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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 34m

Looks more like Nyhavn in Copenhagen!

Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 49m

Ah yes, just checked and you're right!

Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 1h

Nice example of linguistic "false friends" here:

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 6h

Been doing a lot of reading on the shoe industry. Interesting fact, a Skiver as in the trade of thinning leather down on seams etc, is from the OE/ON ‘skifa’ ‘to cut or split’. The term skiver to avoid work is from the Middle French ‘esquiver’ to escape.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 1h

(This was in Bayeux, so maybe more standard behaviour for neat middle-aged chaps here.)

Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 3h

A few minutes before seeing this, a bloke walked past me, dressed as Obelix. A very neat, middle-aged and fairly slim bloke, so the costume looked quite anomalous.

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7h

Unsolicited Asterix pics

Asterix and Obelix the Gauls, looking worried

Asterix, Obelix & Dogmatix the dog, strolling happily

Iain from Bake Off 2025, a short king with a very gaulish mullet & moustache who just generally exudes Asterix Energy

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 1d

"If there was an election tomorrow, which there won't be, and in fact, if you compare UK political opinion now with 4 years ago... shall we just ignore the polls?"

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lot of us were asking that question in 2016. Nine years later...

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 3d

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 2d

Byeeeeeeee

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. Farage is terrible, but at least he's consistent. Everything he says (even the fake "man of the people" stuff) is of a piece with the golf club bore. God only knows what Jenrick is prepared to shapehift into.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4d

John Hosier, the producer of this, long-term partner and eventual husband of Biddy Baxter.

Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 4d

If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...

Shoreditch Experimental Music School 1969

YouTube video by Elen Nas

www.youtube.com

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 4d

If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...

Shoreditch Experimental Music School 1969

YouTube video by Elen Nas

www.youtube.com

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my God this.

You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 4d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 4d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 4d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

Take care, everyone. There's a lot of scenery out there today.

A narrow country lane with a backdrop of hills, trees and grassland under a clear blue sky in early autumn. (Box Hill, Surrey)

Fields, hedgerows and a wooded hill with a small tower on the top, under a clear blue sky in early autumn (Leith Hill, Surrey, from the south)

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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 5d

Police investigating a suspected arson at a mosque in East Sussex have issued images of two people they wish to identify.

Peacehaven: Police release photos of mosque arson suspects

The images are of two people in balaclavas seen outside the mosque before the large blaze spread.

www.bbc.com

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

Bollocks

(You know, the one with Kate Winslet where the big ocean liner hits an iceberg)

👻🎃🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Just Ni-Ghoul 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎃👻 @nothinghuman.bsky.social · 6d

Some Sunday evening fun.

I’ll go first;

Ferris Bueller’s Bollocks Off.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

Saw a small patch of these this afternoon, and for a moment was wondering why someone had left all the apples from their picnic.

A large shiny red toadstool emerging from the scrubby grass on Banstead Heath.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 6d

I regularly fail to notice what my generation's cultural staples actually ARE, but yep, Friends and Love Actually. I think I saw one and a half of the original Star Wars films at some point. Didn't like Little Britain. I thought Metallica's black album was their worst at that point.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 6d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 7d

We made a windfall chutney last week (there's an orchard at the wildlife hospital where Nicola volunteers)... I'm not convinced about the recipe, which smelled more like piccalilli (a bit turmeric-heavy). Hoping it matures a bit in the jars!

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