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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2h

Simply do what I do, and make new, free t-shirts by stitching together all the cut-out oversized tags.

They're very stylish but unfortunately only single use, as I can't work out how the fuck to wash them.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 3h

BREAKING: In what seems to be a deliberate snub of Trump, Nobel Peace Prize goes to the woman who was yelling, "Leave 'im, Dave, 'e ain't worf it!" in the Dog & Strangler car-park at 11:45 last night.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 13h

My home town of Prudhoe... which is so definitely not pronounced the way Martin Sheen says it in The West Wing that I was on about my third watch through before I realised that's what he was saying.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 13h

Goddamnit! I thought it was Wednesday-Friday. Still, at least I can watch Gogglebox tomorrow night.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 14h

Buy now! As worn by Alan Carr…
#CelebrityTraitors

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 14h

Oh no! And after she went to the trouble of cosplaying as Yvette from Clue!
#CelebrityTraitors

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 15h

Give Obama another one, then he can use them as bookends.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 15h

It's time, and a decision has been made.
#CelebrityTraitors

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 18h

Wow, that is a wild ride.

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 19h

This is remarkable: how a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator. (Also featuring LLMs behaving badly, because of course it does.)

larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...

The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...

larslofgren.com

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 22h

Surely the smart move would be to vote for the one whose name you don't know, then the press would remind you what she's called every time they've got column inches that they don't want to fill with Reform scandal.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 22h

Never too late for a surprise come-back.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 23h

Ok, which Labour deputy leader are we cool kids voting for?

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 23h

It's OK, I saw a documentary a while ago about how the NSA are spying on every maths professor in the world, so they're probably on top of this as well.

Prime Target (TV series) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Instead of allowing pubs to open later, could we demand they go back to opening at 11am?

When I walk the dogs at the weekend I want somewhere for a spot of brunch, and I keep arriving at pubs half an hour before they open, at 12.

We used to be a real country!

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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 1d

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.

Text reads:

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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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

When you've had to organise a team-building social event, because it's one of your management objectives, but you know HR are sending out redundancy notices tomorrow.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

No, it's just in Blyth they still think trains are magic.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Thursday morning, you're half awake, half dreaming of the weekend, Kings Cross is heaving, all too easy to accidentally end up on platform 9¾.

It doesn't even have the ticket-reading barriers to stop you.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Alan’s got in more steps doing laps of the kitchen than he did pulling the Trojan horse.
#CelebrityTraitors

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Facts about Alan Carr…
1. He has a sweat problem
2. He can’t keep a secret
3. If he touches Prince Andrew there will be a matter/anti-matter explosion
#CelebrityTraitors

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

What are the chances that their case is delayed until after AI judges are introduced?

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

Hard-working agents have spent 4 months arguing over whose gravestone gets on the front row.
#CelebrityTraitors

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