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Terry Pratchett lover who never managed to turn in to a sensible grown up, until I reached a point in life where I don't have to! Also devoted Preston North End fan and determined to see us play a game in the top flight! 🤣👍🍺

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Burns.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Sloodwrangler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @sloodwrangler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No discourtesy intended but have you noticed that the whole #bluesky38 stuff is based on a rather Septic way of looking at things? Not everyone is here to try and shout as loudly as possible.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Sloodwrangler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @sloodwrangler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Started the long process of escaping from the Google ecosystem. When your motto is do no evil, kissing fascist @rse is really not a good look.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 31/08/2026
Full post from Sherborne Pride Facebook page
PLEASE SHARE THIS FAR AND WIDE
It’s easy to show up for Pride when there are flags flying, music playing, performances to share and glitter on our faces.
BUT, we are heartbroken today and this is when showing up really matters.
Last night, a member of our Pride community was surrounded by a group and violently attacked close to her home in the Cale Park area of Wincanton. She has been left with a split lip, a black eye and bruised ribs. Her family have told us this is being treated as a hate crime.
We won’t name her. But we want you to know something about her. She came to her first Sherborne Pride alone, without telling her mum.
One of our team spoke to her that day. Afterwards, when we were all emotional and swapping the moments and people we’d remember, she was one of them. The brilliant human in the knight’s helmet with the rainbow Christmas tree, right at the front of our parade, beside us. Someone we remembered for being brave enough to come alone. 
This year’s Pride her mum knew about Sherborne Pride and proudly came along with her, I personally met her on the day and shared a beautiful conversation. 
Last night, her mum reached out to us for help.
That has broken our hearts. Because this is why Pride exists.
Not just for the sequins and the party. For the night somebody is attacked. For the morning after. For the frightened parent who doesn’t know how to make people listen. For making damn sure that hate is not allowed to happen quietly.
So today we need our community — and everyone who has ever stood beside it — to be loud.
Share what happened. Share this post. Help it travel beyond our own little corner of the internet. Help make sure it is seen, recorded and heard by the people with the responsibility and power to act. The police MUST act. 
If you witnessed the attack or have information that could help identify those responsible, please contact the police. Please do not speculate publicly, name individuals or take matters into your own hands.
To the very…Photograph of pride parade
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I much prefer doing my research amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost, so no, I'm afraid I have no interest in "asking ChatGPT."
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Sloodwrangler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @sloodwrangler.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A lovely English understatement. Listening to the cricket ODI with India on the radio. England are 80 for 5 and getting hammered. The commentator just summed up the position from England's perspective "it's not ideal!" 🤣🏏
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #BribeForceOne
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Dunning-Kruger Industries @bbroke7.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Two things are true. The World Cup is the greatest sporting event. The fans, players, locals, and camaraderie make it so. FIFA is the most corrupt sporting organization on the planet and they have only gotten worse despite everyone knowing. Demand better from the people that control it T
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
FIFA asked Gillette to hide its logo at the Gillette Stadium because it wasn't an official World Cup sponsor. The brand did so by concealing its logo to simulate shaving cream. 🪒
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Well said… #BookSky
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"for now we must treat this claim as unsubstantiated unless and until some further information emerges". @ciaranm.bsky.social, former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on Farage's claims of Russian hacking. www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...
Screen-shot of LinkedIn post by Ciaran Martin: "Senior figures in public life should not make unsubstantiated claims about foreign (especially Russian) state hacking against them just when something inconvenient comes out, as in this Mail On Sunday splash yesterday where Mr Farage claims the source of knowledge about his £5m gift from a crypto tycoon was hacking from Moscow. 

If someone in a senior and high profile position feels they’ve been hacked and gets “counter espionage experts” to do “forensic analysis” on the phone, it would then follow that the company which does the analysis is named and that at least some technical evidence to validate the claim should be published. 

More normally still, for someone of this prominence, the incident could have been reported to the National Cyber Security Centre. Since the run up to the 2017 General Election and a decision made by Theresa May to help protect the integrity of politics against foreign interference, the NCSC has been made available to help political parties on a confidential basis and several politicians from opposition parties have done so. ReformUK have failed to say whether this has happened. 

So for now we must treat this claim as unsubstantiated unless and until some further information emerges."
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” ― Frank Herbert
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🗽💜 @chips1955.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
💜🤍💙
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Medieval English laws categorized eels by size. The most common types were: Pimper (small) Shaft (medium) Stub (big) There were also "red eels" which were likely diseased. Customs officers threw them out. Which is weird, 'cause we'd think that the shaft eels were bad mother... 🗃️🧪
Meme. Part of Wencelaus Hollar's 1647 city view map of London, showing the Thames and the bank at Queenhythe. In the middle of the image are two ships, at anchor in the Thames, labeled "the Eel Ships." The main color of the map is beige, and the artwork is done is black line drawing.

The spaces between the houses in the city are dark, and full of unknowns. The murky offspring of your sinister imagination are hiding in those shadows. Pickpockets? Muggers? Tiger-bat hybrids? Slick-talking confidence men selling fake eels? Probably. The Todal?* OH YES.

It is far better to stick to the bright and open Thames, where you can be sure of real eels, from real Dutch eel salesmen.

Meme text reads:
"I'm just talkin' about Shaft
(eels)"

* Per Thurber: "The Todal looks like a blob of glup. It makes a sound like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms. It's made of lip. It feels as if it had been dead at least a dozen days, but it moves about like monkeys and like shadows." It is also sent by the devil to punish evildoers for doing less evil than they could.

Honestly, it's not a thing you'd want to meet in even the most well-lit grocery store aisle, let alone in a dark London alleyway.
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 13/04/2026
If you think the Pope is a radical leftist, wait till you meet his boss.
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Choose your leaders

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward

is to be controlled

by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool


is to be led

by the opportunists

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief

is to offer up

your most precious treasures

to be stolen.
To be led by a liar


is to ask

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant

is to sell yourself

and those you love

into slavery.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Follow this thread. Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today. Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane. 1/2
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A girl adopted the most aggressive cat before it was put to sleep. In a month she managed to change him completely. Original post
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rabagast @rabagast.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
it never fails, hours after i've opened and closed a PDF on my phone, i get an MS office notification asking if i'd like to open the PDF with copilot. no i wouldn't like that, because: 1. i was already done with that PDF hours ago. 2. why on earth would i want to use copilot for anything at all.
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Sloodwrangler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @sloodwrangler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A useful start. Next link land taxes direct to the land itself and give those taxes super-priority as a first charge on dealing.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
; life; an unwanted burden wrapped in a velvet ribbon and tied with a bow. a gift - one that you never asked for, yet cannot refuse; a gift for which gratitude is the expectation; whether you appreciate it or not. --- [*𝓃𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑒𝒾𝓅𝓉𝓈; 𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝓈; 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓃𝒹𝓈] #7syllablesentence #bow
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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
For those who identify as "woke" & those who don't.... Problem solved! 😉
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett
A day at the wetlands near sunset. A large tree is on the right among grasses. Water runs between the tree and mountains.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt. Take the damn money and leave me alone.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🎯🎯
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
2026 basically
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
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Sloodwrangler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @sloodwrangler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
May I just thoroughly confirm what everyone else is saying; #smallprophets is brilliant! Wallace & Gromit level television magic!
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit
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Chrisco @00chrisco00.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"In 2013, Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey earned the Victoria Cross for heroic actions in Helmand, Afghanistan. During a Taliban ambush, he repeatedly braved heavy machine-gun fire to provide first aid to a wounded US Marine and single-handedly relocated two machine guns across 200m of exposed terrain"
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Gianni Infantino breathes a sigh of relief as the reputation of the FIFA Peace Prize remains intact.
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Sloodwrangler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @sloodwrangler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The UK has apparently sent one soldier as part of the European NATO continent reinforcing Greenland. Not too worried though, if we really were expecting serious trouble, we would have sent a Gurkha!
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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
How comes it’s OK for Father Christmas to sneak into people’s bedrooms at night to leave gifts but I’m ’taking Secret Santa too far’?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.A plate of the same cookies.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 09/11/2025
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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Sloodwrangler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @sloodwrangler.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Usually when @nytimes.com Connections uses a definition of a word that is new to me, it turns out to be a piece of Americana. But today even Merriam Webster doesn't agree with the definition!
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
H2O is water and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide. What is H2O4? Drinking. Yeah. I’ll see myself out.🤪
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