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Albumism @albumism.com · 9h

Is Cocteau Twins' 'Heaven or Las Vegas' (1990) one of your all-time favorite albums?

Discover why Albumism's founder & editor-in-chief @justinchadwick.bsky.social includes it among his favorite albums of all time + explore all of our writers' favorites here: album.ink/JChadwick25

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 1d

Mum gets up for a cuppy and Alfie boy is in there like a shot. Standard transaction: he’ll concede the space in return for some tummy time #schnauzersofblysky

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 1d

Between the nonces, nazis, nonce nazis, general swivel eyed nutters and deluded moderates, there’s plenty scope for significantly more fallout.

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blu-nose85.bsky.social @blu-nose85.bsky.social · 1d

Moonlight fishing on the River Ness

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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

manchestermill.co.uk

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Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social · 1d

and here is the paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Situating emotion regulation in autism and ADHD through neurodivergent adolescents’ perspectives - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Situating emotion regulation in autism and ADHD through neurodivergent adolescents’ perspectives

www.nature.com

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 1d

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 2d

Proof if indeed proof were needed that she hasn’t got a clue what she’s talking about.

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Albumism @albumism.com · 2d

Cocteau Twins released 'Treasure' 41 years ago on November 1, 1984 | Discover where it ranks in our readers' poll here: album.ink/CTsPoll

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 2d

V solid. And probably more than grain of truth. Sadly. But from the local tourist board? “Come to Inverness but expect parochial small-mindedness w a wee dram of racism”. It’s not going to win digital campaign of the year at the STB awards.

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 2d

I’m an Invernessian w a masters in semiotics and honestly I’m not sure what the message is here

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing but positivity for this idea

"Rachel Reeves plans Budget tax raid on expensive homes" on.ft.com/4hGi275
Progressive.

Better than a transactions tax, doesn't gum up the market.

Encourages downsizing.

Raises useful cash.

Even Osborne likes it.

Looking forward to paying it...

Rachel Reeves plans Budget tax raid on expensive homes

UK chancellor predicted to plump for ‘least worst option’ of creating higher council tax bands in England

on.ft.com

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Thmannksgiving Krullnucopia 🦃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 2d

I've gotten into this habit over the last decade or so of basing the vast majority of my Halloween and Mardi Gras costumes on a typical men's suit. I really like it; I'm fancy like that.

Me wearing my gargoyle costume, which is almost completely purple. A purple men's suit, paper mache gargoyle mask with horns, a fake medieval column concealing my legs, and fake paper mache legs perched on top.

Me wearing my Cerberus costume; a paper mache three-headed dog mask with a spiky collar, and a men's suit decorated with some flame graphics. The suit and mask are black, and my shirt and shoes and the dog collar are all red.

Me wearing my Creature from the Black Lagoon costume; a green suit of shiny scales with a purple shirt and gold tie; my paper mache Creature mask is shiny green and wearing a small gold crown.

Me wearing my spider skeleton costume. My black suit is painted with a semi-realistic human skeleton. There are four fake arms, for a total of six. My hands and the fake hands are wearing white gloves. I'm wearing a white shirt with a white bow tie that's not visible as it's hidden behind my big paper mache spider skull mask, which is white with six black eyes.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11d

But Gove said all contracts were handled by civil servants. Surely you're not telling us he lied?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11d

Michael Gove personally intervened to ensure that a Conservative donor's firm was awarded a multimillion pound covid contract.

Private correspondence reveals that Ciga Healthcare’s Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to “take control” of the process.

The contract was awarded just days later

Michael Gove Lobbied Government Officials to Hand Conservative Donor Multimillion Pound Covid Contract

Private correspondence seen by Byline Times reveals that Ciga Healthcare's Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to "take control" of the process

bylinetimes.com

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 3d

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 3d

If you believe the Equinix guy on @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social Today re the £4bn data centre I have a bridge to sell you.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B OpenAI quarterly loss

: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised

www.theregister.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.

Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.

No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.

Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 5d

“Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage.”

Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”.

www.thetimes.com/article/9048...

Michael Heseltine: Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage

At 92, Tory grandee Michael Heseltine is making a comeback. He criticises Nigel Farage and Reform, whose policies remind him of Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell

www.thetimes.com

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly. They could equally state “millions of users suffering Anxiety “ or indeed “millions of users have tiny balls”

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 7d

It's been a few years since I've seen the remnants of the 1788 Portobello harbour exposed. As you'd expect, there's an interesting thread on this export infrastructure of pottery and bricks by @threadinburgh.scot: threadinburgh.scot/2022/09/30/t...

An oblique view of Portobello beach, Edinburgh, showing a line of an 18th century harbour wall. In the far distance, is the island of Inchkeith.

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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 7d

He doesn’t give a fuck. Making billions, will take the third term regardless of voting or the constitution and knows he’ll be dead before it’s over. Couldn’t care less if every Appalacian drops dead tomorrow.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 7d

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1...
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 9d

Important and timely stuff from one of the few frontline journalists neither actively endorsing the far right nor staring like a rabbit in headlights

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d

Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is.

It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...

How to Defeat Nigel Farage

The Reform leader is a deeply flawed politician who is leading an even more flawed political party. It's time for his opponents to finally start taking him on

www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9d

My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon: simple black and white line drawing. A couple in a living room. The man is sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper, head turned slightly towards his wife who is standing at the window, tugging at the curtain and saying "I see the Renegade Master's back once again with the ill behaviour".

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