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Humanist and VERY lapsed Catholic. Mostly LFC and politics. Bigots will be blocked.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 05/10/2026
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Coops @coops365.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by travelling. Quote by Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher.
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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Man City: The Abu Dhabi government paid Etihad, we knew nothing. Etihad: We are not funded by the Abu Dhabi government. Also Etihad: we will sue the Premier league for accusations that we are funded by the Abu Dhabi government. 😂😂😂
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the UAE is really threatening billions over Manchester City, that’s exactly the kind of political influence that demands scrutiny. When wealth and power get special access, ordinary people deserve accountability.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This by David Conn is very good on the legal and commercial background to the Manchester City story www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Manchester City’s guilty verdict brings football’s great sell-off crashing to earth
On the day Andy Burnham spoke of the wrong turn Britain took under Thatcher, football was facing a day of reckoning over its own story of corporate acquisition
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Manchester City are appealing, but also are not.
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Carey's coming for your asses Breaking windows as she passes Dog notes voice will cause destruction Warbling noise of strange construction
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i genuinely think about this every time theres any mention of narnia. one of the funniest things that have ever happened
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Coops @coops365.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hard agree!!!
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember, it’s perfectly acceptable if your weekend plans consist of nothing other than reading a good book, drinking multiple cups of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of chocolate croissants.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 18/09/2026
#totp
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The Wicker Man: Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ!
Alt: The Wicker Man: Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ!
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#totp
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Chrispy Chicken Noodle @curiousorange.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'd like to see Craig David Unplugged, eventually. #totp
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why can't they integrate?
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/09/2026
It does give Reform's "enemies" a frame, too: Reform is on the side of the crypto criminals – both Delo and "posh George" – who are paying its bills. Accepting major contributions from one convicted criminal looks unfortunate. Two looks like carelessness.
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Coops @coops365.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm not sure I will ever forgive Starmer's government for their rank cowardice in not addressing electoral reform and party funding reform.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just Arron Banks flaunting his racism.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
*taps the sign*
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
*PUPDATE* Out for lunch with Baloo who is on sparkling form
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If no other picture survives Reform UK conference this year, let it be this one. It is a teachable moment. #ReformAssault #Fascism
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is apparently what it means to be 'proud and British'. You hide your identity and act like thugs.
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Coops @coops365.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's a mob of racist arseholes.
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.
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Coops @coops365.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Shittest episode ever? #totp
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve a sweet treat and a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The media will never “learn” because it has no interest in learning - it is doing what it is meant to do. Don’t consider that what was done to Jason Arday will lead to “lessons being learned” - it is not what the model exists for
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.
The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Kermit Dolly Kermit the Frog small green frog puppet Dolly Parton large blonde woman with very big hair
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton sent free books to the girls when they were being fostered. The first book I ever read to them was one she had helped pay for. May perpetual light shine upon her.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Brilliant bit of writing here. Treat yourself.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
First family snap from new season’s Bake Off!! It starts on Channel 4 in September, though I haven’t got an exact date to give you yet. As soon as I know, I’ll tell you. (And I have no info on timings for other territories, I’m afraid.) I couldn’t be happier!
Photo of me suffused with love for my Bake Off family! From left to right: Paul Hollywood, Alison Hammond, yours truly, and Noel Fielding.
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Chris Donnelly @chrismdonnelly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The press needs urgent reform and an inquiry into all aspects of its behaviour including Leveson 2 needs to happen now. Journalists focusing on academia right now are just desperate blame shifting.
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Coops @coops365.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As usual, some great insights from Steve. Very much worth a read.
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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Have you seen this? Just repulsive. bsky.app/profile/keta...
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Coops @coops365.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It would be lovely if Burnham was open to Leveson2, unlike his predecessors. The past 24 hours shows quite clearly that our press have learned absolutely nothing.
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