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@gillo.bsky.social

Retired, escaped English/Drama teacher in the English Midlands. Now studying for the heck of it. EM drama, kidlit, Buffy, Rejoin. Cymraeg am byth! I follow back if I think I have something in common - if your bio's empty I probably won't follow you

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Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · yesterday

David Cameron, "If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don't think they have anything to do with Brexit at all" My view: Research updated in June 2026 estimates Brexit left the UK economy 6–8% smaller by the end of 2025 than it would have been had Britain remained in the EU.

News to Remember@moments2remember.link · yesterday

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy receives a standing ovation as he arrives to address parliament. A symbol of courage, resilience, and unwavering leadership. He deserves every bit of respect. 🇺🇦💪 Slava Ukraini!

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the 15th anniversary of what is arguably the best abstract ever written for a scientific paper, but certainly the most succinct and accessible to a non-science audience. It was published in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical on this day in 2011

Screenshot of the top of a scientific paper: Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement? It’s by M V Berry, N Brunner, and S Popescu from the H Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol, and P Shukla in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. There is a subheading, Abstract, and the abstract, which simply reads: “Probably not.”
Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social · 2d ago

Given Jonathan Ross was so close to Brand and also seemed to be in the thick of knowing all about Walliams's predilections for underage girls as far back as 2004 making crude "jokes" about it the absolute, absolute kindest thing you can say is he should be more careful about the company he keeps.

Bluesky Fanatic@blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 2d ago

Look what happens when Putin doesn't have a rape video on a leader, making that leader his puppet. ======================== Canada is making its stance unmistakable. As Washington moves to ease some restrictions on Russian energy exports, Ottawa is doubling down with 60 new sanctions against Moscow.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson@lmbd1418.bsky.social · 2d ago

As powerful as the CWGC cemeteries are, I feel it is important to remind ourselves of the harsh & brutal reality of the original war graves that the portland stone concentrations replaced: Soldiers wash themselves in a shell crater surrounded by grave markers at St. Julien, Ypres 📸 IWM Q11562

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh@tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 2d ago

I know social media's a bubble but enough time has passed such that people must know that JK Rowling is a hateful person & the ringleader of, & highest profile adherent to, the anti-trans movement. If you miraculously still don't know what I'm talking about, read the article/do an internet search

Mx. Tiffany Leigh@tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 2d ago

This thread goes doubly for 40-50 year olds weaned on and immersed in decades of Harry Potter fandom who now have their own kids. PLEASE don't indoctrinate or assimilate your kids into next gen HP fandom out of allegiance to low-hanging nostalgia feels when you were a HP superfan in junior high

Hazel E. Baumgartner - Author@hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 2d ago

I wish Bluesky had a downvote or dislike button 'cause I'd be hitting it on every AI slop post I see. Sad to see how many self-professed 'leftists' or 'progressives' are celebrating the Blue Wave by using the nazi child pornography machine to generate images of politicians in embarrassing positions.

Cirenzi@cirellan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not The Onion???? "You guys are indoctrinating the youth with homosexual and transsexual ideas. This furry stuff is not for children," said Lang, gesturing at confused attendees. Trump-pardoned activist crashes cat owners' convention in mistaken hunt for furries www.rawstory.com/jake-lang-26...

Trump-pardoned activist crashes cat owners' convention in mistaken hunt for furries

Pardoned January 6 Capitol rioter Jake Lang found himself humiliated in the second stunt of the weekend, when he crashed a convention in Seattle he thought was a gathering of "furries" — but was actua...

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G-Mann@thegeemann.bsky.social · 2d ago

That's how they get away with it - well got away. Anything reported is just excuses as "that's how they are", "It's a joke (you don't get!)", "it's what they do!". Same story, different people. Works too, as you can still become President of the US, despite everyone knowing.

Maligree's Garden@maligreesgarden.bsky.social · 2d ago

[At the British Comedy Awards in 2004] host Jonathan Ross opened the show with a joke: “The comedy awards is 15 years old! And like most 15-year-olds, it’s drunk, it’s unpredictable and it’s probably going home with David Walliams.” It's been an open secret for over 20 fucking years.

Kayleigh Donaldson@ceilidhann.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's hard to overstate just how much of an open secret the David Walliams story was. Before he Streisand Effect-ed it into the spotlight, everyone I know who works in publishing had a story about him being a creep or being warned not to be alone with him.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d ago

Marina Purkiss on Nigel Farage at The Cenotaph on Remembrance Day, "It was funny to see him there, given that his side lost" "The people that fought that war were fighting against fascism"