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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 28/09/2026

the farmer woman is going to end up on celebrity traitors isn't she

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 23/09/2026

ethical consumption is when a billionaire gets tuberculosis

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 23/09/2026

ethical consumption is when a billionaire gets tuberculosis

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 21/09/2026

what do you guys think will happen when the Queen dies

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 17/09/2026

Mark Carney? The central banker? Who’s governor-general, Mervyn King?

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 17/09/2026

toad hall: shouting individuals

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 16/09/2026

this does sound like he’s struggling with excel “Hi Andy. None of Rachel’s macros work. Can we do a quick call?”

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Oh no, chums! The PM's asked me to tell him _in person_ about the state of Channel 4 - I'll have to be awake AT 2 PM!!" The Reader: "Nappy Nandy can't get out of this one--" LATER "Ha ha! I've stuck a picture of my face on Larry the Cat! More sleep for me!" PM: "Something smells FISHY here..."

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 11/09/2026

today, I am the age my mum was when I was born. it would therefore be impolite to tell you how old I am, so let’s just say there wasn’t a Berlin Wall but there was still a Soviet Union

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 05/09/2026

Whitechapel is the only station where the London Overground goes under the London Underground.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 31/08/2026

astronaut meme but it’s “wait, it’s all class signifiers?”

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I say 'it me' and 'tag urself'. I look down on him." "I say 'picky bits' but not 'holibobs' or 'famalam'. I look up to him, but down on him." "Live, laugh, love. I know my place."

Cheese, Barker and Corbett in the class sketch.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 29/08/2026

Two colleagues surprisingly reunite, years after one left their British government job.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 14/08/2026

the big (okay, one of many big) issues with “actually music out loud on trains is fine and you’re an ableist killjoy” as an argument is that… this isn’t true? for the simple reason that *only one person can play music out loud before nobody is meaningfully listening to music anymore*

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Public use of AI is doing weird, unpredictable and damaging things to the state. A dive into how Grok lawyering is upending the employment tribunals www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 03/08/2026

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 25/07/2026

it never really stops - @mconcagh.bsky.social explaining to me during the last year that Guadalcanal impacted North Africa in a far more than just “holistic” way (IJN redeployments freed up Indian Ocean RN resources to directly impact the supply situation for Montgomery) blew my BA-in-History mind

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 20/07/2026

@coneshotline.bsky.social @jacktindale.bsky.social getting a lot of 'why's no-one doing the crunch' vibes from this

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Years ago my friend @tomblack.uk wrote a short story basically sending the Ten Plagues of Egypt to Nazi Germany, and there's a line that goes something like "maybe God had sent a messenger, and he had been shot dead in the streets of Warsaw or Amsterdam." I think about that line a lot now days.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 19/07/2026

what do the argentines think the date is? January 6th?

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 19/07/2026

the entire nation of England, its fingers behind its ears: AWWWW, DID YOU GET A RED CARD?

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 19/07/2026

Jack Tindale has not complained that the Spanish team didn’t sing their national anthem, someone check with @coneshotline.bsky.social

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 17/07/2026

Harry Styles’ delivery of “you’re DONE, KIRK!” is perfect tbf

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 16/07/2026

“oh, that’s rubbish as witty, that is!”

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thing about British Steel being nationalised is there is no argument around nationalising it that doesn't also apply to the universities except "steel is boy coded :) and teaching is girl coded :("

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 15/07/2026

ah! well, nevertheless

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Munich Beer Hall Putsch, 1923

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 15/07/2026

never anything on, is there

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have a few: 1) The night sky. Light pollution has fundamentally changed our experience of the stars. 2) Actual quiet - no distant traffic or electrical lines. 3) Music and the spoken word. We’ve been raised in literate and now audiovisual cultures; that’s a recent innovation. 4) Memory.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 07/07/2026

my “I’m not corrupt” by-election is raising a lot of questions already answered by my by-election

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Between Chuck throwing his brother in the dungeon, Bob from Chicago excommunicating schismatics, and drunk Pete’s Christian fundamentalist military getting bogged down in an ill-advised adventure in the Middle East, medieval fans are eating good.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 23/06/2026

- FDR during May-June 1940

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 23/06/2026

smoking-level fines and enforcement thereof for headphoneless audio or video on public transport

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 22/06/2026

making no wider comment but if I had a quarter of the confidence Cathy Newman appears to have in Andy Burnham implementing *a wealth tax* I would be dancing in the street?

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 22/06/2026

if Keir Starmer doesn’t like the changes Keir Starmer has made, the door is open and he can leave

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Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 22/06/2026

well, the worst people in the Labour Party got their guy in, it went the way we all knew it would (tbh it went even worse than I expected), and now they’re going to pretend he was never their guy my advice? don’t let them. you’ve got a memory and these bullies are reliant on you not using it

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thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“Don’t piss off every section of the coalition that elected you” is advice that most political scientists would give you for free

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 22/06/2026

Starmer busy taking credit for policies he actively opposed sums up why he had to go.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

farewell then, to the grown-up-est of Grown-ups, truly, for the briefest burning while, you were In Charge

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/06/2026

been furious with Starmer for long enough that this is genuinely coming as a surprise to me, but I'm feeling a bit.......sad this morning? not really about him per se but about the waste of time, I guess, and the end of yet another political failure when Britain really couldn't afford another one

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