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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know what to do, gang… Share this far and wide!

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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So thankful to the University of Cambridge for enabling a new chapter in the long history of the APU/CBU (since MRC decided to close all its units…)

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 25/09/2026

Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute focused on understanding and improving brain health across our lifespan, from early childhood through to old age. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4hpgZsl @mrccbu.bsky.social

A large brick building with two stories and a conservatory is surrounded by greenery. Text reads, "Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain institute."

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's only been 90 years since the Battle of Cable Street. I hope these "Black Shorts" meet the same reception.

A yellow and blue RNLI lifeboat speeds across the waves carrying several bedraggled figures to safety, whilst from the distance a series of all-black clad figures standing on a sea wall shout through a megaphone "Traitors! Whose side are you on?" To which the pilot of the lifeboat replies "Life's".

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You'll recieve the order of Lenin for this Tim. RIP Tim Curry.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Trump is Anu, Natalie Harp is Inanna. Anyone who knows what that means knows that it's bad. #mutineersmoon

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've seen a few articles lately about installing solar panels over crops. I'm not saying it's a bad idea but don't plants grow worse in shade?

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My five favourite James Bond movies (in no particular order): 1. From Russia with love. 2. Goldfinger. 3. You only live twice. 4. The spy who loved me 5. Thunderball

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 10/08/2025

if “tens of millions” of british people wanted a “full blown revolution” they would be protesting outside parliament. as it happens, dozens of british people are chucking bricks at asylum seekers, so i’ve come to a different conclusion about what it is these people want

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Loot drop upon defeating me: - Screwdriver (Common) - Battered timepiece - Keyring - Screwdriver (Uncommon) - Access card (Rare) - Knife - Screwdriver (Exotic) - 1D4 soft drinks

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm not a football fan, but I love the idea of England and Norway, neither famed for their strong relationship with the sun, playing in Miami. Two teams enter, two teams leave. Very pink. This is Sun-derdome. Don't worry about all the people in leather and chains, those are just native Floridians.

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@waynieoaks.bsky.social Hey, remember this? Guess what we found during a health and safety inspection with a *Very* expired bottle of Oxygen still in it.

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Tinturas Cor&Doll @orathiago.com · 28/06/2026

tá um dia bonito de sol vamos passear?

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This is beautiful. This is why we still need poets and not just AI slop.

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sasha and the banshees @trashphalt.beauty · 21/04/2026

existennialmemes
9s ago
Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.
If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not "inalienable" and they're not "rights."
We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.
And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.

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Van Wendigo @vanweezer.myatproto.social · 01/04/2026

I want to do a poll with a scientifically significant sample size so please share this and record your response in the comments below: are you mad at me?

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Now the weather's picking up I can take my Sony F717 out and see if it can still take good pictures. 5Mp and a *Terrible* viewfinder. @postoctobrist.bsky.social

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So I just found out that there's a book from the 1930s about the rise of a fascist president in the US. The book's called "It can't happen here" and the president's name is Windrip. I don't know about you but to me wind-rip could easily be a slang term for a fart. Similarly to trump.

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

After WW2 there were Nazi hunters who went looking for those who had fled to places like Argentina. After the end of Trump's reign do you think there will be ICE hunters who track down the thugs wherever they're hiding? Either officially or unofficially.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

youtu.be

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

@garybrannan.bsky.social I was on the Underground today and saw this advert. The "Honk... Smack!" Sound we all know so well appeared unbidden in my mind.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Text above photo of U S flag says: Dear the rest of the world. Use whatever pressure you can. Boycott us. Ban us from the Olympics. Move the World Cup this year. Or anything else you think will stop this. Help.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A while back, someone posted about whether Pinky and the Brain were still in business, because they were interested in hearing Brain's proposal for world domination. Someone replied and said that at this point they were willing to hear Pinky's. I think about that a lot. (Also, Laundry Files FTW)

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I propose a new term for current AI. "Intelligoid". In the same way a cuboid looks kinda like a cube but isn't and a factoid looks like a fact but isn't - an Intelligoid looks like intelligence but isn't.

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

There's an image from history of the little old lady with a spinning wheel sat by the fire making clothes for her family. I just want you to know that, having spent two evenings de-tangling spools of PLA for my partner's 3D printer, the old girl had it easy!

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy New Year everyone. Here's hoping we have a better 2026 than we had 2025. And if not, then we need to get busy and build it.

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Today was a good bird day in Cambridge. Returning from some last-minute Christmas shopping I encountered swans and no less than three herons.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/12/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather "IT IS ... UNFAIR. ‘That’s life, master.’ BUT I’M NOT. ‘I meant this is how it’s supposed to go, master,’ said Albert. NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES."

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In excellent news, last night @f1nn5ter.com announced their involvement with @annehealthcare.bsky.social and helped them to reach their Christmas donation goal in less than an hour. It's great to have wonderful people working tirelessly to aid the trans community.

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New awareness campaign

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

It's the 89th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. The people of London standing up against the British Union of Fascists and the police in defence of refugees. A good example to remember and emulate in these troubled times.

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Instead of an account blackout to protest BlueSky’s anti-sex T’s and Cs update, how about you share content from adult creators whose work you love? We’re drowning. It’s not just me, I don’t know anyone who produces adult content who is doing well right now.

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

@mattgrayy.es Excuse me Matt. My partner is wondering where you got the yellow star Ita bag from the latest Tech Diff video?

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Interesting how many modern developments align with ideas that have been around for centuries. For example, nowadays people say "Because of the Algorithm" where they used to say "it must be God's will". Or they say "I love AI!" Where in the past it would have been "Ia! Ia! ChatGPT F'tagn!"

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Some say the world will end in fire. Some say in ice. Now from what I know of desire, I hold with those who favour fire. But if it were to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate, To say that for destruction ice, Is also great and would suffice.

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@linusmediagroup.com If Linus redoes his little in-home environment sensors then these might be a good power solution!

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

BREAKING: The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes. The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”

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Mark (Possibly mad, painfully British) Townsend @surprisesparks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My new favourite expression? "I can't mistakey if not awakey."

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