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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

'Maybe Tomorrow' by Westlife, think in the second verse to the bridge?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/10/2026

Sure he’s walked around the world but I just want a supercut of him returning to Hull after 28 years and talking about the comparative state of the high street and whether partial pedestrianisation was a success.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I liked it better before it was pedestrianised. Felt so much more alive, and the buses would've dropped you in the heart of town.

Google Street View imagery of the part of Hull mentioned in the post in 2015, showing a curved road cutting through a busy already-pedestrianised street.

Same view in 2017 Street View, now with no road and all covered in white tiles.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Seeing a lot of these spring up on my Facebook lately for some reason... lot of them seem to be trains, buses or cars stored away for restoration with preservation societies, and more often than not, you'll find the owner very irate in the comments or on the society page.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It would seem AI slop has come for #NationalAlbumDay... www.nationalalbumday.co.uk/2026-release...

Screenshot of four compilation albums by Acrobat Music on the National Album Day website - 'Blues Icons: From the delta to the city'; 'Country icons; from hillbilly to honky tonk'; 'Rock 'n' Roll Icons: a musical revolution' and 'Street Corner Icons: the story of Doo Wop' - all with obvious AI-generated album artwork: the country one is the most obvious.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Never heard of that one before. Guessing 'group chapel' is a fancy term for 'union branch'?

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large. If you've got a history book, throw it in the bin, it's worthless. The history books will have to be rewritten.' 'What will they say?' 'They'll simply say "Wakefield battered Wigan". Everything else will be a footnote.' #rugby www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

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Super League play-off semi-final: Wigan Warriors 6-33 Wakefield Trinity - Wakefield reach Grand Final

Wakefield Trinity produce a sensational upset to reach their first ever Super League Grand Final and end Wigan Warriors' hopes of a treble in 2026.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I saw this funny tweet earlier.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Oasis film was great. Bit slow to start, but I suppose that's the reunion all over. Some unexpected really touching and funny moments with fans! And now, the great wait for a live CD is on...

Portrait photo (heavily cropped) of the poster for Oasis' 'Don't Look Back in Anger' concert film: black and white photograph of frontmen Noel and Liam Gallagher walking out on stage in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, with the subtitle 'The great wait is over'.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey, if certain family members can swing from Tory (2019) to Reform (2024) to apparently Tory again (a couple weeks ago?), anyone can do it. Not an ideal net result, but this is according to someone who often moans 'all politicians are in it for themselves'.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My only complaint is that I can't move said feed in my navigation bar to where 'Discover' was, but that might be a UX issue on Bluesky's side...

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally binned off Bluesky's name-btand 'Discover' feed because it was too hashtag-resist Yank-oriented, replaced it with the 'For You' feed. It's like a breath of fresh air. Actual UK content! Plus UK politics, if you're into that sort of torture. Try it here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Jokes aside, since when were we bringing back horses into the army? Genuinely wouldn't mind picking this up, but the magazine website only goes back to May 2026 and they aren't advertising this issue yet. Better than the apparent AI slop out of the National Geographic...

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Anyway, I rode Stagecoach #bus route 40, as you might have guessed, by way of Yutong E10 63154. Quality vehicle and a quality Saturday service, despite a shonky timetable and running about five minutes late. If you wanted definition of a 'community lifeline' bus for East #Hull, this is it.

Landscape photograph of the interior of a
moderately busy Stagecoach in Hull Yutong E10 single-deck bus in a residential area, taken from the left-hand rear wheelarch area.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At this point, I'd prefer a nice tabulated outline of times rather than having to do mental calculations for an hourly #bus service... isn't this why they call it a bus timeTABLE? #hull

Portrait photograph of a slightly glared-out bus timetable provided by Hull City Council at the Barham Road Shops bus stop. The route, the 40 to Hull Interchange (effective 31 March 2024), running via Maybury (Road), Cavendish (Road) and Garden Village, displays 'usual times' between stops: Cromarty Road is advertised as being 3 minutes away, Lambwath Road is advertised as 9 minutes, Endymion Street is advertised as 14 minutes and Hull Interchange is advertised as 21 minutes.

The actual timetable outlay is one tabled block for Mondays to Fridays. Text variably in black-on-white and white-on-blue is, and I quote, '0856 Hull Interchange then at 56 Hull Interchange past until 1456 Hull Interchange'. Below this is the timetable for Saturdays, which reads: '0856 Hull Interchange then at 56 Hull Interchange past until 1456 Hull Interchange': this inbound stop is not serves by two extra Saturday outbound journeys for some reason. Below these times, for 'Sundays & Public Holiday', reads: 'No Sunday or Public Holiday service from this stop'.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Well, I'm not going to buy the scam that is the physical copy, that's for sure. That being said, I'm not keen on the idea of putting £90 for a 'premium' version of a... £70 game? Bloody hell.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

From the new Sam O'Nella video on Pliny's 'Natural History'... *cracks lore-writing knuckles* #centaurs

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh, sick, well in that case, yesterday I finally got a pile of mid-2000s bus industry magazines I've been looking to find for ages and I'm about to start scanning them for archive.org. Some really juicy stories in there for Wikipedia cites!

Portrait photo of two cardboard boxes stood on top of each other: the one on top is open and visible is one of many copies of Coach & Bus Week magazine circa.2006.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here's to Heartstopper, the only book that has left me laughing so hard I saw stars because Alice Osman drew a perfect rendition of a second-hand ex-National Express Caetano Levante coach. (interior not pictured, but its bang-on):

Extract from one of the Heartstopper books, featuring a drawn rendition of a coach in the shape of an old-style Caetano Levante with passengers boarding with luggage.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It doesn't help there's two parts of it that fit with my favourite Pulp song: youtu.be/sPGepgWupTw

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Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time?

YouTube video by PulpVEVO

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just finished reading the last #heartstopper. It's left me horrendously sad. I'm 25. Over a year out from uni. Never had half Nick and Charlie's experiences. Mannnnnn... #booksky

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

⚠️BREAKING NEWS IN AUSTRALIA - BOLLARDS FLIP A TESLA⚠️ #WorldBollardAssociation

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Forget your solar eclipse, our museum trawler ship the Arctic Corsair was been towed home down the River #Hull for one last time early this morning, and after years of restoration, ain't she looking pretty. #photography

Offside shot of a black and white sidewinder trawler ship, lettered 'ARCTIC CORSAIR' and numbered 'H320', with some red striping and woodgrain panelwork being towed along the water by a tug boat off camera. There are a handful of people at the bow of the ship in a variety of high-visibility jackets.

Nearside shot of the same black and white sidewinder trawler ship, lettered 'ARCTIC CORSAIR' and numbered 'H320', with some red striping and woodgrain panelwork being towed along the water by a blue tug boat just poking into view. There are a handful of people at the bow of the ship in a variety of high-visibility jackets.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

...though upon saying that, we weren't so sure about this at first, but other posts seem to suggest the colander method worked? Eclipse experts, please analyse this fairly trippy photo.

Photograph of someone holding up a strangely-cut piece of paper with the shadow of a colander over it. There are cresecent-shaped bits of light hitting through where the holes in the colander are from a partial solar eclipse.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our DIY viewing efforts didn't get up to much, unfortunately.

Photograph of a woman holding up a blue colander to a piece of paper held by another woman in an attempt to view the aformentioned partial solar eclipse just before totality, which might've worked somewhat but looks really silly. Also held in another hand (face cropped out for privacy) is a DIY cardboard box solar eclipse viewer, of which the hole for the sun to go in has been poked in while trying to hold it up. Hang it in the Louvre.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

90% partial #solareclipse over Kingston upon #Hull, captured with a Nikon Z50 with absolutely no filters, exposure whacked to the lowest it can go, and pure hopes and dreams and serious risk of damaging the lens. Completed it, mate. #photography

Mostly pitch black photograph of a partial solar eclipse at totality, with the sun just peeking out in an upper crescent at the top. The photo is a tad dusty because of the lens. Sorry that the alt text is a bit rubbish.

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routeone Magazine @routeone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Stagecoach East Midlands has introduced its first battery-electric buses to Hull. A first rollout of 42 vehicles from Alexander Dennis and Yutong supplier Pelican Bus and Coach is underway. The overall total will rise to 55 within a year.

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Stagecoach commences rollout of battery-electric buses in Hull - routeone

Stagecoach East Midlands has put the opening examples of an eventual 55 battery-electric buses into service from its depot in Hull.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In other non bus-related ramblings, I'll play catch-up with #weirdcarbs in a bit but check out this stunning bit of #frenchtat down a run-down residential #Hull street... a Citroën XM with the most amazing heckblende!

Blue and very angular 1993 Citroën XM four-door liftback sitting on a residential street in the sunlight with a very low suspension. Parked behind it is a more contemporary white modern Peugeot.

Rear of the aforementioned blue and very angular 1993 Citroën XM four-door liftback, with a 'heckblende', a faux full-length taillight, below the rear spoiler and positioned around the rear registration plate in orange an red. Also in this photo is a dog staring at me from a house window.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If Burnham wants to extend the free bus scheme permanently, like Scotland does for under-22s, then we should thankfully see rowdy kids drop off the network when the schools go back on. Then again with Scotland, free buses has meant more antisocial behaviour over time: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

How has free bus travel for young people worked in Scotland?

As England moves to give people under the age of 15 free bus travel, under-22s in Scotland have had free bus passes for four years.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

To be fair, that would've been good manifesto policy to light a fire under British bus builders' arses (especially given foreign competition) and show an investment in transport, but that'd still be quite the challenge. Labour promised it before in the Corbyn years! www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...

bbc.co.uk

General election 2019: Labour pledges to electrify England's bus fleet

It wants to electrify England's buses by 2030, but the Tories say Labour would "scrap vital new roads".

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There's lots of merit in the scheme to get kids out of the house, and if it works in Scotland (where Mr. Burnham generously stole it from), it should work here. But it's all well and good until you're commuting and have to put up with young kids throwing a bottle around and climbing up seats.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

How's free #bus travel for under-18s in the height of summer going for people? Of course you won't hear it here, but the reaction I'm seeing from drivers is uniformly negative, ie. kids left to run around buses like its a nursery. For me, it sounds like a good idea until you actually experience it.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hate to roll up on the thread uninvited, but... "All buses must be electric by 2027" 2026 is nearly halfway over, and as of March 2025, there are at least 30,558 buses in England. Only 12% of those are electric. You simply cannot scale up production to electrify the remaining 88% in four months.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Surely, you're not on about Money for Nothing? Ugh, don't get me started with that one.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That's a shame, unless there was a collective boycott I didn't know about going on, I must've been the only person looking forward to seeing that. #trainspotting www.whatsonstage.com/news/trainsp...

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Trainspotting The Musical cancels tour

The show is currently running in the West End

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Compare it to the previous effort of four years ago:

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#Pride in #Hull again today; my first Pride for a few years now. Didn't honestly think of going today given other commitments, but soon changed my mind when #Stagecoach brought a new Pride-liveried #bus in!

Dark blue double-decker Stagecoach bus (fleet no. 10741, registration SN66 VXJ) with orange, blue and green elements along the bottom and various Pride logos spread around the front and sides; a sticker above the door next to a Progress Pride flag states 'Proudly supporting Pride'. The scene here is someone stepping off the bus while off to the right, a Stagecoach gazebo stall is being attended to by Stagecoach drivers (one of whom is mugging for the camera) and interested members of the public.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

BUT MY CAR

BBC: 'Bus fare cut is no good for those who drive,' says Durham man

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You... you are aware that cats use their tongues to clean themselves, right?

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Using this opportunity to highlight my favourite piece of fucked-up geography on screen

A screengrab from a film. It shows a sports car on a road going through some very un-English countryside. A big sign by the road reads: A57. (M25) 2, Sheffield 11, Manchester 46

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Obliged to add, which I forgot to do in the alt text, that the first image is credited to 'secret coach park' at Wikimedia Commons under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QU...

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Though maybe something like this might be more suitable - and less expensive to convert - in this hypothetical scenario:

Photograph of Orange and white Optare Solo single-deck midibus operated by South Pennine Community Transport, registration T14 GWR. Towards the rear half of the bus, the rear windows have been removed, with a metal bar provided to stop passengers falling out. The bus is branded as an 'open-air bus' and is branded 'Pennine Air' as such.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's been done before, think this is the most modern example that has been converted as such?

Landscape photograph of a cream and maroon Quantock Motor Services Alexander PS bodied Volvo B10M single-decker bus, registration R928 XVM. The roof and windows towards the rear of the bus have been cut away to form an open-top single-decker bus, which is advertised as the Minehead-Lynmouth Scenic Coastal Bus Service.

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

(to be honest, the unfollow has been brewing for some time) Not gonna lie, this is the part where parts of Bluesky massively ramps up the 'Anyone but England' agenda to the point where it feels quite nasty, so you'll find me sticking to the live threads instead!

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Hullian111 🔴⚪️ @hullian111.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Coach back from My Chem at Wembley. England barely through after a tense wait for phone signal and then extra time. Unfollowed someone immediately talking shit about us. Current tired-brain mindset: youtu.be/AO7Ogi4E5fM #NORENG

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Come on england 🍆

YouTube video by UNKNOWN

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