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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry the billionaire you have a parasocial relationship with has written a crap album dedicated to her brain-damaged meathead republican fiancé

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 18h

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

#archaeology 🏺 #photography

An historic black & white image of the box excavations at Maiden Castle during Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in 1937. Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing crossover 😂

cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 17h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 17h

Aaah scuffle! That was the word! I was trying to remember

In hindsight I wonder if the guy in question would have had a reasonable shout for a libel case?

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 17h

I posted this having completely forgotten BBCLauraK uncritically posting allegations that Johnson was punched by a Corbyn supporter in Leeds General

And of course when she went steaming into Pippa Crerar's mentions defending DomCum

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 17h

Where's BBC verify when you need them

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 17h

Ok BBC. Now do your political editors

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract The arrival of a generation of young producers “marinated in social media” led to a false claim about Euan Blair being broadcast on Have I Got News For You, the production chief behind the show has said. The first in a new series of the BBC show featured an incorrect claim that the company run by Blair, the son of the former Labour prime minister, had been given the contract to run the government’s new digital ID system. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 18h

This won't possibly go wrong

24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 18h

NATO’s annual nuclear deterrence exercise – STEADFAST NOON – will start on 13 October. -NATO

James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 19h

I have the advantage that a friend of mine lived there for a bit and I always remember photos of waterways

James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 19h

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 19h

I'm Mr Nievel

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 20h

A very busy 3 minutes when the White House was burned down and then Nelson won at Trafalgar

James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 20h

So cool! Is this on display to the public anywhere?

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 20h

Similarly, the guy who sets the Guardian's (often fiendishly difficult Saturday quiz) obviously listens to In Our Time as the IOT topic usually surfaces a couple of weeks later

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21h

I like that it’s one woman who makes these, so you can slowly piece together her daily life. Has she been for a drink? What was for breakfast? What was on TV last night? What’s on her headphones? It’s oddly prurient. Like being unable to resist peering over someone’s laptop on a train.

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 21h

I suppose on the basis you're not doing 7 micro washes a week?

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 1d

A handy guide

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea how he'd be liable for €30M given that even the highest paid are probably only in contracts worth 1/10th of that.

Smells like BS to me (from the team almost formerly known as IPT)

James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

Related, but I'm pretty sure Merckx was persuaded to stop doing the TdF one year too (it's probably referenced in the article that I haven't yet read)

I suppose ultimately the organisers can reserve the right to refuse an entry?

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

That gif more represents when he took an incredibly hot woman home and they had not-especially-loud sex, but the walls were paper thin..... 😬🙄

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

What a way to shitefest a win by Scotland. But let's not forget that Greece shitefested a whole tournament so don't feel too sorry for them #SCOGRE

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

I liked this for about 2 weeks. Then my neighbour in halls played it on repeat for hours...

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 1d

Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

youtu.be/L0TvnWRSyr4

Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

YouTube video by emimusic

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, airlines are such arseholes. The *FIGHT* I've had with Lufthansa 😤

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

Alaska Airlines overbooked and is out here begging me to change my flight by an ENTIRE DAY OR TWO in exchange for a $25 credit??

these CEOs really do think we’re execrable little peasants

Screenshot of a list of flights from Chicago to San Diego with a button that says “get $25 in credit!”

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the thing about how younger Gen X and elder Millennials were somewhat inoculated because we got to absorb Internet at the right age and at the right intensity, more or less? But that boomers and younger folks were utterly vulnerable and went insane? They didn't have the antibodies?

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hell ya someone got Trump into the weird anti-circumcision stuff. Keep talking about baby dicks sir! People will love that!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Inside Manchester's tour guide turf wars.

The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 1d

This may all seem innocent but, behind the scenes, the people in charge of showing other people around Manchester are engaged in a constant turf war, one of stolen customers, destroyed equipment, false reviews, and the occasional physical scrap.

Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here

Inside Manchester’s tour guide turf wars

Stolen customers, broken flags, physical fights: have the people taking us around Manchester lost their way?

manchestermill.co.uk

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

I think about this often