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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 5h

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 5h

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 5h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

I went to see this film because Gavia explained the despite the posters (and this preview image) it would definitely be more interesting than "here is a famous man holding a gun".
She was right.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 1d

Out now on Overinvested: Our review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/one...

Ep. 326: One Battle After Another — OVERINVESTED

Steffan and Gavia review One Battle After Another, widely hailed as the best film of 2025. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this comedic thriller displays startlingly bold politics for a Hollywood st...

www.overinvestedpodcast.com

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 1d

Out now on Overinvested: Our review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/one...

Ep. 326: One Battle After Another — OVERINVESTED

Steffan and Gavia review One Battle After Another, widely hailed as the best film of 2025. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this comedic thriller displays startlingly bold politics for a Hollywood st...

www.overinvestedpodcast.com

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Eh, I guess I'm fine with an American dictionary talking about American spellings and pronunciations without specifying that they're American.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

I reject this.
This is not how it works in my accent.
If nobody else agrees that's fine, maybe I have a very specific accent.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

I might also want to use my machine to wash towels or bed linens or whatever, before I have a full load of clothes ready to go.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I wrote an article back in 2013 analyzing permutations on Benedict Cumberbatch which you may read and sub in Timothée Chalamet should you so desire
web.archive.org/web/20250322...

A Linguist Explains the Rules of Summoning Benedict Cumberbatch -The Toast

A willing foe, and sea room.

web.archive.org

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Southwark

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Claudia just saying

"You are famous"

Yes they are

#CelebrityTraitors

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 2d

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure #TheTraitors needed to mess with the murder means for the very first one.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend reading this out loud if (like me) your normal reading doesn't make a pretend sound inside your head.

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

Today I walked just over one mile, but I was carrying a heavy package for the return half.

I also saw this

Information board outside some houses, about "Dr Harold Moody - Pioneer in race equality", died 1947

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4d

Just before he died I got to chat to Brian Clemens as part of a press junket for a remaster of The Professionals.

After about 3 polite-but-bored answers I said:

"Okay would you mind if we spent the rest of this talking about 'Bugs'? That show BLEW ME AWAY as a teen."

And he was so happy he cried.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 4d

This YouTube comment probably deserves more than three favs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzL8...

I once worked for Radio Rentals and one time I had to speak to a customer on the phone after he sent a complaint letter. After he spent about half an hour moaning about the service that he had received, I said I noticed it said he was a composer on his letter head and his name was Christopher Gunning. So I said are you the Christopher Gunning who did the music for the BBC’s Day of the Triffids, and he said he was, so I proceeded to tell him how amazing I thought his music was for the series, which I have loved ever since I first watched it aged 10. Well his whole attitude immediately changed and I think I really made his day. True story.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

OMG I was in love with her

Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings!

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

Oh this is a great burden that has been put upon you

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 5d

I can't go until I invent a "reason" for it and I haven't figured one out yet

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 5d

This remind me that I have still not done the cable car

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 5d

See also the very deep ocean.
It doesn't want me there.

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 5d

And obviously I have to reshare this, because it took me ages and ages and it was the best date I have ever planned.

I took 25 *different* forms of London transport in one day:

www.girlonthenet.com/london-trans...

Numbered list which reads:

High speed train – Stratford International to St Pancras International
Thameslink – St Pancras to Farringdon
Sub-surface tube (Circle line) – Farringdon to Monument
Moving walkway – Monument to Bank
Waterloo and City Line – Bank to Waterloo
Mainline train – Waterloo to St Margarets
Hammerton’s Ferry – North to south Thames banks
Single-decker bus – 371 to Norbiton Church
Double-decker bus – 57 to Wimbledon
Tram – Wimbledon to West Croydon
Overground – West Croydon to Whitechapel
Crossrail – Whitechapel to Liverpool Street
Inclined lift/funicular – Liverpool Street
Deep tube (Central Line) – Liverpool Street to St Paul’s
Hire Bike – St Paul’s to Aldwych
Vintage Bus – Aldwych to Charing Cross
Pedicab – Charing Cross to Embankment
Thames Clipper – Embankment to North Greenwich
Cable Car – North Greenwich to Royal Docks
Black Cab – Royal Docks to North Woolwich
Woolwich Ferry – North terminal to South terminal
Uber/Private taxi – Woolwich ferry to Cutty Sark
Lift – Cutty Sark
Greenwich Foot Tunnel – Cutty Sark to Island Gardens
Docklands Light Railway (DLR) – Island Gardens to Stratford International

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 5d

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 5d

Okay nobody say anything about Babylon 5 Session 3 because Gus is apparently watching.

Respect The Sanctity

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