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Mark O’Neill 🐻

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Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire. “Squalid, not a decent Brit” - Keir Starmer Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji “O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?” Was @marxculture on Twitter

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · Dec 21

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Bear: Big pause

Jim Getz @jimgetz.bsky.social · Dec 20

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 32m

Someone outside is loudly arguing with a fox.

And losing.

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Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 1h

Re-bumping this article, which is in print today. Particularly pleased with this paragraph.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1h

It’s fatuous nonsense from the haute bourgeois who claim not to be right wing merely fash curious.

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Olly Benson @ollybenson.uk · 1h

"More than half of the young people involved said they would like to reduce screen time, but 46% felt “unable” to. And then came the kicker: “93% of young people who have attended a youth centre say it has made a positive difference to their lives.”"

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Vitsœ @vitsoe.bsky.social · 9d

Are you a fan of modernist, mid-century and brutalist architecture? We have good news for you: the Modernist Book Fair is coming back to our London shop this month.

Find more details and mark your calendars: instagram.com/p/DPWB_WZDEwX

#vitsoe #vitsœ #modernistbookfair

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1h

If Colin Powell was still alive I would not have been surprised to see him as the public face of a military coup in the US.

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Professor Sue Black OBE @drblack.bsky.social · 2h

‎I’ve started a fun #family #knitting, #crochet and #sewing channel on WhatsApp with my 2 lovely #daughters ❤️🙌🏼🥳 Follow us here -> 20-40-60 Knits channel on WhatsApp: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2h

Hugs

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2h

Whoah!

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2h

“40-50 feral hedgehogs”

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2h

Doo doo doo de doo GOAT BUTLINS! 🎶

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 3h

BIFFO Goes To Innsmouth

Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 3h

Beano #979, Apr 22, 1961

Biffo catches a huge fish which then eats a man's entire head.
BIFFO: Oops! Sorry, sir!

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 3h

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Fiction in translation: The Midnight Timetable; The Woman Dies; The Ferryman & His Wife; My Name Is Stramer; Wolf Moon’ and The Loft

Books by Bora Chung (Korea), Japan (Aoko Matsuda), Frode Grytten (Norway), Mikołaj Łoziński (Poland), Julio Llamazares (Spain) and Marlen Haushofer (Austria)

www.irishtimes.com

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 3h

Have a look at Citymapper app

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 3h

Exactly. So you have to commit. You have no choice. It becomes your everything.

I am in awe of the family members who run our family farm but it is as alien a life to me as being a ballet dancer, another career you have to completely embrace

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 3h

For some it's an addiction :)

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 4h

I come from a farming family. My family have been farmers for millennia. The most important thing to know about farming is how to escape from the farm.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 4h

Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has called for farming to be taught in schools so that children understand where their food comes from ⬇️