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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...who & what I am, & I'm eternally grateful to them & FOR them. If I am "weird", then it's a "weirdness" which must come with redeeming qualities. And I guess I should be thankful that I have those qualities, whatever they are. Yeah. I've thought about this a lot today since I saw that post.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...that I have to try & accept that others won't have time for me. And that's fine. I guess that's just my insecurities & impostor syndrome. And I battle with those every day. But they are a part of who I am. But they don't dictate who or what I am. Anyway... there are those who do accept me for...

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...end of the day, I'm still the same person that I always have been. I have my flaws, of course I do (not least when it comes to my mental health), but I don't think anyone can say that they are flawless either, & I'd like to think that I'm a decent person, & have time for people. But I guess...

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...reason, I feel separated from that & those people (as opposed to me separating myself from it & them). I've not gone anywhere. But there are times when I may as well have done. So, maybe there is something which is "weird" about me that I can't see, but which others would prefer not to. At the...

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...thing which social media has been good for. It's introduced me to some wonderful people, who I am fortunate enough to call friends. But the one thing which I've come to realise is that the connection with others through Liverpool Football Club has varying degrees of separation. And for some...

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...come from the city which has the one major thing that I share an interest with others in (well, I do for the time being at least, what happens with the City thing will dictate how much my enjoyment of that will be dissolved). I have got to know people through that shared enjoyment. That's one...

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I've been thinking about this, & I guess I have an interpretation of "weird" in this context. There are certainly times when I feel like I don't fit in, or don't belong, or am an outsider. Out of sight, out of mind. Even though I share the same interests & general points of view. I live in and...

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We need more men like Dan Levy and fewer men like Shane Gillis. Stop being complacent. Stand up and call this shit out when it happens. www.instagram.com/p/DeYSYNXMcbH/

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Watching “Eva Longoria: Searching For France” & she is in Bordeaux. Reminds me of happy times going to visit @mmedebeauvoir.eurosky.social & Jan back in 2015 when they lived there.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I take the point in this re: other teams just shouldn't turn up to play City - I'd love it to happen, actually - but it would require the other clubs to have a monstrous courage of their convictions, & I'm not sure they're brave enough to do that (probably from a litigation point of view).

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lads, he’s not someone from a council estate who’s won Britain’s Got Talent

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The more I’ve dwelled on what’s happened today, the more I’m tempted to sack off footy altogether. It’s hard to care anymore about it. I reckon any punishment they will get will be cursory in relation to their offences. No one will be brave enough to dole out a proper & just punishment.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Must be a commonality about people called Warnock & being full of shit.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Football was patently NOT the winner today.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is what it is. This hurts us today, but it will hurt that lot a whole lot fucking more when they eventually get their just desserts. Draw a line under it, & we move on. We all know what they are.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I would never get tired of twatting that untalented Oasis prick in the face.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Time to dig in now, Liverpool. No point dwelling over that.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Squad depth - or lack thereof - is showing itself here again. All of the effort in the world can't make up for that, for all that the effort is not lacking.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lewis Koumas - your time has come. You can be a right pain in the arse for City today. This game *might* end up at some point meaning nothing from a purely footballing competition point of view. But that at all doesn't mean that it shouldn't mean anything today. Live for the moment.

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Viktor Fagerström @viktorfagerlfc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Swedish top division game today. 0-0 at half time. 5-6 at full time. From 5-1 down to getting the equalizer in the 97th. Still lost it in the 99th. Oh and it was a derby.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just a football match between 2 pretty poor sides.

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Scott Willis @scott.cannonstats.com · 10/10/2026

Manchester United have a -2 goal difference this season while playing WITH A MAN ADVANTAGE.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“The Social Reckoning” is very good. Not as slick a film as “The Social Network” was, but still very good. Mikey Madison is SUCH a great actor, she’s brilliant in it. Jeremy Strong made Zuckerberg even more vile & even more unlikeable than you might already dislike him.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Think you could feed a country with the meal that Luke Shaw made of that.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m beginning to fear for Bournemouth…

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah... walking out with a rapist. That's something they've both got in common.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You fucking tell 'em, Sathnam. Ignorant twats.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

...to describing him. I sense I'll be very angry by tomorrow afternoon when I come out of the showing.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Appreciate" is probably a better word, & I certainly appreciated it again now. I think it's because I found Jesse Eisenberg's Zuckerberg so repugnant when I first watched it (amazing performance, of course). Knowing now what I didn't know back then, "repugnant" doesn't even come fucking close...

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Going to see "The Social Reckoning" tomorrow morning, so decided to rewatch "The Social Network" for the first time since I saw it back in 2011. I felt like I didn't enjoy it at all at the time, but having watched it again, I suspect that I probably did, though maybe "enjoy" is the wrong word.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've seen "The Wicker Man" countless times, I'm watching it now on BBC 4, & the ending of it still horrifies me, no matter how often I see it. The only other film which does that to me is "Don't Look Now".

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You need to speak to @kermodemovie.bsky.social - he’s long been rightly extolling the virtues of Mark Jenkin as a creative force. Enys Men should be your next port of call.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently, "The Christophers" is now on HBO Max. If you subscribe to it, & you've not seen it, watch it. It's a lovely film. SIr Ian McKellen & Michaela Coel are just superb. Even James Corden is decent in it, & he's normally not decent in anything.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I will not give a shiny shite about the "regular" version of The Traitors when that starts. The celeb version is absolutely where it's at. #CelebrityTraitors

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Transpennine Express are fucking useless. Utter shit.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What a playlist that is. What a songwriter he was.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My arse looks more like Phil Collins than whichever one of these two reprobates is supposed to look like him.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ah... another Strawberry Guy fan. This pleases me very much.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026

I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.

Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whatever your position on the Israel/Palestine situation... this is pretty fucking grim.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It takes one to know one, as my late mum used to say to me.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I like Josh Widdecombe, but he simply should not be presenting Strictly. One presenter too many, and he’s just not a natural fit for that kind of role.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd forgotten how grim this film was. That's putting it mildly.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I probably listen to that album on average about once a week. Monster of a record. Monster of a title track.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Olise really is some player. As postage stamp a free kick as you can hope to get.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, that sounds like him. He did the same to me. Did me a favour, frankly.

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Mark S @jacobs-ladder71.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Only just noticed that BBC2 are showing "The Substance" this evening. If you've never seen it, & fancy watching it, I can only say... brace yourselves. It is proper gonzo. Body horror ramped up to 11. Brilliant film though.

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