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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 3h

Just bought a learn Dutch book in town and absolutely lost it at this amazing out-of-context bit

Image in two panels. First labelled "You" and a cartoon image of a young man walking into a building with a sign over saying BIOSCOOP". Second labelled "Your friend" and it's a cartoon image of a giraffe and an elephant behind a fence. The elephant has a pathetic expression on its face

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20h

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy spooky month. Think I'll post a good Halloween song for every day that I remember to between now and then Louis Armstrong - The Skeleton in the Closet tidal.com/track/354956...

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Louis Armstrong - The Skeleton In The Closet (Single Version)

Listen to The Skeleton In The Closet (Single Version) on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wonder what the potential is for the Man City story to grow and mutate into a sleaze scandal around Burnham

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Off out for the morning with this, happy 90th birthday to one of the best to ever do it

Steve Reich
Music For 18 Musicians
The original and best: ECM, 1978

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remain convinced that the apocalypse stuff has been a hype strategy to move the conversation away from their significant losses and that they still haven't made a profit despite trillions in investment. This has been obvious for a very long time

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With all the discourse around the recent execution I'll say that my objection to it isn't even so much about the possibility of mistake. My take is a slippery slope argument, and I don't usually like slippery slope arguments generally but I think the gravity of this one is the exception

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know sooo many Reform people at work who have been whining on about PR who will now absolutely 180 on it that Burnham has suggested it, because their commitment to any policy (outside of ethnic cleansing) isn't ideological, but it simply based on contrarianism

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And I asked "but what about when there was only one set of finger marks in the sand?"

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was gonna dust off the Halloween playlist but it's a bit too sunny, so I'll wait until the "long September" is probably over

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Burnham handed the Lib Dems so much of what they have been calling for over the last ten years, if they end up being the most wrong-footed by Burnham's conference speech that's entirely on Ed Davey.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first Portugese manager in 5 years has finally asked "why tf are we playing this washed out prick?"

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Say what you will about NUFC but we sold Elliot Anderson in a panic because we were terrified of getting a slap on the wrist over spending rules

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Aubrey Edwards @refaubrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tonight is for Ben 🖤

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The SNL UK guy is better at Burnham than he was at Starmer

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Holy fuck. I'm the first to call her awful and want her to be sacked, but this is just pure bigotry. Racism and islamophobia.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone has been setting off fireworks for literally a few hours now. It's a cloudy rainy evening, so they'd not even see anything nice.

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham: "Manchester!" Me, arms folded: "You mean the city that CHEATS"

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't wait to hear what the Culture Secretary has to say about all this....

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M @captainmeg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[runs in, panting] SHAMCHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB

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radio3 @radio3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Mars (The Planets Suite Op.32)” by Gustav Holst #nowplaying #radio3

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 29/09/2026

The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted 46–29 to back the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill at Second Stage. This is a major step towards ending harmful attempts to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

humanists.uk

Victory! Northern Ireland Conversion Practices Ban Bill passes key vote

The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted to pass the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill at Second Stage. MLAs voted 46 in favour and 29 against, with 15 abstentions. Northern Ireland…

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So he's definitely not calling an early election then, that's a relief at least

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026

situationists

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brown pylon with red vascular underpinning

An imposing small ink drawing of a pylon behind a roof, with red wax pastel underneath and loose wiring

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MI5 after weeks of spending 100% capacity stopping this: right has anything else been going on in the country? oh. whoops.

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Dracula is a Secret Yorkshireman (also Dog) @bignewgraphz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whilst we await the inevitable ‘Andy Burnham as superhero’ image currently being workshopped by the New Statesman art department, let’s all reminisce on the time they tried to insinuate he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing by illustrating an ‘Andy Burnham in wolf’s clothing’ for some reason…

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

International break? What international break? Heaton Stannington v Grimsby Borough Howay the Stan!!

Football players lining up before a game

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here on in I'm always referring to cheese burgers as "the ever popular cheese burger"

Sign at a burger stand calling the burger "the ever popular cheese burger"

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So are boneless wings just a posher name for chicken nuggets?

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Samantha Hay @samanthah.me · 25/09/2026

Wonder if trump threatens to sue they will fold as quickly as they did on the anti trans report?

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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Send this to every Man City fan you know. #115

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 25/09/2026

Protest is one thing. Intimidating volunteer lifeboat crews is another. These volunteers risk their lives to save others. Targeting them isn’t patriotic. It’s un-British. @joshbabarinde.bsky.social

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There already is a hub airport covering the south of England. It's called Amsterdam Schiphol.

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remember during the pandemic Mutya went full-on Pizzagate. I wonder if she got over that

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Platner re-litigation and the complete disinterest in Jackson really does give the game away that the appeal of Platner was that he was a total piece of shit

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm really sad about the death of one of my favorite wikipedia editors so here's a thread of some of the greatest articles he wrote

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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"trans people require medical care for the rest of their lives" is the craziest anti-trans talking point because everyone requires medical care for the rest of our lives.

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking for someone among the junk I have round the house and found this amazing blast from 2018

A betting slip from 2018 where I've put a fiver on Stacy Abrams to win the Georgia Gubernatorial race, and gotten 2/1 from BetFred

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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

See also the huge wave of university redundancies recently

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Texas - SD-09 Polling: Senate: 🔵Talarico: 52% 🔴Paxton: 41% Governor: 🔵Hinojosa: 49% 🔴Abbott: 40%* State Senate: 🔵Rehmet: 53%* 🔴Wambsganss: 39% Republican Internal / Sept 15, 2026 (Trump +17 District)

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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I believe in honesty in politics. I see the new Councillors in Newcastle have started hosting surgeries and advertising them online.

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