James
@studiousbadger.bsky.social
Stargazing vet from the Dark Satanic North. Once hit the stumps from the boundary aged 11, all down hill since then. Was in practice, now harping on about #OneHealth, transboundary infectious disease and whatnot 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
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"What's Britain like?"
"We remain a relentlessly chipper population, prone to mild eccentricity, binge drinking and casual violence"
-- Bill Bailey
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOa...
"We remain a relentlessly chipper population, prone to mild eccentricity, binge drinking and casual violence"
-- Bill Bailey
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOa...
Bill Bailey - Argos - Part Troll
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October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"What's Britain like?"
"We remain a relentlessly chipper population, prone to mild eccentricity, binge drinking and casual violence"
-- Bill Bailey
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOa...
"We remain a relentlessly chipper population, prone to mild eccentricity, binge drinking and casual violence"
-- Bill Bailey
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOa...
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As an ex e-learning developer, I can confidently say this will be a terrible learning experience. I cannot wait to rip it to shreds.
Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵
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Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵
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BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:38 AM
As an ex e-learning developer, I can confidently say this will be a terrible learning experience. I cannot wait to rip it to shreds.
Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵
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Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵
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With a Canadian crewmember and a major part of the Orion spacecraft built by Europe, by rights Artemis II should be a poster child for international cooperation in space exploration. I am an absolute space geek but right now I’m just feeling hollow.
We love rock-et roll 🤘🚀
Last week, NASA's Artemis II rocket rolled to its launchpad.
At the top, Orion and @esa.int's European Service Module are ready to carry four astronauts on this historic Moon mission 🌙👨🚀
Last week, NASA's Artemis II rocket rolled to its launchpad.
At the top, Orion and @esa.int's European Service Module are ready to carry four astronauts on this historic Moon mission 🌙👨🚀
January 26, 2026 at 11:36 AM
With a Canadian crewmember and a major part of the Orion spacecraft built by Europe, by rights Artemis II should be a poster child for international cooperation in space exploration. I am an absolute space geek but right now I’m just feeling hollow.
With a Canadian crewmember and a major part of the Orion spacecraft built by Europe, by rights Artemis II should be a poster child for international cooperation in space exploration. I am an absolute space geek but right now I’m just feeling hollow.
We love rock-et roll 🤘🚀
Last week, NASA's Artemis II rocket rolled to its launchpad.
At the top, Orion and @esa.int's European Service Module are ready to carry four astronauts on this historic Moon mission 🌙👨🚀
Last week, NASA's Artemis II rocket rolled to its launchpad.
At the top, Orion and @esa.int's European Service Module are ready to carry four astronauts on this historic Moon mission 🌙👨🚀
January 26, 2026 at 11:36 AM
With a Canadian crewmember and a major part of the Orion spacecraft built by Europe, by rights Artemis II should be a poster child for international cooperation in space exploration. I am an absolute space geek but right now I’m just feeling hollow.
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Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
It's not designed to be repaid, it's designed to extract 9% of salary above the threshold for your entire working life, and considerably more than that if you did anything remotely more spicy than the standard 3 years (*waves in vet med*). A tax the wealthy can buy their way out of is quite a thing.
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
January 16, 2026 at 8:55 AM
It's not designed to be repaid, it's designed to extract 9% of salary above the threshold for your entire working life, and considerably more than that if you did anything remotely more spicy than the standard 3 years (*waves in vet med*). A tax the wealthy can buy their way out of is quite a thing.
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Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward
January 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward
I imagine Lt Col ‘Mad Jack´ Churchill - DSO & Bar, MC & Bar - wouldn’t let a little thing like being dead stop him from pulling it off. Almost unfair on an invading force, really. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ch...
January 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I imagine Lt Col ‘Mad Jack´ Churchill - DSO & Bar, MC & Bar - wouldn’t let a little thing like being dead stop him from pulling it off. Almost unfair on an invading force, really. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ch...
My daughter keeps a small penknife in her wash bag which was picked up on X-ray at Disneyland Paris (we stayed on-site) & caused fuss. She's a chip off the old block though & they failed to spot my identical one. In fact their hit rate was 1:4 after repeated scanning.
I used to get my checked bags searched every single time I flew, they leave a little card saying they’ve done it, so finally I put a note in my bag asking why and they wrote on the card that carrying so many books on a flight is usually how people hide illegal amounts of cash
Bag got pulled by security at the airport so I told him before he opened it that I was carrying medicinal cannabis. 'Yeah, not bothered about that, it's your toothpaste' 🤪
January 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
My daughter keeps a small penknife in her wash bag which was picked up on X-ray at Disneyland Paris (we stayed on-site) & caused fuss. She's a chip off the old block though & they failed to spot my identical one. In fact their hit rate was 1:4 after repeated scanning.
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Bombadil (2025)
June 19, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Bombadil (2025)
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"He's not going to win a Nobel Peace Prize doing that"
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
"He's not going to win a Nobel Peace Prize doing that"
How I’m turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
How I’m turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.
One room in the house has been heated to roughly the surface temperature of the sun. More tea?
Welcome to my parents house. You're just in time for food. Nothing fancy, just a buffet. Here's your labelled placemat. Just a buffet. Here's the fine tablewear. Here's the silver cutlery. Sit down. Just a buffet. Here's the first course. Just a buffet. A 7 course sit down buffet. Prawn cocktail?
Welcome to my parents' house! The kettle is on. The kettle is on again. The kettle is still on. Tea is flowing. Do you need some tea? You haven't had tea in a while (10 minutes).
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
One room in the house has been heated to roughly the surface temperature of the sun. More tea?
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Foolishly decided to watch England play cricket again.
Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time.
a man in a military uniform with a mustache is making a funny face and says baaaah .
Alt: Stephen Fry as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, VC KCB DSO, in Blackadder Goes Forth. Subtitle: “Baaaaaah”
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December 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Foolishly decided to watch England play cricket again.
The engraved panels on the base make it look like a primary school sports day participation trophy. Did they have it done at Timpsons?
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The engraved panels on the base make it look like a primary school sports day participation trophy. Did they have it done at Timpsons?
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Tax on people who go to lane swimming and then swim very slowly two abreast so they're hard to get round without swimming into people coming the other way, having a bit of a chat
Tax on people who get off an escalator and then immediately stand still to find something about their person
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Tax on people who go to lane swimming and then swim very slowly two abreast so they're hard to get round without swimming into people coming the other way, having a bit of a chat
Post a movie where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Post a movie where you’re from
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My then-8yo daughter sliced her finger open once, trying to cut an onion to look at under her junior microscope. Rather than panic about the blood her first instinct was to catch some on a slide to see what it looked like. I was equal parts proud and horrified 😆
November 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
My then-8yo daughter sliced her finger open once, trying to cut an onion to look at under her junior microscope. Rather than panic about the blood her first instinct was to catch some on a slide to see what it looked like. I was equal parts proud and horrified 😆
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Tick this box to confirm you’re not a robot.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don't forget to like and subscribe.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Jonathan has come dressed as a snooker table. #thetraitors #celebritytraitors
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Jonathan has come dressed as a snooker table. #thetraitors #celebritytraitors
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Everyone gathering for the rapture, then watching as Cliff Richard, and only Cliff Richard, slowly floats into space.
September 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Everyone gathering for the rapture, then watching as Cliff Richard, and only Cliff Richard, slowly floats into space.
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That's MY Doctor.
BBC news showing the Trump protest in London, Sylvester McCoy has just appeared on a vox pop.
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
That's MY Doctor.