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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 1d

The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform

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

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

At Charlie Kirk's posthumous Medal of Freedom ceremony yesterday (dead podcaster wins prize) Trump gave a long speech....which of these things do you think I made up?

1. He talked about how fit Kirk's wife is
2. He compared Kirk to MLK
3. He bragged that he dodged his bullet but Charlie didn't

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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · Nov 23

*drops something sharp*

Brain: catch it with your foot

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 1d

"Clean the grout"

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bloody bacon popsicle 😮‍💨 @gupton68.bsky.social · 3d

Someone at the supermarket asked if I knew where the cheese aisle was and it was just pure instinct to give them wrong directions so there was more cheese left for me.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 3d

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 5d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 3d

I wish the Green party would drop their new slogan of "Let's make hope normal again". Hope is nothing, it's not even an empty promise, it's a childish wish for something without lifting a finger to achieve it. It's like thoughts and prayers whenever there's an American mass shooting.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 3d

NEWS! Man who thinks painting a flag on a roundabout improves the look of the neighbourhood not that keen on a spot of litter-picking

Man who thinks painting a flag on a roundabout improves the look of the neighbourhood not that keen on a spot of litter-picking

A man who believes daubing a St George’s Cross onto every available roundabout improves the look of the neighbourhood, has steadfastly refused to bend down and pick up a single crisp packet. Local …

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 3d

This article strikes a real chord with me. Book's going straight on my wishlist.

Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 3d

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 5d

Given that it's also being hosted in Trump's binfire of a country, why on earth would anyone want to go to the WC? Why isn't there a boycott being organised? www.theguardian.com/football/202...