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La Crapule

@lacrapule.bsky.social
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Geraldine in real life, teaching languages in the North West. Education, bit of politics, some tennis, occasional pictures of my dog and worries about my kids, random stuff I think is funny. New empty nester.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 12h
I have more amazing #buyastrangerabook day magic. @lacrapule.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of a book by Sarah Moss. Here are three books that come highly recommended. If you'd like one of these (or any others of Sarah's), let us know! UK only
Three Sarah Moss titles. 

Ripeness
Ghost Wall
The Tidal Zone
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Five songs you were obsessed with from five different stages of your life. 1. Live Forever. Oasis. 2. Spinning Away. Sugar Ray. 3. The Boy with the Arab Strap. Belle and Sebastian. 4. Boys Boys Boys. Lady Gaga. 5. Under the Pressure. War on Drugs.. #FridayFive
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let me buy you a BANGER!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe, tax-dodging Brexiter billionaire living in Monaco, says the poorest and most vulnerable should have their rights & benefits removed to bolster our economy. Don’t bother telling us this rancid man’s opinions unless you say how much he’s avoided in tax and what Brexit is costing us all.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hi Simon @biggreenbooks.bsky.social . I'd like to #buyastrangerabook by Sarah Moss today. I'm especially keen on Ripeness, but Ghostwall is a banger, so is the Tidal Zone. I'll leave it with you.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We're in the car with all his boxes and his bike on the roof. He's indoors saying a last goodbye to the dog who is going to be put to sleep on Wednesday.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Last child leaves tomorrow. I am honestly bereft. I'm telling you so I can keep smiling here at the packing and the excitement.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: A recurring nightmare where my Dad was eaten by cowboys on the porch of a log cabin. A recurring nightmare where one of my brothers was sliced in half by a flying pane of glass. That one was in the Starship Enterprise.
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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Fields. A Willerby Story. Back in the shortcuts.. willerby.substack.com/p/the-fields
Screenshot of text from the linked story.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Disappointed so far by Norman Day on Radio 4.
Norman Wisdom posing with a pineapple.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh, Buddy. It’s so much worse than that.
Terminal 2 at London Heathrow. A sign reads: Terminal 2 - The Queen’s Terminal.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm listening to Japan. They were brilliant.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today, we got three A* a levels and the date for the dog to be put to sleep. Family life, friends.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Had some bad news today about the dog. Just putting it out there to say it. Here he is looking dapper.
A ginger and white dog leaning his head on a human arm
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
All of this thread. It's really disingenuous to say that it's about letting children behave however they want and people who aren't blocked by the people who spout that nonsense should call out the so-called 'experts' who say that crap.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Let me buy you a book. Happy to suggest a few things. The offer might turn into a pumpkin ar mid, ir a mouse.
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 22/07/2026
So…do you like…come here often?
We are looking at a section of an illuminated manuscript showing a Queen sat in a clearing amongst the forest. She is wearing a long pink dress and has her hair in Princess Leia type buns on her head. She is holding a large gold chalice-goblet. So far so normal. Next to her is a red goblin monster thing with 6 small heads (which are all very smiley by the way) and then one large head with spiky tendrils. The monster looks like they’ve had a few. The Queen is giving some excellent side eye to the monster.
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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Another shortcut. willerby.substack.com/p/shortcuts
Shortcut through a hedge.
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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Burnham can fix this simply by naming Number 10 North FAC 502
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Read the first line and assumed they were watching the football.
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Winner gets to keep the tapestry.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nail-biting times for year 8.
Three student names on a classroom whiteboard, with the last three World Cup teams.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Verify your age" Treatment at an NHS dentist was free.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
*THE ODYSSEY* BY ELON MUSK SING, CHATGPT, OF THE BIOHACKING ABSOLUTELY GOATED ONION-LAYERED CRYPTO DADDY HE WAS SUPER VERY GOOD RAD AT EVERYTHING, HOW HE SELF-DRIVING CYBERTRUCKED AF TO ITHACA AFTER BUSTING UNIONS AND DEFYING TAX LAWS IN TROY MANY NPCS HE OUTSHINED, MANY IDEAS HE STOLE
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#FridayFive is tagging out for the summer. 1. Wide Open Spaces. The Chicks. 2. This is my last goodbye. Jeff Buckley. 3. Closing Time. Semisonic. 4. Bohemian Rhapsody. Queen. 5. Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are doing our school sponsored walk tomorrow. The parents' Facebook group is popping off about the short walk in the Cheshire heat. We do it to support a school in South Africa where children properly walk, in actual heat. The irony.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I have another lovely #buyastrangerabook day offer from @schroedesgs.bsky.social . Lisa's offering to buy someone a book for their holidays. Anything at all, up to £25! So, if there's a particular book that you'd like, just get in touch. UK only.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NOLE 💪🎾❤️
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Exciting for Clacton voters that they're going to get to see their MP again for the first time since they last elected him.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?
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Alex Bellars 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱 @alexbellars.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Doesn't really do it justice, to be frank.
Google Translate: 
Shithousery = Coups bas et provocations
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Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back in the second century, someone in ancient Nubia thought life is better with a frog mug. ❤️
A meroitic clay mug or goblet painted with several frogs that seem to have different moods. 
Made in Faras.
On display at Ägyptische Staatssammlung in Munich.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
From nowe on, calle it not "Gen A.I." Calle it kakomancy, the which doth signifye "crappye magique."
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams
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Adam from Glasgow @1707unsubscribe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Brexit benefits explained
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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One facing the right way. Fucking amateurs. #TOTP
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hello @biggreenbooks.bsky.social. I'd like to #buyastrangerabook by @jonnelledge.bsky.social this evening.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
LOOK. It's a free book, innit. #buyastrangerabook is ace. You can offer to buy books for other people, or you can reply to offers like this from @lancslass.bsky.social. Come on now. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Derby Arms pub, Ordsall, Salford, 1976, photo by John Bulmer.
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La Crapule @lacrapule.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It's a sign. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Penny W @pennywpennyw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sorry!! Life is just too much right now 🤣🙈🙈 🔹🔷🟦 #FridayQuiz 🟦🔷🔹 🔹 Like, share and repost 🔹 Have a go and good luck! 🔹 Share your score below with a gif 🔹 Share the quiz with whoever you want! Happy #Friday! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Roman Running Club. A Willerby Story. Early morning training with three timeslipped legionnaires. willerby.substack.com/p/the-runnin...
Screenshot of text from the linked storym
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 18/06/2026
Today is Primidi the 1st of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate rye. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Rye.
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