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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 9h

If I ask you how your little one is getting on, it's because I am genuinely interested, I just can't remember their name. Sorry.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 4d

After talking about it the other day so was able to find the Chief Supt Brownlow / American Werewolf in London meme!

A split 2 panel meme. The top panel shows actor Peter Ellis as a police officer in the movie An American Werewolf in London. The caption read: “1981: Fails to stop deadly foreign werewolf attack in central London, despite the werewolf attempting to surrender to him beforehand”

The bottom panel shows actor Peter Ellis as Chief Superintended Charles Brownlow in the TV series The Bill. The caption reads: “ 1984: Promoted to Chief Superintendent at Sun Hill police station. Share if you think this is a disgrace”

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 17h

Renowned cryptologist Robert Langdon waited by his phone. Surely, the French authorities would call him, a renowned cryptologist, to solve this mystery he thought in italics.

Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure about next week, but my cat is the week after next.

A large brown tabby cat with white toesies and a white chin, curled up asleep. You can practically hear the snoring.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

Modern billionaires are weak. If I were a billionaire, I'd pay Roger Allam to read all my emails to me.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

FUCK, YES!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

Folks. Is the Pope... good?

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3d

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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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

Mine doesn't mute but it dials the volume right down for reversing or manoeuvring.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

The cats were both cuddled up next to me, too. This is cat abuse, as well as Lena abuse.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

My bed is so fucking cosy, but I have to go to fucking work.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

It's so universal that, if my car is braking itself while on adaptive cruise control, it lowers the volume of whatever I'm listening to.

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 3d

SCOUSE WARS #2

#starwars #mitchbenn #satire #scouse #liverpool #accents patreon.com/mitchbenn

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, no. I wish you a long, gentle recovery. With purring.

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The Library Faery is on "Vacation" @libraryfaery.bsky.social · 4d

Woman with a book in front of her, he finger marking a passage as she rests her face on her other hand, staring off into the distance.

Text reads" "It's a tough time to be well versed in history and possess strong pattern recognition skills."

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 4d

The Secret Life of Water Availabity.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4d

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't had COVID. Not available in the UK unless you hit a narrow clinical definition or can find one of the few places doing it privately. But flu, typhoid, tetanus and hep A together are a cocktail.

Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure whether it's the sudden onslaught of vaccinations for going to India, the shrinking amount of daylight, or something else entirely, but it's been a long time since I've been exhausted right down to my bones like this. Very much looking forward to a long flight with absolutely nothing to do.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 5d

The UK has a tradition of camp comedians/comedy actors, so I would have been 7 or 8 years old in the mid-late 70s watching John Inman in 'Are You Being Served', Larry Grayson on 'The Generation Game', or Melvyn Hayes in 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum'. All mainstream Saturday evening family shows.

Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 7d

Serious question, when did you find out a sexuality other than heterosexual existed?

Media, year, situation is what I'm getting at.

I'm so genuinely curious about this

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 5d

Pattern from thestitchpatterns.shop

The Stitch patterns

Cross stitch patterns, Mini art patterns, modern cross stitch charts hand embroidery patterns,

thestitchpatterns.shop

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 6d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 5d

Join me!!! www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a...

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 6d

Van Gogh's The Scary Night.

A very small cross stitch resembling Van Gogh's Starry Night, but the swirls in the sky have been replaced by ghosts, and the town replaced by pumpkins

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 6d

I figured my UK passport was expiring soon, so I might as well replace it with a better one. Positively looking forward to passport control in Brussels in a few weeks!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 7d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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