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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks!

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 17h

When I moved to Norwich I was off the drink for the best part of a year. So I hung out with Moslems. They were very welcoming even though they found me a very peculiar specimen.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 17h

I didn’t know he was a billionaire.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 18h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 18h

“A nationwide hunt began, with suitably large nuts eventually being donated by the Royal estate”

Northamptonshire eccentricity.

Northamptonshire @northamptonshire.bsky.social · 18h

First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion

#Northamptonshire #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion

Matt Cross is crowned King Conker after six hours of closely-fought competition in Southwick.

www.bbc.com

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 18h

A good piece about the Bletchley Park computers, highlighting the crucial role of Tommy Flowers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 19h

Parky about to experience the Emu of the week ahead

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 19h

Going to university never occurred to him. “I had to get a university standard of education by study in my own time without the benefit of actually attending,” he writes.

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 19h

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social really needs some work.
AI has had a very detrimental effect on his earnings this year.
ChatGTP doesn’t have bills to pay and doesn’t have to worry constantly.
Please repost far and wide because I don’t like to see ‘Sad Matt’

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 20h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 19h

Seriously, folks, we are staring down the barrel of a #ClimateEmergency of our own creating.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 1d

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

www.realclimate.org

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, Piers Gaveston was acted well, and he was cute, so you could see how you could get l’amour fou over him. And you’re right about the elderly murderer. For an amateur production it was pretty good.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 20h

We can’t say we weren’t entertained. And it was a new play for me, so I’ve learned a bit.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 20h

God, Perry’s not shut up about the flouncing Earl of Kent, needed some onions to go with that mince.

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 1d

Who would have thought that Ron Mael not only has immaculate taste but immaculate reasoning too. This is a beaut of a read from start to finish.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 1d

"The Who were charming to me when they were writing more situational songs. They didn’t necessarily concern world shattering issues, but instead really beautiful, miniature statements. [and] I love the artwork with the Heinz Baked Beans."

#RonMael of #Sparks on #TheWho Sell Out

buff.ly/PYTYHwd

The Who Sell Out album cover. Pete Townshend has a giant deodorant under his arm and Roger Daltrey is sat in a tub filled with baked beans whilst holding a Heinz can. He also has baked beans on his face, clearly indicating that he has been eating them.

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retiredmartinpubs.bsky.social @retiredmartinpubs.bsky.social · 1d

retiredmartin.com/2025/10/12/g...

GOLDEN BATHROOMS AND PARLIAMENTARY WHITE ELEPHANTS. A TOURIST DAY IN BUCHAREST

October 2025. Bucharest. “All I remember about that first Bucharest trip is your ****ing craft beer pubs” said Mrs RM angrily. Somewhat unfair, as I distinctly recall it was her making …

retiredmartin.com

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, I enjoyed it. Dan’s easily the best actor. The bloke playing the Archbishop of Canterbury only had a few lines and forgot most of them.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aleister Crowley, the man who – among *many* other things – once put an acrostic in an “apparently innocuous book of devotional verse” which spelt out ‘The Virgin Mary I desire but arseholes set my prick on fire’ www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/books/...

A young Crowley, with a silly bow tie on, looking at camera with self-conscious intensity

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 22h

Thought you might be there, @touristcol.bsky.social

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Also delighted to recall Not My Best Side from Ursula Fanthorpe www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/not-my... (which I recited at a verse reading competition at school)

Poetry By Heart

www.poetrybyheart.org.uk

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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

My hero is a farmer, not a duck. Which will only make sense if you read this new piece by me, the start of a new substack which I am bravely calling How To Run A Country.

howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/its-the-de...

It’s the despair that’s going to kill us

Time to cheer up

howtorunacountry.substack.com

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 1d

No.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Ian Geordie Clark @ian-geordie-clark.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to Dave Vanian, 69 years young today.

Brilliant lead singer of The Damned.

That spoken intro and vocals on on ‘New Rose’ 🎯👌
#TheDamned #punk #musicsky

youtu.be/TUxFQ5QBiYk?...

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Back again to my theory we should go to the pub (or equivalent) more. Have a couple of drinks, you’re no longer tongue-tied. Meeting in person is so much better than online.

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 1d

Loved this. Keith Floyd's series were always about so much more than food.

harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 1d

I think my favourite piece I’ve written for your fine site was on Floyd: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd | The Quietus

We have an odd relationship to food and drink in Britain. We’re good at wallowing in a simpering nationalistic jingoism, a sentimentality that often shuns the very best of what we do – offal; non chai...

thequietus.com

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Showtime!

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