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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 13d

I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real

Screenshot of NYT YouTube channel introducing a recipe with “chickpea anxiety is real.”

Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 3h

Ultimately, the sci fi "computer you can talk to" is because it is better, more entertaining and more comprehensible on screen than "typing and using a mouse"? www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 4h

Philippe Coutinho (Aston Villa, 2022-25)

Philippe Coutinho celebrating, presumably, his one Aston Villa goal

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5h

London mayor celebrates birthday on superyacht owned by sports tycoon on.ft.com/4qjaXNI

London mayor celebrates birthday on superyacht owned by sports tycoon

Sadiq Khan’s attendance draws criticism and follows scrutiny of Labour politicians for receiving lavish gifts

on.ft.com

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 5h

MARK YOUR CALENDARS.

Celebrity Traitors Thursday 6th November at 9pm. 70 min final.

A whole week to wait after the previous episode.

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 5h

just all feels a bit unfocused to me. Let's buy a European football club like Qatar/UAE have. Let's have fancy malls and tourist attractions like Dubai. Let's have a Grand Prix like Bahrain. Not sure any of it will pay off, the real business is whatever dull stuff their sovereign wealth fund is in

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8h

[seeing Hakuhō Shō in the crowd] what a rikishi he was, by the way

Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 1d

Live sumo

The Grand Sumo Tournament

The Grand Sumo Tournament - 2025 - Day One

Live coverage of the first day of the Grand Sumo Tournament from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8h

nothing unparliamentary in what was said but he will often step in to tell people off for heckling, yes

Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8h

Tom Tugendhat heckles minister Chris Ward as a "petty little man" and tells him to "stop playing politics" over China spy trial collapse. Tugendhat later apologised.

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8h

Marina Abramović one day, the Stourbridge Town line the next, no other columnist has the range

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

A genuine treat for £1.60? Try the shortest railway line in Britain | Adrian Chiles

There is an even shorter route in Germany, but that runs less frequently - which gives the shuttle train in my home town the moral victory

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8h

as cheap as $10k a unit apparently. And yes, I thought 'lawnmower' when I saw that engine.

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 10h

I find going to them extremely helpful actually. There really is a "mood" and stuff. And it's great to meet party members!

Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 13h

Seems remarkable this evidence wasn’t considered enough to prosecute

Celia Imrie saying “I just farted, Claudia”

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 22h

They’ve definitely killed Ruth haven’t they. Ross raising it himself plus that little chat between Cat and Alan making it clear they’re quite happy to put him in the frame…

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

Impossible not to feel bad for Pakistan there. But for the rain they'd have won handily.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

I went to Marina Abramović’s erotic, explicit new art show – and there was an awful lot to take in | Adrian Chiles

The ‘grandmother of performance art’ and I both have Slavic roots. But I didn’t recognise any of her 14th-century Dalmatian fertility rites – and neither did my mum, writes Adrian Chiles

www.theguardian.com

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

Donald Trump’s golf resort at Aberdeen in Scotland posted a 13th consecutive year of losses in 2024 as it spent more money on marketing and to develop a second course at the site. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4haiDxz

📷: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

ITVX's "Space Live" channel showing pics of Earth from the ISS is very nice, have to say: www.itv.com/watch?channe...

www.itv.com

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, don’t I know you from somewhere

BBC Parliament screenshot of Rishi Sunak MP, Conservative, Richmond and Northallerton

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

aghast to discover it is in fact a bellweather swing seat since 2001. Apologies to all involved

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

South Dorset having a Labour MP is one of those things that still surprises, a year on

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

Commons statements this afternoon on Ukraine, by Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, and the "Pride in Place" scheme by DCLG minister Miatta Fahnbulleh

Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

yeah this is probably too deep a hole to dig out from. Happy to be proved wrong though!

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

England are "woeful" v Pakistan, according to the BBC Sport live blog

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 1d

The cricket situation is developing not necessarily to England’s advantage.

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