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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 14m

There's a lesson here for us all, in how to get organised, and how to do it with style.

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 51m

Trigger warning…

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My last freelance story is out today. It's a difficult one - please take care. Threats of suicide are common in abusive relationships - but what happens when an abuser follows through? Survivors describe the unique pain of "a narrative that doesn't fit anywhere" dispatch-media.com/what-happens...

dispatch-media.com

What happens when your abuser kills himself?

These women's abusive partners died by suicide • They felt both relief and grief • The NHS didn't know what to do with them

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 57m

Just imagine being a red-faced taxi driver not only vexed by having to go south of the river, but having to wait twenty minutes while Danny Dyer floats under Tower Bridge on a giant turd. THAT’S the real story here.

bbc.co.uk

Danny Dyer sails River Thames with poo sculpture in water protest

Along with the Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP, Dyer is calling for water companies to be nationalised.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 58m

Let's not forget his time at Dulwich College. *Hiss*

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Out On A Shout @outonashout.bsky.social · 1h

D-class lifeboat launched from Aldeburgh, Suffolk at 19:58 - rnli.org/Aldeburgh

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

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Letter: A defence attaché despairs at inevitability of conflict

From Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), Oakham, Rutland, UK

[Photo of Sherlock Holmes and Watson monument at the British Embassy in Moscow]

MARCH 23 2022

The recent article by Maria Stepanova "The war of Putin's imagination" (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 19) was exemplary. However, one jarring note was the unfounded notion that no one expected this aggression from the Kremlin.

I served as the UK's defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016, during which time this long, dark march to war was obvious, the path to conflict lit by the many pronouncements emanating from the dark red walls of Vladimir Putin's palace.

We reported the inevitability of conflict in detail, regularly and with the despair of Cassandra. One of the earliest reports opened with a line from Sherlock Holmes, whose statue stands outside the British Embassy wall: "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast."

The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed. His many declarations were meant to be heard and understood: the colossal rearmament programme, the demand for more complex, more lethal weaponry; the militarisation of society; the distortion and seizure of the popular narrative; domination of education, the media and the courts to exclude contrasting views and, ultimately, the alienation and destruction of those among the Russian people who understood the folly of his declared ambition.

The list is remorseless, the consequences could not be ignored. But they were.

It was not until I returned to the UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.

All was subjugated to the City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth. The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.

I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered.

Carl Scott

Air Commodore (Retired)

Oakham, Rutland, UK

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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 1h

Jeffrey City is a uranium ghost town that was abandoned in the 1980s

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 1h

Having visited major cities with proper integrated public transport systems I'd be fascinated to discover how *checks notes* Time Out came up with this. Time Out. Famously stuffed to the gunwales with transport experts.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry I missed the word 'Rock'. *facepalm* 'The Spandau Ballet Rock Band'.

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Duille @duille.com · 1h

Poster. Olive Grace Bourne. 1915.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 2h

I think he's making light of this. It's unseemly. I don't hold with that sort of flippant behaviour. Not when it comes to stiles. They should be approached with a proper degree of seriousness.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 2h

West Ham playing at Sincil Bank in a league fixture is still surprising.

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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 2h

Who remembers? #TheGoodOldDays

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 2h

Totally normal country with no whiff of favours, conflict of interest or corruption.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 2h

I do remember seeing a mention for that in 'The Stage'.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 2h

There's often a disconnect between island communities and the big urban areas. The significance of a tragedy like this shouldn't go unnoticed. It will hit hard on Lewis.

bbc.co.uk

One man dead and two missing as search goes on for fishing boat off Lewis

The alarm was raised after the men's fishing boat failed to return as planned to Lewis.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 6h

Let's take a virtual wander inside Liberton Kirk, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek and have a look at its pulpit for this week's #Woodensday. The cabinet above the oak pulpit may look like an overly ornate sounding board or canopy, but it once housed the pipes for an expensive Ingram & Co organ.

A view of the wooden pulpit and chancel furnishings in Liberton Kirk. The pulpit has large Gothic traceried windows on either side and staircase leading up to it. A Cross can be seen in the centre of the cabinet that sits above.

A close up of the pulpit and communion table and minister's and elders' chairs. An embroidered pulpit fall hangs from the pulpit.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 3h

100%. Paying £12 or £15 for a whole bird. After my A-Levels I had a summer job at the place where the Moy Park (it was called something different then) chicken was made into nuggets, burgers etc etc. That's what they're really buying every week.

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Dylan Nardini @dylannardini.com · 3h

Back to the silver tones of the coast of Arran. #Scotland #Photography

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

ZZZtsssssssmmmmvvvvvv, in the case of the pylon.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 5h

And this one solitary pylon, which I’ve put here: www.chloecumming.com/inkwater

Cold light upright dignified pylon with black lines and pale sky

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve added these three powerful oddball delicacies to my main art shop as originals. Henry and cocks, patchwork despair lion, John Paul and horizontal Shakespeare. I appreciate reposts and quotes and all that good stuff. www.chloecumming.com

A narked bastard gawps at some fowls, delicate drawing with reds and pale blue

Sad yellow partially abstract lion downcast and improvisational

Two of the main Beatles with William Shakespeare draped on them, with delicate lines and colour

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

Easy, if you have enough political capital with the people who might now be made to look stupid, to allow some of that capital to be burned. It's depressing that governing is so infrequently about governing, and more often just about politics.

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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 5h

FBU Black and ethnic minority members organised their first 'Black members' meeting', now known as BEMM school, in 1995. Retired firefighters Micky Nicholas, Les Bowman, Paul Greaves and Mark Brown were instrumental in the formation of the FBU BEMM as an official FBU section in 1999.

Michael (Micky) Nicholas, former secretary of the FBU’s black & ethnic minority members (B&EMM) section

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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 4h

A very rare photo of the Welsh arriving in Patagonia in 1865. The first settler's joy is clear having been on board the Mimosa for weeks surviving on rations of stale Welsh cakes and cold glengette tea.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

One really interesting question is "why did they insist on painting themselves into this daft corner?" Burnham must realise this, and it's whether he's prepared to make the Spooks look daft, or whether some fictitious 'change in circumstances' can be concocted to justify a change in policy.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

One of the longest @secondmentions.com I've seen @secondmentions.com . It feels a touch forced, to me.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

Where have all the Jul*e Bots gone? I don't miss them - I'm just curious.

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Jan @janbarrrker.bsky.social · 6h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 14: Brick I wonder if these exposed bricks are locally made as East Lothian had many brickworks. 🧱 Dunbar

IN MEMORY OF THE REV JOHN N. B. HOLDSWORTH PASTOR WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH DUNBAR DROWNED AT DUNBAR WHILE BATHING OTH AUGUST 1692 AGED 31 YEARS

THIS STONE IS ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF DUNBAR IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIM WHO WAS AT ALL TIMES THEIR FRIEND

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 5h

It's often the person who 'finds' it turns out to be responsible, so William Garner (74) was most likely the mother.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 5h

Sadly true

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 8h

Precision? WOKE. Facts? LEFTIST. Accuracy? UTTER WOKE NONSENSE.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 8h

Why check anything? No one checks anything anymore. People are tired of checks, and checkers.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 12h

Today's the 960th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 8h

Free Speech Union and For Women Scotland PLEASE speak up about this SILENCING of Dr Lola Salem, your fellow Battle of Ideas panelist and a WOMAN as all trace of her is mysteriously removed from publications she's written for (while she awaits trail for alleged sex crimes against children)

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Champi(JUMP-SCARE) @champierth.bsky.social · 8h

The Society of Opticians: We’ve pledged to use Poke People In The Eye Stick™ only in a way that protects and supports human eyes.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11h

The Hornéd God has summoned the crows

In a misty field a bare tree trunk has two upraised branches like arms upon each of which sits a crow

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 9h

Society for Abolishing Authors

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 9h

Edinburgh book launch! I'm coming home to launch An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class on Leith Walk on publication day, Tuesday 27 October. All welcome. Sign up here 🔽 argonautbooks.co.uk/event/2j2uXL...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 9h

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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