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BUCKERS
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Hello. This is marvellous x
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1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
https://youtu.be/S0it6iARj64?si=sC7YEBNLMaT3OtUa
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Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧
2 days ago
We the shitposters of the UK were saying at the time that lockdown was too late, some of us were already working from home. But no he insisted the Cheltenham Festival (March 10-13) and Liverpool v Madrid (March 11) went ahead. Meanwhile on March 12 the subservient press were briefed thus:
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Skip, the Online Raccoon
4 months ago
this website is literally free and that’s beautiful
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Gabby HC's books make ideal festive presents
2 days ago
I'm sure that, as the old saying goes, the rest of the barrel is full of very fresh apples!
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garrettc
2 days ago
If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from
@oxfordclarion.bsky.social
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oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats-of-oxford/
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Kasey Gifford
3 days ago
The guy in the green sweater is hanging on for dear life.
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Matt Novak
2 days ago
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Tade Thompson
2 days ago
I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!
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Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's head of AI, vents after the company receives backlash for saying 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/161396/microsoft-exec-asks-why-arent-more-people-impressed-with-ai
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Victoria Derbyshire
3 days ago
UK Covid inquiry: Chairwoman of the inquiry, former judge Baroness Hallett, said the UK's response could be summarised as "too little, too late" Lockdown could have been avoided - but action came too late 'Chaotic' government with key figures criticised including Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)
3 days ago
This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Dr. Lucky Tran
4 days ago
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Moose Allain
3 days ago
I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.
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Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧
3 days ago
It’s because most of the government and media people (because they are mostly toffs) and all the people who are in a position to lobby government live in £1.5 million+ houses in London
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flyingrodent
3 days ago
I think the time has come to ask ourselves what Labour strategists think “winning” actually would be because whatever it is they’re trying to do here, it pretty clearly has little to do with public opinion.
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Alan Lester
3 days ago
This is explosive stuff. Evidence that Jeffrey Epstein not only ran a child sex trafficking operation for powerful men, he also seems to have advised & supported Farage’s far right political projects in Europe and the UK, including Brexit, via Steve Bannon.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/dinner-with-mr-brexit-bannons-european-revolution-planned-with-farage-backed-by-epstein/
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ñåø ⚧️
3 days ago
Users of r/tallgirls share their experiences of measures intended to target trans people:
www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...
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From the TallGirls community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the TallGirls community
https://www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/s/s6utMOpKfy
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Eliot Higgins
4 days ago
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/19/nigel-farage-allegations-racist-behaviour-school
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
5 days ago
48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing. Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts
#SaveHE
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Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once. Reservation Dogs
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Mark McGeoghegan
5 days ago
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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The Green Party of England & Wales
5 days ago
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
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Matt Thrower
5 days ago
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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Gareth Watkins
6 days ago
Okay, let's heal the rift with some gentle humour: How many Labour MPs does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change the lightbulb, the other to ask Nigel Farage if he needs anything else doing around Number 10 before he moves in.
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Carla Denyer
6 days ago
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
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James Ball
6 days ago
If someone has travelled thousands of miles, paying everything they own to an exploitative people smuggling gang, risking their life in a deadly channel crossing, I do not want to be the person who takes their last valuables – a mother’s necklace? A gift? – from them. And nor should the rest of us.
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Woodo
6 days ago
People need to realise the"Labour Party" as it was or as yer da remembers it through rose tinted glasses is functionally dead. It's been coopted by these hateful neolib company suits. It's Tory Lite now and all the holding your nose and crossing your fingers and wishing real hard won't change that.
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Athena Kugblenu
7 days ago
You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way
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Zack Polanski
7 days ago
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎
7 days ago
I'm glad the Green Party exists, because imagine if this was the UK left's best attempt at trying to capitalize on the mass disillusionment with conservative governance. A political class more fixated on trans women's genitals than trans women are has brought the UK to the brink of collapse.
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Chris Tregenza
8 days ago
Striking Works:
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Michael Munnik
8 days ago
Result for Nottingham! That was quick. Please, though it's exhausting, keep up the fight. All of us need to protect not only our workplaces and work conditions but also the social values our work (teaching and researching in the humanities) uphold and strengthen.
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Bree
8 days ago
yes none of you will ever be as good at making the jokes as she is, so just hang it up and go home
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Rebecca Watson
8 days ago
I am genuinely pleased that the first time my private correspondence was entered into the public record without my knowledge, it was both grammatically correct and morally unimpeachable
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Juliet Brando
9 days ago
Gone down a weird rabbithole with far-right Facebook slopaganda* about celebrities cancelling things as a result of the New York election result. *I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
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G. Willow Wilson
9 days ago
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
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Kelly
10 days ago
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
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Dr Robert Bohan
10 days ago
Anyone who admires Emily Maitlis needs to read this. Closing the Tavistock clinic & subsequent removal of accessible trans healthcare support for kids is one of the biggest scandals in modern Britain. Emily Maitlis claims her investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
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Emily Maitlis claims her BBC investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
The Tavistock Clinic, which treated under-16s experiencing gender dysphoria, was closed last year following the Cass Review.
https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/emily-maitlis-bbc-probe-closed-gender-clinic-tavistock-503353/
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Smooth Dunk
10 days ago
working at the nyt
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Starbucks Workers United
10 days ago
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say
#NoContractNoCoffee
with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Seva
10 days ago
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
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Stephen Collins
10 days ago
Every ad now
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CarolineJMolloy
10 days ago
Alan Milburn is once again ensconced at the Dept of Health & ripping up organisations thru which we can hold the NHS accountable. One of his first moves as Blair’s Health Sec was replacing Community Health Councils with more toothless orgs, several iterations later & he wants to scrap all together.
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Danny Birchall
11 days ago
Once again, the Labour Party shows just how out of touch it is with ordinary people by launching a campaign website in Latin! We didn't all study at Orxford you know
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Mark Hebden
10 days ago
The casualness Wes Streeting deploys when talking about making 18,000 people redundant should chill anyone to the bone. The man is an absolute sociopath.
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Cethan Leahy
11 days ago
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Dave Vetter
10 days ago
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈
11 days ago
And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.
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Tyler, from the Internet
11 days ago
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Red Pill Junkie
10 days ago
The symbolism here shouldn't be overlooked. In Mexico, "Adelita" was a common name for warrior women in the Revolution.
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