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Copyeditor, proofreader and picture researcher. SFF über-geek. http://bluebamboo.org.uk Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

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🙄 You two are a right couple of charlies.

11.03.2026 18:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Obviously a sore point for him. Don't suppose you found out why?

11.03.2026 14:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So depressing that the public currently flock to celeb-penned books. What should make them any better at writing than anyone else? "I'm a famous actor. Let's see who wants to experience my debut as a heart surgeon!"

11.03.2026 12:16 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Painting by Kenton Nelson.
‘The Shadow’
Oil on canvas. Size 61 x 91.4 cm.

11.03.2026 08:54 👍 101 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0

Jeez, what happened to this guy? He was a force of righteous fury against the Post Office and water companies as chair of the HOC Business and Trade Select Committee. Now he's an apologist toady. Sickening.

11.03.2026 10:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gay monks.

11.03.2026 10:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

KNOCK HARDER

11.03.2026 10:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/drea...

11.03.2026 10:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today’s fun fact: the reason shipping lanes in the Baltic are so damn narrow is that there are anywhere from thirty to one hundred THOUSAND unexploded mines in the waterway from the World Wars, and the lanes are where the bottom has been swept

10.03.2026 22:18 👍 735 🔁 207 💬 9 📌 6

Which god did you piss off?

11.03.2026 07:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OMFG, GOOSE SCHOOL!

11.03.2026 07:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eh? It was the Tories that forced this amendment to the bill. Only way Labour could get it over the line.

11.03.2026 06:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My hopes and dreams for the future. Plenty of room.

11.03.2026 06:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is the part that did it for me:

11.03.2026 06:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've just re-read it myself and it is a bloody tough read, especially right now.

11.03.2026 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The guys losing it in the background absolutely undid me.

10.03.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of an early public demonstration of the telephone, captioned "new phone, who dis?"

Image of an early public demonstration of the telephone, captioned "new phone, who dis?"

It's the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call, and who can forget Alexander Graham Bell's first, immortal words?

10.03.2026 13:04 👍 279 🔁 73 💬 9 📌 9
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Bald men don't like chives.

10.03.2026 11:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/good...

10.03.2026 11:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Awful, of course. An atrocity, to be sure. But you have to question why a school was plonked right next to legitimate targets.

Human shields, of course.

10.03.2026 10:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wales becomes the first UK nation to remove profit from children's homes, fostering, and secure accommodation In less than a month, new providers of children’s homes, fostering services and secure accommodation will no longer be able to make a profit in Wales — making it the first nation in the UK to take thi...

In less than a month, new providers of children's homes, fostering services and secure accommodation will no longer be able to make a profit in Wales — making it the first nation in the UK to take this landmark step

10.03.2026 07:45 👍 121 🔁 56 💬 5 📌 9

"Honestly, I just slipped while doing the hoovering."

10.03.2026 10:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Subjecting yourself to exploitation is non-negotiable. 🙄

10.03.2026 10:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We are not a Christian nation. We are SRI LANKA!

10.03.2026 09:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I suspect a lot of NIMBYism is astroturfed from whole cloth by fossil-fuel-funded provocateurs stirring up local dissent.

10.03.2026 09:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

…mumble mumble special relationship mumble…

10.03.2026 09:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LOLing at the idea of the BBC ever trotting out this racist claptrap and the ensuing RW apoplexy. "DEFUND AND DESTROY!"

10.03.2026 09:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Goddammit, I have had it up to HERE with these corporate shills la-la-la-can't-hear-you-ing their way towards oblivion while dragging us with them. We *know* who pays your bills, you utter fucking Quisling.

10.03.2026 09:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Please don’t take them just because you can

10.03.2026 08:10 👍 81 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 1
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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

10.03.2026 08:02 👍 1547 🔁 640 💬 118 📌 89