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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 13h

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 20h

Josie's shows always include lots of hope though, they're always funny, thought provoking and, ultimately, uplifting..
Pretty good for a Sunday evening huh?

silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 20h

Went to see Josie Long this evening and, as always, it was a brilliantly written and performed show..
But she kept highlighting the 73% decline in the size of global wildlife and I found the report she was referencing..
Makes pretty grim reading
www.worldwildlife.org/press-releas...

Catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of global wildlife populations in just 50 years reveals a ‘system in peril’ | Press Releases | WWF

WWF’s flagship Living Planet Report details sharp declines in monitored wildlife populations with the steepest drops recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean (95%), Africa (76%) and Asia–Pacific (6...

www.worldwildlife.org

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silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 1d

Another quick clip from our gig over the weekend.

Always loved Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" but it didn't suit our set. However mashing up the original with HIM's cover really worked for us - such fun to play!!

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Nov 27

“Ok, so, here’s the thing...” - me reluctantly lending someone my Blu-ray of my favourite John Carpenter film

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Leigh Booker @leighbooker.bsky.social · 1d

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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 1d

'We don't want your money!'

Human rights organisations reject donations from comics who played Riyadh

dlvr.it

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Stephen Blakeman 🇺🇦 @marhug.bsky.social · 1d

It’s long past the time when they strip the Pedo Prince of every Royal privilege and kick him and his Grifter ex wife out of the Royal Loge.

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silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a four word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Worked on my machine l

JoJo @visionsofjojo.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a four word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

I need clean pants

Hip Priest @hippriest.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Client wants site meeting

silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 2d

Just been to the loudest IMAX screening ever. Tron Ares may have been panned but I liked it at least as much as Tron Legacy and possibly more.
Thought I'd hate Jared Leto, but he really suits Ares.

And, oh, that Nine Inch Nails score at that volume..
*chef's kiss*

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silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic night at City Tavern, Chester last night. Was a great crowd in, lots of banter, singing and some very impressive dancing.. and we played this for the very first time!
Much fun!

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silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 3d

Last minute plug for our gig tonight (in a few hours!).
We'll be kicking off the weekend in style with some rock anthems at City Tavern, Frodsham St, Chester from 8pm.
Be really great if you could join us! Some live debuts this evening!
#Chester #LiveMusic #CoverBand #Rock #TFIFriday #Friday

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 3d

*mic drop*

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

All my comics have happy endings!

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 3d

"I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize because they said I'd done too much peace. The most peace anyone has ever done. They said if I did any more peace then peace would cease to exist. Phenomenal amounts of peace, huge levels of peace" x

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 3d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1670

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d

We seem to have reached the ‘portraying the KKK in a negative light is controversial’ stage already.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 4d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 4d

Not normally a fan of "reality" shows at all, and even less of their "celeb" spinoffs.
That said The Traitors has been excellent television and, for once, the celebrity edition doesn't seem to have reduced the formula and is off to a cracking start already

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Celebrity Traitors review – this star-packed bonanza is all you’ll be able to care about

It’s everything you want from the gameshow, but with loads of famous faces. And at one point, it feels like you’re witnessing like the last pure moment in history. Beautiful

www.theguardian.com

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 4d

People across #Wales are ready for change - not the anger and division of Reform, but real leadership that stands up for our nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Fairness. Ambition. Real plans for a better future.

It's time for new leadership for Wales. It's time for Plaid Cymru ✊

A photo of Rhun ap Iorwerth with the Welsh flag in the background. "New leadership for Wales" at the bottom, and "Vote Plaid Cymru - 7 May 2026" along the top on a yellow banner.

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silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 4d

We must protect shareholders at all costs 🙄

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills Millions of households in England will see their water bills increase by even more than expected, after the competition regulator gave the green light for five water suppliers to raise charges to customers – but rejected most of the companies’ demands. An independent group of experts appointed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally decided to allow the companies to charge customers an extra £556m over the next five years, it said on Thursday. That was only 21% of the £2.7bn that the firms requested. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

Bank of England warns of growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets - financial crash.

AI boom will burst.
Share prices inflated
Real economy weak.
Trump creating uncertainties.
Shadow banking unregulated.
Govt deregulating banking.

Bankers get bonuses, people will pick up the tab.