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rayhirst.bsky.social @rayhirst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank the deities the BBC are covering this live. Dont know what I'd have done without knowing who has the largest courgette. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6... Results due at national giant veg competition - live updates - BBC News
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Results due at national giant veg competition - live updates
It comes as experts tell the BBC that farms must find ways of adapting to changing conditions.
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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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rayhirst.bsky.social @rayhirst.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Things which are not news, no.1 in an occasional series #notnews BBC News - Prince George to attend Eton College from September www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prince George to attend Eton College from September
He will follow in the footsteps of his father, the Prince of Wales, who also attended the private school.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 10/05/2026
Reform have suspended a newly elected Sunderland councillor for racist comments, but that's a different Sunderland councillor to the one that was kicked out the party the other day and also not the one who beat his partner and allegedly abused a child that was elected on Thursday.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Round of applause for the Grimsby Telegraph where the art of headline-writing is alive and kicking.
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When Doves Buy - Birds nest in trolley at North East Lincolnshire shop
Staff say they are 'trying to do all the right things for them'
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 16/04/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "there's not enough space in my brain for this shit"
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Send him to Moscow.
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Andrej @tepid.meme · 01/04/2026
Princess Anne continues to merge with the Christopher Walken meme
Princess Anne meeting the King’s Royal Hussars at Salisbury Plain, wearing a camouflage jacket, scarf and shadesChristopher Walken in Plots with a View aka Undertaking Betty (2002) wearing a beige jacket, scarf, shades and smoking a cigar
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/03/2026
what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop? RULES: - you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop - you must remain more or less uninjured - bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 24/02/2026
I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Take a look at my wares and please repost. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!
A collage of nine images featuring prints, a cushion, a mug, a T-shirt and a phone case.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 07/02/2026
tumblr post:

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Summer Olympics: Who can run the fastest? :)
Who can swim the fastest? :) Who can do the best somersault? :)
Winter Olympics: WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ICE SLIDE OF DEATH AND SURVIVE?? WHO CAN GET AROUND THE RINK WITHOUT GETTING THEIR HANDS SLICED OFF BY EVERYONE ELSE'S FEET BLADES?? CAN THIS GUY DO A 1080 DEGREE
FLIP WITHOUT DYING??
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Summer Triathlon: Don't run too fast, you have to save your energy for a swim and a bike ride! :)
Winter Biathlon: I see you've been skiing for five miles now here's your gun
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
❤️
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
truly a knockout series for this archetype. #TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.
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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 07/11/2025
WIN a set of #Christmas cards Repost and follow me to enter I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk
Four mid century style Christmas cards designs
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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.
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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
In "Legitimate Concerns" news. 41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Fitzgerald was so real writing “They were careless people - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” So many messes they won’t be cleaning
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Going to keep saying it - the Farage effect is largely an illusion. Many, many more people loathe him than like him.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/05/2025
on this Bluesky Talking About Bluesky Day I would like to add my view, which is: please can everyone stop saying "booo people are too serious on here" and just start actually posting silly stuff instead, this is social media, be the change you want to see in the world, stop whingeing
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 22/05/2025
Well this is a bit depressing. It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me. Please have a look and repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
My website homepage with a notice at the top saying, "Visitors to your site decreased by 30% in the last 30 days."
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Keir Starmer's ratings are down among voters of all parties, including the Reform voters this entire strategy is supposedly designed to win over, but falling massively among those still voting Labour. Down 34 points in just one month
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 15/05/2025
My online shop has had the most dismal week since records began. Have a look, share this post and tell all your friends. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Thank you.
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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Discover a world of bold and colourful prints, homewares and stationery by Gail Myerscough, a surface pattern designer and illustrator. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.
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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 12/05/2025
Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff. We are *already* short of over 150k carers. Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS. It's madness.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour needs several million buckets of ice-cold water poured over their head and the nation's church bells ringing in unison as a very loud wake-up call. Hopefully, this is it. People voted for hope and change and vision not Reform lite and the same old Tory shite.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 29/04/2025
How to call your bank by dialling just 3 numbers… simply dial 1-5-9! Then you know it’s legit, watch the video for more info. Please share, the more people know, the fewer will be scammed.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
radical idea but it would be quite nice for this government to not support Trump’s corruption
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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · 17/04/2025
Cis allies loudly declaring support also helps push back on one of the main goals of the anti trans movement, convincing the world that hating trans people is Normal Every random cis person going "well duh i'm chill with trans people who isn't" means that idea can't spread
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It would be so helpful if you could retweet my May botanical illustration & mental health w’shop in my previous post if you have a moment. I've been unable to work since December due to a breakdown (not proud of this) & I'm trying to get back on my feet so if you could RT it would help enormously 🌿
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rayhirst.bsky.social @rayhirst.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Someone create a smartwatch that acknowledges bathroom cleaning. Most effort to least recognition ratio. Causes me an irrational level of annoyance.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Please lecture us more about free speech in Europe.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Its not treading a fine line. Its outright blackmail news.sky.com/story/trump-...
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Trump treads fine line between striking a deal and blackmailing Ukraine
Donald Trump has paused US military aid to Ukraine, days after his very public row with its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In the latest Guardian Blind Date: The thunderbolt! Fireworks! Negronis! And it's really quite beautiful. My review:
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Gráinne and Alexander
In these serious times, there is a feeling of guilt attached to frivolity. A sense, perhaps, that you’re playing MarioKart while Rome frazzles. Political intrigue has rendered showbiz gossip …
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Good morning. After a rough few days, this week's Blind Date was perfectly timed to fill you with joy. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Blind date: ‘I was hoping to meet a total babe. She was a total babe’
Gráinne, 31, a software engineer and musician, meets Alexander, 34, a civil servant
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Judge Roy Ferguson @judgefergusontx.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!
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