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Dave Redford

@dave9bikes.bsky.social
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Sheffield, Europe. Number of bikes may vary. Also into urbanism, songwriting, silly things and serious things. Aka: The Endless Bloody Poetry (music/ satire) soundcloud.com/user-989317121 theendlessbloodypoetry.bandcamp.com

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A) Yes you can. B) But anyway, nobody is saying that you have to. C) It is perfectly possible to own a car and also do most of your journeys NOT by car (and/or want to reduce how many journeys you drive). D) What do the many people who don't have a car do? So fed up with this ridiculous argument.
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
YouTube ad placement annoys me to an inordinate degree. I'd usually go with Hanlon's Razor but I do wonder if the degree of intrusiveness is a deliberate nudge tactic. If so it ain't gonna work!
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow, even on a bad week he's making twice my income just from his racist-shit-peddling side hustle 😮
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trust Trump... to invent the trillion-dollar pork barrel!
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Moose booooogelow @moosebigelow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lenny from the simpsons changing a sign that says 365 days without charlie kirk saying something racist
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They'll be okay as long as nobody mentions that they're literally just stopping oil. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Netflix need to get onto this - I would watch the hell out of Rice Load Truckers... *and I can't be the only one
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Seriously, was there some sort of conference in the back room of a flat-roofed pub in 2017 which mandated that all new dodgy far-right groups should be called [Re****] [UK/ Britain]? I'm waiting with interest for ReSus, ReHash, ReFurb...
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think this might just be their best yet!
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
GRINDSET 1993
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Title:
GRINDSET 1993

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[The following is an Eddie Vedder-like GRUNGE ROCK GUY from 1993, but he’s doing a modern, grindsetty, LinkedIn-lunatic-style diary]

5am:
Sleep is for wimps - I get up at 4am and have a two hour session of Avoiding Selling Out.

[Show him sitting up in bed, staring intensely ahead and going HURRRR]

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9am:
I'm layering the moment the thrift store opens - ten minutes late is for losers.

[Show him putting plaid shirts over other shirts first thing in the morning in a charity shop]

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10am:
I'm *always on* - every interaction is a business opportunity.

[He's walking down the street and an OLD LADY approaches, gesturing to her little dog who is poking its head out of a roadside ditch]

OLD LADY: 
Excuse me - 

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OLD LADY: 
Please can you help me pull my dog out of this ditch?

[Grunge guy looks out camera - he’s had an idea]

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[Cut to a 90s-style music video with MTV-style titles below telling us what the song and band are called]:

DOG IN A DITCH by Ditchdog

[Grunge guy sings “Daaawg in a diiiitch….”]

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11am: 
Dog In A Ditch wins an MTV award so it’s time for another Avoiding Selling Out session

GRUNGE GUY [holding in MTV award]:
HUURRRR

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12pm 
Working lunch while I craft effortfully scratchy lyric sheets for the album inlay 

[Show him doing this]

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2pm: 
Hit the studio to make an extremely inaccessible third record 

[grunge guy in studio singing YOU’RE ALL GONNA HATE THIS while surrounded by white noise, accordions, etc]

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4pm: 
That's gone platinum (sad face) so it’s time to have another Avoiding Selling Out session

GRUNGE GUY:
HUUUURRRR

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8pm :
After dinner me and the band hit the Staring Intensely Out Of Shot Gym to work on our stares

[Show the band in a gym, just sitting on a weights bench staring intensely out of shot instead of exercising]

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9pm: 
One last Avoiding Selling Out session, Bovril, bed.

[He’s back in bed, holding his Bovril, looking intensely ahead, going HURRRR]

[Ends]
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In memory of John Graham Mellor aka Joe Strummer, born on this day in 1952 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by Arthur Steel #punk #punks #punkrock #joestrummer #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In case you're having trouble visualising that number, a trillion litres is a *cubic kilometre*. (I don't actually know if that helps or not!) That's enough to drain Lake Windermere every 4 months, or Loch Ness every 7½ years. It's 80% of the flow rate of the river Mersey! youtu.be/R6nbWVFg6kw?...
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's like they know me..!
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Chad @kitation.co.uk · 05/08/2026
This might be a bit niche, but it’s very annoying hearing of organisations saying “well it’s the law to segregate trans people so hands are tied” when most of them respond to accessibility law with “eh who’s gonna catch us?”
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Apparently the boat they want to use has emigrated 😁
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This, 100%
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There's a Michelle Shocked song about driving 500 miles and never leaving LA. Seeing this thumbnail I think she definitely got the better deal :-)
Text reads "Man leads police on 45-minute chase at up to 100 mph through Salford" [a part of Greater Manchester, UK]
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
MacGonagall: Origins
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SMR 🎧 Rejoin Radio @smrrejoinradio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW! This week the Battle for Clacton continues as Rejoin EU Party's John Stevens bids to give the seaside resort a SERIOUS choice! Listen FREE whenever EU like! Please help! Subscribe TODAY from just £1 a month and help us grow! 👉 Link in bio/graphic!
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A word on 'virtue signalling'
That classic right-wing jibe
It just means greeting other members of your tribe
The poppy on your jacket
The EV in your garage
Most of it is quite benign

...and then there's ****s like Farage
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 09/07/2026
1/🧵 The EHRC Code of Practice recommends but does not require that businesses segregate trans folks. My advice to businesses is to ignore the EHRC and do business as usual, to be unapologetically trans-inclusive, and, whenever someone demands exclusion, to direct them to single-occupancy facilities.
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
True. We used to have some characterful bangers but a few years ago we bought a 5yo car from some friends. It's efficient and reliable and so boring we struggle to find it in a car park. Bicycles are definitely more interesting!
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
She does seem to neglect the possibility that the military dictatorship made a hash of things mainly *because* it was a military dictatorship. But no, let's blame 'socialism' 🙄
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
You've licked your last metal
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🎵 When you drive near the Harbour Better watch the road AutoPilot won't save you No matter what you've been told You ain't safe with Elon When the tramcars roll Just turn off the computer And take back control 🎶
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Say what you like about Robert Mugabe but he made every Zimbabwean a trillionaire without affecting the rest of the world in the slightest :-)
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Yesterday I worked out* that if you had $1tn and you could put the whole lot in an account that paid 5% interest *but* only in gold bars that had to be collected from London, it would accrue interest faster than you could ferry gold bars from London to Sheffield in a medium-sized hatchback...
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"But what about (straw-man concern)..." There's a mobility device for every age and every level of ability. What our cities need is the infrastructure to enable this freedom of independent mobility. Full stop.
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Edmund Clerihew Was a gentlemen merry who Failing at limerick verse Invented a form even worse #clerihew
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🎯 Car culture is insatiable. Give it our lunch money and guess what, it will be back for more tomorrow. That money would be far more effective spent elsewhere...
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"People in Wigan voting Reform, I don't know where they think these boats are coming from, but they're not coming up the canal, are they?" 🎯
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So wait, was Dangermouse's sidekick named for the designer of this postbox? Were Cosgrove and Hall secret postbox nerds?
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Crying over transcribing a medieval manuscript? Quill issue
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New lyric video for March In Line by Hollow Dawn (Bandcamp link in comments): youtu.be/WNTr3gA4jqA?...
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March In Line Lyric Video - Hollow Dawn
YouTube video by The1trueDave
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Just got the bandcamp site up and running for The Endless Bloody Poetry - basically satire/ parody songs about (mainly) UK politics. 🎼✍️ If that hasn't put you off 😁 check it out at theendlessbloodypoetry.bandcamp.com
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The Endless Bloody Poetry
Mainly satirical/ parody songs about UK politics 2016-2024. These are free for now since by their nature they (mostly!) date pretty quickly and if I'm honest the production is mostly pretty minimal. ...
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Michigan Maple Man 🍁🇨🇦 🇬🇱🥄🌲🐓⛷️🚵🏼‍♀️🎻🏕️🔨💋🐝🪵🌻🌈❄️🛶💙📎🐸 @mimapleman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We don’t have to jump all the way back in right now but let’s at least make some brave moves towards the SM and CU. Sod those who disagree, they had their chance, we did things their way and everything is fucked up. We need some bravery and guts right now.
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Might be time to post this again. No particular reason :-) Do re-share it if it strikes a chord with you... #SingerSongwriter youtu.be/N7sB1uW4gpU?...
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Snake Oil Sam lyric video
YouTube video by The Endless Bloody Poetry
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Putting Anvil tickets under Taylor Swift didn't work half as well...
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Well this is pretty bloody dystopian - in the most mundane setting imaginable but still 😱
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I see the Pastor of Muppets is at it again...!
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal & Gilgamesh @tmbg.bsky.social
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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I am astonished and disgusted at the sheer amount of people in this country who can't use the word 'and'. I am distressed at the attacks on British Jews AND I am horrified at what Israel is doing in Gaza and Lebanon. I am scared for myself AND I am scared for my Muslim neighbours and fellow citizens
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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This happens more often than people realise
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