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@studiousbadger.eurosky.social
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Stargazing vet from the Dark Satanic North. Once hit the stumps from the boundary aged 11, all down hill since then. Was in practice, now harping on about #OneHealth, transboundary infectious disease and whatnot 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺

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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Russ Abbot as Cooperman, pictured hanging from a clock face on the cover of a 1985 edition of TV Times.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
A century earlier, on 18th Jan 1881 the 'Visiter' ran ashore off Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire. No local boat could be launched due to the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought OVERLAND 6 miles to the bay itself. Through 7ft snowdrifts 200 men cleared the way by hand.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
The Captain has turned on the signs So stow away bags of all kinds Then make sure your tray is folded away And the seat-back no longer reclines Blue skies, Carolyn ✈️
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
So beautifully well articulated.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As head of PR at Weyland-Yutani, I’m afraid to say that this statement needs to be repeated.
WEYLAND-YUTANI CORP
THEY ONLY EVER MAKE FILMS ABOUT THE STUFF FOR WHICH WE WERE LARGELY ABSOLVED OF BLAME.
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"I've got Barrowman on the phone sir"
00.00 FILM: DEBBIE DOES DAVROS
Late-night Doctor Who spin-off.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
Absolutely this. Academic freedom cannot be a cover for discredited/pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority. Science is not a tool to be used to insinuate an answer while giving the speaker somewhere to retreat to when challenged.
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John Ix @frogalapeche.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very poor
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 05/08/2026
I’m in York! Today’s main character, from the stonemasons’ yard at York Minster, who I can only understand as a Dragon-Staffie crossbreed:
A good but goofy boy who will be living high on a cathedral roof very soon. He has wings and claws but undeniably Staffie chops and is sitting on a corner of carved masonry.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026
Even here on Bluesky, a lie (or worse a half-truth) can make it around the world before Sam Vimes has got his boots on.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
Finally! Now my AI agent can walk my dog, and connect with my children, and comfort my wife as she cries herself to sleep at night.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
Mind blown (Escherich/E. Coli). Love these little treasure troves from history.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Lots of interesting points in this thread and the replies. It's a genuinely remarkable change that you can have a Catholic prime minister, a Jewish foreign secretary, a gay defence secretary & a British-Asian home secretary, and those are among the least controversial facts about those appointments
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill, the Bond we never knew we had.
youtu.be
Sam Neill as James Bond - Screentest (1986)
YouTube video by Tyrozaphy
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026
Of course it’s a labrador. That is the face of a stoned dog. #vetmed
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
FTFY
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Bill Murray's Iconic Groundhog Day Report
Alt: Bill Murray as a TV weatherman in Groundhog Day, addressing the camera: “Well, it’s Groundhog Day… again…”
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026
I don’t mind it, but there’s no doubt it looks like a matte painting of an alien cityscape in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
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nearlytoolate @nearlytoolate.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I think the tech bros are only too happy to see the pushback against SM being funnelled into this wholly ineffective intervention. Instead of tackling the root cause of the problem - attention stealing, algo driven polarisation and uncontrolled misinformation/anti rationalism
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
“These teenagers we’re just in the process of extending the franchise to. Is there any way we can piss them all off simultaneously, so none of them want to vote for us?”
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026
Paging Lynne Truss… “Utah is suffering from such dry conditions that a group of kids with a lighter and a squirrel managed to start separate brush fires within hours, according to local media reports.”
independent.co.uk
Utah is so dry that a squirrel and kids with a lighter started separate brush fires
The two fires were sparked within hours on Tuesday
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sylumheights.bsky.social @sylumheights.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Straight back at you with: The “No chandeliers” does it for me
Window cleaning company called ‘Only Poles and Hoses’
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If we have to ban under-16s from social media so they don't have to see all the awful shit over-16s are doing, I'm thinking maybe under-16s aren't the problem.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026
Even Monaco has potholes now.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026
To pick out just one of the fundamental misunderstandings there, fossil fuels are incredibly inefficient. We throw away 2/3rds, almost 400 exajoules, of our energy budget, mostly just extracting, moving & using fossil fuel, >$4.5 trillion, almost 5% of global GDP. Before anything productive is done!
rmi.org
The Incredible Inefficiency of the Fossil Energy System - RMI
Over $4.6 trillion per year, almost 5% of global GDP and 40% of what we spend on energy, is wasted due to fossil inefficiency.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It turns out that the tactic of "dithering for as long as you possibly can and finally being forced taking a decision that makes you look weak, pisses off one side immensely and buys you no credit with the other" is not in fact the secret code to being a successful Prime Minister
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
Exclusive behind the scenes on the first Amazon-era Bond film.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026
Is there anything to be said for getting Ken Clarke in?
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Father Ted: Another Mass - Best Idea?
Alt: Scene from Father Ted. A group of priests are brainstorming what to do in a high pressure situation. Caption: “…another mass, that’s our best idea?!”
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The dawning of a beautiful day here in Avalon. Photo taken today on Glastonbury Tor. The sun is rising almost centrally now through the archway of St Michael's tower. I was lucky enough to have the place to myself this morning too.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 09/05/2026
A beautiful and heart-breaking thread.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026
Next up, what’s the great British public’s view on Streptomyces sp. vs Actinomyces sp.?
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.
PARKHAM WI: The speaker at the April meeting was Captain Colin Darch, who talked about piracy embarrassingly the WI all dressed as pirates for the evening not real-ising that Captain Darch was going to be talking about his experience of being held hostage by Somall pirates rather than piracy in general.Captain Darcy with a group of WI ladies who are dressed as pirates. He’s quite chipper despite everything.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026
In Seine.
independent.co.uk
Bus sinks into the River Seine near Paris after nightmare lesson for trainee driver
The bus could still be seen floating in the water, close to the riverbank
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Parody FIA @parodyfia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
BREAKING: The Miami GP is at threat of cancellation after doubts surface over the ability of US officials to keep a straight open for safe travel for a sustained period.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026
A century before the Wright bros, Sir George Cayley described the relationship between thrust, weight, lift & drag, invented a cambered wing with control surfaces, the tail fin, wired wheels. He built & flew a glider decades before engineering capability caught up with his vision for powered flight.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
Alt: Matthew Holness interviewed in-character as the horror-parody author Garth Marenghi. Quote: “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards”
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026
A century before the Wright bros, Sir George Cayley described the relationship between thrust, weight, lift & drag, invented a cambered wing with control surfaces, the tail fin, wired wheels. He built & flew a glider decades before engineering capability caught up with his vision for powered flight.
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 20/04/2026
My youngest daughter felt a bit victimised by her big sister at the weekend so quietly slipped upstairs and rearranged her bookshelves for her. Revenge will no doubt be swift. Pleased to be passing on these pass-ag genes to the next generation.
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 02/04/2026
Our European Service Module solar arrays in orbit🌞 With these solar wings extended, Europe is now powering Artemis II ⚡
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026
Anyway, a Canadian crewmember, the European Service Module, a big American rocket. For all the chequered history of the programme, what a bit of international cooperation. #artemis II
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Matt Fitz @matt-fitzpatrick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
#VisitBritain The Bernie Clifton Suspension Bridge
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026
Niiiiiice 👌
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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
All I can see is:
A man leaning on a desk with a photo behind him in the exact same position.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...
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Harrow and Wealdstone Train Crash Newsreel
Newsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more.
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