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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 45m

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 45m

He's a genius but sometimes he knows he is.

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 46m

I think there are things we outgrow or which act as entry ways to new things.

Degas brought me to Impressionism but now I find him too much.

Mahler similarly is too rich for my tastes :)

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 49m

Es sind keine Bären hinter dir

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 54m

Degas
Mahler

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 55m

Old Bay and your choice of chilli powder :)

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 1h

Do you, or someone you know, need writing done? Matt's great. He's very funny (and wrote for Dangermouse, what more do you need?)

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1h

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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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1h

You will be able to guess which one made me cackle

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Tips For Making Friends As An Adult

While it’s natural for personal relationships to change or fade over time, many adults reportedly find it difficult to forge new friendships later in life. The Onion shares tips for making friends as ...

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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 1h

UKGovCamp Birmingham: Join Us!

UKGovCamp is happening on 17 Jan 2026. If you work in gov and haven’t attended, now’s the time!

Leaders in policy, operations, and diversity, please share with your teams, connect with colleagues, and help spread the word! Contact us to get involved.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1h

The refusal of successive UK governments to take the threat from Russia seriously is outrageous.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 22h

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 21h

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1h

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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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1h

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Indeed

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 2h

I'm loving this Pope.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1h

Foot pedal/mouse? :)

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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 1h

15 years of running down local government finances brought us to this. But I don’t believe @johnharris1969.bsky.social is right that no-one cares. And I’m delighted that Labour controlled Westminster Council @adamhug.bsky.social made funding youth services an immediate priority.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 2h

I'm loving this Pope.

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Foggy Notions @foggynotions.bsky.social · 2h

Tonight doors 8pm
Kevin Fowley 9pm
Clara Mann 10pm

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2h

Heaven help us all if he ever sees Evangelion

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 2h

A reminder that E. Nesbit wrote the greatest opening to a ghost story ever.

THIS is not an artistically rounded off ghost story and nothing is explained in it; and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened. But that is no reason why it should not be told. You must have noticed that all the real ghost stories you ever come close to are like this in these respects: no explanation, no logical coherence. Here is the story.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2h

I’m linking to the one hopeful post in this thread, but read it all: lessons from history we need to heed.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

MAGA is failing and flailing, but that doesn't make them harmless - I fear they will be even more immediately destructive in failure than success.

The good news: the Athenians retained their democracy. We can too.

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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3h

In which we attempt to explain that, whilst parliamentary open data is a solved problem, Conway’s Law is most definitely not

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🎃Tamara what goes bump in the night deeay🎃 @moiness.bsky.social · 3h

Dear Coventry massive,

Is there any music pubs in Cov still? We are up in November and looking for a gig?

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 3h

You’re fired

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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3h

A fine early autumn afternoon. Why not take a break from watching the boats go by at a riverside pub and read these weeknotes from @anyaso.bsky.social and I?

ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...

A mostly sunk glass of Murphy’s at a pub in Shepperton

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