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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 8h

The handle came off the microwave so we're playing an old timey game of expecting a long distance call

My grandma's old black rotary phone with a long black microwave handle as the receiver

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 3h

Same for East Midlands. I don't think many people even know what it is.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

Ange to Old Trafford. Now this I like.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

Using the key from the corned beef tin to open every single lock I come across.

Professor SweetPants @ygrene.bsky.social · 4h

patiently using the little saw from the aluminum foil box to cut down a few trees and bushes in my yard

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, we genuinely were THAT CLOSE to qualifying for the silly Champions' League only five months ago.

(Probably a good thing we didn't, but.)

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

Absolute Scenes

*eyes roll so far back I fall over*

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Professor SweetPants @ygrene.bsky.social · 4h

patiently using the little saw from the aluminum foil box to cut down a few trees and bushes in my yard

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 4h

You have to dip it in your coffee before it will stick to an envelope.

BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 6h

'give me the most French idea you've got'

'no, that's too French'

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 7h

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp 🥐

The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 6h

@herring1967.bsky.social

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The Edinburgh Minute @edinburghminute.bsky.social · 7h

Amazing clouds pouring over the Pentlands just now! If you can find a way to see them somehow, have a look! #Edinburgh

My photos are too rubbish to share :(

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 8h

'Immersive Home-Grown Unease'

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 9h

52% of Yorkshire Tea drinkers don't realise that the tea isn't grown in Yorkshire.

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 9h

...

fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 9h

About time somebody started promoting the many virtues of Kirkcaldy

Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 10h

@mattleys.bsky.social I see you’re making T-shirts now.

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 11h

Scrappy Doo gets a lot of criticism, but fuck me Scooby-Dum is a LOT worse.

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 11h

"SNP caves to shooting lobby" - reactions to Scottish Government's decision to delay muirburn licensing (again) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/11/s...

“SNP caves to shooting lobby” – reactions to Scottish Government’s decision to delay muirburn licensing (again)

As expected, the Scottish Government’s announcement on Thursday that it has delayed the implementation of muirburn licensing (for the second time) has been met with anger. Scottish Greens MSP…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 11h

DuckDuckGo my Lord
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo my Lord
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo my Lord
DuckDuckGo
Oh Lord

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 11h

Vast majority of people don't need to use Chrome. Choose an alternative that doesn't hog so much memory and processing, and doesn't force AI nonsense on you.

Like Opera. www.opera.com/download

The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 12h

This is pretty wild www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is it acceptable to scatter a loved one's ashes in the countryside?

Some hillwalkers are concerned they are coming across piles of ashes during treks in wild areas of Scotland.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 12h

Technically, I am suing Rishi Sunak.

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve not actively hated Rishi Sunak in a while, so the news he’s taken a job with Anthropic AI (aka the company I’m part of a mass lawsuit against for stealing our work to train their LLM) is actually kind of comforting.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 12h

Good luck!

The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 12h

So sweet

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14h

My local greengrocer has started putting the aubergines on the top shelf.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 15h

👍

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