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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 1d

The ROYAL dick! (No connection with Prince Andrew) 😂

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 2d

Wait until you hear about Edinburgh’s vetinary college

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Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine.bsky.social · 3d

Dear Laura Kuenssberg

Don't you think it time you gave PROPER coverage to the issue of Reform, Nigel Farage, Nathan Gill & Russian bribery?

You seem reluctant. Just as Fiona Bruce seemed desperate to shut it down when Zack Polanski brought it up on #BBCQT

WHY?

#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited dik dik pic

A cute little dik dik (a kind of miniature deer)

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 5d

Dear Nobel Prize Committee, Please please please give the Peace Prize to Greta. 1. She deserves it. And 2. The rage from Washington would just be so fucking funny

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for asking this. I’ve been feeling exactly the same way

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 8d

He says it’s not about skin colour but a “preponderance” of one kind of people in a community. My area of Edinburgh has a “preponderance” of white people but I suspect Jenrick wouldn’t complain about that. Racist prick.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 12d

Please don’t hate me. I have a job that whenever anyone asks about it, they always say “that’s so cooooool!” And although it has boring days, it kinda is.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14d

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 16d

I wonder what the female fish sound like 🐟

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16d

Scientists are eavesdropping on fish to research and record the strange and subtle sounds they make underwater.

So far, they have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts.

What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you may think.

Scientists using new ways to eavesdrop on fish have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts in underwater recordings.

wapo.st

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 18d

Great to see Twickers full for #RWC final. England full back is incredible. I wish I could hear the ref properly. England will win this by 50.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 19d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 24d

Favourite 10 TV comedies in the order I think of them

Still Game
Derry Girls
Red Dwarf
Early Simpsons
This Way Up
Frasier
The Thick of It
Northern Exposure
Chewin the Fat
The Good Life

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 25d

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order.

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Hancock's Half Hour/Hancock
Community
The Day Today
First ten years of The Simpsons
How Do You Want Me?
The League of Gentlemen
Ever Decreasing Circles
Dad's Army until James Beck dies
Big Train S1

Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 25d

Okay fine. Favourite 10 tv comedies. In order that I think of them.

Mid Morning Matters
Father Ted
Look Around You
The Day Today
One Foot In The Grave
Human Remains
The Office (UK)
30 Rock
The Simpsons (until the mid to late 90s)
The Thick of It

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 26d

I am privileged teach a session to interpreters about deaf/interpreter power dynamics. It leads to reflective discussion.

Been talking to a deaf academic from Texas who has had her lessons on the same subject cancelled.

A deaf person is banned from talking about power.

God bless America 🇺🇸

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · 29d

Post five pleasures in life:

1. The smell of fresh basil as you add it to a ragù
2. Climbing into a bed made up with clean sheets
3. Swimming in an empty pool (of people, not of water)
4. Coffee and a pastry at a sunny pavement cafe
5. Being happy to see people and them being happy to see you

Dave G @dakegra.bsky.social · 29d

Post five pleasures in life:

1. Waking up to realise it *is* actually saturday
2. Reading a new book by your favourite author
3. The cat deciding it's your lap they want to snooze on today
4. Putting the world to rights over a whisky with your mate
5. Realising it's now Big Jumper season

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29d

Post five pleasures in life:

1) The first pint in a pub after a week’s work
2) Lying on your back on the beach listening to the sea
3) Holding someone you love
4) A mug of tea in the sun first thing in the morning
5) Standing alone in a forest hearing the wind in the branches

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · Sep 15

I got notification of a work appointment recently. Venue was WGH OPD AFB LGF 😵‍💫

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · Sep 15

I will never forget sharing a stage with Erin Doherty at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017 and being blown away by her performance. I said to the DSM “She’s getting an Oscar one day”. She’s just got her Emmy. I wish I’d put money on it now. Honestly one of the best actors I have ever seen work

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · Sep 15

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · Sep 9

Am Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Can confirm

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m thinking of it! (Just wish I’d brought my car)

Me standing next to a garage door with DONT EVEN THINK OF PARKING HERE stencilled on it. I’m looking thoughtful

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · Sep 9

Are we talking government or kitchenware here? Probably true in both cases

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · Sep 8

Reminds me of a Nicola Sturgeon presser when a critical journalist was given a bit of a muttering by the audience. She told them off in no uncertain terms: “holding me to account is his job”

We seem to have come a long was since then.

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Paul Belmonte @paulbelmonte.bsky.social · Sep 8

Anyone fancy some tasty Fanny juice? #Lisbon

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · Sep 3

These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 6

A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection.

This is not who we are nor who we should become.

Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.

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