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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

If they had a pinball machine, mice would be living in it.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

In this fantasy pub, I'm digging up the car park for a beer garden with Aunt Sally in it.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

I'm quite sad about this. I fancy a half pound white shark right now.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

They had a recent terrible food standards test ratings.food.gov.uk/business/269...

ratings.food.gov.uk

Peppers Burgers | Rating Business Details | Food Hygiene Ratings

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

And Pepper's, obviously! No idea if it still has it.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

And bar billiards, and shove ha'penny.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

A pub. I could even afford to run it at a loss.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Every time I see one of these whiny little baby questions about speed limits, I Google the MP's name and "speeding". Running at a 100% "yeah they got done for speeding" hit rate so far.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Glad it's not just my imagination :-)

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is absolutely what we should be doing in the US. Unmute

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

So in the past few days Trump has taken sanctions off Russia’s energy, asked to buy diesel from Russia, restricted SpaceX Starlink, stopped sharing intel on incoming missiles, & asked Europe to unfreeze Russian assets to give to Russia. Hope Americans aren’t confused on who he works for

ft.com

US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks

European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump’s negotiators during meeting in Miami

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

The problem here is that most of the actual Green Party activists were busy campaigning at the by-election while these idiots signed up in large numbers and took over the conference. I hope they manage to sort themselves out quickly because we need them.

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Absurd. Unhinged. And breathtakingly dumb. All at the same time. It is moments like these where the UK declines to act like a serious country and falls headlong into self-parody. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

rte.ie

Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK

Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

every campaign, every look both ways, every be seen, every teach our kids, every be alert, every fucking thing is performative when we refuse to do what we all know works and especially when we refuse to protect what is working.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14/10/2026

It’s not extraordinary though, is it. Not for anyone who is either professionally or ideologically compelled to comply with the absolutely batshit, absurd, topsy-turvy world our politicians and press have constructed over the past two decades.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

You need to Zoom in further to see Cowley Rd, which is sometimes bad up to the Original Swan. Woodstock and Banbury Roads are the worst though.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

I've been wondering if more people are driving to the Westgate and railway station car parks now you can get there without paying a charge. I'd like to see the County Council try a congestion charge together with the traffic filters. Perhaps £5 to go under the Botley Rail Bridge.

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Your regular reminder that "Innocent Drinks" is Coca-Cola, for whom £8000 is a rounding error on a tax evasion spreadsheet.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I was just thinking that a decade ago I'd probably have added Crab Currency to DB's Wikipedia discography by now.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

If you're getting messages from David Bowie from beyond the grave, you have a responsibility to share them!

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

(I was careful to compare returns, by the way - I know Eurostar up the prices if you go one way)

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Last night it was €110 for the outbound Eurostar through European Sleeper, making the short crossing of the Channel far more expensive than the sleeper from Brussels to Milan.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't particularly want to publish my travel dates, but if I search for the same journey again I get €73 (£62ish) outbound with European Sleeper and £55 direct with Eurostar. The European Sleeper option has got cheaper than yesterday, but still not as good as booking direct.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Annoyingly I didn't think to screenshot it, but they very much didn't for me. It would have cost an extra €200 for my family if I'd booked through European Sleeper (which I'd very much have liked to, as I get a discount!)

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

You should write the rest of it.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I assume a metaphor: something is being compared to crab currency, and it's repeated for emphasis?

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

@seatsixtyone.bsky.social Just booked some European Sleeper tickets. It was *hugely* more expensive to book Eurostar together with it (double the price outbound) so worth checking Eurostar's own prices.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

A few years ago I thought Ed Davey was doing quite a good job, but suddenly this year he's asking for fuel duty cuts and making videos about how important it is to have Churchill on banknotes. He's lost his way.

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Radical Association @radicalassociation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This challenge to Ed Davey's leadership is timely and necessary. Lib Dem support is flatlining, and Davey's only response has been increasingly desperate attempts to appeal to Tory voters, most recently with unfunded tax cuts, which is both amoral and looks ridiculous.

bbc.co.uk

Lib Dem MP quits frontbench job over Ed Davey's leadership

Deputy party leader Daisy Cooper says "the vast majority of our MPs support Ed... and are furious at this distraction."

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am very disappointed that the City council is calling for measures that will endanger thousands of children trying to get too and from school, or make other trips around their neighbourhood. Please read wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2023/...

wanderingdanny.com

LTNs and inclusive mobility

No inclusive transport system for Oxford is possible without low traffic neighbourhoods. A genuinely inclusive transport system has to work for everyone. For eight year olds walking or cycling to sc...

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Worth reusing stuff where possible, but I suspect the costs of the planters is very little of the cost of the scheme.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

I totally agree, but I think the first call on any new money that's found should be to get in more temporary wooden planters in more places. Headington LTNs.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

In Oxfordshire the parties that consistently support LTNs did well in the last few sets of elections.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

We were sitting opposite you on the train on the way home from a Dar Williams gig in London last night, but I didn't realise until too late to come and say hello.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

I saw @robynhitchcock.bsky.social at the Jericho with @jaffa.bsky.social a couple of years ago, and it was fantastic!

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Clearly you don't understand why the Greens are getting bad publicity, or anything of the point of my post. I don't think I can help you.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

How's redefining the meaning of the word going for the Green Party, do you think?

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

No-one. You can't just pick a word that everyone associates meaning with, and which is important to them, and decide you own it. When people read it, they will read the meaning they expect.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

I haven't seen much to suggest that the leadership even understand they have a problem, let alone that they're working towards fixing it. It's all very depressing.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

So not so much that people get punished for being naïve, but will they learn from their mistake and stop things getting worse? I'm seeing no evidence of leadership on this, just silence.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

The Green Party did this to themselves. The big question is can they stem the bleeding, and do they want to? I'm certainly not going off to support Reform, but I do keep putting off delivering my leaflets because I'm embarrassed to be holding them in public :-(

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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In case anyone is in doubt what a massive act of political self-harm this was: bsky.app/profile/ukpo...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seems that the person who drafted the Green party motion came via Your Party and joined - by her own admission - to press this simply because the Greens had a bigger platform. Classic bit of entryism which now threatens the future of the movement.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let me try this once more. It was a choice. EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan. OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc. It was never going to be both. Which one makes a material difference? #GazaGenocide

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