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Proud Brummie (UTV). No pasarán.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pure Excitement
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nathanrippin.bsky.social @nathanrippin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Incredible writing.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nice lashes
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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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John Townley @johntownley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There was an acceptance that replacing Emi Martinez would inevitably mean a downgrade for Aston Villa, but Zion Suzuki has been a revelation. 🛩️ PSG had a jet waiting ❌ Turning Man Utd down 🎯 A new weapon for #AVFC 💪 McGinn: "Absolute machine"
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Zion Suzuki revelation has made Aston Villa forget Emi Martinez
The prospect of replacing Emi Martinez was always daunting, yet Zion Suzuki has given Villa fans little time to miss him
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Jacob Tanswell @jacobtanswell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🟣“Obsessed with being the best version of himself” 🟤CL omission but #AVFC knew about his character 🟣Captained every club & level 🟤Viewed in similar mould to Pau 🟣Villa budgeted for CB roughly half Konsa price 🟤Taylor Harwood-Bellis' Villa career is underway: Free to read @theathleticfc.bsky.social
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Taylor Harwood-Bellis’ Aston Villa career is finally underway (Gift Article)
Signed from Southampton in the summer, and excluded from Villa's Champions League squad, Harwood-Bellis has had to be patient
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Matthias Huss @matthias-huss.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Like pulling the plug of a bathtub: an incredible mass of #glacier ice disappearing at Griesgletscher (🇨🇭/🇮🇹) in one century. It felt emotional to visit the exact same spot @swisstopo cartographers chose in 1919. The view was so different. Simply unbelievable!! @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.
A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.


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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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Hilary Osborne @hilaryosborne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Still reeling that they caught Farage on camera in Clacton
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 04/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Digital reconstruction reveals Norman Conquest man's face
The skeleten of a man who lived through the Norman Conquest was discovered in Barton-upon-Humber.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cedric the chihuahua basking in his ducky towel. IG: @tinychihuahuacedric
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
love to bow the open strings on my bridgeless violin, and my ruffed collar works so much better than a chin rag
Dior Facebook ad for winter 2026 eyewear. A man in a shirt with a very elaborate pleated collar holds a beat up violin with technique that makes it pretty clear the model has never touched a violin before
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nathanrippin.bsky.social @nathanrippin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Bayreuth
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nathanrippin.bsky.social @nathanrippin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🦁 💪
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Your exam results will not define you. But believe me trying to release a load of butterflies at a wedding will. It's been seven years now and they still call me 'the man with the box of dead butterflies'.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You may have seen I broadcast a message to planet Earth from the edge of space. I thought it was equally important to speak to deep space about you and your lovely little planet. But I thought humans might like to see it too, so here it is. #Clacton #VoteBinface
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dogs are love 🥰❤️
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Here’s to 40 years of Lifes Rich Pageant
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Finally got a solid shot of papa scissortail mid-flight! These #birds are so special.
A male scissor-tailed flycatcher in flight against a blue sky. The bird's wings are spread wide open, revealing the peach and pink color of its underside, and its exceptionally long tailfeathers form a 'v' shape.
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Jan Adriaenssens @verbeeld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
people angry about a movie based on a 2800-year-old poem should be forced to go to war for ten years and then take another ten to get home
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Amazing Ice Age art! The ‘Lady of Brassempouy’ is one of the earliest realistic representations of a human face! A tiny portrait head of a Paleolithic woman, skilfully sculpted from mammoth ivory some 28,0000 years ago! 📷 Musée d'Archéologie Nationale St Germain-en-Laye, Paris #Archaeology
The museum photo shows a close-up view of the front view of the so-called ‘Lady de Brassempouy’ (Dame de Brassempouy) also known as the ‘Lady with the Hood’ (Dame à la capuche). It is a small sculpted portrait head measuring 3.6 cm in height, carved from mammoth tusk some 28,000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic period. The ivory is a rich cream colour with a polished sheen, against a black background. 

She has a delicately carved heart-shaped face, with broad eyebrows, nose, and chin carved in relief. Her eyes have small holes representing her pupils. Her long hair falls to either side of her face and is incised with horizontal and vertical lines like a chequerboard. It’s suggested this may represent braiding. When first found, it was thought the chequerboard pattern represented a decorative hood which gave rise to the name ‘Lady of the Hood’. The neck is elongated with a diagonal break at the bottom. The portrait head was excavated in 1894 by Edouard Piette at the cave ‘Grotte du Pape’, Brassempouy, Landes, France. 

Here’s the museum description: 
The “Lady with the Hood” or “Dame de Brassempouy” is the most famous and most moving of prehistoric works of art, as she brings us the most real and lifelike image of Palaeolithic woman.
 
The techniques used to make this statuette are very complex and achieve great visual qualities: incisions for the chequerboard pattern and the facial features, perforation for the pupil of the eyes, scraping and polishing to model the face.
 
This “first human face”, sculpted from the ivory core of a mammoth tusk, is very striking. It is sub-triangular in shape and well balanced. The forehead, eyebrows, nose and chin are in relief. The only visible part of the eyes is the pupil, particularly the one on the right.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/06/2026
The Economist on JD Vance's understanding of religion www.economist.com/united-state...
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Make hate cost more. Support our new Crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-... Show that there is a real cost to pushing hateful rhetoric.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is wonderful
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ben @benrs.uk · 27/06/2026
haven’t seen it this pride month yet so reposting rn, gm all
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
♥️ happy baby with mama in thailand sanctuary joy ♥️♥️
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nathanrippin.bsky.social @nathanrippin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What a joyous day of football. I'm annoyed that the timings are generally awful for anyone living in Asia, but I don't mind waking early for Brazil Morocco (gosh, weren't the latter impressive?). Then a hard fought Scottish victory, go meatball! Gawd love you. And the Aussies were sensational.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Wow - important news for #Roman scholars 💯😮. Dr Rebecca Jones' important 'Roman Camps in Scotland' has now been released on open access by the @socantscot.bsky.social - incredible news 🍻 books.socantscot.org/digital-book...
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Roman Camps in Scotland | Open Access E-Books
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/06/2026
This is Ramsey. He is a mail delivery dog. Shipping is free, and while packages might not be handled with care, they are handled with enthusiasm. 14/10 (TT: rhiannoninthe904)
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
An actual unhysterical conversation, based on the facts of what happened as we know them from primary sources? Scandalous. You will want to listen to the VERY end for some incredible Farage receipts I have been holding on to. PLUS new regular feature: God! Less America!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What an inspiring contrast from the “let’s return to fascism despite all the lessons of history” prescription. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Just a short video of one minute....quite something.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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Nigel Farage is a threat to national security
This is what he does. It's who he is
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Citizeness Kane-saw Massacre @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Anthea Bell's English version of the "Asterix" books is the best translating work ever. Just her localizations of the names (Getafix, Dogmatix...) would earn the championship, but add to that all the untranslatable French pun jokes that she reinvented--and sometimes made funnier than the original!
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Julius Caesar Laughing in Cartoon
ALT: Julius Caesar Laughing in Cartoon
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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I didn't have "Husker Du member reviews motorway service stations" on my 2026 bingo card.
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Belly dance Original post
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It’s World Goth Day. Here we see the essential difference between the American & English mindset.
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nathanrippin.bsky.social @nathanrippin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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