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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 12h

How do you get sound on this stuff?

Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 12h

I'm replying here to your post, not to anything below.

Being a third, TV umpire, is a different job, and takes learning and training time.

The third umpires are obviously inexperienced in this because they have doing it for very little time but one only learns by experience, including vicarious.

Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 14h

Because USA will be in ashes by then?

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 15h

Why does this person think any of this would be concerning?

He must have a reason for all this concern.

What is the concern?

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 16h

@mesnilman.bsky.social

Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 19h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

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David Rippin @dmrippin.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty thrilled to have had all 3 of my submitted images shortlisted in this year's Kendal Mountain Festival photo comp. My 3 images are here & the full shortlist is available via this link: www.kendalmountainfestival.com/highlights/p...

#LakeDistrict #PhotoRippin
@kendalmountainfest.bsky.social

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Andrew @andrewatkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning all,

Let me introduce you to Toby. Toby roams the dunes near Luskintyre Beach

Black and white image with toby a white horse in the bottom right corner

A black and white square image of Toby a white horse eating grass in the dunes

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 18h

Another image from this summer Greenland adventures, this time during a moody day with a bit of fog, and the signature red sails.

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 19h

In this case, colour.

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Christopher Harrison Photography @charrisonphotos.bsky.social · 20h

Silouhettes at dawn - from the beautiful Tuscan region of Italy.

Do you prefer black and white or colour?

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 19h

Do read all of this.

Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 19h

The hot summer is gone and in between DANAs, now is the chance to get into nature and do some walking here in La Sierra Espadan. 1/5

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Rick Eyre on cricket @rickeyrecricket.com · 1d

/ping ICC

Women's Agenda @womensagenda.bsky.social · 1d

The FIFA-backed Afghan Women’s Refugee Team is about to fly out to Dubai for its first chance of international football for four years.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/afgha...

Afghan Women’s Refugee Team to return to international football, fighting for freedom

The FIFA-backed Afghan Women’s Refugee Team is about to fly out to Dubai for its first chance of international football for four years.

womensagenda.com.au

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 21h

Happy birthday Bryn!

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 23h

Happy birthday Bryn ! Two years old today

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning, a throwback to playing copycat with a baby panda bear at the Wolong National Nature Reserve 🐼

Happy Wednesday 🙏

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 23h

I am absolutely fed up of this assault on critical thinking. Those in power & those who aspire to it don't want people to think critically; they don't want people to _think_. The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences are valuable in themselves, but watch the economy tank if Badenoch has her way...

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 1d

OK, many thanks.

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 1d

@mesnilman.bsky.social
I expect you've already seen this, but anyway.

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 1d

Today I’ve been exploring railways in Bourgogne, in particular the temporarily or de facto permanently closed Clamecy - Corbigny line, south of Auxerre

Not sure what to conclude, but it was a nice sunny autumn day, and a nice cycle along the Canal du Nivernais

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 1d

All except the one which hasn't posted have followers, posts, and look genuine from their profiles, although I haven't clicked. I've no idea.

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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 · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 1d

What's going on here? I've just been followed by lots of what seem bona fide translators and one account who has never posted.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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