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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 5m

I mean, I know its for the cameras and their support base but there isn't even a twitch from any of them as their conscience screams "WTF? do you think everyone has forgotten?" internally at them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30m

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 7m

I'm thinking of only attending games in the championship at this rate

We were just so "meh" at Villa sadly

Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 10m

I sometimes get the impression that everyone but me is doing it

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3h

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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Stephen Clermont @sjclermont.bsky.social · 17m

Except for that one time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30m

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 6h

A.I. generated videos are like dreams - you find your own fascinating and no one else gives a shit about them

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 40m

Is this the start of the Great Schism, where frog costumes battle each other for supremacy?

Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 1h

You can tell he's appealing to the sort of people who used to lionize Corbyn simply by the lack of posters attacking everyone on this thread for daring to criticise JC

"The King is dead, long live the King"

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 3h

Keep sticking him in front of cameras

It is impossible to hide how bonkers he is as he can't resist just saying whatever passes through his mind at that time

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 3h

Shorts and normal cycling top, but full finger gloves!

Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 3h

Morning ride with mate

Its a bit cooler today!

#cycle #cycling #bike 🚲

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 6h

About to go out with my mate to do the climb out of our village to the back end of Lancaster

Its the sort of hill that Pogacar wouldn't even notice but will have these two 50ish cyclists going "JFW" numerous times!

Guy De Launey @guydelauney.bsky.social · 6h

Here's the first published fruit of my mountain climb with/trailing in the wake of Tadej Pogačar. My debut in The Observer, no less. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Me vs Tadej Pogačar: how I fared against the world’s grea...

Racing against the Tour de France champion on his home mountain was never going to be easy

observer.co.uk

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 6h

Imaginary Audrey and Liz defo agree

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 6h

At the very least it forces Farage et al to talk about stuff that isn't immigration, and as that is all they have got that is a very positive move

Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 6h

I've never wanted to be an imaginary Alec Douglas-Home before

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 6h

Convincing Brexit voters that Brexit is bad only took about five minutes

It is good that the government are acknowledging reality, but those Brexit fanatics aren't going to be swayed by anything like facts, figures and actual real world damage

Still, its good that its out there

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Roses are red
Apples fall under gravity

Headline: "Wyoming Man Found with 30 Eyeballs in His Anal Cavity"

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 7h

This dogshit AI "boom" is about the denial of death.
We had our time with Marilyn. It was beautiful and funny and achingly sad in the end, but WE HAD OUR TIME. We shouldn't be able to make Back to the Future 4, 5 and 6 at the push of a button because WE HAD OUR TIME.
Time to grow up.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

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

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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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 7h

Oh I'm still a fan

I do wonder if a lot of it is just getting old and getting a bit fed up of football (international breaks are s**t) though

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 7h

We are talking the nineties - one v Denmark and one v Brazil

Both with, er, extreme Englishness

Just thought some people were a bit weird then and nothing appears to have changed

Got mates who are perfectly sensible who follow them everywhere as well so its not all

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Faintly amusing that the IFS' argument to Reeves on tax reform is basically: You're fucked either way, so you might as well do something decent for the country while you're taking all this pain www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

UK's Reeves should use budget to reform tax system, IFS says

British finance minister Rachel Reeves should use her budget in November to carry out a long overdue reform of the taxation system which could help her to raise more revenue while limiting the hit to the economy, a think tank said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 8h

I've been to two England games, and both of them where sadly full of the sort of people I'm pretty sure are currently shinning up lamp posts with flags and painting roundabouts

Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 19h

Pissing off the types of people who travel to follow England just makes me like Tuchel more.

Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 20h

The England fans not too happy with Tuchel's comments about atmosphere

"Thomas Tuchel, we'll sing when we want"

"Are we loud enough for you"

Now: "Tuchel give us a wave"

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 1d

14th October 1939: Sinking of HMS Royal Oak. Shortly after midnight, U-47 under Kapitänleutnant Gunther Prien managed to enter the Royal Navy anchorage at Scapa Flow through Kirk Sound, which had not yet been secured by a blockship.
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Prewar photograph of U-47 - the identity number on the conning tower was removed at the outbreak of war. The image shows a German U-Boat running on the surface in choppy coastal waters. A number of the crew are in the conning tower or immediately aft of it on the casing.

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 17h

Fat senile old man can dodge faster than younger religious fuckwits is my take on this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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