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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Couldn’t get it going tonight. 14/100 #UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge
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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sounds like now would be a good time for Christopher Walken and Grace Jones to blow up that mine and flood Silicon Valley or whatever it was they were trying to do in that documentary I saw once
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The world is acting the cunt and Monday is swabbing it’s appalling arse on your doorstep. Dismiss it a moment or two longer with these hasselback potatoes, most of a bottle of Picpoul and then getting involved with the brandy.
Four golden brown hasselback potatoes with garlic and rosemary, a handful of steamed mangetout and chicken in white wine sauce with roughly chopped parsley
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kill all mosquitoes now. Fuck the consequences.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think I just ate eighty mussels. Quatre-vignt moules.
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sunday evening viewing sorted
19.00 FILM: FLASH GORDANO
Camp sci-fi classic relocated to the M5 Services, Junction 19, south of the Avonmouth Bridge.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
amazing job on the john fetterman magic card. making him damage you even though you put him into play was a great detail
Kookus
Summon Djinn
Trample
During your upkeep, if you do not control at least one Keeper of Kookus, Kookus deals 3 damage to you and attacks this turn if able.
2: +1/+0 until end of turn
Illus. Scott Hampton
01096 Wizards of the Coast, Ine All rights reserved
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a dreadful loss. There was a trend a while back for posting your favourite song not in English. Les Amants which I found by accident at the end credits of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf might just be my winner. This song is fun and you should play it once for Catherine youtu.be/FwllzZuzz58?...
youtu.be
Les Rita Mitsouko - Les amants (Clip Officiel)
YouTube video by Les Rita Mitsouko
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Got a good run going on early tonight. 24/170 #UniversityChallenge
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Off to see the Bayeux Tapestry today, don't tell me who wins
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Rust showing as I was slow off the mark after two weeks off but I scraped a reasonable 18/120 in the end. Was woeful on a music round I really should have done better on. #UniversityChallenge
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m 40 minutes into watching Cabaret for the first time. This is brilliant. Why didn’t anyone tell me?
A shot from the opening minutes of Cabaret that is a clear re-creation of Otto Dix’s Portrait of The Journalist Sylvia von Harden. 

An androgynous female character in full makeup sits with close cropped red hair, a full face of makeup, a monacle , a cigarette and a cocktail.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I had a bad afternoon at work so when I got home I; Cuddled Rhonda ✅ Cooked my dinner ✅ Opened some nice wine I got for my birthday ✅ Watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind 😞😔😟😟😩
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@dasneilpferd.bsky.social Got to hang out with John, Cheryl and Jose at the Brum AFI show. Plenty of reminiscing. John said he thought of you and I as Despair Faction Dads cos we were generally a bit more grown up than the rest of the gang 😂 ❤️
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A nice wee 24/165 on tonight’s #UniversityChallenge with thanks to @lastpodcast.bsky.social for me having Eisenhower and HCM on the brain.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Just made up to hear Billy Ocean’s Red Light…. What a banger! 21/140 #UniversityChallenge
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I have no idea how I slept on Industry for so long, or why nobody I know raved about it, but I’ve just blitzed all four series in two weeks. Pretty fucking magnificent stuff.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ROD LIDDLE DIED ON EAMON DUNPHY’S BIRTHDAY! The universe is just having a massive laugh.
Eamon DUNPHY’S Wikipedia page showing his birthday as 3rd August
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Had a belter tonight with a 29/190. Struck out on classical, went large on trip hop #UniversityChallenge
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Taxi drivers with the windows down. Why? Fuck off.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 30/07/2026
Cryptic crossword compiler hits the back of the net
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A car trip about 25 years ago. My uncle, whose record collection I raided so much he gave it to me once digital music was everywhere, is driving a rental car and of the handful of CDs we have to get us through the trip it’s The Frames’ Dance The Devil that we play the most.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good fun tonight. Did pretty well on AONBs but hadn’t got a clue on marches. 21/140 #UniversityChallenge
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Badly wanted Kerry to win their 40th Sam but it’s absolutely impossible not to be happy for Mayo. They played magnificently and honestly have you ever been to Mayo? The loveliest people. Fair fucks to ‘em #gaa
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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
When I finished my bike ride this morning, I turned around to head home and saw the most majestic cat I've ever seen. A huge, medium haired, cream and ginger beauty - which completely ignored me. A Ghibli-esque feline deity. #StravaArt #Birmingham #Cycling #Cats
Screenshot of a a Strava cycle activity map which, as best as the roads and paths of south Birmingham will allow, resembles a cat.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
what’s your concert history? first concert: Bush last concert: Four Tet next concert: Jimmy Eat World seen most: Hundred Reasons at 12 (I think) haven't seen but want to: loads obvs. Björk, Caroline Polachek, Chappell, Perfume Genius
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I don’t like to be out on a Sunday night
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Got a bit of momentum going tonight with some good guesses landing. 24 / 145 #UniversityChallenge
Lined page in my notebook showing hand written correct answers to this evenings episode of University Challenge Statue of the Children of Lir in Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance. Depicting four children turning into four swans taking flight. In the background are trees and a flagpole with the Irish tricolour
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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
An edited Nathan Fielder tweet. There is a picture of him smiling. The text reads "Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, busting my balls and penis."
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
For the love of god watch this
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Hourly Spaced @hourlyspaced.bagpuss.org · 14/02/2026
Oh, yeah. I hadn't thought of that.
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S02E03 Mettle March 9 2001
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Gilles @gillesy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That Simeone is his father’s son isn’t he?
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Aaaaand we’re off again. Bit creaky, but rusty, bit mad I couldn’t remember Jefferson Airplane did that shite song when I’d only recently lost two minutes of my life having been told the video was worth watching. 15/95 #UniversityChallenge
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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New series of #UniversityChallenge tonight! I didn't get round to breaking down the results of mine and @samknives.bsky.social scores across the last series in April so here we go. It was another close run for much of the way, with just 9pts in it with 11 EPs to go...
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Gloria and Emilio Estefan? Fucking gold that.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If we’re gonna have to boil our collective bollocks off every summer now, can we build a load of lidos? And then ban kids from them so I can enjoy them in peace.
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Hourly Spaced @hourlyspaced.bagpuss.org · 06/07/2026
The Fuckest Uppest. Philippa Forrester would have loved that.
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S02E03 Mettle March 9 2001
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
STOURBRIDGE’S OWN ❤️❤️❤️
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Stutter step penalties are actually good.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Debut, by Bjork, was released 33 years ago today. No other album has a track recorded live in a club toilet. It was at Milkbar in Soho.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
0 for 45 man. This show keeps kicking my ass.
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Okay. Today is tangibly less comfortable than yesterday. What the fuck is life gonna be like 10 years from now? The end of days lol
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Fuck off Adrian Chiles
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Sam @samknives.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This World Cup, instead of staying behind to tidy up the stadium, can the Japanese fans go tits fucking mental and start throwing chairs and cans about? It would be different and a laugh.
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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Sorry not sorry I found a better way of doing it via some random person on reddit rather than the panini app
Ok it's a better version of a Panini world cup sticker of Thierry Henry making a shocked expression after someone called James Corden a full kit wanker on live tv
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Scarlett Clark, the granddaughter of Celia Birtwell, David Hockney’s long-standing muse, pays tribute to the great artist. 😂
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