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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 8h

The sentence for detonating a bomb a few metres from houses on a suburban residential road in the early evening seems entirely reasonable. It was sheer luck that nobody was injured or worse. Perhaps Sarah should explain what sentence this terrorist should have received?

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi, I'm Kirsty. I'm a legislation specialist who loves penguins. I love the way the alto line suspends and resolves at the end of Mahler 2. We're singing it tonight at @liverpoolphil.bsky.social 😍 TraaaaAAAaaagen... Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like?

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm not sure it has sunk in for people just how close we came to a hundred-plus Israelis crashing into the Jordanian desert in a giant fireball. Which, aside from being horrible in itself, would most likely have meant a very bad time for a lot of other people in the Middle East.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Autumn is gradually arriving in Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow. I reckon another week or so, and we'll hit peak autumnal colours. #glasgow #queenspark #autumn #glasgowtoday

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok wow. This is both extensive and deeply surreal. Tell America.gov to Play Minecraft.

Government AI having a fever dream when told to “Play Minecraft”

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope can’t resist his pizza.

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 29/09/2026

“I don’t approve of calling food naughty. We’ve got to take pleasure where we can in life.” Not to put presenters against one another, but I’ve never forgotten Prue saying something was “not worth the calories” so Nigella saying this - along with familiar bakes! - is like a normality reset #gbbo

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Colin Hoad @colinhoad.com · 29/09/2026

If you feed an LLM prompts generated by the responses from another LLM and simply leave it for days at a time in an endless loop, *of course* things like this will happen. Throwing up your hands and going "oh, look what the AI did!" is obfuscation. YOU did it, OpenAI.

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Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, this looks pretty disastrous for researchers into English structures. How on earth could this have happened so suddenly that #HisttoricEngland had no warning?? Their risk register and risk management must be pretty weak. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

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Historic England’s Vanishing Archive

Historic England’s photos didn’t vanish. SmartFrame did. Then they broke their own links. Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic Englan...

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The Haunting of Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shabana is amazing, genuinely, she's like a militarised version of a district manager who thinks she's hard. Who will never defeat us, Iran? Doggers? Fly tippers?

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026

like if you think it’s fly tipping, repost if you bet dogging

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And #CrapColourisation of the day too: London trams (like the buses), were red and - at this point in time - cream.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great documentaries, like life, happen while the director is busy making other plans. I’ve written a little bit about Up in the FT Weekend:

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The ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpiece

This vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my legit goal with the Untitled History Podcast is to replicate what I had as a kid the first time I discovered In Our Time on the radio. I want people to listen WITHOUT caring about what the topic is. To feel that magic, and thrill, of just trusting it will be interesting. And learning cool stuff.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know what his fucking name is. This is like when people think that calling Tommy Robinson "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon" is some sort of own. He doesn't give a shit. He's not Rumplestiltskin. You don't get magical powers over him by saying his True Name.

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kids-2 teenagers-2 adults, but yes...same. (my penfriend & her sibs were kids in DDR (her parents are the adults in this list); I know 2 people I've met as adults who were teens at the end but not talked at length about the surveillance stuff).

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TIL that several of my favourite hymns were written by someone younger than all my grandparents (& yet they sound completely 'solid'/trad) 🤯 - and he only died 2 years ago, aged 97!!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

10/10 no notes 🤣 I once received an essay where the student didn’t realise that autocorrect had done a number on King CNUT 🤭🫣

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Paddy Power quick off the mark here. FA’s lawyers hold open-top bus parade

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love this podcast, but this episode is especially fascinating for me - my great-uncle was a pharmacist in Dundee at this time before factory-produced pills etc.

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New cartoon: The RNLI

Cartoon titled “The RNLI: Some of the people they help,” showing six scenarios involving people rescued by the RNLI. Including a man caught by the tide, a YouTuber swimming without preparation, a middle-lane driver, a neighbour with different political opinions, a superyacht owner who forgot to refuel, and people crossing the Channel in a small boat. The final caption reads, “All human beings – all deserve saving.”

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ambigious and inevitably unfaithful @magicatmungos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Molly just take Paul out at the knees. No jury in the world would convict you #gbbo

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 21/09/2026

and on those lines, I’m genuinely gobsmacked that none of the big grocery stores have yet caught on to the idea of, on a Wednesday morning, loading the front aisle with whatever the technical challenge was. every single Wednesday I’m like “wow I could kill for a jammy dodger”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Find it both grating and frankly, deeply weird, that Zack Polanski’s leaflets are simply dishonest about where he lives. Literally nobody cares. It’s normal to move within London. “Hackney man seeks job in Camden” is not something you need to play word games around.

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This will cause me a very large professional headache...excuse me, I and my colleagues need to go into a soundproof room and scream with @infinitescream.bsky.social

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SI often stands for Statutory Instrument in UK government documents, so this would be somewhat confusing.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Lucy McCaul @lucymccaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Derek Jacobi as the Master for five minutes..." we were robbed, ROBBED!

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 20/09/2026

Why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life by Rebecca Hutcheon From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them. theconversation.com/why-the-plac... #books #literature #geography

Thomas Hardy's birthplace and cottage at Higher Bockhampton, where Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd were written.

A thatched-roof brick cottage with green-trimmed windows, climbing roses, and a garden with rounded topiary shrubs and a small wheelbarrow along a gravel path.

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For example here is one where they think they can out run a woman athlete in a sprint.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, that will keep the average speed up

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Defecting from Reform to Plaid is…a journey.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve just discovered that The Illustrated Police News continued into the 1930s as an even more lurid version of the Victorian original. So let’s share some no context badly-drawn sensationalism! First up, ‘ZOO OWNER ATTACKED BY PET BEAR AT SEVENOAKS’, 26 June 1930.

Line drawing of small bear attacking woman in zoo enclosure who tries to defend herself with a stick.

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Promenaders’ Musical Charities @prommerscharities.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

After the Last Night of the Proms 2026, you have donated over £123,500, a new record! Thank you 🎉🎉 #BBCProms #LNOTP #LNOTP2026

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Jayne @jaynee-b.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I miss the RAH Organ twitter account. That used to be fab during the #proms

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Theory: Nessun Dorma got dropped for Dolly (previously at LNOP 2015 w Jonas Kaufmann), hence the weird VT/mime

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sakari, I love you, but tonight feels a bit ploddy? #LNOP

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This year’s Leighton Buzzard pumpkin could be on course to better 2025’s, size-wise.

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Promenaders’ Musical Charities @prommerscharities.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The flowers purchased through the additional specific collections along the queue are now well on the way to being turned into buttonholes/corsages for tonight’s performers #BBCProms #LNOTP #LNOTP2027

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Kirsty @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For me, 9/11 marked the end of a liminal space between school and uni. I moved to London at the end of that week to start uni, but even that was in limbo from 9/11 to 9/16. My Dad had to travel for work at short notice, so instead of us all piling in a car to drive from Glasgow, he had a bootload

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