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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 3h

In other Man City news, on account of them playing at home that day, there is no parking (accessible or otherwise) at the Co-Op Live for Suede/Manics on 31/10. Seriously - fuck Man City (& Co-Op for selling tickets to disabled people on false pretences)

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 19h

First time watching & I'll say only this: Just bloody kill Rajan now & I will *PROMISE* I'm in for the rest of this. #CelebrityTraitors

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 21h

Avalanches! Drum Machines! Barbara Windsor! And Batley Variety Club. Wonderful stuff as always although, listening again to Lonely Days this evening, I’m reminded that it has the least-synchronised handclaps in popular music…

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since Virginmedia appear to be having a yard sale (flogging on email accounts and their Media Store) and since I have zero appetite for paying to switch to their new partner mail provider, anyone know how to figure out an EASY way of checking all the sites/logins I want to change??

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI shite aside, a good day in other respects - tickets booked for my first electric Richard Thompson show at the Phil next May. 👍

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On the basis of the utter shite I’m reading in my employer’s mandatory training and expected to use, I’m really fucking glad I should be retiring in the next few years. #AI #Copilot

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m watching A Time To Kill on Netflix and I’d say that Kevin Spacey plays a sinister creepy piece of shit better than anyone, but then he *is* Kevin Spacey, so I’m not sure anything is being achieved here.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Concert For George on Sky Arts and, magnificent as the whole event is, I am again reminded why I have no place for Tom Petty in my record collection.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sky Sports app version seems to think my wifi network is not in the UK - this may well be their way trying to steer me on the path to personal peace, but I'm going to waste some data on them & see how it goes...

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, the weather was a major disappointment, but the record shopping in the Peak District was a success - UK second pressing, with the wild and wonderful original 1969 mix. Glorious stuff.

A vinyl record playing - Aoxomoxoa by The Grateful Dead

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Carrick’s at the wheel, I see…

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We’ve come on holiday by mistake.

A screenshot of the weather currently in Buxton - 14 degrees, but feels like 9 degrees

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He's gonna need some Duracell Extras in that looper pedal of his, isn't he...?

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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Fatigue of Gentlemen @misslucyp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Didn't think it was achievable, but Ed Sheeran has finally managed to do something worse than writing Galway Girl.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Was quite excited to see this little fella in the garden just now, until I looked it up and now I’m wondering where all the caterpillars are lurking…

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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is an incredible snapshot of the malignancy of our economic system. The very people working in AI think AI needs to be slowed, that it's out of control, that it has a 10% chance of bringing about human extinction - but they can't stop it themselves bcos of the remorseless drives of capitalism.

theguardian.com

‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Alright lads - I think we’re done with the orange man joke now.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watching Peeping Tom on Talking Pictures TV and it feels like the missing link between Rope and Frenzy #Powell #Hitchcock

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I see we’re getting nothing from this ref tonight. #LFC

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just started watching Vigil s3 - lighting is so bloody dark, I might as well just make an educated guess as to what’s happening on screen.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know if it's just that this UK government missed the context of growing up in Ireland in the 90s, but they should probably be aware that gangs of lads in balaclavas don't have the best intentions for the public.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Meeting mates shortly, for a day of good beer and live music - should be great but, in this moment, the first pint on my own as I wait in the sunshine, is absolutely blissful.

A pint of beer on a pub bench, in the sunshine

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sharing this because, - it’s a fabulous show and if you’ve not heard it, you bloody should - it’s a great episode in its own right, with a really compelling backstory - AH is a lovely guy and there aren’t enough of them in this world I really am going to have to dig out my CD of it now…

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No such thing as two tier policing, eh…?

Snip from BBC News site, “No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says”

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Arrest and jail them for 3 years. Just like you did with the 'disruptive' Pro Palestinian protestors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover

Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Alright Apple - I know it's just a bunch of photos of Action Man outfits lately, but I'd really like to get them off my iPhone somehow, or even visible in File Explorer when I connect to my PC (computer can't see anything newer than Dec 2023, or reasons beyond my ken...)

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Bobby D/Mal E mashup we've been waiting for all our lives...

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Transphobia isn’t an opinion, for the same reason that its uncle, white supremacy, isn’t an opinion. Both are extremist ideologies based on dehumanisation. They must be addressed accordingly. Solidarity to parents now afraid for their child. Love to all those children, victims of hate.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Who (COVID) Billy Joel (artist’s neurological disorder) ELO (cancelled through illness) Bruce & the Seeger Sessions Band (wife’s near-death) Joe Strummer (stayed in bar until headliners came on 🤦‍♂️) Bob Dylan (put my back out) Rick Astley (wife’s post-op mobility issues)

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live. Paul McCartney David Bowie Van Morrison Bruce Springsteen The (original*) Drifters Richard Thompson The Who Crosby, Stills & Nash Bob Dylan Page & Plant (* okay, they possibly weren’t...)

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Spent the afternoon digging out my Action Man box from the loft and attempting to match up the outfits - eBay tomorrow (if I’ve still got the courage to go through with it…)

An array of Palitoy Action Man clothing on a table.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Liverpool not very good again, but they will always be East Midland scabs, so there’s that. #LFC

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I feel dirty even sharing this, but the degree of accuracy in AI video fakery now is truly terrifying... www.instagram.com/reel/DcjfdV-...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Seeing this film many years ago cemented my impression of British trucking firms and 25+ years since of dealing with hauliers has not significantly changed that view.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not Spiderman and "The Marxist" - the grift is real.

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Butcher cover or not, this is a great record (although the US Revolver may disagree)

The Beatles’ “Yesterday and Today” album on a turntable

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You get a lot of this flailing about “ideological conformity” from people who absolutely would not loudly run their stupid mouths about their fun opinions in a crowded pub on a Friday night, which shows you they do in fact understand what they are doing.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

No doubt but really, a general rule of life is that if you choose to behave like a cunt in public then sooner or later, somebody is going to get you tuned in.

Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg • 3h
Good grief Bluesky really is as bad, possibly worse, than people have been saying.
Absolute hell hole of ideological conformity where powerful accounts administer punishment bearings through pile ons if you step out of line.

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