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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping I get the opportunity to make the choice about Rush!

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't go and see Prince in Leeds in 2014 as I refused to pay over £100 for a ticket. Then a couple of years later I wished I had :(

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 7d

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.

Patricia Routledge Kitty

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Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · 7d

“So, I tapped her on the cleavage with my cake fork. That got her attention.”

RIP Kitty

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 7d

#CWC2025 What's is going on at #thecricket ! Amazing stuff England

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile in Australia’s Northern Territory, Justice Blow has published his report about dodgy employment practices in the local police, and a local journalist has just spuffed all over his keyboard.

NT Independent: Blow jobs report finally released into questionable
NT Police senior appointments
by Christopher Walsh | Oct 2, 2025 |

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 7d

My Dad used to tell us he once took Sandra Dorne on a date. She was plain old Joan Smith from Keighley in West Yorkshire then.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 7d

She knew what she wanted... but at what cost and to who?

📽️ MARILYN (1953) 10:40am ⭐ starring #SandraDorne #LeslieDwyer #MaxwellReed drama #TPTVsubtitles

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 8d

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 8d

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 8d

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 10d

Unfortunate choice of photo there BBC 😳

Rachel Reeves at the Labour Pary conference looking like she is giving a nazi salute

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 12d

It's a shame the BBC website doesn't even mention his passing (the 'Culture' section tells us Selena Gomez has got married though 🙄)

Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · 12d

“I read a book once. It were a green one”

RIP Tony Harrison, Yorkshire Bard.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19d

UK now recognises Palestinian state, Starmer announces.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpw1qkyke4nt

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 23d

Cyanide pill

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23d

Cartoon. A doctor speaking to a heavily pregnant woman: "Well, Mrs Heath Robinson, it seems the contraptions have started"

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 24d

7 minutes though. Hardly worth bothering (& as I understand it that included travelling time, and the lowering and raising of trousers)

Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 24d

I hope he'd enjoyed his retirement. Definitely one of the greats.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25d

I think I know what will be the sell-out toy this Christmas. ~AA

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 25d

UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂

Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25d

BREAKING: Tory MP Danny Kruger just defected to Reform. Big surprise, not. ~AA

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Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 29d

Anyone else still hoping we'll get some periods of boring politics sometime soon?

Amanda @ajpickering.bsky.social · 29d

Here I am holding two thoughts in my head at the same time again - Charlie Kirk had utterly appalling views. Charlie Kirk's death is appalling. Phew...I might go for a lie down now.

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 29d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments

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