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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1h

If you're bored this Sunday, you might like some of my recent Fawlty Towers writing.

The cut ending to Gourmet Night: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

Fawlty Towers parodies over the years: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/herr...

Behind-the-scenes of Basil the Rat: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Polly with a pencil in her hand, taken from The Builders

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1h

There wasn't much to say about it in the end - it probably should have been another footnote - but I did feel I needed to cover it: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/basi...

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 1h

Bit of a suprise. The 🇺🇸 has for months been helping 🇺🇦 mount long-range strikes on Russian energy facilities in an coordinated effort.
A 🇺🇸 official said 🇺🇦 selected strike targets & Washington provided intel on their vulnerabilities

www.ft.com/content/f9f4...

Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help

Trump administration has supported Kyiv’s operations since summer in a co-ordinated push to weaken Moscow

www.ft.com

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 16h

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

How good (or bad) are good (or bad) words? @yougov.co.uk includes comparing how Americans and British people hear these words
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 13h

Duomo #Siena #Italy

Beautiful in the floodlight.

A view over the rooftops to the floodlight Duomo with its black & white striped stonework

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 11h

if you think The One Show is batshit, then consider In Town Tonight from 1955, where the guests were the leader of a Trinidadian steel band followed by an SS officer who was Hitler's personal valet. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

In Town Tonight - 29/10/1955

First transmitted in 1955, this is all that's left of this edition. It includes an interview with former SS officer Heinz Linge who was Hitler's personal attendant.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 8h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 7h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 6h

Yay Brewers. I don't dislike you.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 6h

there have been so many ai videos in my feed today and it makes me want to throw things

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 7h

Driving along an somewhat dicy road in West Texas: occasionally hair-raising, but has its benefits

A quite large Texas horned lizard huddles against a dirt embankment from where the approaching car flushed her out of the road

A large male Texas brown tarantula goes a’wanderin’ over the pebbles after love

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 7h

Phenomenal thread on immigrant stories and science

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 16h

1. My father's funeral was this week. This morning, I attended my first @nihvigils.bsky.social with my family. I shared my father's story. My father immigrated from South Korea. This was possible with #NSF funding. I know we are sister agencies, but science is under attack in multiple departments.

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 8h

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 7h

What is that?

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 8h

Counterpoint: I'd pay extra for a midnight sausage race.

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 8h

Cmon Cubs and Brewers: 16 innings at least.

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 9h

Want to say I appreciate you posting generally about the Vols. I enjoy the game color too.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 9h

Rome might not use those words but Rome has thrown open the door to them being used, and clearly backs them. Think about that.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

the Constitution obviously has a lot of room for improvement (which shouldn't be a controversial statement imo but that's a conversation for another day), but there are a lot of lines that Trump has illegally crossed where it's like...THAT LINE IS THERE FOR A PRETTY GOOD REASON, ACTUALLY

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 11h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

Nice enough intro to the strange Brit love of the shipping forecast, but it fails to mention Carol Ann Duffy’s wonderful poem. (PS ‘Finisterre is the old name for the area now called FitzRoy in the forecast.)

Prayer

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

Carol Ann Duffy

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 11h

And also the Sleeping Forecast which uses old Shipping Forecasts intertwined with the camomile tea of Classical music

The Sleeping Forecast - Embark on a restful journey to sleep - BBC Sounds

Relax from the pressures of the day and drift off to soothing classical music.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 11h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

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