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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

very funny to imagine someone bankrolling a wedding to get close to the groom's dad, only to be foiled because the groom's dad doesn't love him

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paulmccarthy79.bsky.social @paulmccarthy79.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'll tell you what's not deteriorating....

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026

The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Plus+

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[outside view of a toothpaste factory, signalled with a big sign on top in shape of a toothpaste tube]

SCIENTIST [a voice coming from inside factory]:
So that's decided

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SCIENTIST:
We're going to make the three types of toothpaste...

[he gestures to three tubes of toothpaste in front of him]

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SCIENTIST:
Fluoride, Slightly Different Fluoride, and Flouride But Sensitive.

[voice from off-scene];
WAIT!

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[a CHARACTER has entered. They are dressed like a magician. I've not decided what sort of character, maybe like an animal in a top hat or something. But magician-esque. They are named David Advanced Plus+].

SCIENTIST:
Who are you?

DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
I'm David Advanced Plus+

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SCIENTIST:
Plus plus?

DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
Plus+

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DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
I'm David Advanced Plus+ and I want you to watch carefully...

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DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
I'm going to say the magic word....

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DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
Activeprocharcoalgumproproformula3Dshinepearlssensicooolingvisiwhitecharcoalproprotectproprotectplus+PLUS+ !

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[he waves his wand and lots of different-coloured toothpaste tubes appear]

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SCIENTIST:
So many toothpastes! Are they...better?

DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
Are they bollocks

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DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
They are exactly the same...
...but plus+.

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SCIENTIST:
Plus plus?

DAVID ADVANCED PLUS+:
Plus+.

[ends]

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP to a legend

rob dubbin @robdubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 25/08/2026

Very sad to hear about Dolly Parton passing, but her memory will be powerful for a long time. I think we all have a moment where we thought, wow, yeah, I want to behave more like her

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paulmccarthy79.bsky.social @paulmccarthy79.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There really is no bottom is there. Well, I'll show him a similar level of respect when he goes to the lake of fire.

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paulmccarthy79.bsky.social @paulmccarthy79.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Last Irish one for a bit on the ferry. Be in Birko at 7am 🥱

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026

Holy shit, we're actually getting there. "UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample [—] In tests, MethylScan detected about 63% of cancers across all stages and roughly 55% of early-stage cancers." (from April) #ShareGoodNewsToo

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UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample

The test could offer a more affordable approach to early disease detection.

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paulmccarthy79.bsky.social @paulmccarthy79.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Ulysses. No matter how many times you read it it's never the same. See ourselves as others see us.

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A russian guided aerial bomb killed a 13-year-old Ukrainian athlete Ulyana Vorona. Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee lifted all restrictions on russian athletes that had been in place since 2022. ==============

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As corny as it sounds (food repeats on me when I say it out loud) I do think reading is a form of rebellion now. enjoying anything that demands attention is. Our falling literacy is by design, but it's not by force. they are taking our attention spans but we are also freely giving it's away

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Erling Haaland

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Queer Gold 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙌🏾 (she/they) @queergold.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I think landlords who don’t like a rent freeze should cut down on all that avocado toast and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Isn’t that what they told us?

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

At half-time, the players should have to eat a significant portion of their opposition's national dish

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💥Richard with an💥R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 28/06/2026

There is an email offering processed pork, gelatin, and salt in a can. If you get this email, do not open it. It's spam.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Sources close to Satan say he's got something very special planned for Mitch McConnell.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22/06/2026

"Keir Starmer, in case you missed it, is officially out. This has been inevitable for some time, but was officially announced this Monday. It’s a dramatic fall for a leader elected with a massive majority only two years ago." @polphilpod.bsky.social looks at what happened.

liberalcurrents.com

Starmer Out

Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

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paulmccarthy79.bsky.social @paulmccarthy79.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@harbottlej.bsky.social I misread this as "Neil Kinnock... our next Prime Minister"!

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

10/10, no notes

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with gas. Original post

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

A quote from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Spectator, comparing Bridget Phillipson to a Gestapo officer.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Confirmation that we could be paying war reparations as part of this “deal”. (War reparations are paid by the side that lost).

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

average webpage experience in 2026 - please mine some web coins to pay for this page - click here to agree to reselling your data to 173 trusted partners - thanks, here are four full page adverts with video and sound - why not install the app?? please install the app - not available in your region

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've always been a little suspicious of calling any artist 'the greatest' as though there were some league table. But as the years passed, and the work continued it's restless advance, and the way of seeing never faltered, it became clear to me that David Hockney really was ours. RIP.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

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AndreTheGiant @andrewvouvalis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

LMAO @edsbs.bsky.social Nigerians went to Mexico to hate watch South Africa

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I was wondering what happened in 2011 when we had riots co-ordinated via Blackberry. An opposition MP named David Lammy called for it to be suspended. With the 2026 riots being promoted via X, will Lammy make a similar call for its suspension...?

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I see that the Southampton rioters are once again proving to be the kind of decent, law-abiding, women-defending, pleasant stout yeomen of the shire we should be paying attention to.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/

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