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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Wrote THE CHAIN 🔗 1,000 British quiz questions in one unbroken chain: each answer is the next question.&#xA;📚 Book: https://link.amazon/B01ptDp6Q #ad&#xA;⏰ Daily chain: thechainquiz.co.uk&#xA;&#xA;UK politics, comedy, TV and nostalgia. On a radio near you, probably.</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social</link><title>@markreckons.bsky.social - Mark Thompson</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzldo62kes2s</link><description>The first box of author copies just arrived. Quite a moment for a first-time author.&#xA;&#xA;If you&#39;ve been playing the daily chain at thechainquiz.co.uk, the entire book is the same idea: a quiz chain where each answer leads to the next question. Only 1,000 questions long!&#xA;&#xA;link.amazon/B01ptDp6Q #ad</description><pubDate>05 Nov 2026 16:58 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzldo62kes2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzl22ygkak2s</link><description>Rightly so! I can&#39;t imagine how badly I&#39;d do on a Hungarian quiz chain!&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>05 Nov 2026 14:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzl22ygkak2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzkirq6a5224</link><description>Today&#39;s Chain has a theme: five people who all turned down, or handed back, a British honour 🎖️&#xA;&#xA;Five questions, every answer leads to the next. How many can you get?&#xA;&#xA;And as usual the first question is formed from the final answer yesterday.&#xA;&#xA;thechainquiz.co.uk&#xA;https://thechainquiz.co.uk</description><pubDate>05 Nov 2026 08:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzkirq6a5224</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzkezwkcas24</link><description>Over 1,700 games of the daily Chain played since Tuesday&#39;s launch. Thank you!&#xA;&#xA;Remember, remember the fifth of November. But if you forgot Tuesday or Wednesday, the Archive button (📅) at the top lets you play the days you missed.&#xA;&#xA;Five chained questions a day, free: thechainquiz.co.uk&#xA;https://thechainquiz.co.uk</description><pubDate>05 Nov 2026 07:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzkezwkcas24</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzkeboq6n62m</link><description>New from me on Political Sandbox:&#xA;&#xA;The People&#39;s Front of Judea&#xA;&#xA;Reform is furious that Restore is splitting the vote on the right. That&#39;s pretty rich from a party whose entire existence is to split the vote on the right.&#xA;&#xA;https://politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the-peoples-front-of-judea</description><pubDate>05 Nov 2026 07:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzkeboq6n62m</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzislcroe227</link><description>I didn&#39;t even realise Katie Hopkins was still A Thing&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 16:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzislcroe227</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mziiqfwqsk27</link><description>This. Learn from Merrick Garland&#39;s mistakes.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 13:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mziiqfwqsk27</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzihjnweds2k</link><description>Watched the first episode of The Mighty Boosh with my 12 year old son yesterday. He&#39;d liked Noel Fielding on Taskmaster we&#39;ve been catching up with so I thought I&#39;d try him out on TMB. His verdict? &#34;It&#39;s a bit surreal isn&#39;t it?&#34;. 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Two streak alert :)&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 12:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzicojoink2i</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzhy6tdfks2w</link><description>It&#39;s out. THE CHAIN: 1,000 British pub-quiz questions in one unbroken chain, where every answer is the subject of the next question.&#xA;&#xA;Paperback, £9.99. #ad (it&#39;s an affiliate link): link.amazon/B01ptDp6Q&#xA;&#xA;How it works and how to play it, in the thread below 🧵&#xA;https://link.amazon/B01ptDp6Q</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 08:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhy6tdfks2w</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzhx3keaa22p</link><description>Excellent work. I didn&#39;t realise but I guess even superheroes need a bit of downtime.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 08:35 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhx3keaa22p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzhvqogftc2f</link><description>I completed The Chain for 04/11/2026 -&#xA;🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨 5/5&#xA;Streak: 2&#xA;I got my 5 a day in!&#xA;thechainquiz.co.uk&#xA;https://thechainquiz.co.uk</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 08:11 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ialdio22phiehrabh2qsoect/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhvqogftc2f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/markreckons.bsky.social/post/3mzhhhx6m2s27</link><description>Acton projected to win Ohio. That&#39;s a really important result for the future of US campaigning. 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