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When I was in school, my English teacher told me that I would never be a published author. Well, 25 years later, and after dozens of drafts, re-writes, and rejection letters from publishing houses, I'm happy to announce that that teacher has finally died.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 8h

If I misidentified the "M" in TIME Magazine for a tiny crown on my head, I would delete my social media account and find all new friends who didn't know me, and this guy is just going to go back to being president tomorrow

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Trump doesn’t like the photo lol

Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 14h

- Mine (mobile and landline)
- My parents’ landline
- Going Live/Crimewatch (same number)
- My friend and colleague Peter’s, because I’ve rung it so often
- My friend and colleague Jeanne’s, because it’s a memorable number
- The 0891 number I used to voice

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 16h

- Mine (mobile and landline)
- My wife's
- My parents' (and their old one)
- My hairdresser
- Lombard Direct ("free on 0800 2 15000 - 24 hours a day!")
- And Going Live/Live & Kicking obvs

Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 17h

- Mine
- My dead grandparents' landline
- My dead parents' landline
- My dead dad's mobile
- My best friend's mobile
- Live & Kicking

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

So long as they’re also taught about how Clarkson only started his farm to take advantage of a tax loophole.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has called for farming to be taught in schools so that children understand where their food comes from ⬇️

Teach farming in schools, says Kaleb Cooper — it saved me

The star of the TV series Clarkson’s Farm tells the Cheltenham Literature Festival that ‘everyone should know how to grow potatoes and other vegetables’

www.thetimes.com

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Locations still bearing a Charter Mark sign, left over from John Major’s Citizens’ Charter.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

I think about Dinenage quite a lot. Absolutely fascinated by his style of turning even a daytime quiz into something requiring as stern an approach as a superpower summit.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Yep.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

What makes you proud to be British? For me, this is right up there.

A one-star review from a Texan tourist visiting Liverpool:

freddytexan (16 reviews)
“My wife and I visted Liverpool for our 30th wedding anniversary from Texas. Our evening was ruined when a man dressed as an adult baby called my wife a "Mad yank slut" because she'd never heard of a band called Steps.”

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely splendid, once again.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

And the bits about the sets in particular. Terrific research.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Loved this as well.

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, Polanski is such a showboater, and it’s a very good thing for him that there isn’t more focus on the Greens’ policies, because a lot of those will fall apart in an instant.

Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

What about you saying you think it’s right for us to leave NATO? Is that impersonal enough for you?

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

What a dreadful person. I don’t like saying that about people, but really, there are limits.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha. Yes. As a side issue, I love how every programme like this from the era is introduced like a meeting, with a list of agenda items to tick off.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

I have. Talk about interviewer and guest not being suited to one another.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

A gibbon playing a piano would make me very happy.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Why does *no-one* ever confront them over this arrant bollocks?

Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh.

Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 1d

Being in Birmingham New Street is bad enough. Being near someone playing random notes, totally drowning out anything *you* might want to listen to, is utterly dreadful.