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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 4h

Gadzooks; this bold new idea could revolutionise television.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Ah, 4 October! Happy fifth birthday to this marvellous thing…

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Trevor Ship @trevypoos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yorkshire Dads: Hot single radiators in your area are waiting for you to turn them down.

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Crash Test Dummies at St Luke’s tonight - a tremendous show 👏🏻🇨🇦

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Thank God! We lived through it! The international break, September 21 to October 2."

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Geraint @geraintg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SHOP ME: Hello, have you got any Quorn? S: Yes, what variety? ME: on the Quob? S: Please leave

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CRAAAAAAAIG 🎃💀👻 @craiging619.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TBT: Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson was given free drinks on the train to Glasgow for the first Old Firm match in ages, and got absolutely blitzed.

Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“Problem is : have not eaten today and hen Virgin started dealing free wine. It's going downhul .”

Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“New trin now. Train I men. Think it said Glasgiw . Some bloke yelled get in. Or on. No free wine now so something is def wrong .”

Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“I am I. Troy! Or Coy? Sounded like it Really .
The woman just said on the tannoy. I deman a wood horse .now.”

Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“@aberquine some woman gave me 4 Jaffa cakes near the loo. That but I remmor”

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you can hold food poisoning to account and still admire the lasagne

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s Life! was just incredible. Its two most famous moments are a man being movingly celebrated by the now grown Jewish children he got out of Nazi Germany & a dog saying “sausages”. No other programme has ever had that range.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Conan O'Brien is both a very silly person and an extremely wise one, and more important than either, I've never heard anyone say a bad word about him.

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, there’s one thing for sure - if City want to continue to cheat on an industrial scale, from now on they’re going to have to do it in the Statesville Prison (along with Gunderson, Martin, and Sally Decker).

Frank Drebin and Ed Hocken in Police Squad!

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve seen the pitch document for The Day Today and it’s about a paragraph long. I paraphrase but: “This show worked brilliantly on the radio and we know what we’re doing.” A world in which that is a viable pitch document is something that we surrendered without a fight, which is so sad.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It seems apt that Manchester City fans adopted the Poznan, a celebration where everybody looks the other way.

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Manchester City cheating saga has me remembering how the media in Scotland treated calls for title stripping when original Rangers were in a similar frame.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience

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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As Calvin & Hobbes pointed out, there's a reason why Batman fights grandiose maniacs.

Calvin & Hobbes discuss the obvious problem with a superhero who fights subtle, realistic bad guys by attending council meetings, writing to newspapers, etc.

Punch line: "Quick! To the Bat-Fax!" (This was 30+ years ago when fax machines were a thing.)

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, just keep on saying stuff, world’s worst people. Why not, it’ll all get peddled and accepted in sufficient quantities. Lulu was behind the Bay of Pigs, you say? Eddie Large invented malaria? Well I never.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

See, making young people’s lives better, improving their life chances and giving them more opportunities, *that* could be a ‘moral crusade’. Changing U.K. benefits for young people is just about saving rich people’s money.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not wanting to rain on the current Marr love-in parade, but... substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.com

The meaning of Johnny Marr

And of not talking about Morrissey

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well for god’s sake don’t let them call for regulation.

The Guardian
Bill Gates says unchecked Al could 'cause a
billion deaths' in call for regulation

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 27/09/2026

It's not a laughing matter but I just pissed myself at this.

The Israel FA will also appeal both yellow cards awarded to Saied Abu Farchi during Thursday's defeat to Austria. Farchi was given a second yellow after he celebrated scoring an equaliser by uprooting the corner flag, an action interpreted by officials as mimicking the firing of a rifle.

Israel dispute this interpretation. “Anyone familiar with him knows it was an imitation of a snooker player, like the legendary Ken Doherty," their spokesperson said.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn't hear anything about this incident but wow this is fucking horrible. I increasingly feel like being able to publicly share our immediate reaction so easily is not good for us. That dopamine hit of self-righteousness seems to override critical thought, empathy, everything.

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of life’s great pleasures; a hot, freshly made doughnut on the sun-kissed seafront.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw someone yesterday describe those morons outside Basingstoke Police Station as the Provisional Wing of Sports Direct, and, yeah, that’s pretty much it.

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Herr Spooky Gunther Büergers @calamityjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wild thing I learned earlier today -- the phrase "This is a job for Superman" predates Superman. I found citations as early as 1909.

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My reflex thought was that this was a new Harry Enfield character.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I see the phrase “Evil Thug” has had a bit of a makeover.

THE TIMES
Wednesday September 23 2026
Anti-migrant activist slashes dinghy with
rescuer still on board
Daniel Thomas, founder of the Patriot Platform group,
tried to sink the boat using a knife after migrants had
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 21/09/2026

International break sticking around for 3 weeks.

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If anyone’s in the market for an alternative jolt to rival or replace the morning coffee, I can heartily recommend an unexpected cameo by a wasp in the shower. My adrenaline didn’t start to recede until hours later. (Suffice to say that that wasp is now VERY expired).

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Neal Rafferty @nealraff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#CelticFC, with all the money it already has in reserves, made a big profit during this summer’s transfer rebuild.

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