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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 3h

#DoNoHarm #DoBuggerAll Latest:

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3h

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Google has ended its support for Full Fact. These are critical times for anyone committed to the fight against misinformation.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 5h

At #PMQs today, PM Keir Starmer and shadow housing secretary James Cleverly clashed over comments Mr Starmer claimed Mr Cleverly made about China in 2023.

What did the former foreign secretary actually say? Our politics blog has the transcript.

What did James Cleverly say about China when he was foreign secretary? – Full Fact

In the House of Commons today, following discussion of the collapsed China spy case, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and shadow housing secretary James Cleverly clashed over comments Mr …

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 3h

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3h

Google has ended its support for Full Fact.

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 6h

By an amazing coincidence *just now*... bsky.app/profile/anot...

Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 6h

Now call me picky but an item on "actors learning musical instruments" prompted by & referencing #RiotWomen on #BBCWATO then interviews a male violinist who stood in for Clive Owen. If I were Kitty or Holly or Sally Wainwright, I'd be sledgehammering Sarah Montague's Jag right now... #InvisibleWomen

Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 6h

Now call me picky but an item on "actors learning musical instruments" prompted by & referencing #RiotWomen on #BBCWATO then interviews a male violinist who stood in for Clive Owen. If I were Kitty or Holly or Sally Wainwright, I'd be sledgehammering Sarah Montague's Jag right now... #InvisibleWomen

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 8h

Is the government on course to make the NHS App a “full front door” to the health service by 2028?

Our Government Tracker looks at the progress so far 👇
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Is the government on track to make the NHS App a ‘full front door to the NHS’ by 2028? – Full Fact

Full Fact looks at whether the government is meeting its pledge to transform the NHS App.

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 7h

He's wasted on politics 😏

Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 8h

Anyway...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

In a potential indicator of Russia's post-Putin foreign policy, intelligence services loyal to the balding man sitting on the right spent 8 years trying to kill the bearded man sitting on the left

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 10h

Have you considered the frankly wise & inescapable need to use Harry Rée as your avatar on here? #Réeify

Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 10h

All to please people who frankly struggled with their SATs, never mind argued the finer points of Othello or contextuslised Alice Walker. What a bollockingly small-minded, ill-literate policy.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 12h

Flippin 'eck Tucker! The original series of 'Grange Hill' starts on That's TV tonight, after school at 6.05pm

a comic strip shows a group of people sitting around a table with a plate of food

ALT: a comic strip shows a group of people sitting around a table with a plate of food

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 11h

What an excellent essay.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 12h

Loved this excursion...and will look beneath my feet more carefully when I next visit the National Gallery.... open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

A pull on the thread

Some thoughts on public art

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 12h

The sound & smell of falling into a vast bed of autumn leaves.

Free from all those culture vultures...

"Chateau In Virginia Waters"

Broken English words cracked the air like a bell
She had a chateau in Virginia Waters
Free from all those culture vultures
Her silver car a silver cloud cloaked the air in a shroud
Her pearly author's teeth tore the seasoned cedar coloured pheasant

Her one rich wish is to write a book about
A venetian mother's problems on a barge in little Venice

She peers at the portrait of her poetess grandmother
Who's theatrical in character
Wise just like Socrates
She sinks her nails into the aged canvas
But the power from the wordster's head was cool and shrill and frightening

Miss Drag is intermingled with the powder-blue chaise lounge
She types some acid words to her hairless havana art dealer

Her one rich wish is to write a book about a chateau in Virginia Waters
Free from all those culture vultures

Marc Bolan

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 12h

AI literally for wankers.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 12h

once again the idea (from @wildobliquities.bsky.social ) proves its worth.. any text can and should be mapped onto any other text. There should be, and I'm sure there is, a name for this

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 12h

And so we beat on, TARDIS against the current, reborn back ceaselessly into the Pastry

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 13h

They should have given Mr Pastry the role, and every subsequent Doctor should also have been required to play it in the exact style of Mr Pastry.

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 12h

That would be the T.Rex title of Marc's original. share.google/3eHcB8ug6In3...

Chateau In Virginia Waters (Mono Version)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupChateau In Virginia Waters (Mono Version) · Tyrannosaurus RexMy People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But...

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 12h

Binged the rest of #RiotWomen on iPlayer and listened to Mark Steel's In Town on Hebden Bridge on Sounds and wishing Mark could revisit to do the Wainwright Supplement Edition. Anyway, despite the impending cynicism of the clever cloggies on here, props to all concerned in all of the above.

Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 2d

The Little Ladies have hit the hot flushes as the Riot Women! & it's so good they've cast an actor who sings in the key vocals role again (even if Rosalie Craig looks more Charlotte Cornwell than Julie Covington). Everyone's top notch but Jo Scanlan is currently taking the biggest piece of my heart.

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 12h

Gallifrey One

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 13h

Multiple social media posts wrongly claim that Sir Keir Starmer has pledged £40 billion to rebuild Gaza.

This figure appears to be based on an estimate for the cost of rebuilding the territory, not what the UK has committed. fullfact.org/world/starme...

The UK has not pledged £40 billion for Gaza reconstruction – Full Fact

This figure appears to be based on an estimate of the total cost of rebuilding the territory, not the amount being committed by the UK.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 15h

Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w

Vision On - The Gallery Tune - BBC1 1960/70s

YouTube video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 21h

I'm shocked, not shocked I tell you.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Witches of Essex review – Rylan’s look at real-life witch trials treats us like idiots

The X Factor star and Prof Alice Roberts are an awkward presenting duo in this superficial history show. Do they really think we’re so thick we can’t imagine the mindset of people from the past?

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