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South Manchester Fermenting, Cycling, Cinema mostly

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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Houthis have got hypersonic missiles, but what frightens me is solar panels generating clean electricity to replace oil from the Gulf and Red Sea
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Locals 'shocked, angry and scared' by Oxfordshire solar plan
Developer Low Carbon says the 2,400 acre West Oxfordshire Energy Plant would produce 500MW.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h
She's simply going to hide in the corner of the human traffickers' rooms in the dark. Babadook situation, 90% fatality rate.
New Trump administration creature Barbera Thornhill to lead human trafficking fight. (Woman looks like no human has ever looked before.)
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 8h
Mad bastard, best of Manchester
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 11h
See also: dodgy bike couriers
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 14h
This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 11h
Actually the renewal programme was approved whilst he was still mayor 🤓
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 20h
This is incredibly sad. I once interviewed RJ Mitte on the Southbank and he was very friendly and joyful on a sunny day by the river. He leaves a legacy of disability representation on the screen; something that is far from easy to achieve and still too rare. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
theguardian.com
RJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad, dies aged 34
Actor who played Walter White Jr on the acclaimed show and advocated for disability representation remembered by Bryan Cranston as ‘my sweet son’
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA
A 29-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said the high levels of unemployment were “noticeable” in the area.
“When you go into Somali town, as we call it, you just see people outside in the cafes,” she said, gesturing down the road, before adding: “It annoys me, they are loitering around and doing nothing.”
Addressing her own career path, the 29-year-old said: “I can’t work at the moment because of my mental health. Of course I want to work, I went to uni and studied English Literature for two years. I want to be a writer.”
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 21h
Back in my day a president doing everything they can to get people off the petro dollar would be tried for treason
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 21h
Just in time for the Democrats to inherit it and be blamed
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 21h
Go online or use you
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There's a time and a place for a Hedgehog
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
£13 for a Chicken Caesar wrap? I love you Manchester, but the game is gone.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is definitely the name of an English "It Girl" actor who suddenly turns up in everything and when you look into it her father owns Shropshire.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
D+15 Midterm indicator
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Imagine living in Mumbai and thinking this, madness…
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The AI slop in garden centres is insane now. A load of pensioners have definitely potted these bulbs already.
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Looking forward to the tyranny of places like Wyoming ending soon ngl
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
bristolpost.co.uk
Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Won’t someone think of the proprietary software companies!
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Big Trouble If I Speak - José Mourinho
ALT: Big Trouble If I Speak - José Mourinho
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Watching padel courts open in random warehouses in poor neighbourhoods is making me wanna rewatch Big Short
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
With good reason clearly
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A good conspiracy theory is that Trump is paying for election interference via diesel
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And that Europe figure will continue to drop as AfD and FN advance
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ukraine responds to Trump’s deal with Putin by striking russian fuel export terminal in Rostov.
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The next three weeks will be wild
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mr Zelensky, let her rip
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why are the far right so quiet in the last fortnight. Very worrying.
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How were his parents to know
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Never trust a man who puts butter in his coffee
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice little nugget of horror buried in there
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And if they did badly, repeat as above I’m sure
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An important corollary to the Surf Dracula tweet that I think should be talked about more, now that we're basically inundated with these types of shows, is that most of them don't get renewed, but even the ones that are don't turn into the weekly adventures of Surf Dracula in the second season.
Screenshot of a tweet from user @topherfluence: "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get ot see him surf for 5 min in the finale"
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Farage has client media and hundred million to sort all that out
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Your investment may go up or down. You may get less out than you put in.
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sure but you aren’t a major party, that ship has sailed. You’re a minor coalition partner even if Burnham stacks it.
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
12% gap is not a marginal
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Looks like the Greens have hit their ceiling. Hell of a 2026 for them.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
My latest discovery? You can eat the skin of a kiwifruit – and the benefits are myriad | Adrian Chiles
theguardian.com
My latest discovery? You can eat the skin of a kiwifruit – and the benefits are myriad | Adrian Chiles
It turns out all that time spent peeling and paring was entirely wasted, writes Adrian Chiles. Now I’m gobbling them like apples and putting the extra fibre to good use
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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tom @tommcr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I couldn’t stand the beer of that cask brewery that closed today so maybe I was the problem
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?
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