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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 6h

Masses of things. True friends, book contracts, all sorts.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 1d

We’ve spotted several videos being shared on social media claiming the TV licence fee is set to double for over-65s.

But this isn’t true.

The TV licence fee is not doubling for over 65s – Full Fact

A spokesperson for the BBC confirmed this isn’t true, contrary to claims being shared on social media.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you! I don't think it's even branded - just a little silicone one that charges up. It has tiny soft spikes.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh don't worry!! I hope you're ok! X

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 20h

WHEN IM STUCK IN THE ICE
WITH TWELVE WEIRD STRANGERS
I JUST PICK UP MY BOOK
AND SHRUG
AND SAY
TOMORROW, TOMORROW,
IT'S PUBLISHED TOMORROW
IT'S COSY AND IT WILL SLAY
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 20h

MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR
COMES OUT, TOMORROW
BET YOUR BLOOD-SOAKED CHRISTMAS THAT TOMORROW
THERE'LL BE CRIME

JUST THINKIN' BOUT TOMORROW
ADDS SOME FAIRY SPARKLE
AND SOME HORROR
IN THE SNOW

🎶🧵

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 23h

New bio, thank you Tripadvisor

Screenshot of a one star trip advisor review of an hotel which reads a potential death trap wrapped up in tired glitz

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 21h

My soul is clean as a whistle.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 21h

All this hate for Reform has made me overlook how much I hate the Tories. But it's ok, turns out there's room to hate both.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 22h

Oh fuck off

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

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · Jul 30

Oh fuck off

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Jul 30

Amazon is backing an AI-generated streaming service called 'Showrunner'

• Describes itself as the 'Netflix of AI'

• Lets users type prompts to generate scenes or full episodes

• Can create content from scratch or build on existing IPs

• Disney and other studios are in talks to license IPs

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · May 26

Oh fuck off.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 1d

Oh NICE! Thanks so much for looking!

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 1d

Aah thanks! It's a nice deep clean for the old pores.

F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 1d

I've started using one of those little electric face-cleaning brushes and I think it's v good. No filter, I'm 55, and though it can't fix wrinkles it does a lovely smoothing job. That's today's tip.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 2d

Still very exciting to see my books in a bookshop! Three days until MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR... 🎄🎄🎄🎁🕯️🕯️⭐️⭐️

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 2d

Almost too low, if anything.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 2d

Guess how much our dinner was based on courgettes that have just turned out to be tiny cucumbers.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 2d

Day four of storm Amy powercut. I'm very, very bored of having no light or heat now.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 4d

Very true

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 5d

I really hate it. He had his legs so akimbo my entire legs and feet were trapped within his manspread. It's a horribly invasive feeling. Thank you for being thoughtful!

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 5d

Get your massive manspreading plates out of my train space. Ffs.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 5d

The way she timed a line was perfection. "A shifty looking youth in plimsoles waggled my aerial and wolfed my gypsy creams but that's the comprehensive system for you"

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5d

"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard"

RIP to the greatest to ever do it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...

Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

YouTube video by maxinebendix

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