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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 2h

To lose one footbridge may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two footbridges looks like carelessness.

To lose three footbridges really cements what a roaring success outsourcing the City's Parks to Urban Green was, and how not a lot seems to be improving now they're back under direct control.

ChronicleLive - The Chronicle @chroniclelive.co.uk · 3h

Newcastle City Council has closed the Dene Terrace footbridge due to safety concerns, following similar problems that led to another bridge in Jesmond Dene being shut just weeks ago

Fresh safety fears at Jesmond Dene as council shuts second bridge

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 3h

I've heard PTAs now struggle to recruit members to organise events etc. It's never been easy but now people don't want to help out.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 8h

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 3h

"it knocked us for six"

Well, thankfully not.

LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 3h

Life goal!

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 3h

Man Repairing Bicycle Wheel
ca. 1890
📷F. T. Harmon

Photo of a man rubbing a spoke of a bicycle wheel with a cloth. The wheel is mounted on a workbench with tools on it.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 8h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 3h

Shutting down the only purely-factual labeler on this site

If you don't want to be known as a "JD VANCE FOLLOWER" then don't follow JD Vance!

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 4h

This labeler will be shutting down. We will first be unlabeling everyone who is labeled and then will cease to operate. As the unlabeling operation will take an unknown amount of time, we are not setting a specific timeline other than as soon as possible.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 14h

Interviewer: no, I meant do you have any questions about the job?

Me: so, what do you think of my time machine?

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 3h

I'm reading this just now - 10% in and gripped.

Adam Beltaine @maddambeltaine.bsky.social · 4h

Book 47 of #adamreads2025 - Gods of the Wyrdwood by @rjbarker.bsky.social !

An outstanding book, full of the imagination and show-don't-tell world building I associate with RJ, dropping you straight into a living breathing world and immersing you in it. Forgot just how much I enjoyed this!

The cover to Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 3h

Poor bloke, when it said no injuries but he'd been taken to hospital I thought it was mental health related. Shit for everyone involved :(

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4h

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4h

Granny Weatherwax speaks.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

Dolly Parton addresses health concerns in new video: ‘I ain’t dead yet!’

Country music star shares buoyant video on social media after rumors swirl about her health Dolly Parton has taken to social media to clarify she “ain’t dead yet!” In a post shared on her Instagram and YouTube channel, the country music star rejected rumors of ill health that swirled after the postponement of her Las Vegas residency and a cryptic post from her sister asking for “prayers”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4h

There's an old Simon Munnery gag where somebody heckles him and he consults his notebook on how to deal with it and reads out "Be spontaneous".

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 9h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 4h

Bit if background has been put up. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2552872...

Full police statement as 'man throws paint at officers'

Police have issued a statement after Farrow and Ball in Western Road, Hove, was trashed by a man.

www.theargus.co.uk

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 4h

Evening walk. Back to camera in night mode shots.

Almost dark river and bridge, house and street lights, sky mottled with clouds.

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 5h

Not sure, tbh.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2552839...

Major police response following reports of incident in shop

There is a major police response following reports of an incident inside a shop in Hove

www.theargus.co.uk

LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 6h

All kicking off at Brighton Farrow and Ball store.

Hope all the staff are ok.

(Pic Newsquest0

Picture of the inside of a paint shop through a smashed window. There is paint everywhere.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 7h

me: we first met on here, so... *deep breath* will you marry me?
jovi: oh god you took me by surprise. of course, YES! :D

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 15d

Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 8h

I love languages.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

grawlix | noun | a series of typographical symbols (such as $#!) used in text as a replacement for profanity

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 8h

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 8h

Clown wrasses, like all wrasses and parrotfish, start their lives biologically female and transition through a series of color phases before ending as a male in their ‘terminal phase’. Here we see a male terminal phase clown wrasse chasing a female initial phase #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Lyme, ME/CFS, endometriosis, long COVID, coeliac disease, adenomyosis, fibromyalgia & all the other conditions where there's actually nothing wrong with us, but we just enjoy pretending to be ill. For fuck's sake. It's like we've regressed to the 1960s when my mum was accused of being a malingerer.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16h

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 9h

Phew says Michael.

a man in a suit sits in a chair with a nbc logo in the background

Alt: Miochael Buble looking happy.

media.tenor.com

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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