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At this point, I must have lost my presence of mind

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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The hops on the razor wire
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tinymattresses @tinymattresses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DELIGHTED you shared this, this was the only one I knew of and I too THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_...
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THE ORIGINAL Scary 'Mary Poppins' Recut Trailer
YouTube video by moviemker
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/10/2026
#HappyToastMonsterMonth Day 1 - Widow's Bay's Sea Hag
Sea Hag climbing out of the bath
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears
Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If this turns out to be just diesel theft, all these elaborate True Crime theories about who knew what and when are going to look very very silly
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sting’s wearing a The Beat t-shirt #TOTP
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"After all we've endured, after all we have seen - what men can do - you think it is bumps in the night that frighten me?" If you're after some early Autumn chills, 'His House' is on BBC2 at 23.20, tonight.
A young couple pull back the net curtain on the window of their home to stare out and past us. The man is smiling. The woman isn't.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
Ron Cobb's original signage designs for Alien 📽️
Ron Cobb's original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper

various colored icons for use as warning and informational purposes on the Nostromo
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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ever wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At 3.30pm on Saturday 19 September, police were called about a serious assault at one of Liverpool Street station’s entrances. Two men may be able to assist their ongoing enquiries. Any info - contact BTP: 61016, call 0800 40 50 40, quoting 456 of 19 September or ring Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111
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Dave, just Dave @davew66.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My friends son turned 18 recently. These two “men” attacked him without provocation yesterday afternoon at Liverpool St station. 2 lost teeth, broken collarbone, 8 stitches. Hope the #COYS family coming back from the game share this and get them what they deserve. www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/new...
btp.police.uk
CCTV images released after serious assault at station – Central London
Detectives investigating a serious assault at Liverpool Street railway station are releasing images in connection.
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Maned wolfBush dog
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Agh, Stephanie Cole gone. How great she was.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Given that a barely qualified psychiatrist making one 10 year old briefly go without meds warranted weeks of primetime coverage about how #ADHD is a myth, this report, which is orders of magnitude more conclusive, will surely receive even more attention. Any minute now... #TheGreatADHDMyth

 
ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find
Hello and welcome to The Essential, where we dig deeper into today’s big stories. 

How much help should someone with ADHD receive  – in clinical support, employment and via social security? It’s a live debate in Whitehall, because of rising costs for the NHS and UK benefits. For some, the idea that far too many people are being diagnosed with ADHD or autism has taken root.

But what does the evidence show? A new, landmark Government review – authored by clinicians – has concluded that ADHD and autism are not widely over-diagnosed in the UK. Read our exclusive report here, which explains what the experts say ... and what they think should happen next.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Happy Birthday Star Trek, and me for that matter
Star Trek Revolver album cover by HappyToast
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Rot in a jar of edam I made for a janitor. #palindrome
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 07/09/2026
think of the far right as pigeon, and public policy as a crumb of your cake everyone knows that when you throw the crumb of your cake to the pigeon, the pigeon will then leave you alone forever
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.
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Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port
Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Like watching a child who has been awake for ages doing an elaborate performance of yawning and stretching which doesn’t fool anyone.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Even though I’ve seen them doing something similar many times before, It’s so strange watching the press ‘suddenly noticing’ that Farage is a shabby little crook.
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for
in North Cambridge, and a daughter. The
outbuildings and at least two other flats on the same road, which are owned by the family,
are home to a select group of postgraduate students from a range of faculties including
divinity. In a podcast interview in December 2024, Orr described having “10 students living
with us. They’re mainly PhD students or postdoctoral fellows.” He explained that they
always gather for Sunday lunch and often for dinner. “That’s amazingly stimulating,” he
said. “They’re . . . the cream of their generation in their respective subjects.”
The residents pay rent and do chores. Helen has fashioned a small chapel from a shipping
container, in which she holds morning prayers.The housing of students raises potential conflicts of interest. Over the past academic year, there were three divinity scholars lodging at the Orrs’ community, according to several
people familiar with the living arrangements. One is a postgraduate student who is directly
supervised by Orr. Cambridge’s staff and student relationship policy stipulated that its
employees are “strongly discouraged” from entering into close personal relationships with
students. Any relationship which involves “any form of dependence, whether emotional,
practical, financial or otherwise”, must be declared.Among the complaints upheld by the investigator are that Orr allegedly made belittling
remarks to the student, and had demanded an “excessive” and “unreasonable” amount of
written work in an effort to refine a thesis proposal. The report also criticised “at worst
inappropriate and at best thoughtless comments made [by Orr] in the equally
inappropriate context of [Orr’s] own home”. This was in reference to a dinner that the
student, who comes from a Christian, conservative background, had attended at Orr’s
house.While the society was established long before Orr had any formal role in Reform, it has
taken on new significance as his political activities gathered pace. Orr has described
Cambridge as a useful recruiting ground for Reform, boasting last autumn in an interview
with The Telegraph that he had met “hundreds” of highly able students he thought would
make suitable allies. He has also, according to The Spectator magazine, been tasked by the
party with “building a pipeline” to bring talent to staff a future Reform administration.
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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Friday night is Hammer horror night, and @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social have just what you need to unwind after a tough week. Caroline Munro introduces classic Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde at 9.20pm as part of the Cellar Club. Martine Beswick stars. #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2020/08/29/d...
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Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde - film-authority.com
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I said “I’ll need a hammer” he said “you’ll use the one I made on my first day of my apprenticeship, and make yourself one” and I tried to not let him see I started crying. While he pretended not to notice he said “and we’ll go down the docks with my big magnet and get some scrap to work with”
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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Agh. Mainstay of decades of stopmotion animation effects, Phil Tippett, is dissolving his studio amd selling off priceless movie artefacts. The first Dragonslayer, Robocop, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers… are all spectacular because of his pioneering work.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Damson Macfisheries
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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I developed a huge set of #Photoshop #illustration #brushes a couple of years ago but with the vast market for such things being what it is, it's really easy for them to get totally overlooked. So I've decided to give them away completely FREE. jasonsbrushes.gumroad.com/l/sfcku
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Jason's Photoshop and Fresco Illustration Brushes
Loaded with over 400 meticulously crafted brushes for Adobe Photoshop and Fresco on PC, Mac and iPad, this set will add beautiful and expressive new options to your creatuve toolbox. Featuring sketche...
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ah fuck not Dolly
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 23/08/2026
A cartoon character putting on a pullover with colourful text saying it’s nearly jumper time
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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Happy 45th birthday to the best comics panel ever!
Judge Dredd saying "GAZE INTO THE FIST OF DREDD!" and punching the undead Judge Fear so hard, his fist bursts out the back of Fear's helmet!
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rain, rain, rain, rain Beautiful rain Rain, rain, rain, rain Beautiful rain
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
WOODEN THING OF SEASIDE WORDS (Art prints of this one in my shop for the holiday cottager in your life.) #comics #artprints #comedy #artgift #airbnb
[Print of a cartoon strip by Stephen Collins. Images are just a series of the things described.] 

Title:
HOLIDAY COTTAGE BINGO...

BLUNT KNIFE

CANVAS PRINT OF A BOAT

METAL SEAGULL

WOODEN HARE

CANVAS PRINT OF A FLOWER

TINY CHOPPING BOARD

5 TV REMOTES
WOBBLY PLASTIC-HANDLE PAN

3 TINY MUGS (WEIRD SHAPE)

FATHERLAND BY ROBERT HARRIS

SCRATCHED FRYING PAN

6-PAGE ESSAY IN THE GUESTBOOK


FRAMED SHEEP ILLUSTRATION
INSCRUTABLE COMBO OVEN & MICROWAVE

DVD OF MASTER AND COMMANDER

TINY WINE GLASS

DECORATIVE WOODEN THING OF SEASIDE
[Sun, Sand, Sea on wall mounted, painted driftwood]

GHOST OF DEAD FISHERMAN
[Fisherman's ghost pointing at you and wailing 'BE GONE"]

[Ends]
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 17/08/2026
we don't protect child actors enough. especially women.
Michelle Trachtenberg and Hayden Panettiere, who died less than 2 years apart from each other
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Infinity Connect @infinityconnect.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@fbpech.bsky.social How is this even possible?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
FREE WILL (Palindrome) I’m all I was. It is as it is. A will am I.
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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think this is significant - they're now specifically highlighting *Christian* beliefs alongside transphobic ones. This is going to lead into pushing to get anti-abortion views protected in the NHS. We said it was coming. It's arrived.
A twitter post from transphobe group darlington nurses union reading "We and our lawyers have met with Chair of the @EHRC
 Mary-Ann Stephenson to raise our concerns relating to the implementation of the Supreme Court's ruling, NHS Trust policies, and the treatment of professionals holding Christian and gender-critical beliefs. 
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Partial eclipse shadows on a tree trunk
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