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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 5h

I would very much like to spend today doing nothing but, for economic reasons, I cannot.

Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New Star Trek series in which the hero flies to alien planets *just* ahead of the Enterprise, teaches the entire civilisation The Birdy Song (with actions), and flies off

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dinner time is at 5:00pm. It’s 4:40pm and I made the mistake of slightly shifting in my chair

An extremely alert, yet scruffy dog stares intently at the camera, willing the viewer to get up and feed her

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The one where the head had to tell us that two of our classmates had died falling onto the railway from a bridge

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m not keen on Paul Hollywood lunging at me with a fork #GBBO26

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A big ask, no pressure & I know people have better things to do but if about 15-20 people buy this from Blackwell's in the next few hours it's likely I'd have the number 1 & 2 books in their chart & that might be enough to finally persuade an American publisher to get my books out over there...

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Niche Edinburgh post. These people🙄

Queue outside an insta famous Edinburgh bakery.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Once again, I must respectfully decline the many invitations to give a shit about the Royal Family or Earl Spenser. I cannot. I must mow the lawn and clean the bathroom today.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Niche Edinburgh post: We could raise enough money to fix all the potholes if we just send a traffic warden to the double yellows outside Asda in Newhaven.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s hard to believe that they’ve built an AI that is so selfish, so incurious, so destructive amd so uninterested in what it destroys. Who could possibly have seen that coming [picture of Alman et al]

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You gotta check the output folks. You always gotta check the output.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Quiz show pitch: “Horse or Divorce” in which married couples answer questions about each other. If they get them all wrong they get a divorce. If they answer correctly they win a horse From the same people who brought you the wildly popular “Hat or Hair”

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good Lord! It makes Edinburgh sound like *gags* Glasgow.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Using 37 hotel room milk sachets to make a latte

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh my God, Tom! I’m in bits! What a fabulous beautiful funny, sad, glorious book @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This highly recommended. It’s like Laurie Lee meets Nick Hornby and Terry Pratchett round at Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s gaff.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lotta came to the pub with us. I think she liked it.

Lotta a big shaggy labradoodle smiling like an idiot

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s amazing to live in an era where all Emily Dickinson’s poems were written by AI apparently.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think the world would be a better, more humble place if influencers realised that they were, in reality, just mild diverters. bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When Lee Anderson is the voice of moral integrity in your party you have a problem...

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Headphones but for the smell of weed

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My daughter has finally had the plumbing fixed in her flat. The shower had two cold pipes going into it and the toilet flushed hot.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I literally did this with an ex-boss once. He emailed me at ten at night so I replied with a question. He answered so I asked another. I managed to find plausible ways to keep replying until he finally stopped (shortly after midnight) . He never did it again

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tone is important when writing inspirational messages on the side of a church. I feel like this is a bit bleak

The words “Jesus Christ
the same yesterday
today and for ever” on the side of a church. The name “Jesus Christ is in a cursive font, making it read “Jesus Christ!
the same yesterday
today and for ever”

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m not surprised Americans enjoy being lied to. Guys, you brought it on yourselves. “I’m going to the bathroom” You’re not having a bath. Your whole life is a lie

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of the best things I’ve read about Dolly so far today!

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m not usually bothered by famous people dying but Dolly seemed like a properly good person and I felt genuine affection for her. Really sad news.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is presumably an example of the 'two-tier policing' I keep hearing about...

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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The revolution actually 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be televised but it will be on a platform that you don't subscribe to anymore because everything is so expensive now that you can only afford to have one streaming service at a time so you just swap them around and you recently canceled the one the revolution will be on.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I met up with a Twitter friend for lunch today. He and his wife were on holiday in Edinburgh from the States. We both left Twitter because of Musk. We both miss the community we built over there. Sadly, we’ve not been able to recreate it here.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m writing and deleting more posts this morning than I’ve ever done

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is the Telegraph I assume. It’s the out-and-out head-in-the-sand cowardice of this that gets me. It’s incomprehensible to me that anyone can look at the way the weather has changed in the last ten years and think it’s no different to 1976.

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What on earth are you all talking about?

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So that £5m wasn’t for security then?

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tell me more about this “heatwave” and “drought”

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If I order from Harvey Nicols online, will I get a giant mug now?

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The voters of Clacton are going to be as disappointing as a visit to Clacton, aren’t they?

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have A-Levels really got easier or are you just jealous of youth and beauty? Have they really got easier or were you just stupid and lazy? Or are today’s young people just *better* than you?

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Matthew Perren @matthewperren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The end of an era. I’ve had keys cut by Ray Withey, the last of the Borlands, many times, and a lovely fella he was too.

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