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@phillilla.bsky.social
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94/5 Erasmus à Lille; From B49 to B13 via CV4 & NW3 - Cardigan-wearing, left-leaning languages-learning mum TU member, choir singer Loves forests, mountains & beaches, also ❤stats & those who are open to nuance. 😍 disco, jazz-funk, electropop and folk...

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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 4h
Like that Wetherspoons man with his pro Brexit newsheet- we need to get that generation of angry worried people to join community choirs so they can rediscover a sense of belonging without joining far right groups/protests (or am I over simplifying?)
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 4h
I still haven't recovered from scarecrows made of beal tbh (ps this is what social media should be for 😊)
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 4h
Protect are wimmin🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 6h
They are absolutely bananas (Reform, Restore, the Black balaclava boys not the Marines...)
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I thought I had seen it all, but this is an astonishing new low, putting the US in the company of Iran, Afghanistan and N Korea. I abhor the death penalty. The idea that kids, including my own, might see such an execution shocks me to the core. Abhorrent, barbaric, sick, warped, cruel and twisted.
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We didn't have a street party for the Queen's 60 year jubilee in 2022, however I think we might consider one for this...
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Delicate silvery-grey mushroom in the grass in a park in South Birmingham UKClusters of orange yellow mushrooms
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very much like the dystopian visions of the future we saw in 20th century novels and films... 😔
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quiltersblock.bsky.social @quiltersblock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.
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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I may have to borrow this...
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Really sad news. Thinking of my very talented colleagues today
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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@tahiralimp.bsky.social the radio content of BBC is fundamental- please try to do something about this rather than everyone acquiescing in the disappearance of something very special
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is the main unifying thing about the post Gauke/Grieve/Rudd Tories that they are all a bit stupid?
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
More than 9,600 have already taken action and called on Ofcom to investigate Nigel Farage's GB News show. A party leader and sitting MP should not be allowed to host their own news show. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. ⬇️
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why is the wifi on the Bham to London Avanti West Coast service so blooming unreliable... drives me bananas... thank you for your attention 🙏
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not again... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️- thanks for the alert 🙏
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is that not just an AI composite of Oakeshott, Jenkins and Hopkins or is she a real human?
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the UK areas are often measured by reference to how many football (soccer!) pitches it would cover or how many times the size of Wales somewhere is...
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What a weird system of measurement 🦩🦩🦩
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We investigated ourselves comprehensively and concluded that we had done nothing to reproach ourselves for- nothing to see here...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apparently I've already signed!
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No- it's good- a moral heart and lovely warm performances from the leads- get well soon 🤒
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He warrants lots of scrutiny as he seems so dodgy and he is an unpleasant piece of work, so it feels only right that he is challenged at every opportunity...
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What we need is a great big melting pot 🤗- I'm slightly too young to remember it at the time but between that and Star Trek I feel sad at where we are atm...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cute yellow brown mushrooms in a rotting log in Moseley Park South Bham
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm not going there until 'they' have gone...
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Euughh 🤮
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Presumably all the Faragey/Andersony/Remigrationy people who want abolish the Human Rights Act will be claiming that preventing them from hanging flags from our city's lamp posts is a breach of their human rights... 🤬
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How many (of our numerous) pot holes could BCC have filled with all the money wasted on tackling the flag wasters 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That made me laugh out loud (although it shouldn't be funny as it's so bloody tragic...)
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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I saw the clip of Judge Judy too. I wanted to punch her through my phone
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And life for young people is more overwhelming and unaffordable than at any time in my (50 ish years) lifetime- they are not lazy snowflakes...
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup- I've used it once in the last fortnight to quickly remove the answers from a book group pub quiz I'd written in word so that I could have a question sheet to hand out- definitely could have managed that myself if I could have been arsed
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Intriguing... might see if I can listen later having been anaesthetising myself with Jazz FM in the morning since the Radio 4 team has mainly comprised Amol Rajan, Justin Webb, Emma Barnett and Nick Robinson without Mishal Hussain
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know nothing about mushrooms other than the fact that I love seeing them every Autumn 🙏
Fungi growing from a tree trunk in Clowes Wood near Earlswood
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another Faustian pact... (see also Clegg and Blair)
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kilroy and the snake in Jungle Book?
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Jungle Book Kaa the Hypnotizing Snake
Alt: Jungle Book Kaa the Hypnotizing Snake
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe Armando Iannuci can do a sequel to his comedy classic www.imdb.com/title/tt4686...
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It would be good if we could all ignore him for a bit now...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no chance he has read it (and been inspired)- it's quite a hard book to read, but it's eerily prescient (or perhaps just predictable in that the writer understood human nature)
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't know what any of these are but I do love this time of year #fungi #autumn
Fungi sticking out of a tree trunk in Clowes WoodFungi at the foot of a tree in Clowes WoodSome crazy fungus thing in Moseley Park
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A corporate lawyer though- he probably will know very little useful law from his stint as a solicitor, but he should know at the very least how to be circumspect and discreet- also is he really only the same height as me (5ft 4 and a half ish) or is Wikipedia having me on?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
via Christopher Warner
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'Pip' will do @phillilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/phil... That's why this is so powerful...
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