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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 12h
At last! A Brexit Benefit …. Oh. Wait ….
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Morning (New Yorker cartoon, by Rose Anne Prevec)
A man sits at a restaurant table holding two chips. A woman sitting opposite, with the chips directly in front of her, while he has an empty plate, says “I can't believe how much more relaxed I feel since you told me to calm down.”
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The wonderful, brilliant talented Graham Chapman died on 4th Oct 1989, aged just 48. Just one of his many quotes -"Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply." #GrahamChapman #MontyPython
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This deserves an honourary knighthood
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most of a snail is storage.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy cheese day to all who celebrate. And a good moment to remember that our political system is so broken that this woman, who is visibly inane, became prime minister.
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Henri @henriwords.com · 20/09/2026
Tangentially related, I occasionally challenge myself to find the letters A-Z (hard mode: in order) in a single walk…
A grid of 26 square black-and-white photos each depicting a letter of the alphabet in order, formed of things found in public
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Moustaches are a terrible, terrible mistake, and yet each generation must make the same errors as those who came before them.
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Sudden Deth (spooky edition) 💀 @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ophelia by john Everett millais
"Omfg hamlet do I look like I care"
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Please don’t call it man flu. Its correct name is manchester flunited.
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Vera Kober Art @vera-kober-art.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My painting of a chrysanthemum
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Been feeling this a lot today! Have appeared everywhere from France 24 and Times Radio to Radio Scotland and 5 Live (twice!) talking about Reform’s funding scandal Would have struggled to do that from Reform conference if they hadn’t banned me!!
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don’t know enough about her, but I know that headline is inarguable
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Gloria Steinem: 'If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament'
She’s been at the forefront of the feminist movement since the 60s. What’s changed? Gloria Steinem talks about Sheryl Sandberg, Hillary Clinton – and the new threats to women’s rights.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well, to begin with today, it’s the 56th anniversary of the publication of the book which contains the only advice a chap really needs
Extract from Kathryn Paulsen’s 1970 work, The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft. The first line at the top of p.90 is: “You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese”
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet
“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lol Google this is such loser behaviour
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(Still love Clive James’ description of Cartland: “Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.”)
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Incredible automated YouTube subtitles have the director of the FBI in the 1930s as a man named Jed Garoover
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria. Original post
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Friendship by Jean-Bernard Germe
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So glad to have had my eyes opened to the lies peddled by the fake news media. I’m now able to believe absolutely everything and anything I see from any source online.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Question of the Day:
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here's what she said to me: No.
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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 10/08/2026
I still absolutely think that the English rugby team should learn how to morris dance properly and do it in response to the Haka against New Zealand.
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This man gazed into the eclipse and the eclipse gazed back. It drove him mad. Beware.
The world’s greatest idiot looking directly at the sun. Wanker.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
US painter Samantha French, Breathing at the surface, 2010 #WomensArt #Heatwave
Painting featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman under turquoise water blowing bubbles out of her mouth just under the surface.
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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 31/07/2026
I pretend to be a 93 year old woman called Moira with an entire back story
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’ve been searching for you everywhen Hunting slow and fast Looking all over the time Under the smallest minute Beyond the furthest hour But when I turn round you’re not now You’re then
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Apparently, something happened 57 years ago in, like, space or something? I think the best take on it is still probably that of Dinah Hall...
Letter to the Guardian: There's nothing like teenage diaries for putting momentous historical events in perspective (Banalities and bathos, 31 December). This is my entry for 20 July 1969. "I went to arts centre (by myself!) in yellow cords and blouse. Ian was there but he didn't speak to me. Got rhyme put in my handbag from someone who's apparently got a crush on me. It's Nicholas I think. UGH. Man landed on moon."
Dinah Hall
Lustleigh, Devon
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/07/2026
Visualized.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Most of all, Lindsey Graham should be remembered as a passionate defender of rapists.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Today in 1789, the 2nd Earl of Massereene, despite being called Clotworthy Skeffington—and having a father, grandfather and great grandfather each also called Clotworthy Skeffington—proved it wasn’t just his name that was noteworthy by being freed from this Paris prison by a mob 🧵
b/w image, tinted brown, of a dark, imposing building: the Prison de la Force, Paris, in the 18th century
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This looks like a scene from a wacky comedy about four regular guys who through a series of hilarious accidents become the utterly inept leaders of the American government. Actually it’s a documentary.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
On this day in 1981, Richard Cobb got an honorary degree from the University of Essex. That may not seem significant to you, but it makes this afternoon the 45th anniversary of one of the finest graduation addresses ever delivered 🧵
A grey slate plaque with white lettering reads: Historian Richard Cobb got an honorary degree here on a sweltering day in 1981. His speech, in full: “Well, it’s very hot and the pubs are open.”
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
President Trump: Would you go to Moscow? President Zelenskyy: It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
just wanted to read a kids’ menu online and look at all this fucking shit lmao
A menu open in Adobe Acrobat on an iPhone with the screen covered in prompts and buttons to generate AI summaries and sign in and download apps
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You’re all going to be very disappointed when he just announces that he’s going on Strictly.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Speechless.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is what imperialists always do. They claim to love their country. They feed its people into the machine.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s the 400th anniversary of a book being discovered in a Cambridge market, which would be unremarkable except it was found in the belly of a fish (which had been caught off King’s Lynn and gutted that morning), and consisted of three essays by a Protestant martyr (and was republished. Obviously) 🧵
Frontispiece and title page of Vox Piscis, or the Book-Fish, containing three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge Market, on Midsummer Eve last, Anno Domini 1626. Frontispiece is a woodcut of a fish lying on its side with its belly cut open and a small book pictured inside it
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If it’s 18 June, it must be 211 years since Lt-Col. Frederick Cavendish-Ponsonby had about as bad a day as one could have at the Battle of Waterloo without actually dying. He was slashed with sabres, speared with a lance, robbed while lying on the ground, and trampled by horses 🧵
Major General the Honourable Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, in oil on paper by Jan Willem Pieneman, a study for large painting 'Battle of Waterloo', now in the Rijksmuseum. Image shows a man with a Roman nose looking to the left, wearing sideburns and a red military uniform
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John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Reminds me of this
Boat passing a lighthouse with a small. horizontal extension half way up voice from the boat “as far as I know it’s the only one with a bowling alley”
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
When his first wife “found a pair of letters that he had written to two different girlfriends, she took her revenge by switching the envelopes”. More people should have treated him like that
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