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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 15h

I'm thrilled to be able to share this.

Here's Harland Primary School, the first recipients of books courtesy of "Big Green Books 500 Club"

I sent them £500 of books, thanks to the dosh we're raising each week.

Club details HERE.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

A class of primary school kids, each holding up one of the books I sent them, courtesy of the 500 Club.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10h

We also need this in Welsh.

Zebulun @zebulun.bsky.social · 11h

Beautiful.
Plaid Cymru battered them.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 17h

Got some stickers printed for my drills and drivers translated from the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" - "la derecha oprime y la izquierda libera"

I got more than I needed so have listed them in my shop: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...

Drill/Driver stickers - The Right Oppresses / The Left Liberates | SPELLING MISTAKES COST LIVES

Set of 6 stickers. 2cm x 4cmEnglish translation of "la derecha oprime y la izquierda libera"

www.spellingmistakescostlives.com

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 17h

Celebrating this most holy of days #CrispSandwichDay

An Aldi oven bottom with Brown Bag low salt crisps, mayo and kale

An Aldi oven bottom with Brown Bag low salt crisps, mayo and some home made red cabbage kimchi

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 16h

Merry Crispmas! White bread with Walkers salt & vinegar for me. Tea non-optional #crispsandwichday

A crisp sandwich on a plate, crisps next to it. Also a commemorative crisp sandwich day mug, filled with tea

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 18h

lol.

A warning has been issued after fake letters were posted through letterboxes, claiming people would have to house refugees if they flew St George's flag.
The letter said that "patriotic" households displaying the country's flag will temporarily house refugees because ‘we know you would be proud to assist your country’.

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CalicoRo @calicoro.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t be complacent - get out and vote - we’re being told it’s in the bag so people aren’t voting😢

Attracta Uí Bhroin @attractaub.bsky.social · 1d

#Aras25
#Connolly4President
#CatherineConnolly4President

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Good news!

Be Funny Or Die - How Comedy Works And Why It Matters - will live again.

E-book out soon. We should be able to turn that around pretty fast, fingers crossed.

Then a new revised edition, in paperback, with additional material. Which is exciting…

WATCH THIS SPACE.

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !

media.tenor.com

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 2d

Caroline Lucas was doing a grand job, but maybe it was a classic case of the woman in the room being inaudible.

Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Zach Polanski is rightly getting plaudits for doing a good job cutting through, but you do also have to look at all this and go "what the fuck was Caroline Lucas doing all that time?"

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim"

Zack Polanski, "Yes it is"

And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d

I did this as a teenager / 20-something, thinking I was some scorching rebel.

I’ve recently been watching how much small talk comforts people during a period of bereavement. It’s grooming. Social. Basic primate behaviour. It’s not the words, it’s the intent. It’s partly why we have language at all.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

A moment that changed me: I gave up small talk for a month – and the world came alive

I was fed up with discussing the weather, so I started to ask unexpected questions. The conversations that resulted were revelatory

www.theguardian.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4d

"How do you expect to win back men...?"

We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 5d

Please stop mashing up peas and sweetcorn and calling it 'sausage'. Vegans don't deserve this treatment

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 5d

A staycation is spending your holiday in your own home and visiting places. A vacation is staying away from home even if it is in the same country. I will die on this hill.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 5d

this is only newsworthy if a journalist *has* ever done this. Throwing around hypotheticals only demeans BLM and derails the conversation about how problematic impartiality is, because it encourages you to 'both sides' issues to which there is no debate.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

BBC reporters cannot wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts in newsroom, says Tim Davie

Director general says it is inappropriate for a journalist who may be covering that issue ‘to be campaigning in that way’

www.theguardian.com

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 6d

If my knowledge of French is anything to go by, those jewels stolen from the Louvre will be dans la piscine avec Marie-Claire.

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 9d

Rosie the Ribbiter by Canadian artist Jo Blakely (@[email protected]).

Rosie the Riveter poster only it’s the Portland frog and it reads: Rosie the Ribbeter says We Can Do It! She has a no kings button, and where it said War Production Department in original, war is now Peace production.

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ThatRagdoll @thatragdoll.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine. Like discovering the opposite of humour.

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ThatRagdoll @thatragdoll.bsky.social · 7d

@thesooz.bsky.social

😲

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 7d

Omg

"We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals," the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement.
Club's classic advertising slogan citing its chocolate content is no longer in use, replaced by: "If you like a lot of biscuit in your break, join our Club."

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ThatRagdoll @thatragdoll.bsky.social · 7d

Your man from Changing Rooms has reached his final form

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 7d

I think it’s the way the eyes follow you around the room that get me.

Painting (or print of a painting) in a shop window of a lion in an armchair wearing a blue and orange suit

ThatRagdoll @thatragdoll.bsky.social · 8d

"Do you want us to come over?"

YES! Yes I want you to just come and get the damn thing!

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 8d

A really beautiful door into one of the side chapels in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge 🤩
It’s also worth zooming in on the lock plate, which is something special in itself! 😍

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ThatRagdoll @thatragdoll.bsky.social · 8d

(I needed the next post to get this)

Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 8d

It has just struck me that Reform being in the news has been very helpful for Cryptic Crossword setters across the land

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 9d

Andy Serkis has titled his forthcoming memoir "My Pressures" which puts him streets ahead of the competition for "dad joke of the year" if nothing else. Wonderful.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10d

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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ThatRagdoll @thatragdoll.bsky.social · 9d

20 years ago I saw someone do this with a tomato and this post has bought that trauma right back to me

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 9d

A week ago I saw someone eat an orange in the way you'd eat an apple; peel and everything. It disturbed me so much that I've not been able to get it out of my mind. Sharing so you can think about it too.