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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Deranged holiday rental food hack: there’s no sugar and the curry I’m making needed both a sweet lift and more sour. Splash of grapefruit squash? Fuck it, why not.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

couple of local kids staked Dracula. he turned into a cloud to get away and they vaped him. most fucked up thing... they straight up vaped him man. i don't even know if it was malice, it was like they were just operating on instinct. weren't filming a tiktok or nothing. #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We have discovered a planet. There's an animal there that might be related to a hippopotamus with beautiful feet. We could venture there by bumble-boat. Will you go there with me?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Curious as to what the slogans that Neem *rejected* for this year’s line were.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like Lichtenstein’s work should be displayed, wherever possible, alongside one of Duchamp’s urinals so the curation can ask “who was really taking the piss?”

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ugh, yeah. Takes some doing.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking good. 4 hours though - hardcore.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the kind of thing where, when it comes back from a market research focus group the second time, you end up having a twenty minute meeting about how the hell you’re going to break it to the client that they might as well pack up their entire brand and walk into the sea.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At a pedestrian crossing a prim looking uniformed schoolboy double takes at my bright purple loafers and flashes a smirk that could be anything from “WTF??” to “sick!”, then cycles past, his backpack covered in metal band patches and badges.

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

21°C and blazing sun on the second of October. I know the sad slow apocalypse is the more pressing concern, but I would also like to get a few days of tweed jackets in before we go Full Overcoat.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Damn. Internalising the failure states of the system to the point of demanding they be performed as a virtue is like a crude joke I'd make about right wing politics after three glasses of wine.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yep. I was about to say "I'm not complaining", a sentiment undermined somewhat by being in the middle of a thread where I am quite literally complaining... It's all good stuff.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oof. Yeah. Fingers crossed! Mine's mostly work travel and gigs/shows I forgot I'd booked. Which is Good! But means more time on the late trains back from London to Cambridge than is really ideal.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking at my calendar for the rest of October and strongly considering spending November in some kind of hermit cell behind a waterfall, emerging only for the Beaujolais Nouveau.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, a benevolent god had no hand in this, I assure you.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really quite struck by the levels of disrespect on show here: the private party for the rich taking precedence, the failure to inform people on time, the gal to let them travel to London and queue. That 1381 blockbuster cannot come in cinemas soon enough.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning. A discussion of Mong Kok marketplace tat threw up this cursèd Pikachu from my camera roll a decade ago, and if I have to remember it so do you.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do wonder if maybe the centrists actually have never had it spelled out to them: no, there is not a group you can find to throw under the bus that progressives will not get mad at you for harming. That’s the point.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, I have a couple of those. Reasonably comfortable, nice designs. Not an expert but the longevity seemed decent.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gods, this. I'm not sure which idea would frustrate me more, that they just haven't done any market research, or that they have and this "dark and gritty" bobbins is what people respond to.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course now I ~am~ a sad middle aged man, so I'm delighted not to have changed my mind completely and gone all in on saying "the aforementioned". But, well, somewhere around that dead-eyed data golem's "I'm CEO, bitch" business cards was one hell of an over-steer.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember first joining the (tech, obvs, look at me) workforce, saying something like "Fuck 'professionalism' it's just a way for sad middle aged men to get us to behave in ways they hoped would make their dads love them", and while I stand by some of that, also: wasn't I a right little wanker.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like "etiquette" those failure modes still exist, and are icky, and ossify to classism. But when you look at things like Bluesky devs having a petulant meltdown at users, or cringily chummy corporate comms in a crisis, you do start to value "bland with well-defined edges".

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Onboarding comms for NewJob are refreshingly starchy and formal. I've done a real 180 "Professionalism" lately. Too focused on its failure modes (conservatism, deference, access), I undervalued how nice it is to: a) have a default playbook, and b) not feel like your leadership are teenage edgelords

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think so? They may have some secret knowledge graph sauce, but it's aways looked to me like the value prop was "we know you can't unlock the opex to actually connect these systems, but you can give us the capex to stick a data warehouse between them and you"

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

JD Vance’s sofa just turned up on Marketplace.

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𝔏𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔏𝔬𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢 @fleurkenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Broke up with my medieval bf because he said I should ‘write a tapestry about it’ in an argument

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate

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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"very confused how anyone is enjoying being alive right now it must be pretty great if you pay attention to nothing and care about nothing and have no soul and don't feel the need to constatntly scream into the void" it was shortly after this his co-workers stopped asking him how he was

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a narrative detail that feels a little on the nose, I appear to have most my compass

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working in a book shop years ago people would often flag you down asking "do you work here?", and I just could not stop myself saying "Well, 'work' is a bit strong, but what can I do for you?" Across three years I got maybe two laughs and one manager complaint.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(For books read this year, The Salt King was number 29)

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is getting out of hand. When I see or someone mentions a book that sounds interesting, I write it down to look up later. This is just stuff I've added to the list this year, ones I bought crossed out. Which is categorically not all the ones I bought...

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's fun. Maybe a little too keen to make sure the reader knows it knows the church has Done Some Bad Shit, but manages to look at types of faith and the standard god vs church stuff in a not overly hackneyed way.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just finished The Salt King (uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...) and it might be the best thing I've read so far this year. Obviously it had me at stirring old gods and an archly neurotic priest, but it's backed with lovely little ideas and largely set in a kind of deep-time-relic fenland mining town.

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The Salt King: An end of the world thriller, packed with dazzling wit and romance

Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there ...

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friction is underrated for psychological health. Some small stuff needs to be annoying so we can practice resilience for the bigger stuff. And that's why my midweek hangover is good actually. I'm basically doing excellent psychological work on myself by struggling to get out of bed.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Throwback to when I put Trainspotting quotes on the Obi Wan Kenobi show

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Probably my most toxically British trait is a niggling annoyance when wealth is vulgar. Have some fucking dignity, you can afford it. Good grief.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ain’t gonna weep for the brand managers at luxury car companies, but I do feel like someone right fucked it letting whatever that is off the forecourt.

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