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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 9h

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Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? (Official Video)

YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 11h

Also, a big day of making many orher people feel great, but going home in tears to an empty home. Where's my person?

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Cameron Yarde Jnr @cameronyardejnr.bsky.social · 11h

The BT Tower is 60 years old today. Famous for its revolving restaurant...and a giant kitten courtesy of The Goodies.

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 11h

A nutcase saying: "Jesus loves you; you're all in a simulation" really isn't what I needed on my journey home tonight.

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Sarah Hinds @sarahhinds.bsky.social · 22h

No notes! *chef's kiss*

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 22h

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 21h

Funnily enough if I had to think of a degree that could be called a ripoff it would be business studies. Just watch the Apprentice. You’ll be fine.

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 21h

Why bother, when AI can write everything for you? The future ☠️🫣

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 1d

MAGICIAN: Is this your card?

ME: No

MAGICIAN: Is this your card?

ME: No

MAGICIAN: This one?

ME: No. When is our regular postman back from holiday?

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 1d

I think this must be the most purely irritating podcast I've ever heard. THEIR VOICES.

Love is Buffering: Tuesday, October 7th, 2025

Spotify video

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody with Edinburgh knowledge recommend me a good mid-range hotel to stay at? I am overwhelmed with choice.

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 1d

Watching a documentary about Andy Warhol. Fascinating, but God, wasn't he incredibly boring?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Amazed this is still going ahead - basic and obvious problem is that essentially everything local government does now is for the poor. You can’t move it around without really hurting poor people somewhere!

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

This is streaming. It's bloody great. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

The Actors

(2003) Comedy with Michael Caine and Dylan Moran. Two actors con a retired gangster.

www.channel4.com

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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 2d

Wealth taxes are powerful not because they plug budget holes but because they reprogramme the economy to work for both

🎩WEALTH COLLECTORS🧐 like Elon Musk

and

👷‍♀️WEALTH EARNERS👨‍⚕️ like the rest of us

Full interview with @theguardian.com:
youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8

#TaxTheSuperRich #WealthTax

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Simon @broomwagon.bsky.social · 2d

I could do that. I’d just go back through Liverpool team sheets.
“What, you don’t like the name Molby? It’s lovely for a girl. You knew the deal, £30,000 in used tenners up front, no refunds”

juux @juux.com · 5d

burn it all down
burn it to the ground

News website screenshot
[Photo: A woman is sitting in front of a fireplace. She is wearing a light brown dress and is smiling]

Taylor Humphrey says she has always been interested in baby names

Meet the woman who will name your baby — for $30,000
Taylor Humphrey, a San Francisco-based baby-name consultant, makes a living giving advice on the perfect monikers for the children of wealthy celebrity clients

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 3d

I recently came across my original application form to become a question writer for a TV quiz show, which involved creating ten general knowledge questions, so I wrote a thing about it.

And, yes, you can have a go at answering the questions.

Interview Questions

For the past decade, I have made part of my modest living by writing questions for television quiz shows. I started out as one of many…

meandmybigmouth.medium.com

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 2d

Every UK police force now has a dedicated officer to support journalists facing threats of abuse and violence, according to the Government www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) says the move would be welcomed by journalists.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a perfume that smells like cheap sage and onion stuffing? Because the woman sat next to me is wearing it, and she smells like a human Toby Carvery

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

And some top pearl-clutching here. Also; there is a 'clean' version for young fans.

Taylor Swift's new album is disgusting - I won't let my child listen

ANNETTE KELLOW's son loves Taylor Swift. But she's been disgusted by her new album which is filled with filth

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

Mail more obsessed with tits than ever today.

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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 3d

This story's a few days old now but bloody hell, it's truly horrific

And this is what Kemi Badenoch wants to emulate in the UK?! Surely the answer to that is 'fuck no!' ...

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

newrepublic.com/post/201258/... via @newrepublic.com

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

newrepublic.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

I always say that no one should be in the hospital alone.

They can be very dangerous places, and it’s crucial to have an advocate.

It breaks my heart to think of someone chained to a hospital bed for 37 days without even knowing why.

Held under a fake name, Bayron had no advocate.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

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