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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 12h

Please excuse my reposting, but I did not realise the artist was on here. All credit to @theoatmeal.bsky.social for encapsulating this recurring 'mare so well. 🔭🧪

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 17h

Cloudy skies. 🔭🧪

Strip cartoon. Three pairs of two scenes. First scene each pair: man looks at a computer screen showing an announcement. Second scene each pair: man outside looking at sky.
First pair: 'Tonight: meteor shower, only happens once every 1,000 years.' Outside, sky cloudy.
Second pair: 'Tonight: lunar eclipse, only once in our lifetimes.' Outside, sky cloudy.
Third pair: 'Tonight: Incredibly rare clouds! Once-in-a-lifetime...' Outside, sky is clear. Man says 'Oh, for fuck's sake.'

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 17h

Cloudy skies. 🔭🧪

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

Sports News:
Unprecedented scenes in the village as I don my radioactive yellow top & do a 3.2km (2 mile) run to/from the golf club/home.
Roger Bannister needn't fear.
Ave pace works out at 11mins/mile!

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

How we protected the UK and space in September 2025
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How we protected the UK and space in September 2025

This report was issued in October 2025 and covers the time period 1 September 2025 to 30 September 2025 inclusive.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

Flu jab Saturday at the surgery. Very, very efficient. In and out in 7 mins including check-in & queue.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

What? So this Duchess of York title I bought from FoxyFergie59 on eBay is not the genuine article, then?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Prince Andrew gives up his title as Duke of York

The prince said he had made the decision because

www.bbc.co.uk

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

a woman stands in front of a wall of monitors with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman stands in front of a wall of monitors with the nbc logo on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, yes, but then there's Alan Carr!

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

Rude!

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Charles, OFM Cap. @frcharles.bsky.social · 2d

We're proud of our bone chapels.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm... I suppose I'm being a little unfair, considering I've never watched the 'regular' Traitors. That's prejudice for you, right there!

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 2d

I have a healthy disdain for 'entertainment' shows like The Apprentice, Big Brother, Love Island, Traitors, etc.
So it comes as a great surprise that after sitting through a dodgy first 20 mins, I've become hooked on Celebrity Traitors.
I know! Shocking isn't it?
I've not seen eps 3&4 yet, so 🤫

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. New follower says "...new here, and i will be happy to have friends here", and from her many selfies is obviously very proud of her inflatable buttocks.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting times last night.
1 am. V.loud police 'copter flies over roof & then bottom end of village with a rapture beam for 30-40mins. Villagers claim drones were used too. But all I see are two cops with v.bright torches sweeping rear gardens. Unless they're calling cops drones. Disrespectful.

a man wearing a beanie and striped robe is standing in front of a brick wall

Alt: Three policemen (Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Karl Johnson) confront a farmer with a gun (David Bradley) in Hot Fuzz, the perfect second film of Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy.

media.tenor.com

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

3/3 Bringing to mind the skulls of former masters down in the catacombs of Jordan College ('The Northern Lights'*, Philip Pullman, 1995), and the chair made of Darckense's bones & skin ('Use of Weapons', Iain M Banks, 1990).
The horror! The horror!

*aka 'The Golden Compass' in the US.

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

2/3 to Rome, & the Capuchin Crypt beneath the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, to this! Rooms tastefully decorated using the bones of over 3,500 Capuchin friars buried by their mates - & if they're not monks then a cold case for Aurelio Zen. Exceptionally creepy, even for Catholics.

Human skulls, pelvises, and various other bones, and odds and sods, arranged into an arch against a light grey wall of the Capuchin Crypt.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

So, tonight I caught up with ep.2 of Waldemar Januszczak's Art's Most ...
This time- Horror. Opening with WJ throwing a bucket of blood over a cow carcass hung in a barn. He really should be wearing a pair of those dinky white booties worn by all competent slaughterhouse operatives. And then...
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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 7d

My Sunday night viewing included catching up with Waldemar Januszczak's latest art strand Art's Most ...
This week Art's Most Erotic.
Well ... 😮🤭🍑🍌🍒 😳🍰🫖
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Art’s Most Erotic review – unequivocally filthy TV

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak’s Sky documentary is a blisteringly explicit look at the depiction of sex from the giant penises of Pompeii to Shunga porn and Indian love temples. Avert your eyes, prud...

www.theguardian.com

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Trust Science 📎 @itrustscience.bsky.social · 4d

Candice Owen’s appeal to the highest court in Australia was rejected because of potential incitement of discord when on a planned tour

We just don’t like MAGA here

Our recent election results showed that we overwhelmingly rejected far right policies (thankfully)

Trust Science 📎 @itrustscience.bsky.social · 5d

www.9news.com.au/national/can...

😎 Australia 🇦🇺

Controversial US commentator Candace Owens loses bid to enter Australia

www.9news.com.au

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Mystic Mark is wrong again.
1.✅️
2.Sort of.
3.❌️
4.❌️
#GBBO

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

It's meringue wk on The Great British Bake Off & time for my reliably inaccurate predictions.
1. One baker's peaks will go limp.
2. Paul Hollywood won't get the flavour of one baker's poncy choice of fruit filling.
3. One of the lads will leave the tent.
4. Lesley will get Star Baker at last
#GBBO🍰

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Department of Physics at the University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social · 9d

Oxford’s BEBOP thermal camera has been selected for ESA's 2032 Mars mission! It'll provide critical weather data to boost the safety of future robotic and human explorers. Read the full article: Link in bio or visit https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-instrument-lined-esa-mars-mission

A family picture of the Oxford Space Instrumentation laboratory’s thermal imagers. Clockwise from top is one of the development models for Comet Interceptor’s MIRMIS instrument (left half is a contribution from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and right half is from Oxford); the flight spare optical layout and calibration target for Lunar Trailblazer’s LTM (in gold); and the BEBOP demonstration model, which is based on LTM and MIRMIS, but larger.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 5d

Jack Bryan on Threads talks about how Frank Sinatra saved Don Rickles's life. Rickles said, "Some goons were beating me up. Frank comes over and says, 'Okay, guys, that's enough.'"
Bryan says--with some truth--that he remembered that anecdote when Trump hogged the credit for ending the war in Gaza.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Better call Skipper, Rico, & Kowalski...
Elite Madagascar military unit says it has seized power from President Andry Rajoelina - BBC News. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5d

Anything really does go in the desert 🪶

A burrowing owl standing on a rock with its legs fully showing. Could use some pants.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

It's meringue wk on The Great British Bake Off & time for my reliably inaccurate predictions.
1. One baker's peaks will go limp.
2. Paul Hollywood won't get the flavour of one baker's poncy choice of fruit filling.
3. One of the lads will leave the tent.
4. Lesley will get Star Baker at last
#GBBO🍰

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

And who doesn't like a dinosaur story?
Also, there's a brief childish joy to be had scrolling back and forth over the sauropod animation towards the end of the article, making it show off its (admittedly limited) dance moves.
🧪🦕🌍☄️⚰️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News

One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

www.bbc.co.uk

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