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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 4h

Off to teach at Oxford Brookes this afternoon. I'm an associate lecturer on their Publishing MA. To give you an idea as to how university finances are going: a few years ago I did 36 hours of teaching on this module, this year I'm doing 6.

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 23h

Withnail and I at All is Joy in Soho with a Martin Green DJ set. Tomorrow night. You should come! www.rebelreelcineclub.com/screenings/p...

WITHNAIL AND I - Tues 14 Oct 7pm - All is Joy Soho — Rebel Reel Cine Club

As part of Cine Style the iconic Withnail and I at All is Joy London. The 1960s. Two unemployed actors—acerbic, elegantly wasted (and oh so stylish …) Danny: “Has he just been busted?” Marwood: ...

www.rebelreelcineclub.com

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MJ Hibbett @mjhibbett.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Clair - I've clung onto this message for a month so that I could tell you that the new series of our podcast The Funny Comics Fanclub (@thefcfc.bsky.social) starts today, discussing the British humour comics for kids that nobody ever seems to talk about! thefcfc.podbean.com/e/023-cracker/

023: Cracker | The Funny Comics Fan Club

Our thrilling third series starts with the cracking Cracker from 1975, featuring some dodgy scientific practice, a range of eerily familiar characters, and an awful lot of Sammy. Only 6p! Get in touch...

thefcfc.podbean.com

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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The Content Apologist @contentapologist.bsky.social · 2d

No wonder the North Koreans are cheering if they're going to share in the world's biggest Colin the Caterpillar cake.

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

Bug Penge fan, me.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 2d

And there came over the land of Krusti Noem a plague of frogs & the Lord looked down upon his work & said it was bloody hilarious

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

I shall take that on the way home, much as I like seeing the Chinese Garage!

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

Oh God, that's just vile.

Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

A woman, say, who could get people to tidy it up a bit...

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

Canterbury; like a mix between a tatty seaside town (smell of crap food and litter everywhere; down-at-heel retail district made out to be fancy) and Glastonbury (hand-made jewellery, crystals, hippy and military shit). Were it not for my cathedral ticket valid for a year, would not revisit.

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 2d

Not unless there's a remake with street food and street drinkers it isn't.

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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 3d

Proper British values. 3kg of Haribos, a carvery, then death

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 3d

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 3d

Of course they could have donated the money anonymously. But that's not the point, is it.

Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 3d

The equivalent of a mother in a gangster movie. "I DON'T WANT YOUR BLOOD MONEY."

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 3d

Ths sounds awful. www.thetimes.com/article/0893...

Kate Moss and Lucian Freud — the supermodel reveals her side of the story

An intimate portrait and their unlikely friendship made them the talk of the town — two decades on, the supermodel is the executive producer of a new film, Moss & Freud

www.thetimes.com

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, I'm now in Canterbury. Overwhelmed by my first visit to the cathedral, especially the two old ladies who came into the chapel marked 'quiet' where I was having a little think about my sister, to have a sit-down, natter, and to eat a burger #rude

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⚜️ Fritz von Runte ⚜️ @vonrunte.bsky.social · 3d

Have you heard Bowie in dub? https://open.spotify.com/album/1KJfPODJ2V5NJK1t75C4QI

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 3d

Yes I feel I've gone into another dimension after the length of the journey.

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 3d

YES

Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 3d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 3d

@foone.bsky.social This sounds like the kind of thing you would be interested in: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 3d

East Berlin, 9 September 1959. I post photographs taken on my Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #DDR #GDR

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