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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 16h

NO GOING BACK! What an astonishing turnout at today’s solidarity rally with the Garvaghy Road Community! #EndSectarianMarches

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 20h

Big fans of Sushi Doki on Northgate st 😘

Picture of the restaurant's ligo and address, 11A Upper Northgate St CH14EE

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FFS, forgot to check the guard on my beard trimmer and I've now lost a month worth of bushiness, and sport a moustache halfway between a 70s Aussie cricketer and Amanda Hart's in Celebrity Traitors 😐

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I happened to be in Chester's Station Tap this week when they got told they were in the Good Beer Guide 2027, so well done them!!

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chester's autumnal flower displays are particularly nice this year.

Flower hangers up the rows on upper Bridge St, yellow, red and orange flowers, loads of

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Eric Van Goethem @evgo7311.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey #drummers of Bluesky, question. Our daughter needs her first kit, and we’re hesitating. We don’t want to splurge since she’s prone to changing hobbies very fast so: which one of these kits could be decent? - Alesis Nitro Pro Max - Fame DD-6600 - Millenium MPS-150X Thanks for the answers!

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is exactly the argument i was making to my butcher the other day

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 30/09/2026

It’s Monster Month Eve! Sign up to my Patreon to see 31 full res monster pictures in October (or to simply support human arts). Small versions will be posted here daily. #HappyToastMonsterMonth

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OMG, turns out adding sliced tomatoes and black pepper to a sardines on buttered sourdough sandwich really, **really** elevates it!!! 😋

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Prospective employer : we have well equipped sport facilities. Me: 🙄 5 months later, I stumble on this

A full size basketball court, photographed from the gallery above

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Didn't hear the alarm for my 6am circuits session,.and you know what, I don't care 😏

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Rayner added that she believed the home secretary was aware of her stance on the proposals. “I think Shabana knows,” she said. “It was in the newspaper at the time." Don't these people actually talk to each other??? 🙄

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Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference

Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can, but doesn't - I walk a lot and have the memory of a goldfish.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feminism doesn't require women to see trans+ people as the enemy. For many of us, feminism has always meant challenging inequality, standing alongside people whose rights are under threat, and refusing to accept that one group's equality must come at another's expense. That's our feminism too.

Woman walking down a street outside, wearing a scarf and shoulder bag. The quote from one of the women who signed our letter reads

“I have grown incredibly exasperated at the portrayal of ‘gender critical’ perspectives as representing all women when my feminism has ALWAYS been inclusive and intersectional.”

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Big day today - brand new Altra Experience for parkrun, first new pair in at least 10 years. Shoe design has apparently moved on from the segmented sole of my old New Balance 1260 and evolved into the clown‑shoe look: 4 mm drop and a genuinely wide toe box. Hopefully shave a few more sec from my PB

Black and dayglow yellow running shoe, quite wide, close to a clown shoe width

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another one bites the dust is NOT about dropping one's glove!!!!! 🙄 #totp

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd heard the news but that's the first time I see the size of that beast 😱

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone knows what is that helicopter doing over Chester?

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Coined a phrase today I'm very proud of. In the context of work, a battle of will between us and a team playing Calvinball, I was asked if I needed support from a particularly authoritative senior leader: “Escalation is a ratchet and you are my favourite crank" Might reuse it for their xmas card

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You can't warn people of some 'unforeseen event' in the future, doesn't work that way.

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Hippolyta Loudbasket of treats 🍬🍬🍬(she/her) @loudbasket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of our party today said she didn’t think you were allowed to scatter people in the Thames and Little M said, “They’re fine with it as long as you cremate them first.”

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Travis Hawke @travishawke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brian Clough used to say his OBE stood for "Old Big 'Ead". Jim Ratcliffe is "Shortchanging Inland Revenue".

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I want to be able to sauté my mince, not steam it 🙄 Supermarket meat is so shite

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Outright racist’?? Personally if these people are going to be vile, I'd rather they be loud and proud about it, where I can ignore them. I'm much more worried about respectable covert racist sapping our institutions from within, looking back fondly at Vichy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

100% the vibe that Lanterns poster gives off

A two panel cartoon the first showing someone peeing at a urinal, and a second person walking past. Second panel shows rhe second person peeing at the Urinal next to the first. Underneath that is the Lanterns poster with Hal Jordan looking straight forward and John Stewart giving him the angry side eye, the ol’ hairy eyeball.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys

A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house. A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it. It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why are GIF so shite? Every time I look for one I have to trawl through complete garbage. Not funny, not edited properly, and usually mildly offensive in a not funny way. Pure shite

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can't one batter and deep fry ozempic? 🤔

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The bird was watching and the reaction was fun 🤣

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Heritage Chester @heritagechester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A natural wonder hiding downstream on the Dee 🌊 Paul Hyde's illustrated talk on the Dee's own river bore - what it is, how it forms, and how to catch one. 📆 Fri 18 Sept, 7.30-8.50pm, Bishop Lloyd's Palace. Tickets limited, book now 👉️ buff.ly/v6enOvI #HeritageOpenDays #Chester

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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A clip from my latest video where I make multiple visits to film Hornet behaviour at a nest, and talk about how I film them. youtu.be/t03ioVUHTLk #insect #ukwildlife #nature #wildlife #entomology

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Continuing this morning social media theme - pear sorbet

An ice cream cone topped with a waffer branded 'Krum gellato', Chester Foregate street in the background

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tell you what - this is a really good movie. Nowhere as jingoistic as I expected. In some way, De Gaulle unwavering belief in a free France is very autistic coded. He's not depicted as a genius, or even particularly inspiring, just pig headedly determined in France being responsible for its destiny

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What a random day I'm having... Can't do couch, but hoping the nice seats of Picturehouse will be gentle enough on my back to manage a showing of De Gaulle : Résistance, which definitely was not on the books today, but happens to start just as I come out of my brunch.

Original poster for the movie, "La bataille De Gaulle - l'age de fer / j'écris ton nom", showing a war map with croix de Lorraine used as ouns, all bathed innthe glow if a sunset or maybe fiery battle

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The bit that bugs me the most is that those donations are not couched in terms of making things better, in any sense of the term. Nor are they balanced by any sort of philanthropy. No "we have tried helping with societal issue X but believe it to be a political problem that only reform can address"

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