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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 5h

If you see this post a robot 🤖

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18h

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look.

lichen-spattered railway underpasses portal

Bodmin Moor portal, which offers the irresistible promise of "danger" and an excellent view

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 6h

*49 years

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 9h

Israel limiting aid into Gaza because of a few dead bodies tells you a lot about the direction of travel vis a vis this deal

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 9h

You wouldn’t be able to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones because she died 39 years before it was made. What would be able to do would be to burn down a forest in order to see a lifeless puppet that vaguely looks like her riding around on slightly less lifeless dragon

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 10h

🫡

Irish unity Instagram post:

NOT DONE YET
Ceasefire - tick
END Occupation - unticked
END Apartheid - unticked
REBUILD Gaza - unticked
The Hague - unticked

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 14h

They joined the EU in 1973 as part of Denmark, despite voting overwhelmingly not to join. They got home rule in 1979 and left the EU, after a referendum, in 1985

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 15h

"Capitalist designer vagina"

The dodgy-looking orifice that grows on James Woods' stomach in the movie Videodrome. He is about to put a gun in it.

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 15h

It’s for English language. 36,650 were entered for English literature. The numbers are just for England

I found the numbers for this year as well, and the entry numbers are down for both

Provisional entries for GCSE, AS and A level: summer 2025 exam series

www.gov.uk

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 16h

5 years?

thinking about how those ppl who incited race riots not only got released early but were subsequently paraded around our press as victims of censorious ‘woke’ policies cooked up by commie marxists.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Afghan man jailed for five years for TikTok threat to kill Nigel Farage

Fayaz Khan, 26, was also sentenced at Southwark crown court for entering the UK illegally on a small boat A man who came to the UK on a small boat has been sentenced to five years in prison for making a threat to kill Nigel Farage in a TikTok video last year. Fayaz Khan, 26, an Afghan national, made the threat to kill the Reform UK leader on 14 October 2024 in a video on the social media platform that Farage said was “pretty chilling”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 16h

According to the government’s own figures only 13,010 people were entered for A-level English last summer, and the number of people taking it is dropping

Also any job that actually requires an A-level standard of English is already going to be asking for it

The Independent @the-independent.com · 17h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 18h

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China Historical Photos @chinahistorypics.bsky.social · 1d

Today marks the Double Ninth Festival a day for climbing mountains and honoring elders. In this 1980s photo, three ladies wear chrysanthemum garlands to celebrate Chongyang, once a rural autumn rite, later reborn as a symbol of unity and endurance in modern China.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

Greens are going to overtake the Tory membership within a couple of weeks

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Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting point on the language being used today. Israeli: hostage. Palestinian: prisoner.
2 thousand people, including women and children.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 1d

The same group has worked with UK anti-trans organisations too.

Such as people in Sex Matters, who have been driving the anti-trans shift in government policy.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

Playing cricket at King George’s playing fields, West Bromwich, 1967

brownhillsbob.com/2013/10/09/e...

cricket match, with a man made pile of rocks and stuff in the background

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 3d

I know other people have said this, but in the future we were promised these lists would be the other way round (except translators and interpreters)

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING Sir Keir has taken credit for the stabbing of rock nonce Ian Watkin, describing the incident as "another Labour success story".

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 3d

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Thatcher being elected
2. Famine in Ethiopia
3. Collapse of the Soviet Union
4. End of Apartheid in South Africa
5. New Labour

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 3d

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Italia 90
2. Live Aid
3. Charlie Haughey telling us all to tighten our belts while buying his mistress couture in Paris
4. The Troubles
5. 35-40 classrooms in school & teacher strikes

Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 3d

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Power cuts
2. Star Wars
3. Space Shuttle
4. The Royal Wedding
5. Falklands War

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 3d

PRO-TIP: Live your life in such a way that nobody celebrates you being shanked to death in prison.

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 3d

And who wants to see a thunderstorm from above?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

And if we were having a debate about state enforced death penalty you may have a point to make. Child rapist getting sent to the hot place by a fellow inmate, nope, sorry, not a death penalty debate, and not something I am going to lose any sleep over taking the piss about.

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