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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh Alan you landed yourself in the soup there #TheArchers

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hang on a minute. You never hear Sooty speak because he doesn’t have a mouth??

Sooty of the greatest ever children’s tv show reveals Matthew Corbett was just “making it all up”

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can’t wait to get started on my latest needlepoint design which will be a 49cm square cushion - my biggest yet. It’s features one of my noisy London neighbours: a green parakeet. Hope I can do it justice #stitchsky #craftsky #needlepoint

Outline drawing of a parakeet and foliage ready to trace onto canvas, with green blue and orange yarns

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Latvian authorities say there’s been deliberate damage to surveillance cables and equipment along the Latvia-Belarus border. Border Guard chief Guntis Pujāts called it a targeted action to disrupt border surveillance.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I BEG YOU please check out The Hebridean Baker: Faroe Islands on BBC iplayer. It is one of the great food shows. In stunning scenery he bravely tries out some of the least appealing food ever seen on tv. Incredible stuff 🤢 Boiled fulmar anyone?

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Time to donate to the RNLI again folks

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Christopher Harborne - the Reform mega donor who gave Farage £5m - is suing ex-Reform deputy leader, Ben Habib. The particulars of claim have now been published. And we need to talk about them. 1/

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Maybe he was making his face brown and just stuck his whole head in the bucket

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To begin liking something you have previously detested for 50 years, is disturbing wtf #tunawithsweetcorn

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OMG Laila Cunningham comes across badly in interview - stilted, sulky, defensive, rude. It wasn’t a tough set of questions, considering the headlines, but not one good answer from her #BBCR4PM #Reform

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Outstanding work by #Channel4news tonight to expose criminal behaviour at the very top of #Reform Great to see proper investigative journalism on tv

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes you pick up a discarded book and it feels like time travel. It’s 1957, you’re an Oxbridge student on a 32,000 mile expedition. You are the cook and a) nobody will eat food cooked in olive oil and b) you don’t know how to cook rice 🤨

Map of journey showing overland route from London to Singapore (and back)

How long and will it be worth the attempt to convert and expedition to Greek olive oil, which to say the least has plenty of body in it? The answer to this one is Definitely no

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Diane looked house trained but she’s got blood in her nostrils and her teeth into the Snells - don’t roll over and play dead Linda! Bite back! #TheArchers #Snellworryingii

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What’s with all the cottage cheese content all of a sudden? Don’t revive lumpy white blandness please

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Recycling grey water by mopping the floor with saved shower water, before putting it on the garden. Was truly grey 🔄 #hosepipeban

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Divine tapas lunch at Porta in #Chester. Gooey tortilla, beetroot, cream cheese and crisp crumbs, broccoli with romesco sauce and almonds, light as air calamari and aioli. Ate ourselves to a standstill - so good 😊 www.portatapas.co.uk/chester

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CHESTER TAPAS MENU — Porta

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For that you need a horse with little windows

The Mykonos vase showing the Trojan horse with seven square windows in its side. Greeks are peeping out. The horse has a wheel like a pizza cutter, on each foot.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

2/ ICIJ and Paper Trail Media coordinated 270 journalists across 54 countries analyzing 3.6 million leaked files from six Cypriot financial firms. The files span the mid-1990s to April 2022, including bank applications and internal emails. Full investigation: www.icij.org/investigatio...

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Cyprus ignores Russian atrocities, Western sanctions to shield vast wealth of Putin allies - ICIJ

ICIJ-led investigation Cyprus Confidential reveals how the EU member state powered the Kremlin’s financial machine, moving vast sums for oligarchs, including after Russia’s 2022 Ukraine invasion.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Applause please for Vladimir Nabokov ladies and gentlemen.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The heatwave is getting to me 🥵Making Christmas decorations in August #gonecompletelyloopy #crafts

Two chicken scratch embroidery Xmas trees on blue gingham

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So impressed by the contestants thoughtful approach to the garment with an environmental message challenge. So many great ideas 💚#GreatBritishSewingBee

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#TheSheepDetectives is a family film that poses some really interesting questions: Bigotry looks like this - isn’t it awful and stupid? How should you deal with upsetting truths? Cleverness and wisdom are not the same but what is the difference? What makes a good shepherd? It’s fun too

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ALT: What Will We Do Cloud

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not often that I am genuinely moved by an episode of #TheArchers but the hurt caused by Bert’s soft spot for crooked Clive was beautifully played by Susie Riddell as Tracy Horrobin. Great writing, terrific performance 👏👏

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/07/2026

A $1.15 trillion US defence bill passed by the House includes plans to expand military cooperation with Israel through joint work on missile defence, drones and AI. Critics warn the move could deepen ties amid growing political divisions over aid to Israel.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Now on BBCiplayer - a totally gripping watch. The LDS church leaders were involved with Jodie and must have realised that something was deeply wrong. How could they stand back from the family? And the neighbours who knew the young children were home alone?

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If only there was a man so unimaginably rich that it could be done in a blink. If only that man had a generous heart

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Farage’s relentless negativity is so depressing. Clacton voters deserve a better candidate than Farage. #BinFarage

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

John Leguizamo steals every scene he’s in as Eumaeus in The #Odyssey. He makes a small role into a great one. Best Supporting trophies should go his way

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Guardian getting to the bottom of that supposedly unconditional 5mil payment. Farage isn’t willing to serve the country, as an MP or god forbid as PM. Only doing it so long as he’s not out of pocket. Disgusting

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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift came after saying he needed ‘a million a year’ to stand as MP

Politician spoke to senior figures in Reform in March 2024 about covering lost earnings, sources tell the Guardian

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So lovely to read in the shade today - except I took an antihistamine and I can’t keep my eyes open. I read a little… and then the breeze wakes me up and I realise I dozed off. And repeat. It must be like this when you’re 100. Nice

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

AI ads are such crap. Before: some nonsensical ‘kitchenware’ including a button hook is magically changed into After: a place setting for 2.5 people and a whisk with two ends. And some bots have liked it. Just look at the benefits giant data centres will bring folks 😡

Two open kitchen drawers showing contents. Before shows a confused mess of AI generated tools including a button hook, spoon bowls without handles and wire whisks that are blurs. The After drawer is neat but doesn’t have the any of the tools from Before

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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Who doesn’t rent their spare room back to themselves to offset tax, keeping it £1 less than the amount which would trigger a required to declaration according to Parliament's reporting standards. Working class hero.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Behind us two loft conversions and a kitchen extension are in full swing. Power tools all day. Need ear defenders to sit outside 😢 Next month gas pipe replacement will start for the whole street #summer

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The umpire reminding tennis fans not to pop champagne corks during play is peak Wimbledon 🙄

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Jim Clark @runningape.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This would be ace, just Binface and Binjuice on the ballot.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Publishers! An acclaimed author, who has an emotionless, dull and horribly piercing voice is NOT a good choice for the audiobook. Especially one that lasts 11 hours.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I bought sewing materials and the algo suggested pink plastic toys for YEARS. Bought one pair of runner’s headphones and it started suggesting spark plugs

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The British Library’s philatelic collection has 8 million items. Chew on that Marie Condo

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Supermarket ham has no taste and costs more all the time. A piece of gammon, simmered with peppercorns and veg, is the answer. Slice when cold, put portions between baking paper and freeze, defrost as needed. Dab of mustard, cheese and pickles 😋

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Some people call hundreds and thousands “sprinkles”. Life has short changed them and no mistake

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Connections Puzzle #1110 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Hockey? Baffled

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Heatwave meal idea. Carbonara is delicious, takes ten minutes and it isn’t salad

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