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Chloe doesn't work very well @addamschloe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"What are you in for?" "Murder - and you?" "One of my year four kids was caught singing the 'one on a scooter bibbing his hooter' line during We Three Kings"

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They destroyed this kind of beautiful place. And for what? Mister Beast.

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The most confusing place name in the world: you want me to dig a hole to put the holes in?

Screengrab of Forestry England website promoting Bury Ditches

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The long awaited Snakes On A Plane / Naked Jungle crossover has arrived

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When something burns down unexpectedly in Weatherfield

The current chancellor standing behind a rinky-dinky little sign reading "Hope again"

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This is the result of a scientist who had way too much banana bread during lockdown and wanted to shut that shit down before the next pandemic hits

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026

We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.

Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind them

A young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the camera

A young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the camera

A barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, forty years ago or whatever if a song was No 1 for ages it would have been because it was a Radio 2 crossover, so if you listened to any pop station for a bit you'd likely have heard it (plus TOTP was a thing). Nowadays things can be insanely popular without needing to be everywhere. It's fine.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see we're now asking a farmer to comment on Donald Trump's claims about CIA investigative work

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

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

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/09/2026

🇪🇸 Hundreds of protesters camped out in the heart of Madrid on Sunday to demand better protections for tenants after the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her lifelong home triggered outrage. ➡️ u.afp.com/S9Yx

Demonstrators camp with tents to protest against evictions and the housing crisis on the Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid, on September 27, 2026.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Amazing tonal whiplash on the BBC's Fairford live blog, lurching between Frank Gardener gravely intoning that this is a serious incident with grave geopolitical ramifications, and local reporters going "the kiddies were evacuated in their pjs OMG"

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Starmer also said he could deliver, and ended up just throwing everything over the fence and rushing away, so perhaps we need a PM who promises to deliver, but not like Evri

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a brilliant detail. "I wanna be anarchy/ you gotta be in A&E"

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*BBC News, tomorrow* It's the debate dividing social media, as in response to a TikTok video people are asking: is it fair that turning up to a job interview wearing one of Bernie Clifton's ostrich outfits can harm your prospects, except when you're the goddaughter of the CFO

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I like a pun as much as the next person, but this branding for Virgin's business class snack table suddenly makes being crammed in coach seem more attractive

A shelf on a plane with some crisps and sweets. The sign above says "Wander wall"

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes you see bad adverts and you can sort of see how they happened. And sometimes... a burger company does Madeleine McCann jokes www.asa.org.uk/rulings/the-...

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The Otley Burger Company

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He imposed Shania Law

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The Independent here is promoting a keep-fit article, and not, as you might think, suggesting you make up an imminent threat in order to enter a war

Text box: How to get arms like Tony Blair

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Someone who's annotated the lyrics on the new Chvrches single claims that "Ring-a-ring-o-roses" is "better known as Ring around the rosie". In what actual universe is this true?

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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Phoenix Sky Harbour being ranked #3 in the US is weird, as we were talking about it earlier this week and it's the only airport I've been through (more than once, even) which I cannot remember anything about at all. Maybe that's why people like it; it's invisible or something?

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Lolz and I *HATE* this song!

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Am currently enjoying the Adult DVD album: Wrote a novеl, but I could not read my writing I bought a gorilla, but it wouldn't stop biting Tried bulking, but I don't like еggs And I went to New York, but they didn't have a Greggs

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Crystal Palace, every summer/ Mispronouncing the Kenyan runners/ It gets worse in the winter/ Struggling with the vidiprinter

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I'd forgotten that in the late 20th century, dogs were "good boys" and cats were "good girls". They only started letting cats be male sometime after the millennium.

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The List @thelistuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No, Jensen Huang. The problem with the cognitive skills your company is helping destroy is that it creates people like you, who think saying "I don't know my own address" is a funny cute little thing that makes you relatable.

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@musicvenuetrust.bsky.social and @drownedinsound.bsky.social have teamed up to release a new magazine, Shownotes, which will be available for free at more than 500 live music venues across the UK from the beginning of November.

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Music Venue Trust and Drowned In Sound unite for new publication

Shownotes promises gig recommendations, interviews, and essays by respected music journalists

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Turtle was wearing Meta sunglasses

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's Cheeky Monkey, ladies and gentlemen, he's gone rogue and making me forget we shouldn't hack into government sites

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it's only 'Rogue AI' if it's from Mass Effect, if it's happening anywhere else it's just sparkling idiocy

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Peel Backwards - 23-02-91 Out in the real world, America is launching its ground offensive in Iraq, and so Radio 1 is doing news every half hour, except after 2am, when it's off the air. For some reason, they've decided the on-the-hour update needs its own branding: Bates yelling "News Update"

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really wouldn't be looking so smug if I was just betting the company's future on people wanting something that looks like those "I've fallen and can't get up" fobs

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Here it is.

diet. Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw?
Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play.
When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don't want to cat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit "tasty". There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth

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