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

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 22h
Monster Month Day 14 #HappyToastMonsterMonth
drawing of Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They could have put an earnest homily from John-Boy Walton over that fucking ending.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The one that “solved” the unsolved maths problem was trained on all the data stolen from a mathematician who was 90% of the way there and asked to find the answer, AND THE ANSWER WAS STILL WRONG. I just don’t buy any of this fucking PR hype.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is the sort of credulity that we as humans cannot afford in our press. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THESE SO FAR HAS BEEN “ACTING ON ITS OWN” every single one has been trained on data where people had done this first and then asked to attempt to do this all for the “if anything our AI is *too* powerful”
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
…keep talking
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tens of thousands fewer students is hundreds of millions of pounds of lost export earnings, solely and wholly to appease racists.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That’s a fine beetle
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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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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cor
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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...
bbc.co.uk
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
Ideally it would include death as well. I had a cheerful conversation with a gas company person about the fact that their bosses had no policy for the one thing that famously happens to everybody
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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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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Ben Leonberg one (didn't know about the other). Effectively sad, with a satisfying lack of explanation.
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you seen Good Boy?
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reckon I look at it once a week on average
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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...
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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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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the TITLE is a joke, ffs
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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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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It ended up being my favourite article from that period of the Onion
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Matthew @thirty-bob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy birthday!
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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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