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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · Jan 11

On Twitter I made a thread where I watched and commented upon every episode of #DoctorWho.

Over the years I've bought a surprising amount of #BigFinish audio stories and can't keep track of them. So I'm going back to the start and listening to them. I apologise in advance

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 7h

I went to see Charli XCX last summer and towards the end, some people behind started loudly discussing what song to leave after, based on the previous night's set list.

Just after they left, Robyn came out as a surprise guest and Charli gave her the stage for her to do Dancing On My Own. Incredible

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 8h

This is impressive - solidarity with those women who performed the citizens arrest

www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...

BREAKING NEWS: Citizens arrest of Anglian Water CEO, Mark Thurston, made in London for Public Nuisance - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network

www.citizensarrestnetwork.org

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 14h

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 18h

Sam Altman suggests ChatGPT is cannibalizing your fanfic and erotica to make its own clanker porn, rolling out this December.

ChatGPT just got filthy after new update lets it talk dirty to you

'You won't get it unless you ask for it.'

metro.co.uk

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 10h

Flag around and find out, as the kids might say.

/He was, in fact, mainly fired because of his social media posts, and not the flags.

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 1d

What part of this is a confession, unless the marriage was in secret?

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 1d

Two posts and one of them is this…

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 1d

A lovely slice-of-life film

Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight
▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure I’d call this exclusive as I’ve seen it reported in the Private Eye amongst other people but this should be more widely reported. I don’t think it’s a discussion most of the UK care to have

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s links to an influential US anti-abortion group have been branded 'deeply concerning'

It comes after an investigation by The New York Times detailed how the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been quietly cultivating ties with Farage and his party

‘Deeply concerning’: Nigel Farage slammed over links to US anti-abortion group

www.thenational.scot

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 1d

Why is Athol strangling Judith?

It’s giving me flashbacks to when Paige proposed to Alberto Del Rio in the ring

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Gavin Hales @gmhales.bsky.social · 1d

This seems notable - on current data, the 90 homicides recorded by the Metropolitan Police in the year to August 2025 is the lowest 12-month total since the monthly data started in 2003. #crimestats

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure how I let so many years go by of being told 'we had common sense in my day' from the generation who had to be told not to hold exposed electric wires in sockets with matchsticks

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

You weren't using the right cheat codes

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 3d

Novels should be reviewed widely and in depth like albums and films; there should be a mainstream Sunday night TV show devoted to novels; the book-buying market should be skewed violently towards fiction. In 2025 these are all unhinged opinions.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

‘…I used to play King Lear’

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 2d

I need to know what Bob Hoskins said to Princess Diana in front of Roger Rabbit at the London premiere of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Bob Hoskins meets Princess Diana as a full size Roger Rabbit costumed character stands next to them.

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

Lads, is talking out loud gay(?)

phebe @clitullus.bsky.social · 2d

has anyone told the brits they talk a bit gay?

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

Ah of course, once Holly disappears

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

Isn’t Dolphin House where Cyril Smith used to reside?

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

regret to inform you all that we have another one

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom flat for sale in Dolphin House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 for £1,750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Battersea

www.rightmove.co.uk

Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

Already?! Fuck me

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

I was imagining that on Saturday you’d be wearing inflatable animals

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

My girlfriend has her dad's ashes in an urn on the mantelpiece. Lately I've started picking it up and doing a, quite frankly, incredible impression of Paul Bearer from WWF in the mirror. If she caught me, I'd be dumped, but it's SUCH a good impression.

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 2d

Did Jindrak mess up earlier in the match? That turn in the corner looked like it was meant as a receipt

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