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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 6h

Following yesterday's Italian Job post (thread below), I've just discovered that *BARRY WHITE* wrote Doin' The Banana Split from the Banana Splits tv show & album (1968). And it's great! Killer drum break too. More Barry White below. 🧵 #Soul #Funk www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXbs...

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Banana Splits - Doin' the Banana Split

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

How the f- is any of this normal? Labour can choose to undo this immediately. Deproscribe Palestine Action. It was a disastrous decision by the Starmer admin and Burnham can undo it.

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 6h

Last in today's trilogy is Barry White's 12min orchestral soul opus on the subject of cunnilingus. Because, Barry. Six minute mellow intro, lush strings, quirky time signature. Deep. "Your love, So good, I can taste it, Not one drop, Will be wasted." #BlackGenius www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xih...

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Your Love -- So Good I Can Taste It

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Banana Splits - Doin' the Banana Split

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 7h

Rejoin the EU? BuDS pointed out nearly 3 months ago that boosting Britain's prosperity by rejoining or closely aligning with the EU removes the need for social security cuts and enables defence to be properly funded. Just saying...

A blue graphic reading: "Raising £40 billion for Defence Without Cutting Non-Pension Welfare Wealth taxes, cutting tax avoidance and breaks for high earners - £17 billion Business taxes and windfall levies - £8 billion Grow the economy by 2% - £20 billion Total: £45 billion Or leave taxes as they are, and... Rejoin the EU - £50 billion"

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Old Dog @raceybeats.bsky.social · 8h

WTAF

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 9h

Only today to go - please help if you can...

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21h

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good Morning Bluesky ☀️ This has become part of my morning mindfulness routine, happy to share 😊

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Oxford scientists report a 67% rise in strokes among people under 55." Doctors are puzzled. Fuck me. 😷

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Rob Bryn Taylor @robbryntaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ancient Yew Tree Somerset ✌️

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't know where to begin with a Prime minster with years left on his term and a huge majority saying he won't do anything until the next general election. Is he intending to just not govern until 2029?

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bonus Quincy Jones. I've always loved the classic, Manteca. Dizzy Gillespie's 1975 version is an old fave. Here's his 1973 cover from the You've Got It Bad Girl album, and it's killer, big band funk. #SoulJazz #Jazz www.youtube.com/watch?v=aARE...

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Manteca

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Glacier des Grands Couloirs 1988 | 2023 | 2026 The iconic route to the highest peak in Vanoise has long gone... 🧊🔥 📷 Bernard Vion

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just discovered that *Quincy Jones* did the soundtrack to The Italian Job (1969, Michael Caine) and it's blown my mind. 🎵 "This is the self-preservation, society..." 🎵 "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" #Soul #England #Football www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Dq...

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Getta Bloomin' Move On! (The Self Preservation Society) (From "The Italian Job" Soundtrack)

YouTube video by Quincy Jones And His Orchestra - Topic

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Rob Bryn Taylor @robbryntaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember to mask up indoors when a COVID wave hits. It can really mess you up. ✌️😷✊

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Getta Bloomin' Move On! (The Self Preservation Society) (From "The Italian Job" Soundtrack)

YouTube video by Quincy Jones And His Orchestra - Topic

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Tony Beales @tonybeales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A redstart from earlier this year for Helen's #BokehBirds theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay #UKwildlife #birds

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 NEW: launched today @cbffjuk.bsky.social covid inquiry tracker. We’re monitoring how far the Govt have implemented inquiry recommendations to date. Will be updated in real time. Bereaved families shouldn’t have to do this but we are ‘cos we want to keep us all safe. @lawrencedunhill.bsky.social

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"One person from UKHSA then told me that even if clean air was cost effective it still might not be beneficial as preventing infections in children might shift infections to the vulnerable and elderly." 😱

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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/why-is-dis...

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Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK?

Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recent photo at the NHS. Over 6 years into #COVID, and we still have “wash your hands” under “AIRBORNE PRECAUTIONS.” We are failing hard to communicate one of the most basic lessons of this pandemic: Airborne means spread through the AIR. Clean air is infection control. #Airborne #PublicHealth #NHS

Photo shows a sign at NHS that says: Airborne precaution
Please wash your hands before entering the training room. Thank you

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do you know anyone looking to get into journalism? Maybe with a disability or chronic illness? I’m writing a free newsletter that gives tips & advice on breaking into journalism. Also, gossip. If you know anyone who might find it useful, please pass on! Subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/frances336

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Press Access | Frances Ryan | Substack

The things nobody tells disabled journalists about an industry that wasn’t built for us. Click to read Press Access, by Frances Ryan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bar-tailed Godwit from yesterday. Feeding well at Riverside Drive.

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Kingfisher, from the bird hide on Sinker's Fields, Whixall. I had this perch put in for Kingfishers about 5 years ago, and it's the first time I've seen one using it.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?

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kittywhisperer.bsky.social @kittywhisperer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NGL I kinda like it when psychopaths tell on themselves like this 😅 Every now & then their craving for admiration/need to sound profound/maybe even their desperation to feel *anything at all* results in an unguarded moment that reveals without doubt their dark heart. Eww 🤢🤢🤮

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is really an immense failure at the top of the health care industry. No strategic thinking. Essentially wasting billions in funds to sacrifice tens of millions of lives and the net result is trillions in resulting losses and moral degeneracy. It was always cheaper to work at solving it.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Face to face with an Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae).

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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

two-panel meme comparing Halloween decoration choices using two photos of a woman's expressions. Top panel: A disgusted expression labeled "Buying plastic skulls and skeletons for Halloween." Bottom panel: A thoughtful, approving expression labeled "Using natural and compostable billionaire bones."

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Rae Knightly - MG/YA Sci-Fi Author @raeknightly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank you so much for shedding a light on this devastating illness. In Canada, ME/CFS is not recognized by medical insurance, so it’s very hard to get financial help. HOWEVER, it is recognized by MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). So you can get help to die but you can’t get help to live.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man City's next game is away at Liverpool and you have to say that's just perfect.

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Adam Smith @adamlsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also worth noting that every success they’ve enjoyed since is fruit of the poison tree. Nothing they’ve won is legitimate. Not a single thing. The Lance Armstrong of football.

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, Viz.

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Lee Healey ✍🏻 @leehealey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If you bought a signed 'Withnail & AI' print from my etsy store, hold onto it, they'll be no more. Apparently some jobsworth slag at "Phoenix Films" reported me to etsy saying I was "infringing their copyright" so they delisted it. So no more Withnail prints. None. Nada. My DM's are open btw... 🙂

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Laura Lexx @lauralexx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think we need to retire the term billionaire and start referring to them as “people with money poisoning”

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TheCodeBlackDirective @codeblackdirective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He doesn't belong on the Mordor app come over here @boringjamesmilner #lfc #redsky Sorry about posting stuff from over there.

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Leighton The Relentless @treagybuckets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's just such poetic justice in Manchester City going to Anfield for their next fixture. You couldn't have scripted it better #LFC #RedSky

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malin-and-me.bsky.social @malin-and-me.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

George Monbiot on the continuing betrayal of people with ME — abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted despite what we now know. Sweden is explicitly called out for still recommending GET and CBT in official documents. This is not history. It is happening now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis #MEcfs and #LongCovid should be paid compensation, no question. Instead we get dangerous quackery, disbelief and abandonment, while trying to survive on benefits. #GreatestMEdicalScandal

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

...for DJs to cut up the breaks (& later sample). Bonus: Bob James' Take Me To The Mardi Gras is the source of some of the all time hip hop samples. An inoffensive piece of jazz funk (written by Paul Simon) with immediately recognisable moments. #TuneOfTheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ove38w3ztG4

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Bob James - Take Me To The Mardi Gras (audio)

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If anyone's in the mood for a live performance of some classic soul funk, here's The New Birth performing Bobby Womack's I Can Understand It (1972), a psychedelic masterpiece. Immortalised in Hip Hop history on the 1979 Paul Winley compilation 'Super Disco Brake's' www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW00...

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New Birth Inc. - I Can Understand It

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Jamie ⚽️ @jayloveslfc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bloody hell, they announced the City verdict? Guilty on 114 of 115 charges. Expect an appeal that'll take a while. Cheating bastards. Give us our 3 stolen titles. #lfc #Redsky #YNWA

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Glenn @frackpong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fans of every other club in England right now.

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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular

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