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Cycling round Wiltshire and feeding the ducks (and playing records and building little aeroplanes).
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samfr.bsky.social
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
dorianlynskey.bsky.social Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 13h
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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leftoutside.bsky.social
It brings me no pleasure to say so but Chris Mason must now resign. His position is untenable.

BBC News - Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
*Muppets theme tune plays*
ups Hi, Lev Parikian It's time to get your parcel! Your action is required.
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.
jesawyer.bsky.social Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 2d
Rewatched Great Escape on my last flight and I think we don’t talk enough about James Garner’s unreal drip
James Garner in a navy blue uniform and white turtleneck in The Great Escape
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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darrenhayman.bsky.social
It’s my birthday.

The best thing you could do for me is buy my lovely new book, ‘Birds Painted on Beer Mats’

That would be great for both of us I think.

darrenhaymanart.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
"I'm helping"
A black cat investigating an illuminated Christmas tree, which has been up for all of two minutes.
December 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Aerial photography's often fascinating, but this oblique view of Swindon and 1920 is a particular peach.

historicengland.org.uk/images-books...
EPW000937 - Aerial Photo | Historic England
Explore the aerial photo collection
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November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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hedleythorne.bsky.social
Uffington White Horse charging towards the hillfort. It is lovely at this time of year. #neolithic
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
Headline from The Onion: Opinion Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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public-history.bsky.social
I bought this hand coloured copy of the 18th century engraving of Cherhill White Horse some time back. It was inexpensive because someone started recolouring it in the 60s judging by the paint applied to the traveller's coat left.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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wiglet1981.bsky.social
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Anybody want to go and work for Vickers at South Marston (currently a massive speculative industrial estate, formerly Honda)?
The front cover of Flight And Aircraft Engineer (official organ of the Royal Aero Club), 25 May 1956. A dramatic painted image of a De Havilland Vampire with two pilots side by side in the cockpit firing missiles at a beach A stylistic advert for Martin Baker ejector seats A very stylish advert for Bristol, seeking draughtsmen and technicians Situations vacant, including a position at Vickers in South Marston
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
#NowPlaying Al Green, I Want To Hold Your Hand
A record playing on a turntable. There's no sleeve propped up behind today. A close up of the corner of the sleeve.
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Had a bit of a tidy while listening to the football. What do we think was occupying the minds of Practical Motorists in June 1958?

Oh...
The colourful front cover of Practical Motorist & Motor Cyclist (The leading journal for do it yourself motorists), June 1958. A man in a light brown jacket has the rear offside wheel off a green Morris Minor Traveller. THE BUDGET BLUNDER Once again, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has seen fit to pass by the legitimate claim of the motor industry and its customers and users for a considerable reduction of the punitive taxation to which motorists and Whilst the Chancellor on one hand made mild makers have been subject for so many years. There is a 60 per cent. purchase tax, or 12s. in the pound, on every new car, and there is, moreover, a further tax of 2s. 6d. on every gallon of petrol. The petrol tax alone contributes £360,000,000 to the total national revenue and purchase tax on cars, £115,000,000, or about one quarter of the total purchase tax revenue. tax concessions on cosmetics, certain domestic equipment
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Have some of that. Shame Walsall got a winner at Bromley, but second in the table's ok for now (and all you can do is win, right?).
Hope Holloway doesn't mind me enjoying things...
Chesterfield 1 - 2 Swindon
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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riffraff1971.bsky.social
ADRIAAAAANNN!!
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
jonstump.bsky.social
Tufted ducks down the lake lads
Several ducks swimming around. Some of them are black and white with little tufts on their heads, because they're tufted ducks
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Good grief
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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darrenhayman.bsky.social
Lego Spaceman paintng

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November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
#NowPlaying As is tradition
#WithAParahraphOnTheBackOfEachOneExplainingWhatEachOneWas
Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie playing on a turntable, with the sleeve propped up behind.
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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hughrbrechin.bsky.social
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
A yellow tractor on a London street, driven by a man dressed as Father Christmas. The sign on the front reads 'Farmer Christmas: The Naughty List. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Diane Abbott, Angela Rayner, the BBC.'
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Looking forward to this (having live-tweeted Alcock and Brown's crossing in real time, a hundred years on)
15minutebook.club 15-Minute Book Club @15minutebook.club · 7d
We are delighted to share our launch episode with you, as @rooneyvision.bsky.social joins us to discuss the men who showed up in Newfoundland after the end of the Great War to attempt to fly the Atlantic. David, your 15 minutes begin now...

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Thumbnail image showing the 15 Minute Book Club logo and the cover of David Rooney's new book, The Big Hop, which has a stylised image of Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane bomber over the Atlantic ocean.
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
I don't think I've seen stones used to weigh anything other then people for decades. Pounds maybe, if your style guide insists on bracketed imperial measurements, but not stones.

Cool story though.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The device, described by Mr Kennard as "battered," measures roughly 120cm (50in) in length and weighs about 15kg (2.4 stone).
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
An aerial photo of Liddington hillfort in our collectons inspired artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby to create two prints now in our exhibition - Liddington in Winter / Summer. Different layers of paint in the print created different effects. #HillfortsWednesday
Liddington in Winter. Swirling pattern of very pale greens inspired by the fields and woods seen in a vertical aerial photograph of the landscape around an Iron Age hillfort. Liddington in Summer. Swirling pattern of very pale greens and areas of darker green inspired by the fields and woods seen in a vertical aerial photograph of the landscape around an Iron Age hillfort. Black and white aerial photograph showing fields and woodland in the landscape around Liddington hillfort, seen top centre.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM