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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 6h

"So that's a Big Trak or Scalextric for safe passage through a vital global trade artery or a nuclear deal?"

President of Iran, taking calls at the Swap Shop desk.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The worst kind of Olympic wrestling.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given some of what it produced, a nation still calls for reparations.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just me that's up late following live election coverage then?

Live stream of Manx Radio's election coverage.

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Donna Rees @donnarees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As it's Jim Henson's birthday today and the world has gone to shite, do yourself a big favour and watch this beautiful documentary today..X youtu.be/iyGFV6VIxkI?...

youtu.be

Jim Henson Idea Man | Official Trailer | Disney+

YouTube video by Disney Plus

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's general election day! (*except for viewers everywhere that isn't the Isle of Man). If polls are your kind of thing, strong recommendation for Manx Radio's 'Election Live' from 6pm... www.manxradio.com/election-202...

manxradio.com

Election Night Live

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We had a local minister who made a point I forget about Easter by eating a daffodil and was then off sick for a month.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Pour encourages les autres", feels like a useful precedent from maritime legal history to cite about now.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the point it's fine for delegates to begin a slow handclap/bounce a beach ball around the chamber/start a wave.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@alicefraser.bsky.social Well this is incredible in a week I move into a flat where this tram is now my nearest form of transport. open.spotify.com/episode/2KdE...

open.spotify.com

Isle of Man Horse Taxis are back!

Top Stories! · Episode

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Been out all afternoon, and I see the top news stories are about stuff that doesn't make the slightest bit of difference to anything, so I assume everything is fine.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good morning from somewhere entering the final few days of campaigning for a general election happening this week. UK people, don't panic, it's the Isle of Man, not another one. US people, sorry, not yet.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Definitely the first place I've played that you can see planes and helicopters taking off, ferries, buses and steam trains. 'Richard Scarry's World of Sport'. #onefortheteenagers

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@sickoscommittee.org Football getting everywhere update. Tonight I am in the Isle of Man and can watch Benedict v Fort Valley State live. (10-8 Benedict, early 3rd, for the record.)

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not sure if it's him or the man from Del Monte. Either would be a surprise, tbh.

Private jet with the code M-ELON on the tail.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today I am playing in a competitive league hockey match for the first time since 2008, an excellent decision which I will in no way regret tomorrow morning.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm sorry, Real Sociedad 0-2 Bournemouth isn't a real score, that's something that happens if you play about 47 seasons of Championship Manager.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All this stuff is having some kind of effect, can't put a name to it.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

FFS, we're getting five years of Piddington vox pops as 'the voice of middle England', aren't we?

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are a number of other potential examples, but 'Thelma and Louise ending'.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tonight I played hockey for the first time in 13 years, a decision I am in no way going to regret tomorrow morning.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Been out for a couple of hours and I gather that the time on the ticket for Ed Sheeran's tour is now definitely the time he comes on. Also that 'self-exile' is a very silly phrase.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This feels like 'I don't want to get any of whatever this is on me'.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, this definitely sounds like it's the AI doing dangerous and threatening things and governments should take a stake in them.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Depressing sports maths - the top athletes in the world are competing for a $10m prize fund tonight, which is great till you discover that would make them the 158th-highest paid player in the NBA, a league with 150 starters.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you have a successful reboot of an already beloved show with a movie franchise and that used to end with the happiest-ever bit of TV (yes, Rowlf) and can't make it work, that's on you. youtu.be/0P8l6FihhdY?...

youtu.be

The Muppet Show Ending For Seasons 3 4 & 5 Credits

YouTube video by Xander Lars Knight

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Didn't expect or want to get more use from this screenshot so soon, but here we are... Bertie Wooster (1938)

"The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?"
P.G. Wodehouse,The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For some reason this feels like an anniversary especially worth celebrating today.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Almost every other politician/person in history posting this would be followed by a series of urgent reports starting "Concerns are growing tonight for the condition of xxxxx after a series of worrying..." And then a film that gets Nigel Hawthorne an Oscar nomination.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A huge thank you to the person who decided to clean out and hoover their car while playing loud music right under my window at 9.15am this morning. Much-needed.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Unless there's a lot of late goals it's pretty much an 'out-of-office' #MOTD tonight.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A group of people wearing balaclavas so they look identical but who would somehow look even more identical if they took them off.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

All of* the Muppet Show episodes are on Disney+ and are glorious 25-minute chunks of fun and silly with a load of guest stars clearly having a ball. *with a couple of exceptions because 1970s reasons

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For those watching #Nottotp, I have at least three Bee Gees commemorations within a short walk, including this about half a mile away plus a local window cleaner.

Plaque commemorating the Bee Gees links to the Union Mills Post Office.

Van of 'The SqueeGees', local window cleaning firm.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It speaks volumes for this week that I glanced at this, read 'Susan Boyle' and my reaction was no more than "Huh".

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If there's people walking in and setting up devices on timers I have some questions about where the money 'for security' went.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"In 1064 Edward the Confessor... (thread)"

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reform is about to be the first party to call for a complete ban on everyday items with small hidden cameras being used in public.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's so unfair this, what's the word - 'complainants society' - out there criticising the illegal things someone said and did and taking them completely in context.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It is being extremely September outside this morning which is not necessarily a bad thing, but still.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Out for a run this evening during which I saw some of four different games in the top two divisions of a national league. Yes, granted, the Isle of Man league but it still feels like some kind of achievement.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gal Gadot seems like a pleasant and harmless person but on another level I just have to salute her commitment to being at the heart of some of the worst cultural ideas of the decade.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Has anyone thought about putting Robin Hood in this film instead?

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Also happy 29th birthday to XFM, launched in party mood on this day in 1997.

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@scriblit.bsky.social Have to report an enormous amount of quothing outside this morning. Is this a sign? Please advise.

A whole bunch of ravens, making a racket.

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