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Committed dilettante Surplus enjoyment "Does taking half mean half the intensity for all of the time or all of the intensity for half of the time?"

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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cheery stuff from John Gray in the New Statesman
Excerpt from New Statesman article
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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think we've solved the definition of "English". You're English if you can do a terrorist action and it doesn't count.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/10/2026
“The Greens are more extreme than mainstream Palestinian opinion - they’re saying violence is now legitimate.” The Green Party's ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion calls for “the eradication of the Israeli state”, says Jonathan Freedland. “And they’re happy to see that achieved by violence”.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The garden bridge we didn't build next to it cost £43m. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Waterloo Bridge could close 'within four years' with major repairs needed
An inspection of the bridge has found water damage and 2 millimetre cracks, with Westminster City Council asking for £6 million to fund the repairs
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tremendous thread
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington Community Choir are supporting Ed Sheeran on tour x
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That’s selection for ya 😉
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very much enjoying the Swindon Advertiser's live blog this evening, with its plucky, on-the-ground reports from the street where a local man has been charged with assisting Russian intelligence.
7:38 pm 09/09/26
What have his neighbours said?
Our reporter is at the scene of one his addresses in Liden where residents have reacted with shock.
One person told the Adver: "It's surprising."
Another said: "Don't know nothing about that, dunno what to say really."
A third added: "It's unexpected, usually you get police around here for drugs, which is why I keep myself to myself'8:16 pm 09/09/26
One neighbour, a couple doors down from where police were seen, slammed his front door in our reporter's face and repeatedly shouted through an open window to "go report something somewhere else"
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anchor & Hope. Hare ragu. Piedmont. Autumn is here.
Hare ragu
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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Grateful to my pal @thedigester.bsky.social for bringing me this gift from China. It’s a book of Bob Dylan’s lyrics translated into Mandarin and served in a crisp-bag. At least, that’s what we think is in there - I haven’t opened it!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Told the story before, but a relative used to work with Dorries. Said relative migrated to the US and years later came back to discover that Nadine was an MP & minister. She was absolutely flabbergasted. "She used to come looking for me to go to lunch with," She said, "and I'd hide in a cupboard"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think the Telegraph misspelled “the highly respected leader of Camden Council” in the headline.
Somali refugee tipped to face Polanski in Starmer by-election
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Glad to see that Matt Britten is listening: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
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BBC chief proposes ‘public service algorithm’ with YouTube-style user-generated content
Speaking at Edinburgh TV festival, Matt Brittin says BBC platform would be free from interests of US tech giants
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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Your statutory reminder that we don't have to build floating bus stops, but if we don't, there's no point building cycle routes. Leith St before and after
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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Philip Glass: half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Looking forward to empty nest syndrome, or "full fridge syndrome" as I'm rebadging it.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trying be the cool dad for my son in front of his friends I mistakenly called Linkin Park 'LinkedIn'.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Acrobat has offered to turn a PDF of an airport parking ticket into a podcast. Can’t imagine it would be a great listen.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 29/07/2026
If I had to describe the heart and soul of Bluesky it would the following: a guy who didn’t actually read Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s Odyssey movie defending it against a guy who didn’t actually watch Nolan’s Odyssey movie
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Welcome to the 5 stages of grief, only where you skip straight from 'denial' to 'acceptance'
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Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The assisted dying bill is like a planning application- lot of opponents are just looking for a wide range of reasons to oppose something they do not want or support on a moral level.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is the equivalent of asking how a £1.5m turnover company is going to pay for £100 of drinks at the Xmas party.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
perfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Great band name
Pack of prune fruit leather (whatever that is).
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Jez Gordon @jezgordon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Saw this thought yep
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Chinese domestic tourism encapsulated (Hunyuan Hanging Temple ticket queue)
A queue for tickets in China
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 12/07/2026
How many AI models does it take to change a lightbulb? That's a great question, which shows that you care about illumination! You don't just want to see - you want to be seen. Unfortunately no such thing as a lightbulb has ever existed or will ever exist.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Cutting off consistently profitable and celebrated lines of British expertise seems like a great use of government. Lovely stuff.
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Zoe Adorned @adornyourself.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is turning into #AlanPartridge does Peter Finch's 'Network' speech.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Two MPs have been murderered in the last 10 years but Nigel Farage claims AGAIN to be the most attacked politician in modern times
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ooh, something's happened in the football or its Saint George's day or what not! let's write to our member of parliament and ask if the king will give us permission to go to the pub! how can you claim to be a serious country if this sort of thing happens
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Optimistic sign on ferry leaving Orkney for mainland.
Sign saying "Sun Deck this way".
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Nice one @libdems.org.uk 👍
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
After six consecutive Oxford-educated Prime Ministers, Britain may finally see some real diversity in the top job: a Cambridge-educated Andy Burnham
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
No-one wants to say it, but the only way Europe can defend itself without US support and without spending a politically-impossible amount of money is to have a European army.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
BREAKING: Greenland and 86 other countries have announced they are two weeks away from a nuclear weapon. Willing to negotiate settlements with Trump.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 18/06/2026
Reassuring. Surely nobody ever signed a bad peace deal with bad consequences in Versailles.
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Most working class: first gen university; grandparents on both sides left school at 14. Most middle class: Mum owned (and read) Sartre.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.
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The Digester @thedigester.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
youtu.be/8wNbU2hNBZ8?...
youtu.be
Go To Bed Spotty
YouTube video by lee harvey
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I find this pretty unforgivable at this point.
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