Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Teachers watching the Croatia vs England game, where the vast majority of the crowd are children and the vibe is "world's largest school trip". 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you ever feel like a fraud in your chosen profession, remember that Steve McManaman is paid to talk about football. 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This Man City side having 15 points from their first five games would be a crime against God. 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It...it doesn't look remotely like that? 280
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Marina Hyde, truly without peers when it comes to holding a mirror up to the wild world of politics on a daily basis. Search for Marina Hyde daily mirror Piers for more info. 020
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don't disagree with the concept of accent bias, I just think there are maybe better examples of it than a Mancunian in the East Midlands. 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 20/08/2026People taking the "AI is good in some ways and bad in other ways" approach remind me a lot of the dril tweet about drunk driving. 000
Reposted by Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D.Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The death of Jason Arday is yet another case of the barbarism and cruelty of our media in tandem with the gleeful bigotry that drives it . 13822149
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The British press are the scum of the fucking earth 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Emergency alert: don't do arson 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 11/08/2026On a train. Taking up two seats, one of which is occupied by a bag containing my parents' ashes. If anyone objects, I am prepared to make things extremely awkward. 110
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Last day clearing out my mum's house before it's sold. This cat is currently asleep outside the back door, which I'm choosing to believe is a good omen. 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 04/08/2026🎵 I'm dropping off the grid Before they pump the lead I leave you with four words I'm sad Liddle dead 🎵 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 02/08/2026On the one hand I don't particularly like the OP and I don't agree with the point they're making, but on the other hand almost all of the replies and quotes are from Americans who don't seem to understand that other countries existstatic.klipy.comLarry David's Indecisive 'I Don't Know' ExpressionAlt: Larry David's Indecisive 'I Don't Know' Expression 061
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Just to get ahead of the rumours, YES, it's true that I am no longer based at Redwall Abbey. I was asked to leave by the abbot after saying "oh, just some plain toast for me thanks" three days running. 141
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Tyrannosaurus Rex being top of this poll was inevitable, the same way the Christmas number one single is inevitably shit. The British public are idiots, and vote for the LadBaby of dinosaurs. 101
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Think Thomas Tuchel might be a bit shit at managing football teams tbh 020
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Wild to think that England could be two wins away from retaking Gascony. 121
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 13/07/2026"Verify your age" The streets were paved with broken cassette tapes 000
Reposted by Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D.ceej @ceej.online · 27/03/2024every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act 1248191264
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Pulisic kicks the back of Tielemans's foot so hard he turns himself into a GTA wasted animation, and Tielemans doesn't even appear to notice. You love to see it. 030
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 07/07/2026My condolences to the United States Men's National Team, who soared so high and came so close to triumph, only to fall short in the last 16 on account of all of their players being shit. 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Great bit of spontaneous nominative determinism from Matt Freese 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Every time an American lawyer tries to explain why FIFA's actions regarding Balogun are fine actually, it sounds like Charlie Kelly with a thesaurus. 100
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I haven't seen Jordan Henderson fall this badly since the time he was widely liked and then decided to go play in the Saudi league 0285
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Instead it just required a phone call from a notoriously corrupt president to a notoriously corrupt governing body. Very refreshing. 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This is transparently corrupt, as was waiving Ronaldo's ban after he was sent off against Ireland. 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Well done Paraguay, but my main takeaway from the game is that Alan Shearer genuinely despises Germany. 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Ben Stokes is a colossal egomaniac dickhead 110
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 28/06/2026At the risk of getting myself added to a bunch of lists with names like "Putin's troll bot army", these numbers sound like absolute bollocks. 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Danny Murphy shut the fuck up challenge 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Getting unreasonably angry about how the Belgian World Cup shirts have "this is not a shirt" written on the back. They are shirts. The pictures below are not shirts, but if I had one in my hand, it would be a shirt. I could wear it, and I would be wearing a shirt. It's a shirt. A shirt. A SHIRT. 120
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Every few months I search for Ann Arbor Canasta Fix, a one-person band who released an album on Post-Parlo in 2000, in the hope of finding their music. I heard one song by them 25 years ago, and I thought it was superb. I can never find the song. It's depressing how much from that era has vanished. 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 02/06/2026BAH GAWD THAT’S JOHN MCCAIN'S MUSIC 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Not like Man Utd to get a favourable decision at Old Trafford 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I see the politically correct woke brigade at the BBC have snubbed the original Big Break hosts (a disgraced racist and a man who is dead) 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I feel like it should be possible to critique the politics of Mass Effect without implying that it's Birth of a Nation in space, but I guess that's why I'm only capable of discourse and not Discourse. 010
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 09/05/2026One of them is a lonely figure completely submerged in piss, and the other is an art installation in Italy. 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 04/05/2026♫ And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind ♫ 000
Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. @dismalplaces.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Each day on bluesky there is one main character. The goal is to never let it be British and American food. 010
