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David Reid

@licklepuma.bsky.social
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A man & a dog. Come for pictures of Wilbur 🐶, stay for #Pittsburgh Sports, #mufc musings and general randomness. Ex-weatherdude. Completely preposterous, but absolutely human. Native of Manchester, now in the Democratic People's Republic of Bromsgrove.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 18h
Absolutely deranged. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Faber Halts Sally Rooney’s U.K. Sales, Citing Counterterrorism Law
The publisher and Irish author mutually agreed to pull Rooney’s books after the U.K. banned financial support of Palestine Action, to which Rooney previously pledged to donate her royalty earnings.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 6h
The greatest Onion headline of all time ☺️
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 17h
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 15h
WIlbur has this puzzle too 🙂
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Dan Holley @danholley.bsky.social · 19h
Analysed as 931 hPa on 12Z ASXX, with a fall in central pressure of 49 hPa in 24 hours, this exceptionally deep low near Iceland more than satisfies explosive cyclogenesis 🌀 Potentially a record deep low for October in Iceland with 935 hPa observed on land... 📉 bsky.app/profile/meto...
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 15h
Last Night's Bake Off - The flatbreads 😱 #GBBO
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 21h
Let’s all go to Whipsnade
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 21h
😂 I was about to say, a human rat trap is definitely something I would get caught out by, especially if it were loaded with cheese 😂
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h
Tall as my balls
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 22h
So many of us have been in that situation. Masuke will guide you himself. Right now, as long as he is responding and eating and is able to go on his little walks, you are doing the right thing ❤️
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Kelly Clarkson bird thing is…. kind of cool?🤔 youtu.be/VNZ4RysiN3A?...
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Singing Bird Automaton
YouTube video by blisskolb
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth
Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Deleted the fake Amad insta post from last night. My bad.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Leave it to @pablo.show to be the one to obtain the hottest footage of the week: security camera footage from the Brooklyn shop Kelly Clarkson criticized online in several viral tweets. Watch the full episode of @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social here: bit.ly/4AXfWJ0
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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
oh my god. Stay until the end. It's so worth it.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Licha Martinez just brought a flamethrower to Berrada and Wilcox!
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Whoa Lisandro Martinez just throwing Berrada and Wilcox under the bus on live television. #MUFC
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can't believe I missed Bake Off for this shite #MUFC
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
More of this please
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Took all of 53 seconds for this to go to shit. Bloody hell. #MUFC
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
United going with an experimental lineup against Atletico Madrid. Interesting looking midfield, but Dalot plays, so that's usually a bad sign #MUFC
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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026
The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland
The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That's right. There is absolutely no ROI on this trash, and they have convinced a bunch of people who don't know how to do anything that a Digital Jenny McCarthy can do everything. I assume you either don't know how to do your job or are bad at your job if you choose to use it at all.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I probably have the only living room in Central England with that photograph on the wall 🙂
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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 13/10/2026
On this day in 1960, Bill Mazeroski delivered the greatest home run in baseball history.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
something i didn't really expect about the second Trump admin was how explicit the political valence of the Dyson Airwrap would become
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
oh man 😂
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes! Inbox discipline is an underrated character trait and not psychotic in any way 😆 I squirm at screenshots of people's phones where they reveal they've got like 21,000 unread mails in their Mail app - they might be missing something important! 😂
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I was branded a psychopath by a colleague today for revealing that I currenlty have 7 (seven) emails in my Gmail inbox and none of them are unread.
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz359bs
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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think if you made out with Sarah Michelle Gellar on film then laws should no longer apply to you
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 12/10/2026
Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…
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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The correct response to this would be to make all the evidence used to draw the conclusion public, then challenge Farage to respond, otherwise people will just pick their opinions on the matter based purely on who they trust.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This van has a mattress in the back, doesn’t it?
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Monday
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤯
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Farce (Dallas against the Bucs) upon Farce (Philadelphia kicking a supposed game winning field goal with :07 on the clock - and losing) upon Farce (Jayden Daniels brain fart) What a sport!
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Greatest tie in NFL history, right here. All he has to do was throw the ball into the stands to stop the clock and kick the winning field goal and he has a brain fart, gets tackled and time runs out
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The end of that Washington- NY Giants game is the funniest thing I've seen in an NFL game in years 😂
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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
3 TDs on the day from Aaron Rodgers.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Comfortable win in the end. You still want to see more from this defense in terms of creativity and pressure and there will be sterner tests ahead than the Colts, but overall, they shook the stink of Cleveland off and looked a lot more coherent in terms of playcalling and communication. #steelers
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Made up for that criminal overthrow a couple of plays before that. Got to force it here now, two score game, snuff them out.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great drive. Got away with a pick there at the end, but they mixed it up well. #steelers
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great play by Samuel to hold them to three. Need a nice drive now to make it a two score game. Warren all the way. #steelers
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now they are all missing tackles and Taylor is getting going. #steelers
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just once, just once they will play a zone that doesn't have a massive soft spot between the safeties and ILB's. Queen missing a tackle but Taylor will do that to you. He must be gang tackled. #steelers
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wetjen is a wasted draft choice of the highest order, too. Resigned to the fact that every drive will start between the 20 and the 30 this season.
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