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52, Male, a bit northern.

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James Cooray Smith @ Midday Matinées / Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’ve done another guest post for the long running twinpeaksblog, looking at the neglected topic of the series’ UK viewing figures back in 1990 / 91. twinpeaksblog.com/2026/10/11/h... Free to read. Lots of other great stuff on that site too. Check it all out.
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How many UK viewers watched Twin Peaks (1990-1991)?
Details about how many UK viewers watched David Lynch and Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks" when it first aired in 1990-1991.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Heart of Europe - European Movement UK's new national ambition for the UK to join the EU within the next decade. Find out more here: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/heart-of-eur...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Overdiagnosis” is the new transphobia. It’s the same people
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Kally the Nephilim @kallycutie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When you see a politician throwing a minority under the bus, or using them as a scapegoat, remember that if they will do that to them, they will do it to you, it's just a matter of convenience. Either they stand up for all of us, or they will sell out each of us, one at a time.
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Rankersbo @rankersbo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Tonight's viewing
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the start of his shocker of an interview with UK foreign secretary Ed Miliband, BBC Radio 4 presenter Justin Webb conflated British Jews with Israel, a straightforwardly anti-semitic thing to do. Full analysis by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
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Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 07/09/2026
Tissues at the ready #ROBOTcar gang. Chapter Seven, the penultimate episode of season one, is out now. The team members each have to face an individual test to fight their way out of Pix’s paracosm and things get HAIRY (Wilder).
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Chapter Seven – Deeply Ironic Monsters
It’s a Superpower?? is an immersive audio experience and is best enjoyed with headphones. Tired of the New Dawns’ constant bellyaching, Pix transports the gang to her paracosm, where a host of fearsom...
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James Cooray Smith @ Midday Matinées / Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve started a new film reviewing, research and history patreon newsletter, with a couple of tiers, including a free one. By me and guest writers. First piece is available to read on the link. Give it a go. Lots of things lined up.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 31/08/2026
What promised to be the world’s most complex scavenger hunt has failed to take into account autistic people’s propensity to actually read the fucking instructions, sources report.
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Organised scavenger hunt fails to account for autistic competence
This article is an It’s a Superpower?? special, set in the world of our audio sitcom! To find out more, see the bottom of the piece. What promised to be the world's most complex scavenger hunt has…
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 02/09/2026
On Chapter Six of It’s a Superpower?? Norah finally has enough of everyone’s shit, @misterabk.bsky.social plays the most menacing cruise director of all time & the gang invent a delicious weapon. Catch up wherever you get podcasts! #ROBOTcar
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NEW: Tracker shows Reform losing a councillor every three days. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform loses newly-elected councillor every three days as troubles mount
EXCLUSIVE: A new online tracker by campaign group Best For Britain shows 35 newly-elected Reform councillors have quit or been suspended since May as the group's chief say it would 'struggle to run a ...
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I don’t want to wish my life away but I desperately want it to be Monday and for everyone to have heard chapter four of It’s a Superpower??
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/08/2026
The images of groups targeting homes they believe are housing asylum seekers are extremely disturbing. Asylum seekers - like everyone else - should not have to live in fear. The violence has to end.
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Police escort residents to safety after homes targeted in Thetford disorder
Two men were arrested during three nights of disorder in Thetford, Norfolk, after people attempted to storm homes linked
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I know it’s an old and hackneyed point but I always go back to it. Suffragettes fought *against* the notion of sex based rights; sex based rights were the ones men had and women didn’t. It was seen as appalling to deny people rights based on their biology.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This part was cathartic.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2026
8. The capitulation of Amnesty International signals a bleak new era for transgender people in the United Kingdom. The country that once ranked first in Europe for LGBTQ+ rights now sits 22nd on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map, after 11 consecutive years of decline.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 30/07/2026
He explained: “If you’re getting a ‘reasonable’ adjustment and I’m not, that’s a form of reverse discrimination. Noise-cancelling headphones?? Where are my noise-enhancing headphones?? Huh??? Huh???! Didn’t think of that, did you?”
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“It’s reverse ableism” insists reverse not a bellend
Your reasonable-adjustment request is “reverse ableism”, according to a reverse not a cunt.  Colleague Graeme Hart, 46, who has reverse excellent opinions about everything from politics to which…
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I remember arguing with someone - now an MP - about soup kitchens: I saw them as a response to need, whereas they saw them as enabling homelessness. Enabling homelessness. As though homeless people made themselves so as a lark.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED, MAMDANI
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First Draft Replies @firstdraftreplies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So you "did everything correctly" when you sold your car? You didn't get the new keepers name and address a receipt, retain your part of the v5c or tell the DVLA. So what *did* you do correctly?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
How can we hope he has a serious plan for ending "the terrible suffering of people in Gaza" when he can't even bring himself to name Israel as the genocidal aggressor causing the suffering? We need concrete action - a full arms embargo and an end to trade with illegal settlements.
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It is a great honour and privilege to have been appointed by the Prime Minister to serve as Foreign Secretary.

My parents came to Britain as Jewish refugees from the Nazis. To them, Britain was both a sanctuary and a beacon of hope in the global fight against fascism. I will carry my parents' faith in that spirit of Britain to my role representing our country.

I will be a Foreign Secretary who fights for Britain's interests and our values of democracy, freedom and the rule of law on the world stage.

Today, as we face a time of greater instability and threat to international law and democracy than at any time since the Second World War, these values are more important than ever.

From Russia's illegal war in Ukraine to conflict in the Middle East, time and again we have seen the consequences of a more dangerous world in the cost of living crisis that families and businesses face.

For Britain, that means we must work with others to defend the principles that we cherish, because it is in our national interest to do so, building on the excellent work of my predecessors and friends, Yvette Cooper and David Lammy.

I will seek to deepen and strengthen our strategic alliance with the European Union which is so important for our prosperity and security and at the same time nurture our strong, enduring and essential alliance with the United States. I will uphold our commitment to multilateral institutions from NATO to the UN as well as working with global partners, particularly in the Global South.

Pursuing our interests and values means continuing to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Ukraine against Russia's illegal invasion, as Britain has done for the last four years. It means playing our part to seek to end the conflict in Iran and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It must also mean working tirelessly to seek a sustainable peace in Palestine and Israel, including an end to the terrible sufferi
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stop using AI generated images of Clacton seafront to make @countbinface.bsky.social fan graphics!!! I live on Clacton seafront, ask me and I'll probably just send you photos??!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Never has a team more richly deserved to lose than Argentina.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/07/2026
Thank you for delivering this, BBC. Romesh was right about you
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Also it's so enjoyable to watch two teams who respect each other, give everything, and then embrace each other after the game, after all the horrible bollocks of last Wednesday
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
final score will be 52:48. you mark my words
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Not for our Nigel these petty, private embarrassments. For a man who remade British politics, in roughly the same way an enormous flaming space rock remade the dinosaurs, only face-planting and then wetting himself in front of the entire planet will do." The humiliation kink theory of Nigel Farage
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Nigel Farage wants to be humiliated
An operator like Farage surely can’t have found his way into this by-election mess by accident
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is what happens when Norway go back to the dressing room. They relax into their natural state as pencil sketch animations
Screengrab of the Take on me music video
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Horrifying how common it is to see National Front-level racist comments on most of the posts Facebook shoves my way, whether it's the Guardian or a music magazine or whatever. This level of shamelessness is very new and not confined to X. It's like people were just waiting for cultural permission.
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
this is what happens when we spend a decade or more conceding that maybe the transphobes have a point, maybe the xenophobes have a point. NO. i am so angry right now at what this country has slid into. YET AGAIN.
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Diana @dianad617.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Stop threatening us with a good time, y’all.
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HATE Mulgrew @josie.zone · 04/07/2026
You do not, in fact, "gotta hand it to" every single fucking person who hates Israel You do, in fact, have free agency to pick your allies in the struggle for Palestinian freedom
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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And this is such a good win-win because I fucking love professional quality comedy about autism that actually gets it. By us, for us.
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
fuck the court and fuck every "it sucks but we gotta cave on sports, people have legitimate concerns, they'll definitely leave trans people alone after this" shithead on the way there
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Great thread
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 14/06/2026
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Rankersbo @rankersbo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If "we have mass immigration" "asylum seekers are mostly fighting age men" "gays should keep it to themselves" and "trans women are men" are opinions, so is "you're a bigot"
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If there is anyone in the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran who doesn't have The Art of The Deal on their nightstand and who doesn't laugh their balls off every night before drifting into restful sleep, they're just not living their best life.
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Rankersbo @rankersbo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Watching the ITV mysterious affair at Styles. This is all probably stuff you either already know or don't care about, but when has that ever stopped us. It's 36 years old. No not in the "as old now as the original..." category. 1/x
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio
A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...
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