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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 4h

There really are a lot of people out there who, however close they’re standing to each other, talk like they’re separated by an ocean and nobody has invented the telephone yet

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 6h

USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN YOU SELFISH MOTHERFUCKER

my thought process right now is

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6h

Yes. We know. That's the point of what's happened over the last decade and you helped us get here.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Meme:

OP: why do you need a specific word for being thrown out of a window

The burgomaster of Prague: i be in situations

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 10h

When it's a scene at night, books should switch to white writing on a black page

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 10h

nothing is more important to me right now than knowing what the heck is going on with Zac Willis’s secret possibly kinky tennis coach shame #Neighbours

Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 10h

While we’re all doing this just gonna say I still remember the old phone number for Lloyds Bank thanks to this incredible advert youtu.be/3CmTwJ3yquE?...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Chris @basiclychris.bsky.social · 19h

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 20h

It’s so frustrating when an advert is advertising the wrong thing. Like when they’re trying to sell me a phone or a car and all I can think is “ooh where did he get that jacket”

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 21h

I still remember the phone number of my mate Rob at school, who I've not had any contact with in over 25 years.

I'm not 100% sure what I had for lunch today.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 23h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 1d

No it doesn't.

A picture saying 'Nursery rhymes with Justin Fletcher'.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 22h

FINALLY!!!

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 22h

Angelina Mango (it could be 10 May to celebrate the anniversary of her singing ‘Imagine’ in the press room)

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 23h

The best and most perfect 'personal life' section of any Wikipedia page. I do not need or wish to know anything more about Demi Adejuyigbe.

Screengrab of a section from Demi Adejuyigbe's Wikipedia page saying 'Personal Life' in larger font, then in smaller font beneath it: "Adejuyigbe has a cat named Leo." With two footnotes sources confirming it

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

tfw you’re launching state of the art trains with no USBC, even though it would cost a few quid per train to change the faceplate at this stage

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, even if you insist that the contest is non-political (lol) and the genocide shouldn’t factor into it (which is quite a place to argue yourself into, but nonetheless), the fact that they’ve tried to rig the outcome for the last two years ought to be grounds for expulsion surely

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1d

it’s always a bad idea to believe that Eurovision might do the right thing isn’t it

ESC Discord @escdiscord.com · 1d

🚨 The vote to determine Israel's participation in #Eurovision 2026 will no longer take place in November, the EBU has confirmed today.

Instead, an "open and in-person discussion" will take place at the EBU General Assembly in December. No vote is currently planned.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1d

(also, as I said at the time, it’s got one of the dirt worst “I’m triggered actually” jokes I’ve seen in a good long while that isn’t funny to begin with and hugely outstays its welcome)

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 3d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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