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Andy Smyth @antisyzygy.bsky.social · 8h

Who me? 😇

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Andy Smyth @antisyzygy.bsky.social · 12h

Is it wrong that I really like this?

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 14h

I have grave news; enshittification has come for Club biscuits.

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 15h

Omg

"We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals," the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement.
Club's classic advertising slogan citing its chocolate content is no longer in use, replaced by: "If you like a lot of biscuit in your break, join our Club."

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Andy Smyth @antisyzygy.bsky.social · 13h

I wish someone had told us this sooner, would have saved a lot of hassle.

Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 13h

A local estate agent gave us a realistic price and timescale. Told us the inflated price the chain estate agents would give us and why it would make it harder to sell the house. We didn’t listen. Four months in, dumped the chain, went with independent and sold within three weeks at correct price.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

many kings did not, historically, have the kind of powers Trump is claiming! wars were often fought over it! the English literally beheaded a king over the balance of power between the king and parliament!

a king would, in some ways, be an improvement over what he's trying to do

David Bonowitz @dbonowitz.bsky.social · 1d

JFC, even the countries WITH kings are doing it better than we are.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 16h

This should lead to Calgie being exiled from any decent journalistic circle.

It won't, of course

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 1d

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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Andy Smyth @antisyzygy.bsky.social · 14h

It’s never too late.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

A revealingly creepy formulation by Speaker Johnson.

What does he mean by “they” are going to “descend” on “our” capital?

WE are going to assemble in OUR communities exercising OUR constitutional rights in defense of OUR nation.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Johnson: “They're going to descend on our capital for their much-anticipated so-called ‘No Kings’ rally. We refer to it by its more accurate description: 'The Hate America' rally. I'm not sure how anybody can refute that."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

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

This post is wild the reason they have been banned is because of his second point

This is the wrong decision.
We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets.
The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

The chances that Robert Jenrick *literally* went to "more than a few football matches in the away end" at Villa Park *in the 1980s* (ie, before his 8th birthday on 8.1.1990) are vanishingly small to non-existent. (He may have been in the away end at Villa Park as a child or teenager in the 1990s)

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23h

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.

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Andy Smyth @antisyzygy.bsky.social · 1d

Walter doing his best impersonation of a Hellhound. #GoodOmens @rincewind.run

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

Two women at the hairdresser's, Salford, 1986, photo by Martin Parr.

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Scott @scottnotscot.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god, I loved NFTs. So fascinating and funny.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Back when posting was good

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

If you're thinking of supporting the Green's it's important to know about all their views, especially of their leader.

Full NATO membership should never, ever be up for question.

Yet Zack supports leaving and it's even sometimes been official Green Party Policy.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Why MPs prefer conspiracy theory over cock-up in China spy case row | John Crace

The facts had changed so MPs simply amended their conspiracy theories to fit the new evidence

www.theguardian.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 2d

The Home Office redacted a load of files they sent me (long story) and one of the things they redacted was the name of a journalist; except they included not only the title of the paper he worked for, but also the front page headline for a story that he had written.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 2d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

“The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which the gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of the elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: ‘When shall we three meet again?’ There was a pause. Finally another voice said in far more ordinary tones: ‘Well I can do next Tuesday.’"

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 2d

I've decided to stop trusting experts.

Really looking forward to my forthcoming surgery being carried out by my mate Dave.
He's not an expert surgeon, but he is quite good with a chainsaw and has watched several series of House.

Who needs experts?

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 2d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing the number of people who want to deny/dismiss the hypnoboobs thing without... just going back and reading the article.

It's not defensible. The direct quotes are clear. He wasn't misrepresented and it's not a hit job.

He genuinely did claim he could alter women's bodies with his mind

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3d

Ive read the article. That wasnt what he claimed.

These are his direct quotes. Note how he says he can *literally* affect physical charactistics with his mind.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 2d

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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Andy Smyth @antisyzygy.bsky.social · 2d

At least it’s got them off the subject of toilets for 5 minutes.

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