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@anthhartley.bsky.social

Bouncing around the world like The Littlest Hobo in a #Boro top. #SocialImpact | #GlobalDev | #CommunityDev | #Enviro A writer of sorts. Kids adventure story "The Secrets of Ice Cream Success" - Out Now: bio.site/adhartley

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Think of the endless hours we spent learning the answer to "How did WW1 & WW2 start?"

If there's a silver lining to current events, "Because the President liked to fuck children" will make for a much shorter lesson when learning about how WW3 started.

01.03.2026 04:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Make your brain 3 years younger in 3 months..."

Has the Mail finally cottoned on to the fact that 99% of the far right voters that make up their readership are closer to death than birth?

28.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just fantastic!

28.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another amazing wee beastie as I locked up this evening. Much smaller than the last one. This is a Pale Tussock Moth. Just an inch long, but fantastic and fluffy.

#Nature

27.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"I accept the electorate are ready for change..." says #Starmer, 18 months after he was elected by that very electorate to change things, which he hasn't.

27.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very 🤣

It's an astounding statement from a party leader. Trump levels of self delusion. She's fitting neatly into the increasingly demented shitshow of Tory leaders of the past 15 years.

Oh for the days when the worst you could say was they were self serving cowards that shagged dead pigs.

27.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"The campaign of hatred waged by the people of the Shire against the peace loving Orc Community is ripping Middle Earth apart, and only my "Spikes Through Heads" party, can prevent Men, Elves & Wizards from joining them in destroying all we hold dear."

Statement from Lord Sauron, Member for Mordor.

27.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Beware #Acer laptops...

They get acne. 🤣

27.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We all could see that the #Labour desperation to chase far right votes was dumb as fuck.

I wonder if they'll finally see that themselves now?

Probably not. There'll be excuses.

Anyway. Well done @greenparty.org.uk

27.02.2026 05:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sad news about Rob Grant. I was 12 when #RedDwarf came out, the perfect age to find a TV show that your parents didn't know of (I was too young to have that opportunity with The Young Ones.) It had a big influence on me.

I might pick up the novels tonight. Highly recommend if you haven't read them.

27.02.2026 03:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

26.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 38722    🔁 16444    💬 1829    📌 1081
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A Swallowtail moth came to say hi just now. Love these wee beasties. Sadly you only really see them this close when they're near their end.

FYI, I have large hands, so you can tell how big it is.

#Nature

24.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder if the real loss at Coventry wasn't the 3 points or even top spot, but the pretty clear game plan laid out on how to disrupt and nullify our tactics, which every other team will have noted.

I hope I'm wrong, but this could be a really scrappy run in.

#Boro #UTB

21.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I mean, a 6 point gap to 3rd isn't something to grumble about, yet this does seem like a wasted opportunity.

But, the crazy old Championship struck again and results worked out for us.

74% possession, man! 🤦🏻

#UTB #Boro

21.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The new series of Blankety Blank looks shit.

20.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, true. And we rushed nearly everything we did. We attack fast, but normally it looks a lot more measured than last night. The tempo was off.

But it was a cracking match.

17.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tell you what, no matter the result, the Cov v #Boro game was a load better than half the Premier League games I've seen this season.

Whoever goes up will have deserved it, but it'll be a shame if these two don't take the automatic spots.

#UTB

17.02.2026 05:16 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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You Can't Make This Up: Vote 💙!!

16.02.2026 20:24 — 👍 143    🔁 55    💬 28    📌 14
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How SeAH Wind's biggest order was cancelled and why it's important The only tenant on Teesworks appears to be facing a storm brewing as chief exec replaced and production delayed

This week it came out that Teesworks' only tenant has lost its biggest contract because it can't supply it.

I look into what's happened, as well as the reaction to it from the Tees Valley mayor, Ben Houchen.

15.02.2026 08:04 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

I'm sad for what they were. It's all they deserve for what they are.

Their original versions of Punk and Jackhammer hitting Malaysia in 2011 (alongside Rogue and Stone breweries) was a literal game changer for craft beer in a Muslim majority country.

It's been downhill since then 😕

14.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"

A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"

Roses are red,
These times are quite trying

14.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 1896    🔁 621    💬 9    📌 13

Ok, so this #CalcuttaCup is going to be one of "those" games. Lol.

24 - 10 and yet Loving it.

#M6N #RugbyUnion

14.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Controversy & accusations of cheating in the world's slowest & most gentile sport. Brilliant

My wife just walked in to hear the commentator say "The double touching of the Canadians is a concern" and gave me a WTF? look 🤣

The Olympics never disappoints #Curling #WinterOlympics #Canada #DoubleTouch

14.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission 👏

14.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 1365    🔁 300    💬 43    📌 13
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For the four people who used our guide to building a DIY Epstein search engine:

it's now expanded with an AI "agentic" UI, where you ask a question & it does a bunch of research, and comes back with a response, linking to documents.

When it's good it's very good:

12.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 67    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2

Interestingly and humourously, in Malaysia, in their language Bahasa Malayu, the word Farage literally means vagina.

11.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Behind-the-Scenes at an EFL Match  - Day 13
YouTube video by BFordLancer Behind-the-Scenes at an EFL Match - Day 13

Fun video of Sheff U v #Boro from American YouTuber Jake Barford (BFordLancer) trying to watch 21 matches in 21 days. Includes a brief interview with Aidan Morris at the end. He's also donating $100 to charity for every goal he sees. Good luck to the lad. #UTB @mfc.co.uk

youtu.be/SNdcWqA-IG0?...

11.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Labour failing miserably to read the room as MPs look after their own interests rather than those of the constituents they represent.

Simply, wrong decision.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social #GrubbyPolitics

11.02.2026 03:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Middlesbrough: Kim Hellberg's With 31 points from his 14 games in charge, Kim Hellberg has overseen a 12-point swing for Middlesbrough over previous Championship leaders Coventry City.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

#Boro #UTB

11.02.2026 01:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0