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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 7m

CHANNEL TUNNEL: TOMORROW'S WAY (1986)

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12h

There’s a search tool to find pharmacies offering it on the NHS website. The first one I went into didn’t offer a private option, but the second one did. Boots also offer it nationwide in many branches, though it’s slightly more expensive. www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...

Find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site

Find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site to get a COVID vaccination appointment without needing an appointment.

www.nhs.uk

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 13h

Adding this mini-thread by @stevensenior.bsky.social in response to mine. It does at least explain the rationale behind why the NHS are not vaccinating more widely. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 13h

Bit nerdy, but it's worth having a skim over the number needed to vaccinate figures here. E.g. to avoid one hospitalisation in otherwise healthy people JCVI estimated 60-100k would need to be vaccinated (based on Autumn 2024 data).

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Appendix A: estimating the number needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation in autumn 2024 in England

www.gov.uk

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8h

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Ant @antinbath.bsky.social · 2h

Still as a millpond by the mill this morning.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.bsky.social · 22h

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 19h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 19h

This review prompted me to go buy this monograph today at ye olde feminist bookstore: postmodern fascism is not just sadistic, it is erotic.
jacobin.com/2025/09/herz...

What Can We Do With the Right’s Delight in Pain?

Right-wing authoritarianism lures people away from the promise of democracy, peace, and equality toward destructive violence by offering one key appeal: pleasure in harming other people.

jacobin.com

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 1d

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

museumofhomelessness.org

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 6d

The famous guitar riff for Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" originated from a "circus melody" warm-up played by guitarist Slash during a 1986 jam session.
While Slash played the riff in a joking manner, bandmate Izzy Stradlin recognized its potential, and the band built the song around it.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 1d

Recently, I visited an exhibition by Oleksandr Glyadyelov,
a Ukrainian documentary photographer.

His photo series The Unneeded especially struck me.
I added captions to some of the photos
and want to share them with you.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

If I cringe any harder at the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp's stand-up comedy routine, I may fold in on myself, collapsing into a PSR-J0952–0607-style neutron star of vicarious embarrassment. ~AA

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, thanks for that too: the phrase 'Scientifically scintillating' throwing an unanticipated sunbeam on the life and work of one Andrew Robert Breen (1964-2011) of Aberystwyth University.

www.theguardian.com/science/2012...

www.aber.ac.uk/en/developme...

Andrew Breen obituary

Other lives: World-leading space scientist known for his kindness to his students

www.theguardian.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

Update - this is terrible. Clearly meticulously planned.

#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Thieves in four-minute raid on museum gold

Two thieves stole 'irreplaceable' gold artefacts in a targeted attack on St Fagans Museum in Cardiff.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this: you prompted me to read up on PSR J0952−0607, and, oh my....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J09...

PSR J0952−0607 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 3d

Damn, Jacques Tourneur's Way Of A Gaucho (1952) may be one of the most beautiful three-strip Technicolor films I've ever seen.

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 2d

Caught the 19:20 from Waterloo, sitting in one of the carriages that until 2021 were detached at Salisbury to run to Bristol while the other six went on to Exeter. Now, the six go as far as Yeovil, and the carriages that ran to Bristol are taken out of use and head for bed.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 2d

it literally isn’t though

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 3d

Played this yesterday: it's packed with Field Music magic.

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Field Music @fieldmusicmusic.bsky.social · 3d

On Sunday 26th October, we're hosting a Bandcamp Listening Party to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our debut album. We'll be there in the chat, taking rubbish as per usual. Come join us! fieldmusic.bandcamp.com/merch/field-...

Peter standing at a microphone, playing a pink telecaster guitar in the original Field Music studio.

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 3d

We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️

Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/

#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 4d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 3d

Having become used to governments dragging the view through the Overton window kicking and screaming to the right, now this newly nationalised rail franchise is content to slowly obscure it behind window dirt.

Somewhat mucky train window, Overton, Hampshire.

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 3d

Bill Colley, 22/09/2025.

heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/25/b...

Bill Colley: The Last of a Breed

Bill Colley, 1937 – 2025, pictured at work in Richmond in 2016. 25 September 2025 By Tim Koch William “Bill” Colley, the last British builder of wooden “tortured ply” racing boats…

heartheboatsing.com

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