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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 5h

Wymondham. But I’m not sure how many tourists you get there.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 6h

That looks like the burger of a carpenter (covered in sawdust)

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 7h

It’s a little book of wisdom from a garden centre dressed up as Winnie the Pooh and I have no idea why it’s obtained national treasure status.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 8h

The BBC should make this their next Ghost Story For Christmas

Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 8h

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 9h

For high performance endurance drinkers.

Justin Edwards @bigedwards.bsky.social · 10h

#beermatoftheday

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly. Plus it directly helps them project the kind of social change that the article talk about, without actually making any kind actual change at all. It actively helps them delay and avoid progress.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 10h

Also the argument that ‘governments are not their people’, as if the comedy festival was some kind of people-led, grassroots push for change is ridiculous. It was organised by the government. If you support it, you support them.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 10h

I’m not sure ‘my fellow comedians are fabulously wealthy so didn’t play Riyadh for the money’ is going to win many people over

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 10h

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12h

I can see the arts being used as a wedge issue - a way of defining and stoking up political tribes. Those who think it’s ’common sense’ that arts and culture are waste of time and money, vs the rest of humanity

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12h

I went to Gosh comics today and painted the window. Just in time for the release and launch party for Physics For Cats. Come along and get a book signed tomorrow (Thursday) 7-9pm!
pic 1. In progress (from inside)
pic 2. The complete window, just waiting for the books.
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

Cartoon cats and science machinery painted on a window.

Cartoon cats and science machinery painted on a window of a comic shop. The text reads 'Physics for Cats: Science cartoons by Tom Gauld"

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12h

Doughnuts and Doughballs should really be the same thing, but they’re not.

Makes you think.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 15h

The Creative Industries are worth £125 Billion a year. They’re a massive contributor to the economy (along with universities). Many of the people who work in them studied art and design. They can’t just study the industry part. If you want creative industries you need creative education.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15h

Arts degrees are only “worthless” because tech cunts revalued the highly desirable product of freelance artists at close to zero, cos it made running the digital supply pipes look cheaper on the spreadsheets. Pay properly for the arts, and see how worthless artists are.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 19h

Ha! Search their workstations. Like a secret scroll may have fallen down behind the drawers.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 19h

There’s such a depressing stench of the playground about it all. Like being governed by 12 year old bullies. “Look! I’ve got his wig! Ha ha” It’s so exhausting.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

These aren’t just degrees, they’re whole university departments. If you call them Mickey Mouse, you’re saying the thousands of people who have taken them have stupid pointless careers. Perhaps the tories believe that, but it doesn’t sound like a vote winner.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20h

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

inews.co.uk

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

Mass hysteria could explain a lot of stuff at the moment.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

Also them talking to the BBC was odd.

I agree the general suspicion of foreign interference in domestic headline issues is interesting. Cyber attacks, riots, drones, airport shutdowns etc. I could believe this is all enemy shitstirring. But if true, surely it would be in gov interest to say so?

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