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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 5h

I also like "why would you think Dave Chapelle would be doing it for the money?" as if incredibly rich people ever reach a point where they go 'that's enough'

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 6h

Back when visiting America was a fun thing to do (i.e. up to last Christmas), one of the items in the suitcase on return would always be a big box of these

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 6h

In fairness, for the middle twenty minutes of the Coronation they got the Queen in to read from the script over a series of production stills

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 6h

Uncle Holly? Oh, you mean Father Christmas' special friend?

Old UK Christmas Catalogues @oldukcataloguesxm.bsky.social · 6h

#Christmas 1955: Clothing and Toys from Selfridges

(+Cosy Dressing Gown; Girl's Warm Bed Jacket; Girl's Cardigan; Girl's Corduroy Skating Skirt with matching Briefs; Boys' Fairisle Pullovers; Boys' Coloured Waistcoats; Boys' Poplin Pyjamas; Smart Tartan Shirts, and more)

This page from a Selfridges catalogue showcases children's clothing and toys. The clothing section features a range of warm jackets, cardigans, pyjamas, and dresses, while the toy selection includes craft sets, a tea set, and various play items. Father Christmas and Uncle Holly are prominently featured, creating a festive atmosphere. The page includes prices and postal information.

(+Boys' Coloured Waistcoats
Boys' Fairisle Pullovers
Boys' Poplin Pyjamas
Children's Angora Wool Headwear
Cosy Dressing Gown
Craft-I-cuts
Girl's Cardigan
Girl's Corduroy Skating Skirt with matching Briefs
Girl's Warm Bed Jacket
Junior Ironing Board
Leatherette Craft
New 'Build-Up' Outfit
Peg Pictures
Plastic Tea Set
Plasticine Pictures
Smart Tartan Shirts
and Sooty Pop-Up Cards)

Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 6h

Can't help noticing that the football results, because they've been cut adrift from Grandstand, are not billed as Final Score. Because there were still standards under Callaghan.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 6h

Believe me when I say "oooooh"

Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 8h

well well well :) https://errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-trinity

Love Trinity, by Life Without Buildings

1 track album

errolshotwax.bandcamp.com

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 7h

*ten times

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 1d

Redgarden Wall in Eldorado Canyon today 🌿

Reddish sandstone tower hundreds of feet tall. There are actually climbers in the gully if you can spot them.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 7h

Amazingly, the number plate is worth more than times the value of the car

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 11h

Daily Express talking about "our tolerant society" when their paper's logo is literally a Crusader is quite something

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 11h

I really like The Register, but they can fuck off talking about older people like this

The Register @theregister.com · 11h

As real life banks close, network operator starts a Scam School to stop Granny getting mugged online

Broadband biz teams up with Good Things Foundation to teach the digitally doddery how to dodge fraud UK network Virgin Media O2 is taking steps to combat fraud with a nationwide education scheme that aims to help vulnerable people and older folk avoid becoming victims.…

dlvr.it

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 1d

If you didn't notice the Supermoon last night, maybe it was wearing glasses and a different hairstyle, and you were fooled by its secret identity as a mild-mannered ordinary moon.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 11h

Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 22h

Groucho Marx’s next door neighbor was Alice Cooper. Groucho suffered terrible insomnia so Alice would go over with a six pack of beer and listen to him tell stories and they’d drink til Groucho fell asleep.

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Mackenzie @mackenzievogt.net · 1d

Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, this is true but... like in the 1980s? Before she was ten years old?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 12h

At the time, I'd just assumed the band name Growing Up Skipper was some sort of American Leave It To Beaver type thing that you might say to a kid who was mastering a skill. The actual horror I didn't discover for years after museumoffailure.com/exhibition/g...

Growing up Skipper — Museum of Failure

When girls rotated Growing Up Skipper’s left arm forward, she grew an inch and developed breasts.

museumoffailure.com

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 12h

Jane Guskin was also one of the Yeastie Girlz as well, so responsible for this www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2S_...

You Suck

YouTube video by Yeastie Girlz - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 12h

Video has one of the great YT comment exchanges underneath

YouTube comment:
@SJam491 1 year ago
Jane Guskin was a MRR columnist in the early '90s. I'll never forget when she wrote about a time in which she and her boyfriend were accosted by a stranger while out shopping. In response to their punk aesthetic, she said, "You people are garbage!"
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@janeguskin5671 1 year ago (edited)
That really does not sound familiar to me, are you sure you aren't mixing up your stories and that was someone else? Plus I didn't have a boyfriend. Or a punk aesthetic.
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 12h

The track in question was this, Growing Up Skipper's Abby, and I remember not only hearing this go out but also taping it and playing it a lot, because I loved this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUN...

Growing Up Skipper "Abby"

YouTube video by Simon Williams

www.youtube.com

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 12h

Peel Backwards - 20-02-93. Peel, back announcing a track, says "I don't normally find a lot of going 'la-la-la' enormously enriching, but on this occasion..."

I think some of my co-religionists at the Church of Suede would have something to say about that

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 12h

The last time a bubble looked this precarious, it had a little boy in it and he was being visited by George Costanza

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Sarah Hinds @sarahhinds.bsky.social · 14h

No notes! *chef's kiss*

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 14h

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 14h

Happy for her and *squints* the young Tim Key

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