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James Pennock

@corporategorillajp.bsky.social
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Meat-free caffeine-fuelled pain-magnet. Back in taxing employment. Talented wife, demanding daughter - lost them both to Zelda & Taylor Swift. Music, Philly Eagles, Sheffield, pissing & moaning. Front for Rosie the cat.

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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 18h
Whilst Europeans witter on about the unloveable Ronaldo, one of the greatest offensive tackles to ever play in the NFL goes out tremendous with grace. Just sad I won’t see him in the Eagles O Line on the field at Spurs on Sunday.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How’s my weekend going? Well…I cracked a filling whilst chewing gum, and destroyed my voice doing karaoke with a bunch of silks. So pretty well all told.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sheffield Girls School has a ‘Girls of Steel’ programme to equip girls with ‘character education’. It is evidently derived from the Women of Steel, being women during WW2 who worked in munitions factories in Sheffield. A few observations.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess Keenum owed us that one.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice to hear the chancellor give a shout out to a Rosedale pub in his conference speech. Sneaked a few pints in there aged 17…
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Justin Herbert can make all the throws…he just doesn’t want to.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is tooth-loss a prerequisite for English patriot membership?
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Local police sergeant used to do an annual assembly for lower 6th formers where he told us that if we went out under-age drinking he’d see to it we got to spend a night in the cells in Goole with some proper criminals. Spent many nights under-age drinking, but zero nights in Goole nick.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The current oldest surviving former MP was possibly one of the shortest serving MPs, losing her seat within a year. But that by-election was the first time I got involved in a campaign, and it was delicious - if only for a short while - to see the Tories lose Ryedale.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Genuinely hope that Zach Ertz will be on the field for the Eagles week 5 in London. Would be awesome to see him playing in that green jersey.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Didn’t know they put on gigs at the ski village.
90s band Saint Etienne declare they were on fire in Sheffield last night. The picture on them on stage must have been minutes before this disaster, as they’re not even at ‘smouldering’ levels of burn.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That final Eagles drive…MVP stuff from Jalen Hurts.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I also try to stay out of things that could harm the sale of my trite dum-de-dum piddlypop to the consumers.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Have to admire Sheeran’s attempts to maintain his on-brand blandness. Shunning any suggestion of edginess…just raw-dogging his way through his career.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fucking cycletwunts who pop up in defence of pavement-based two wheeled wankers should just get on with spontaneously combusting.
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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The first episode of my new podcast, Challenging Histories produced by @histfest.bsky.social is out now! I’m talking food and colonialism with the fantastic Dr Peggy Brunache
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Daughter: So, Dad…are you going to be a bit less invested in the Eagles this season? Me:
A greying Eagles fan gives his Kelly Green Quinton Mitchell jersey its first game day run out, as he begins the 4 hour wait for the 9.25pm kick off…accompanied by his newly acquired soft toy eagle Phil.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Which war did Bulgaria fight in? World War Womble
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Where dogs go to die.
Sign reading ‘Dogs - all four paws on the ground at all times’ guards the penguins at the Cotswold Wildlife Park. Canine corpses litter the pathway out of shot.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Got on the 0630 to London and ended up sat with 2 former colleagues, pissing off the other commuters with our #corporatechat.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
First 50th of the year is done. Everyone I know looking just like their parents did when I first met them.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Jeff Rosenstock has a great two liner in the song Yr Throat that perfectly captures the operating model of any political party Farage has been in: “It’s not like any other job I know If you’re a piece of shit they don’t let you go.”
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Can’t wait to get into this beast.
Craig Ibarra’s book ‘A Wailing Of A Town: An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk 1977-1985’, with Minutemen’s D Boon chewing out a microphone on the front cover.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fontaines DC are dressed like a Dublin-based Trainspotting fanclub.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s never too soon for Christmas dinosaurs.
A stack of Santa-hat wearing members of the Family Ness in a garden centre deep in the heart of Lincolnshire, where Richard Tice has ensured that time stands still.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Told my wife I was jinxing the Phillies, who were 4-0 down at the end of the 6th. Turned the game off. They turned it round bottom of the 9th with a 4-6 victory. Must stop watching them more often.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Mayor of South Yorkshire calls for greater reading support for kids, and takes a photo opp with a famous fictional creature whose name he can’t spell.
Oviler Coparrd with the Gruffalo
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Seem to recall giving kickstarter money to the team who made the documentary Desolation Center for an LP of the music used in the film. This was nearly 10 years ago…sadly they never delivered.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yet another cry of frustration as my Hume band, 55% charged and right next to my phone as I’m exercising, stops counting my steps. What is the fucking point…utter garbage tech. Do not recommend.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Another day, more wife-based content. youtu.be/nVGhyyk7NDc
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Spaniards LIED About Aztec Human Sacrifice Rituals!
YouTube video by After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
First day back on MapTap for a while and sausage fingers strike on the last pick.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Turned on Sky and they have a new show on called History’s Greatest Warriors. My wife was surprised when she saw herself on it - she went to Toronto in Jan 2024 to film the show…it’s so long ago she never thought it would air, and she’s been promoted to professor in the meantime.
A figure from history - Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock - emerges on the tellybox. Rosie the cat couldn’t give a shit.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ooh. What’s the i-SPY score for @charlieconnelly.bsky.social on the front of the Yorkshire Post?
Everyone’s favourite Charlie Connelly out of all the Charlie Connellys on the front of the Yorkshire Post.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Front cover of Soul Asylum’s 1992 album Grave Dancers Union
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Perfect advert for veganism.
Advert for Cumboots Dairy Farm Fresh Milk, as cows wait in the fields for the farmer to get his cumboots on.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cat that I love on the expensive kitchen stool that I used to love before she came into the house and decided to rip the fucker to bits. She adores it.
Rosie the grey and white British shorthair cat sleeping on a black fake-leather kitchen stool, which is now more cushion than fake-leather after her claws decimated the latter.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Musical theatre interlude coming up…
Cambridge Theatre stage - books and letter blocks lit blue, except for the rainbow of letters spelling ‘matilda’. Don’t remember Woman In Black starting like this but a show has to develop I guess.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Reform voters going to struggle to get their cross in the right box on the ballot paper after watching the solar eclipse through clingfilm.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sales of The Seahorses’ other single will be booming after today.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you’ve got a downloadable walking tour of Sheffield that focuses on freethinkers and not on the city’s industrial past, why would you share a ‘steel & smog’ image that doesn’t in any way represent its current reality, nor the content of the walk?
Industrial Sheffield. A view which you’ll struggle to find a trace of if you come and do the walk.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Came home to watch Hairspray with the family. Somehow managed to divert my daughter to series one of Jackass. Biggest result of my life.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’ve never taken ketamine.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just because you consistently use a word incorrectly, this does not equate to its meaning having changed over time.
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Gregory's Disbelief in Abbott Elementary
Alt: Gregory from Abbott Elementary side eyes a member of my family who regularly looks down the barrel of the word ‘irony’ when pulling the trigger.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our daughter’s 12th birthday has been a river of pink.
Rosie the grey and white British shorthair cat lies on a soft pink blanket in the living room, watched by a white Jellycat bunny called Lacy.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ah so Denplan have taken £43 to cover my Dad’s for August 2026, despite the fact they know he died in July 2026. Might take his body round to his local dentist and get all his teeth fixed before the cremation; I’m sure Denplan would be happy to honour their policy.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Having lost my own father only 9 days ago, I am devastated that Rod Liddle died after a short illness.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Quiz question: What’s the name of the candle in Beauty and the Beast? Me: John Wick.
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Rupert Giles' Amused Laughter in Buffyverse
ALT: Rupert Giles' Amused Laughter in Buffyverse
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In which Sheffield pub does the Incredible Hulk drink?
A pub in Banner Cross, with the imaginative name ‘The Banner Cross’.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Animals do bring an incredible sense of calm to any occasion.
Rosie the grey and white British shorthair cat lies asleep on her cardboard bed in front of the fireplace, decorated with a ‘deepest sympathies’ floral tribute of sunflowers, pink and white roses, and blue alstroemeria.
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James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well it’s been a motherfucker of a week already.
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