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I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd forgotten about that stupid new import fee to the EU. Just had to cancel an eBay order to Germany for one of my Visionaries stands because the import handling fees from Royal Mail were more than the item itself. I'd have lost money selling it.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Billy Hurley @billyhurls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no McTry. There is only:

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's also a strain of posh Brit that pronounces them the same as well, which could also be the root of this.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

mistakes were made

california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 03/10/2026

Rees-Mogg showing both how unhinged Carlson is but also his own nationalist priorities. The best reason to defeat the Nazis wasn't to avoid changing what language we speak!

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 03/10/2026

Extremely cool thread

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just turn off auto-correct. I ditched it years ago and instead just added a few of my most common typos into the typing shortcuts list so they get corrected but I don’t have to deal with the over-bearing nature of full on auto correct.

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Robert Hack @roberthack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, it's more of my nonsense.

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Morghan A. Bedford - LFW @teatigercafe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With many artists trying to get prepped for LBX, I wanted to share this video I have seen on TikTok. Apparently Vista Prints is running materials provided by artists through AI to "enhance" or make "corrections" on art without the artists consent. www.tiktok.com/@kablooeys.k...

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What a disaster this has been. There was so much I wanted to say. First off, that elbow wasn’t the only indicator. There were other parts of the drawing that had been edited, but I only had time to ad...

TikTok video by kablooeys.kargo.bay

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Women always say they want to be wooed but when you take them on a ghost train they don’t like it.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/10/2026

Cashier Forced To Incorporate Humiliating New Phrase Into Every Customer Interaction theonion.com/cashier-forced-to-inco…

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

we interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this important announcement:

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Craig McCutcheon - commissions open @craggylotus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If your tempo is a little off what starts as the Cowboy Bebop theme quickly becomes the Countdown clock.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s gone very Tory MP/aspiring Tory peer. Or maybe it’s just that he looks weirdly like Seb Coe.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man, I was not expecting to see a variation of the Westaway Gambit on #CelebrityTraitors, especially not the first episode. I don't have faith these traitors aren't going to completely bungle it before the 10 episodes are up.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Presumably if she's opening a box of tissues "to tidy up" she didn't do the eyedrops very well, so maybe can't multitask as well as this guy thinks.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve had to take a call from eBay a couple of times recently too and they do at least have an Irish call centre, but every bit of advice they’ve given me there has been useless and contradicted elsewhere. Like they’re just making up shit to get you off the phone.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can over an hour(!) deep into dealing with them and they’ll decide they need to two-step verify you. As if someone else is going to access your account and put up with all this.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And then there’s eBay, where you have to battle past an overbearing chatbot every single time, even if following up on an open case. Every human reply takes at least three minutes, even if it’s just confirming your name. Now they two-step verify via sms but not at the start.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amazon is even worse because it’ll auto-time you out after two minutes of no activity even if that’s two minutes of you waiting for the associate to check something/reply. Have to resort to typing needlessly in the text box while waiting just to avoid disconnection.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve been having to deal with InPost (who have subsumed Yodel) and the disparity between how long you have to wait for them to reply vs how quickly they’ll cut you off on the assumption you’re not there after they reply is maddening. Minutes vs seconds.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have spent far too much time lately dealing with live chat support agents (at least some of whom I suspect are chatbots pretending to be human). I used to prefer it to talking on the phone as it was quicker and more efficient, but it’s increasingly become tedious, frustrating and useless.

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🏳️‍⚧️Jet Set Willært (Critical Kate) @katewillaert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I saw this great Metroid piece by @max58.bsky.social shared on the Metroid FB group, it deserves to be seen by more people on this side of the intarweb.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Has any line encapsulated the weird US-UK co-production of Ted Lasso more than a Bristolian football steward saying “Used Kleenex? Lush.”? Like, how do you know to use “lush” but not that no-one in the UK ever calls a tissue a Kleenex?

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From 13 years ago where I was playing Draw Something 2 on the iPad. You had to draw something for a prompt and then you were randomly paired with someone online who had to guess. The person guessed "BIRDGUY" and then "BIRDGOI" and then gave up.

A very good drawing of what is clearly BIG BIRD

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wacom cintiq style graphics tablets? But yes, ipods are great. I still use mine every day.

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Col @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I should call her.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026

From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City fans going through hell of a lot right now.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t read the Economist but can give some pretty good financial advice. Make them share (“one between two” as they’d say at school) and save… ::tries sums:: at least £40.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pluto is quite a cool free TV app that offers a lot of variety at any one time through dip in dip out streams. For instance, there are three (3!) different episodes of Rookie Blue on at this very moment. Rookie Blue season 2, Rookie Blue season 3, Rookie Blue season 4: all the genres!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was it really only two and a half minutes? Felt longer!

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The cinema trailer for Digger was five minutes (genuinely) of “hey, remember how great Tom Cruise has been in all these other films” and then twenty seconds of contextless clips from the new film. Which wasn’t suspicious at all.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Finally, here's the famous graphic that was made by the TNG art department (Okuda I think) to convey the true scale of the Enterprise-D to the writers by overlaying its outline on a map of the Paramount lot.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve started reading silver age Aquaman, which is just disposable gag short stories so far, but man, Ramona Fradom could draw. Love how smug Aquaman looks here, undercover in the navy.

Two navy guys look confused around a stack of crockery. A third guy (secretly Aquaman) looks smug as hell.
Dialogue:
There are thousands of these greasy dishes! We’ll never get them clean in time!
Relax boys… I’ve got the best kitchen detail in the world.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of all the pieces of technological dystopian literature that gets brought up in reference to current AI stuff the one that I think of a lot and needs mentioning more is Vaughan and Martin’s The Private Eye.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huh, I didn't realise the 20p wasn't introduced with decimalisation!

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