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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 9m

One could argue it IS their flagship and shop window. It’s showing exactly what would happen on a national scale if the country is stupid enough to vote them in at a general election.

Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 20m

Try here, scroll down to the list of other games. www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/

Quordle

Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 23m

That’s been a fairly recent, last 10 years thing. You can draw a direct correlation to our current national issues right back to Thatcher. Since then successive RW governments have steadily made the country poorer while the string pullers got richer.

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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 27m

Nice. It’s when the small Pacific and Caribbean island nations come up that it gets really tricky.

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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 33m

I guess this is the result of a generation of right wing governments.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1h

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

Researchers applying for the UK's Global Talent visa face high upfront costs
Upfront cost of visa to applicant and
employer
in 2025
UK
Denmark
£692
India
£602
Australia
£405
Israel
£362
US
£305
Italy £235
Netherlands
1 £207
Germany | £170
Spain
1£144
Sweden | £117
South Korea | £98
France £84
Japan £21
£5,941
£O
£2,000
£4
Source: Fragomen for the Royal Society • Excludes ongoing costs such as mandatory healthcare premiums or fees such as language tests

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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 35m

#Worldle #1369 (21.10.2025) 1/6 (100%)
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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 38m

Strands #597
“Banding together”
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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 44m

Connections
Puzzle #863
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Very straightforward today.

Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 48m

Wordle 1,585 3/6

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Hello 3, been a while.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 12h

Among everything else fascinating about the Louvre heist, it's delightful it took place at 9.30am. Most of us, if planning a massive jewel theft, would be setting an alarm for the middle of the night. The French remind us you can have a decent night's sleep and THEN do it.

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 3h

Congress and Government could have closed for the last time

Will there be elections? Who knows

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took care of Medicaid and Medicare. We took care of everything. We didn't know where we'd stand in a year or two years from now, so we put every single thing that we wanted in that bill for four years. So we don't need anymore votes."

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cthul huramchek @uel.bsky.social · 13h

My first day working at AWS is going great. For some reason they had a lot of computers plugged in that nobody was using, so I’ve started an initiative to lower our carbon footprint

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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 10h

Selection from my watchlist:

The Vast of Night
Late Phases
Prom Night
Modern Times
Just Before Dawn
The Long Weekend
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes
Stuart: A Life Backwards
3:10 to Yuma (2007)

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Weekly MovieChallenge @cinechallenges.bsky.social · 18h

📽️ #MovieChallenge Teaser

Can you spot the connection between these four movies for Week 43's theme?

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 1d

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23h

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 20h

Uh-oh.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19h

What did they do?
Turn up for work?
Not be racist?
Refuse bribes?

Do tell.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23h

Then fix it.

Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy.

Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 23h

Good to see @eddavey.libdems.org.uk being more direct about the disaster that is Brexit. No solution exists to Britain's economic woes that doesn't involve a reversing major parts of the Brexit deal and eventually reversing it altogether.

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23h

Then fix it.

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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 1d

#Worldle #1368 (20.10.2025) 2/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 46 days
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
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A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.

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