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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How did I never know that Slick (as in WWF manager) is the son of Rufus R Jones? (It does instinctively sound wrong that "80s guy" is the son of "70s guy".)

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just to say, winning an extra league title based on historic points deductions for another team would be shallow, meaningless, lacking in sporting purpose, and definitely worth it to overtake Man United's total of titles.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

* May had no working majority for her key policy which was fundamental to her government. Burnham has a majority of 156. * Four years and seven months into a parliament is not a snap election.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Young people use 'that's AI' as a synonym for bullshit", personal experience finds

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I assume those of us of a certain age are playing the game where you click on the Coliseum Home video stream and have to guess the tape as quickly as possible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-j...

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good on Badenoch to get you so perplexed by the first statement you don't even engage with her intention to fight a winter election in the middle of a potentially major international energy crisis on a platform of slashing financial support from the state

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Of all the ghastly monstrosities to be found in this AI generated mural in Bedminster, I think the funniest is this building. The machine has obviously mistaken Cabot Tower, Bristol for Cabot Tower, Newfoundland (which was built to celebrate the END of Cabot’s voyage, rather than the start of it).

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is great to see. Partly because it's morally correct. Partly because Rees-Mogg not defecting but standing again is about the perfect scenario for an evenly split right wing vote in my constituency. (Not sure that's enough to overcome the stink of the EDITED TO AVOID SUB-JUDICE however.)

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why do I have to sign in to my WeAreEngland account and then click a link in the email and then reset my password and then wait for an email and then click on the link in that and then go to a page with a link to Yorkshire and then create a Yorkshire account and then give you my post code but then..

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not suggesting somebody in authority is lacking in national confidence, but you can only buy tickets for the first three days of next year's women's Ashes test.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Deputy head noted that his son had said at the weekend that there were "a million" birds in the garden. He then spent the entire assembly breaking down the average three-dimension space of a bird and the most efficient way to arrange them, eventually proving it would be physically impossible.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Randomly reading back on the final wrestling show of 2019/first of 2020 and... I'm not sure that was flu.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ooh, lovely. WrestleUniverse now has Netflix-style scrobble bars.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The tuition fees are £9,000 a year but you get a free 2:1.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I miss the days when news headlines weren't a game of Jeopardy.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unofficial combined One Day Cup/Vitality Blast tables for womens cricket. (Maths by Claude AI, NRR thankfully not needed):

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OK, I have to admit Channel 4 disguising their new sitcom Apocalypse as a dramatic reality show was a genius move. #spamwars

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

End of the cricket season and I've been to (I think) 21 games plus a Test match without a single over lost to rain. Just one snow delay that didn't cost any overs. And 34 overs lost because the sprinklers spontaneously ran all night and made a paddling pool.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not often the highlights package is six times longer than the fight.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hot take: DLS should take into account which batters are at the crease. Eight wickets down but with your opener still out there is a very different position to numbers 9 and 10 batting. It's clearly not a comparable set of resources remaining, which is what DLS is meant to be based on.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At the League Two women's cricket final between Glamorgan and Middlesex where the winners get promoted to League One. Unless Middlesex win, in which case Glamorgan get promoted.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Jake Hagar Power Slap gruesomeness was, beautifully, on a show sponsored by Dum-Dum Juice.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can't speak to the accuracy, but for all of AI's ills, the fact you can watch a VHS upload of old Japanese tapes and get automated subtitles with automated translation is insane.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know if PopBitch is posting this as a snidey thing, but this sounds like absolute genius I wish I'd thought of.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Serious possibility this would give a working majority on 30% of the vote.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is no AI data harvesting meme image generation hallucination that could actually create what I looked like in the 80s.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A strong point, but possible difficult to enforce given this match was 50 years ago.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm very glad that the recently elected Australian MP John Lister is making a great impression and lots of people frequently express their desire for him to "have a good week", but it's really buggering up my vanity author searches. Kinda hope he fails in any attempts to turn the tables.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyone able to explain the cryptic bit in the crossword clue "Sounds of pawns retaining a practical joke" with answer HOAX. Practical joke is clearly the literal. "Sounds" suggests a hononym for a meaning of "pawns retaining" but I'm stumped from there.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people seem to have opinions they need to share about Willow Nightingale and Gabe Kidd being in a relationship. Which is weird, because they are not in a relationship. Reportedly, Gabriel McMenemin and Danielle Paultre *are* in a relationship, but I don't know either of those people.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow, the interface for buying PPVs on MyAEW really does wait till the last possible minute to mention the price it's been showing all along doesn't include VAT. That is flat out illegal in the UK.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Little tip for the fictional character Nick Wayne: if a shell necklace is very precious to you, maybe don't wear it during a combat sports contest?

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have a weird fear that if there's anything stray on the mat, a wrestler is going to slip on it and wreck their knee. (Which is why I always notice referees who clear stuff away.) On NXT last night two women were running across the ring while having to avoid two title belts and four microphones.

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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson in Court

ALT: The Simpsons: Homer Simpson in Court

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Having never watched the Star Wars films, for many years I thought the quoted line was "Look, I am your father", like what a put-upon parent might tell a teen.

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Joe Gagne @joegagne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lou Albano subtlety runs the blade, if you watch closely you might see use it

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

106 year old woman in Bristol says the key to her longevity is her family not having a car when she was growing up. Reminder that when this woman was already 30, only 15% of households had a car.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is a bit weird that to properly appreciate margins in US elections, you need to deduct 40 points from each sided score.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Truth About Cats and Dogs basing the entire film around the premise that the woman on the right is utterly hideous.

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I entered a competition to be the best fluffer for really tall porn stars but I couldn’t even reach the semis.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Up next: A vox pop to settle the issue of whether or not it is raining.

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's weird to think there are some people who can hear the words "I only want to help" without immediately shouting "Roh-Land".

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh, lovely stuff: the Roy Lucier channel has added yeay-by-year playlists for his 1980s Memphis uploads: www.youtube.com/@RoyLucierWr...

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's not so much that I mind Google's fictional claim that 520 people a month, who all happen to live in the same city as a core Google server, read my 2018 review of Andy Robin's book about his bear. It's just that none of these completely real people ever click on an ad or use the affiliate link.

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