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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Football hooliganism was just "good-natured fun" says Robert Jenrick

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 1d

It me!

Note the terminal in the background - this was the track to the train ferry from Helsingør to Helsingborg, pre-Øresund bridge.

Signal of the Day 🚦🚥🚂 @signaloftheday.bsky.social · 2d

Helsingør (Submitted by Tom Crame)
#SignalOfTheDay #Stoptober

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 1d

I’m always shocked that he’s only two years older than me.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently one of the risk factors for it includes Measles or Mumps in childhood. Strange that he’s so anti-vax when MMR would prevent that.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 3d

That faltering voice makes him sound like he’s much older than he really is.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 3d

When they say “too many are ignored” it means there’s too much focus on Reform and their handful of MPs compared to the Greens or the Lib Dems.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 3d

"Over the last year, Badenoch has asked c.200 questions, Davey around 70, Green MPs 9, and Farage just 6. If those questions had been distributed according to their share of the opinion polls, rather than the number of MPs, Farage would have asked 120 , and the others between 40 and 60 each."

PMQs should give more space to Nigel Farage

In a recent survey of young people by Onward, six out of 10 felt that “too many people are ignored” by democracy or, worse still, that “democracy i...

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 5d

My mobile, work mobile, landline
Parents’ landline, dad’s mobile
Grandparents’ landline
Childhood best friend’s landline
No.1 work colleague
Friends in Sweden
Random ones I’ve not needed to use in years like my old school, old desk number, GOS, lost property number at local bus garage…

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 5d

- my mobile and landline
- the BF’s mobile
- the BF’s office number for a job he left 20 years ago
- my childhood landline
- Childline (oh eight hundred, double one, DOUBLE ONE)

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 5d

There is also a generational factor here too. Brexit occured at precisely the point that an entire generation (millenials) had grown up after the Maastricht treaty. Burgundy passports and the EU were the *norm* for them

The notion they would just go away and not want this undone is for the birds

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 5d

These sorts of incoherences do not last. The cross party durability of the Brexit incoherence is a very curious phenomenon.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 5d

0181 811 8181 and many others…

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 5d

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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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 10d

Zero point unless they want to study maths. Make the subject attractive and then people will take it - but focussing on STEM subjects at the expense of everything else will not achieve the desired result.

I need engineers who can also write a decent document and lay out a drawing.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 11d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 12d

Makes me wonder how Jenrick and his constituents would react if some of the Handsworth population were relocated to Newark on the grounds of ‘integration’.

Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve walked across Swedish offices in my socks before. But over here it’s only for the middle of your long night shifts in control rooms.

Maybe if they did the German thing and introduced hausschuhe?

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 20d

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 24d

100%. This lot have not an ounce of compassion, and Titus 1:16 very much applies.

Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 25d

Sadly I know a few who expressed their sorrow over Kirk’s death and claimed he was ‘only expressing firmly held opinions’.

They also believe Pope Francis was illegitimate - which gives you a guide to their beliefs.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · 26d

I’m sitting back and looking forward to McNeil suing him and RFK Jr for everything they’ve got.

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · Sep 14

"....and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, cowering and saying nothing whilst a violent far right mob goes on the march in the capital...I’m telling you, you can’t play politics with public order and with people’s safety"

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mind. Blown.

Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · Sep 12

I’ve never been on the Petit Train Jaune, but the sound of those compressors alone makes me want to.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · Sep 11

That feeling when you’re not on call for another nine hours and the SMOC rings you out of desperation…

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · Sep 11

Catching up on the previous updates from Hki. Good choice of hotel.

Pleased to see you’ve been infected by the Finnish bug too.

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · Sep 11

I remember staying in Essen in 2021 and looking out for this particular train from the hotel window…

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Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · Sep 11

I used to consider Gävle as northern, until I went to the Finnish Midlands and was some distance further north.

Tom @cranium84.bsky.social · Sep 10

I do like an IC3. Decent seats which line up with the windows, big tables, big luggage racks.

Take note, UK.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Having crossed the Little Belt back onto the European mainland in the form of the Jutland peninsula, shorn of a couple of carriages from the rear at the junction station of Fredericia, which I feel ought to be in Italy, we rumble north for a bit, counterintutively. There is a reason! #Schengen200

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