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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 1d

Mine was tonsillitis. Until I had them out.

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 1d

They’re playing the tunes already in Argos.

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 1d

You should some of the comments up here (I live near Huntingdon where the train was stopped). Utterly ridiculous.

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 1d

@remembrancewatch.bsky.social not impressed with this offering

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

It's not a grassroots working class movement.

"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 3d

Started watching this late last night and finished it this morning. Reminding me how much distraction is used daily so that our attention has always been elsewhere. I knew none of this nor cared. Our press is the absolute pits.

Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 5d

🥶🥶🥶"Dr Andrew Lownie on the lives of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

"Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before," In #Cambridge a couple of days ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...
🥶🥶🥶
Astonishing.

Entitled: The Duke and Duchess of York with Andrew Lownie

YouTube video by Cambridge Development & Alumni Relations

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 14d

It’s just people trying to rinse all your money on chairs, gardening equipment, burglar response (oh there’s a man in your house, I’ll trigger the smoke!), and then making you feel like a burden so hurry up and make your will (cost) and die (funeral costs). Flippin’ ‘eck!

Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 14d

When was the last time you had to watch TV? No pause facility, no apps? Having to watch the ad breaks? It’s been soooo long for me that I hadn’t realised quite how awful it is. The further up the channel numbers you go the older the demographic it seems. The overall message is dying and death.(cont)

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RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · Jul 24

This alt is a work of genius

Top left: mysterious red haired women wearing earrings & with sunshine behind her head

Top centre: Queen Elizabeth II

Top Right: Henry Kissinger (probably)

image of The Pearly Gates

2nd row left: The Unknown Soldier

2nd row next left: Paddington Bear

2nd row next: Hulk Hogan

2nd row right: Ozzy Osborne

lower frame: poppies

What do they have in common? Were they all racist?

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · 27d

So green washing liquid is heavier than yellow?

A bottle of yellow washing up liquid with some green washing up liquid having been poured in is sinking to the bottom not unlike a lava lamp. I was meant to be drying up and got distracted.

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Oct 3

Again, much smaller scale, but experienced similar when in a meeting to address my complaint about misogyny and crappy behaviour from a fellow radio presenter, he had pre-recorded his show to go out directly after the meeting, regardless of the outcome.

Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Oct 3

One of the very few reasons St Neots gets a mention.

Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · Oct 3

It’s Friday & I’m pleased to announce that for the Half Man Half Biscuit fan who thinks they have everything,a new HMHB map of the UK has arrived with over 200 locations mentioned in their inimitable lyrics. Something for the weekend? Oh, yes, I think so. xx

www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...

Half Man Half Biscuit map of UK. Close up of Wirral

Half Man Half Biscuit map of UK. Close up of that London and the South.

Half Man Half Biscuit map of UK in a fancy frame on a fancy wall.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · Sep 28

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 19

Every year I lament the lack of something like this here where I live. Cambridgeshire is nice but boring as hell. Work on a cultural strategy got shelved by the new mayor of the combined authority which is a mistake. The new focus is heritage and tourism. Without supporting culture, that won’t work.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Sep 19

Culture Night is back for its 20th edition, with more than 1,700 free events taking place across the country.

Will you be out celebrating all things arts and culture tonight?
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Are you attending any Culture Night events?

Culture Night is turning 20.

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 16

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 16

Found this that I didn’t send into Anything Goes. Lots of clown tears. But made sure to include the toilets.

Drawn pictures of 2 clowns performing to a crowd, one with lots of tears.

Anything Goes, RTE Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Clair McEvoy
Riverchapel
Courtown
Gorey
Co. Wexford
Age 8

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 16

@curatorkate.bsky.social might give this a go. Also, if you’re on YouTube look for Bobby Fingers. You’ll be taken on a journey that’s for sure!

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Sep 16

Go watch this documentary. 10/10 highly recommend. Unexpected, interesting, funny, charming, full of character, and full of characters. AND it’s all on YouTube without ads cos the two gorgeous brothers who made it, made it just for the joy of it. Watch it.

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Sep 16

“How did you cut your finger so badly Panti?!”

“Oh I was mincing (shut up!) garlic while also *totally* engrossed in this unexpectedly engrossing and really fun documentary about two adorable stoner straight guys getting involved in the surprisingly competitive world of competitive bird watching”

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 16

I’ve been working my way through The Office (us version), despite my initial reluctance but love it! Alma’s Not Normal, This Is Us (tho but emotional!), Mum, Bad Sisters.

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 16

That’s good to know, will add it to my watchlist!

Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 16

Found this that I didn’t send into Anything Goes. Lots of clown tears. But made sure to include the toilets.

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · Sep 16

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)

Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 14

Reading isn’t a constant distraction that carries on when you need it to.
Sorry to hear you’re having to have treatment, hope it goes well.
What have you enjoyed watching?

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · Sep 13

On days like today, it’s important to remember the words of the wonderful Jonathan Miller when challenging the dog-whistling of those who wish to divide us for political or financial gain.

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Clair Slade @clairslade.bsky.social · Sep 13

I’ve been advised this week that I should watch Gilmore Girls so that’s the plan, oh and ‘Over the Garden Wall’ (which I’ve seen before but will watch again)

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Sep 13

While the original series ended in 2007, Gilmore Girls has become a staple watch in the years since it originally aired – especially as Autumn creeps in.

So, time to test your knowledge on all things Stars Hallow...
jrnl.ie/6812862

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