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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Pearl With The Girl Earring

Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The bride just came round with spare wedding flowers to apologise for the noise! Obviously she had no need to apologise given we opened the windows to hear it more clearly 😁

Photo of a huge vase of white wedding flowers

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think this is the best shot of a Mourning Warbler that I've ever managed, taken in May during spring migration. #birds #birding

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As an urban geographer and map enthusiast I love this one. The origins of the word "city" in European languages. Source: buff.ly/3gWpVVT

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think we have finished on a mash-up of Hey Jude and 4 Non Blondes. But surely they're not finished this early?

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A la la la la long, a la la la la long long li long long long

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Currently visiting Portugal and our apartment is opposite a wedding venue. I'm pleased to report that wedding bands are the same everywhere - just finished a Michael Jackson medley and launched straight into Jamiroquai. Now onto Play That Funky Music. Surely it's time for Dexy's Midnight Runners?

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Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Music Video

Alt: Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Music Video

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Had to pay my car insurance provider to cancel my policy after I sold my car 🙄 I was due a refund of £20 for the month of unused coverage, but their cancellation fee is £50 so I had to pay them £30 for the privilege of not being insured. How is this allowed? Shouldn't it taper / cancel out?

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 01/09/2026

The long lost lyrics to the Ski Sunday theme

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

An incredible recipe for all the wrong reasons. I feel like I have to try it, even though it would surely be terrible?

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s really important that independent organisations can hold Government to account. I’m on the Board of @nao.org.uk which does this and we are looking for two new Board members. Could you help spread the word so we can get the best possible field of candidates roles.saxbam.com/advert-detai...

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tompoy.bsky.social @tompoy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Abbey Road reference made me recall a time when someone, I think it was you, tried to work out how many people had gone to the DLR station when they meant to go to the recording studio and used an FOI to find out how many journeys there had been from Abbey Road to Maida Vale tube.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sorry, I am probably more interested in this than is strictly normal, but seeing as though we *have* gov.uk it seems weird it's not used more routinely for information security - that there's not a verifiable chain from the SMS or app alert back to a single authority page on the government Web site

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Does it include all the RDJ episodes of Ally McBeal? I hope so

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's Yorkshire! What more could you ask for?

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'll make sure it's raining the whole time you're here to make up for it

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Your time will come. I had to bring the washing in earlier because it started spitting. I'm wearing a jumper. It's all very novel. No downpour in Sheffield yet though, hopefully later

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The admin created by incessant questions that are already answered if they just read the description drives me up the wall...

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did anyone else dislike the noise so much that you closed the alert before you'd read it? I didn't even have the presence of mind to screenshot it, just read the first line then mashed the close button to make The Loud go away

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Who at Radio 1 was quick enough to load this song up right now?

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The polio vaccine, once given on a sugar cube in the UK, has helped protect millions from a life changing disease. Thanks to the NHS vaccination programme, polio is now extremely rare in the UK. Vaccination works. ✅

Black-and-white graphic featuring a historic photograph of a child watching the polio vaccine being added to a sugar cube on a spoon. Large white text over the image reads, “Do you remember polio?”

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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you’re one of the thousands who did sneak a peek at the eclipse without any safety measures and you’re now experiencing changes in your vision, please go get your eyes checked with an optometrist (optician).

A screenshot of Google's most searched terms relating to eye health after the eclipse.
"Top queries, United Kingdom, past month.
1. Solar eclipse hurt eyes.
2. Solar eclipse eyes hurt.
3. Solar eclipse.
4. Eyes hurt solar eclipse."

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🤞🏼Please be real please please please🤞🏼

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Went to view the eclipse at a quiet spot in the Peak District, but half of Derbyshire had the same plan 😬 Took this photo of the roads jammed with cars. Nice atmosphere though - mostly families with pinhole projectors/eclipse glasses but a few ambitious people hiked up with telescopes!

Photo looking out over the Peak District national park showing a road lined with multiple cars on either side

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 10/08/2026

I still absolutely think that the English rugby team should learn how to morris dance properly and do it in response to the Haka against New Zealand.

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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My daughter has finished her first year of her PhD at Cambridge. Her end of year report (not public) is fascinating. She's a health data science researcher. What I'm seeing, as someone who knows data at government level is that the NHS data she needs doesn't exist. And it's weird.

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Pizza scissors, which are far superior to a circular rolling slicer. Best boring Christmas gift I ever received.

Pizza scissors with a flat base to slide under the pizza, and a scissor top to cut down

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Nathan needs to put down the phone @feralharp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At last, an excuse to post this.

A daddy (labeled PEOPLE WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT WHICH OBJECTS ARE INCLUDED AS PLANETS) playing in the pool with his little girl (labeled PLUTO), ignoring a little boy barely keeping his head above water (labeled ERIS). In the depths below, a forgotten skeleton sits in a chair (labeled CERES)

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 30/07/2026

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Have you considered checking he's ok by looking in on him through his window a few times a day? I'm sure that would help

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Oh wow that's big news. There's the whole Science Park in Stevenage that hosts GSK. One small saving grace - at least they're on the same train line so commuting might be doable. I can also see how concentrating science research around Cambridge makes sense as a national strategy.

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I ordered a tub of falafels in the online shop and this was all I received. A tantalising glimpse of what could have been mine. To whoever has ended up with my falafels: they go off on 27th x

Clear plastic lid of a falafel container, minus falafels

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Who keeps buying these lights? And WHY? Why must I sit in your living room and be subjected to a blinding spotlight shining directly at me? And so many of them pointing in every direction, I can't escape! The Big Light in any room is bad enough without feeling like I'm being interrogated

A ceiling light consisting of a horizontal pole attached to which is a series of blindingly bright spotlights shining in every direction

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For me this is the funniest line in the whole book, Mr Bennet couldn't miss this golden opportunity for more of his sarcasm

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Cats truly are the physical manifestation of Pathological Demand Avoidance

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wait I was just catching up from the last two days of this thread and it ends **HERE**? 😭

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'd never say no to a holodeck episode, but this feels like the perfect opportunity for Detective Data to happen in the real world! Alternatively if you can work in an opportunity for Picard to play some sort of flute/panpipe object then that would also be acceptable

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Is Data in a detective outfit? With a hat?

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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 20/07/2026

David and Ed Miliband: the first brothers to have held the post of foreign secretary since the Wellesleys Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, was foreign secretary from 1809 to 1812 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was foreign secretary from 1834 to 1835

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's sad to see, even though I like a good quiz show! I assume quizzes are relatively cheap to make - a few researchers, studio crew, a host and the same set each time? Compared to a production that needs writers, several sets and paid actors.

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We've watched Countdown, Pointless, House of Games twice, Mastermind and something American with (I think) Rob Lowe

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm staying in a hotel with the kids tonight which means I've introduced them to the concept of terrestrial TV where you just have to watch whatever someone else has scheduled. For the past 4 hours it's been wall-to-wall quiz shows, since when has TV been like this?

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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So if Healey is Chancellor does that mean Mahmood stays as Home Sec and Ed Miliband is Foreign Sec?

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