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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If the sane voters could also clock this it’d be helpful. Voting is not game theory, but a degree of ‘I acknowledge that other people feel differently and therefore maybe I need to accommodate that in my political preferences’ that would be handy given the other side are such a bunch of cunts
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh Jesus Christ, he’s Jamie Tartt isn’t he
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unremittingly cunty
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
IT’S A SYMBOLIC NOD TO 4 REGIONS FROM WITHIN THE EVIL EMPIRE
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A genuine expert friend of mine is astonished that they’ve seemingly released the full estimated visitor number of tickets up front; it’s usual to pilot the first couple of days to gauge experience and ratchet up tickets release until it becomes unpleasant then wind it back to one notch below that
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I would simply be more circumspect about putting the words ‘ideological clown’ in people’s minds while I walked about on a stage
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First 15 also feel like someone may need to tell him to stop the meta-commentary ‘I bet you didn’t think I was going to say X’ bits* because they’ve got a real bad best man’s speech/‘I’m so ker-razy, me’ vibe *I can’t remember the actual formulations because of the powerful cringing they induced
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While there’s definitely no equivalent for Burnham among the ex-Spads of Bluesky, no alternate timeline fan fiction manifestations here, no siree 😂
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yep, in the electoral casino Labour has definitely just handed the croupier our father’s watch
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah he may well prove to be. He’s certainly got self-belief to think he can get away with it where no-one else has. It may ultimately just be a combo of life as a Welsh rugby supporter and the osmosis of marrying into CEE Catholicism - optimism makes me feel like I’m stumbling in a trap
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There’s something unsettling for me in the parallels between the mood today and the right’s reaction to Truss’ speech/mini-budget… just a nagging voice in the back of my head saying ‘everyone sounds a bit like Farage claiming the best budget since ‘86…’ - is that just inbuilt centre-left trauma?
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mad to do this policy blitz without a bucket of Sharpies and pile of comedy-sized Executive Order imo
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well ultimately judge this on whether the crowd breaks into a song about him before the end of the speech
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fundamentally incorrect though - people on Bluesky absolutely want a comic about public policy
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah, I see the campaign strategy is swinging back from ‘ultimately doomed pragmatism’ to ‘immediately doomed wishful thinking’
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve just heard WVA thinking ‘are you joking you cunt’ at Remco from 5000km away
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To max out ‘symbol of the timesiness’ they’ll need to clad them in Racism tiles
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Council refused to let us return keys for grandmother’s council flat after she died. After 3 infuriating calls I ended up saying she’s been buried 3 months, you’ve got a death certificate, I’m leaving the keys in the front door tomorrow so you decide if you want them back. No idea if they ever did
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chatting about it with few people today and lots of comment on details while I, perhaps sim. to you, am thinking ‘If this analysis is half on the money which I think it is, it’s describing a conveyor belt to existential catastrophe. The essay title should be ‘PANIC STATIONS: WE MIGHT ALL BE FUCKED!’
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Friend of mine in 6th form failed 10 times and her theory eventually ran out. The best fail, in my eyes, was the time she pulled back into the test centre car park and knocked the tester’s motorbike over
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Musk-ito Repellent (with apologies to Bill Hicks)
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You’ve got to think that playing behind the Toulouse forwards is going to put him in an excellent position to investigate a murder each week
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@squidgerugby.bsky.social incredible range on show from Ntamack here
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes things you think are dead can rise, unexpectedly. Pretty dark stuff if I’m honest
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The @joshgardner.bsky.social Scheduling Quotient I think they call that
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This has very much got shades of that Bangor RFC 2nds team accidentally playing Treviso in 2013 and going 0-3 up from the kickoff
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Come on, the first few days after a £36M donation it’s going to be impossible to tear him away from Rightmove
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ooh, I had plenty of time for this one www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environ...
thedailymash.co.uk
Orange-hued Just Stop Oil activist totally successful
A DISRUPTIVE man wearing the bright orange of Just Stop Oil has succeeded in shutting down oil worldwide in a victory for the group.
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s certainly fucking aged me 100 years
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’d keep checking my email for a year or two after that just for the chance of a spectacular payoff
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m not sure this evening’s humiliation is going to be amazing for Lawrence’s batting tomorrow if I’m honest
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If she’s eating the paper it might indicate she belongs with us in consumer research
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What’s really taken me by surprise is how quickly since we went back to a Root-captained team that I’ve started cheering the opposition, there must be something chemical in it
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can’t remember a more feel-good 50 in recent memory 😂
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
First time in 20 years my wife has asked a bit about cricket (why is that guy just prodding at it instead of swinging?) and it’s involving a lot of ‘well these later batters are trying to survive, they can’t pick the ball up as well, yes except that one there who’s doing the opposite, ignore him’
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don’t criticise pedantry, it’s a load-bearing wall of this website and I can’t face having to doomscroll the Guardian again instead
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That’s a hell of a hallucinogen you’ve picked up there
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@stephencollins.bsky.social continues to set the target on fire and then run it over with a lorry
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This country’s just becoming overrun with people isn’t it
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Without names, a sequence of large charities our team used to work for were coincidentally such demanding, entitled, and occasionally nasty clients that the policy was changed to charge full rate and donate a % to charity elsewhere instead, so there’s another option
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s really something that with all the terrible things happening everywhere right now, this is by some distance the worst thing I’ve found out on Bluesky
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thought it would be fun to get a little Tour de France jersey for my eldest this summer but after checking the prices I’ve decided to buy her a car when she’s older instead to save a bit of money
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It was very kind of Starmer to leave his genie behind in Downing Street
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“We’ll just do our own little scrum fuck you”
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Uncanny #rsavnz
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s amazing, it’s like playdoh that sticks anything and is as strong as china when it sets. Having married into a strong love of Boleslawiec it’s pretty much currency in this house
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That’s the beauty of milliput! You can fill missing pieces etc., it’s nails and easy to use
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Milliput is your friend, magic
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My wife has just panicked and frantically turned up my phone brightness because she thought you’d done this with no netting either side of the boards 😂
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Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Mackenzie being a Kiwi troll is an A* coda to that one!
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