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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 2h

NAmE tHReE aLBUmS bY tHe PlEsIOsAUrS... ;-)

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 5h

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 6h

Patchy output, certainly.

I did once get a wrong number call from BBC Reception to say he'd arrived and was waiting to be collected, I was tempted, but did the decent thing...

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 6h

Conmpletely coincidentally, I must see if I still have a recording of Poliakoff's 'Shooting the past' somewhere ;-)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 6h

Ludwig is genius. The original creator used to have a website where you could buy and download the entire run for something like a fiver; my kids grew up with it, as I did.

Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 6h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

youtu.be/FPvvjr3QIMk?...

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 6h

I've a feeling they'll have their work cut out in Bristol, though...

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 6h

Some breathtaking scenery in this short film on Leach's Petrel surveys on North Rona and Flannan from RSPB
#Seabirds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQm...

Take a wild journey to remote Scottish islands with an RSPB team searching for a remarkable seabird

YouTube video by RSPB

www.youtube.com

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Love the attentive customer service from my energy supplier

An exceprt from an email with a generic greeting and a placeholder where the sender was supposed to insert their name, but didn't

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 6h

And this is why they're stuck on culture war stuff rather than rational policy that might actually work.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
on.ft.com/4nZ6DBt

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 7h

Care workers! What a disgraceful state

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

www.theguardian.com

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 7h

Ask all the mamagers in BBC News who came over from GB News, perhaps?

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 8h

(so many people like me wanting to agree with the point, but also wanting to pedantically point out that decibels are relative, and can play them '0dB' tone which could be fucking loud...)

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 9h

Absolute silence is 0db. It's also the sound of Chris Mason's laptop when there's a negative story about Reform that could be written.
Nothing at all on BBC News website about the trashing of Reform's major economic policy.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 20h

@garethdennis.uk do give the poll a boost, even if you choose a different station :-)

Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 21h

Hey kids - choose the disruption that really makes a difference - vote for a narrow gauge railway station at the top of a quiet mid-Wales valley to be - erm - best?

It's the first one in the alphabetical shortlist, too, 'cos it's not really a 'World' cup at all :-)

Talyllyn Railway @talyllyn.co.uk · 1d

Abergynolwyn Station has been shortlisted in the #WorldCupOfStations!

You only have 4 DAYS to give Aber your vote - so let's get to it & show the nation just how special our Railway with a Heart of Gold is!

Vote now!
Closes 17th October 23:59pm BST:
www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 21h

10 for £1 in our charity shop, might put up the prices tomorrow :-)

(Seriously, I know I have a 12v DVD player and can generate 12v too, I will be sorted come the Great Offage)

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22h

Or, I suspect, the pension contributions, authorship and residuals agreements painstakingly agreed over decades between broadcasters and the various media trades unions.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22h

Luckily when terrestrial television dies, we’ll be able to be completely dependent on disruptor billionaires who can’t budget properly and think all media is free and are probably going to go bust at the same time because it’s still just unproven spec tech, so that’ll be good.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 23h

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 21h

Love when Bluesky deletes my share of the day before the day is up

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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Josh Owen Morris @joshowenmorris.co.uk · 21h

The cat is doing his best to provide entertainment while the internet is down

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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