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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 8h

The new issue of The New Cartoonist is out! @thenewcartoonist.bsky.social. You'll find this one in there if you stay through the credits.

Cartoon- A man views the Bayeux Tapestry. right at the end are the words embroidered 'HAROLD WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS DOOMSDAY'

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 6h

Shout out to a Bearcam bear from 10 years ago

A tweet from me ten years ago reading
There is a bear on Bearcam today with very well-defined buttocks
The photograph shows exactly that

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6h

Finally, Ken's Sardines and Mince Shack is getting a call!

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 6h

I'm officially home alone (apart from the cat) for almost 2 months. That calls for a takeaway tonight from somewhere that my wife wouldn't fancy getting something from.

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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 11h

Famously, when Doctor Who finally got a Disney budget for VFX it produced the most successful and popular series of its 62 year run.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 13h

To celebrate the anniversary of me bursting from my mum, happy Alien vs X-men day!

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 12h

This beauty was a couple of weeks ago.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 13h

Waiting for my dad to arrive to take us to the airport to drop off Tiff there for her 2 month trip home to Tacoma/Seattle including a side quest to Arizona. So it'll be mostly just me and the cat until late November. Have plans for 2 of the Saturdays but nothing else yet.

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 13h

Had a fight about this in the office with someone a while back, saying he didn't see the problem. People's minds are getting shortcut-poisoned I swear to god

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 29/09/2026

Just reminded myself of the time that I failed an aptitude test for a job because I went to the wrong hotel where the test was happening. Thankfully, I ended up in a better job than the one the test was for.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would be excited for ANY Murderbot graphic novel, but with Erica AND Gary involved? Two long time favorite creators. And really lovely people.

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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

for those keeping track, the inevitable moment I had to stop myself heckling was: Emma Reynolds, in a panel about economic growth, talking about how brilliant it was that we had such great universities in this country

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We deserve to be told the truth..."

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Excitement at the announcement of an Erasure arena tour next year somewhat dampened by the sentence "Vince Clarke will be Musical Director for the tour but will not be appearing onstage alongside Andy Bell"

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, I refuse to be convinced this is a better bathtub Geralt than the original, no thank you www.pcgamer.com/games/the-wi...

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Here is your world-first comparison between original and remastered Tub Geralt in The Witcher 3

Geralt now 600% more damp.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Another photo taken at the excellent @marillion.com gig last night.

black and white photograph of 4 of the band Marillion

front left to right: Steve Hogarth (vocals & guitar), Pete Trewavas (bass), Steve Rothery (guitar)
rear: Mark Kelly (keyboards)

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

He's really gone downhill since his cousin Jasper got outed as a Hydra agent in The Winter Soldier.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This one raises a fascinating philosophical question: if you list your flat for £200k more than it is worth, have you really listed it, or are you just posting pictures of your home's interior online?

Georgia Dean and her husband recently took their property off the market.

He bought the two-bedroom flat in Haggerston, east London, for £470,000 in 2014. But the mortgage rate was due to rise from 1.6 per cent to 4.8 per cent: renting the flat out no longer made financial sense.

They listed it in June for £650,000, a below-inflation increase. An estate agent told them “no one would sniff around if the price stayed above £600,000”, said Dean, who works in product at a tech start-up.

In the two months before the couple pulled the listing, it attracted only two viewings.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mucking around with images of this night’s Moon as I returned from Newcastle #moon #photography #sky #nightsky www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

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Sunday Moon | Robin Ince

footling around with images of the Moon as I traveled back from Newcastle

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Reheated Pixels @reheatedpixels.com · 27/09/2026

The greatest game on any system, of all time, is Chaos on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. That's just scientific fact. And tonight, I've released a web-browser-based editor for it. Phew.

Edit the graphics of Chaos in your web browser. And spell data. And loads of other things.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

As usual @marillion.com were marvellous live and the support act Haunt The Woods were good too.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

Was thinking of booking a hotel room across the road from the hall like we did for the Divine Comedy, but @marillion.com is playing the same night as the start of the Labour Party conference, so no luck getting a room for sensible money.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

Marillion at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall tonight - glad I'm not at work tomorrow!

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m not joking

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hahahahahahhaahha Christ we’re screwed

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

Always nice waking up on a Sunday and knowing you've got the whole week off. It definitely feels more relaxing! Tiff's off to the States for two months on Wednesday, so I might spend some of this week batch cooking to stick meals in the freezer.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exclusive: I asked Andy Burnham about the gangs of masked thugs marauding around parts of our country and asked if he and his government should be doing more to call out their actions He called them ‘poisonous’ amongst other strong words. His condemnation was unequivocal. Full story here 👇

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Burnham slams 'poisonous' masked gangs & praises Liverpool solidarity

The Prime Minister was unequivocal in his condemnation of those sowing intimidation and division on the south coast as he arrives in his Liverpool, which he says has a proud history of fighting discri...

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Spong @besidetheteesside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What at horrible day to have eyes.

A glory hole of Capt Tom, so it looks like you're sucking off the old garden wobbler.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the cool thing about social media in the year of our lord twenty hundred & twenty six is it's impossible to tell whether you're being scolded by an automated scolding LLM or a real person with no ability to understand context or jokes & who thinks the whole internet is addressing them personally

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026

The M4 Mac Mini briefly let people buy aftermarket SSD modules and upgrade the tiny computer. With the latest Mac Mini, the party is over. aftermath.site/apple-makes-th...

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Apple Makes The Mac Mini Unupgradable Again Because Fuck You

Apple quietly rolled back a tiny unofficial feature of one of its best computers when the storage crisis is at its worst.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Spanish scifi comedy Operacion Mantis (1984, starring Paul Naschy, made liberal use of the Doctor Who Sound effects album.

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