Simon Wheatley
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Coming to you from Manchester, UK. Product person. Walker, cook, nerd.
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www.lidl.co.uk/p/duff-beer-...
Lidl is selling Duff!
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DUFF | Beer 4.9% 4 x 500ml - Lidl
Beer 4.9% 4 x 500ml - 4.99⬠(04.06.2026)
https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/duff-beer-4-9-4-x-500ml/p10048702
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Sam Freedman
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They're building an amazing rollercoaster at Rachel Reeves World called "OBR forecast". Just when you think it's finishing there's a huge drop called "the Strait of Hormuz".
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Shashank Joshi
6 days ago
Very sorry to see that Sir Alex Younger has died of cancer, aged just 62. Younger's wife 'was shocked that he had never told his mother he was a spy, and so he did. āYes, darling, so was I,ā his mother replied.'
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
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Sir Alex Younger obituary: long-serving head of MI6
Charming and self-effacing British spy chief with an inner steel
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/sir-alex-younger-obituary-death-d2mxdmcn6
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Is this good?
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7 days ago
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Jerry Chen
7 days ago
(mario during a breakup) it's not you, it's a-me, mario
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Marie Le Conte
8 days ago
few people on here said that I wasn't promoting the Outsiders Arts Club enough so: hello! I organise a quarterly night in London that has music and free booze and a fun talk and you can buy cool pieces of original art for between £200 and £500! next one is on June 16! come!
outsidersartsclub.com
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Will Cooling
8 days ago
"Please can you get off the Xbox, I want to play Street Fighter"
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Adam Drummond
8 days ago
"If you don't choose something then you can't complain if you don't like what I've cooked"
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Rob Cruickshank
8 days ago
"Moooo, destination is on the left"
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WTF eBay?
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As always māfriend
@edcaesar.bsky.social
provides an enthralling story, this time of a stunt pilot hunting Russian drones over Ukraine:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Stunt Pilot Hunting Russian Drones
A Ukrainian flying ace is leveraging his aerobatics skills to protect his countrymen from nightly attacks.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/01/the-stunt-pilot-hunting-russian-drones
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Hetan Shah
13 days ago
āWe are going to be offering A KIDSā MENU this summer featuring lobster, steak au poivre, oysters, offal, snailsā Restaurant owners being creative in how they take use the VAT advantage on ākids mealsā - as profiled by
@londoncentric.media
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-hea...
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My Poem/1 AI rhyming clock by
@genmon.fyi
is here everybody!
13 days ago
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Huge if true.
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Origin Story
20 days ago
How did J.K. Rowling go from the world's most beloved author to its most divisive? In this week's episode
@iandunt.bsky.social
and
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
ask what Rowlingās early life can tell us about the path she has taken over the last decade. Listen / watch ā”ļø
linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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Mark Chadbourn
20 days ago
Nine.
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Taliban legalise child marriage for girls as young as nine ā The Times and The Sunday Times
The Taliban have legalised child marriage and declared that the silence of a āvirgin girlā who has reached puberty can be interpreted as marital consent. According to an official document titled Princ...
https://apple.news/AJV1uonUzTBiRwst1G0ta8A
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Gee, thanks eBay
21 days ago
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Katie Mack
30 days ago
A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because itās āobjective.ā In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.
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Marie Le Conte
30 days ago
never not delighted to be able to repost one of my all-time favourite New Yorker pieces
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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No photo could do it justice, but the very top branches of the copper beech tree in the road behind are catching the dying rays of the setting sun, illuminated and dancing with a light wind against the dark clouds.
about 1 month ago
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Jack Tindale
about 1 month ago
In New Mexico, wonderfully, if it's tied, the two candidates play a single hand of poker.
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Tom Hunter
about 1 month ago
Jumpscare at the bottom when itās revealed Iāve stood in an election by mistake
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shauna
about 1 month ago
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
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Matt LeMay
about 1 month ago
Anyone following me interested in vintage mens suiting? I have a fun new toy I'm building to share....
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Moose Allain
about 1 month ago
Wrens are usually solitary birds but when itās cold they will sometimes huddle together for warmth. Some people call this a āherdā but technically itās known as a āsceneā. Thatās because chilled wren should be āsceneā and not āherdā.
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Christopher Miller
about 1 month ago
āIām fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.ā Ukraine is reshaping warfare through its use of drones. Yet human operators remain at the controls. For
@ftweekend.com
, I profiled one Ukrainian FPV drone pilot to examine the personal costs.
www.ft.com/content/95f5...
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Mayday Trippe
about 1 month ago
me when i get shot
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Cosmos Lionheart
about 1 month ago
nice try, brian wilson but none of my pets have ever made any of these sounds
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John Oxley
about 1 month ago
For a time I worked in a shared office space. Various companies each had a floor. The gents was on the back stairs, and sound travelled. Once heard someone a couple of floors below on the phone saying "Technically, we haven't laundered any blood diamonds".
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On a bus to the Trafford Centre surrounded by The Youth. The lads behind are discussing their hair types and care requirements.
about 1 month ago
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Marie Le Conte
about 1 month ago
"but aside from that,"
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Jessica Elgot
about 1 month ago
I think a lot of MPs react very negatively when they get to Westminster when they first arrive (understandably so) and they react against things like the chamber set-up or the bars but what is really underlying that feeling is āoh shit I have no power.ā
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Jay Rayner
about 1 month ago
Really? I assumed it was a beef with some editor whoād savaged his copy.
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Abigail Nussbaum
about 1 month ago
I would go further: there are vanishingly few examples in history of actual false flag attacks, and very many of state actors taking advantage of real attacks to pursue their preexisting agenda.
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about 1 month ago
I don't get why a bunch of people on BlueSky instantly concluded this assassination attempt was fake? I mean, like, I guess it could be, wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened ever. But probably not, surely? What would even be the point of that? Just - why the weird conspiracy brain stuff?
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Dr Ian McCormick
about 1 month ago
"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."
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FROVO
about 2 months ago
WAITER: would you care for dessert JEFF: iāll have the jello GEOFF: iāll have the geollo JEFF: jesus christ not this again GEOFF: geosus christ
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Kate Allen
about 2 months ago
The most important dividing line within couples is Team Early To The Airport versus Team Late To The Airport. I seriously believe you should be able to filter for it on dating websites. (I am also Team ETTA, obvs).
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Dr Jo Kershaw
about 2 months ago
Iām grateful for the alt text, because my pre-caffeinated thought was āthe pope has a foot-operated lightsaber now?ā
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Matt Webb šøš¼šø
3 months ago
Matt Jones on agentic coding and the nature of time A roller-coaster, brain fizzing read (donāt miss the colophon too) The takeaway, for me > Punctuality was the virtue of the electric age; throughput is the virtue of the agentic one.
petafloptimism.com/2026/03/14/g...
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Gas Town and Bullet Hell
Warning: a collection of half-formed thoughts about time, screens, AI agents, and a surprisingly relevant Japanese arcade genre. This started with a phrase inĀ Azeem Azharās piece about his AIā¦
https://petafloptimism.com/2026/03/14/gas-town-and-bullet-hell/
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Happy Tom Waits and Massive Attack Collab Day to all who celebrate! š
about 2 months ago
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Jerry Chen
about 2 months ago
allbirdsgpt: you're abshoelutely correct
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Pavel
about 2 months ago
millennial: iykyk plato: NOT SO FAST
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Norcross
about 2 months ago
nothing is real anymore.
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Paul F. Tompkins
about 2 months ago
I canāt say more now as it could jeopardize the entire project but I am very close to developing something that WILL beat a Jet2 Holiday
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Zoë Grünewald
about 2 months ago
Is space sexist? Is the shark in Jaws still worth your time? And many more pressing questions asked and answered in the latest episode of Oh God, What Now?....
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Happy for ya, Hungary ššŗ ā¤ļø
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Niko Stratis
about 2 months ago
"but did you consider...." yes i made this one too don't worry.
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