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everything may be awful BUT on the plus side as of today there are 7,836 different species of frogs

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Off a buddy. Let me know if interested. Stupid I know, but I just realised I bought 4 tickets to Trent bridge tomorrow for England vs Zimbabwe. I didn’t put it into diary and now can’t go. If you want them in exchange for a small charity donation PM me.

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I know he's younger than the previous pontiff, but even so, this is pretty impressive stuff given the limited time he'll have had in nets recently.

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#Flowerpunk species time! Introducing the battering bird. They are completely flightless, having thick armour instead of feathers. They use their heavily armoured heads as a club to batter anything within striking distance. Best avoid these 4.5 metre tall murder turkeys. #Art #CreatureDesign

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Quilted on Netflix is about prison inmates who make quilts for foster kids for thier birthday.. And honestly it is amazing

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Encryption Under Threat: The UK’s Backdoor Mandate and Its Impact on Online Safety - Internet Society www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/05...

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t's #buyastrangerabook day. If you'd like a book, but aren't quite sure what, just let @melissaschuh.bsky.social know what kinda stuff you like reading. Melissa will then reply with a choice of four books. You can choose your favourite & Melissa will pay for it! So get in touch! UK only

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I've got another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about! @richallen10.bsky.social ordered a couple of books earlier this week. When he paid, he added an extra £25, for me to buy a stranger a book with! #bemoreRich So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch! UK only

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A month to go until the world famous #Chester midsummer watch parades! 21st 22nd June 2pm

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Worth reading what was going on with Josh Harrop before, during and after his loan spell with #itfc. Illustrates it's easy to make harsh judgements from the stands without knowing what was going on behind the scenes.

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Thank you Gary Lineker for using the platform you earned with your talent and charm to stand up for some of the most victimised people in the world. You're a shining example to us all.

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the left boob is the more logical and analytical boob, the right boob is the creative and more artistic one

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Two relations have tested positive for Covid yesterday (a third had it three weeks ago). I'm hoping the precautions I took when with them yesterday have been enough to prevent me catching it.

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Another wonderful few days strolling the streets of Wrexham for @focuswales.bsky.social 2025. @professionalcynic.bsky.social and myself guide you through our experience and some of our favourite sets. Part 2 coming soon. www.nonewwavenofun.co.uk/2025/05/live...

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The perfect picture doesn’t exi–

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In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers. I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better. Please share :)

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Muppet a band: The Gonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

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I last watched Eurovision in 2023, having not watched it since 2007. Still gobsmacked by the cognitive dissonance of the countries offering up love and support to Ukraine only to award their twelve points to Israel. That reminded me I gave up with it because it's ruined by politics.

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So UK got 0 at Eurovision? And the pundits are all scrabbling around trying to work out why a country that's agressively left Europe, has a national press that constantly vilifies Europeans and a government that strips LGBT+ rights - didn't do well at a camp European music competition? I'm flumoxed.

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You want to know something? I've never used ChatGPT or OpenAI and I'm not even 100% sure if they are different companies or the same one. I don't know their URLs, though I assume they're the company names, but I've never looked. It can be done. Incredibly easily. Just don't do the thing. It's bad.

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The difference just 4 years can make when land is released from overgrazing. Nothing was planted here: all these native trees, wildflowers, etc, came naturally, along with loads of butterflies, birds, + other animal life. THIS is how we reverse nature loss. #Rewilding 🌍

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Brewery tour guide is waiting for the last member of your group to arrive

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Where The Internet is Growing Most pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/where-t...

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There's an extremely interesting backstory to the current claim by intelligence researchers that men lie on the extreme ends of intelligence distribution. It used to be that intelligence research simply postulated higher intelligence in men. This made a lot of sense to intelligence researchers. 1/

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May 15th - The Overlook Hotel is re-open for business! 📽️📅 The Shining (1980)

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Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity provides 200 Specialist Nurses caring for over 40,000 seriously ill children across the UK . On Saturday my niece Georgia is doing a 10 Km run to raise some money . . . www.justgiving.com/page/georgia...

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Fixing something is infinitely more satisfying than replacing something

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THREAD!

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This is damning stuff, frankly.

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A couple of years back companies started using AI voiceover and my voiceover gigs disappeared. And then they realised it wasn't quite working...and started using VO artists again. You can create something that is passably a human voice but you can't create something that's even passably human.

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Now that #andor is over...

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Powerful stuff. When you’re on the right path you don’t stop going, you carry on making the world even better, and saving even more lives.

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Serial killer who only kills people who have incorporated genAI so thoroughly into their personal and work life that no one will notice they are dead for a while. His victims continue to send meaningless emails for weeks while he happily tortures them, the evidence trail growing ever colder.

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

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This is an absolutely disastrous framing to adopt. “Immigration beings great gains but it needs to be controlled to maximise benefits” was/is right there on the table. Instead they have opted to lead with the strongest possible “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” headline.

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It's easy to lose sight of Quentin Lett's qualities as a writer amongst all the ableism, racism and misogyny. Mostly because he doesn't have any qualities as a writer and is a talentless hack who has been stealing a living for decades.

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Our new report: local political parties are renting out office space to MPs — who claim the cost on expenses. But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses. We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵

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"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Woolf's writing table by photographer Gisèle Freund #WomensArt

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1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

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The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight

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