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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still haven't seen a single person be able to defend or explain why you'd vote against this amendment or why it was unacceptable. It's the smoking gun as to exactly what the Zionism is Racism motion aims to achieve.

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Working in a library, every time someone pauses after saying "I'm looking for a book" I have to stop myself saying "you've come to the right place"

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

💥BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces a National Commission on Electoral Reform. This is a historic moment. The era of First Past the Post is coming to an end. It's time to transform politics and make all votes count. It's time for Proportional Representation.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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

He imposed Shania Law

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hugely important insights in this thread

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. DO YOU?

A bollard displaying a sign stating CAUTION - BOLLARDS WILL RISE

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/09/2026

This feels like something we should be asking right wing politicians about, but I appreciate the media is busy demanding every leader on the left individually parse and disavow each chant overheard at a uni protest.

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Another story that needs to be told is that of the Chinese sailors who served in the British Merchant Navy in WW2. Approximately 185,000 men and women served in the Merchant Navy in WW2, including roughly 20,000 Chinese seafarers, manning dangerous Atlantic, Arctic, and coastal convoys.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If anyone out there is in contact with the Men in Black, would it be possible to borrow that thingy that erases your short term memory? Thanks

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Men In Black Forget

ALT: Men In Black Forget

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This woman is the best of us, trying to find understanding and common ground with her neighbours but standing firm against the worst impulses of some Huge respect for her and her family

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve never seen the question raised as to whether Diderot would have made good money as a David Cameron impersonator if only he hadn’t been so ahead of his time.

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just astonishing. What incredible skill

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The elevator in the National Economic Council

Elevator button with button pointing Up but with text next to it marked “DOWN”

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Half Biscuit Other Half Biscuit

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Opinion: The 1954 An Inspector Calls starring Alastair Sim is designed to be watched as a double bill with the 1954 Scrooge starring Alastair Sim Both morality plays. Sim gets to be haunted in one, and do the haunting in the other

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Europe has this same desire, and the Trump admin is big mad and making threats at them because they won't let certain types of American food be sold there.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/09/2026

A damning indictment of where hate leads. RNLI has to warn its volunteers - people who save lives - not to wear branded clothes for fear of being attacked. Absolutely shameful.

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RNLI reviews security measures after far-right threats

The charity’s chief executive said the online abuse was ‘wholly unacceptable’

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

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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

⚠️ Big news. The Met have launched a criminal investigation into Reform UK.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In 1988, Sesame Street mocked a greedy real estate tycoon named Ronald Grump who wanted to bulldoze the neighborhood for luxury towers. Sound familiar?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From the local paper on Portsmouth (local press can often be far more useful in these kinds of situations, I'm finding) - the RNLI were denied entry to both Portsmouth and Southampton ports and according to this piece were threatened with legal action: www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

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RNLI 'disappointed' with ports' communication over migrant rescue

The RNLI were denied entry to Southampton and Portsmouth ports

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.

Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

The courage of those who set out to save those at risk of drowning can never be overestimated. Each rescue is a challenge. I used to watch the Orkney lifeboat head out into rough seas with my heart in my mouth. Remarkable bravery. Donate to the #RNLI here: shop.rnli.org/products/don...

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Donation to RNLI

It costs us around £483,000 a day to run our lifesaving service. Your kind donation will help deliver our lifesaving work.

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Santiago Jones @santiagojones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ladies for years: “Please, may we have pockets?” Prada and Saks Fifth Ave: “Are you okay babe? You’ve barely touched your khaki utility knickers?”

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you do nothing else today, give this a listen. If you only know Reform UK from what you see or read in the media, or if you think you know, there’s something here for you and almost certainly something you’ve missed. An excellent listen.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Reform claim (once again) that they’re putting their own house in order but… really? A full criminal investigation is now needed. Sign the petition, please

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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account

Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

TUC’s media game today is top stuff 10/10 no notes

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“…BECAUSE THAT’S OUR JOB!”

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Astonished that this list _doesn’t_ include an unrefrigerated shipping container full of freshly caught fish

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Terrorism law is that special body of law which provides for rights and obligations over and above the general law of the land. Terrorism law should be credible and taken seriously. The ever-expanding nature of ‘terrorism’ offences is not taking it seriously. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is the opposite of an incremental change an excremental one?

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger: All Man All Biscuit

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