Just discovered that the Times Radio YouTube Live feed doesn't have those endless 'luxury cruise' adverts. In fact, no ads at all! 👌🏻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTIA... @listentotimesradio.bsky.social
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Syncretic, cynic, dysthymic, pedantic, heretic, antinatalist, Anglo-Dutch. Loves cats, hates autocracy, hypocrisy, monarchy, religion, Christmas, and poor grammar.
🔺 BREAKING: The children of the journalist and Times Radio broadcaster said he had left a legacy to be proud of
Rod Liddle, Sunday Times columnist, dies aged 66
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On ‘Well That Went Well’ me & @jonathanpienews.bsky.social talk about serious stuff. But sometimes it’s puerile filth like this…
A pedant writes... The apostrophe that keeps me awake www.effectivetext.net/post/the-apo...
The apostrophe that keeps me awake
The apostrophe — it’s an odd thing, isn’t it? As punctuation goes, it serves more functions than most depending on what language you speak.In most languages, the apostrophe is used to aid pronunciatio...
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Trump & Crypto: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver youtu.be/A9iZ10yIRwM
Trump & Crypto: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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I'm enjoying this new YouTube comedy thing "Well That Went Well" with @geoffnorcott.bsky.social and @jonathanpienews.bsky.social . Really worth a watch: youtu.be/DC3eLZSEwpU?...
Burnham’s Coronation Street
YouTube video by Well That Went Well
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👏👏👏 Bravo Jersey! The most progressive of the Channel Islands. #AssistedDying
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 4w agoIn case you missed it: Jersey just became the first place in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying. We are proud to have been part of this process. And, following the undemocratic filibuster of the #AssistedDyingBill in the House of Lords, this is most welcome news.
How can any game be fairly officiated by a team from a fellow quarter-finalist country? Don't want to cast aspersions on the Argentinian sense of fair play, but... www.theguardian.com/football/202...
France’s Deschamps unruffled by Argentinian officials helming Morocco quarter-final
Didier Deschamps has said France ‘have to deal with’ a team of referees from Argentina, while Morocco’s coach insists their aim is to win the trophy
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Farage feels the heat The new Private Eye is out now.
Is this Portugal Spain game as dull as it seems on Spanish TV? Here they turn down the sound from the stadium and commentate absolutely non-fkn-stop. No atmosphere from the stands, just three voices talking, talking, talking incessantly.
Judge people by the company they keep. Never fails. www.thetimes.com/article/aa2f...
Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
thetimes.com
This 4th July, America 250, would be a glorious day for the demise of your geriatric orange leader. insha'Allah 🙏🏻🇺🇸
I endorse this message. Give The Newsagents podcast a listen, first the original pre-gag interview ( 13/3/2025) with Sarah Wynn-Williams here: podcasts.apple.com/tc/podcast/s... and then yesterday's pod: podcasts.apple.com/tc/podcast/e....
Exclusive: The whistleblower silenced by Facebook hits back
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 30 June · 31min
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Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last mo.The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...
PSA for those melting in the heatwave: Living in Mallorca, ceiling fans are transformative. We have aircon, but almost never need it. If you can't install a permanent fan, these light-fitting units are cheap and, for the price, highly effective.
Friend of my fit and 'perfectly healthy' 70-year-old brother in law insisted he should have a PSA test. Wouldn't take no for an answer, rang and booked it on the spot. Several procedures later two years in, this friend probably saved his life.
Working my way through Clarkson's Farm S5, which is excellent, as ever. But the episode (#3 'Tripping') where they visit some high-tech farmers in The Netherlands is mind-blowing. Even if you don't like the man/show, definitely worth a watch. www.aboutamazon.com/news/enterta...
How to watch 'Clarkson’s Farm' Season 5, all episodes streaming now on Prime Video
The hit series sees Jeremy Clarkson navigating big changes at Diddly Squat.
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If you have old, used, but working Mavic 3 drones (or higher) at home and would like to donate them to the Ukrainian military, please contact me, Roman on Telegram: @WarriorsUkrainianWar 1/2
Dear American followers. I love you. I love your country. I also just paid the equivalent of $123 to fill up my car entirely because your President can't release the Epstein files - cos he's in them - so decided to start a World War instead. Impeach him already, yeah?
Alistair Barrie@alistairbarrie.com · 2mo agoI just paid NINETY-TWO POUNDS to fill up my car. Last week I turned down two gigs because they didn’t pay enough to get there. So, when the little card machine asks you if you’d like to donate 25p to charity, anyone else get an overwhelming desire to burn the petrol station to the ground? 😡😡😡
As social media engagement sinks beneath the waves, how will you find your customers? www.effectivetext.net/post/as-soci...
As social media engagement sinks beneath the waves, how will you find your customers?
Anyone who spends more than ten minutes loitering around the digital plazas of LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and others will have noticed a peculiar quiet descending. Not silence, exactly -- there is ...
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10 things you’d ban if you ruled the world. Mine: 1. Cruise ships 2. Warning stickers on car sun visors 3. Subs auto-renewals 4. Using speaker phones in public 5. Voting for people with an IQ below 100 6. The honours system 7. Mosquitos 8. Vaping 9. Religion 10. Musk,Trump, Putin, Farage, etc.
Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't want you to read this book. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/sara... Meta whistleblower forced into silence at Hay Festival www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
Meta whistleblower forced into silence at Hay Festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams sat mute on stage while her book, Careless People, about her time at the Facebook owner, was pulled from sale after a legal warning
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Give 'Ladies First' a swerve on @netflix.com It's 90 minutes of unfunny cringe you won't get back.