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🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 6h
The crowd presses another drink on Frodo and asks him to sing again, but mid-song he falls from the table and vanishes—the Ring has slipped on his finger. The crowd is startled. Frodo removes the Ring in a far corner. The customers leave without offering him a single good-night.
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 6h
I remember going on the Nolan tv show to talk about #MeToo and the framing magically adjusted once the show went live to ask if it was going too far. In October 2017, when it had barely gotten its boots on.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16h
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 9h
tweets that should have started 'well, anyway,'
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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h
I appreciate bluesky's periodic dedication to reminding us of the purity of text-only posting by breaking all images on the site
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 7h
Going to be a passable comedy docudrama about this in a few years...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 8h
the Man City report is as bad as everyone says it is, but I also laughed out loud at the redactions in the conclusion.
(H) Conclusion
160) We find the Charges set out above proven to the requisite standard.

And then a massive black rectangle redacting the entire thing
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9h
How Burnham is going to try and balance proposals for a National Care Service, while supporting Mahmood's immigration policies is going to...interesting, and by "interesting" I mean fundamentally unworkable. It just cannot work with the hostile immigration policies being pushed.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 11h
The real Lisa Nandy has emerged from the Mersey and has chosen VIOLENCE against Man City (h/t @generalboles.bsky.social)
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M @captainmeg.bsky.social · 11h
[runs in, panting] SHAMCHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 15h
Who was it that predicted the government were going to 'have a look at it' then back off in the face of an obvious backlash?
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 16h
A Sinn Féin office in the Waterside area of Derry has been attacked amid a second night of disorder www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/derry-l...
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Sinn Féin office attacked with party saying it ‘will not be intimidated’ amid second night of disorder in Derry
A Sinn Féin office in the Waterside area of Derry has been attacked amid a second night of disorder.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s as if had James Callaghan stood up in 1976 and saying “for the past 30 years we’ve been too concerned with price stability”.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20h
Maybe I’m a Luddite on these things. But I’m always quite cautious about any financing structure that involves multiple hard to read circular flow charts. www.ft.com/content/d6a9... Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out
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Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out
World’s largest listed company looks for new ways to draw Wall Street deeper into the financing of the AI boom
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21h
Only took the better part of a year for legacy media to catch up with what some Substackers and half of Bluesky had worked out...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starmerism with Mancunian characteristics continues!
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@ddeaen

iphones ruined an entire generation's tech literacy because i regularly see 14+ year olds asking how to make a desktop shortcut or duplicate a File

@inkballpro

i was literally figuring out virtual machines and basic linux at like 6 lol

@ddeaen

this is also not normal im sorry
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
So much of the British right has just become about insta-react getting likes on X dot com.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think a lot about Tolkien's concept of evil - as something that reproduces itself in ever smaller and pettier but also harder to defeat ways, him giving up writing a sequel to Lord Of The Rings cos nihilist teenage ord-cults were too depressing
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really thought I'd become hardened to the disingenuous nature of Northern Irish politics. The last few days have royally disabused me of that notion.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jamie Bryson giving the full Lucy/Charlie Brown treatment to the DUP. Despite the man's previous form in never having advanced anyone's agenda other than his own. And seemingly having forgotten his role as advisor to Donaldson.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyway, I give the Executive until about three pm tomorrow afternoon.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An alternative timeline where the Commission just *did its job properly* would be the nearest thing we've had to utopia
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hiss driver @hiss-driver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
had to google this one up so his company's name is not a LOTR reference, it is a Russian bootleg novel reference where Sauron is the good guy web-wp.archive.org/web/20150910...
Thiel's reputation for contrarianism is well founded. Forever the chess player, he revels in trying to outthink the competition, in devising the unexpected move—the seemingly absurd but devastating maneuver that no one sees coming. "Most people think that if something's written, if it's shared by the majority of people, then you'll look like a black sheep for challenging it," says his friend Gary Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster. "Peter doesn't have any problem with that." A devoted J.R.R. Tolkien fan from an early age, Thiel is equally enamored with Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer, a retelling of The Lord of the Rings in which Sauron is a beleaguered victim and the elves are bellicosely bent on world domination. "Gandalf's the crazy person who wants to start a war," Thiel explains, "and Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it's all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works. Anyway, it's really clever." He's
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette)
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations/ you'll never sing that!"
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What are we doing here, exactly? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Parades Commission says Orange Order Drumcree parade can go ahead
Drumcree parade: Decision made over Portadown march
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i asked them about your posts and the reviews are in
Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service Bad.

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired Amoral.

Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail Disgusting.

Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources Two words: morally corrupt.

Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work Disgusting.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A bold negotiating gambit, offering roughly what both parties would quite like... www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...
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NI Secretary warns he will set Stormont budget if Executive fails to
Stormont departments have been operating without a budget since the beginning of the current financial year.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One gets the sense it would be quite easy to sell Jonathan Hinder a bridge...
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not to sounds like a broken record, but this is one of the (many) reasons the Prime Minister should have been stood outside Portsmouth lifeboat station last week, rather than filming videos for social media about making tea and drinking pints... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
@Jacob_R...•22h
The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What are we even doing here. What does any of this have to do with the real dangers presented by this merger.
The terms are said to include a financial penalty if the company fails to make good on a promise to distribute 30 films per year in theaters.

Discussions included Paramount having to pay $30 million for each film that falls short of that goal, Bloomberg reported. It could also be forced to sell its stake in Miramax, the studio behind movies such as Pulp Fiction, if it fails to meet the target.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For Matthew Syed, we’ve been looking for German extremism in the wrong place. Not the AfD, the real extremist was…Angela Merkel.
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely incredible things happening on the loyalist far-right...
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While I'm not an expert by any means, Merz's conflation of the AfD and Linke votes as 'challenges' looks even sillier faced with results like these, doesn't it?
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/09/2026
echoes of the time I went clubbing as a teenager and the bouncer asked if I was 18 and I said "yes" (I wasn't) and then he asked "are you sure?" and I said "yes" and he let me in
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This morning, Instagram served a video of Andy Burnham having tea with Micheál Martin at Number 10 North. Filmed and posted yesterday.
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Danny Kruger being at DUP conference is interesting because, based on both his politics and vibes, I can imagine him being the last actual 'Conservative Ulster Unionist' in Westminster.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
lol www.ft.com/content/65f4... Ozempic confidential: men share their experience of GLP-1s
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good thing you live in Monaco then, isn't it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?
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UK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in Britain
Betfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17/09/2026
"transgender ideology" is a phrase that should be treated with the same revulsion as "woke mind virus"
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jake Richards (Highgate School; Somerville College, Oxford) has some hard hitting ideas on young offenders, everyone! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Parents could lose benefits if their child commits crime
Jake Richards, the youth justice minister, says reducing benefits is one option on the table to hold families to account for young offenders
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