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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 23h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 1d

Can't help thinking that Tron: Ayres could've been a far nicer movie.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 1d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 2d

We've caved!

Heating's gone on.

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 3d

Went out for a walk.

Found a brewery.

So there's a win.

Black and white sign lodged in a hedgerow.

Drawing of a full pint glass surrounded by words

Thornsett Brewery and Hopyard

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ghost crab @crabbydaddy.bsky.social · 9d

what kind of pants do ghosts wear?

just a paranormal trousers

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4d

"Neutral" is the ne plus ultra of anagrams.

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 4d

It's World Mental Health Day.

This is all I got for you.

#worldmentalhealthday

Black text on a yellow background reading "It's probably best to just be nice to people."

Dr Pete Olusoga
eightypercentmental.com

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 4d

Right. I think I might just have found this year's "birthday present-to myself"

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 4d

Any job can be a dream job if you have nightmares about work

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 4d

Watched it "live" the first time round.

Have the dvd somewhere, not sure if rewatching will spoil it.

John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 5d

My first Ghostwatch watch of the season yesterday. God, it's good. And absolutely horrible.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/interwar-c...

Addison Act semi-detached council housing

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 5d

Can't be arsed to look it up, but "John Lennon's Banjo" sounds like it should already have it's own entry in the Profanisaurus.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

John Lennon's banjo goes on show on what would have been his 85th

John Lennon's original band The Quarrymen will perform to mark 85 years since his birth.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 6d

Volunteering is a human gift of compassion, not a bureaucratic test of worth

The Home Secretary’s proposal to link volunteering to migration status doesn’t just miss the mark – it sets fire to the whole target

www.thirdsector.co.uk/debra-allcoc...

Debra Allcock Tyler: Volunteering is a human gift of compassion, not a bureaucratic test of worth

The Home Secretary’s proposal to link volunteering to migration status doesn’t just miss the mark – it sets fire to the whole target

www.thirdsector.co.uk

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 6d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 6d

...and now we can add "snails" to "swifts, newts, bats, and allotments" on the list "Things that Starmer and his soulless billionaire-fellating shills hate"

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 7d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 8d

Fucking hell.

Some cunts really do get it sideways, don't they.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

Rubs eyes. Looks again. Rubs eyes.

It's still there.

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 9d

After all the bluff and bluster of the last few days online, this is a personal and quietly moving piece on life in North Mancheter.

More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

manchestermill.co.uk

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 9d

Sounds like a fair trade off.

Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 9d

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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 9d

Starmers two pronged attack of being varying degrees of racist whilst using baseless ad hominem attacks on any progressive policy really isn't enough to deliver this kind of polling. Think he has to come off as a bit of a prick too. Masterful strategy really.