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astronomer, bairn, many other things separable by commas http://www.nialldeacon.com/

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Yes but how is the war performing on LinkedIn?

09.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@secondmentions.bsky.social "the blingy Gulf emirate"

07.03.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gangland figures 'arrested in Bahrain' five months after fleeing Dubai Steven Lyons and Ross McGill are reported to have been detained by officers in the Gulf nation alongside an unnamed woman.

See also Bahrain www.bbc.com/news/article...

04.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He was going on about their low NATO spending a while back

03.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Think I'll give the heat pump a hug when I get home

02.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why does no-one leave steaming hot pies next to street-level open windows these days? This is not the future the Beano promised us

24.02.2026 07:03 πŸ‘ 351 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 5

Individual sofas for people with giant femurs and tiny backs

Movable stools made of black marble

22.02.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Side point: it is literally Andrew Windsor’s birthday!

19.02.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 541 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 43
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a man with dreadlocks says it 's pancake day Alt: Danny John-Jules says it 's pancake day
17.02.2026 06:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an incredibly unusual result in the UK, BTW, where it is quite rare to find a ban or a crackdown that the public doesn't love.

16.02.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 2
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International Summer Internship Program

Our international summer internship for senior high school students and recent high school graduates will take place 20 July to 7 August this year. Apply now - deadline is 15 March! πŸ”­ #astroedu

www.haus-der-astronomie.de/en/what-we-d...

12.02.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Im assuming it'll be eliminating "waste" where waste is defined to be anything outside an insanely narrow scope of what a particular agency should do

05.02.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If some random MP's can meme Al Carns to leader on the basis, essentially, he was in the military we can meme Yuan Yang leadership from Bluesky on the basis of her dog.

05.02.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 383 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 17

This is awful. One of the world's load bearing datasets just gone

05.02.2026 05:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to claim that someone is hiding meeting Epstein by deleting logs from their yacht, perhaps check first if they owned the yacht while Epstein was alive

04.02.2026 06:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At least citizenship laws have got easier so we dont have to repeat the "Handel and Three Other Germans, a Great Bunch of Lads Act of 1727"

03.02.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The sentient Sun is going to be really self conscious about acne every 11 years

03.02.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

McLeish won seven trophies with Rangers

31.01.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you ever feel you’re being excluded?

From the new Private Eye, out now.

27.01.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 394 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5
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Emergency services called after explosion at Rockstar North offices Fire crews went to the building in Edinburgh at about 05:00 to deal with structural damage.

Yikes

For context this is the GTA & Red, Dead Redemption developer.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

19.01.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What was that, a panenka out of arrogance or sportsmanship because he knew it was a dodgy penalty. Never seen anything like that.

18.01.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tremendous beret action from the chasseurs alpins.

17.01.2026 07:48 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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NFL: Seattle's Aden Durde targets Super Bowl run after head coach interviews After starting out in the British amateur game, Aden Durde is now two wins from the Super Bowl and could become the NFL's first British head coach.

It's a bit obscure, but the Steelers had a Scottish head coach in the 40s

www.bbc.com/sport/americ...

15.01.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Our go-to pub quiz team name at uni was Randy Chaffinch. Turns out there are several people in the US with that name.

12.01.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Manchester City 10 - Exeter City 1
But the expected goals (xG) are 2.24 to 0.42

Manchester City 10 - Exeter City 1 But the expected goals (xG) are 2.24 to 0.42

Guessing the xG calculation makes an assumption that the attacker and keeper are equally matched

10.01.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Earlier: a coyote open a box marked "ACME giant circular saw" while eyeing an approaching roadrunner

10.01.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An email titled "Puppies constellation map"

An email titled "Puppies constellation map"

Autocorrect has a new subdivision of the ancient Argo Navis Constellation

05.01.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

31.12.2025 10:34 πŸ‘ 2350 πŸ” 714 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 129
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Trump Mobile steals Samsung, Spigen snap for T1 ad : Latest ad for the T1 looks suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case

Whoever made the advert also forgot to remove the logo from the phone case they photoshopped gold www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/t...

31.12.2025 09:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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