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Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · 8d

For the love of God will someone please beat Coventry City

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11d

Hour of knead: a Boro Bakers' delivery man doing his rounds in Middlesbrough.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 13d

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Oct 2

This however is very cool

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · Oct 1

Breaking: Caledonian Sleeper's highland sleeper to Inverness, Aberdeen & Ft William will call at Birmingham International from 15 January onwards, picking up northbound at 22:42, setting down southbound at 06:20. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More about the sleeper: www.seat61.com/sleeper-to-s...

Caledonian Sleeper train to link Scotland with Birmingham

The new service will start in January linking Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William to the West Midlands.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Oct 2

This is so crap. I took the Vienna to Paris sleeper on my way back from Prague and it was absolutely wonderful. Boooo to the French govt and SNCF.

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · Sep 29

It's now official: Due to the French government withdrawing support & SNCF unsupportive, the Paris-Vienna & Paris-Berlin Nightjet sleeper trains will be discontinued from mid-December. presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...
The Brussels-Vienna Nightjet will continue, 3 times per week.

Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Oct 1

Here’s my girl Rachael about to cast the Command Spell during our game of Talisman.

Black and white ridiculous cat sitting on the board of a game called Talisman. She has a silly face.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Oct 1

Well yes. England in particular remains in thrall to the wholly artificial "class system" and its an absolute menace.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · Oct 1

I do think that a lot, particularly as I relisten to my two audiobooks on Anglo Saxon history... So many of the people who lord it over of us are basically in place because their distant ancestors were better bullies than those around them. It doesn't seem much of a qualification.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · Sep 28

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

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Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Sep 26

Love the choice of headline photo here @theguardian.com

A picture of Erling Haaland with his top off and hair swishing sexily behind him to accompany the headline “Haaland fit for City” on the Guardian website. Yeah he is!

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Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Sep 20

Is your mum called Eowyn?

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Sep 19

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Sep 16

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

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Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Sep 15

I love my cat and her stupid face. 10/10 for her loaf pose here as well.

A black and white cat with a silly patchy face sitting on a blue sofa like a splendid loaf.

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Michelle @cloverjag.bsky.social · Nov 9

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 11

Can't believe it's been thirteen years since Danny Dyer couldn't believe it had been eleven years since them slags smashed into the twin towers and it still freaked out his nut til that day, it still freaks my nut out to this day.

Tweet from Danny Dyer, Sep 2012: Can't believe it's been nearly eleven years since them slags smashed into the twin towers it still freaks my nut out to this day 9/11 ch 4 10

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mattie; loud introvert energy @mattietastic.bsky.social · Sep 10

Maybe not my forever fav but it always makes me laugh. AND has good advice.

transpigeon:
STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:
- transition
- bdsm
- iron supplements

spirit-of-science:
- sleep study
- ADHD medication
- DBT

headedoutleft:
- vitamin D
- go outside for an hour and observe birds
- eat a snack

trackerkitsune:
- drink water

ineffable-writer:
Maybe do these in reverse order

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · Sep 10

Well fucking do something about it then

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Sep 10

Have you noticed the nights drawing in a little earlier?

September is one of the months where we lose sunlight the quickest as we move towards the autumnal equinox

Sunrise and sunset times across the UK on Wednesday 10 September 2025.

Lerwick: Sunrise = 06:20, Sunset = 19:40
Edinburgh: Sunrise = 06:35, Sunset = 19:43
Belfast: Sunrise = 06:47, Sunset = 19:52
Hull: Sunrise = 06:26, Sunset = 19:29
Wrexham: Sunrise = 06:37, Sunset = 19:39
Peterborough: Sunrise = 06:27, Sunset = 19:27
Cardiff: Sunrise = 06:39, Sunset = 19:38
London: Sunrise = 06:27, Sunset = 19:26
Penzance: Sunrise = 06:50, Sunset = 19:46

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Who’s this chucklefuck?” she asks.

Charles le Fuck silently bristles at the informality…

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Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Sep 10

Arrest Hertzog.

Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Sep 10

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

www.theguardian.com

Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social · Sep 10

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Sep 2

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

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Secret Squirrel @secretsquidgle.bsky.social · Sep 2

His answer was hugely impressive and it’s what Labour could have said years ago .

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 22

god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · Aug 22

Get down off that cross, you’re a far right inciter of pogroms.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

Lucy Connolly’s first interview: I was Starmer’s political prisoner

Northampton childminder speaks exclusively to Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Aug 22

Migrants can't answer back.

They have no voice.

So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue.

In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess.

That is what is really going on here.

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · Aug 16

24 hours in Sadiq Khan’s Lawless London.

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