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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 2h

It should do, yes.

Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 2h

Home-made coronation chicken scotch egg. We did good

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 2h

Chonker

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Gary Gowers @garygowers.bsky.social · 7h

🟢🟡 A club that takes its fans for granted and which is skating on thin ice.

▪️Remember when Carrow Road was a happy place?
▪️Derby Day was a reminder of how far we've fallen
▪️Contempt shown toward those asked to relocate

LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/12/a-c… #ncfcfc

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MyFootballWriter - Norwich City @myfootballwriter.bsky.social · 8h

🟢🟡 A club that takes its fans for granted and which is skating on thin ice

🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social

▪️Remember when Carrow Road was happy?
▪️Derby Day, a reminder of how far we've fallen
▪️Contempt shown toward those asked to relocate

LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/12/a...

#ncfc

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 7h

Every month, there's a new story about the cynical, predatory nature of the gambling industry.

As with the cigarette industry, when we eventually get round to properly regulating these parasites, we'll be ashamed we took so long to do it.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 1d

Just finished it. Superb game.

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 1d

Just finished Hell is Us.

Bloody brilliant. Loved it. Want more. #HellIsUs

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3d

You’ll be staggered when you read this great post by TeeDixie👇🏼👌🏼

It shows how effective the media has been, in painting labour as a shit show in Govt, and glossing over how terrible the Tories were

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 3d

I was quite surprised, given the amount of negative press that would have you believe that this government is the worst we’ve had yet.

I’ll put the link in the next post but given we had a complete shit show with the Tories, this is astonishing. Do reshare or bookmark the link, it’s handy.

Under the last Tory Govt, elected in 2019, of 42 Manifesto Pledges, only
2 were delivered in 5 years.
Under the current Labour Govt, elected in 2024, of 83 Manifesto Pledges, 57 are delivered (18), on track (19), or in process (20).
In 1 year.
(FullFact Tracker)

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 2d

“No, no. Dig up, stupid”

And

“Lisa. I want to buy your rock”

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 3d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3d

It's the end of the Conservative party, but the moment has been prepared for

Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 3d

A surprisingly large number of them think the way to connect with Gen Z is "dress like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who."

A screen grab of a Times article. The photograph depicts three men and a woman - according to the caption these are Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin, Daniel Campbell and Glesni Reece.

Charles is in tweeds and a fedora, Rhys sports a combover and a question mark pullover as worn by the seventh Doctor Who. Daniel wears a blue "Make Britain Great Again" baseball cap. Glesni, unlike the others, is not wearing an outlandish costume, just a black tailored jacket over a white blouse.

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Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future
The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 3d

As welcome as this will be (to some, not all) a real help would be a reduction/removal of VAT and/or duty on draught alcohol.

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Bruno Redondo @brunoredondo.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, “asking people permission for robbery would kill the robbery industry”, such a fucking shame… FUCK AI

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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MyFootballWriter - Norwich City @myfootballwriter.bsky.social · 5d

🟩🟨 Malaise at Norwich City. Who’s to blame, and what’s the solution?

🗣️ @stewartlewis3.bsky.social

▪️The importance of managing expectations
▪️It’s arguable how JHT was treated at City
▪️The next batch of games will be significant

#ncfc

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch's brain should be studied. Visibly believes that she has put the hours in working while all her policy suggestions are just obviously picked up on Twitter without any critical thought before they end up as policy. Visibly confused as to who was in office 2010 to 2024.

Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 4d

"while we were arguing about what a woman is, china was building five nuclear reactors"

Yes but that is very explicitly your fault, more than most, kemi.

She's such a strange perception of herself

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, I am asking where on earth the Short money *goes* and what they are spending it on. They are not doing meaningful parliamentary scrutiny. They are somehow less credible, spending-wise, than Reform, who are are a shoestring operation!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 4d

This is an excellent piece. Bang on the money #ncfc

MyFootballWriter - Norwich City @myfootballwriter.bsky.social · 4d

🟢🟡 No accountability, no authenticity, no character. Just iPads and LinkedIn clichés.

🗣️ Steve Cook.

▪️A club that is, currently, hard to care about
▪️Who is there to feel remotely invested in?
▪️As 'customers', we are being short-changed

LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/08/n...

#ncfc

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 5d

Robert Jenrick wowing Tory Party conference there with his legendary yet completely baffling wig ventriloquist act.

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Along Come Norwich @alongcomenorwich.bsky.social · 5d

The Scum may have celebrated like they'd won the Champions League but it's still one win in 16 years. ACN's writers dissect the more important points of Liam's latest let-down. #NCFC

Image: @robotcanary.bsky.social

The ACN Match Review 25/26 – Ipswich (a)

The Scum may have celebrated like they'd won the Champions League but it's still one win in 16 years. ACN's writers dissect the more important points of Liam's latest let-down.

www.alongcomenorwich.com

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