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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd almost be willing to get on board with Burnham's program of 'Starmerism with better comms today, maybe a bit of social democracy and electoral reform in the manifesto for next time' if he hadn't left Mahmood and Phillipson with the Home Office and Equality Briefs.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It will, I think, be a while before an AI is able to cook a risotto as well as me and a good deal longer before it is able to appreciate one as well as me. At that point, sure, let the machines take over.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules. (Daniel Defoe, via @dsquareddigest.bsky.social.)

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the light of recent events, would like to state that I will *not* be opening for Ed Sheeran in his upcoming tour.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The answer to the question asked here is straightforward, though nowhere mentioned in the article: because they are racists who have been indulged by irresponsible politicians from both the Labour and Conservative party, and egged on by unambiguously malign actors. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?

Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well, England have a prime opportunity to stuff this up today - let's see if they manage it.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Googling 'I am the king now and I want a sandwich' should not bring up a list of sandwich recipes.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh no! The Black Shorts are trying to extort the Daily Mail!

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Half my timeline cares about whether AI has craacked a major problem in flluid dynamics; the other half about the former Englannd cricket captain. Different Stokes for different folks, I guess.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If only Lord Brain had made his work freely available to everyone.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Always interesting to be sleeping in a bedroom whose only light switch is in another room.

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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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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s curious that a Professor of Political Economy should be indifferent as to whether the figures add up.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bifrost University? Has anyone even begun to consider the implications of Valhalla becoming part of the Schengen Area?

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Apparently, the neurologist Lord Brain did not actually invent the brain himself. He must have made a fortune from the licensing rights though.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bananas are radioactive but we call them food

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Why does the Milky Way, the largest galaxy, not devour the other smaller galaxies?

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You 100% don’t have to give it to Netanyahu, but isn’t the key point about an Islamic Republic that the supreme religious authority and the head of state are the same person?

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just realized I have been confusing Upton Sinclair Lewis with Gore Vidal Sassoon.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The difference between Oscar Wilde and Rod Liddell.

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

MAKING LIGHT IS KINDA BACK UP!! Poetry (of course): www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/... And a request: www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...

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Fiat lux – Making Light

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lookong forward to David Attenborough's LRB piece on Spiderman.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Had anyone ever seen the TV show that had a character called Bobby Generic (pronounced GEN-eric)?

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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just take a look at this load of billhooks.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I guess my standard for a bad review from now on is going to have to be ‘did the reviewer break into my house and leave it on the bathroom mirror?’

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/07/2026

🇫🇷 Internet, fais mon ton miracle. 🙏 Mon fils de 11 ans a oublié la petite caméra numérique, qu'il a eu à son anniversaire, sur l'aire de Chagnats, sur l'autoroute A10, en direction de Paris, vers 19h45 ce 22 juillet. Il a le cœur brisé, donc si jamais quelqu'un la trouve...

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Princess Leia: You're My Only Hope

Alt: Princess Leia: You're My Only Hope

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

He's going to make them play Rock-Paper-Scissors for the Chancellor's job. Reeves and Lammy exit cabinet as Andy Burnham reshuffles top team – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Reeves and Lammy exit cabinet as Andy Burnham reshuffles top team – UK politics live

Earlier the new PM said he wants to put ‘the right values and the right standards at the heart of government’

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sounds the sort of thing you'd say if you were hiding Dracula's grave

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

6-4? Did they decide to make it a tennis match?

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

3. Very few film scripts are composed entirely in Homeric Greek. In fact, I can't think of any. That's a shame, but also understandable. It would be quite unlikely to do well at the box office.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Staying in Whitby. Might treat myself to a little synod later.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well, that's what happens if you get too defensive. Shabana Mahmood as Chncellor.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 07/07/2026

I'm not sure that Farage is a suitable person to hold the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead. There should be an investigation by the Standards and Privileges Committee and the Honours and Appointments Secretariat. We don't want a repetition of Lord Chelsea in 1842.

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