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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 9h

I do have to say, your emoji game is impeccable. Is it because you're so young compared to me?

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 9h

You must know someone. Oh, no, hold on - I'll ask my handlers...

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10h

If I have a word with Zelensky will he blow up whatever troll farms are inundating my email with spam?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10h

I find her faintly irritating, to be honest, but can tolerate for the eye-candy of my favourite places

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10h

EVA LONGORIA EATING CANELÉS ON BBC2. And she's been in St-Émilion. Oh yeah

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 11h

How it started… How it’s going…

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 11h

I'm just supposed to live in a world where there are no new episodes of Ted Lasso to look forward to, am I?

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 14h

Friends fear she’s once again been choosing knitwear based on highlighter pens

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 14h

Exactly this. I blame nasty artificial 1970s ice cream flavourings for this. Since real vanilla came into my life I have never looked back

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 15h

I have never seen anyone be more right about anything than Ian is about this

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 17h

I get that you may not exactly choose what music is playing when you meet/have significant moments in a relationship but honestly

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 17h

If you didn't already have enough to dislike about Kemi Badenoch, it seems she and her husband chose 'Love Is All Around' by Wet Wet Wet for their first dance at their wedding

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 18h

I've been on motorways with less clear signage than this Lily/Harrison storyline #TheArchers

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 18h

Where 'treat Lily right' probably doesn't mean 'knock her up at the earliest opportunity' which is likely what Harrison had in mind #TheArchers

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h

Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.

observer.co.uk

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 19h

An ill-advised second coffee in an attempt to take me from tired to wired

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21h

Because nothing says “sensible thinking” better than appeasing irredentist nationalism against the frequently expressed wishes of all the actual inhabitants of a place…

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 21h

Perhaps not quite so good but I can also recommend Philips Hue lightbulbs. The ones I have can be any kind of colour and lots of different tones of white too, to be daylight-y or softer for the evenings

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Could someone please have a little word with my brain and tell it that it doesn’t have to speak French to the rest of me any more?

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Waterloo for my final train of the day. My bed is less than 2 hours away…

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

You are expressly asked to take or make phone calls in the are between carriages. But NO. The pensioners are apparently incapable of this

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

In a Eurostar carriage with a load of British pensioners who’ve been on a train holiday. They’re shouting and laughing at the French accents of the crew speaking English. I am DELIGHTED. That’s why JB’s playlist is currently deafening my ears to block it out

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I have NOT got enough credit for coming back with less perfume than I went with

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

God no, I don’t pay for that nonsense. Just chips and a milkshake

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I am too, but I do like the chips

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Why do I persist with Cajun fries at Five Guys when I’m not great with chilli? It’s a mystery

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I may do that. I’ve got quite a lot of luggage with me but could leave aux consignes

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Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Recommendations for skin (face) that is not normally dry but has for some reason gone mega dry please.

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

A long wait ahead at Paris Gare du Nord. I could get on an earlier Eurostar but it would cost £150, du coup a long wait ahead at Paris Gare du Nord

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Got to admire the dedication of a table of four across the aisle who have brought an automatic card shuffling/dealing machine on this train journey

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Upstairs on the TGV on the way back. Hate saying goodbye, but a bit easier now I have something to go back to/for

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Takes a special kind of stupid to burn your pyjama’s thighs by putting a hot cup of coffee on them, but here we are

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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When you want to make your clematis more of a feature. #LadyGarden

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Example of his repartee - ‘We went to a restaurant called Sushi Tokyo. It’s Japanese’ My face: ‘What’s French for “no shit”?’

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

I am back from lunch with a fairly spectacularly dull French man - a colleague of my friend. He wanted to mansplain Bordeaux to me. I reckon I now know this place better than some who live here. Fortunately my friend was there to act as a buffer

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Badly rested with satchels under my eyes. Pas envie de me maquiller, même pour déjeuner

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Starting to think in French just in time to go back to the UK

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Hard Way Vaccine hesitancy is a luxury afforded by decades of vaccines. I thought it would take deaths nearby to change minds. History says it does. Then people forget again. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

A noir illustration of a dark room lit by a single desk lamp. An old glass syringe lies on a dusty desk beside an hourglass, with the riveted metal cylinder of an iron lung looming behind them. Through a tall arched window, a row of terraced houses at dusk with two red-lit windows.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They must be absolutely knackered.

One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

New profile picture that’s actually me. New phone camera works wonders

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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He's not deaf; it's totally selective. He can hear a bag of oven chips being opened from three doors away.

Dolly and her husband at a selection of beers and wines

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

So there we go. A lovely thing happened

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Today I went back to the shop, saw the owner, and told him that I had framed that card on my desk and it had worked, because I was now in a relationship with someone better than I ever hoped for. And the owner gave me a huge, spontaneous hug and thanked me profusely for sharing

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