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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 6h

Every Sure Start Centre that Austerity Government closed down. We'd learn a great deal about a lot of things if we did that trip.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot find any evidence for my recollection tbh

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 5h

Yes it was. And if I recall there was something dodgy with the money allocation so somewhere in London got a huge chunk

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 5h

My handy mnemonic for remembering the order of the words in Sustrans's stupid new name Walk Wheel Cycle Trust is "wank wombles carefully"

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 5h

My new crank view which I arrived at yesterday is that as well as what you say, we lost something moving from 4:3

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 9h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 9h

The multi-camera drama has disappeared forever: an entire medium, an entire *form of art*, has just gone. Thirty years ago. Unheralded, unnoticed. It’s like the novel disappearing. Or watercolours vanishing. It was cultural vandalism, by oversight. 19/

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6h

just play the Archers in assembly, god

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 9h

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 ⬇️

Teach farming in schools, says Kaleb Cooper — it saved me

The star of the TV series Clarkson’s Farm tells the Cheltenham Literature Festival that ‘everyone should know how to grow potatoes and other vegetables’

www.thetimes.com

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 6h

Visit the 124 former Debenhams

Lots of development hell just in these few East of England ones
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 7h

Ooh this is fun- I would go and visit all the transport projects announced as part of Network North that were not, in fact, in the north

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

prince andrew: you see I had a long running warlord character dating back to when I first met Jeffrey in 1999. it's important to me to take on the role of a leader.

emily maitlis: but sir, the warlord wasn't included until the launch of fourth edition in 2007

prince andrew: ah um (profuse sweat)

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 6h

Boooooooo

Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 6h

Huh, didn't think of the anagram.
I rarely do the 2 one, I am not good at it

Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7h

My alternative interpretation is that it is Morse's dying dream, for those reasons he is not Morse and also it is in some idyllic dream world which is why it geographically doesn't make sense, and where he never has to go anywhere near Oxford University and all those bastards

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7h

Isn't that Midsomer Murders.
Barnaby is Not Morse (or for Fortran 77 programmers .NOT. MORSE)
He is happily married, doesn't like opera, prefers wine to beer (the last two are mentioned in the first episode IIRC, presumably deliberately)

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 7h

Look, if Patrick O'Brian could make the War of 1812 last about six years from the point of view of Aubrey and Maturin, I think we can cut Goscinny and Uderzo a bit of slack.

Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 13h

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 7h

I think I'd like to visit all the New Deal for Communities areas

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7h

I solved this Dordle in 5/7 tries. Can you guess these 2 words?

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Dordle Wordle - Play Dordle Game

Play Dordle Online! Try to solve the Wordle puzzle with 2 words in seven tries. Can you guess 2 Wordles at once?

dordlewordle.com

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Jonesy @therealbk.bsky.social · 9h

Mother in law fed $100,000 in cash into one of these

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7h

Another idea I had for a blog was to eat at all cafes / restaurants on or within, say, 50 yards of the North and South Circulars, working clockwise.

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7h

My plan which I would never bother to do is to do a survey of Old Rectories / Vicarages (they have to be explicitly called the old rectory or old vicarage) - try to find out what the people who own them do / did? How they got their money. To determine the truth of "old rectory syndrome"

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7h

And play a game on every one!

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7h

Do we know where they are? How many were actually built? How many are still intact? How many have ever had a game of chess played on them

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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