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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 13h

Clever!

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 13h

I assume everyone knows why a boar spear has that cross-piece? In case anyone doesn't...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_sp...

Boar spear - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 16h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 16h

The Swordfish, because every day is a good day for a bit of Stringbag.

Fairey Swordfish with 816 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, aboard the HMS Tracker (D24), 1939-45. (Photo Credit: Lt. D.C. Oulds, Royal Navy Official Photographer / Imperial War Museums / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 18h

Saltbush slowly looks round, checking environment.
Sees absence of TERFs.
Just ups and switches sex.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20h

The uber-rich have never been much into integration. The essence of the Public Schools is separation from the oiks.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

My new book, THE FLESH KING is out today and available everywhere your get your books. But I’d feel like an ass if I didn’t mention new books by two of my favorite writers: THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE and SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon. Why not go nuts and get all three?

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 22h

That's bloody glorious! Thank you!

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Stephen Cox @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Proof whatever the author's intentions, a reader can miss them.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, according to the festival booking website...
webook.com/en/events/ja...

webook.com

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 1d

You did, sorry.

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 3d

This one might be of interest to #NavalHistory Bluesky. The Norwegian Coastal Administration has released an underwater 3D photo scan of the wreck of the German heavy cruiser Blücher, sunk in the Oslofjord in April 1940. Super cool!
#ww2 #norway #blücher

dykkerteknikk.nira.app/a/Ip_mJ3EFQK...

Blücher - NIRA

dykkerteknikk.nira.app

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 2d

Would that be the *Democratic* People's Republic of Korea?

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 2d

Not just Steven Pinker, but *also* Jordan Peterson. Canada is doing a little too well on the pseudo-intellectual stakes. ;-)

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 2d

The first broadcast in October 1975. I was twelve! Damn right I was traumatised. Interesting to note, the director of that episode was Charles Crichton, of The Lavender Hill Mob and A Fish Called Wanda fame.

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 2d

I do like The Dead South, and that's an *excellent* video by any standards.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 4d

Unsurprisingly...

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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

Trouble is, there is no trace of the business on Companies House.
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...

Red flags: The non-existent company behind Brum's Union Jacks

'It's 100% legitimate'

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 4d

Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

buff.ly/AmWAOQB

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