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Rejoin. Historian. Likes Doctor Who, hockey, rugby & history & flags. Really should be writing. Quokka Facts. He/him. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · Aug 16

Started something with Discworld I have never done before.

I am planning on running them all on Audible.

In publication order, from Colour of Magic to Shepherd's Crown.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1h

Oh.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government * UK politics live – latest updates Reform UK’s deputy leader has admitted the party cannot deliver the £90bn in tax cuts promised in its manifesto, saying it would concentrate on public spending cuts once in government. Richard Tice said key election pledges such as lifting the income tax threshold would be an “aspiration” and that once in government Reform would concentrate on cutting the civil service and scrapping net zero. Continue reading...

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 2h

I feel so sorry for UKIP. The main parties have raised the bar so high for ultra racism and transphobia that they've literally had to adopt Nazi iconography as their logo just to compete.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 1h

Vance is every bit as evil and dangerous as Trump.

Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · 2h

J.D. Vance said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker should `suffer some consequences` because `he absolutely should suffer some consequences for the fact that there are thousands of innocent Chicagoans who are dead because he failed to do his job

[KARMA'S COMING FOR JD]

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Vance says Pritzker should ‘suffer some consequences’ for handling of Chicago crime

Vice President Vance said on Sunday that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) should “suffer some consequences” after President Trump called for the outspoken governor to be jailed for failing to protect fed...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2h

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5h

I have no issue with people marking the centenary of the birth of someone no longer alive. But wishing THEM Happy Birthday is weird by any measure.

On which note, Happy Birthday to the very much alive Nana Mouskouri!

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Sally Dawson @sallydawson.bsky.social · 2h

"Olympian, parliamentarian, King’s Counsel. The list of achievements is formidable...but it only shows a fraction of the whole picture. What it doesn’t show is a man capable of enormous loyalty and kindness to his friends"
🕊️ @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social pays tribute to Menzies Campbell
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'A man of achievement matched by few': Tribute to Lord Campbell by Alistair Carmichael

With a formidable list of accomplishments including Olympian, parliamentarian and King’s Counsel, Menzies Campbell was also a man of enormous loyal...

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 5h

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
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Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 2h

A genuine moment to celebrate. I’m happy for the freed Palestinians and their families as well. Now, the even harder part begins. I pray to God Israel and Hamas will both honour the terms of the ceasefire, and next steps.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h

Hamas releases final 13 living hostages on.ft.com/4mY068L

Hamas releases final 13 living hostages

Milestone comes as Donald Trump prepares to address Knesset

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Thirty

We begin the Tiffany Aching books.

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You look like you are auditioning to be a new Time Lord.

The Historian would be an excellent title.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14h

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 6d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 5h

In the UK parquet is a type of wooden flooring; in France it's a public prosecutor. Fascinatingly, this is linked by three different etymological stages in French...

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 5h

Pascal Prache nommé à la tête du Parquet national financier, institution-clé de la lutte contre la fraude financière

A l’heure où le PNF est sous les projecteurs après la condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy, Pascal Prache s’apprête à diriger une institution-clé de la lutte contre la fraude financière.

www.lemonde.fr

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Mine too, that is how the Guardian puts its ID graphic.

Would have been helpful for a human to check!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14h

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 5h

He couldn’t run a p!ss up in a brewery.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 8h

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

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'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Have you stored your footballers for the winter?

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Ah, but a cunning plan would keep the turnips safe

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Turnip shepherd seems an ok job

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'Visit Cwmbran, It's Full of Shite!' is definitely an unusual tourism slogan.

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The department of bad takes @lordkeynes42.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is dying and he knows it.

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 21h

“ “If you want a job, go where the jobs are.”

“he told a broke, exhausted nation in recession that he was “wealthy and sorted”.

“ telling parents of poor kids that if they didn’t like the prison slop on offer in schools, make a marmite sandwich.”

“He’s a dead man walking.”
#nzpol

Christopher Luxon, like a modern day Marie Antoinette

Opinion: In his head, I think the prime minister is doing the whole tough guy bit.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING
AG Letitia James is launching a full-scale fraud investigation into Tr*mp’s entire property empire, every tower, every deal, every shell company.

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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 18h

RN4 rétro panneaux MICHELIN L'ancienne station service Total vers 1982 à l'entrée de Sarrebourg (57)

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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 18h

South Carolina's longest-serving death row inmate dies of natural causes after 42 years in prison - ABC News share.google/2BoZLLGS6Ju8...

State's longest-serving death row inmate dies after 42 years in jail

A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital

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