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Fra-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la Moldaschl (To 'deck the halls')
2 days ago
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but 1998 had the same dates on the same days as 2026 will, and there are myriad craptastic 90s calanders on ebay for your enjoyment. I've personally ordered a 1998 Star Trek original series one for myself but you do you 😘
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Repeating Calendar – years equal to 2026
Find calendar years that start on the same day and have the same number of days as 2026 or any other year
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/repeating.html?year=2026
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Ffs, reeled in by a good story again it looks like
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Dan Davies
2 days ago
It really feels like everyone had written a "bond market vigilantes destroy flailing Chancellor who is the new Liz Truss" piece and is really spitting mad that they had to throw it away
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Harry Wallop
2 days ago
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s
@thetimes.com
about Tom Stoppard
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Adam Corlett
4 days ago
Don't Panic: Britain is not broken. The UK can do better, but we shouldn't be too gloomy about things. If you look at the stats, there's a lot to be happy with (including how happy we are):
adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...
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Don’t Panic: Britain is not broken – adamcorlett.com
https://adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/dont-panic-britain-is-not-broken/
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Paul McNamara
5 days ago
Sought and found asylum in the UK
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I loved The Angry Corrie and once got a letter published in it, probably by means of employing the phrase ‘the time-honoured practice of sheep-to-sheep navigation’. RIP.
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Peter Walker
8 days ago
So it looks like Rachel Reeves has *not* abolished or cut back the cycle to work scheme. Perhaps she has read the Treasury's own 2023 assessment of the scheme, which found that in terms of creating modal shift, and thus boosting public health, it is very, very effective.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Evaluation of the Cycle to Work Scheme: quantitative and qualitative research
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-cycle-to-work-scheme/evaluation-of-the-cycle-to-work-scheme-quantitative-and-qualitative-research
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Tamar
10 days ago
And yet the person literally responsible for maintaining law and order is going around claiming that the sort of people who cause headaches for their entire community are actually the beating heart of their community, driven to unfortunate but understandable despair bc there are too many immigrants
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My boiler: Heat up? Let’s think… nah. Can’t be arsed mate. Fault code 76 and freeze your nads off, that’s all you’re getting. Also my boiler. Hello Mr Boiler Repairer, what can I do for you sir? Heat up? The water *and* the radiators? Delighted to sir. An absolute pleasure. Me? Never felt better.
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Mark L
9 days ago
Petula Clark would only focus on central urban civilisation..
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Charles Johnson
10 days ago
i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Fifteen Years
https://xkcd.com/3172/
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The Mary Rose Museum
10 days ago
Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026? The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull!
#PHDOpportunities
Interested? -
maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
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Jobs and volunteering - Mary Rose
Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.
https://maryrose.org/about-the-trust/recruitment/
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Dan Sohege
14 days ago
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
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https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edda450b16caf978153d8/Command_Paper_final_-_reviewed7.pdf
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Tom Cox
18 days ago
I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
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This is very good, and I hope those with the time and energy to fight what has happened to Labour from within will be able to try and make it happen.
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Owler Nook
14 days ago
Well this is awful.
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Greater Manchester campaigners join millions globally to call for climate justice – as far right thugs attack child-led march
https://www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/blog/greater-manchester-campaigners-join-millions-globally-to-call-for-climate-justice-as-far-right-thugs-attack-child-led-march/
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Steven Bailey
15 days ago
When I arrive at the party
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Sarah Murphy
14 days ago
Whether Farage is racist “depends on how you define it” apparently. Oxford dictionary definition: “the belief one's own race is superior to others, which leads to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people of a different race/ethnicity” Racist then.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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CEEFAUX
16 days ago
In case you're wondering what
#lineofduty
series 7 will be about, here are some *possible* spoilers
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European Sleeper
16 days ago
Become a co-owner of
#EuropeanSleeper
and get a free ticket for our first night train from Paris to Berlin! Buy 7 or more shares (min. €980) and receive an invitation for a free return ticket on the very first festive departure. More info 👉️
www.europeansleeper.eu/invest
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Chris Grey
16 days ago
This is really very good not least because, apart from its specific proposals, it actually articulates a coherent economic *strategy* - something which the UK hasn't had for a long time.
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Adam Bienkov
18 days ago
2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
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Moose Allain
17 days ago
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
17 days ago
It is just false to say that " We have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" Opposition parties should write to the Permanent Secretary and National Statistician about this
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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How many people claim asylum in the UK?
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-june-2025/how-many-people-claim-asylum-in-the-uk
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Calum Weir
17 days ago
Yesterday, we put out a report on the most important issues to voters. We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from
@yougov.co.uk
). But that doesn't tell the full story. Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):
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Ian Dunt
17 days ago
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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Bread and Rosie
18 days ago
You can't police away behaviours that are a consequence of desperation and trying to only makes those people more desperate.
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Currently drafting the same letter
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Lee D
19 days ago
At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window… It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
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100% truth
manchestermill.co.uk/192-manchest...
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How the 192 became Manchester’s muse
The bus route that became a cornerstone of Mancunian life
https://manchestermill.co.uk/192-manchester-stockport-busiest-bus/
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Dan Sohege
19 days ago
I cannot stress this enough, as with Patel, Braverman, Sunak et al, do not bring Mahmood's background or religion into your arguments against policies. Racism is racism, no matter how "progressive" you think you make it sound. Counter the ideas, the inhumanity, the cruelty.
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Dan Davies
21 days ago
if you want a single earner household to be viable like it used to be, that is a hell of a lot of things you need to change about the whole economy, trying to do it just by housing construction is going to be really expensive and trying to do it just by planning deregulation likely impossible
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Ash
21 days ago
Nobody actually knows what ISO numbers mean You can just say something is against ISO46990 and they'll be like hmmm that seems right
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Not claiming that this unusual faint reddishness in the northern sky is aurora… but not NOT claiming that it might be aurora.
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Actual footage of me trying to configure an AWS Elastic Beanstalk auto scaling group
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Leo Murray
24 days ago
We are asking as nicely as possible, by buying up all the ad space at Southwark Station, opposite TfL’s HQ (& office of the deputy mayor for transport
@sebdance.bsky.social
) during COP, for this beautiful poster series revisiting vintage tobacco advertising from before it was banned
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Rodney Marques
24 days ago
Love how Trump threatens to sue people for the biggest number he knows. If anyone tells him about two billion the BBC are in trouble
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Help! What’s this jazz tune called? Had it in my brain all day but blank on name and artist. Probably mid Sixties Joe Henderson / Freddie Hubbard kind of vibe? May not be correct key, obvs.
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Jessica Elgot
24 days ago
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
25 days ago
Thread
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George Monbiot
29 days ago
7. It should be noted that not all rural revivalists were on the far right. Lord of the Rings is a rural revivalist fantasy. A society of small farmers overthrows urban industrialism and restores a feudal aristocracy. The Shire is Wallop’s ideal society as much as Tolkein’s.
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McSweeney's
26 days ago
"There is a particular look about a teenage boy that lets you know what kind of man he’ll be. A certain fullness of lips, a frank sensuality in his gaze. We all know what the word for that is, but it’s not polite to use it until he’s proven he’s that kind of boy."
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If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women
There is a particular look about a teenage boy that lets you know what kind of man he’ll be. A certain fullness of lips, a frank sensuality in his ...
https://buff.ly/cocVSpz
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Peaks & Puddles 🚲
26 days ago
⛔️ Peak Forest Canal: vital towpath cycle route closed for many weeks south of Marple Maps, tips, problems, end date. 👇
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Peak Forest Canal: vital towpath cycle route closed
A complete closure of the Peak Forest Canal towpath south of Marple is in place for many weeks ahead, blocking a vital safe route for cycling between
https://www.peaksandpuddles.com/blog/2025/11/08/peak-forest-canal-vital-towpath-cycle-route-closed
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Carl Zimmer
27 days ago
On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from
@matthewcobb.bsky.social
and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5
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There’s a bit of a Nineties Sixties revival revival afoot, isn’t there?
27 days ago
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Stephen Collins
27 days ago
AI peas peas with AI
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/nov/07/give-peas-a-chance-even-ai-peas-the-stephen-collins-cartoon
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James Murray
27 days ago
In yet more 'why is Britain pursuing net zero when no one else is', India's electricity capacity is now over 50 per cent low carbon and it just saw peak renewables generation deliver half the country's power.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4521481...
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'Historic milestone': India's renewables generation peaks to cover over half of power demand
India's Ministry of Power confirms July 29th record, which underscores the 'steady progress' nation is making towards its clean energy and climate goals
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4521481/historic-milestone-indias-renewables-generation-peaks-cover-half-power-demand
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Paul Fairie
28 days ago
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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