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Andy B

@andyb505.eurosky.social
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Music, food, bread baking, wine, beer, movies, books, sport, #SaintsFC and maybe a little politics. Retired IT consultant living on the North Cornwall coast. UK.

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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
So the Prime Minister has thanked the football club that "systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade" for the money they have put into Manchester. 😳 OK, 🥴
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 1972 this was the sort of gig you could go to at a Pub in suburban London. Incredible.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Listening to a playlist of music from 1971. Man, what a year for music! Close contender with 1972 for best year for “pop” music ever. (IMHO) (Yes, I was a teenager then)
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
No expectations for England tonight. Against World and European champions, treat it as a learning experience. #football
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Blue Danube sequence 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) It’s worth noting that principal photography on this movie started in 1965, the same year The Beatles recorded 'Rubber Soul'. That the special effects stand up so well even now is incredible. #StanleyKubrick
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
#Saintsfc fans watching the Man City reporting. 👀 🤔
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s Negroni week (this is a Figroni made with local fig gin and local amari)
A Figroni and a glass of champagne.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s a Murder!
A Murder of crows in some trees.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
This Headingly pitch looks a bit of a batting pitch. #cricket
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
It was a lovely autumn morning this morning so took coffee and cake to the beach.
A picture of a sunny Autumn morning on the Camel Estuary in Cornwall, UK.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Blimey, I actually quite like a James Blunt track! 😬😳😕
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
How’s your Sunday going. We are ¾ of the way home on a five and a half hour drive and I’ve just ordered 2 door stops to pick up from Screwfix on the way. Living my best life”best life” 😁
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
First visit to Gloucester (S) services today. I see why people rave about it. Doorstep bacon sandwich to die for. Lovely coffee. Friendly service. Some excellent fresh food in the farm shop. Clean and tidy. A pleasure to visit, unlike other motorway services.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed Sheeran still sitting on that fence then.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Been in Cambridge for a few days. Have had three terrific meals. All really good value (to me anyway). If you avoid the tourist traps and get lucky on the booking systems (we had to book all three places months in advance) it’s a great city to eat and drink in.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Saw Pressure. Definitely worth a couple of hours of your time.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Birthday gift from my very thoughtful son. @nigetassell.bsky.social
The book truly gifted kids by Nige Tassell. About the band Prefab Sprout.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Well, I certainly wasn’t expecting that! #SILOSeasonCloser
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Bought a shirt a few weeks ago that I really liked. Went back to shop, none left. Try website, nowhere to be seen. Give up. Two days later, email from company with exact shirt now in sale (even though it was not on website at all 2 days earlier!). Two ordered. Result.
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vinilo record store @vinilorecstore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just added 6 extra pages of records to the sale. vinilo.co.uk/collections/...
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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Come on folks - this is a priceless asset that we will LOSE if the money is not raised in the next ten days!!! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema...
crowdfunder.co.uk
The Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOME
After 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it!
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vinilo record store @vinilorecstore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
THE BIG VINILO SALE IS LIVE! We’ve dropped prices on loads of records and CDs. Have a dig and see what you find - once they’re gone, they’re gone. vinilo.co.uk/collections/... @cheapindievinyl.bsky.social
vinilo.co.uk
Sale
Sale Items: Some sale items may show minor cosmetic wear from extended time on display or in racks Light marks or handling wear may be present Split seams are not considered a faulty record All sale i...
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Well Done Alfie Hewitt. US Open champion! #Tennis
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Blimey #SaintsFC are really on a roll results wise. What’s the betting the manager now gets banned for 6 months, or will they wait until Saints are in the play off places? (Cynical, Moi? 😀)
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has now matched Ben Delo's record-breaking £36m donation to Reform, months after Nigel Farage's party promised to slash crypto sales taxes in half Reform UK is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the crypto industry www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
adambienkov.co.uk
Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
That drone show recreating the twin towers was quite something.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago today. Lunchtime in the pub drinking champagne celebrating being awarded a massive IT contract. Then someone say’s there has been an incident in New York. A day, and images, I will never forget.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anakin: This AI will kill us all
Padme: So you're gonna stop developing it, right?
Anakin: ...
Padme: So you're gonna stop developing it, right?
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Don’t think this test match is going to four or five days! 😳
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Woke up and they are still playing tennis in New York! Absolutely ridiculous. But anyway, Come On Carlos!
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
I’ve said for a long long time that #SaintsFC are too slow in their build up play. Well not tonight. Two well taken goals after quick build up play. Very good half.
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I've organised what I think is a great programme of food-related events for this year's @burylitfest.bsky.social. We have a special offer running on tickets right now and I'd so love you to attend. www.burylitfest.co.uk/food-programme
The festival logo (a fountain pen nib) and text that says "this year sees the launch of the festival's first dedicated food programme, curated by local food writer Nic Miller. The programme celebrates Bury St Edmunds' growing reputation as the food capital of East Anglia, piring the town's literary identity with its culinary culture and bringing some of the most exciting voices in food writing to town. Don't miss your chance to be part of this delicious new chapter."
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 07/09/2026
I can’t have been the only person to spend half an hour working out that LEGITIMATE CONCERNS is an anagram of EGOCENTRIC AILMENTS
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Brexit did not restore sovereignty. It exposed Britain to subjugation as America’s poor relation: a market to penetrate, an asset to strip and a country too isolated to negotiate as an equal. The answer is not another flimsy reset, Britain needs to return to the European table.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
SILO (spoiler alert) question. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . So did Peter Gabriel make it into a Silo do we think? 🤔😁
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Local family lost a dad/husband very suddenly recently from a brain tumour. They are having a celebration of his life this afternoon/evening in the barn up the road from us. When I go I hope people celebrate me passing in just such a glorious, loud, fun,celebratory way. 🕺🏽💃🏻🎹🎸🪇🎵🎹
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
My wife is watching The Pyjama Game. I have never seen it. So how on earth do I know virtually every song in it?! 🤔
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Cooking a rib eye steak on the barbecue in the late afternoon sunshine with a glass of 1989 claret, listening to nothing but the birds. It’s a lovely evening.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026
As we crawl through the political jungle, we come upon a mysterious group of primates, ruled by an aging alpha male called "Nigel". thecritic.co.uk/nige...
All party conferences make the observer feel like David Attenborough, peering through the undergrowth at some ecosystem that exists by its own mysterious rules. See the busy termites of Labour, with their factions and their composite motions, or the great hippopotami of the Conservatives, bellowing strange noises that convey some mysterious meaning only they can comprehend. And over here we find the primates of Reform, dominated by an aged alpha male, “Nigel”. 

Nigel rules his corner of the jungle with an iron fist, monopolising access to both attention and to precious resources such as champagne and oysters. The other males in the troop seem aggressive when approached, baring their teeth and waggling their bottoms at strangers, who are always presumed to be hostile. But in the presence of Nigel, they immediately become submissive, bowing their heads and repeating whatever comes out of his mouth. 

For a while, this troop was led by “Richard”, a tall male who spent much of his time en
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Gasly, pole! 😳 Where did that come from? #F1
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Despite all of the hot weather I managed to find ½ kg of blackberries, which my wife made into 4 jars of jam. If we keep getting rain we may even get another crop as there is plenty of unripe fruit still on the bushes.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
The protest footage from the Reform conference is truly shocking. What is even more shocking is that I instantly thought it was a stunt arranged by Nige and his cronies. He wouldn’t would he? (🫤)
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026
Pretty dank morning here. So making muffins and shepherds pie, listening to Steely Dan and Neil Young.
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/09/2026
New Prime Minister, same Brexit red lines. Absurd.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Says Hello There
Alt: Obi-Wan Kenobi Says Hello There. Star Wars episode IV.
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Well I guess 1-1 is a fair result. #SaintsFC
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Now that’s a header. #SaintsFC
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Andy B @andyb505.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Well, #SaintsFC are certainly trimming the squad.
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