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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 5h

It’s kind of there but it’s very buried way way down the Home Screen and could be clearer. A nice simple set of choices right up with the main promo panels to me (as a UX guy) would make more sense (& in sidebar?)
Just enjoyed a couple of great docs on Hadrian’s Wall though 🙌
Keep up the great work!

Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 6h

Cheers Rick ❤️🙏

Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 7h

@thehistoryguy.bsky.social Hi Dan. Have just downloaded the History Hit app on my (Fire TV / Toshiba) telly.
As well as the search and general presentation of content it would be really user-friendly to have a Categories menu, for Roman, Egyptian, Tudor etc… Would aid discovery 👍

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 7h

"Forget our fate"
The peddler sings
Set up to sell my soul
I've lived a life for wealth to bring

And yet I'll gaze
At the colour of spring
Immerse in that one moment
Left in love with everything

Soar the bridges that I burnt before
One song among us all

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 7h

Going through a very difficult few days - Finding a lot of comfort in this, by the genius who was Mark Hollis.
(It starts with 18 seconds of silence, save for the tiniest creak of a piano stool... Nothing wrong with your sound!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=crkX...

Mark Hollis | The colour of spring

YouTube video by SilverBuddha

www.youtube.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah well growing up in apartheid South Africa worked wonders for you, ya weird wee prick

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 12h

All those around him seem to be sitting too. Such pathetic confected outrage.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 19h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 15h

The current sitting president (who may or may not be aware of that fact) just told you that Joe Biden was president on January,06, 2021. Harmless slip up? Absolutely not.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 14h

Laura Kuennsberg alleged that students at a UK university are "compiling lists of Jewish students so they can be marked & then harassed". Based on what she'd been told by the ultra-dodgy pro-Israel lobby group Stand With Us.

She gave zero evidence for this inflammatory allegation.
#bbclaurak

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16h

Left: Labour's Bridget Phillipson saying British Jews find the anti genocide in Israel protests "deeply upsetting"

Right: A British Jew on the anti-genocide in Israel protest wearing a watermelon a kippah

Shame on Labour for conflating anti genocide protests with anti Jewish sentiment -disgraceful

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16h

Left: Labour's Bridget Phillipson saying British Jews find the anti genocide in Israel protests "deeply upsetting"

Right: A British Jew on the anti-genocide in Israel protest wearing a watermelon a kippah

Shame on Labour for conflating anti genocide protests with anti Jewish sentiment -disgraceful

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 18h

But what about all the waste they told us about? What about all the savings DOGE was going to find? What about the promises to cut council tax?
It's almost as if they were just making shit up to fool people, like they did with Brexit.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 2d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 1d

Does feel like that sometimes.

Carmen Harris🇿🇦 @carmenharris.bsky.social · 1d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

The Moon Landings
The Power Cuts
Live And Let Die
The Drought
Jaws

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Thatcher stealing my milk
Vietnam war
Star Wars
The Clash

Dragonrider Sue #fbpe #ktto 🐠🐟 she/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

Poll tax riots
Brixton riots
Fall of the Berlin wall
Sex Pistols
Jaws/Grease/Poltergeist

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

‘Displaced’? They were kidnapped by Russian orcs

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being this lame

The Telegraph saying that an activist dancing dressed as a frog is a terrorist (in coward quotes), and for some reason they’ve added that the person is non-binary

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 1d

The corrupt fatberg should have been put in prison years ago.

Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a mark of how much he disgraced the office that no one will find this surprising…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

We waste so much time wanging on about immigration being something that must be stopped, when the reality is we need it.

What if we spent the same amount of effort actually working out what we can do to encourage integration.

Treating them like enemies isn’t it
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

www.theguardian.com

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 1d

It is utterly surreal this is not being treated as a bigger story.

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 2d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 1d

Farage, like his hero Trump, always chickens out. He’ll have done sod all about suing those vetting experts too.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1d

The Qatar deal (Trump gets a free jet, Idaho gets a Qatari Air Force base) reminds me of when Trump floated the idea of an "impenetrable" joint US-Russian cybersecurity unit to guard against election hacking and "many other negative things." 😂 And also 😱 www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...

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