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Jim Clark
@jamineyc.bsky.social
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The Lakes via London. Professional Yorkshireman. Likes being outdoors, but also indoors.
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russincheshire.bsky.social
The famously left-wing bias of the BBC.

(From The Decade In Tory)
Meanwhile the print media could hardly be expected to hold the Tories to account, given their almost constant irrumating support for Conservatives. Of Britain’s 15 main national newspapers, only one backed the Labour Party. The rest vocally supported the Tories or their Lib Dem partners in the coalition. Thankfully, we could rely on the BBC to balance things out by flexing its renowned leftie muscles. The corporation’s controller of global news output, Craig Oliver, joined the Downing Street operation as David Cameron’s director of communications. Andrew Neil, editor of the right-wing Spectator magazine, fronted both of the BBC’s two leading political discussion programmes, This Week and Daily Politics. The editor of these programmes, Robbie Gibb, was brother of Conservative MP Nick Gibb, and later became director of communications at Theresa May’s Downing Street. Sure, Nick Robinson, the BBC’s chief political correspondent, had been national president of the Young Conservatives and then president of the Oxford University Conservative Association,but those sympathies were balanced out by his deputy, James Landale, an old-Etonian close contemporary of David Cameron who was also offered – and declined – the Tory communications job. Meanwhile, a report by the University of Cardiff found from 2007 to 2012 (both in and out of office), Conservative politicians received 50 per cent more airtime on BBC News at Six than Labour politicians did. So if the tsunami of unmitigated failure that started in 2010 has been a revelation to you, nobody should be especially surprised.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
jamineyc.bsky.social
I know that the story will be Wales lost, and it wasn't close, but I thought at least Wales were trying stuff and had some good attacking play, and competed at the breakdown. They lost to a better team, it's where they are currently, but some positives. #walarg #QCNS #nationsseries
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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niedermeyer.online
HELLO OLD FRIEND
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
jamineyc.bsky.social
Fantastic Four. It's taken a while but they finally got them right. Felt like the freshest, most enjoyable Marvel film for a while, with its own feel, but it's still y'know, a Marvel film. Nice little comics nods in there as well. #marvel #fantasticfour
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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jasonkpargin.bsky.social
Considering there is a detailed YouTube tutorial on how to correctly do every single task on earth, you would think we would be living in a golden age of human competence. However I am starting to worry that this is not the case
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
✍️ Climate change – the world after tomorrow

Records of chaos following historical climate change offer a warning to contemporary global society

By Dr Pam Jarvis

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@drpam.bsky.social
Climate change – the world after tomorrow
Records of chaos following historical climate change offer a warning to contemporary global society
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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janehill.bsky.social
There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.

Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube or peritoneum usually causes symptoms that are similar to common non-cancerous conditions. This can make it difficult to diagnose early. If you have any of these symptoms or get these symptoms regularly, your GP should offer you cancer tests: • a long-lasting bloated or swollen tummy • feeling full quickly when you eat • loss of appetite • pain in the lower tummy area or back • peeing (passing urine) more often than usual • needing to pee urgently (feeling like you cannot hold on). Other symptoms may include: • a change in your normal bowel function (diarrhoea or constipation) • weight loss for no obvious reason • unexplained or extreme tiredness (fatigue) • vaginal bleeding after the menopause. If you are aged 50 or older and develop symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for the first time, you should also have tests. IBS can cause bloating and changes in bowel function. But it does not usually start after the age of 50.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Unfortunate juxtaposition…
A defibrillator machine, positioned just over a box marked “Express checkout.”
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
jamineyc.bsky.social
Vicky Vale...Woke up with Batdance by Prince rolling around my head. Such an odd team up, and how Prince seemed to be using the Adam West Batman as his inspiration. #batdance #prince
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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mitchbenn.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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helenbarrett.bsky.social
An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage.

www.vice.com/en/article/g...
The Magical Garbage Dump Spirits of the Congo
Though Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, is drowning in foreign waste, one subculture has found a surreal way to draw attention to this crisis.
www.vice.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
Um. I’m all right, mate, thanks.
A Spanish ice cream advert for something called a ‘Creamy Bell’
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
It's now 9 years since I saw this pinned to the wall in a local hospital, and not a week has gone by when I haven't thought about it.

Who loses one shoe?
Or did Diane only have one leg?
If they know it's Diane's, why make a poster at all?
Is it some kind of sinister threat?
Home made poster showing a photo of a shoe, and the caption "SHOE FOUND. IS THIS YOUR SHOE DIANE"
October 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
AI NEWS
October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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rogerquimbly.bsky.social
I’d rather find a vegan tampon in a men’s toilet than discover Nigel Farage dropping a log.
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
Why did they call them "bras"
and not "booby traps"
October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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theonion.com
White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/
White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President
October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
A paean to privatised public transport.

Today I had to go from Stockport to Salisbury. So I bought a ticket

Stockport > Bristol > Salisbury

The drive to Stockport should have taken 35 minutes. Satnav said it would take 2 hours, and I'd miss my train.

So I went to Macclesfield, where I found...
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
joelmorris.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking] 1 SOCRATES: Plato.. PLATO: Yes Socrates? 2 SOCRATES: Can you tell me, are you human? PLATO: Why… yes, Socrates 3 SOCRATES: And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is? PLATO: Um, yep 4 SOCRATES: So you can tell me, then 5 [Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel] SOCRATES: *Is that a chariot*? 6 PLATO: Well that’s more just a bit of wheel 7 SOCRATES: So not a *chariot*. PLATO: No. 8 SOCRATES: [Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes] So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*? 9 PLATO: Well you can’t tap any of them really 10 SOCRATES: So are we not human? PLATO: ‘Spose not. 11 [Bleak pause] 12 PLATO: I’ll get the hemlock SOCRATES: Yeah [ends]
October 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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sararoseg.bsky.social
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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drrachelclarke.com
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
jamineyc.bsky.social
Popping a stunned Goldcrest into a tree after it flew in to a window. It didn't want to budge. (I did wash my hands afterwards , bird flu n' all that). Saw a Bearded Tit the other day, a good week for bird spotting! #goldcrest #birds #rspb
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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jimalkhalili.bsky.social
🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain, Series 1, Episode 1
Jim Al-Khalili reveals how the staggeringly complex human brain evolved.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
This woman is everything to me
September 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM