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The Dalai Farmer
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International Man of Prehistory. Post Doc. Archaeology, Heritage, Metalwork. A man of dreadful aspect and sorry footwear.
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IT COULD BE ANYBODY WE JUST DON'T KNOW
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
Twitter screenshot, 23 December 2016 (and god knows we needed a laugh at the end of that year): Gerry Adams, “This house is like Santa's Grotto. Takes half an hour 2 switch off fairy lights and assorted Yule illuminations. Feel like a grinch now.” Reply from ‘Eddielzzard'sBeret’: “Surely you know someone who can fit a timer.”
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
grovedigger.bsky.social
The fucking kitchen roll, man.... 😂😂
emilyoram.bsky.social Emily ✨🎄 @emilyoram.bsky.social · Oct 24
Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
Something tells us that we're going to be correcting a lot of people today...

maryrose.org/discover/his...
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs The Mary Rose didn't sink on her maiden voyage - she sailed for thirty-four years!
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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danielwcarlson.bsky.social
When they ask me what radicalized me
The family of mice singing “No cheeses for us meeces” in the opening song (“Scrooge”) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinion—but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickens’s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since ’92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
grovedigger.bsky.social
And so, @dreadships.bsky.social had content for his feed for the next twenty years...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump: "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person"
December 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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andyetc.co.uk
I do not know a better song
Annie - Chewing Gum
YouTube video by TMRW Music
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December 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
grovedigger.bsky.social
Out of the ether Marian Dowling just came to mind. She was the first friend I made on twitter, and we were friends for years, but I lost touch with her a few years ago. I wonder if she's ok, wherever she is now
December 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
“As a writer…you are the freest person that ever was.”

Don’t let genAI ever take away this freedom.
“See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Language of the Night, 1989
December 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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caesarflunk.bsky.social
If you’ve never watched this, firstly, why not? Secondly, this is your opportunity to right that wrong.
Chas & Dave - 'Chas & Dave’s Christmas Knees-Up', 25th December 1982 (FULL UNCUT VERSION!)
YouTube video by ChasNDaveVideos
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December 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
plus Merton’s chapel ceiling just because. I mean look at it
A painted timber faux vault ceiling
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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salimotxo.bsky.social
Whenever a music person dies, I ask my aunt (who was the cook at a big recording studio for years) how many thumbs up, from one to five. She says:
Chris Rea 👍👍👍👍👍
Chris Rea's wife 👍👍👍👍👍
Chris Rea's baby 👍👍👍👍👍
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
6figgadilla reminding us that the past isn’t really past
December 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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acerbicotter.bsky.social
Ah, so he’s a modern Anubis, then: weighs hearts and rejects those found wanting
rakshasa.bsky.social Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 23h
Paddington will not come for Bill Clinton
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
grovedigger.bsky.social
Another day of 'you won't beat me, engine' today. Hadn't been started in months, 4 inches of rainwater in the footwell thanks to an open sunroof, and not a sniff of life. Had to break into the engine bay because the locks wouldn't disengage, and feed power to it from the starter to bring it back to
A blue car parked behind a black one, bonnets up on both, and electrical cables joining the two Same picture from in front of the black car, showing the engines of both. Blue car to the rear is running, with lights on. Black car shows no signs of life The dashboard of the black car, everything lit up and engine running, a now-happy automobile The black car, picture taken from behind, as it is about to drive away
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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doctorallisona.bsky.social
Two pane meme: ‘Merry Christmas’ with a very joyful and happy Gandalf on top. ‘Pippin Christmas’ with a solemn, stoic Gandalf below.
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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drsadiewatson.bsky.social
Just to note that it’s Open Access, as are many of their Debates:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The biodiversity crisis, the wild and the archaeological imagination | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The biodiversity crisis, the wild and the archaeological imagination
www.cambridge.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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marioprime.bsky.social
got my adhd upgraded to ad4k
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
say what you will about Andrew Tate, but his decision to not have a chin likely saved his life in that fight. Just one of those uppercuts would've killed Bruce Campbell.
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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goatsarah.org
People with ADHD have been asking many questions. Questions such as, “where the fuck is the thing that was in my hand five seconds ago?” And “why am I sitting on the loo reading Wikipedia about castle drawbridge design when I finished pissing half an hour ago?”
December 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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redscharlach.bsky.social
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
grovedigger.bsky.social
Pub goers and staff of the UK: hold fast my friends and truehearted loves- there's only 10 calendar days before all these tourists fuck off and make gym goers lives a misery instead! Keep the faith!
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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parodypm.bsky.social
"I said Tommy Robinson really stood up for himself when that boxer confronted him in Dubai. What did I say Roy?"
"You said the coked-up little prick shat his pants"
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social
When you’re trying really hard to remember which Craig David song it is that you like, but the titles aren’t any help...
December 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
grovedigger.bsky.social
An oft repeated insult that Brits throw at Americans is that they don't understand irony.

Anyway, and apropos of nothing, here is Darth Guyliner talking with a straight face about free thinking
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM