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We’ve know this for ages but it’s good that this kind of analysis in now on mainstream TV in the UK

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Is there a room more austere than the one I've been told to wait in?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Bonkers AI “creativity” masquerading as fact. One for language lovers @shelleyharris.bsky.social @alexreeve.bsky.social @lynneguist.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

How have I never heard this banger until recently? So much joyous treasure still to discover. Never mind the weather this morning. Get this in your ears: open.spotify.com/track/3KlGEO...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Last night I dreamed that my wife and I had to escape by train from ?, into France, via Berlin in the 1930s. It was only when we were on the train that I started to question the wisdom of her comedy Hitler/drag queen 'disguise'. Imagine a cross between Hitler and Frank'n'Furter.

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5 days until I run the London Marathon for @samaritans.bsky.social! This will be my first marathon, and training has been full of injuries! But almost there. If you would consider sponsoring me, it would make such a difference in this final run up to the day itself.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I've been coming to my favourite Chinese restaurant for over 25 years. Tonight, for the first time, they put the icing on the cake - a reggae soundtrack!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I read this as 'papable', which, arguably, would be more apposite

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Just awoke from a dream in which I gifted a car bumper to @rhodri.biz . I think this may be the first time I have dreamed about someone I follow on here, but have never met IRL.

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Enjoy Easter eater eggs, everyone

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Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

@esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social I showed my crafty daughter your lovely shawl and she was impressed with your yarn choices and your focussed counting.

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What is all the fuss about the Beatles? Everybody loves them except me. Perhaps I'll 'get it' in later life, like I eventually did with The Smiths and Bowie's Ashes to Ashes. Fingers crossed.

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This feels a bit unfair: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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More than one in 20 deaths in Barnet due to air pollution 6% of deaths among those aged 30 and older in Barnet in 2023 were attributable to particulate air pollution reports Clara Margotin, Data Reporter barnetpost.co.uk/?p=40377

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Hands-up who loves Winnie. #cat

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

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📢Even #FossilFuel giants are admitting carbon capture & storage #CCS doesn’t work. Australia’s largest gas exporter, Woodside, has flagged that CCS’s high price tag ($US200-500 per tonne) is too expensive for real emissions cuts. A 🧵 reneweconomy.com.au/the-great-ca...

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