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Gray Frights! @clickgate.bsky.social · 23h

Shoutout to one of my fave tweets ever of all time

Martin Leahy tweets:

“There was a bus going through Béal na Bláth once and the bus driver announced to the passengers, 'This is where Michael Collins died' and someone on the bus said 'Tis a bad bend alright'.”

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 22h

BBC Model Linear B

A picture of a very old BBC Microcomputer sporting a keyboard with markings in Linear B.

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 1d

Please enjoy this dramatic moment from some online health and safety training

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Steve @notadric.bsky.social · 1d

Evening entertainment in old Bristol

Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 1970: Freezers ad from Bejam

(+Frozen Food)

«DISCOVER THE FACTS
OF FREEZERS»

Advertisement by a freezer specialist offering a free film show and demonstration about freezers at their Bristol branch. It highlights the benefits of owning a freezer, such as better hygiene, saving money, access to a full range of food, and more leisure time.

DISCOVER THE FACTS
OF FREEZERS

There will be a FREE FILM SHOW
and Demonstration by our Home
Economist at our Bristol Branch
OCTOBER 28, at 7.30 p.m.
Come and learn the benefits of owning your
own Freezer.
Freezer & Frozen Food Specialists
54-62 BOND STREET (Broadmead), BRISTOL
Tel. 28426
Better standards of
hygiene
Enjoy shopping and
save money
Join the budget-
conscious shoppers
Always a full range
of food at home
More leisure time

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Steve @notadric.bsky.social · 2d

Radio Paradise playing Pink Floyd’s little classic Free Four. “The memories of a man in his old age / Are the deeds of a man in his prime”. I always think there’s a hint of a Monty Python song in the lyrics.

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 2d

If the Norwegians had a sense of humour, they'd give Obama a second peace prize today.

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 3d

I really buy the theory that this is about a loss of social and cultural power, rather than political power. If you were e.g. in upper management, or a senior public servant, or an experienced teacher, you are used to having people listen to you. Gradually, the music stops.

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Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social · 3d

Mildly doxxing myself here, but my old RE teacher posted some photos from. 1997 and “The Knights Templar School trip to Israel” is one hell of a caption.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 3d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Steve @notadric.bsky.social · 4d

Of course ‘fixing a broken computer’ is another question-begging phrase.

Steve @notadric.bsky.social · 4d

“But while I can’t remember how to do parallel integration.
I can remember how to fix a broken computer.”

What’s ‘parallel integration’ here? Parallelised numerical integration? Straightforward textbook multiple integrals? Both useful things. Or something else? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Badenoch criticised for ‘nonsensical’ plan to cut student numbers by 100,000 – UK politics live

Tory leader says proposal would ‘protect interests of taxpayers and students’ but university representatives say it is ‘economically illiterate’

www.theguardian.com

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5d

In 2009, NATO put an archive of internal security posters online. They’re great!

www.nato.int

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rubot @rubot.ie · 4d

luke skywalker -
- farmer
- lives on a windswept island in the atlantic
- emotionally damaged by religion
- starts fights in pubs, big head on him

- irish.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 4d

Same energy.

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Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 4d

#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.

Mindless Jerks artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

Paula NM Jennings (Worst Poet) artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 5d

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 5d

Doctor Who - City of Death (6th October 1979). "Ah, well. You're a beautiful woman ... probably".

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 5d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 5d

Spent some time looking through one of my Nana's old cookery books at the weekend, 'Australia the Beautiful'. Please enjoy these horrible/wonderful recipe names and descriptions

A photo of a recipe for 'Meat loaf in an overcoat'

A photo of a recipe for 'Colonial goose'

A photo of a recipe for 'Love in disguise'. 'Our forefathers made great use of offal.'

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 6d

It’s happened again

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

199 years after the last one, way to string along your fanbase, Ms. Shelley

Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 7d

She hath risen.

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

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Steve @notadric.bsky.social · 8d

Good Guardian Prize crossword today by Brendan - failed to solve anything on the first pass but it got much easier when I noticed a theme www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p...

Prize crossword No 29,817

www.theguardian.com

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 8d

seven-year-old: “who’s voice is that”

me: “Bob Dylan”

7yo: “is that yr friend”

me: “no a singer”

7yo: “not a very good singer”

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David Brunt @davidbrunt.bsky.social · 10d

The things you find when you're looking for something else.

Yes, it was him...

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