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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 21h
If I'd known it was that easy to get the US to withdraw bombers from British bases I'd have been out there with a van and a tin of calor gas years ago.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Divorce, once rare and stigmatised, has become mainstream – 42 per cent of marriages now end this way, meaning nearly half of us who get married can expect to experience it in our lifetime." Why do we allow people to write for newspapers without the most basic training in stats?
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
World's going to be a very different place if we start rooting out every white dude who ever blagged his way into a job for which he was underqualified.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I only just discovered that you can mute reposts and my bluesky experience has been transformed already. But, just in case anyone cares, it does mean that henceforth I will only be able to see your own posts and your quote posts, but not anything you just repost without comment.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And I'd spent all this time thinking transphobes and racists were two totally different groups.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@fnord, as my beer guru - what's the difference between keg and cask?
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What business does Spain have having an enclave in Africa anyway?
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Does this really need explaining? No, the glut of goals does not make it any kind of classic, still less is it evidence that the teams took your third place wank off at all seriously. It happens quite often in dead rubbers for very much the opposite reason.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What's one of these, @azulbuho.bsky.social?
A large-ish, very pale lemony yellow moth, pictured in my depot at work this morning.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you in any way support or endorse or tacitly endorse a candidate you are not boycotting the election.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Incredibly unlucky that these homophobic and transphobic bigots keep finding themselves sharing a platform with overt racism.
Excerpt from BBC article about Kate Forbes:
"The question and answer event was chaired by former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson.

At one point, Anderson claimed that Forbes had been treated "grossly unfairly" due to her Christian beliefs.

Speaking about Yousaf, he went on to say the SNP leadership contest had gone "in favour of somebody who was probably every bit as committed to those views, and even more hardline, but happened to be of a different faith".

Anderson added: "Let's be honest, he was a Muslim."

This statement went unchallenged by Forbes."
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Another film about aliens and government conspiracies. Except this one, just to ensure it's even more ridiculously shit, is made by Steven Spielberg. How does this crap get made and why is there a single person in the world with any interest in watching it? Genuinely bewildered.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Today I learned that Quansah and Konsa are different people.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Anglo-scot here. My accent flips about too, depending on context, and sometimes just with no pattern that has any reason or makes any particular sense. Now go and fuck yourselves. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer, pictured clearing up the mess of papers Trump has just dropped at his feet.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Utterly bent club, rotten to the core. Just get them into the sea with the other lot. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Celtic chairman mocks 'artificial controversy' on pitch invasion
Celtic chairman Brian Wilson criticises the "stupid debate" around the pitch invasion that followed their title-clinching victory over Hearts in May, while accepting sanctions issued by the SPFL.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Absolutely astonished to learn that this chap who wants to be leader of a transphobic anti-immigrant flag-shagging British nationalist party is a transphobic anti-immigrant flag-shagging British nationalist.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
fuck off Arsenal
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Someone should brief young children in football crowds.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The same 'papers criticising youngsters for buying coffee are moaning about them not spending enough in pubs and clubs.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Fuck off Wrexham.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Feeling left out because I don't have fifteen favourite TV shows.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Ah, some actual good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
University of Sussex wins landmark free speech case against universities regulator
A record fine had been issued by the Office for Students over the university's trans and non-binary inclusion policy.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It is a truth universally acknowledged by every football journalist that the quality of a match is directly proportional to its number of goals.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Message to newspaper editors - I am never going to read any article with a headline that starts with "I'm a ...".
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
After all this time there are still so many who don't get it, and are talking as though buttering Trump up and flattering his ego can have some sort of meaningful effect, rather than being completely forgotten by the next day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
King's 'high stakes' visit with Trump will be toughest test yet of his reign
The state visit to the US looks fraught with difficulty - but could be key to rescuing the special relationship.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is all the worse because we know Scottish Labour know better, and supported the gender recognition bill until they decided they could make political capital by sacrificing the trans community instead.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It never rains but it piddles. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mandelson faces £300 fine for urinating in street, council says
Lord Peter Mandelson is set to be fined for public urination but the council cannot find an address.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'd choose Jonathan Portes to decide on economic policy way ahead of Hannah Spencer. Sorry and that.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Peter Svidler's round-ups are great. But if you're lucky enough to have the time, it's better still to watch his full commentary alongside Jan Gustafsson.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Yeah I reckon I could just about manage that.
Screenshot of BBC news headline - "London Marathon considers two-day event in 2027".
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
FIFA have announced that they've overturned the result of the 1966 world cup. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Afcon 2025: Senegal say 'fight is far from over' after Morocco awarded title
Senegal say
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Hey @telegraph.co.uk, I think you missed something off that list.
Screenshot from a Telegraph article:
"Every time it looks like Britain is about to recover from its long slump, it suffers a fresh blow which knocks it back.

The pandemic, the cost of living crisis, now the war in Iran – each one landed like a sucker punch, derailing efforts to put the UK on a stronger footing."
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Does anyone have any actual stats on whether a Panenka is any more of a risk than any other penalty?
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This alone should be enough to have the world cup stripped from them. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Mount Pleasant v LA Galaxy: Ten players from Jamaican side refused entry to US for Concacaf Champions Cup tie
Jamaican side Mount Pleasant will be without 10 first-team players for their Champions Cup tie against LA Galaxy after they were denied visas to enter the United States.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
ehup @kingtubby.bsky.social, I'm planning a visit to the Brudenell on 10th May. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te1H...
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Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Good to know that even the royal family themselves don't think of Camilla as "the queen".
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Momentarily lost track of whether I was reading about state-sanctioned murder in Northern Ireland or a twist in the latest series of Traitors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Extract from BBC link:

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Scappaticci helped create a legal precedent on state secrecy that is routinely cited by the government to this day.

In 2003, he sought a judicial review over the then government's refusal to publicly deny media reports that he was Stakeknife.

But Scappaticci was bluffing and did not actually want to succeed, since if the government was ordered to tell the truth, he would have been confirmed as Stakeknife. Scappaticci was engaged in a pretence to help shore up his reputation: publicly fighting a legal case, while hoping – and expecting – he would lose.

However, the government feared Scappaticci would win because a judge would assume he was not Stakeknife and force ministers to be honest.

Jon Boutcher has now confirmed an extraordinary fact: the judge who heard the case did so after being secretly briefed on the real identity of Stakeknife.

That judge, the then Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord Carswell, ultimately allowed the government to maintain NCND, creating the legal precedent on the policy.

"The full facts about this and the government's explanation will never be known while it is able to hide behind the shield of NCND," Boutcher has said.

There is a second extraordinary fact: the government barrister who did the secret briefing was Philip Sales, who as Lord Sales was one of the Supreme Court justices in the Paul Thompson case. This fact was uncovered by the journalist John Ware.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Expect you're all over this already, @kingtubby.bsky.social
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
What a time to be alive. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...
msn.com
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We're so lucky we have a Free Speech Union to come out and campaign for this chap. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
British-Egyptian dissident apologises for tweets as Tories push for UK deportation
Shabana Mahmood is facing growing calls to revoke the citizenship of Alaa Abdel Fattah after the emergence of social media posts.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I'm not a family counsellor, but I can't help wondering if there might be a relationship between someone's lack of contact with their offspring, and their apparent inability to conceive that it might be anything other than the child's fault.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Fair play.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Last Christmas was never all over my timeline on December 1st until those fucking wankers decided to make a 'game' of it. Please stop it. I don't want to play the game - I just don't want to hear, or be reminded of, that fucking shitty song any more than can be helped at this time of year.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Been much talk about whether Joe Root can make a century this series. Eight runs on the board so far so he'll need to lift his game a bit, but he's got four matches left to add the other ninety-two.
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 20/11/2025
If you value my work and appreciate the fact that I put basic human decency and respect for human rights over my potential income, I'd really appreciate if you chipped into said crowdfunder here: gofund.me/55e3a6cf4
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Donate to Ballot Box Scotland SP26 Fundraiser, organized by Allan Faulds
This funding will support Ballot Box Scotland's reporting ahead of the 2026 Scottish … Allan Faulds needs your support for Ballot Box Scotland SP26 Fundraiser
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
She's a good sort, Alice Roberts.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm no kind of fan of Corbyn, but I don't think he's nearly as bad as some of the people he seems to be attracting.
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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Peter Withe, apparently.
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