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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I really love that someone was just very quick-witted in an unpleasant moment almost 30 years ago and it's now a classic viral tweet that thousands of people have seen enough times to remember it fondly.

In 1997, outside a McDonald's on Queen Street, an older woman told two young Korean men to "speak English," and one of them fired back with a sarcastic impression: "Ooooo I want a nice cup of tea look at me I'm English I want to eat [dry/plain] toast."

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 14/10/2026

Simply Red Hot Chilli Peppers

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Psychedelic Alien Sex Fiend Teleman or Astro-Man Marianne Faithful No More

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I recently spoke on a fringe panel at TUC Congress about what comes next in the fight for trans rights. I was pleased that the congress passed a motion to oppose the EHRC Code of Practice, demonstrating that trade unionists understand that trans rights are a workers’ rights issue too.

A photograph showing Nadia Whittome MP speaking on a panel with four other activists in a packed out TUC Congress fringe event room.

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My 7" single of Brilliant Mind is pressed off centre, so if you try to play it from the start, the needle will fall off the record. I remain hopeful that this makes it a rare collectable.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder if Americans in general understand the damage being done. There is a ground war in Europe. Russia has invaded its neighbour, without any justification. And the United States is now siding with Russia. What do you think we Europeans think of that?

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tunes for the day: put the phone on shuffle and skip anything slow. Had more than enough of that shit for one day.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Fast & Furious: Tokyo Grift" 😂😂

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bella's dead! Undead, undead.

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In support of World Mental Health Day, Cambridge United's Syd Barrett-inspired special edition kit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mOn...

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Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett-inspired Fourth Shirt revealed! 🎸

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Marquis d’Russell @ashmarquisdrussell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As @ericidle.bsky.social so eloquently put it…” this is not a wine for drinking , it is a wine for laying down and avoiding “

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like picking a favourite child, but @kristinhersh.bsky.social 's cover of Penny Royal Tea is definitely not the wrong answer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeO...

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Pennyroyal Tea

YouTube video by Kristin Hersh - Topic

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just by deploying a gang of diesel thieves.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How badly do I want that Win 10 device to keep getting updates? Have you seen the price of new laptops?

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 05/10/2026

Need a senior engineer in #Aotearoa New Zealand - but not enough to justify sending someone over? I’m available for short engineering assignments. I’m good at practical eng., unusual environs, prototypes, mfg & troubleshooting. Need a trusted pair of technical eyes & ears? Contact me!

Woman in a gold jacket and a drill in her hand.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

If you told me in 1991 that, in 2026, Jesus Jones would be releasing their first new material in a long while on an album I produced, and that their song is a retrospective look at the early 90s, loosely based on a book I wrote, which is a biography of Beck, I woulda said, "Can I go now? I'm 5..."

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remarkable how they remained so calm with the US bombs cruising overhead.

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From the right-wing playbook. Take a word you don't like for unpalatable reasons, redefine it in a way that makes it seem more reasonable to not like it and then you're not a racist after all. Electoral suicide and deservedly so.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sure that's a coincidence.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! If you’re a writer, sign up — you may be due royalties on your work 👇

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How is it that MS grammar checker is consistently arse-about-face about where to use/not use a comma? Or is this a divided by a common language thing?

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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ashley is one of the smartest and most engaging writers I've read in years. People should be giving her all the work.

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really important graph for any debate about triple lock commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This includes BIRTH CONTROL, by the way. As well as a shitload of mood stabilizers. Do NOT eat "spooky" black foods and snacks. Just don't.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear City fans, Your club has been found guilty of 114 charges. Not if. Not maybe. Not possibly. Guilty on 114 of 115 charges. Period. Full Stop. You didn't break the law yourself and as a fellow football fan, I can see how and why you defended your club. It's natural. But that time is over.

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love the guitar on this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MHva.... What's an alternative favourite riff? Or even, favourite alternative riff?

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Swervedriver - Son Of Mustang Ford

YouTube video by content generator

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My book Fearless Speech celebrates those who risk harm to themselves to challenge power, fight injustice, & advocate for the truth, who practice what the ancient Greeks called parrhesia. I am gathering examples of fearless speech in this dark time- if you have some to share, please do so in replies!

Photo of excerpt from Mary Anne Franks, Fearless Speech, displaying the following text: "We can shift our resources and veneration
away from the reckless, cowardly speech of the privileged and powerful
toward the speech of the sincere, critical, and brave"

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Patrick A @sparkypatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If music be the food of love, Play the fuck on!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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