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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 2h

You could just possibly be on to something there.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 4h

No more so than a good pair of scissors or craft knife…

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The beautiful thing about horseshoe theory is that both ends insist the centrists made them walk there.

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Christine Tobin @christinetobinvox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m excited launch my album Pseudologia Fantastica in the #EFGLondonJazzFestival on Sat 21 Nov at @worldheartbeat.bsky.social 🎶! The venue is really beautiful and it’s a double bill with Brian Eley and Ashley Wales SONGS. Tickets available now from worldheartbeat.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 05/10/2026

I went to the optician's this morning (ouch £) and when I was choosing a new frame said to the assistant that the key requirement was that they did not look like pervert glasses and they laughed and nodded. The name is now official!

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Come for the cute joke, stay for the Science article.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

uh oh guys who last saw the boot media for the lift

Interior of a lift with a screen which is displaying the message ‘Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key’

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(selecting the letters XPIDM from my rack, placing them face down in random squares) I refuse to play by Scrabble rules

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

La Brentrée (all Super U’s to stock the specials aisle with tea Marmite and union flags)

Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ooh I wondered what this was about!

Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A bit harsh on the WLTP which is not inherently dodgy (unlike the NEDC that it replaced!) but for PHEVs inevitably involves assumptions about how often the car actually gets charged. As I understand it tax breaks for PHEVs have led to lots of sales to people who never bother to plug them in.

Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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I'm delighted to learn this, not least because the next item on my task list, which is to take my pet geese to see a well-known play by Samuel Beckett, is also a palindrome: "TO DO: Geese see Godot".

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Feels like this is one more step on the long road back towards having a state (in the broad sense) that actually. fucking. works. I think the symbolism of that sort of thing has an underestimated potential for unlocking further possibilities.

…reproduce that precisely from a PDF, so maybe send a couple of different versions if it doesn't cost too much a page. Another option could be to paste this text into Excel instead, because there's a scaling dropdown in its print settings where you can choose 'fit all columns on one page'.

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…then I think you need to increase the actual font size of the document until it just fits without wrapping. You aren't stuck with the font sizes in the dropdown, you can click and type your own including fractional values - although I can't promise that somebody else's printer will…

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So if you've checked that the PDF printer is correctly set to horizontal and the correct paper size in 'Propriedades de impresora', and that the margins are minimal (the dropdown that currently says 'Personalizado'), say 1 cm, and that the settings under the Layout menu agree with all those…

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What do you see when you choose File > Print? Can you post a screenshot?

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(leans on despatch box) 3D was the future once!

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Got to have a barrier of pedestrians to protect that vulnerable street furniture from careless drivers, obvs

Apologies to the less meme-brained, I was thinking of this

goose chasing man meme
first panel: what or who will be in those 45 cm?
second panel: WHAT OR WHO WILL BE IN THOSE 45 CM?

Is this literal UK regulations/guidance? Because (goose meme) what is likely to be in those 45 cm of pavement?

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

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The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We started The New World in 2016 as a four-issue pop-up paper. Ten years later, we're about to publish our 500th edition. 🚨 So we're opening everything up until 30 September. No paywall. No catch. 🔗 See what all the fuss is about: buff.ly/OgU0K9b

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The grotesque chaos of a Labour government - a Labour government! - hiring civil servants to scuttle round the Home Office sending out deportation notices to its own constituents

Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a reader who greatly appreciates the knowledgable and considered approach you bring to your weekly New World columns, may I ask how deeply you have engaged with the evidence on this topic before reaching this conclusion?

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know but any list of options I have to prepare from now on is definitely going to end with ‘something to do with high voltage electricity’

Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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James Calbraith @jamescalbraith.co.uk · 27/09/2026

For one moment I'd like a British mainstream politician to consider foreigners are human beings too.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(sighs heavily) once more unto the fucking breach, dear friends

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I haven’t been, does it not have a chimney-sweeping experience? Or café called Oliver’s where you can’t have more? Disappointed if so.

Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We don’t actually know that the tooth fairy doesn’t do this