Awkward Seán

Never forget!

Thank you. Here's an example of one of the correct versions: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A friend can't make it so just listed a ticket for Half Man Half Biscuit at Oxford on Friday. #hmhb secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E00635FC...

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Just heard my first fireworks of the season. Because of course you'd have them on Monday the 19th October, everyone remembers the rhyme, don't they? Thankfully they are too distant to cause Ginny any real distress but a reminder of the anxiety for her at this time of year. Fuck fireworks.

Five hen harrier chicks found dead on a grouse moor had injuries consistent with stabbing . . . YES , stabbing . Email your ‘victim impact statement’ to gamebirds@defra.gov.uk (subject: Call for Evidence) by 1 Nov . It can't go on . raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/16/p...

I trust this “rival” inquiry about as much as I would trust anything run by one of Toby Young’s (former?) employees. Freddie Attenborough who runs CAF used to work for Young (Young’s business partner, Noah Carl, was sacked from Cambridge for promoting eugenics). www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

“No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque” Ministers have publicly committed to open up data on land ownership - but the Land Registry themselves are dragging their feet. Tag your MP: let’s finally reveal who owns England! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Green Hop season is in full swing. This is Gadds' Green Hop Ale which is up to Gadds' usual exceptional standard and packed of Kent Crisps. The lunch of kings. #caskale #beer

2026 is running at least 1.1C warmer than any other year at least on record. Note all of the top 10 warmest are within last 23 years in near 80 year record at LHR. #climate #London (2/2)

Excellent use of FoI by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social reveals some large discrepancies in the so-called 'official' statistics on Pheasant rear & release in England. What? The UK gamebird shooting industry not complying with the law? Shurely shome mishtake. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/09/21/r...

Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.

britmap · 16 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 100 ● 100 ● 100 ◐ 53 Total: 859/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 3 Buggered it on the last one.

Just finished this by @andrewhunterm.bsky.social and have to say it's annoying good. How can an apparent introvert have so many austentatiously creative talents?

When reading a hardback, should I leave the dust cover on?

Wordle 1,896 4/6* ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 They seem to be getting a bit desperate lately

For those of you who are so quick to play the generation game, remember, Dolly was a Boomer.

Didnt realise you'd been one of the victims shafted by Unbound. As I'm sure you're aware @alicefraser.bsky.social and @thebugle.bsky.social were another. Alice tells her story here. Really worth a listen/watch. youtu.be/8l73x6t27U4?...

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One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

But.. but.. it's just summer.

In Scotland for a couple of days this week. Looked at the weather forecast and they keep talking about something called r..r.. ray.. reyn.. rane. ? Any ideas?

@angelaeagle1.bsky.social This is South East Water's response to water shortages for the elderly and vulnerable. If my mother could even lift them she would be unable to open them 🤬. Privatisation has been a disaster. It should be at the top of political agenda.

What a wonderful, gentle summer's day. Fluffy clouds, slight breeze, low 20s Celsius. So few of them this year it feels like a treat and a throwback 🌤

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

And yet many deliberately-set moorland fires ALSO get out of control, causing wildfires. Even where they don’t, they dry out moorland soils and encourage the growth of monocultures (heather, Molinia) thereby making future wildfires more likely. That’s why moorland burning is restricted (‘banned’)

For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This is genuinely scary. It is not 'just summer'

I'll try again, this time without my address clearly visible on her name tag!

Just in case there is anyone here still wondering if Long Covid is real, here is a message from a friend of 40-odd years. He is (was?) a GP who worked all through the pandemic including many visits to care homes. He has been battling illness since, and his family and I nearly lost him last week.

I keep seeing messages from Andy Burnham about 'doing things differently'. Here's a thought, don't just do the same things differently, DO DIFFERENT THINGS!

My new Clematis has flowered. I knew it was meant to be blue but...

Wordle 1,851 2/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Finally it's happened, I thought. But no. Then stiill need some luck on line 2.

I am so proud of these😊. Onions have long been my nemesis in the veg growing world. Don't know why but have never been able to grow very good bulb onions. Usually they just bolt, but not this year despite (or possibly because of) the heat and dry. Variety Rose de Roscoff (aka Keravel Pink)

I live in Clacton and have been posting this plea everywhere today.

Why does the big jar of Marmite taste less Marmite-y than the little jar?

I'll take that, given the locations. www.maptap.gg June 20 95🏅 92🏆 88🎉 94🏅 95🏅 Final score: 930

This song about an ageing football hooligan with dementia, being placed in a care home by his wife, might just have the most moving and goose-bump inducing lyrics ever written. If that sounds odd please indulge me and listen just once. #hmhb music.youtube.com/watch?v=jv64...

Things that irritate #2865 Cafés never offering cream with coffee. Coffee can now be made in a thousand different ways but simple coffee with cream is never available. I do not mean 'creamer' but actual dairy (or vegan) cream.

Allow me. Christ, that sun's hot. #hmhb

Icelandic billionaire may leave UK due to ‘anti-wealth taxes’