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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 13h

The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14h

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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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 11h

At Charlie Kirk's posthumous Medal of Freedom ceremony yesterday (dead podcaster wins prize) Trump gave a long speech....which of these things do you think I made up?

1. He talked about how fit Kirk's wife is
2. He compared Kirk to MLK
3. He bragged that he dodged his bullet but Charlie didn't

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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · Nov 23

*drops something sharp*

Brain: catch it with your foot

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 1d

"Clean the grout"

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bloody bacon popsicle ☠️ @gupton68.bsky.social · 2d

Someone at the supermarket asked if I knew where the cheese aisle was and it was just pure instinct to give them wrong directions so there was more cheese left for me.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 2d

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 5d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

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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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 2d

I wish the Green party would drop their new slogan of "Let's make hope normal again". Hope is nothing, it's not even an empty promise, it's a childish wish for something without lifting a finger to achieve it. It's like thoughts and prayers whenever there's an American mass shooting.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 2d

NEWS! Man who thinks painting a flag on a roundabout improves the look of the neighbourhood not that keen on a spot of litter-picking

Man who thinks painting a flag on a roundabout improves the look of the neighbourhood not that keen on a spot of litter-picking

A man who believes daubing a St George’s Cross onto every available roundabout improves the look of the neighbourhood, has steadfastly refused to bend down and pick up a single crisp packet. Local …

buff.ly

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 2d

This article strikes a real chord with me. Book's going straight on my wishlist.

Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 2d

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 4d

Given that it's also being hosted in Trump's binfire of a country, why on earth would anyone want to go to the WC? Why isn't there a boycott being organised? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 5d

[Curb theme]

Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 5d

Remember how long your high school years seemed? Less time than has elapsed since the first Covid lockdown 👍

Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 5d

Because doing that has worked amazingly well so far.
They are absolute jokers. Ushering in Reform with a red carpet.

Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 5d

A genuine headline in a quality broadsheet in the early part of the 21st century, referring to the leadernof an advanced Western democracy.

Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 6d

I don't think Pickford gets half the credit he deserves. Maybe because he seems mad as a box of frogs, but he's very reliable for England.
#EngWal

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 7d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 7d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 23d

if you ate food from 2005 you could become ill. but in 2005 you ate it all the time

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Marc @runoldman.bsky.social · 8d

Remember, you have to be rich to be eccentric. If you're poor, you're just weird.

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 8d

This has been true for years. Since the pushback against austerity led to the rise of Momentum. The right wing of the Labour Party collectively shat itself. But, you know, they saw off Corbyn 😐

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8d

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 8d

Trump’s straw rant fits too well on McIntyre

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, it was. Ad-libbing and playing with the audience when he was cross-gartered and yellow-stockinged. I think he was having massive fun.

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Dave Espley @daveespley.bsky.social · 9d

Saw him as Malvolio in Stratford in 1979, on a GCE trip from school. Absolute revolution for a bunch of 15 year olds that someone could make Shakespeare genuinely laugh out loud funny. Some actor.

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