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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Russian interference in the Brexit vote was unsuccessful...

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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

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ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge

Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold

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Paul Thurston @paulthurston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Digger. Absolutely brilliant movie. I can't believe people aren't going to see it. The whole cast are brilliant but Tom Cruise is superb. There will be oscar nominations, if not wins. Unrelated note though, why would people pay 18 quid to go to the cinema to stare at their phone?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rare for all the planets to align

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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Hey journalists, when you're parroting Tory conference talking points and how wonderful everything will be when they are back in power, can you also remind people that they were in power for 14 years, and only stopped two years ago, so most of the problems are of their making? Thanks.

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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Whenever Tories say they are going to "tear up red tape" all I hear is "we want to make lots of money with no checks and balances to make sure we don't fuck things up for everyone else".

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have heard some bonkerooney from the Tories in recent years, but this is off the charts. As a sensible policy, it is up there with making it a legal requirement for people called Jacob to wear trousers while taking a shower. That level of madness. Let’s break it down.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just noticed this lovely touch — all of Channel 4’s programme guide info for today is written in rhyme to mark #NationalPoetryDay.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What surprises me is that people who have left Britain for the sake of their own greed still feel entitled to express an opinion about the country.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@seanjones.org Sean, any chance you could RT this link for donations to Cornwall Islamic Centre after their place has been vandalised, car driven through gates & oil thrown everywhere ? 🙏 www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

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SUPPORT CORNWALL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE

Our centre has recently been targeted in an possibly arson attack. At approximately 11:25pm, a small vehicle was seen reversing into the entrance gate of the Cornwall Islamic Community Centre. The ve...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Legitimate concerns“ rhetoric & increasing restrictions on migrants’ rights have led directly to Piddlington & to RNLI staff being doxxed as traitors. There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far-right thuggery

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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Jake @thetacticalyellow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whole league still waiting for apology over incorrect accounting practices

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Paul Thurston @paulthurston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What a nice way to spend a Wednesday

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026

Excellent letter in The Times. "Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors."

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Across Europe, far right political parties are getting money and help from: - crypto and tech billionaires - MAGA - the US ultra Christian right - Putin’s Russia We need to defend democracy with robust funding rules and digital safeguards

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 11/09/2026

I don't typically write about 9/11 (I don't believe I've done so since the LiveJournal days, when it occurred in the first place) but I was actually thinking about it yesterday - and not because of the usual rigmarole leading up to memorial ceremonies. No, it was because of a pedicure.

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Widdershins Smith 🐘 @msmith3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why isn't this being more widely spread? Hardly any coverage of it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/04/2026

> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

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Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace was born in London on the 10th of December 1815 to a recently married socialite couple. Her father, Lord Byron, who went down in history as one of the greatest Romantic English poets, …

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's only terrorism if it's from the Environmentaliste region of France Otherwise it's just sparkling "legitimate concerns"

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026

This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 30/08/2026

Just realized I haven't sent everyone a baby goat fix yet this week.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton was they type of Christian that Christian Nationalists only *pretend* to be. Unlike Christian Nationalists, she didn't browbeat us with how CHRISTIAN she was. She just lived her life doing things that Jesus asked her to do, like heal the sick, help the children, and care for the poor.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We should put this sign on every politician's desk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Since Dolly’s passing has people talking about books and children, I want to tell you about @helenczerski.bsky.social. A few years ago, Helen was a judge for a Rolex prize. As payment, they offered her a Rolex watch. But instead of accepting it, she…

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