of fighting age.”
Fact: Asylum hotels also house families, women, and children. The narrative surrounding “fighting-age males” is often intended to incite fear rather than accurately represent the situation.

❾ “They could have stayed in a safe country.”
Fact: International law does not mandate claiming asylum in the first safe country encountered. Individuals arrive in the UK for various reasons—language preferences, family connections, historical ties, or safety concerns elsewhere.

𝟏𝟎 “They’re pretending to be refugees to get free stuff.”
Fact: The vast majority of asylum seekers are legitimate refugees fleeing war, torture, and persecution. Their claims undergo individual assessments based on stringent criteria.

Asylum seekers residing in hotels are not leading luxurious lives—they are enduring hardships while awaiting safety. The core issue lies not with those occupying the hotels, but rather with the prolonged circumstances that have led them there.

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