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Gary Bainbridge

@garybainbridge.bsky.social
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Owner-operator of Liverpool's premier bijou editorial services provider, Bus Stop. Occasional bus traveller. Used to be a small deal.

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interviewer: "What's your biggest weakness?" Me: "I can be too self-replicating" Interviewer: "You mean 'self-deprecating'?" Us: "Nope"
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has somebody just given Lisa Nandy bad news?
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know! It's like a super-saturated solution.
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw padel referred to as "Tory tennis".
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The people most furious about the idea that Labour might break its 2024 manifesto commitments on tax and public spending are people who voted against Labour in 2024.
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Chris Webb @chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really hope this also stars Tim Robbins. And - oh, I don't know - Steven Seagull.
A poster for The Weight, starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you had a free national social care service, it wouldn’t be an inheritance tax, it’d be an inheritance protection tax - a means by which inheritances weren’t burnt through by the current care lottery. There’s a way to make this appeal to self interest.
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anybody up here for Labour conference: can I recommend Corked? It’s a wine bar in one of Liverpool’s most beautiful buildings and it opened after last year’s conference, so you’ve never been there.
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jane is a wonderful stand up. Had the pleasure of seeing her in Edinburgh a while ago. Unflinching. Not afraid to deal with the dark stuff then. If you are nearby you should try to go.
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Jo the Hat @jothehat.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
If I were Education Secretary the curriculum would include an hour a week teaching kids genuinely useful things for adulthood: how to darn socks; how to tie knots; how to know when one is a big number and a million is a small one*; and the basics of contempt laws. *From The Tiger That Isn't
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Words do matter. That's why we have contempt laws in this country.
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My big idea is to rebrand all state handouts as benefits, especially pensions (retirement benefit) and winter fuel allowance (winter fuel benefit).
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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not the point at all, but how bereft of imagination and/ or personality do you need to be for your nickname to be Daniel "Danny Tommo" Thomas?
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Glenn @frackpong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When your dog hears you open a packet of biscuits.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bit ironic.
Screenshot from Instagram. @DanielPink says: I’ve read more productivity books than anyone you know. The wisest advice in all of them fits in two words: do less.
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Satisfactory. #thefootball
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Oonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My son has a play on at the King's Arms in Salford next month - 6/7/8. You can buy tickets on this link: linktr.ee/cormackeating And if you see me, say hello. I'll be the grey-haired woman sobbing with pride. Thank you 🙏
Slade productions presents Void. Written by Cormac Keating. Directed by Elianne Hawley.  Image shows the word Void in red on a peach-coloured background.  The O is replaced by the blurred image of a head with dark hair in a high bun. Above and below that head are duplicate images of a head with short dark hair.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Smoke me a kipper, Arthur - and none for those greedy pilots, they don't deserve it" RIP Stephanie Cole
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can’t wait to see the husband/sidekick’s interview in Doctor Who Magazine.
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about Mike Leigh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the hell of other people's approval: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Satisfactory. #thefootball
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Sam @sam-bambs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When the fish pie has eel Then you really must feel It’s a moray
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even though I understand how language develops, I'm not going to eat anything called a "viral chicken stew" at any point in the near future.
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Chris Pople @chrispople.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New post! Impala is absolutely as stunning as everyone says it is. chrispople.substack.com/p/impala
chrispople.substack.com
Impala
Soho
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am never going to buy anything from JYSK because their YouTube adverts are unskippable.
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MAG (Mines Advisory Group) @minesadvisorygroup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hear from our Director of Programmes Greg Crowther at the Third Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. This week, MAG is sharing lessons from our clearance operations in Cambodia, Laos, Lebanon and Vietnam, and meeting with States to strengthen their commitment to the Convention.
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Glad I'm not on Twitter for the news about the PM's dad.
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Matt Round @matt77r.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Full on 'sod it' in York.
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Richard Long @rclongauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Meanwhile, on the Isle of Wight:
Street sign reading “Avenue Road Slipway”
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decorhate.bsky.social @decorhate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There's an Avenue Road near me!
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
From the city* that brought you Street Lane… *Leeds
A road sign in Leeds reading “Avenue Crescent”
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David J @damjef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Re: last RT, for the benefit of anyone without Instagram…
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just perfection. You will not see any better bit of broadcasting this century.
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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Clicked on the link. Some Man Utd streamer gubbins I think to myself but I trust Gary, I'll watch to the end Am now convulsed with laughter in cork airport
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is everything the OP promises.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For years - decades - we’ve been imploring people to save trees by using less paper, to conserve water by flushing less for urine than faeces, to save energy by switching off lightbulbs. This year, Europe roasted in unbelievably high temperatures.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Much like when the racists got angry about Helen's casting in The Odyssey, & there was a sudden wave of revisionism for Wolfgang Petersen's truly diabolical 'Troy', the same dweebs are now butthurt about 'Lanterns' &, I kid you not, trying to revive Martin Campbell's all-time-howler 'Green Lantern'.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 09/09/2026
hahaha holy shit
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They say they're patriots. They hate the RNLI. They hate the BBC. They hate the NHS. They hate the Police. They hate the Govt. They hate the King's son. They hate teachers. They hate Winston Churchill's refugee detention hotels. They hate the Church Of England. Where is the patriotism?
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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can't unsee this now.
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is that Anne Diamond on the bottom right?
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why is my dad texting like he's an NPC on a videogame
Do you want CHEESE toastie, HAM toastie or CHEESE AND HAM toastie
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Chris - drummer @cmsdrums.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Rita, Sue and Pob too
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Umar Ditta @umarditta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
[on the phone, as Marty plays "Right Here Waiting"] Richard! Richard, it's Karl. Your cousin, Karl Marx. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this! [holds the receiver out]
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"My donor's got no strong beliefs, he's got his money"
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is the sort of insight that only a journalist steeped in Westminster and Whitehall intrigue could mine. Worth every penny of my licence fee.
Chris Mason above the headline “Mason: ‘Not what Farage wanted today to look like’”
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