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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/10/2026
This is a new deep-field image from JWST, designed to look for the point of origin of a fast radio burst. The bright, multi-point features are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is an entire galaxy.
The dark of space, featuring a handful of bright, nearby stars, and altogether too many galaxies beyond.
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was ages ago but when I went to the You and Yours offices, I dont think I've ever met people with a clearer (correct) idea of who their audience is. The idea that the production team can't make shows in different formats for them is, at best, hard for me to believe. This is some bullshit.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles
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‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles
From a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The real-life best friends talk first impressions, Casablanca moments – and having hot husbands
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is true that, if they did really believe in this sportswashing project, they'd take the hit and come back from whatever league they are relegated to. I fear they won't though.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Czechs didn't deserve that
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
absolute sitter:
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Don't speak ill of the dead" they say. But if you do, don't hold back: anwilson.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ar...
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Jeffrey Archer
Fraudulence on a criminal scale
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dexter My god they fucked it royally towards the end
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's shocking that this had to get on a bus before someone at TfL thought maybe this was completely inappropriate and offensive.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Going back to #ManCity for a minute - all this came about because someone at the club clicked a link in a phishing email sent by Rui Pinto. Challenging performance review that year I'll bet.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/10/2026
In Ohio, a trucker tries to make sense of the moment when Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian immigrant, stepped in front of his path, Stephanie McCrummen reports. “I keep on thinking about it,” Jack Buhring told her:
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is remarkable how badly the Russians treat their troops.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Denis Healey on David Owen
Healey kept a shelf of Spitting Image puppets as latex mementoes of his turbulent political life - among them Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and David Owen. As he picked up the Owen puppet and squeezed it to make it squeak, I quoted Owen's view that when Healey stood for the Labour leadership in 1980 he “didn't have the guts to take on the left wing of the party”. “That's absolute bollocks," snorted Healey. “David Owen was a very self-centred person. He was good-looking, he was intelligent, he had immense charm and all these presents were given to him by the good fairy and then the bad fairy came along and tapped him on the shoulder and said, '... but you'll be a shit.”
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time." 🎁🔗
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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andy @askewqueue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My man looks like he's mentally reliving The Homelander erotic fanfic he wrote between ketamine benders on the Fox News set
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ah, there's the rub
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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You remind me of the magnificent quote in Healey’s biography, which I used in my last book:
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Going to keep plugging this for now, but after years of just food posting into the ether I have made an Instagram of my food pictures as well as tips for recipes etc. www.instagram.com/tpgeats Some example photos here, but please follow if of interest:
Quesadillas with salsa verdePork gyros, roasted tomatoes Mezze of flatbreads, fattoush, hummus and adana kababLemon and rosemary cookie
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It raises the real question about the credibility of the FFP. That is what this is all about. They give us the message that they can get around it by doing what they want. It means financial fair play will not come in. It is as simple as that."
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Arsène Wenger accuses Manchester City of bending Uefa fair-play rules
Arsène Wenger has called on Uefa to investigate Manchester City's sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We need affordability. And also just a smidgen of serenity? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cannot get over the beauty of this GIF: it’s Zidane celebrating last night after Olise scored a last minute winner for France. It looks like something from a movie or a high-end fashion advert. Probably the most elegant footballer of all time.
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are into cycling and over 35, the new series of South Park - specifically Stan's dad - will give you major pause.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hadn't really encountered Rich Kids until I went to college and then law school. Of course, they're not all bad. But the ones who are bad are bad in such a distinctive way. Like they are insulated against accountability and are intoxicated by that fact.
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whether tis nobler in the mind.....or by opposing, fuck 'em.
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Glamis thou fucking art
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director.

Sen. Susan Collins

@SenatorCollins
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse. 
 
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.  
  
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
 
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
 
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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💥Richard with an💥R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 26/09/2026
One year ago today, I asked my childhood sweetheart, my best friend, and the most beautiful girl I've ever met to marry me... All 3 said NO.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here’s a video of a dog welcoming its owner home from the front – because we need something to keep us sane.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*
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Matt McCall @mattmccall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@bakedalaska: "The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the civil war, and founded the KKK. But you'll never hear that in a history class."
@krangtnelson: "lol you absolutely learn that in history class"
@bakedalaska: "I was home schooled and it was not taught"
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is brilliant
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
MP Recall 🏛️ I named 47/649 current MPs in five minutes. 🟥 33/403 LAB 🟦 7/118 CON 🟧 1/71 LD 🩵 2/8 REF 🟢 2/5 GRN 🟫 1/1 RB ⬛ 1/1 SPK Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/
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MP Recall — How many MPs can you remember?
Name as many current UK MPs as you can in five minutes.
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Move over Shivnarine Chanderpaul, I now have a new favourite stance at the crease. Take a bow Rathnayake. I give your hamstrings another 2 years tops
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
what an incredibly fucked up thing to say to the UN
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The remarkable ceramic artisans of Jingdezhen
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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Someone should lay the sound of the squeaky tank from his parade over this.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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