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Robbie Bett

@teespirit.bsky.social

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Fan of comedy, facts, food, sport, computers, nature. All © ® and TM's due their respective owners. Blue Sky's premier half wisp

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · Nov 17

Quite moved that people who followed me on the old place, have followed me back on here. Thank you, you beautiful people.

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 34m

Ding dong

Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 2h

Like a door-2-door salesman who claims their external insulation will fix everything. N.B. If they're getting paid enough to spend time going door-2-door, it's always more to the company than it ever will be for the person they're imposing upon +might create other probs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tens of thousands of homes insulated under government schemes need repairs

Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3h

Yay! Finally the most oppressed and suffering of people in the world are getting some relief.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h

Breaking news: The Bank of England will cut the time senior bankers have to wait before receiving their full bonuses from eight years to four years on.ft.com/48xnmHm

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 3h

Yey, it's going to save horny incels by giving them powerful 'w@nking' arms so they can post furiously about 'trad wives'. 🙄

Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 3h

Gills help aquatic animals breathe. Please make it clear to your readers that Nige 'fifth column' Farage has 'never even met the Russian Ambassador'™️

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 3h

A.I. generated videos are like dreams - you find your own fascinating and no one else gives a shit about them

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 3h

Morrison is going to come back in a super band with Elvis and Hendrix.

a black and white photo of a man with the words " break on through to the other side " above him

ALT: a black and white photo of a man with the words " break on through to the other side " above him

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 4h

Watched something the other day about the difference in rhetoric the German troops had been fed (by the regime) about being a PoW in the UK and what actually happened. Have you done any stories about individual treatment of PoWs in the UK? Quite a few had Xmas dinners with locals in 1946

Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 4h

If we don't keep giving private sector hand outs, they'll stop being as efficient at hiding money in tax havens to be spent on yachts and sport cars. #ItsSimpleThatchernomics

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Richard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social · 5h

Special report on the great Teesside giveaway in new @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

Cryptocurrency isn’t freedom, writes Prof Richard Murphy.

It’s deregulation dressed up as liberation.

Behind the rhetoric lies the same old story: profit for the few, risk for the many.

Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty

Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 5h

Why is everyone so negative about AI? It's going to allow us to enjoy shows like 'Ow ma balls' in the future.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers Pupils fear that using artificial intelligence is eroding their ability to study, with many complaining it makes schoolwork “too easy” and others saying it limits their creativity and stops them learning new skills, according to new research. The report on the use of AI in UK schools, commissioned by Oxford University Press (OUP), found that just 2% of students aged between 13 and 18 said they did not use AI for their schoolwork, while 80% said they regularly used it. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 18h

Poor Tommy Robinson. What possible reason could the border police have had for stopping a known criminal who is being investigated by HMRC from taking £13,000 in cash abroad while driving a Bentley that wasn’t his and refusing to answer their questions? It’s an outrage!

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 18h

Go croak, defeat snoke

Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 19h

stand and deliver?

Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 23h

I'm just glad that Cameron's AV ref (the one that FPTP won because its champions thought counting was too complicated for pensioners to understand) fixed this for a lifetime and prevented it being an issue. I'm also glad that Cameron's Brexit ref prevented Fartrage getting a leg up.🤔

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 23h

Those who work in IT seem to know the amount of pointless tech crap is increasing at a rate far exceeding the actually useful stuff. We can feel it in our bones (and many have had a nagging feeling for at least 15 years), it's the digital elephant in the room that is rarely addressed.

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to invent an app for £240pcm that only works on newest top of the line smartphone (at least £800) to store all the contingency plans.🤨😉 #TipTopTechBallaches N.B. The app should auto delete everything if you've got a phone older than 1 yr,let's make the endless upgrade cycle compulsory

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Tee hee. Are any of the 21stC tech disruptor solutions going to end up anywhere except where we started, doing without them?

I don’t think anyone predicted this in Sci Fi enough.

Steve Beresford @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 1d

Then: the office of the future will be paperless

Now: keep paper records

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 1d

It's my understanding that these type of tariff things involve the other side paying and are bigly wins for the nation imposing them.🤔 It's how you make other countries respect you.🤷‍♂️

Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 1d

He's also a reliable protector of women and children, like he was during his edl time 🤨

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 1d

Tommeh in Westminster Court; arrested driving [checks notes] a 'man of the people'™️ silver Bentley. #ToadKeyHoleGrift www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tommy Robinson refused to give police phone Pin to protect 'journalistic material'

The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

www.bbc.co.uk

Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 1d

Does this mean Tricky Dicky Tice & gang were lying about the UK sitting on trillions and trillions of £ of shale gas? 🤔 #RhetoricalQuestion

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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 2d

That's you in the spotlight.