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David Blackett

@grimupnorth68.bsky.social
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Sarcastic northerner, professional pedant and gin soak. Museums, galleries, theatre and opera.

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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That'll buy a lot of balaclavas
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David Blackett @grimupnorth68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A true hero 💔👇
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#SteveBuscemi #heroes #September11 #NeverForget
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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh yes ! And a wife beater, and a kidnapper, with an interesting approach to grooming gang victims…
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Patrick Barlow @patrick-barlow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/mich...
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JD @jd007ifonly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Seems like a good idea. Here's another young chap's version youtube.com/shorts/CTYp6...
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Micky Flanagan - people are a bit thick #mickyflanagan #standup #britishcomedian #britishcomedy
YouTube video by Stand Up Comedy Shorts
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump has to lie that "she liked me" and post an AI image showing her with him, but this makes it pretty clear that Dolly Parton may have been coy about her feelings (hence the look of faux surprise) but she did *not* like Donald Trump.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My gay heart 💔 Dolly presenting Whitney with the Grammy for “I will always love you”
Picture of dolly presenting whitney with a Grammy for I will always love you
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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Felon will always do what benefits his own interest.
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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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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Exactly!
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Destroyewski @destroyewski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
man of honor 🥇
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No one wanted to be his partner, but she saw the champion no one else saw. Original post
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annetomato50.bsky.social @annetomato50.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Because he was hounded to death by unwarranted levels of press attention, outright abuse and harassment completely out of proportion to anything he did wrong. Hounding that didn't happen to white academics who are known plagiarists and stay in post. Hell, convicted child abusing academics get less
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REMEMBER: They all knew.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Petition to bring back dark chocolate bounty bars
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Let me fix that headline for you, BBC News: "Reform UK Tries to get Humiliating Clacton By-Election Off The Front Page With Outrageous, Uncosted Policy Ragebait"
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womaninterrupted.bsky.social @womaninterrupted.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Come on Clacton! Bin him!
Pic of Nigel Farage alongside stats that show, when an MEP for British Fisheries he attended 1 of 42 Fisheries meetings.
As an MP he's voted once of 77 votes in Parliament . He's hel 0 surgeries in Clacton since becoming MP 2yrs ago
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I do hope Ben Wallace remembers that Zia Yusuf fought with Lee Anderson in The Battle of The Somme…😉
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Hands up if you're a prancing prick who's been spouting complete bollocks about using the Royal Navy to send migrants back to France in a desperate bid to distract attention from the sleaze your party is mired in"
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tastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
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David Blackett @grimupnorth68.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good to see an organisation standing up to corruption Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against Fifa sell-off www.thetimes.com/article/fa13...
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Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against Fifa sell-off
European governing body takes decision at crisis meeting in move that would essentially kill Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in tournament to private investors
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A Reform UK councillor shares a post saying a Labour MP “should be shot”? Nigel Farage won’t apologise. Zack Polanski shares an Instagram photo? Zia Yusuf demands police action within 24 hours!! 😡
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David Blackett @grimupnorth68.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
c.org/DLqW4TDpyS
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Sign the Petition
SAVE JODRELL BANK – Protect a national treasure of science, heritage and inspiration
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I'll tell you who wasn't a whiny little bitch & would never have got sent off for having a hissy fit at the referee. Kevin Keegan, that's who. RIP
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Lucy Gunner @lucyagunner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Congratulations to the England rugby lads for beating Argentina 😁🙌🏻🏉
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So apparently “anti-establishment” politics now means defending the right of wealthy aristocratic families to make huge undeclared political donations, while “the establishment” is anyone who asks questions about this
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Barbara Browning @bbstleo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bette Davis -only say good things about the dead. She’s dead. Good.
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leemurg.bsky.social @leemurg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A nasty piece of work. Why is the media giving so much coverage to such an inconsequential politician? Can anyone name a signature achievement from her career? A cartoon battleaxe created by the media - too many of whom went to public school & retain a kink for the bossy school mistress.
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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
No one deserves a violent or unpleasant death. I do wish her family condolences for their loss. But it's hard to offer any kind of tribute to someone whose main legacy was ultimately to make the country more divided, more backwards, less progressive and less prosperous.
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Our Chair tells @metro.co.uk readers the #Farage by-election stunt is hypocritical after the #ReformUK leader bleated about 'parliamentary sovereignty'. Tell #Clacton residents the truth before voting, says @leedsblue67.bsky.social: "Just as should have happened - but didn't - in #Brexit campaign."
Letter published in the Metro newspaper on 9 July 2026, from Peter Packham, Chair of Leeds for Europe. Mr Packham says it is hypocritical for Nigel Farage to call a by-election to avoid parliamentary scrutiny, after talking so much about parliamentary sovereignty in the past.
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David Blackett @grimupnorth68.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency
Exclusive: Bankers have raised potential money-laundering concerns over loans and donations involving senior party figures
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KarrieS @kspink.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🤣🤣🤣👍
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Rob Hemmings @robhem.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Binface Vs f*ckface ... May the best bin win
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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
IMO Binface should withdraw. 1. It‘s beneath the dignity of an intergalactic space warrior to take on a foe as unworthy as Farage 2. Farage standing alone at the count, having beaten precisely nobody would be way funnier & more humiliating than sharing the stage with any comedy candidate.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage versus Binface is absolute the summer we deserve
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Gill Tate @gillyhx.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hate to agree with Ben Habib, but stopped clocks and all that
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip
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sergeantpluck.bsky.social @sergeantpluck.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You shouldn't stand either. Let him stand by himself.
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Imagine if the best person to vouch for your personal integrity is Robert Jenrick. ##bbclaurak
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Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Remembering Alan Turing during Pride Month. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💗 www.kings.cam.ac.uk/alan-mathiso...
Alan Turing as a young man.
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David Blackett @grimupnorth68.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I await the outrage from Farage, Lowe, Yaxley-Lennon CEO, football coach and paramedic among 13 men named in ‘rape conspiracy’ www.thetimes.com/article/376e...
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CEO, football coach and paramedic among 13 men named in ‘rape conspiracy’
The names of defendants accused of assaulting a sedated woman have been revealed after a legal order was lifted at a trial in Manchester
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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Farage calling for a new election. I wonder how he views the ‘mandate’ of all the Tory MPs who have moved to Reform. Total charlaten.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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