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It was a strange way to say “Vince Clarke’s bailed out”

14.03.2026 09:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s more likely to be asking the Boring Company to dig a secret tunnel between the Middle East and ‘murica..

13.03.2026 08:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.

11.03.2026 07:36 👍 875 🔁 299 💬 15 📌 5
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Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

07.03.2026 12:10 👍 1787 🔁 568 💬 152 📌 38
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Researcher Deidre Vercoe checks on the first kākāpō chick of the 2026 breeding season. Learn more about why scientists hope the birds will enjoy a baby boom this year: www.scientificamerican.com/article/kaka...

06.03.2026 21:39 👍 364 🔁 58 💬 6 📌 6
Martin Rossiter and Steve Mason of Gene performing at Barrowlands Ballroom bathed in blue light.

Martin Rossiter and Steve Mason of Gene performing at Barrowlands Ballroom bathed in blue light.

Barrowlands crowds are usually good but last night they were fully up for loudly singing along to Gene.

07.03.2026 09:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp

📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

04.03.2026 21:52 👍 1429 🔁 332 💬 21 📌 45

I’m pretty sure this is an episode of the Tomorrow People.

03.03.2026 12:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

03.03.2026 08:16 👍 6606 🔁 1564 💬 91 📌 45

A suitably Welsh #SuperSeabirdSunday. Cheers xx

01.03.2026 08:29 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

If it helps, Star Wars is supposed to be set a long time ago, which always confused me as a kid..

26.02.2026 11:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Timmy, fetch me my tools

25.02.2026 21:02 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Good night sweat prince.

25.02.2026 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“And there was suddenly a Great Noticing of Bad Things…”

23.02.2026 18:18 👍 67 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
Boris Johnson without his security details returning from a 'party'

Boris Johnson without his security details returning from a 'party'

First Andy now Mandy, I'mm not sure about this, I think it sets a dangerous presedence investigating what secret activities people in power get up to that they shouldn't, I mean where will it end?

23.02.2026 18:02 👍 475 🔁 101 💬 13 📌 3

That’s proper niche, I salute you.

19.02.2026 22:17 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gor any Gauhaus? #hmhb

19.02.2026 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’ll have a minion called War Bastard.

19.02.2026 16:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I once had to deal with a letter at work that referred to the Bible, “as written in the original Gaelic” that claimed the original location of the Garden of Eden was in Clackmannanshire.

19.02.2026 12:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When Norfolk Police ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor if he has any special dietary requirements whilst in custody:

19.02.2026 11:39 👍 1609 🔁 398 💬 1 📌 0

Thats not a border it’s a Sudetenland.

17.02.2026 15:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not a flat roofed murder primary then.

12.02.2026 10:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All that money, yet he looks like a hobo that’s been fired through a bramble thicket from a trebuchet.

11.02.2026 17:40 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

11.02.2026 08:34 👍 2806 🔁 748 💬 230 📌 25

Still a Thing. Like the one in Antarctica. I don’t know what it is in there but it sounds weird and pissed off.

10.02.2026 15:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A European storm petrel nesting among rocks in Mousa, Shetland.

A European storm petrel nesting among rocks in Mousa, Shetland.

The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland.

We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️

10.02.2026 12:08 👍 44 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 2

You’re a twat in the replies.

01.02.2026 15:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do the skeletal hands come with it?

01.02.2026 12:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Just over 100 years ago, the ‘Battle of the Isle of May’ took place with the loss of 104 men. The great tragedy took place on this date as the blog explains; isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

31.01.2026 12:44 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

He’ll be emigrating anytime now bsky.app/profile/theg...

31.01.2026 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0