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@flapdoodles.bsky.social
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def: a speaker of nonsense, foolish talk, bosh, humbug. c19 unknown origin

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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Break Point People who call out At Wimbledon matches Should be shot in their seats And disposed of in batches Out!
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Some extracts from my latest book #photography #abstract #Munich #Bregenz #trains #trainjourney
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Took forever for our food to arrive. The waiter claimed we couldn't be found.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
@chicagotafia.bsky.social medium.com/@martinthoma... #ccfc #bluebirds #wales #eflchampionship
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BOUNCING BACK!
‘Bouncebackability’ was a phrase coined by Iain Dowie when he was manager of Crystal Palace during the 2003–04 season describing the…
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
BBC News - Combative Trump blames diversity policies after air tragedy www.bbc.com/news/article... Shocking how parts of the media are granting validation to his crazed outpourings, allowing him to set the agenda - #questiontime #bbc last night - rather than call him out.
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Combative Trump blames DEI policies after air tragedy
The president started his White House news conference as "consoler-in-chief" but then pivoted into unevidenced political blame, writes the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Read “STUNG!“ by Martin Thomas on Medium: medium.com/@martinthoma... Cardiff City 1 v 1 Watford Match Report #ccfc #Bluebirds #cardiffcity #Cardiff #wales #walesfootball #welshfootball #Watford #efl #championship
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STUNG!
THE PREAMBLE RAMBLE
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
www.occupiedspaces.co.uk/p212478272 A 'non-essential' essential project from 2020 #cardiff #lockdown #covid19 #covid #wales #photography #streetphotography #urban #street #urbanphotography
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Cardiff Locked Down
Images of Cardiff taken during the early days of the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, spring / early summer 2020.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
One of a number of images taken during the pandemic. Just me and one solitary figure in an otherwise deserted Cardiff city centre. #photography #urban #urbanphotography #cardiff #covid #pandemic #wales
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
medium.com/@martinthoma... #cardiffcity #cardiff #CCFC #Bluebirds #walesfootball #EFL ##EFLchampionship
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TAN, MISSING, INACTION
Photo by Nick Page on Unsplash
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Never lost its identity? Remind me which rogue state is bankrolling the club's ambition and appropriating its soul...
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
medium.com/@martinthoma... #cardiffcity #CCFC #BLUEBIRDS
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GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY!
Daniel Storey is the chief football writer for the i newspaper who has a ‘Doing The 92’ podcast, his mission to visit and report from every…
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Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I went to Cardiff City, where an uncomfortable truce once existed between supporters and those in power. Now anger, apathy and mutiny are all returning... inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Cardiff City's uneasy truce is over. Now mutiny is afoot
An owner who caused a historical rift, a managerial problem that drifted for too long and those in power hitting out at the concerns of the club's most loyal supporters
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Daniel, I'd love to read this but it's behind the i paywall. When will it appear on the podcast. I would love to pass it on to my fellow disaffected chums and fans. Cheers.
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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Room full of satire writers will struggle to find a funnier line that the BBC Newsreader just now saying “The Chinese approached Prince Andrew in the hope of finding intelligence’”
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Roy Keane scathing at H-T. Heading for the car park...
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Beyond embarrassing. And condoned by Neville's inability to condemn. 'Oh, I'm not so sure'. Risible.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Very good. But one very obvious omission! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😳
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Pretty damn spot-on, don’t you think?
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Christopher Cherry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @christophercherry.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Earl Charlton is one of most powerful, urgent voices out there on misery of homelessness (a crisis that has soared by 14% in past year). Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son full documentary: youtu.be/vhiwguIxoyA
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Inside the Hidden Lives of Britain’s Homeless: The Real Stories of the Streets (Documentary)
YouTube video by Java Discover | Free Global Documentaries & Clips
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Seriously?! 'Never lets her subject off the hook??' Subjects rarely take the bait and if they do, the 'and away...' moment invariably follows. Shocking.
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Chris Lepkowski @chrislepkowski.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Vaccines are a great gift of modern science. That anyone would want to revoke them is beyond comprehension. America is being turned into a wasteland of right-wing horror and stupidity.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
BBC News - Alleged Chinese spy with links to Andrew banned from UK www.bbc.com/news/article... There are 'useful idiots' and then there are 'dangerous useful idiots'. Time for a full investigation into his activities.
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Andrew 'confidant' banned from UK over national security
A Chinese associate of Prince Andrew has been refused entry to the UK amid national security fears.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
medium.com/@martinthoma... #CCFC #BLUEBIRDS #EFL #WALESFOOTBALL
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MADNESS, MADNESS, THEY CALL IT MADNESS!
And so this is (nearly) Christmas, and what have we done? Well, at 16.45pm last time out, at Coventry — which seems an age ago — the…
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hope you enjoyed your day out more than we did! Here's a link to my match report medium.com/@martinthoma...
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CARDIFF CITY MATCH REPORTS
SUNDERLAND
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'd invite you to Cardiff Danny but I'm not sure what you'd make of our soulless identikit retail park monstrosity. I've always thought an interesting project would be visiting the location of abandoned grounds. Inevitably, Ninian Park is an uninspiring housing development.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Excellent. Insightful in emphasising that the game is so much more than what happens on the pitch. Keep them coming.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Christmas 1972 Chopper no-show Ruled out by house H&S Exec (aka Mum). Also Clackers. Chemistry set v educational. Mates just chucked everything in a test tube & added domestic cleaning products. Kitchen engulfed. Great fun. Spud guns - harmless unless rule imposed 'above neck only.' Survived
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thank you for this David, always refreshing to see someone stand up to address important issues outside the game. Very brave considering the potential lunatic fringe response. I'm Welsh so keen for Wrexham to push on! But good luck for the rest of the season 👏
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Red alert weather warnings for South Wales and I'm panicking. Can someone tell me where I can find the hatches and how I can batten them down??
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
First car stereo mixtape c.1978 Unsurpassed!
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One that immediately springs to mind, hits the spot today just as it did in '77 "I said "I'm so happy I could die'. She said 'Drop dead' and left with another guy" Elvis Costello - The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Generally a good test but often the cultural Connections are lost on us this side of the pond.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
'Storm Bert brought a lot of rain to England' ?? I'm sure the people of Pontypridd in particular are relieved that Bert passed them by...
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
...and wrong
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Not if the Context is hubris.
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We’ll StandTogether and Fight! 💙 We are Women hear us Roar 🦁 @suzie1996.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Who else agrees? 💙💙💙💙💙💯
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Which is great as far as it goes. I wonder how many had careers (or any kind of hinterland) before entering politics.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Shop small & shop local!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago. We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Read “Lets Us Entertain You…“ by Martin Thomas on Medium: medium.com/@martinthoma... #cardiff #cardiffcity #QPR #EFL #WALES #walesfootball #bluebirds
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Lets Us Entertain You…
On the face of it Saturday’s away draw against Sheff Wed was a creditable result and provided some reassurance for the pessimists that a…
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
CCFC not solid, not minted. You're welcome back any time Bellers...
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My morning run playlist today shuffled up Move On Up(extended)- Curtis Mayfield/Little Fluffy Clouds-Orbital/School-FourTet/Late In The Evening-Paul Simon/The Day Before You Came-Blancmange/Please-Jessie Ware/Do It, Try It-M83/The Beat Goes On-All Seeing Eye Very satisfying.
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you. That was a great read, so poignant and relatable. Just started taking my granddaughter to watch Cardiff City. A certified 5th generation Bluebird. Looking forward to making more memories. Legacy assured ☑️
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I miss Valentina & her kiosk. I miss her positivity & warm-heartedness. Valentina has been undergoing cancer treatment. To cheer her up I turned the Valentina’s Kiosk theme into a song & the legendary BBC Singers have recorded it for her. Here is Valentina’s Song. Conducted by David Hill.
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Valentina's Song (Tomorrow Will Be Better Than Today).
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you 👏
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flapdoodles.bsky.social @flapdoodles.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Some years ago during an American road trip we booked into a motel in Elm St, Page, Arizona, were introduced to our feculent room and 5 mins later returned to reception to avoid the anticipated Nightmare. Refunded on the understanding that we wrote an honest Trip Advisor review. Was happy to oblige.
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dChuckZ @dchuckzylb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
One thing I miss from X is just more random funny posts….with that said, here’s a laugh youtu.be/K8BPP4ASQWo?... #comedy #movies #stevecoogan #robbrydon #britishumor
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The trip with Steve Coogan. We rise at daybreak.
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