Reposted by Gary BainbridgeT'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Interviewer: "What's your biggest weakness?" Me: "I can be too self-replicating" Interviewer: "You mean 'self-deprecating'?" Us: "Nope" 0205
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Has somebody just given Lisa Nandy bad news? 210
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know! It's like a super-saturated solution. 111
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just saw padel referred to as "Tory tennis". 240
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The 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. 032
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeChris Webb @chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I really hope this also stars Tim Robbins. And - oh, I don't know - Steven Seagull. 104110
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If 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. 1245
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Anybody 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. 030
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeScott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jane 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. 131
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeJo the Hat @jothehat.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026If 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 021
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Words do matter. That's why we have contempt laws in this country. 3223
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My big idea is to rebrand all state handouts as benefits, especially pensions (retirement benefit) and winter fuel allowance (winter fuel benefit). 240
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeBanjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not 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? 071
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeGlenn @frackpong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When your dog hears you open a packet of biscuits. 726866
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeOonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My 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 🙏 32314
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeGabby 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 1711322
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Can’t wait to see the husband/sidekick’s interview in Doctor Who Magazine. 070
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeDavid Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wrote about Mike Leigh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the hell of other people's approval: substack.com/home/post/p-... 116220
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeSam @sam-bambs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When the fish pie has eel Then you really must feel It’s a moray 0291
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay. 22654177
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Even 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. 1150
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeChris Pople @chrispople.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New post! Impala is absolutely as stunning as everyone says it is. chrispople.substack.com/p/impalachrispople.substack.comImpalaSoho 032
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am never going to buy anything from JYSK because their YouTube adverts are unskippable. 140
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeMAG (Mines Advisory Group) @minesadvisorygroup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hear 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. 111
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Glad I'm not on Twitter for the news about the PM's dad. 2100
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeRichard Long @rclongauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Meanwhile, on the Isle of Wight: 121
Reposted by Gary Bainbridgedecorhate.bsky.social @decorhate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026There's an Avenue Road near me! 021
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026From the city* that brought you Street Lane… *Leeds 4153
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeDavid J @damjef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Re: last RT, for the benefit of anyone without Instagram… 45926
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeUK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just perfection. You will not see any better bit of broadcasting this century.instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 24622
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeSeán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Clicked 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 042
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Glaciers 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. 391685279
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For 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. 5908109
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’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. 1553136711
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeJoshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Much 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'. 021
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeMeryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026They 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? 32712
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeTomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Can't unsee this now. 051
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Is that Anne Diamond on the bottom right? 130
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Why is my dad texting like he's an NPC on a videogame 424711
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeChris - drummer @cmsdrums.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Rita, Sue and Pob too 0111
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeUmar 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] 064
Reposted by Gary BainbridgeThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"My donor's got no strong beliefs, he's got his money" 0248
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is the sort of insight that only a journalist steeped in Westminster and Whitehall intrigue could mine. Worth every penny of my licence fee. 262