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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials."

Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.

BBC headline - Titan submersible inked sure to poor engineering, say US officials - above an image of the submersible in happier times, eg when it hadn't yet imploded and turned its occupants into a seawater-flavoured paste.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 2h

Please allow @josimarfootball.bsky.social, @pbsportswriter.bsky.social and myself a minute of self-congratulation. We wrote a total of 39 articles on 777 Partners' house of cards. It was time well spent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

Brash Investor in Global Soccer Clubs Is Charged With Fraud

www.nytimes.com

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Canary Yellow @canaryyellow.org.uk · 3h

"The people in charge are not representing the people who love this football club, who are getting short-changed, in my opinion. People have a right to be angry and frustrated"

#NCFC

Norwich City fans react to proposed stadium changes

Norwich City season ticket holders faced with losing their current seats are venting their anger.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 5h

A story in three parts

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MyFootballWriter - Norwich City @myfootballwriter.bsky.social · 7h

🟢🟡 Maybe it’s because I’m a Dinosaur...

🗣️ Matt Thornton

▪️Biggest PR disaster since White Star said the Titanic was unsinkable.
▪️Why should Club know better rather than paying fan?
▪️We are not digital chess pieces on a spreadsheet.

LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/16/m...

#ncfc

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 12h

World’s laziest man enjoys laziness machine.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

In today's least surprising news

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 1d

Fairly sure I covered the rain rain barkels in GCSE Geography but we never touched upon bisicilcomations

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norwich city form @colinwmd.bsky.social · 2d

See, they've gone for the wrong example here. If they'd said "Want to see Sam Altman in The Human Centipede?" I'd have been totally on board.

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 2d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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MyFootballWriter - Norwich City @myfootballwriter.bsky.social · 2d

🟩🟨 Will the endgame of a new City Stand ever be a thing?

🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social

LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/14/w...

#ncfc

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 3d

"Ringing the bell for the butler can feel like the only option when your nutritional needs are not being met"

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3d

Private school can feel like the only option when the state system isn’t meeting your child’s needs, but the financial burden goes far beyond school fees ⬇️

School fees were a shock, then came VAT, uniforms, trips …

www.thetimes.com

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 3d

More countries than you might think drive on the left, including some quite populous ones like India and Japan.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 4d

What makes you proud to be British? For me, this is right up there.

A one-star review from a Texan tourist visiting Liverpool:

freddytexan (16 reviews)
“My wife and I visted Liverpool for our 30th wedding anniversary from Texas. Our evening was ruined when a man dressed as an adult baby called my wife a "Mad yank slut" because she'd never heard of a band called Steps.”

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 4d

It should do, yes.

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 4d

Home-made coronation chicken scotch egg. We did good

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 4d

Chonker

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Gary Gowers @garygowers.bsky.social · 4d

🟢🟡 A club that takes its fans for granted and which is skating on thin ice.

▪️Remember when Carrow Road was a happy place?
▪️Derby Day was a reminder of how far we've fallen
▪️Contempt shown toward those asked to relocate

LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/12/a-c… #ncfcfc

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MyFootballWriter - Norwich City @myfootballwriter.bsky.social · 4d

🟢🟡 A club that takes its fans for granted and which is skating on thin ice

🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social

▪️Remember when Carrow Road was happy?
▪️Derby Day, a reminder of how far we've fallen
▪️Contempt shown toward those asked to relocate

LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/12/a...

#ncfc

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 4d

Every month, there's a new story about the cynical, predatory nature of the gambling industry.

As with the cigarette industry, when we eventually get round to properly regulating these parasites, we'll be ashamed we took so long to do it.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 5d

Just finished it. Superb game.

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 5d

Just finished Hell is Us.

Bloody brilliant. Loved it. Want more. #HellIsUs

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 7d

You’ll be staggered when you read this great post by TeeDixie👇🏼👌🏼

It shows how effective the media has been, in painting labour as a shit show in Govt, and glossing over how terrible the Tories were

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 8d

I was quite surprised, given the amount of negative press that would have you believe that this government is the worst we’ve had yet.

I’ll put the link in the next post but given we had a complete shit show with the Tories, this is astonishing. Do reshare or bookmark the link, it’s handy.

Under the last Tory Govt, elected in 2019, of 42 Manifesto Pledges, only
2 were delivered in 5 years.
Under the current Labour Govt, elected in 2024, of 83 Manifesto Pledges, 57 are delivered (18), on track (19), or in process (20).
In 1 year.
(FullFact Tracker)

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Ben Seager @benseager.co.uk · 7d

“No, no. Dig up, stupid”

And

“Lisa. I want to buy your rock”

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 15d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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