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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · Aug 28

Moving my thread over from The Other Place ... coming to the end of the Capaldi era in my Pilgrimage.

Monk trilogy was better than I remembered. Really like all three episodes.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 12h

Marley was pegged, to begin with.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13h

This detail amused me because I had an English teacher who told us that if you shove an opened wine bottle up your arse neck first, you have to break the bottom of it to pull it out, or it forms a vacuum and yanks your guts out with it. But this was public school in the 1980s, so…

A teacher has been struck off after she allegedly told pupils about the dangers of sex toys and rectal bleeding during a lesson on Charles Dicken's classic A Christmas Carol.

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1h

Bless him. Such a lovely, lovely man. ❤️

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 2h

“Here’s your Saturday night entertainment, kids!”

*depressed old man wanders around a castle talking to himself for an hour*

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Matt Bishop MP @mattbishopmp.bsky.social · 9h

Four years ago today, we lost Sir David Amess — a dedicated MP and a kind, generous man.

There can be no place for violence or hatred in our democracy.

We remember his service, his warmth, and his commitment to others. 💙

#SirDavidAmess #PublicService #NoPlaceForViolence

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Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social · 9h

Care workers...

The dangerous path Britain is on as the immigration debate mutates into xenophobia.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 11h

This is going to absolutely destroy Polanski in the run up to a GE. You don't have to think particularly hard to imagine a female leader of any centre/left party destroying him in any televised debate by bringing this up and then it being replayed endlessly on social media.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 11h

in general I think it is quite a bad idea to pick a leader to whom people can reply "all right, hypnotits" every time he opens his mouth, and then fall about laughing. It suggests perhaps a certain lack of seriousness in the electorate, to say the least.

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 10h

Heaven Sent is one of the dullest, most pretentious hours of television I have sat through.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 11h

Looking forward to Latvian nurses having to write 1000 words about the First World War class satire in Blackadder Goes Forth before they’re allowed in.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

I will bet my bike that close to zero of the British racists that this law is pandering to could pass A-level English.

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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Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social · 13h

I agree with Joshua that this intervention is by the Human Rights Commissioner is spectacularly badly timed.

At a moment where two of the four largest political parties in the UK are advocating an exit from the Convention system, his criticisms seem tin eared.

Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 15h

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner has intervened in a series of criminal prosecutions currently before the courts of England and Wales.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/policing-p...

Policing protest prosecutions

Council of Europe human rights commissioner seeks to lay down the law

rozenberg.substack.com

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 12h

"...and Tiny Tim, who DID NOT get a dildo jammed up his hoop"

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 13h

Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 23h

Tuchel has started to get this team ticking along quite nicely.

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Tom Burgess @nottomburgess.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to know all the Doctor Whos in order before being allowed entry to the UK

Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to know "what is a hot spot not?" before being allowed entry to the UK

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 1d

Yes more fool me but I am watching the England game and I’m currently longing for a Great Escape from this fucking tune being played on loop non-stop

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

“Latvian Michael Owen” Marian Pahars is on TV looking like Bill Oddie and I suddenly feel my age.

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Farage and Badenoch talking about leaving the ECHR.

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Star Wars News Net @starwarsnewsnet.bsky.social · 1d

We are saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary Drew Struzan at the age of 78.

He was the poster artist behind the original six Star Wars films, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, The Thing, and so much more.

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Gary Russell @twilightstreets.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight’s re-reading matter. RIP you artistic genius.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Turning up to the "No Kings" protest with my "Actually maybe you need a king" sign.

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I’d sue, honestly

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I see tiny-faced walking thumb Gareth Roberts has sprayed his brain diarrhoea all over the pages of the Spectator again.

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

BREAKING | Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 2d

How is this not an Onion headline

click.email.variety.com?qs=4fcd74758...

Apple TV+ Rebrands to Apple TV, Ditching the Plus Sign for ‘Vibrant New Identity’

It's just Apple TV now, no plus.

click.email.variety.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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