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@jurglfc.bsky.social
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Supporter at Leamington FC & Non-League. Listener to punk, ska & other genres. Drinker of cider & ale at the weekend.

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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 20h
Another work of genius by @kuntandthegang.bsky.social
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've never been an accountant, but I worked in local government for quite a few years. If only I had known this was an option...
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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Winston Churchill Prime Minister Churchill
ALT: Winston Churchill Prime Minister Churchill
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an absolutely ridiculous conversation England is having about its extreme ideological experiment with privatisation It's really not that complicated 9 out of 10 water systems worldwide are in public ownership (1/6) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it | Will Hutton and Andy Haldane
Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty
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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026
A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The next @commonsensekid.co.uk banger? 😂
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Leamington FC ⚽️ @leamingtonfc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😲 That ball! Some switch from Byron Wilson before Chris Wreh finished it off 😮‍💨 Highlights ➡️ f.mtr.cool/ny8vz0z92d #BackingTheBrakes | #NewEraBrakes
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Millie Manders and The Shutup @milliemanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hi! I have neglected our bluesky for a while and I am sorry. So, if you are seeing this acc for yhe forst time we are a band that is: Pro Trans Pro Palestine/Congo/Sudan/Lebanon/Rohingya etc Anti Fascist Pro abortion rights Pop/Ska/Metal fusion PUNK Please can the algo find our people. #TedArmy ❤️✊🏼
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
5 x 5. There will be no further questions at this point.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A sad day. If the hundreds of other licensed premises in Birmingham also shut down, I'd no longer have this place as a last resort.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An important thread. We need a change of direction and we need leadership.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The upcoming problem is obvious when you're just tinkering around at the edges of the donation problem and you're making specific rules to retrospectively affect one party. Particularly when that party's philosophy and appeal to its support base is predicated on perpetual contrived victimhood.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Did they have to say it's been 20 years?
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Tom Hanks Asks 'When Did I Get Old?'
ALT: Tom Hanks Asks 'When Did I Get Old?'
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/09/2026
Saudi “agents were directly involved with providing the support network that was needed here in the United States for Al Qaeda to carry out the treacherous attacks,” says National Chair of 9/11 Families, Terry Strada, whose husband was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apologies to anyone in Coventry tonight who was sweated on by an uncoordinated fat bastard in the name of ska, but honestly I had the best time watching Brum Town's finest Lobster and NYC legends The Toasters. Would happily do it again.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First time back in Whitefriars Old Ale House, Coventry, since it reopened. Decent pint of Goats Milk
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I couldn't upload photos earlier but a quick report on my day today #BrakesAway #Stortford
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fuck off @theguardian.com they're only vigilantes if the people that they're targeting have broken the law. The word you're looking for is fascists.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here I go on probably my longest rail away day of the season #BrakesAway
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 11/09/2026
GOOD THINGS: 🦽 low floor train for full level boarding 🚲 4 horizontal bike spaces BAD THINGS: ⭕ TPE is a 125mph intercity service, these trains aren't 📏 200m platforms, 121m trains, we did it again 💰 GBR brand but trains owned privately at high cost 🔋 batteries instead of wiring measly 45km
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 11/09/2026
Yep. The path from "fed up with experts" to "I do my own research" to "SAVE US FROM SATAN'S TRAFFIC LIGHTS!" is reliably straight.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good news on new battery trains, but more confirmation that New New New Labour's approach to Great British Railways is much like that of the Tories before them. Rolling stock will stay in private hands, extracting profit from public services. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Facebook's algorithm is showing me a lot of people very upset at the anniversary of Charlie's passing. I didn't even know he'd died. RIP Charlie Chalk, you made so many people laugh.
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Charlie Chalk Pointing
ALT: Charlie Chalk Pointing
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As part of a tribute to the 1980 siege the Iranian Embassy in London will conduct a planned hostage situation featuring staff hiding under desks accompanied by marauding gunmen. There is no emergency. This is a planned memorial event.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The founder and chair of Real Bedford.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Basically every gathering of brown people can and probably will run the risk of having to deal with red faced, breathless fascists, who know that they'll get sympathetic hearings and barely any acknowledgement
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."
nicklowles.substack.com
Did Kent Police ignore a 999 call?
Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just want to point out if people had been beaten up at the Green or SNP party conference and their leader had cheered it on. It wouldn't just have been on TV, it would have been on TV non-stop until the election. But for Reform, it barely got mentioned.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@commonsensekid.co.uk 😂
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Re-normalise mainstream politicians harshly condemning fascist public disorder without fear of losing voters to the far-right.
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Lee Healey ✍🏻 @leehealey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
'Wrath of the Gods' (last in the Wicker Man trilogy) directed by the late Justin Hardy, premieres tonight at London’s FRIGHTFEST. Also premiering today, signed prints of Viz's ‘The Wispa Man’, a darker (chocolate) tale of confectionary-horror: shorturl.at/s3j5b 🍫 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social
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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Beano and Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social artist Paul Palmer is starting a comic journey about navigating life after a brain injury. Well worth a read and a follow! www.instagram.com/p/Dcf2LkGDF3...
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@stillmecomic on Instagram: "In October 2023 I survived a traumatic brain injury which has had a lasting impact on both myself and my family. This comic strip is the story of what happened and of my ...
1 likes, 0 comments - stillmecomic on August 26, 2026: "In October 2023 I survived a traumatic brain injury which has had a lasting impact on both myself and my family. This comic strip is the story ...
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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Levy profits of privateer train owners, says RMT 🚨 ROSCO profits could pay for a 2.5% passenger fare cut rmtunion.org/4wG8a2N
rmtunion.org
Levy profits of privateer train owners, says RMT
The UK’s largest rail union RMT called for a cost-of-living levy on the profits of train rolling stock leasing companies (ROSCO’s) as new figures reveal that dividends have more than trebled.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This was the 'Gotcha!', 'nudge nudge wink wink, the guy's clearly a fantasist' basis of dozens of UK journalists, and subsequently thousands of online trolls monstering of Jason Arday. If the journalists involved had an ounce of self-awareness they'd resign and apologise to his family.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/08/2026
Exclusive: Palestine Action Lawyer Rajiv Menon Breaks Silence on Facing Contempt Charges in U.K. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/raji…
democracynow.org
U.K. Lawyer Rajiv Menon Breaks Silence on Contempt Charges in Palestine Action Case
A prominent human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom has been charged with criminal contempt for his closing speech in the trial of his client, Charlotte “Lottie” Head, one of four Palestine Action a...
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
44 years ago today When punk met hip hop 🤝 The Clash and Kurtis Blow at the Akron Civic Theater, August 17, 1982 #punk #punks #punkrock #hiphop #theclash #kurtisblow #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Crocodile tears from a mainstream media outlet who joined in the kicking of a neurodivergent black man to sate the culture warriors of the right. Fuck the Guardian.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i would bet money he used ai to make this
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bin Day cometh.
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Encouraging news from Coventry. In its day it was one of the best real ale pubs in the city. I hope ale forms part of their plans @rogerprotz.bsky.social @camraofficial.bsky.social
Banner on the side of a building which reads "The Whitefriars Olde Alehouse reopening 28 August".
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Scenic Rail Britain @scenicrailbritain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Looking for ways to keep the kids entertained this summer? 💭 Check out these free downloadable family activity packs from across #CommunityRail 🚂 There's something for every young explorer to enjoy - no train ticket required! #DaysOutByRail scenicrailbritain.com/railway-them...
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Railway-themed activity packs - Scenic Rail Britain
Looking for creative ways to keep the family entertained while celebrating the magic of the railway? Whether you’re planning your next train adventure or enjoying a cosy day indoors, these…
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Come to bed, Stu, it's 3am" "I can't... got to... put my seed in... everything"
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Rugrats Pudding
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Jurg @jurglfc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Substitution for Yaxley. Going off, Isaac Kyreme, coming on Marvellous Johnson. 😬
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NPR Skanking Dept ☎️🇵🇸🇱🇧 @skankingdept.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Obsessed
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