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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 23h

Why do they need AC if it's freezing?

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

100lbs of potatoes? In this economy?

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Same. It isn't that difficult! Just don't be a dick and the details take care of themselves.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While Putin is threatening Europe with nuclear weapons at Valdai, his European bootlickers like Glenn Diesen and Roger Köppel are sitting in the front row and nodding. At the same time, Russia is bombing Ukrainian civilians and starving towns like Oleshky. Time to sanction these traitors.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Funnily enough late 1944 was when my dad lied about his age to join the Australian navy. I think he got fed up with it in fairly short order too!

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Long shot, but does anyone who sees my bloots have any connections to Taylor Swift's management

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Could the "LLMs can't do anything" crowd and the "LLMs can do everything" crowd go somewhere private to yell at each other so the rest of us can have a normal "this new tech can do things previous tech couldn't but is limited in various ways, let's figure out best uses and regulations" conversation?

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Current jo, no acknowledgement, half the codebase commented out, half the remainder never called. 5 separate servers / APIs. I've so far removed around 20000 SLOC 😂

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Haha. Every big operation I've ever contracted with, the tech debt column is the biggest in the backlog (for those who actually acknowledge it).

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My wife's aunt buys them all in the January sales.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First time I heard it was when I booked them to play at The Golden Martlet in Hellingly, East Sussex, because I fancied their then manager.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is there anywhere where I can implement an instance for not too much money? Interested in Immich but lacking info.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As Mrs Merton would say 'and what was it that first attracted you to multi-billionaire Elon Musk?'.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” Ht @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I think the best way to avoid botched executions is to stop executing people.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have a Vinyl & Typewriters night every other week in my local - one of the regulars is a vintage typewriter obsessive and he brings a bunch in and encourages people to type instead of texting for an evening, while people can also bring in their records to provide the music. Surprisingly popular.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good thread. For my own part, even before the current lunatic administration, the US's barbarity, exemplified here, is one of the main reasons I've never had much interest in visiting. No country that does these sorts of things is a civilised country.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TBF, the minder. JR just tittered uncomfortably.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OT, I know, but apparently Michael Gove had the largest penis in Westminster and was (again, apparently) in the habit of whipping it out as he entered the gents' then striding to the actual urinal resplendently.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Peed next to Jonathan Ross. Told him a drummer joke. His minder told me to fuck off out of it.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was introduced to Robert Plant one evening (this is Bob) and didn't realise until after we had parted company which particular Bob he was.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How about Putin's concerns have no basis in reality and it's not up to anyone other than the Ukrainian government to compromise on Ukraine's territorial integrity.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Infinite personalized music on Suno means I get to spend less time trying to find something to listen to, and dedicate more time to being a massive piece of shit

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I haven't seen anyone do that. I think that it's all a part of getting to a place pre-GE where he can say, "Here's the planned service. We've already said triple lock has to change, but it will also take this tax rise we're proposing. We'll nearly all benefit from this, so we all have to pay."

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well cheap package holidays to the Med, by plane, were ubiquitous enough by 1972 for there to be a Carry On film about them - Carry On Abroad! Although funnily enough my only childhood foreign holiday was a school coach trip to France. Maybe middle class people didn't do packages?

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From the WhatsApp chat with the lads

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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re gonna rock down to The inland revenue They’re winding up Man City

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She is, famously, the only lawyer in Atlanta. Who else could he have possibly have gone there to meet (had he gone)?

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To be or not to be? I don't fucking know. Are they open yet?

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah but generally people are underpaid, by the standards of similar countries, and have housing and utility costs above what we see in those countries. A penny or two in income tax is scary if you're only just keeping it together as it is.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(grumpy guy who's been financially rinsed by his offspring this week)

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

About 70% of the people I left school with (1979) are dead.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I grew up there & one of my lasting memories was when my mate said, as we stood in the shopping centre, that if I kicked every working age person passing who actually had a job I could be at it all day and not get tired. When I left school, the careers adviser just gave us a map to the dole office.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ye Cracke Kavanagh's (a little outside centre in L8, but Adrian Henri's old haunt and pretty much unchanged) The Belvedere

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

True about the price, but I could send a text and have a wrap of chang in my hand quicker than a pizza delivery while I wouldn't even know where to start finding E or speed.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're entering fantasy land now. Have a good day.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your entire argument seems to be 'I wouldn't be violent, so there shouldn't be a law' and that's just not how things work in society.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And allowing those clubs to sell alcohol in the stands will help how?

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What, so you think that if alcohol had been on sale it would have been better?

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't be silly. The very reason alcohol was banned in the first place was as part of efforts to stop decades-long incidents of football-related gang violence. It's not a hidden part of history.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's not about you. Or me. I can have many drinks in any situation and never become violent, but it is absolutely proven that - for some reason - a sufficient minority of football fans can't. I'm also not a burglar or a murderer, doesn't mean we should repeal the laws against burglary and murder.

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Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apart from the fact that there's only one mass-audience sport in this country that has a long and well-documented history of alcohol fuelled extreme gang violence.

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