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Hugo Collingridge

@hugoc.bsky.social
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Music, Sale Sharks Rugby, TV and random musings. Manchester UK.

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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Going to go back to staying the hell away from social media again now.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 03/10/2025
Here’s the clip (which I will once again note for out-of-context reposts, is a total bullshit conspiracy/fake news).
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I spend weeks off social media and feel much happier. Then drunkenly think "let's check into Bluesky, see what's happening". Instant bad mood. See next retweet.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 16/09/2025
“Rather than getting despondent - which is easy, at the moment - we’ve got to mobilise, we’ve got to get active." — HOPE not hate CEO @nicklowles.bsky.social, speaking to @theguardian.com today.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 17/09/2025
It's time to tell the racists to fuck off (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...
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It's time to tell the racists to fuck off
Anti-racism norms are good and should be socially enforced
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I have some books to read, some TV series to watch, some friends to chat to and some music to listen to instead. See you anon.
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I'm going to take a bit of a break from here, as I already spend too much time thinking about politics as it is ... and trying to resist the urge to respond to people's "takes" is not helping me on the mental health front, quite frankly.
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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Imagine actually being in a relationship with this fucker. *shudders*
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is a thought that pops into my head a lot.
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz348bs
CRICKETERS. Shout "CATCH IT"
when a ball is hurtling towards your
team mate's face in case he hasn't
thought of that.
HP., Arbeth Narbeth
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Bloody hell, they're using The Slits' cover of Heard it through the Grapevine in an advert.
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Good of the players to allow themselves to get absolutely stuffed, for some real Heywood Road nostalgia 😉
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Thank God for the Rugby season. Now I can give my brain a break from worrying about, well, just about bloody everything, by worrying about fifteen blokes chucking an oval-shaped ball about instead.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
So proud of Angela Rayner, caught out by the complexity of trust law and acting with the highest standards of ethical responsibility to resign . Unlike ‘seven flats ‘ Jeremy Hunt and he was only one of very very many . Now for Farage to resign as MP for tax dodging .
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Back at Sale's old ground, in yer' actual suburb of Sale. Small but perfectly formed. Here to watch a pre-season friendly against Connacht.
The Sale Rugby enormodome at Heywood Road The walk in to the The Heywood Road enormodome
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour William Blake
A sea of bluebells in our ancient woodland
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Sam @sam-bambs.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Bloody Foreigner. Coming over here, with their 50th anniversary tour.
A picture of the musical group Foreigner, announcing their new tour
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I am genuinely astonished by all those American patriots who go into raptures over trad, based, family, Christian, the thin blue line, the spirit of '76, minutemen, brave underdogs with weapons in hand kicking ass, revolutions for freedom, nation, and values...
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Replace 'key' with 'security pass' and this could be someone's working life now. Good to see some things haven't changed after several centuries.
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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
We're only making plans for Nigel
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Want a summary of the bills/acts the Labour government have been working on since they came in power? I've put one together here. 44 bills, 24 of which have got Royal Assent and become law. You can see when each bill passed each stage in each house. I've highlighted those still progressing. 1/3
docs.google.com
Labour in government
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I love this. So much movement!
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
As far as I can tell, Rayner has actually gone out of her way to pay *more* tax.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
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Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It's full of excellent quotes, albeit in translation. share.google/QdjbbkMY5b1E...
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The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard review – creeping towards catastrophe
Aphoristic tableaux from the lead-up to the second world war build into a dazzling work of black comedy and political disaster
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
From 'The order of the day' by Eric Vuillard:-
A very revealing quote from The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard. There is not enough room on here to post the whole thing but the gist is how odd it is that some tyrants pay lip service to due process
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is vile. I cannot see how anyone on the left at this time could think intimidating think tank workers and vandalising their workplace for having different politics is legit. This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is not far from where I live. It's really exciting and it's been interesting watching the work www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mosaic saved with hour to spare after 'immense effort'
The rare tiles found at a former school date back more than 100 years and were at risk of demolition.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/08/2025
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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Guardian publishing garbage headlines that are essentially lies. When you read the story you discover it is something else entirely. Shameful.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Architecture (Eccentric Construction) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1916 #artbots #guggenheim botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gift, Andrew Powie Fuller and Geraldine Spreckels Fuller Collection, 1999

© 2016 Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I can't recommend this book strongly enough. Read it to understand the depth of the housing emergency facing this country
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
This is going to be the funkiest flat in south west Manchester for about the next hour and a half.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Manchester Pride: the forbidden Victorian drag ball raided by police. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The forbidden Hulme Drag Ball of 1880 that was raided by police
Those attending the forbidden drag ball in September 1880 were arrested for
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Am going to watch this on catch-up with a couple of nice Belgian beers. share.google/ewMTWdKCifNI...
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BBC Two - We Want the Funk
A comprehensive journey through the history of funk music.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 22/08/2025
Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.” But the truth is very different. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...
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‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists – HOPE not hate
Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the...
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23/08/2025
The headline here should be "Farage pledges to work with the Taliban".
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I know I only went there twice but I don't remember the Hacienda being red and purple. I quite like this, though, it's better than last season's orange shirt of doom. share.google/xf52dLONLyXH...
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Sharks launch Hacienda-inspired away kit  | Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks have revealed the club’s new Macron away kit, paying tribute to Manchester’s rich musical history and one of the city’s most influential figures.  The new design is inspired by the iconic ...
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Can someone explain to me why right wing people have suddenly started going on about the 'lanyard class'? I genuinely have no idea what they are talking about. Doesn't everyone who works in an office or call centre attach their security pass to a lanyard? Maybe I'm missing something. I don't get it!
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New book on its way with a chapter by me! ‘My’ by-election is a Labour breakthrough in the 1920s…
Image of a book. Text reads BRITISH
BY-ELECTIONS
1769-2025
THE 88 BY-ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
THAT SHAPED OUR POLITICS
IAIN DALE
THE 88 MOST CONSEQUENTIAL
BY-ELECTIONS OF THE MODERN ERA
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Current reading:- www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
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Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and …
This may be the most important book you read this year.…
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I'm extremely worried about this (the Rugby League team that shares a stadium with Sale) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Salford Red Devils fans march in protest after game cancelled
About 500 Salford Red Devils fans join a protest amid concerns about the 152-year-old club's future.
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Reading this excellent book, which has 'BBC Four documentary series' written all over it. Or, rather, it would do if BBC Four still made documentaries. share.google/hFNKcIv0eCFI...
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Shadowlands by Matthew Green review – Britain’s ghost places
Sunken off Suffolk, buried on the Welsh borders, uncovered in an Orcadian sandstorm … an eloquent tour of lost communities
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I've always wanted to visit Dublin but that's not how I've imagined it at all.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Will it be signed on a piece of paper?
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
It's almost as if Trump is an utter moron and not a deal-making strategic genius, or something.
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Hugo Collingridge @hugoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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