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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 6h

That is so lovely - and very fitting for the young un! (And bloody good for you too!)

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

Chris Robshaw does make an excellent Thor but the sheer tea towel size of that cape compared to the hammer coupled with Sweet Child O Mine is the campest thing I’ve seen all week #strictly #scd

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

What five events defined your childhood?

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Take That splitting up
Bosnian war
Princess Di’s death
1990s recession

Chris Dwyer @chrisgdwyer.bsky.social · 7h

What five events defined your childhood?

Northern Ireland troubles
1978 World Cup
Tenerife Plane Disaster
The Cold War
Space Shuttle.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 9h

What five events defined your childhood?

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

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

I’ve never seen anything like this CE guest tutor before! The PR has been a juggernaut anyway, and I’d expect something reasonably timely (although last year Movie Week didn’t have anything like this) but this really is a step further.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

When the choreographers get the mood and tone of a song just right it really is magical - this was a bloody good Wicked opening, the dancers were all so brilliant! #Strictly #SCD

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

Cynthia Erivo is singing on it tonight so it probably is indeed a tie-up with imminent part 2 (not least as this song is in it.)

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Paul Eggleston @pauleggleston.bsky.social · 1d

I've invented a new saying, 'as proud as a Frenchman making strawberry butter', which I'm sure you'll agree is a lovely churn of fraise.

#LunchPun

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 1d

Vermont Autumn Beauty at the Fluery Maple Farm in Richford Vermont

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

Like I think everyone who knew and loved Jilly Cooper and her work, I was interviewed about her for Radio 4's obituaries programme, The Last Word, today at 4pm. It is such a lovely programme, and brings people's lives so vividly to life. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Patrick Bradley, Dame Jilly Cooper, Sara Jane Moore, Dame Patricia Routledge

Matthew Bannister on an electoral officer, an author, an attempted assassin and an actor.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

Oof this has broken me a bit. Drawings by children in Gaza at @savechildrenuk.bsky.social mental health spaces, shared for #WorldMentalHealthDay. As ever, they could each have been drawn by any child.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

Oof this has broken me a bit. Drawings by children in Gaza at @savechildrenuk.bsky.social mental health spaces, shared for #WorldMentalHealthDay. As ever, they could each have been drawn by any child.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

It IS on iplayer from 8, I couldn’t find it on iplayer and googled it wrong - I’m watching as much as I can now before switching over for Traitors. Oh thank God.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Oh thank God we’re saved by my own googling ineptitude - hurrah!

Tom @tomhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Drag Race UK available on iPlayer from 8pm!

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Oh thank god, thank you! I thought it was but couldn’t find it and online said 9!

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Alright, who at the BBC hates women and gays enough to schedule Celebrity Traitors and Drag Race UK in the same time slot?

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Thank you, that’s really helpful!

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Going to cough up for the Covid booster this year as it's around so much – the pharmacy has two types, one for £90 and £65. I can't find any clear distinction in my very unscientific googling, but is there an advantage to one flavour of mind control over the other? I just paid £30 for a flu jab 🫡

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

He is such a divine woozle, both now and as a puppy! Hellion!

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Oh my god!!’ 1) he is divine and 2) who came first?

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 2d

Days after we revealed that it had been months since Farage last updated his register, he has done so - adding £190,000 worth of earnings going back as far as early May in some cases

The update is registered 3rd Oct - the day we went to his team for a right of reply

Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 7d

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user

Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...

Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

observer.co.uk

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Oh my God this is a brilliant article, and such an insight into the scientists who find these huge developments and so many great details. Anna, hearing news of the breakthrough on her 21st birthday. The work wife and husband and the bike in her office. Predator!
www.thetimes.com/article/e182...

A hereditary disease killed our mum. Can this scientist save us?

Charlotte Raven died from Huntington’s disease this year. Her children and her doctor, Professor Ed Wild, talk about the treatment offering hope to sufferers

www.thetimes.com

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

“I was confident I’d finished that swim with all the training and [when I was bitten], I knew that was going to spoil it” - arguably the most British understatement that has been said recently, by a man bitten by a bloody shark in the middle of a record attempt! www.thetimes.com/article/f84f...

‘It hit me and I shook it off’: Swimmer fights off great white shark attack

Christopher Murray’s attempt to complete the ‘triple crown’ of open-water swimming was thwarted when he was bitten by a juvenile great white

www.thetimes.com

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 3d

i have to stop myself thinking about this too much because the rage of it is so great. and then the general sense on top of that that books simply don't matter as much as films and music so they're worth throwing away!

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 3d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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