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Barijohn

@barijohn.bsky.social
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UK Lancashire based hiker and crap mid-life gamer. MCFC Fan since 1989. Woke Lefty, Trans Rights and Feminist Supporter. Twitter ExPat, occasional Facebook user but avid Instagrammer. @baripollard

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The Citizens Trust @mcfctrust.bsky.social · 14h
THE CITIZENS TRUST - MANCHESTER CITY SUPPORTERS' UNION STATEMENT ON PREMIER LEAGUE VERDICT Have your say, join the trust: thecitizenstrust.org/join-the-tru...
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93:20 Podcast @9320pod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨The Newsletter:- Issue 114. ✒️Thoughts on the past few days by @howiehok3434.bsky.social. Will it ever be the same? ➡️ 9320-newsletter-b2f7c6.beehiiv.com/p/the-93-20-... Or read in the APP.
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Barijohn @barijohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking forward to that special podcast on What's Wrong at Man U. 😂😂
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93:20 Podcast @9320pod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨Emergency Newsletter, OUT NOW 📲 In light of the controversial goal in the Manchester derby, @howiehok3434.bsky.social considers the appropriate options. 🗣️ Replay the game 🗣️ Martial law 🗣️ Re-start season 🗣️ PM to act ➡️ 9320-newsletter-b2f7c6.beehiiv.com/p/the-93-20-... (or read in APP)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The columnariat are, quite simply, some of the worst people in society. They will murder you, cry at your funeral, and turn in 800 words on how your death is the fault of the wokes.
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David Mooney @davidmooney.co.uk · 14/08/2026
Football then. It was always trending this way, but this summer feels like the tipping point for absolute bullshit. It used to be just lunatics and crackpots posting mad takes for engagement, but now it’s blue ticks posting outright lies for interactions (and I presume money).
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's that day again #alevels
[Title panel]:
A-LEVEL RESULTS COLUMNS DAY

[Scene is a TV news type report about A Level results day]

REPORTER [talking to camera outside a school where students are crowding outside the hall to get in]:

Well, it's that day again

When A-Level students across the country finally get to find out

What Britain's newspaper columnists think about their results.

[show the interior of the school hall, with long tables, but instead of results papers on them, loads of middle-aged newspaper columnists are all laid out]

[Close up on the COLUMNISTS lying on the table, talking up to a gaggle of excited students desperate to find out what they say]

PETER HITCHENS:
I remember when A-Levels meant something

CLARKSON: 
I got a C and two U's

[Cut to outside the hall, the REPORTER is talking to a student]

REPORTER:
And did you get the middle-aged opinions you wanted?

STUDENT:
Yes! 

I got one ‘There's Too Much Humanities’,
and two Oxford graduates telling me they went to Oxford.

REPORTER [now doing a voiceover, as we see the students in the school hall next to the columnists on tables, and the students are preparing to jump in the air for a photographer]:

And then the annual photo shoot…

[PHOTOGRAPHER]
One, two, three...

[One of the columnists on the table pipes up with]: 

What's The Point Of University in 2026?

[The students all jump for joy]

STUDENTS:
HOORAY!

[ends]
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Worth Repeating.......
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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exgringo.bsky.social @exgringo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fixed it
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Dear diary first day working for FIFA went really well…..
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reform UK already have a comprehensive plan for social care: me and my rich mates will be just fine thanks and the rest of you can go fuck yourselves.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!
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Blue Moon Podcast @bluemoonpodcast.com · 27/07/2026
The Blue Moon Podcast will return soon. Get subscribed now so you don't miss an episode: podfollow.com/bluemoon
On the left is Enzo Maresca, City's new manager. On the right it reads: "Sometimes you need a change. Anyway, our 18th season starts soon."; "Blue Moon Podcast, we're back 13.08.26".
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The stranglehold the rightwing and far right have on our politics is absurd. Not a single policy or idea that benefits the country. A wild aversion to tax, immigration, NetZero, the EU.. trapping us in a dismal dead-end, unable to make progress for fear of the DailyMail demographic losing its shit.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.
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Emm Vee @emmmveee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Instead of advertising for Supermarkets why not run a story about the provision that councils have for those eligible for free school meals during the holidays? Link below should anyone need more info Holiday activities and food – Bolton Council share.google/Lgb1AwHDRZFK...
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Holiday activities and food – Bolton Council
Bolton Summer Fun
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you have *real* evidence of election fraud, you file a lawsuit. But if you are a pathetic sore loser who wants desperately to believe any fiction that excuses your actual loss, you go on TV where, unlike in court, you won’t be held accountable for your brazen and ridiculous lies.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Spider Man Rides The Tube Not every superhero swings through the city, some catch the tube instead. It took a few attempts to nail the timing, but I finally made the SpiderMan poster look like Spidey is hitching a ride on a passing train. Captured at Oxford Circus station.
Spider man on the London Underground
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 15/07/2026
It wasn't to be… but if you are a victim of domestic abuse tonight, call the following number: 0808 2000 247
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Barijohn @barijohn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Well one of my pics for the final has made it.... Get in Spain! Unfortunately my other pic is Argentina! Sorry England but there is £34 riding on this 😀
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
There's a good reason that I lied about being refused any state security when in fact I'd been offered a bodyguard, a car & a trained driver, on a par with a high profile cabinet member. It's because I didn't want anyone seeing what i get up to and how little work I do.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There has been a 'ceasefire' in Gaza for 274 days. In that time 1,098 Palestinians have been murdered and 3,500 injured. While 0 Israelis have been killed. There is no ceasefire, just a Genocide.
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93:20 Podcast @9320pod.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🖋️NEWSLETTER 🖋️ 🗣️Elliot Anderson is now crap 🗣️Corruption writ large 🗣️City do something great 🗣️ 9320-newsletter-b2f7c6.beehiiv.com/p/the-93-20-... Download our app and read every issue for free! linktr.ee/9320pod
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
NEW - Andy Burnham has written a long letter to all Labour MPs tonight - promising a major overhaul of whipping and engagement on legislation, as well as a “broad church” cabinet where ministers routinely engage MPs & select committees. Comes as nominations open for leadership. Letter here 👇
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage keeps saying his expenses are zero. Yet another lie.
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
FARAGE RESIGNS: What we heard from his announcement:
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am confused. I thought when Josh Simons quit as an MP to call an unnecessary by-election it was a huge waste of taxpayer funds and an insult to voters?
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Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Nigel Farage has thought long and hard and decided to put himself at the centre of a fresh media circus. Extraordinary. So out of character.
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TheParisAngel @theparisangel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s really mental how every football commentator seems to have never seen Haaland play football before. Lads, he largely does fuck all, then scores quite a few goals. There is quite a large body of evidence to back this up. No need to sound surprised that he’s barely touched the ball.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is art.
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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What if... we made things less crap? No war, no billionaires, an end to poverty, gender equality, equal access to health & education, and a liveable planet. Um, yes?? A new report shows us how this seemingly lofty goal can be achieved... and all it takes is to tax the rich. youtu.be/5tsqotjWSy8
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What if... we made things less crap?
YouTube video by Dr Gilbz
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🚨 Google continues to lobby the UK government to hand the work of the country's creatives to big tech companies for free. 🧵 1/3
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Barijohn @barijohn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In this world of AI I think we need a new Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs! So being a hypocrite I used AI to add this new base.. Reality
Maslow's hierarchy of needs but add a new base layer of reality!
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Barijohn @barijohn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Had a nice little trip to Bempton Cliffs this week, luckily the weather was only bloody hot at 25c rather than molten hot back at home. Saw loads of Gannets and Razorbills on the cliffs but we went to see Puffins and saw the odd few 😍 How cute are they!
Single puffin on a rocky cliff edge. Puffin standing on cliff edge looking like he is about to fly. Surrounding them are Razorbills and a Gull.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/06/2026
been furious with Starmer for long enough that this is genuinely coming as a surprise to me, but I'm feeling a bit.......sad this morning? not really about him per se but about the waste of time, I guess, and the end of yet another political failure when Britain really couldn't afford another one
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
What is it about white people that makes them so violent? Should we tolerate white culture in the UK? Is the fact he was arrested without violence evidence of two-tier policing? Should white people still be given housing when non-whites remain homeless? Will white leaders condemn this? etc.
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Barijohn @barijohn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is what I'll do if I ever win a wadge of cash!!
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93:20 Podcast @9320pod.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🖋️NEWSLETTER 🖋️ 🖊️World Cup diary 🖊️Football always wins 🖊️Client Journalism Read it here.... 👇 ➡️ 9320-newsletter-b2f7c6.beehiiv.com/p/the-93-20-... Or download our app and read every issue for free! linktr.ee/9320pod
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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 19/06/2026
Where’s Andy Burnham going?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It breaks my mind that Trump saying a deal is close with Iran still secures one of five news slots in a BBC radio bulletin. He's fucking said this for months guys. Months. None of it means anything.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
it has begun
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/06/2026
God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.
strongmessagehere.substack.com
What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?
Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 02/06/2026
I'm no expert but this is regressive as fuck.
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