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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 7h

You: our Prime Minister is embarrassing

Average Bluesky reply: um we don't have a Prime Minister, we have a President??? Trump, ever heard of him???

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 7h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 8h

Our first episode is now live on Spotify and Apple Music!

We debate five things we love and hate about podcasts, and which of them should go to Podcast Heaven or Podcast Hell...

Blue sticky note featuring the title of this week's episode: "Podcast Heaven & Hell".

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 9h

Overheard at the shop just now.

Elderly man: one ticket for the lottery tonight. A winning ticket please!
Young guy behind him: I want half of that since I let you go in front of me!

Just classic, no nonsense shop banter. Bosh.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 11h

The first episode of 'I've Got An Idea For A Podcast' is now live if you fancy listening 💡

open.spotify.com/episode/4ovg...

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 12h

'There were only 5 people with him in that room' ...it better have been one of them or I swear to god

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 12h

Whodunnit books where it turns out no one done it (suicide/accident) are a giant waste of time and the authors are cowards

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 1d

A little taster of the pod. First episode tomorrow!

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 1d

Me and my partner Ashley have started a podcast (yes FINALLY a couple are doing a podcast). First episode out tomorrow, here's a clip explaining the concept!

I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 1d

A little taster of the pod. First episode tomorrow!

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 1d

Me and my partner Ashley have started a podcast (yes FINALLY a couple are doing a podcast). First episode out tomorrow, here's a clip explaining the concept!

I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 1d

A little taster of the pod. First episode tomorrow!

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1d

screenshot 3 is incredible

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a good deal for a tube of toothpaste

Colgate stand at Sainsbury's showing the price tag for a 125ml tube of Colgate Total as £7.70 (seven pounds seventy pence).

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 2d

Headline of every article about AI: Meet The Man Who's Using AI To Wipe His Bum

Quote from the article: 'I'm saving so much time!'

Final line of the article: AI has changed this man's life for the better, although I couldn't help notice he stunk and his bum was caked in shit

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 3d

[The Grim Reaper, standing behind a man eating 3kg of cola bottles]

Time to come with m-

*His phone starts ringing*

Hello? Oh. Watkins eh. Lol. ok I'll leave this guy and be right there

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry but a buddy comedy about two comedians who have to find good causes to give millions in blood money to before they're cancelled at midnight...I'd watch that

Vulture @vulture.com · 4d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

www.vulture.com

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 3d

Robbie Williams making Julia Roberts scoot down so he can sit in position #1 after his performance, instead of the regular end of the sofa spot. That's why he's the GOAT.

Graham Norton's sofa, left to right: Robbie Williams, Julia Roberts, Colin Farrell, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Gloria Estefan.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 4d

Ok I'll be the one to say it....Tenable is a superior gameshow to Tipping Point and they should swap slots on the lineup

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 7d

MIRANDA: the new Taylor Swift album is boring

CHARLOTTE: I think it's a little unseemly how many men she's been with

SAMANTHA: oh please those are rookie numbers

CARRIE: Big is performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 4d

Over 50 Gazans killed since the terror colony agreed in principle to the ceasefire but not ratified it. The meeting to ratify it has been cancelled. They are just gonna keep killing until Trump notices and gets annoyed bc of his Nobel peace prize.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 5d

[watching Scotland play football] ugh [remembering the World Cup is in America and likely to be a disaster] a principled protest, purposefully choosing to not play football, well done boys

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 6d

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