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I once saw a man busking in Brighton in May wearing a Father Christmas costume with a sign reading 'Only 210 [or whatever] Shopping Days Till Christmas'. He wasn't singing Christmas songs though, very odd.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧪 probably a long shot, but: has anyone heard of a two-headed trout specimen named Cuthbert the Great? the specimen allegedly went to the AMNH in 1940 but the museum has no record of it. trying to track down Cuthbert. www.nytimes.com/1944/08/13/a...

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

traditionally, executing american soldiers on camera was outsourced overseas, but now it's providing jobs for americans

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are we sure he's real himself? Looks a bit like that 5 holidays/ private school 'character' from the Telegraph last year.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely, the typical beneficiary of a substantial inheritance is already in late middle age and the 'family home' they inherit could very well be somewhere they've never lived and never will live, it's emotive tosh.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The only ‘no go zones’ in Britain are gated communities, country estates full of, or owned by rich, largely white folk. And don’t get me started on the villages they’ve basically ‘enclosed’ on the north Norfolk coast.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1975 historical drama Winstanley includes an example of a spoon being used in this way.

A black and white photo of a middle aged man in historical costume wearing a large floppy hat with a spoon used as a pin to fold back the front part of the brim

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gosh, hasn't our idea of what counts as a small garden changed over recent decades? About a quarter of the footprint of a typical new build garden gets taken up by its tiny shed.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really like them aesthetically but remember them as being pretty uncomfortable.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another one! I spotted this a couple of weeks ago, I still can't work out what they actually want to communicate.

Advert for a pair of lilac coloured sliders with our tagline that's saying EVA feeling like stepping in shit

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can still remember the horror of my older brother when he bit into a Texan Bar and one of his teeth stayed embedded in it, I loved them but he wouldn't eat another one after that.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Am I imagining it or does that rock by the handrail have googly eyes?

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whenever I see or hear it also reminds me of 'Brexit Means Brexit' which annoyed me even more.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Brilliant book, must rummage out my copy, the vortex and the porpin are my favourites.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm also a connoisseur of weird or auction lots. A few years ago I spotted this collection of crowns of thorns on sale in Germany. As far as I remember they were going very cheap but, nevertheless, I wasn't tempted.

A collection of crowns of thorns there's about eight of them in total laid on a table they vary quite substantially in size and one of them isn't really thorns at all it's carved out of wood

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gosh, that's one of those songs I can sing along to without having heard for nearly 50 years. I can't remember the programme at all, just the song and a discussion about reality - or otherwise - of the fountain of youth. From the same fuzziest edges of my memory as Puffa Puffa Rice.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't think I've ever seen a shorter tower.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The tabloid pressure on him to make the apology had to have already acquired some significant momentum for this 'scandal' to have occurred in the first place.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading Michael Dylan Foster's The Book of Yōkai and I'm devastated to have missed the 'so-called tsuchinoko boom' of the 1970s. Imagine being there on the ground when all those chubby snake cryptids popped up.

Printed illuustration of a Nozuchi or Tsuchinoko (a wide snake) from the Shinano-Kishōroku (c. 1834): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doeti_Nozuchi.jpg

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Would have to be a very small and isolated place indeed, I had a friend whose family ran a Chinese restaurant in Thurso in the 1980s before they relocated to Portree.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There was a horrible stole made of actual moles in a drawer in the house where I grew up. You could see the joins between the skins I think there were about 15 moles in it. Anybody rational but have thrown this away as it was obviously never going to be worn, it smelt grim, my mother kept it.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.

Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".

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explore.org @explore.org · 18/09/2026

Today at 12 PM PT, the contenders are revealed. Link to join our live: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhDQ...

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Tennis on telly 🎾📺🇬🇧 @tennisontelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Great Britain's upcoming Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup ties will be shown live for free on both BBC iPlayer and Tennis Channel Davis Cup: GB vs Ecuador this weekend 19-20 Sep BJK Cup: GB vs Czechia on Tuesday 22 Sep

tennis.com

Tennis Channel International: How to watch TC for free in your country

Matthew Fitzgerald

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh he was great, the commentators had to keep name-checking him!

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reminds me of a Brazilian sailor at the Olympics called Robert Scheidt whose name brought us a great deal of puerile amusement.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just spotted these being sold on AliExpress. 🦶💩👍 I'm still trying to puzzle out what they were intending to say about these sliders.

Screenshot showing a pair of lilac coloured sliders from AliExpress. At the top of the page it says 'EVA feeling like stepping on shit'

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 12/09/2026

The post isn't even internally consistent. If the UK "is taxing itself to death", and if Laffer is right that "taxes can become so punitive they reduce revenues", then why would lowering taxes require you to cut spending?

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sounds like the perfect opportunity to sell a greetings card.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Really good piece on whether free UK museums should move to charge. Great point on the weird incentives here from Chris Smith - would those who are successful in getting commercial income just open the door to losing state support? www.ft.com/content/f243...

Smith, the former culture secretary, says the push for charging "has come from the Treasury... They thought it would be an easy and attractive way of raising money, given the difficult fiscal picture.
"But of course for the museums that did charge, the Treasury would just claw back a portion of the grant-in-aid that they give them," he adds. "So we would not see a new dawn for the sector, just a fall-off in visitors, reputational strength and soft power."

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I just hope they waste more of it sending me 'personal messages' from Farage. I was bombarded with them earlier this year before the Scottish Parliamentary election and they ended up coming *6th* in my constituency.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fishy Friday: Bathypterois sp., a tripod fish. Solitary and stationary, these deep-sea denizens perch above the seafloor using specialized fin rays and face into the current. When an unsuspecting copepod or other tiny crustacean drifts by, this animal is set to snack. #Doldrums, 2,040 meters

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I arrived in Abbots Bromley at 07:20 sharp ready for the unshackling of the 1000 year old horns stored all year round in the village church. Some pics from the day of dancing..!

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes, it was only when it occurred to me that he was extraordinarily long-lived that I twigged this.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I expect she's simply hoping for pushback from 'Lefties' who she can then pour scorn on.

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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

comic about bees

two characters on a small hill, a guy in a green cloak carrying a bow and a wizard in a light blue garb holding his staff.
Bow guy: I think that guy is 10 000 bees in a suit of armor

Down the kill is a suit of armor filled with bees, some limbs floating next to the main body and running.

Bees in suit of armor: LET'S GO ON A QUEST TO SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My brother had a Dick Turpin annual, I'd love to have another look at it. I have a feeling it was a bit Blue Peterish and tutty-tutty about what a badnik the real Dick Turpin was.

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More a voice than a tense, but great name

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just been reminded of this. Newer friends and followers may not know of that type 11 years ago when I was writing for the Guardian and finally snapped at their ludicrous image archive setup and it got published on the actual site. #cake #breakdown

A cake
I Do you know how long l've spent in the Guardian's image archives to find a picture of a bog
standard cake? Bloody ages! Thousands of images and not one thing that you'd recognise as a
normal cake. This weird ice cream thing is the best I could do. Everything else has a sodding fried
egg or a bunch of parsley obscuring it, or has been arranged to resemble a Picasso painting or a
sculpture reflecting the futility of existence. When did this place becore riddled with hipsters?
God, I'm so tired... Photograph: Brian Hagiwara/Getty Images

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm very much of an age with the children who were her subjects for this book so I found it particularly fascinating.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I hope this guy shows up today

Painting of a stegosaur (Tuojiangosaurus?) with large bagels hanging from its spikes. A human helps a mother and child buy some.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've had 🎼 'Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao and his black and white cow' - to the tune of Postman Pat - going round in my head intermittently for about three weeks now. Prior to thisI had no idea how frequently I encountered references to cattle in a typical day.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There used to be a Chinese herbalist around the corner from me that had a sign up and the window advertising eczema tea which I always interpreted literally.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Mildly alarming blue porcupine of the day 👇 At the Lord Leycester Hospital, home for for former service personne,l Warwick. The porcupine was the emblem of the Sidney family who held the hospital's patronage from the 17th C

Blue porcupine on front of half timbered building

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's a goodie, but I reckon Iona Opie's 'The People in the Playground' is in a league of its own in the comedy index category. Also includes the classic 'Camel, man has sex with [story]'.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you were living in Europe in the 1580s and 90s, you would likely have heard a few herring prophecies from Norway. Fishes with words about evil, fighting knights symbolizing the Ottoman conflicts of the Habsburg monarchy etc. appeared, and they all predicted something about the state of the world.

a German broadside with a wondrous fish caught off Norway. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0710-346

6 fishes with words from a small print of 1598 ("Prophetia halieutica nova et admiranda...", Source: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/titleinfo/1489626

A broadside from 1587 showing a fish with wondrous inscriptions which reads 'Vici Malum' caught off Norway. Source: https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freytag/content/pageview/8433201

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