John Appleton

John Appleton

@oddbodd13.bsky.social

Poet, actor, director, photographer. A heathen, conceivably - but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.

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Replying to @fesshole.bsky.social

The late great "Seething" Steven Wells wrote a review of a Rage Against The Machine gig in the 90s where he described how all the very expensive merch sold out within an hour and there was an entire crowd in £25 RATM t-shirts all singing along "fuck you I won't do what you tell me"...

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Anthony Au-Yeung's photo of a flying Tatenda Taibu in action in a T20 international against New Zealand at Auckland on February 11th 2012 was the winner of the 2012 Wisden Photograph of the Year competition

If there is a God, can He send a flood again? I'd quite like a go at ark building.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

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Years ago, Farage commented that there was no room for racists in UKIP. I took it to mean they'd have to join a waiting list. Reform are Continuation UKIP.

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Call me a masochist, but I'm returning to this issue, as I feel it has been poorly understood. Please read the whole thread before responding. First, I hope we can agree that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza and horrific crimes in the West Bank and the wider region.

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In the words of Josiah Hardwood in Blackadder 3, I would rather place my John Thomas in the hands of a lunatic with a pair of scissors than give Grok my credit card details.

Irritated Llama@irritatedllama.bsky.social

They're giving Grok their credit cards over on Shitter! FUCK NO!

Mrs. Tiggywinkle has already appeared on more 50p pieces than Churchill, so what's the problem?

thepokeuk.bsky.social@thepokeuk.bsky.social

Right-wingers getting prickly over hedgehogs replacing Churchill on bank notes must be today’s funniest overreaction www.thepoke.com/2026/10/09/r...

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"I asked a bunch of pretend people created by AI whether AI was a good thing or not" Fucksake. What is this clown doing in a Cabinet post?

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social

The AI minister has used AI-generated synthetic focus groups provided by a private company to test public opinion on AI and other issues The model is trained on data from real-life focus groups

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UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

I can recall an Arsenal fanzine seller around the time of Rio "forgetting" a drug test (and the subsequent FA heel-dragging), advertising his wares with "Read about the new Rio Ferdinand mobile phone...it's big and ugly, has no memory and takes three months to charge."

MrPaulRobinson@mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social

Rio Ferdinand: "Where were Portugal before Cristiano Ronaldo? What have they ever done? Did they even qualify for tournaments?"

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I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.

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👹 Monster was released on this day in 1994. “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?,” “Bang and Blame,” “Strange Currencies,” “Crush With Eyeliner,” “Tongue” — and a run of music videos that makes this one especially fun to look back on. Share your favorite song in the comments…

I know we're all thinking it, but even if Man City get a massive points deduction or relegation several divisions, they'll somehow still finish above Spurs.

Do this at the beginning of next season. Then even if they win every single game, they'll finish on exactly zero.

Enough Of That Now@andygilder.bsky.social

Saracens were relegated for cooking the books in 2020 A one-point deduction for each of the 114 breaches should do the trick

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"As far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals into the biggest bin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly."

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A fun, affordable hobby is: 1. Turning up in random well-to-do Cotswold villages wearing a hi-vis vest with a picture of a wind turbine on it, and a hard hat. 2. Taking measurements of the village green and any other open space, and enthusiastically writing notes on a clipboard.