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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 9h

You guys would have liked Mrs Araiza, she was an American whose opinion on British food was "I'm jealous of the range of cheeses".

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14d

I have been GREATLY enjoying the opening titles to Phyllis.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_g...

PHYLLIS Season 2.1 "The New Job" (1976) Cloris Leachman

YouTube video by sfinthecity

www.youtube.com

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 4d

Enjoyed this absolutely filthy joke from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

"Mary Moves Out", TX: 20th September 1975.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 10h

C’est bon.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 10h

Only man to appeal Pelicot rape conviction handed longer sentence

A French appeals court has handed a longer 10-year sentence to the only man to challenge his conviction for raping Gisele Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious.

news.sky.com

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 10h

The Guardian is trying to be American again.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, mate, so sorry.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21h

One of my favourite quotes (and not just because the same applies to me)!

Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 21h

"Can you make me look better than I do on television? I look rather scraggy, like a ghost."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because you have a head like a skull."
"Does not everyone have a head like a skull?"
"No."
Alec Douglas-Home died 30 years ago today.
thelionandunicorn.com/2022/12/28/2...

2022 Politician of the Year (dead)

He worried that he looked like a ghost, but the former 14th Earl could be a model for his slick successor Rishi Sunak.

thelionandunicorn.com

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Nik Horne @nikhorne.bsky.social · 14h

I'm selling a bunch of Archimedes games, if anyone's interested. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/nikhorne1

Security measure | eBay

www.ebay.co.uk

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 15h

Just had a look at Amos' car crash of a substack and he also says that most African men are rapists.

Given what he wants to do to his mum I am unclear as to whether he thinks this is a bad thing.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 20h

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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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 16h

British soft power

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 23h

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 15h

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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 15h

Kenny Everett visits the Broadcasting Under Manager

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 15h

This is possibly a new personal worst for a Diet Coke sold in a can. Benugo in St James’s Park in London. £3.25!

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god, having worked with those desks, that is very easy to do…

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

I was just in a Teams meeting with a colleague who'd just got a new standing desk and kept accidentally hitting the controls to change its height, and when she did she'd slowly vanish from the screen like she was in a lift and it really made my day 🤣🤣🤣

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Could make good use of these round here.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

For high performance endurance drinkers.

Justin Edwards @bigedwards.bsky.social · 1d

#beermatoftheday

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 1d

For my male followers of A Certain Age.

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Janet Ellis on Blankety Blank (8th October 1983).

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 1d

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game (8th October 1977). Nicholas Smith, Valerie Leon and Mollie Sugden are on hand to join in the fun.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a report this year which quoted an expert on the housing market on the subject of stamp duty (because as soon as I saw that sentence, I knew I had to use it, obviously). Getting rid of it would be widely supported. The question of what you do instead does seem… pretty crucial, though

"Stamp Duty regularly tops a crowded field jostling for the dubious accolade of the country's worst designed tax"
Rory Coulter
Associate Professor of Quantitative
Human Geography at University College London, Understanding Society Topic Champion, Housing

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

It really is nice to see UFO doing its bit for race relations.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

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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