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Lee Kelly
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Recently moved from Potions Master to Defence Against The Dark Arts. No, really.
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This is sad news, he played on so many of my favourite records RIP
Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Reform UK's Staffordshire council leader made series of racist posts including telling British academic to "f*** off back to Nigeria" and liking white supremacist posts saying "White Men Have The Best Lives Because We Are White & Better Than The Rest Of the World" hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In today’s Place In The Sun, Gerry/Terry/Larry/Garry Gergich and his implausibly hot wife Gayle are looking for a holiday house in Spain.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Tell you what, I reckon BBC Two have got Christmas Day in the bag this year.
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“They’ve turned 33% of the weans against us!”
News to me that the other two-thirds of Glaswegians speak English.
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Ordered through my Blackwells a/c, post-free.

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Essence
The Essence
blackwells.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Since we’re both under the weather I whipped up (another) batch of lentil & bacon soup. Well, I had everything I needed for it, including gammon on its last day of use-by. Onion, couple carrots, a couple of ham stock cubes (if you don’t have ham stock), couple cups of lentils. Simmer, blend.
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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On this day last year I had what proved to be the last conversation with my father before his passing. The signs were all too clear. Unfortunately, I didn't see it and arrived home too late to help. Please look out for loved ones and friends this holiday season. www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publi...
Warning Signs of Suicide
This infographic presents behaviors and feelings that may be warning signs that someone is thinking about suicide.
www.nimh.nih.gov
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is even bleaker than the 1993 Christmas light-entertainment-extravaganza trailer.
December 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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But ... "but he's an Oxford graduate and a former banker" - surely that qualifies him to know so much more than mere chess champions from Lewisham
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’ve actually managed to purchase this on Kobo. Using the website of course, heaven forfend you be able to use their actual app to ever buy anything. As for whether it’ll appear on my Libra 2, we’ll find out…
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲

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December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Not to sound like a stuck record, but '400 jobs to be lost in city as car plant/steel works/aerospace facility closes' would be treated somewhat differently, I suspect.
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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This is the first History Reclaimed attack on @davidolusoga.bsky.social’s BBC Empire series, in The Spectator. The thread on its recycled Telegraph version shows how criticisms of the representation of Mike Mountain Horse and the invasion of Ijebu are based on untruths. But else do they argue?
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
… though it also looks like The Thing has snared a couple of snowmen by pretending to be an Aga. 😉😁👍
is the gingerbread gamecube my magnum opus?
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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‘Cracking Exhibition Gromit: 50 Years of Aardman in Bristol’ will be an undoubted highlight of next year
Aardman's 50th birthday to be marked with museum takeover
'Cracking Exhibition Gromit: 50 Years of Aardman in Bristol' will open in summer 2026
www.bristol247.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Q Magazine's list of the 50 Worst Albums is a list of albums that are broadly speaking far more interesting than *any* magazine's list of the 50 Best Albums.
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Yeah, yeah, Bond I know but now Daniel Craig has really hit the big time
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I just kinda can't believe he's made the film again. *Again.* After last time. And the time before that.
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I will never understand why James Cameron decided the waste the second half of his career making films about these godforesaken jungle smurfs.
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM