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Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social · 9h

It's been a while, but here's a new cryptic crossword: mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2759

Sample Clues:

Abandoned ship to Scottish waters? (4)
Sports brand intended not to use a single thread (8)
Scientists tie ties short, loosely (6,9)
Find success, and live (4,2)

Cryptic crossword No 2,759 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 2,759 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 26 clues by evilflea. Published Wed 8 Oct 2025. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

mycrossword.co.uk

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social · 1d

I wish podcasts would do *fewer* episodes. Then I might have a chance of clearing the queue. Even subscribe to a wider variety, maybe.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Judge Immergut is a woman.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump on Portland ruling: I wasn’t served well by the people who pick judges. I appointed the judge and it goes like that. If he made that decision—Portland is burning to the ground… all you have to do is look at the TV and read your newspapers.

That judge ought to be ashamed of himself

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amoebacrosswords.bsky.social @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social · 3d

Quite the twist in this piece 😲

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

An academic was aghast when her partner was accused of IRA activity. After his trial, he confessed

Mary Attenborough’s nightmare began when the police raided the flat she and Michael Gallagher shared, their memoir reveals, but their relationship prevailed

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Howdle @danhowdle.bsky.social · 4d

"it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world. it’s a bad look. it is bad, and it’s not who we are”

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 4d

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4d

Today is the 39th anniversary of a strange (which suits my purposes) but also somewhat unpleasant anniversary: the attack on Dan Rather by a man who wanted to shut off the signals being broadcast into his head and who consequently kept shouting “Kenneth, what is the frequency?”

News cutting: Dan Rather recuperates from attack by two men

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 14d

Look what we have here then.

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Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social · 4d

Would anyone like to invest in my new online business?

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Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social · 5d

I keep seeing this and keep just thinking how funny it is that Pierce Brosnan has gone to such effort to show off his cufflinks and then they slapped the title right over them.

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Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social · 5d

Meat Pie Sausage Roll (C'mon England Gi's A Goal) by Grandad Roberts & His Son Elvis

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 5d

question for the timeline

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pstr (Jusqu'ici tout va bien) 🇨🇦🇨🇵 @philstr.bsky.social · 5d

This is going to keep getting used until the American people find some maturity.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.

U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.

Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.

This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.

It was always about cruelty.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 6d

the social media platform that the nation's politicians and journalists overwhelmingly continue to use:

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6d

.......I just looked at twitter for the first time in a while and literally the first thing I saw was a Matt Goodwin tweet complaining that British TV ads have too many black people

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

If you said this exact combination of words to a cop at a traffic stop, they wouldn't even waste time with the breathalyzer.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 5d

this is a GOOD speech

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social · 5d

Ah sorry, no. Hope you get some useful replies. We just had sudden blindness with Selma, which the vets have been amazing with (ie pumping in all the steroids & crossing fingers, which has had really positive results - we were convinced we'd be saying goodbye within days the way she deteriorated)

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 5d

why are West Midlands police allowing flag hangers to block a public highway, exactly

Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 5d

Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.

The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.

Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.