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Clara 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · 3d

BookSky wouldn't exist without my underpants and I think that's nice.

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 3d

If you test positive for #HIV, treatment is highly effective, and most can expect to live a long, healthy life.

Early diagnosis can be lifesaving, so please get tested regularly if you’re sexually active.

Visit the NHS website to check your options: https://t.co/rvJOa6bo28 https://t.co/TxoVjMSA1n

Did you know? More than half the people in the UK living with HIV are now over 50. Thanks to testing and treatment, people can live long, healthy lives.

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much for posting that! What a lovely, lovely band they were. One of the main reasons why I still think the music I heard in my mid-teens has never been bettered in the subsequent 45 years or so 🙂

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 3d

Truly wonderful ❤️

Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 3d

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Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? (Official Video)

YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 7d

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 6d

LoLLllllllzzzzz

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 6d

The Guardian in full Dick Emery mode 😳

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

The kindness of strangers: my melons went flying and a group of old ladies came to the rescue

White hair, head scarves and one with a walking stick – they looked like they had stepped out of the same babushka doll

www.theguardian.com

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Brock Beauchamp @brockbeauchamp.bsky.social · 6d

I just said “hey labubu” in a yogi bear voice and my kids don’t appreciate my brilliance at all

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emma_c @emma-c.bsky.social · 6d

Football with friends

That’ll do 💙💙 #itfc

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 6d

Never does any harm to get a result either. So well done on that too x

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7d

The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed from an Interior, by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale, 1880-1952 (Museum of the Home).

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7d

The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice.

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 7d

Emma John being very good and very depressing:

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Sporting sisterhood struggles to overcome nationalistic diktats as India face Pakistan | Emma John

If the two captains fail to shake hands at the Women’s Cricket World Cup it will deliver another blow to ping-pong diplomacy

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 7d

Chelsea's coach charging down the touchline to join the celebrating players? Buttock-clenchingly embarrassing. There are clubs as bad or worse than Chelsea, but as Terry Collier pointed out 50 years ago, they epitomise everything awful about modern football.

Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 8d

Many thanks for this - it was so long ago I'd forgotten I had and I never got an answer. But that seems clear and - at least to me - exactly the right approach.

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 10d

So it's hard to see a downside to banning it then? I get that there are other better priorities (so I vote Green not Labour) but I can't see why we should not be pleased about this.

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 11d

I disagree with Labour about many things, but I wouldn’t let Owen Jones anywhere near me, so fair play.

Owen Jones on why it’s still always - Always! - about him:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My conference pass was revoked for asking difficult questions: this is Keir Starmer’s Labour | Owen Jones

I was told it was a ‘safeguarding’ issue. This speaks to a party that has not only lost its soul, but is scared of the truth, writes Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 11d

So Labour are going to lift the two child benefit cap. Wonderful, obviously. But why - after you said in opposition it was evil - go through a year of pain when you say it's too expensive to junk, before junking it, and thus getting slammed again for being weak? Extraordinarily bad politicking.

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 11d

My comfort read at times of stress. First read the original volume in (I think) early 1980, read each of them so often, but despite the welcome familiarity every time it's a treat. Douglas Adams was a great writer.

My kindle showing the cover of 'The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14d

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 14d

While working at the office, I often put one arm of my glasses in my mouth and let them hang there, just to make me feel like Roy Scheider when he was reading the book sbout sharks in "Jaws". I'm 65.

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 15d

CCTV is not 'everywhere' just because it creeped you out in London, but I get your drift. I don't mind ID cards these days and if voluntary might well get one, but would object if we were all forced to carry them. That feels totalitarian.

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Emms @emms.bsky.social · 20d

Or if journalists actually asked questions? And kept asking them until there was an answer.

For example: without the ECHR, who will be responsible for overseeing the safeguarding the rights of the vulnerable? In care settings? Those without capacity? Those under Section?

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 21d

I don’t generally agree with The Guardian’s right-wing conscience, but I think he’s gloomily nailed this:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s visit revealed a stark truth: Britain feels more than ever like a country stuck in the past | Simon Jenkins

The pageantry highlighted the fact that we have no vision for our future, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Gretton @markgretton.bsky.social · 25d

Things not to talk about over dinner:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just when Keir Starmer thought he’d got Jeffrey Epstein off his plate – look who’s coming to dinner | Marina Hyde

After a tough week for Labour, Donald Trump is touching down for a state visit. Let’s hope the PM can stomach it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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