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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And yet, only yesterday - after the biggest cheating scandal in professional sports history was revealed - we saw the UK Prime Minister saying he didn't want the Abu Dhabi royal family to sell up. And we know why. Just as we know why Boris Johnson pressurised the PL to allow MBS to buy Newcastle.

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Canaries Caption It @canaries-captionit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you really want to get into the weeds of the Man City/Abu Dhabi relationship with Manchester, there is an incredibly well researched report (2022) which can be downloaded from this site. It paints a shocking picture of the council's (Labour controlled) actions. Just so little in return.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Landlord, and the dogs, masters of timing...

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BFBS Forces News @forcesnews.com · 01/10/2026

💥1,400 tonnes of explosives lie beneath the Thames Estuary The SS Richard Montgomery sank in 1944, leaving a deadly cargo in her holds. Nearly 80 years on, the wreck remains a threat. So what's being done to prevent it from exploding?🔗⬇️

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Explosive cargo - Stopping Liberty Ship from blowing up in the Thames

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'll stop moaning about #bbcr5live constantly interviewing Man City fans. Am all for it now. They should do at least a couple every day until they find one who breaks down in tears, admitting that blinkered support is part of the issue, and says sorry for what's been obvious to everyone except them.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where's a sinkhole when you need one...

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This picture of TV preeminent British gameshow host, Bradley Walsh and his charisma bereft son Barney is lovely, innit.

Best rapper ever, Vanilla Ice with problematic old man abuser, Benny Hill. They're both dressed all trendy.

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Have you got a copy of Fly Tipping by RAF Fairford? You do? Oh that's wonderful. My name? Fairford. RAF Fairford.'

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Super @barneyronay.bsky.social piece and a welcome antidote to the utter blx on bbcr5 earlier this evening where some former footballers seemed incapable of seeing further than breadth of their wallets and egos. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Scale of City’s punishment is the only story but Premier League must bear some responsibility | Barney Ronay

Khaldoon al-Mubarak has come out fighting yet the Premier League failed completely to regulate his club

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Leshen @leshen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good to have a reminder every once in a while. It's easy to do, and the problem is likely to get worse. So make it a habit.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just as a reminder Trump apologists, in the last 9 months Trump has: Threatened to invade Greenland Seized the leader Venezuela Launched a war against Iran without Congressional approval. Any state in the world needs to worry about him. Except Russia of course. Putin is safe.

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Exploitation of enemy weapons, tech & ideas has always been a crucial part of any nation’s warfighting strategy. It permits development of counters - or copying good enemy tech & ideas. Here, the disassembling of a jet-powered Russian Geran-4 attack drone, by @rferl.org.web.brid.gy

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy #fencefriday. Starting to feel like like autumn on the Plain, #birds passing through yesterday and others getting ready for winter.

Male stonechat perched on barbed wire, head facing to his left (our right).

Two Meadow Pipits perched on a barbed wire fence, one in the foreground in focus, the second, higher and in the background, out of focus.

Corn bunting, on barbed wire, facing camera, head tilted.

Female Reed Bunting, resting on a barbed wire fence, back to camera ,head turned to her left amd showing to camera.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If A***I could do one useful thing, it would make the automated checkout bleep loudly and shout 'Did you mean to buy decaf?' whenever you buy decaf. Because that is never a deliberate act. (Today has been a struggle)

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel this is important information...

Scene: A flat, two-tone pink and white stylized map of Germany dotted with markers, each labeled with a real German place name that includes the word “Otter.”

Baked-in text:
“An Otter Map of Germany”

Map labels (each at a dot corresponding roughly to its real-world location):
Otterndorf
Otterstein
Ottersberg
Otterstedt
Otternhagen
Ottersleben
Ottersitz
Otterschütz
Otterwisch
Otterbach
Ottersheim bei Kirchheimbolanden
Otterberg
Otterbach
Ottersheim bei Landau
Otterstadt
Ottersdorf
Otterweier
Otterswang
Ottershofen
Ottersdorf
Otterhofen
Ottersried
Otterloh
Otterhausen
Otterwald
Otterfing
Ottering
Otterskirchen
Ottersberg

Bottom left corner: “KATAPULT”
Bottom right corner: “Quelle: Google Maps 2020 © 2020 KATAPULT”

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is proper progress and I wish it was covered more. Not ideal, but a heck of a lot better than the ridiculous and hard-hearted 1 week that we've got now. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK workers to receive two weeks of unpaid leave for bereavement

Change in definition of those eligible will bring law ‘into the 21st century’

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The orange fucking imbecile keeps thanking 'Kazakhastan' which I'm sure millions of Kazakhastanis appreciate. #whereintheworld

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A timely reminder in October's #afm that British jobs and spreadsheets depend on us being able to flog a new batch of Typhoons to our wonderful friends, the goverment of Saudi Arabia.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Absolutely incredible work here

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Recovered from a trip to Carrow Road with a morning at Titchwell today. This was one of a handful of Bar-tailed Godwits on the beach #birds #waders #rspb

Collage of four pics of the same bar-tailed godwit on a sandy beach. An obliging bird, all shots fairly close to the camera showing the bird busy searching for food in the sand.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/09/2026

Paper of record

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Home after 36 hours in Norfolk. Welcomed back by a pair of B1s heading into Fairford low over the house. I love them as machines and dare i say, works of science and art, but is seriously f'g weird to have so much of somebody else's war in Wiltshire skies with barely a squeak from UK govt.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nominate Katie as tribute

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looking on the bright side, the M4 diversion route was really good so I got here early. 😐 #ncfc

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

***** M4 closure so there's 3hrs lost tomorrow. I know it would be economic madness, but I wish for a change Highways England and Network Rail would do the awkward stuff in the working week. Saving the big closures for weekends just fucks around the same, mostly poorer, people every bastarding time.

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Naval News @navalnews.com · 19/09/2026

[VIDEO] Royal Danish Navy Fleet Renewal: Latest on New Frigates, Arctic Ships & Drones | DALO 2026 🇩🇰 Naval News Chief Editor speaks with Commodore Claus Andersen, Director of Naval Programs for an update on the renewal of the Royal Danish Navy fleet www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAT8...

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Royal Danish Navy Fleet Renewal: Latest on New Frigates, Arctic Ships & Drones | DALO 2026

YouTube video by Naval News

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Week off work that I've failed to plan for apart from a trip to the Fine City for the obvious. Lots of reading to catch up on though, have pressed play on Buffy (again), and weather will decide which days are spent on birding/trains/models. #adaptability

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well this is a load of old nonsense from @financialtimes.com It's not about the money-it's about them doing different *** jobs, despite the 'duplication' in Wes's weekend fever dream #nhs giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

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Salary stand-off delays abolition of NHS quango

Health service leaders are urging ministers to set up a temporary body to resolve deadlock

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Piddington" is what Aldi call their Peruvian Immigrant Bear Shaped Cake.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I worry about these people. And their pets.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

15 September 1944 | A Polish man Edward Galiński and a Jewish woman Mala Zimetbaum - two prisoners who fell in love & escaped the camp in June 1944 - were executed by hanging at the #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

Black and white portrait of Mala Zimetbaum, smiling and wearing a knitted sweater.

Text description of a historical document discussing Edward Galinski and Mala Zimetbaum, who were executed for an escape attempt from Birkenau on September 15, 1944. The document provides a detailed account of their planning, capture, and execution, and mentions the involvement of various individuals and locations associated with the event.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've stayed in Grantown a few times and it was only on the last trip that I realised the tearoom was also the home of Spey Models. What a combination! So this is the #ngauge #class66 I got while I had some morning cakie back in May #usedandsmooth

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Am genuinely excited at the prospect of PHEV AFVs. Proper and natural fit for the job.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/09/2026

OH Scale xkcd.com/3297/

Comic. [Next to a two-story house and some trees is a huge rail (several times the height of the house) with an incomplete huge wheel on top surrounded by scaffolding.] [caption] Due to a typo in the plans, I’ve been building an 87:1 model train set in my yard.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You can add 'making us want United win' to the Man City charge sheet. If there's any space on it.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A few test runs this afternoon after hardly any #ngauge action all summer. The A4 sticking to the outside track, slowly, because it can't cope with my turnouts. #autumnactivity

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On top of all the other stuff, our footballers don't know words. 'It's a big devastation...' 😐.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't know how better supporters than me (most of them) do it week in and week out, but this is not putting me in the mood for the almost 4hr drive each way to and from #ncfc next week.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's autumn so starting to get back to doing indoor things. Have started by annoying the notoriously NIMBY residents of Tinytown by giving them some air traffic to moan about #corgi almost #ngauge

A model red and white airliner (Vickers Viscount) suspended over a small model railway layout.

A model of a blue and white airliner (Avro York) suspended over a small model railway layout.

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well now, this is fun (so far) #otbc

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Chris @yellowferret.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Chr. Woolmar making a point in Rail that applies equally to the NHS. Jim Mackey has been *** at it, but other NHSE Ch Execs routinely spoke up for the wider service. There'll be nobody to do that when NHSE is gone and all the 'bureaucrats' are sat in DHSC. So thanks again Wes. #nhs #rail #nhse

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