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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 12h

You know it's a celebrity spin-off when they've got budget to needle-drop Darude Sandstorm. Big flex #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitorsUK

Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you 🙌

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 12h

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · Aug 11

Watch Out!

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · Jul 29

Christ Dornkampf Brumpf Fabricunt
Father
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Jul 27

Love seeing the #Lionesses showing how patriotism can be this wonderful, empowering, positive thing. Every single one of them is a dream role model #ENGSPA #EURO2025

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Jul 22

Stat of the tournament is Agyemang being 2 for 2 on nutmeg-ing the goalkeeper for game-saving goals. Iconic behaviour #EURO2025 #ENGITA

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy 6th birthday/ hatchday to the most majestic tiny dinosaur in all the land: Brother Beefus!
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Brother Beefus putting her best foot forward on her 6th birthday/ hatchday

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Jun 16

Pitching "400 Years of Cuntbag" as a mini-series if anyone's interested

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · Jun 16

Richadi Cuntbag
Father
England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Jun 11

Book 31 of 2025 complete!
'The Locked Door' by Freida McFadden

My last honeymoon book, and a considerably better find in the hotel library. A fairly standard but perfectly entertaining grisly crime thriller - just wish it had really run with its own concept! Could have been much freakier

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Jun 11

Book 30 of 2025 complete!

I ran out of books on honeymoon and had to raid the hotel's lil' library. Picked Brad Thor's "The Last Patriot" for no reason other than it didn't sound like a real thing.

Expected very little and got considerably less. A genuinely unpleasant read. Whodathunk

Front cover of Brad Thor's "The Last Patriot" with the incongruous background of the beautiful private beach we enjoyed on honeymoon

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Jun 11

Books 23-29 of 2025 complete!

These are 7 of the 9 books I read on honeymoon, having the Greatest Time sat on a sun lounger with all-inclusive drinks.

Highlights were The Erstwhile, The Ministry of Time, and Apeirogon. Highly recommend all of them for very different reasons

Book covers of a delightfully mad range of books:

The Erstwhile - B. Catling
The Cloven - B. Catling
The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
Death at the White Heart - Chris Chibnall
Apeirogon - Colm McCann
Hera - Jennifer Saint
Green Dot - Madeleine Grey

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · May 13

Book 22 of 2025 complete!
'Gunk' by Saba Sams

Enjoyed this a lot, a wonderfully evoked slice of life - only downside is that I was left wanting more! Fingers crossed for a sequel or follow-up

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · May 8

Book 21 of 2025 complete!
'A Kill in the Morning' by Graeme Shimmin

Has some fun ideas in a budget Indiana Jones kinda way but gets lost in muddled storytelling and a properly outdated indulgence in casual sexism

Brother Beefus primed to kill Graeme Shimmin's "A Kill in the Morning"

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · May 4

Book 20 of 2025 complete!
'The Lamb' by Lucy Rose

A modern-day gothic fairy tale, as grimly unsettling as anything I've ever read (in a good way). Haunts you long after the last page (again, in a good way)

The front cover of Lucy Rose's 'The Lamb' - read it as an e-book

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · May 1

Book 19 of 2025 complete!
'Anatomy of a Scandal' by Sarah Vaughan

Longwinded and impressively unsubtle - but good fun for all of that, with some clanging twists you can only admire. I haven't seen the series, and I have no intention to watch it, but from what I've heard the book is better

Brother Beefus the cockatiel looking whelmed at "Anatomy of a Fall"

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · Apr 27

Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Apr 25

Book 18 of 2025 complete!
'The Spire' by William Golding

I read Lord of the Flies a hundred years ago but the rest of Golding's work had always passed me by. This was as challenging and thought provoking a read as expected, one to chew on for a wee while

The front cover of William Golding's 'The Spire', watched over by Brother Beefus the cockatiel

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Apr 22

Book 17 of 2025 complete!
'The Mercies' by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

My first audiobook was a special one - shared with @sarahsma11.bsky.social while we were wedding planning and beautifully read by Jessie Buckley. Also helps that the book is cracker - sad and spirited in equal measure, a real treat

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · Apr 19

Maybe the real problem here is the company Thomas Erikson chooses to keep?

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Apr 17

Book 16 of 2025 complete! 'Shuggie Bain' by Douglas Stuart

Been meaning to read this for years and it didn't disappoint. So terribly sad but with a beautiful heart, it was a tough read that got to me in ways I didn't expect. One of those rare books that'll stay with me for a very long time

Being a bane to Brother Beefus the cockatiel with Douglas Stuart's 'Shuggie Bain'

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · Apr 14

People against the miner’s strike:

Joanna @lostingallifrey.bsky.social · Apr 14

The Pitt is actually sooooooo good

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · Apr 13

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

a sign with an M on it that is definitely Mario adjacent

an upside down m, also known as a "wario symbol"

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Apr 11

Shower thought: just realised how much His Dark Materials has the same structure as a classic JRPG.

First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party.
Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · Apr 8

Book 15 of 2025 complete!

Real good fun this one. A gothic misadventure in the style of The Canterbury Tales, only with a lot more gruesome and ghoulish goings-on, anchored by a fab cast of imaginative misfits

Bothering Brother Beefus the cockatiel, the greatest liar of all, while she's eating with Karen Maitland's "Company of Liars"

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