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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 10h

No, nobody is currently prepared for the next war, that's the thing about next wars, nobody is ever properly prepared for them. Perhaps building loads of drones is a prudent preparation, but buggered if I know.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 11h

They've decided to upgrade firefox again. Not huge changes but, lads, you work on a finished product, stop making changes that do not improve functionality or fix security holes.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know what, maybe we were all too mean about the Ed Stone

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the 8th month of the season they'd come to call 'Sprumtum' they looked to the weather gods, and the weather gods say-eth "Maybe you'll need a big coat next Wednesday."

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I would have written your name in gold leaf on parchment but all I had to hand was a penknife and a park bench.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are few images of young me on the internet (the free spaces we used for hosting died) but, of the survivors, this is the one I get tagged in most

flickr.com

Manchester

Smirny and Ian look resigned as Pootle does his thing

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cyclops voyeurs club: "And remember lads, keep your eye on the pry"

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sitting in my mate's garden in shorts and t-shirt drinking a g&t, trying not to worry about climate change

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He's so good at political communication Somehow he doesn't make it weird, he always appears sincere.

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cascade performing on a 'Chapman Stick'🎸 🎶'Little Wing' #bluesmusic

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10 years ago there were vanishingly few people I thought humanity would benefit from having shot in the face. These days I've got a list

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 20/09/2026

Posting, for no particular reason

Bookcover: Conservative parties and the birth of democracy by Daniel Ziblatt

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Does the Russian state provide Putin with the actual numbers that indicate how much domestic support he has, or is it like how the military lies to him about how well his army is doing?

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looking at next week's weather forecast, it's going to be about 20C all week. We're heading towards October and I still haven't had cause to wear any of my big coats since spring. I miss there being seasons.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh no! Poor old Nestle, who refused to stop trading in Russia, have had their Russian assets stolen by the Kremlin.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Was chatting with a friend about how 10 years ago there were only a few people we'd be like to hear have died, and now both of us have a long mental list of whose demise would be a net good for humanity.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The story of how Nestle and Auchan refused to leave Russia in 2022, only for Putin to eventually seize their businesses with a single stroke of the pen, deserves to be told by sages as a biblical parable.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fear we're approaching a time in which it's totally acceptable to be shitting yourself with worry

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Even Bowie looks bad in 80s clothes #TOTP

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good. We want more people who have immigration as their top issue to not vote.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fish would have gone to Turkey for new hair these days #TOTP

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Started watching a youtube channel that explains all the wars around WW1. It's hard to avoid the broad conclusion that entho-linguistic nationalism was a bad idea The era of empires wasn't great, but the subsequent era of nationalism was worse

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hope that house prices in Piddlington go down because people don't want to live in a place full of twats.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Going through some images I've downloaded over the years. Can anyone confirm my reckon that this is Clement Atlee on a pogo-stick. (I might have who it is wrong, but I'm sure about the pogo-stick bit)

What I think is Clement Attlee using a pogo stick, but it could be someone else.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reckon I might have forgotten that the first Ahsoka series wasn't very good by the time they release the second series.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Murder is bad but they were right to stab Ceaser.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My Pa has been grumbling to my sis, that I never call, which is true, but he's only phoned me 5 times in my life. I'm going to phone him at 8pm, to see if he has anything to talk to me about. Suspect we'll manage no more than 3 minutes, but time will tell.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm pretty sure that, if you bought into the AI being amazing thing, you did not think what you were discussing with the AI would/could be read by an actual human being.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Isn't it fairly safe to say any UK institution that was first created during the era of the slave trade was, at least in part, funded by the slave trade?

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maybe she'll have to not win as often as Screaming Lord Sutch, before she grasps her one shot has passed and nobody likes her or will ever vote for her.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

80% tax on all individual donations of over £20k per year. The very rich can give donations but they'd also have to pay tax, so they'd stop giving donations.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch the EU treaty negotiations in 1991" "Maastricht?" "She was a bit"

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As there is little commonality as to what seems sensible to different people, it seems like common sense that the whole concept of common sense should be rejected.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I light of this news I reckon I'll continue my practice of not drinking my hot drinks when they're scalding hot. Who are these morons who aren't giving their coffee a minute or two to cool?

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Gull Dukat. Another one of those mental images I had to exorcise by drawing it. #art #StarTrek #DS9

Digital drawing of Gul Dukat from Star Trek Deep Space Nine except Gul is spelled with two Ls and he has the head of a seagull.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's odd how quickly how an established Rule of Law country can descend into a place where the state's presumption of regularity no longer stands. Did presume the vested interests, those who grew rich on being a legal services provider, would step in, but instead they folded.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thinking on that old Reform member who wielded his NHS crutch as a club It takes a certain type of reactionary old fuck to undermine their own stability to utilise their state provided means of support as a weapon

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"How many millions of man hours must be wasted in Britain by people waiting for an audibly boiling kettle to go click?" "I meant about the job."

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Look Dad, I know Mum's run off with that fancy dandy who sent her flowers on her birthday, but when we agreed you'd get a new hobby, I didn't think it'd involve you turning up at my work."

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shame the singer of Moloko has disappeared, presumed dead, they were a great band #TOTP

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My favourite pubs are generally out of the way Fuller's pubs. If I'm going to pay through the nose for a pint, I believe it should be ESB.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How do you become a prominent professor of theology and fail to embody any of the virtues the faith you're theoretically an expert in requires? It'd be OK if he was pure prosperity gospel, but he's not, so his god will know his mindless lies, unless, of course, he doesn't believe any of it.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a fun night for left/liberal UK politics nerds. People, we already didn't like, have shown themselves to be the sort of untrustworthy dishonest fops we already reckoned them to be Have them ever considered acting in good faith?

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fucking hell. When we said get in the sea, that’s not what me meant, you racist arse

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love this account, and it's transformational in understanding quite how, I'll go with: counter-intuitive, some people can be when it comes to their voting behaviour.

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Paul Fleetwood @macalbatross.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The running joke in People Like Us that every person being interviewed was a bit surprised that Roy Mallard was married was a good bit

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