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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 18h

Right, that’s the bike sparkly clean… ready for the Northumberland winter.

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 22h

No worse than me, just about to start reading it (my copy arrived yesterday), on the recommendation of two of the kind of people who hang out on Bluesky.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 22h

You monster, you've hurt his stupid feelings.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Mathematicians!

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

In fairness, it was a very quiet decade for Tiktokkers and Youtubers.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 1d

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Celebrity Traitors: The Highlander 40th Anniversary Special, yes! Do you still go to the same club as the BBC One commissioner?

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

The biggest missed opportunity, as they’ve got Celia Imrie, is not signing up him off of Grand Designs, so she could yell, “You’ve the devil in you, Kevin McCloud!”

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Just lift one of the kids over and tell them to run for help.

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Simply do what I do, and make new, free t-shirts by stitching together all the cut-out oversized tags.

They're very stylish but unfortunately only single use, as I can't work out how the fuck to wash them.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

BREAKING: In what seems to be a deliberate snub of Trump, Nobel Peace Prize goes to the woman who was yelling, "Leave 'im, Dave, 'e ain't worf it!" in the Dog & Strangler car-park at 11:45 last night.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

My home town of Prudhoe... which is so definitely not pronounced the way Martin Sheen says it in The West Wing that I was on about my third watch through before I realised that's what he was saying.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Goddamnit! I thought it was Wednesday-Friday. Still, at least I can watch Gogglebox tomorrow night.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Buy now! As worn by Alan Carr…
#CelebrityTraitors

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Oh no! And after she went to the trouble of cosplaying as Yvette from Clue!
#CelebrityTraitors

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Give Obama another one, then he can use them as bookends.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

It's time, and a decision has been made.
#CelebrityTraitors

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Wow, that is a wild ride.

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 2d

This is remarkable: how a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator. (Also featuring LLMs behaving badly, because of course it does.)

larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...

The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...

larslofgren.com

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Surely the smart move would be to vote for the one whose name you don't know, then the press would remind you what she's called every time they've got column inches that they don't want to fill with Reform scandal.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Never too late for a surprise come-back.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

Ok, which Labour deputy leader are we cool kids voting for?

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

It's OK, I saw a documentary a while ago about how the NSA are spying on every maths professor in the world, so they're probably on top of this as well.

Prime Target (TV series) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 3d

Instead of allowing pubs to open later, could we demand they go back to opening at 11am?

When I walk the dogs at the weekend I want somewhere for a spot of brunch, and I keep arriving at pubs half an hour before they open, at 12.

We used to be a real country!

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