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@miketurner.bsky.social

Senior Writer for Only Connect, QI Elf, and all round quizzer and puzzler. Not an American politician

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When you try to do comedy but you've never seen Only Connect www.instagram.com/reel/DJzsOvx...

23.05.2025 10:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I did on multiple occasions. I got bunny hops, the magic button, and on one occasion my mother had written in asking for 'a Highland fling'. The only time I have ever seen a puppet look confused

14.05.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have the best time. It's a great country

16.04.2025 11:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Breakfast in Denmark, lunch in Sweden, dinner in the UK. Busy day

16.04.2025 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sadly I don't know. By the way, I'm not a politician ๐Ÿ™‚

10.04.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh well, if the TV industry dies, at least I'll have a new theme park to work at

09.04.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No worries. You are not the first! At least you are more polite than most people ๐Ÿ˜„

02.04.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I completely agree with you. Also, I'm not a politician - I'm a writer from the UK ๐Ÿ™‚

02.04.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So, if this 'choose a bit of the world that isn't yours' thing is a thing, can we have Hawaii?

25.03.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collectionโ€™s current iteration.

Here's the books which have been, to put it bluntly, stolen by AI, including QI and Only Connect books www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

20.03.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watching episode one of #adolescence with my jaw on the floor. I really hope there's a behind the scenes to show how it was filmed. Amazing

16.03.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have no idea who might win Eurovision. No clue. Maybe the year for something unexpected, like Ukraine or the UK. Switzerland may be in with a shout for the repeat #Eurovision

15.03.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jeopardy! | Series 2 Preview (ITV1) The UK version of quiz formatย Jeopardy!, which is hosted byย Stephen Fry, returns to ITV1 this month for its second series. Series one went out as part of ITVโ€™s daytime schedule early last year, launch...

Daytime quiz #Jeopardy #JeopardyUK returns to ITV for brand new series, hosted again by Stephen Fry. More details:

www.tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-jeop...

15.03.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

France are now the only country yet to release their Eurovision song. It says a lot for this year's competition that France are third favourite to win #Eurovision

14.03.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As if we'd be so obvious #onlyconnect

11.03.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...and none of them qualified

09.03.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In my opinion, the best five songs in Eurovision are all from Portugal. It will be interesting to see who they pick in the final tonight #Eurovision

08.03.2025 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A grand final and the 500th episode all rolled into one. Tonight at 8 on BBC2 ##onlyconnect

03.03.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cereal offenders: Tony the Tiger begs furries to stop tweeting him porn Kelloggโ€™s Frosties mascot asked social media users to โ€˜keep things gr-r-reatโ€™ after being inundated with lewd anthropomorphic images

In 2016, Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger had to ask followers to stop tweeting him anthropomorphic animal porn www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

03.03.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm surprised he doesn't want to rename it 'American'

28.02.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I never realised that 'sister act' was a term for a singing group of female siblings until I had to google just now to work out what the pun was. I always assumed the title was because she was pretending to be a nun. Makes it even more clever

25.02.2025 11:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The CRA are standing with all creators and performers, sending a clear message to UK Government; Make it Fair - stop siding with big tech and ensure that creators are fairly rewarded when their work is used to train AI. #makeitfair #PaytheCreator. Read more: www.creatorsrightsalliance.org

25.02.2025 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 58    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was genius Alex

24.02.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does anyone know what number we are up to with San Marino? Is anyone actually keeping count? #eurovision

22.02.2025 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was DELIGHTED to see a newspaper listing describe last week's episode of Only Connect as "two teams battling to make the third place play-off".

The last opportunity to qualify for that key match is TONIGHT AT 8pm on BBC Two. (And whichever team doesn't make it will be in the final).

17.02.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 225    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

One is lighter than the other

17.02.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No worries. I feel your pain

09.02.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Strong half, lads ๐Ÿ‘Š

09.02.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hello. Thank you for your message. Just to let you know I am a writer in the UK and not a US politician (I agree about Musk though!)

09.02.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Laika Party reminds me a lot of I Wrote a Song but in a slightly different order #eurovision

08.02.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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