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Mark Simpson @marksimpson.bsky.social · 9m

Are they all staying in the Travelodge? #CelebrityTraitors

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 1h

Yeah, this’ll do it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost “the British night out” and help the hospitality sector. Continue reading...

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 2h

The new series of BBC Wales’ superb The Crash Detectives is out. All filmed by a brilliant team in my neck of the woods. Ep1 includes a gobsmacking attempt to redefine the word ‘emergency’. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The Crash Detectives - Series 5: Episode 1

A road worker is hit by a modified car during a police pursuit. However, when the driver fails to stop, the race is on to track the car down and bring the offender to justice.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 1d

This is the origin story for Supergran

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Radioactive material was accidentally released at Scotland’s Dounreay nuclear site in a major environmental breach, The National can reveal

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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stuartmaconie.bsky.social @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 1d

I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 1d

Without their arms though. Which is a pity.

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think of RTD, he knows television and knows the warning flares need to be sent up. Television and journalism need to start questioning and pushing back. Pushing back hard.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...

Shoreditch Experimental Music School 1969

YouTube video by Elen Nas

www.youtube.com

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 1d

Update: two men aged 43 and 50 from Northampton have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and are being held in custody. Searches are continuing for the missing items from St Fagans say South Wales Police.

gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 2d

How awful. There’s been a break in at the St Fagans Museum of History in west Cardiff. Artefacts have been taken including Bronze Age jewellery. I hope they are caught quickly. #heritagecrime

South Wales Police statement on the burglary at St Fagans Museum of History early on Monday 6th October.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

An incredible scoop from Darren here lifted straight from... Polanski's public Wikipedia page

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 1d

They read it. That’s the main thing.

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 1d

I think they meant ‘Exuberant, but flawed.’

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 1d

Christmas is cancelled.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 1d

80s Computing.
“What are these?”
“They are floppy disks. They store your data magnetically so you definitely need to keep them away from magnets.”
“And what’s that?”
“That’s a monitor. It contains a very powerful magnet.”
“And those?”
“These are speakers, they...”
“This makes no sense.”

A Commodore Amiga computer on a desk with a tv monitor and a box of 3.5 inch floppy disks.

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Telibarb 🐾 @telibarb.bsky.social · 1d

I hope they listen.

I doubt they will.

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

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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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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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 2d

Crimewatch Live from Central Square. Don’t have daymares.

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 3d

🙏🙏

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 3d

Thanks. She did and I am! Really glad you enjoyed the wedding and I hope you’re fully recovered from your horrible experience very quickly.

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 3d

Good idea. Hope you sleep well. My weekend was a lot less eventful than yours but I got to see my wife graduate as a therapeutic counsellor which was great 😀

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 3d

Wow. I can’t use a laughing emoji because it’s really not funny. But I’m glad you can!!

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 3d

Ooh heck. That doesn’t sound like fun. Very glad you’re still alive 😄

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 3d

Space Broadband. This is amazing. youtu.be/PDLSM97vmKw?...

From Taters to Terabits: NASA Wraps Up Deep Space Laser Test

YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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