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With it being Swap Shop's 50th today, I'm wondering if Robert McKay ever did manage to achieve what must be the Most Hopeful Swap Request Ever.

Robert McKay wants to swap a fossilized tree root (a whopping 10cm long) for the Dr Who Radio Times Special or any Dr Who or Dalek Annuals.

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Weebl (with bits) @mrweebl.bsky.social · 5h

It's Bandcamp Friday And we've added merch to the page as well. weebl.bandcamp.com/music

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Weebl's Stuff

Absurdist Electronica and big moods.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 7h

Sting is 75. Loved him as Karl in Die Hard

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 6h

Wrote this earlier this week as part of a mild rant. Still like it. (Though would probably change the last bit to "Oasis" rather than "Gallaghers". Or maybe not.)

Humourless, clinging onto a bad memory of past, pretending to be authentic Manchester when it is nothing of the sort, proclaiming some kind of hard scrabble story when they are rich beyond most peoples dreams and then constantly telling enough people that they are legendary and iconic to persuade them - and most importantly convince themselves - that they are.

They really are the Gallaghers football club.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 8h

Consider this your sign to go outside before it gets dark at 4pm again.

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New York Rangers (Unofficial) @notnyrangers.bsky.social · 13h

THE FIRST RANGERS GOALTENDER TO SCORE A GOAL: IGOR SHESTERKIN #NYR

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 21h

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 21h

I work for an insurance company and I got an employee discount on home insurance. It got taken over by another insurance company and I also get an employee discount. Old companies renewal quote without discount is cheaper and with better cover than new companies quote after staff discount.

static.klipy.com

Man's Hilarious Confused Look

ALT: Man's Hilarious Confused Look

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Sean McIndoe @downgoesbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New post: Happy hockey day. It’s time to make some oddly specific predictions. - Which goalie is scoring a goal - Who Mike Babcock is benching - Who’ll be all-star game MVP And lots more… www.nytimes.com/athletic/763...

nytimes.com

Oddly specific NHL predictions for all 32 teams’ 2026-27 seasons (Gift Article)

A bit of targeted payback in the West? A Leon Draisaitl surprise? Fickle awards voting snubs? You heard it all here first, folks.

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 22h

Using one time codes for online payments is fine but I've noticed them getting longer and more complicated. Lads, if your OTP process is no longer secure, it's not the length or complexity that is the problem.

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

"Yarr, it be called 'sailing', not a 'sea drive'!" - Blackbeard's first day in a computer literacy class.

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC

What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office

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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is just further proof of the bent nature of the sponsorships. No regular sponsor would threaten to sue the Prem for the reputational damage of a report they arent even named in. They would just cut ties with the club www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Am in that weird state where the bone bruising has died down to a manageable level but because I’ve had to walk (a lot more than I should have to be honest) I’m now shivering with pain from my Achilles.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

personally, I’m a big fan of all my meals without urine

A sign saying
A meal without wine is called breakfast.
The word wine looks a lot like urine.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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

Most TV is just this now.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THis comes to the heart of why AI art in general exhausts me. I experience art to experience what someone thought and felt, to see someone demonstrating a skill, to have a feeling transmitted from someone else to me. AI people just want something that plays to their mood.

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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PSG's domestic rivals must be looking at all this and sighing #115Charges

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hang on. NINE HUNDRED MILLION?!

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

That day when I won an Amiga auction that came with a ton of copied disks but an original disk for XCopy

An image of a blue 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled "X-COPY & CYCLONE," indicating it is a special version for power computing. The disk is made by Verbatim and has a label with a serial number and contact information

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I guess we’re all deliberately forgetting that Farage immediately blamed the Fairford thing on immigrants in small boats then.

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 28/09/2026

It'd be Beneficial to the Publick Artist: laplandes b3ta.com/board/11431572 From the 'Unlikely Siblings' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/unlikelysiblings… #UnlikelySiblings

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Subject: It'd be Beneficial to the Publick

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently laid up due to either broken foot, broken ankle or if I'm lucky, just internal bruising. Either way I'm currently using an old cane that was C's dads, and previous to that belonged to an old priest for who C's gran was an housekeeper.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one is about dumping a load in public, and the other is improper disposal of trash

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sigh. Trying to talk to HMRC re my tax code is a nightmare...

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh hell no, not PAC. That’s bad news to wake up to. RIP, sir.

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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the reasons I hate the “super genius who doesn’t have time for social conventions” archetype is that I recognize it’s a power fantasy for guys exactly like who I was when I was the shittiest person I’ve ever been.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s far too early to speculate what’s going on down there, but it’s obviously posh kids, a dog, and lashings of ginger beer.

Five arrested for alleged terrorism offences after
'major incident' near RAF
Fairford.

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Working in her studio and she’s playing stuff over the Bluetooth speaker “Good song this, who is it by?” “Um… Goodmans Soundbar” That’s why she’s a keeper.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 26/09/2026

And..... Its live! The Atari jaguar CD: really as bad as you think? youtu.be/NvWbYibfZ9Y

youtu.be

The Atari Jaguar CD

YouTube video by 8/16/32bit

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Turned on the F1 to listen to while I was doing some stuff. In the third of the race that I was tuned into, there was precisely one overtake. (For 6th place, I think.)

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man City thing opens up a whole can of worms when it comes to punishment. Lets assume that the PL gives them a punishment that they have to accept. Kicking them out or a big enough points deduction to get them relegated means that City have to leave the PL and join the EFL. This is a problem.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 25/09/2026

May have lost track of the challenge... Artist: hYpe b3ta.com/board/11431418 From the 'Sport Music' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/sportmusic/popul… #SportMusic

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Subject: May have lost track of the challenge...

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Sean McIndoe @downgoesbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New: The 2026-27 prediction contest is live. - Ten simple(?) questions - A first for the bonus question - An actual tie-breaker, finally Think you can predict the coming NHL season? Here's your chance to prove it. www.nytimes.com/athletic/762...

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Enter the 2026-27 NHL prediction contest that’s so easy it’s almost impossible (Gift Article)

It's our annual reminder that an NHL season is basically impossible to project.

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spencerbrus.bsky.social @spencerbrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man, I can totally see why the new Godzilla movie is rated R.

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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Genuine tears of laughter by the end.

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