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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 5h

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 2h

He has lots in common with plenty of working people

Has multiple part time jobs. Sometimes works away from home (Clacton, apparently) for long periods. He’s always Russian (surely rushin’, Ed)

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 3h

And Nigel _cares_ about barrels

a man in a suit and tie is holding a glass of beer in front of a sign that says outback

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a glass of beer in front of a sign that says outback

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 3h

Christian Nationalism does everything for Christianity that National Socialism does for Socialism.

Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 4h

Yes Alex, why can’t you understand and appreciate a lovely old English word like xenophobia?

It’s all Greek to you, isn’t it?

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 11h

Ouseing for a bruising

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 20h

First as tragedy. Then as frogs.

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 12h

Autons attack in Spearhead from Space (Doctor Who 1970)

Autons are the result of the Nestene consciousness, a malevolent alien species, taking over humanoid shaped plastic bodies

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 12h

There was a microsecond where I read the bullet point “US warns of damage to shared intelligence” as a moment of self-reflection and honesty from 🇺🇸 but that’s why you picked the four of them to represent intelligence, isn’t it? They can just about manage one syllable each of that word.
(Edited 8:53)

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 1d

It’s what predictive text does if you try to type jambon

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 1d

Other than prompting the hashtag #NigelOnlyEnjoysMeatTampons no idea

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sure which is twitching my irony meter more…

…that the military (well known for their pacifist leanings) named a horse Quaker

…that a horse too shocked and shaken to return to work is called Quaker

Injured runaway horse retires from military service

Quaker, 15, was one of five Household Cavalry horses spooked while on an exercise in Belgravia.

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 2d

The Brigade Leader, however…

Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart from Inferno

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not the teachers that are convincing kids that you’re racist, Nige, it’s your actions, words and policies.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 3d

(As a Patreon subscriber I’m writing this from the future)

Still laughing at @dorianlynskey.bsky.social describing the Ross and Rachel of Bolshevism (no spoilers)

Please make this next week’s clip

Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 3d

If history degrees go away, who will write the history of university degrees in the arts and humanities, so that later generations will know what has been lost...?

...except English degrees won't be there either, so reading them could be tricky

Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 3d

General Melchett would agree

Stephen Fry on Oxford

YouTube video by technoski1

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 3d

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 4d

“While Taylor Swift was recording and releasing her latest album, China was building five nuclear reactors.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related”

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

Pewter Tankard @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 4d

Given the current media idea of “balance” is to have both a neocon and a social conservative on the panel, why not ask the social conservative how they’ll feel re stopping the boats when UK Border Force has been shrunk to three blokes, a dog and a clipboard?

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