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Claire

@clairenorky.bsky.social
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Barnsley fan, book lover, butler to a demonic cat & daft dog.

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 16h
Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile?
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Colin Millar @colinmillar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“It was like he was wiped off the face of the earth.” Tony Powell, a former English top flight star, vanished 40 years ago. His story is told in The Last Guest at the Holloway Motel. It is a powerful, emotional and important watch. For @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...
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The English soccer star who vanished for 40 years to hide his secret: ‘I was living in fear’ (Gift Article)
Tony Powell lost all contact with his family and left behind his entire life for four decades after leaving Norwich City in 1981.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.
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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So the Iranians have closed the Strait of Hormuz and the Cotswolds?
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Claire @clairenorky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good Morning ☀️ #Caturday
Grey & white cat cheekily sticking his big pink tongue out.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Circus Tavern, Portland Street, Manchester, 1980. Smallest pub in the city, with one of the smallest bars in the country. Built as a house c.1790, became a pub c.1840 (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News).
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A poem from my new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Red River Valley
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me
A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interesting heritage from near me. Brayshaw & Booth markers represent a major chapter in British roadside heritage, charting the evolution of late 19th-century public infrastructure. Following the Local Government Act of 1888, the newly formed West Riding County Council inherited an
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mind-boggling, indeed.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Portree, Isle of Skye, painting by Nikki Monaghan, Scottish artist based in Falkirk.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The league said the commission had found City used schemes “to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900m during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules”. £900 million.
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Claire @clairenorky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huddersfield music venue plan faces axe due to funding shortfall www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Huddersfield music venue plan faces axe due to funding shortfall
A report says there is not enough money to build the planned entertainment venue in Huddersfield.
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Oonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Macbeth: Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Lady Macbeth: I see we're going to have to go over the rules of Cluedo again.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 25/09/2026
🚨I got to interview Danny Tommo for The New Yorker. "I try to explain the Redcrosse Knight, a man of flawed virtue who must endure spiritual collapse before defeating his dragon. 'He sounds decent. But in my one, the dragon is the RNLI, yeah?'" www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
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My day out with Danny Tommo
An encounter with the far right activist and amateur pirate
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Claire @clairenorky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It would be amazing if the Square Chapel in #Halifax could be saved. #SaveSquareChapelArts
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are Reform UK Councillors hiding their criminal pasts ... "It seems that the very good boys and girls of Reform UK in Barnsley have decided that, despite the opportunity to vote for mandatory DBS checks for their council... they'd really rather not thanks ... " www.facebook.com/eckimberley/...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Racism will not be defeated from above. It will only be defeated by us – ordinary citizens who refuse to look away. My piece for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from the 1970s. But so does the solution | Taj Ali
Young men punched in the street, mosques attacked: Britain badly needs an anti-racist uprising. Let 70s Asian youth movements provide the inspiration, says Taj Ali, author of Come What May, We’re Here...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This man will do anything to save his position, anything. He's now discovered this new concept, "consultation", probably in the bin where he chucked it ten years ago. A Man Without Dignity rather than A Man Without Qualities.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is quite striking if Meta thinks it has the tech + the policy + the will to ban/filter out feminism (but not misogyny, obvs). It sounds like there may be an analogous ban on antiracism (but not racism). www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s a Shame it wasn’t out in the English channel with Daniel ‘John’ Thomas and his Gimp mask wearing Black Shorts on board. Obviously they can’t call The RNLI, so who are they gonna call? …. Ghostbusters 👻👻👻🤣😆😂
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/09/2026
#OtD 20 Sep 2015 the #piggate scandal broke when claims from Tory donor Lord Ashcroft were published in a right-wing newspaper that UK Prime Minister David Cameron had sex with a dead pig's head while at university stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9335...
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The cogs are still turning in my attempt to put #SquareChapelArts (Halifax) back on its feet. 🙏🏻 I’m flabbergasted by the offers of support & levels of backing I’m receiving. What sort of society are we if we fail to champion the arts & culture? Thanks, you good people. Stay tuned!
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 20/09/2026
Ex-Premier League footballer comes off bench to play in match - despite being run over by pitch roller at half-time
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Ex-Premier League footballer comes off bench to play in match - despite being run over by pitch roller at half-time
Ex-Premier League player Andros Townsend has laughed off an incident that saw him run over by a pitch roller during the half-time warm-up.
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Claire @clairenorky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well that was a fraught 96 minutes 🥵 #barnsleyfc
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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If I were advising a billionaire (which I'm happy to do for a modest fee) I'd tell them they should only appear in the news when associated with a positive news story - e.g. opening the neonatal unit they funded - not "I think your country is shit" or "the thing I'm working on will kill everyone"
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16/09/2026
The web address, spelled wrong and missing the s is hurting my brain.
Penny-wise fragrances/fragrence
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Visitors to Bates Motel ‘right to be afraid’ but should trust Norman Bates
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Netpol @netpol.org · 15/09/2026
The racists are now abusing Britain's main blind people’s charity, the RNIB, accusing it of helping "small boat" migrants after mistaking it for the RNLI. Presumably the RNID, who support deaf people, are next. And will face accusations of refusing to listen... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Blindness charity targeted by anti-migrant protesters after being mistaken for RNLI
One person accused the blind people’s charity of ‘deliberately overfilling our great country with illegals’
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𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 @salix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have a website in progress. Can you be lovely and see what you make of www.wowillustration.co.uk because I shall be selling christmas cards etc through it fairly soon.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Voters turn against Nigel Farage in record numbers as Reform UK funding storm grows, new poll reveals www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Voters 'turn against Nigel Farage in record numbers' as Reform UK funding storm grows
The Reform UK leader is now as unpopular as Sir Keir Starmer was just before he resigned, according to the YouGov poll
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Claire @clairenorky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good Morning. Back to reality after a week in France. Some Louvre bums for your Tuesday morning.
Sculptures in the Louvre, Paris.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Russian businessman bankrolled the after-party to Donald Trump Jr’s wedding in the Bahamas, raising questions about the relationship between a figure with reported ties to Vladimir Putin and the US president’s eldest son www.ft.com/content/3de6...
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Russian businessman bankrolls Donald Trump Jr’s Bahamas wedding after-party
President’s son and his wife confirm Umar Kremlev, who is reportedly close to Vladimir Putin, paid for part of celebration
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 14/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "try not to set your dick on fire"
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I have kindly removed this superfluous cover from your speaker. Who knows why it was there? I think you will find you can hear the sounds coming out of it more clearly now. You are welcome."
Our cat Professor Charles Cardigan relaxing, whilst listening to the critically acclaimed 1972 album '666' by Aphrodite's Child.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That set-up isn't cheap. Plus travel? Food? Where's their funding coming from? Same place as their 'change my mind/debate me' tactics? American right wing extremists is my guess, and let's not forget that bunch's track record as useful idiots in Russia's campaign to destabilise Western politics.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How is this bully able to just act like this with free rein?
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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barnsleyfcotd.bsky.social @barnsleyfcotd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On this day 30 years ago.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xE6... #BarnsleyFC #MCFC #ClintMarcelle
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Manchester City 1-2 Barnsley 7/9/96
YouTube video by B.F.C. Memories
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pro-Russia/Pro-Israel right-wing Reform sycophants in the UK assault multiple young women for speaking out against Donald Trump and the Tate brother's friend, the corrupt Nigel Farage. Farage laughed and joked about the assaults.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape of a field with treeline in the distance under a dramtic sky
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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Claire @clairenorky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cat merrily tucking into my breakfast while I turn my back for 5 seconds. He's like an obnoxious toddler only furry & more menacing.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026
This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.
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