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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 6h

Clearly Mr Laos is embodying someone who has completed 100% of the side quests before facing the final boss below.

The Pope and two priests in front of an aweinspiring/horrifying spirit of Jesus

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly not sure how this is going to Pain out.

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 9h

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp 🥐

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp

France has launched a croissant-scented stamp to celebrate its emblematic flaky pastry, its national postal service, La Poste, announced on Wednesday.

www.france24.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly not sure how this is going to Pain out.

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 9h

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp 🥐

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp

France has launched a croissant-scented stamp to celebrate its emblematic flaky pastry, its national postal service, La Poste, announced on Wednesday.

www.france24.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 11h

All I can think of is Kerching!
I'm sure it laid the seeds for hustle culture in the UK

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 11h

And Philip Howard books in Roundbay. Order a lot into them but also do a lot of local books top

www.hive.co.uk

🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 11h

Haven't been able to make it to a bookshop myself today on National Bookshop Day but will try to boost the two near me.

The little bookshop in Chapel Allerton which has a focus on kids books but a very good adult section (not like that) in the back.

The Little Bookshops

The Little Bookshop Books Leeds Skipton Fiction Non-Fiction Children's books

www.thelittlebookshopleeds.co.uk

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 12h

It's very curious as the states is the origin it seems of so much tech and innovation.
But so little of that seems to have filtered to day to day life.

Wonder if part of it is the geographical size plus so much been state specific preventing homogenisation?

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 12h

First time going to the National Railway Museum and man what a fantastic place!
All had a great time, toddler got to ride the train in and out of York and could have spent hours in the wonderlab.

A black train with a sign saying happy 50th Birthday to the national Railway Museum

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like he wasn't a person of interest

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 13h

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

bit.ly

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 19h

Remember a really good BBC documentary a few years back in Dubai.
A guy had moved there for the low income tax rate but wasn't free to say anything critical about the Sheikh when asked.
Bizzare the choices people make and the liberties they give up

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting to see, especially after Sam Freedman's informative column this week

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 23h

Daily bunny no.3104 does not have a map

An intrepid bunny creeps through a labyrinth or dungeon, arranged in a grid like an old videogame. There is a snake and a skull in the bunny's path, as well as a spike pit. The bunny has a small sword.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 20h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 20h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Was hoping the talked would have turned LeCornu by now

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Lecornu on his first(?) day on the job

🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

The only risk from this approach is that we never stop hear about that '70 Brexit benefits' books as people push it to combat this narrative.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Senior did an informative post a few days ago about the rationale from the JCVI and linked some of their notes.
Seems to be focused on number needed to avoid hospitalisation being quite high.

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 3d

Bit nerdy, but it's worth having a skim over the number needed to vaccinate figures here. E.g. to avoid one hospitalisation in otherwise healthy people JCVI estimated 60-100k would need to be vaccinated (based on Autumn 2024 data).

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Appendix A: estimating the number needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation in autumn 2024 in England

www.gov.uk

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 1d

The Housing Secretary telling us how the Labour government are investing a record £1bn pounds to tackle homelessness in our society, as an additional £84m funding is announced today, on World Homeless Day.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPolMn-...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that's the thing. In the end suppose need to see what labour can do over the next few years but everyone is just impatient for change and for things to get better.
Curious if feelings will change as events progress
For example if this peace holds and progresses will Gaza be as much of an issue?

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes those are both excellent! Especially the Nuffield one. That chart of when reform voters last voted labour was eye opening.

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Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 1d

COMING OCTOBER 20th!

Tune in for a TWO HOUR discussion about teaching games through actual play featuring an absolute POWERHOUSE panel.

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@itsquinns.bsky.social
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Subscribe to Talk of the Table wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk of the Table Patreon w/ Dr. Emily Friedman, Quinns, & Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Roundtable: Teaching Games Through Actual Play

Pictures of each guest are in circles on a yellow background. To each side are anthropomorphized dice, one with a mouth and one with an ear.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

The dog is not impressed by the robot.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow!

Bookshop Day!

You know what to do!!

(Go to a bookshop…)

(Buy book…)

Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

The bookshop day poster. It asks you to choose bookshops:

Local jobs
Local economy
Local community
Real passion
Real people
Real conversations
Proper service
Perfect gifts
(and taxes paid!)

The cover of Saltburn. Candy stripes coming from a picture of a seal sitting under a beach umbrella.

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