Ex Doc
@chapelhatpegs.bsky.social
Beer, bread, bicycles, rescue border collies.
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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And in many of the more relaxed civilizations on the outer eastern rim of the Galaxy, it has long supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
And in many of the more relaxed civilizations on the outer eastern rim of the Galaxy, it has long supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom
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Someone told me that the FIFA ‘peace prize’ has been named the Bellend d’Or.
Perfect.
Perfect.
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Someone told me that the FIFA ‘peace prize’ has been named the Bellend d’Or.
Perfect.
Perfect.
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The @manchestermill.bsky.social keeps demonstrating why it is so important to have a truly local paper. They really do feel like they are a part of Manchester, not "reporting" on it from somewhere else! They're doing a cool special right now, where you can pay what you like for two months!
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December 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The @manchestermill.bsky.social keeps demonstrating why it is so important to have a truly local paper. They really do feel like they are a part of Manchester, not "reporting" on it from somewhere else! They're doing a cool special right now, where you can pay what you like for two months!
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Autumn is not a mourning for summer. Autumn is not a fear of winter. The witch holds each season sacred, harvests joys and magics from them all. To be defined by a sense of loss and anxiety about is what to come is not the way to walk fiercely in the now. – #EmilyCBanting #ReenchantmentIsResistance
October 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Autumn is not a mourning for summer. Autumn is not a fear of winter. The witch holds each season sacred, harvests joys and magics from them all. To be defined by a sense of loss and anxiety about is what to come is not the way to walk fiercely in the now. – #EmilyCBanting #ReenchantmentIsResistance
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Since my decision to stop posting to X/Twitter, and restarting here, the project has lost 2k+ followers.
It’s disheartening, but the project is 10yrs old this year, and I hope it’ll be around for 10 more.
To those who have stuck with us, and to those new to the project, thank you.
We can rebuild.
It’s disheartening, but the project is 10yrs old this year, and I hope it’ll be around for 10 more.
To those who have stuck with us, and to those new to the project, thank you.
We can rebuild.
March 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Since my decision to stop posting to X/Twitter, and restarting here, the project has lost 2k+ followers.
It’s disheartening, but the project is 10yrs old this year, and I hope it’ll be around for 10 more.
To those who have stuck with us, and to those new to the project, thank you.
We can rebuild.
It’s disheartening, but the project is 10yrs old this year, and I hope it’ll be around for 10 more.
To those who have stuck with us, and to those new to the project, thank you.
We can rebuild.
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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Mr Bilston strikes again. Excellent.
September 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Mr Bilston strikes again. Excellent.
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Charles I:
"I cannot for the life of me understand how the Parliamentarians think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into the House of Commons to arrest five members and show how crime can be reduced."
"I cannot for the life of me understand how the Parliamentarians think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into the House of Commons to arrest five members and show how crime can be reduced."
Mike Johnson: "I cannot for the life of me understand how the Democrats think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced."
September 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Charles I:
"I cannot for the life of me understand how the Parliamentarians think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into the House of Commons to arrest five members and show how crime can be reduced."
"I cannot for the life of me understand how the Parliamentarians think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into the House of Commons to arrest five members and show how crime can be reduced."
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Petition to stop any other sportspeople with the surname "Anderson" from playing.
September 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Petition to stop any other sportspeople with the surname "Anderson" from playing.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Sometimes I see something on here that I don't understand or where someone says or does something I think is really stupid.
Then I think I must be missing something
Then I wonder if I should reply or if it's a joke I don't get.
Then I shrug & move on because I just don't care that much really
Then I think I must be missing something
Then I wonder if I should reply or if it's a joke I don't get.
Then I shrug & move on because I just don't care that much really
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Sometimes I see something on here that I don't understand or where someone says or does something I think is really stupid.
Then I think I must be missing something
Then I wonder if I should reply or if it's a joke I don't get.
Then I shrug & move on because I just don't care that much really
Then I think I must be missing something
Then I wonder if I should reply or if it's a joke I don't get.
Then I shrug & move on because I just don't care that much really
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“We’re scrapping our DEI initiative…”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
June 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
“We’re scrapping our DEI initiative…”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Schrödinger's parade - the crowd was both sparse and dense.
June 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Schrödinger's parade - the crowd was both sparse and dense.
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Like buddy, we haven't all forgotten how you wrote a pamphlet calling for denationalisation of the NHS, or how you treated doctors over pay.
What an absolute arsebarnacle.
What an absolute arsebarnacle.
June 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Like buddy, we haven't all forgotten how you wrote a pamphlet calling for denationalisation of the NHS, or how you treated doctors over pay.
What an absolute arsebarnacle.
What an absolute arsebarnacle.
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I was surprised to just read just that the British Plant Gall Society is on BlueSky but disappointed to read that they’re proposing to stop posting here due to lack of engagement. So if like me you’re interested in galls and just didn’t realise they were here, follow them here: @galling.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I was surprised to just read just that the British Plant Gall Society is on BlueSky but disappointed to read that they’re proposing to stop posting here due to lack of engagement. So if like me you’re interested in galls and just didn’t realise they were here, follow them here: @galling.bsky.social
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If I were still an editor, I would be whizzing through Boundless's list and going shopping RIGHT NOW. All these excellent books (really cannot fault Unbound's editorial judgement), ready edited, with existing followings and huge public sympathy: get *in*.
June 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If I were still an editor, I would be whizzing through Boundless's list and going shopping RIGHT NOW. All these excellent books (really cannot fault Unbound's editorial judgement), ready edited, with existing followings and huge public sympathy: get *in*.
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An important life skill to develop is the ability to not have an opinion on a thing.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
May 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
An important life skill to develop is the ability to not have an opinion on a thing.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
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Quick COVID update from me discussing latest variants and prospects for summer here.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Latest Covid variants and outlook for UK summer
There probably will be a Covid summer wave.
open.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Quick COVID update from me discussing latest variants and prospects for summer here.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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As an aside to this, for the love of God stop carrying your credit/debit cards in a case with your phone. If your phone is nicked with your cards you are even more stuffed. I see SO many people doing this.
May 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
As an aside to this, for the love of God stop carrying your credit/debit cards in a case with your phone. If your phone is nicked with your cards you are even more stuffed. I see SO many people doing this.
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Doing Welsh family history means that you cheer when someone calls their kid Octavius because you have a tiny chance of finding them in the records.
May 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Doing Welsh family history means that you cheer when someone calls their kid Octavius because you have a tiny chance of finding them in the records.
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Never miss an opportunity to tell my favourite old science joke:
What did Crick and Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
What did Crick and Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
Rosalind Franklin, a crystallographer and humanist whose research was crucial to the discovery of the structure of DNA, died #onthisday, 1958. An icon of scientific inquiry whose legacy endures! heritage.humanists.uk/rosalind-fra...
April 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Never miss an opportunity to tell my favourite old science joke:
What did Crick and Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
What did Crick and Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.