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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 21h

If extended international breaks mean more BBC Sport features on German fourth-tier football and fewer clickbait Premier League waffle pieces, then I'm here for it. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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German football: The leagues where champions aren't promoted

German football is grappling with a sum that doesn't add up - four promotion spots for five league champions.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two messages from developers' PRs explaining that they are at the Green Party conference. These are responses I wouldn't have expected a few years ago...

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Full respect to the person at the Communication Workers' Union for turning their stand at Labour conference into a New Order tribute

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Darren Maggs @darrenmaggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What if Man City funds the triple lock?

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Went to see Spearmint at Colours in Hoxton and they were excellent, just as they have been for the past 30 (gulp) years.

A band of men taking applause at the end of a gig

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Graham MacAree @grahammacaree.com · 29/09/2026

i know people will say chelsea fans got away with it compared to what manchester city are about to have done with them but have you considered how upset i'll be if spurs finish 17th because city get a 75-point penalty this year

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always incredible how the Tories find potential candidates with no idea of what the London mayor’s powers actually are.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Robust language in the bog at The Pocket, Islington. ‘Do not put your snus pouches in here you fucking cretin’.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Managed to get around the Vitality London 10,000 without disgracing myself, despite having done zero preparation and having done less running than usual this year. Brilliant crowds and a lovely day for it!

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not really sure which is worse, MPs’ boring and insincere PR messages on social media, or the boring and attention-seeking blowhard responses. And on a Saturday night when there are much better things to do.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tailwalked at parkrun today. Got lucky with the weather, but always surprises me how satisfying a brisk 5k stroll can be. #loveparkrun

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Closer to home, Charlton Athletic Women play petrostate-backed, industrial-strength cheaters Manchester City at the Valley, KO 1.30pm. #wsl

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saw Pip Blom at the Dome in Tufnell Park, and they were marvellous.

Band playing busy gig, obscured by stage lighting.

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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026

Pet Shop Boys’ classic "Suburbia" was released #OnThisDay 40 years ago. The music video was directed by Eric Watson and filmed in the suburbs of San Bernardino and Duarte in Los Angeles and in Kingston-upon-Thames in Greater London.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The tennis has landed at North Greenwich.

Laver Cup fan zone being built next to the O2

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Weird sense of satisfaction after getting the winter flu jab on the first day they were available, while wearing shorts and summer shirt 💪🏼

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slightly strange over the past few days to discover the chain-looking bakery at the bottom of the shopping centre in Bromley is apparently “London’s most hyped”. Maybe I should spend more time in the Glades.

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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The state of this. A 14-year-old story, reheated to look like breaking news and embellished with gory detail, spat out across Reach's national and local news sites and aggregated into AOL feeds. There are still ways of funding journalism. This should not be one of them.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reach complaining about the "expansionist BBC" again, while very happily making use of its local democracy reporter contracts to prop up its remaining websites. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Mirror publisher to cut 220 editorial jobs as readers turn to AI summaries

Reach, which also owns Express, makes decision because of ‘mammoth shift’ in how audiences seek out content

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At branch line train station on Saturday. Clearly pissed, possibly troubled, man pacing wildly close to platform edge. Wife wanted to intervene. I wanted to steer clear. She texted in to #seeitsayitsorted. Later that evening realise I'd given her the number for 6music by mistake.

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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"We’re in the middle of nowhere – so we’re trying to make this a community space where people feel proud to invite their friends." The founder of the Bouldr Bar in Thamesmead speaks to @davidjesudason.bsky.social about creating that community. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/09/11/b...

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Bouldr Bar's battle to put Thamesmead on the food and drink map - The Greenwich Wire

The founder of Thamesmead's Bouldr Bar talks about his battle to open the bar - and how much more needs to be done to create places for people to meet in the town.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago today I was on a disastrous secondment at the BBC that torpedoed my confidence, trying to help to run a TV news show's unread, awful website. Loads of memories but I do remember TV people throwing wobblies because the website crashed, even though nobody was reading it anyway. 2001!

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Absolutely incredible to write a review of a play in which you complain about audience behaviour, and just not mention that your partner strangled someone for a bit during the showing

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Findus @findus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was working at a local newspaper in South London when 9/11 happened. My boss made me switch off the TV so the reporters would stop watching this era-defining news event and get back to writing nibs about sponsored walks

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is very funny. And we’ve heard this one before…

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lovely understated line from John Murray on the Radio 5 Live commentary of Arsenal v Chelsea: “The Arsenal ultras are shaking their fists at Morgan Rogers…”

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Charlton’s first match in the WSL, against Liverpool #cafc #cafcw

the team lines up and a man holds up a scarf

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 06/09/2026

The only way to do a CIC return each year is paper and you have to send a cheque. Then you have to do HMRC digitally via third party software. Let's see if this offers anything to fix that mess.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How I watched the Charlton game today.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 04/09/2026

Most Londoners would probably come up with the same default list, if not wishing to let people know where they actually drink … - terrible pub near work that your team goes to because it’s convenient; - your average local; - somewhere a bit edgy that you had a big night in about 20 years ago.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

people will mock the choices here - a terrible but conveniently located Sam Smiths, a demolished Wetherspoons in Barking - but I think this is actually quite clever branding for a Prime Minister trying to show he's just a normal, average bloke with no frighteningly interesting opinions

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Turned out travelling 146 miles on a Wednesday to see Charlton get a point at West Brom was a fine idea. I have a 146-mile journey home, though, so I may change my mind by the time I reach Euston… Still unbeaten! #cafc #utfa

The end of the match at West Brom v Charlton, under floodlights

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good evening. This may have been a rash decision…

West Bromwich Albion at sunset before the match at Charlton Athletic.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good evening from Birmingham, where in a 90-minute pitstop I have visited Britain’s oldest record shop and discovered that the West Midlands Metro app is utter crap. Onwards!

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wish I’d paid more attention before “old” Stratford station vanished. This bit is now the DLR line to Woolwich Arsenal, the Jubilee Line is on the left.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fantastic bank holiday Monday watching Dulwich Hamlet beat Leatherhead with an added-time goal. And a trip to the fabulous Running Horse pub too. #dhfc

Players celebrating a late goal on the touchline

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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#OnThisDay 45 years ago traffic ceased between Victoria Park Junction and Poplar. 6 years later it reopened as part of the DLR, but a few weeks before closure here's a railtour on the branch, showing the lackadaisical attitude to health & safety back then! buff.ly/1Uo0fR0

Shortly before closure of the line the RCTS ran a railtour to Poplar Docks. Participants climb down from the DMU at the facing points at the dock and set off to explore the area. Oh for the days before 'Health & Safety' when this sort of thing was allowed! June 1981. Today this part of the line has been re-used by the Docklands Light Railway and is unrecognisable.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 30/08/2026

Trying to make local journalism works as a business is hard. That's why I'm proud to announce that London Centric is diversifying into the capital's ice cream trade. www.londoncentric.media/p/ice-cream-...

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Intimidation, illegality and Mr Whippy: We join London’s ice cream wars

London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It wasn’t as cool as you think the max of 21.4C just 0.7C below normal high for the date. Tomorrow will be 80th consecutive day since #London Heathrow last had a daily max below 20C. Seems clear we will break 2022 record of 85 consecutive days. The longest streak in 1976 summer 39 days!

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If these aren't the Epstein Falls by lunchtime tomorrow, I shall be severely disappointed in Canada.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Went to watch Charlton reserves get beaten at Tottenham in the league cup. Not sure whether I'm more impressed by the new stadium (cor!) or the Liz Line from Liverpool Street making it fairly hassle-free to get home. Progress, eh?

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 25/08/2026

The time Dolly Parton got stuck into a session in a pub in Kerry

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Dolly Parton in Paídi Ó Sé's Pub

YouTube video by paidiosekerry

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Only went and beat the fackin’ West Ham, didn’t we? #cafc

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Rather in love with The Charles I near King's Cross station. Manages to be both the platonic ideal of a backstreet London pub and, somehow, a Belgian brown cafe.