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Toby - wittering about cars, technology, showtunes and other stuff since… ooh, ages ago.

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · Nov 6

I am a professional writer and editor - and rather good at copy-editing and proofreading. I'm happy to volunteer my services to any trans or gay rights organisation that can use them (as long as I'm not depriving anybody of a paid job!)
If you need help, contact me!
#transrights
#LGBTQI+rights

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, yes! Russell Howard. I know what you mean.
At least he's not Russell Brand.

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 6h

If by 'tan man' you mean Tim Vine - he's famously nice, and one of the all-time great one-liner artists:
"I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."

and...

"I decided to sell my Hoover... well, it was just collecting dust."

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 18h

Are those armholes cut high enough? I'm worried that the shoulders of his shirt might lift up when he raises his arm to adjust those glasses.

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 1d

Squashed it!

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 1d

Dare I say you might be more well-known among the slightly more, er, mature types who actually buy bikes...

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 1d

I would talk to one of the manufacturers' press offices about a loaner: they're always looking for 'ambassadors' for motorcycling. The new Chinese brands might be extra keen. I have a press directory, if that would help...

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 2d

Could the Nobel Peace Prize committee perhaps give Trump some sort of certificate of participation?
#nobelpeaceprize

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 3d

Don't be a coelacanth. Be a coelaCANh!
#motivationalfossils

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 4d

Ba-ba-ra-ra-koo-koo-da-da!

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 4d

Don't forget Hope!

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 4d

Can recommend seeing Metropolis with live orchestra at the Babylon-Kino!

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 7d

Matron (Hattie Jacques): "I'm a sensitive woman, and I want to be wooed!"
Doctor (Kenneth Williams, adopting 'common' voice): "Well, you can be wude as you like with me, dear!"

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 8d

It was almost certainly started by an exploding electric car...

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 8d

Bart calls 911, and the new Springfield Police automated crime reporting line asks for a four-digit code describing the crime. He punches some random numbers in, and hears:
"You have selected... regicide".

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 9d

Terrific. And what a wonderful resource the Poetry By Heart website is!

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 10d

That generation of Corvette is looking rather exotic. I could imagine a V12 in there!

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 10d

The second picture makes it look like a giant hand is casting a shadow on the ground. Cool...

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 11d

I saw him at the airport with his family: he was completely as expected, wearing snakeskin cowboy boots and a Comme des Garçons jacket. His wife and children seemed lovely.

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 12d

This is astonishing ambition: 24-hour-a-day energy from a solar plant with thermal battery storage, and enough output for 830,000 homes at a cost of $480m - that's around $600 per household!

Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 13d

China Three Gorges commissions world's largest PV-CSP solar plant www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/25/c...

China Three Gorges commissions world’s largest PV-CSP solar plant

Hybrid project pairs a 100 MW linear Fresnel concentrated solar power (CSP) with a 900 MW PV facility, delivering 24-hour output and demonstrating large-scale storage integration.

www.pv-magazine.com

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 12d

I'm enjoying Clues by Sam. It's rather a well-constructed logic game.

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 13d

I was once at a friend's birthday party - which I enjoyed greatly - and was only told later that Indira Varma had been at the same party.
Bugger!

Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 16d

WE MUST CONIFER WITH THE ELM

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Phantom Corsair @phantomcorsair.bsky.social · 17d

I like the explanation of factoid as something that only has the shape of a fact.