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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 8h

The death penalty isn't justice, it's monstrous cruelty.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Timeline cleanse, here's Dougal on a walk today insisting that this stick is not too big for him.

A Goldndoodle attempting to lift a seven foot long fallen tree branch which is an entirely normal size for a stick.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a genuinely horrifying vision of a vision of a future where everything is personalised based on pastiches of existing music, films, books etc, everyone is atomised off into their own personal bubble and the only thing we have in common is beige protein and nutrient slop we eat.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're all doomed. I watched five minutes of it before noping out over uncanny valley actors, terrible writing and really poor "direction".

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be realistic, no matter what they deserve, they're not going to relegate City below League Two just for the practical problems caused if a team with that many fans was in non-league football.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still remember the summer of 2023 when Wolves were continually having to sell players to fot in with PL finance rules. Then Kevin De Bruyne got injured and Man City with their already stacked squad could casually drop £53m to get Nunes from us as a replacement.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One for the sporting trivia masters: England have now had an Alex Scott play for both their women's and men's teams. Any other countries had something similar?

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want Man City's punishment to be announced like a round of Play Your Cards Right someone from the FA holding up the names of divisions and everyone chanting "Lower! Lower!" until we reach the bottom of the pyramid.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking forward to next year's big Manchester derby as City take on FC United.

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F.C. United of Manchester - Wikipedia

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was just about to write a piece on how we're not getting electoral reform anytime soon because no one was going to do the work to get a consensus on the form of it before the next election. Burnham just justified my procrastination.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car

David Burton - "the new Doctor Who" - standing near his new Proton

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Out of all of them I'd actually choose Badenoch, because I'd want to see how weird she could make the whole experience. It'd take her half an hour to order as she works out which beer is the least woke.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feeling sorry for the CIA officers having to generate evidence to prove a bunch of diesel-siphoning geezers are actually woke Iranian terrorists.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The picture makes it look like a judge has just told them they either do this or go to prison.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cycling World Championship Men's Road Race on BBC Three right now, and could be a cracking finish. About 10 riders left with a chance, including Tom Pidcock and last lap is going to be a real war of attrition.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Amused st people claiming country music has no presence in Britain, just weeks after Dolly Parton's death.

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Paul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, here's the trailer. Let's make it go viral. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a much scarier Doom out there...

A cover of a Doomlord comic, an alien character in a skull-like mask and robe.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A world where our lords and masters are collectively as intelligent and innovative as a stoned undergraduate who has a housemate studying philosophy.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The banter timeline would be Man City in League Two or the National League owned by the Gallagher brothers. However, the Oh Shit, It Got Worse timeline we're actually in has them sold off to Musk or the Trump family and tying any punishment up for years in the courts.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fascinating that this is presented as just a Run DMC song with no mention of Aerosmith. #TOTP

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doctor Who Orphan Black The Second Coming Brooklyn 99 The Daily Show Veronica Mars State of Play Life on Mars/Ashes To Ashes Line Of Duty Blue Lights What else is missing?

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oasis were definitely listening to Lost Souls by Doves when they came up with this knock-off of The Cedar Room. #TOTP

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In everyone's rush to find a take on that list of 100 best TV shows, you've all missed the real low-hanging fruit that what the hell is Downton Abbey doing on anyone's top 100 list?

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eighteen, but got lucky with a few "well, it's obviously not that one" options.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Peppermint Patty, in particular, vociferously argued that after several successive years of identical catastrophic results, it may be worth examining whether Lucy’s role in the kicking process has become counterproductive."

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"We don't have to do anything about climate change because God will sort it out" is literally the Christian funding argument, except theirs is somehow more honest because they're not insisting they can build God out of autocorrect first.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a protest demanding two-tier policing.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would you like to trade in your massive majority for an election where the best case scenario of the likely results is having to spend five years working closely with Ed Davey?

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If I had 10p for every viral story about a lesbian bar being run by someone who didn't want to run a bar but got left with it after their business partners flaked, I'd have 20p, but it's weird there have been two in the last week.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The other side of this argument - showing his supporters that it's OK to break the law and terrorise people as they wish because no one will stop them - is never part of the discussion.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Doing some research on John Paul Jones's raid on Whitehaven and found something still applicable after 250 years. (From SE Morison "John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography")

Text reading "The United States Navy, for want of something better to do, had elected to fight a commerce-destroying war."

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

During a Sixth Form assembly our head of sixth form decided to give us a lecture on morality in which we he informed us that "heavy petting with your girlfriend makes you no better than a copulating dog in the street".

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.

It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.

We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.

• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So thick they video themselves committing crimes and put them online, or feeling so secure from all the times the government have let them get away with things they don't see any risk to doing so?

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time the Lib Dems under Davey look like they're about to get serious they pull out some populist nonsense like this. Especially egregious when vaguely defined "growth" is somehow going to fund these tax cuts.

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