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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The “Beats off” Chronicles day one hundred and forty-four: The number 144 is also known as a “gross”, so here’s a gross one.

Empire: Amazon orders another Reacher round at Prime
Video as Season 6 renewal confirmed.

And Empire, we know what you’re up to.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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ElectionCord @electioncord.com · 21/09/2026

I'm sorry but this is hilarious. Trump's approval for the economy has gone so low it actually broke the scale on the Ipsos graph

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:

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End is Nigh @endisnigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72m in donations to #Reform buys a lot of targeted SM ads to further brainwash the terminally ill informed

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This just in from our dehumanising cult correspondent. All of this, and the last 10 years of unravelling hatred, because Cameron was scared of losing face in front of his playground rival Johnson and wanted to look in charge. Thanks a lot, Eton, it's all on you.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great. You're nicking our water, electricity, our actual WORK and now you want us to pay you?

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Simon Ritchie @weirdyweirdtwit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Was way ahead of everyone else on this …

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On morning of September 11, 2001, Heather Penney, a 26-year-old rookie fighter pilot with D.C. Air National Guard. She recently completed her training, she was among the early cohorts of women flying F-16s after combat aviation roles opened to women in 1993.(From Facebook) #Blues #GTS #ProudBlue

Pilot Heather Penney her picture in uniform

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That nice feller? From the Channel 4 sting? Never!

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 03/09/2026

Soft where it counts Uncompromising where it matters

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today my eldest boy, the one we had whilst I was very online. The first baby. The first big grown up decision after getting mortgage & married. He goes to big school.

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Simon Ritchie @weirdyweirdtwit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

More in the ongoing ‘What a world we live in today’ series 😫

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We should put this sign on every politician's desk

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/08/2026

A note from Dolly Parton to Eminem in 2022.

Screenshot of a tweet from @Eminem dated 25 August 2026. His text reads: "I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words." Below that, he has included an image of a note signed by (or on a stationery of, or electronic stationery of) Dolly Parton. Her note reads:

Marshall (Eminem),

Congratulations on your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don’t know a lot about rap music, I’ve come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that I hope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you but I have always felt some unexplained connection to you like I know you somehow. I had hoped to meet you at the show but you know how nuts those things are, personally I hate ’em and I missed my chance but maybe someday we’ll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you’re doing because you do it so well and no matter how complex your world may be just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don’t even know.

With love & respect,
Dolly Parton

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Meldrew Point @meldrewpoint.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy Meldrew Point Day, Peter Andre! Today you are 19,537 days old and have reached your Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the day One Foot In The Grave was first aired on Jan 4, 1990. I don’t believe it!

A picture of the singer Peter Andre, shirtless in a pool in 1996.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Simon Ritchie @weirdyweirdtwit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Always stirring, lying & dividing…

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Whatever the colour of your political persuasion, if this ISN’T your view… you’re on the wrong side. Simple.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Anyone who makes comedy knows that most of the information you are transmitting in any piece of work is hidden intent, subtext and motive. Computers and LLMs cannot have those things. You can put them in yourself, read what was absent. But you get annoyed when you realise there was nothing there.

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hello. Matt Berry’s brilliant Television Themes album featured on Freak Zone right now as well as Forest, Julia Holter, France Gal, Mike Oldfield, Ash Ra Tempel, devotional stoner rock, Nordic prog, Turkish psych…..

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end

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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

MACCA GOES WEIRD! Join me on BBC 6Music’s The Freakzone Playlist at midnight, 6th August. I’ve selected plenty of Paul McCartney’s stranger things. Giddy for this to air. Reposts appreciated. Tune in, Paul! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @stuartmaconie.bsky.social #6Music #PaulMcCartney

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swearclock ⌚︎ @swearclock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey, I Just Rimmed You, And This Is Crazy, But I'm A Possum, And You've Got Rabies It's 10:00AM

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Simon Ritchie @weirdyweirdtwit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Follow the money & question the office costs!

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Buddhism Now @buddhismnow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ignorant people do not understand their self nature and do not know that the Land of Peace is within their own bodies, and thus wish to go East or wish to go West. But to the awakened person all places are alike. Hui Neng Goodnight everyone sleep tight.

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Simon Ritchie @weirdyweirdtwit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sage words that have helped me in work/life as a perfectionist/mildly autistic type: ‘You can take the horse to water but you can’t make it drink’ ‘Just do a little more than’s expected of you’ Any others that have helped you?

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

RIP William Orbit, who produced several indelible hits for other people (Ray of Light, Pure Shores, Tender) and some beautiful music of his own, like this tune with a very young Beth Orton. One of the people who defined the sound of the 90s www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneA...

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William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

YouTube video by atmosfearic1

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Royston @voodooroy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Arson Wanger.

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Blackheadkoi @blackheadkoi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Krasnov in Leningrad when he became a Russian asset. All they had to do was massage his ego, and he turned - no honey traps; no payoffs, nothing. It cost them nothing to bend POTUS 45 & 47.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I haven't been able to get this out of my head, so - I'm calling it. A few decades of rapid technical progress here, and plastic garbage can become the new coal or oil... And landfills become the new coal mines or oil wells. BRING IT ON. (Also: sci-fi writers, grab this maybe-future quick!)

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