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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 4d

(Put more on Instagram for the nerds/cool people)

Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 4d

As Les Miserables celebrates it’s 40th anniversary 😮 here’s a great 1985 promotional flyer I found.
It’s overshot it’s closing date a little…

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 12d

Huzzah! Well done

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 26d

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
X.com

Convincing my left-wing former close friends on
Facebook that Charlie Kirk wasn't a Nazi or a
fascist is completely futile because I can't even
convince them that I'M not a Nazi or a fascist, and
many have known me since early grade school.
1:20 PM • 9/15/25 • 850K Views

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 26d

Claimed earlier that with enough support I’d be able to reach the summit of Everest and was rightly relentlessly mocked by colleagues. How hard can it be…?

Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · Sep 4

New favourite notebook unlocked. 📘✍️

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ruefully concluded I couldn’t get anything in the Times quiz before realising I was trying to solve the answers..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · Aug 25

Seaside scenes

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

I once read a National Trust leaflet on walking with wildlife which I swear to god contained the line "if approached by cows, don't keep close to your dog. instead let them off the lead and arrange a rendezvous point where you can meet"

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · Aug 7

news you can use, if you are a cat

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Jun 21

Andrew Neil got 1.7 million views just asking questions about whether this bonkers conspiracy theory was true. When given the answers, he got 200k views for noting it was 'Twitter bollocks peddled by numpties'. He then took credit for 'discrediting' the conspiracy, not amplifying it!

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · Jun 21

Saw an impressive amount of Duke of Monmouth relics. Resisted asking if we could have the ostrich plume back

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · Jun 21

Musket balls from the battlefield of Sedgemoor found last year (!)
Presumably they weren’t buried spelling out Monmouth’s slogan

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · Jun 7

Still finding the ‘Private School fees mean we can’t afford five holidays a year’ story hilarious.
The fact that the parents were supposedly called Alex and Alexandra with their children Ali, Harry, and Barry…

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · Jun 7

Exclusive: Telegraph was deceived by source in case of "faked" story about £345k per year banking couple who had to cut down on Waitrose shops to fund school fees pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source

Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 31

Brought some special Narnia stamps entirely because I love the classic Pauline Baynes illustrations which came with them..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 31

Not being as obsessively ‘online’ as I used to be I missed the big news that your book was out…until I saw a review in The Guardian. What an achievement. Hope you’re feeling proud and I’ll have to get my hands on a copy!

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · May 27

The reader of the audiobook I'm listening to has a number of eccentricities, one of which is not knowing what Roman numerals are and reading them out as collections of letters

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 22

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 22

after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 20

Read this at first thinking ‘Is Farage particularly ‘Anti-Polish’? More than other European countries?’

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 19

Various visions of Falstaff

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Amy Stone @amyfleurstone.bsky.social · May 16

My review of Hamlet Hail to the Thief is here: www.northernsoul.me.uk/hamlet-thief... I can’t stress this enough: you have to go and see this production, it’s a masterpiece @the-rsc.bsky.social #hamlethailtothethief

Hamlet Hail to the Thief, Aviva Studios, Manchester

Review: Hamlet Hail to the Thief, Aviva Studios, Manchester.

www.northernsoul.me.uk

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 17

Yes they’ve done it very well - with the mad material they had
Some great acting and staging

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 16

Ha I saw that the first two rows are provided with blankets to cower behind..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 16

The End of Titus Andronicus and this was after they’d washed the stage twice…

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · May 16

Titus Andronicus
Complete with gutter and splash guard for blood? 😬🩸

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