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peccadille.bsky.social
Je viens de tomber sur un truc fascinant. En 1970, la FNAC et Paris ont organisé un concours photo basé sur un découpage géométrique de Paris. Ce site permet de visionner 30 000 des photos produites à cette occasion

paris1970.jeantho.eu/index.html
C'était Paris en 1970
Photographies numérisées du fonds C'était Paris en 1970
paris1970.jeantho.eu
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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beany.bsky.social
Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should!

https://www.goeuropean.org
Go European — Discover European products and services
Go European is a community-driven directory bringing you European products and services from across the continent.
www.goeuropean.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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ariaa.bsky.social
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
And! I’ve been looking all over for this and finally found it
Screenshot of an instagram post: phillipjupitus5276 A true story. I worked on a TV pop quiz and one week there was a Doctor Who special hosted by David Tennant. Bernard Cribbins was one of the guests. The audience and all of us on the show were delighted. The word 'legend' gets bandied about too much but in his case it is on the money. There was a lull in proceedings while they changed tapes and Bernard says "Shall I tell a joke?" Tennant goes, "Alright then Bernard..." "A door to door salesman is working one day and he goes up to a very big fancy house in a posh neighbourhood and knocks on the door. After a moment the door opens and standing there is a little boy of no more than five. In one hand he has a huge glass of brandy and he's smoking a cigar. The salesman, a bit taken aback says; "Hello little boy, are your mummy or daddy home?" The child removes the cigar and says; "Does it fucking look like they are?"
December 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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ieatpie.bsky.social
Professional cleaners always seem to have Henrys.
Also

youtu.be/3_zJpMz7Cdg?...
Henry Hoover Song
YouTube video by SrS
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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contemprainn.bsky.social
The Peregrine Falcon’s Spectacular Flight in the Sky. #saturdaymorning
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Came across Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s autobiography in a charity shop. It is everything a devotee of weird history could hope for
Photo of a page of a book: I didn't realise that the people who came to the house were often famous. There was the nice man who stood on his head to amuse me and who I called Udi who was Yehudi Menuhin. He once said to my mother, 'Molly, I love you because you never ask me to bring my violin.' Of course he sometimes did. There was the funny little man who once cooked a sponge cake in a frying pan to entertain me who was Philip Harben, the first TV cook. There was the sweet Welshman who sang to me with a wonderful voice who was Harry Secombe. There was the serious Scotsman Uncle Alex Fleming who did tricks of legerdemain to divert me; and so many others. One of my mother's great friends was Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie who would sweep in smelling wonderful and call me poppet. She was lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, and when the King was alive she used to collect risqué jokes from my father for the QM to tell the King who adored them. She was the woman who had introduced the Prince of Wales to Wallis Simpson, thereby doing the country a great favour, as she put it. The Prince of Wales, later Edward VIll, had a very unpleasant side; he was also born with one ball and a tiny penis so his obsession with Wallis was entirely sexual, and by using alum to… …shrink her vagina and cold cream to lubricate it she enabled him to have 'normal' sex for the first time. As Audrey said, he wasn't a potential breeder so had the monarchy survived him we would have ended up with Queen Elizabeth in any event.
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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emmapearson.bsky.social
Fantastic review of Nicolas Sarkoy's toe-curlingly awful 'prison diaries'
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Text reads - Similarly, it’s tough not to laugh when Sarkozy writes about being on his knees beside his bed on that first night inside, praying “to have the strength to carry the cross of this injustice”. Most women have menstrual cycles longer than his prison stretch.
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
The Room Next Door - Exploring Africa
The Room Next Door - Exploring Africa
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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tomfreeman.bsky.social
Every few years I remember that this exists and then I get to spend 3 minutes rocking helplessly with laughter www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q...
Hlavní nadraží Praha - znělka 02 (Dlouhá verze)
YouTube video by Pavel Jirásek
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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jimmfelton.bsky.social
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.

Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
On the UK-US pharmaceutical deal I'm afraid this does look like two nasty trends coming together to make a very bad agreement for the UK - namely Whitehall power to make deals with no scrutiny, and companies working with countries to coerce others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty
More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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mapcenter.com
I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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sadinatlanta.bsky.social
This pup is amazing!!! Some lighthearted, enjoyable content.

(Video posted on IG by gigishapirokulock)
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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howdoyou.guide
"How Do You Avoid Hitting People with your Car" mini guide.

Now in French! 🇫🇷
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
At my funeral I want the priest to read out a long bit about how much I loved darts. I don’t love darts but my family and friends will be like “wow we never really knew him”.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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jonrea.bsky.social
I do like that a coincidence between physics and music means that the International Space Station covers almost exactly 1000 miles in the length of time it takes to listen to that song. For reference what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Orbital Speed
what-if.xkcd.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social
@tomb_urges - Whenever I see someone on one of these, I like like to imagine they started out with a much larger vehicle and their journey has been riddled with mishaps. [pic of guy on a unicycle type thing]
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.

Wonderful piece.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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aiannucci.bsky.social
This week on #StrongMessageHere, Be Vigilant with Phil Wang. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Strong Message Here - Be Vigilant (with Phil Wang) - BBC Sounds
Armando Iannucci and Phil Wang look at language used after a violent event.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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politicanimal.bsky.social
Yeah, but those are low priorities compared with Hertfordshire sorting out this positively scary road name in Royston.
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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amazingfacts.bsky.social
The most commonly seen ghosts are the visions dressed in white sheets with flailing arms. These are the people who died trying to change their duvets, forever cursed to roam bedrooms trying to find the corners.
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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bot.cowtools.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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ww2tv.bsky.social
Interesting..
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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davidmuttering.bsky.social
It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM