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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 19h

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 14h

Byeeeeeeee

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. Farage is terrible, but at least he's consistent. Everything he says (even the fake "man of the people" stuff) is of a piece with the golf club bore. God only knows what Jenrick is prepared to shapehift into.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d

John Hosier, the producer of this, long-term partner and eventual husband of Biddy Baxter.

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

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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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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my God this.

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.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 2d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 2d

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

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 2d

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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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 2d

Take care, everyone. There's a lot of scenery out there today.

A narrow country lane with a backdrop of hills, trees and grassland under a clear blue sky in early autumn. (Box Hill, Surrey)

Fields, hedgerows and a wooded hill with a small tower on the top, under a clear blue sky in early autumn (Leith Hill, Surrey, from the south)

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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 3d

Police investigating a suspected arson at a mosque in East Sussex have issued images of two people they wish to identify.

Peacehaven: Police release photos of mosque arson suspects

The images are of two people in balaclavas seen outside the mosque before the large blaze spread.

www.bbc.com

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 3d

Bollocks

(You know, the one with Kate Winslet where the big ocean liner hits an iceberg)

👻🎃🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Just Ni-Ghoul 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎃👻 @nothinghuman.bsky.social · 3d

Some Sunday evening fun.

I’ll go first;

Ferris Bueller’s Bollocks Off.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 3d

Saw a small patch of these this afternoon, and for a moment was wondering why someone had left all the apples from their picnic.

A large shiny red toadstool emerging from the scrubby grass on Banstead Heath.

Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 3d

I regularly fail to notice what my generation's cultural staples actually ARE, but yep, Friends and Love Actually. I think I saw one and a half of the original Star Wars films at some point. Didn't like Little Britain. I thought Metallica's black album was their worst at that point.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 4d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

We made a windfall chutney last week (there's an orchard at the wildlife hospital where Nicola volunteers)... I'm not convinced about the recipe, which smelled more like piccalilli (a bit turmeric-heavy). Hoping it matures a bit in the jars!

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to imagine what might feature in a Reform UK buffet has put me off food for the rest of the day. Scotch eggs and Stella all round.

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 5d

"Northamptonshire Police are reviewing the circumstances surrounding a free event co-hosted by a Reform UK election candidate in Corby, at which members of the public were supplied with a 'generous and tasty' buffet."

Police look into free buffet held by Reform during Corby by-election

Woke up this morning, Found Reform UK had provided me with the material for another blog post: Northamptonshire Police are reviewing the cir...

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

I did my annual pesto session a couple of weeks ago, although a couple of basil plants are still looking quite lush. Something very satisfying about sealing up a load of jars and knowing there's comfort food for the cold months.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

It amazes me how many people don't do that. I've been walking past gardens absolutely blanketed in apples. Good for the wildlife, at least.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

If I got my act together and planted seeds earlier, this wouldn't be happening (not would we be tortured by tantalisingly green tomatoes all through June). But every year, I have good intentions... until "oh shit, it's nearly April!" Fortunately we're in a very warm part of the country.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 5d

It's a bit blustery on the outskirts of Storm Amy, but still so mild. Just brought in another kilo of tomatoes (this is just four plants on the decking outside the back door). Not perfectly sweetly ripe, and several splitting, but we'll slow-roast them for pasta sauce.

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 5d

Alongside her heroic portrayals of Kitty and others, Patricia Routledge was a great advocate for the arts, founding a song competition supporting young singers, and speaking movingly about her friend Janet Baker in the wonderful 'In Her Own Words' documentary. She just exuded integrity. RIP.

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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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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d

Is this the first time that a penalty has to be retaken twice and a keeper (Berke Özer of Lille) stops all three attempts? www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...

From the soccer community on Reddit: Roma awarded penalty. The Penalty had to be retaken twice. Lille goalkeeper Berke Özer saved all 3 attempts

Explore this post and more from the soccer community

www.reddit.com

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 6d

100 million people? Did a malfunctioning AI bot do the survey?