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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 18h

The robots at Building Control are uncaring and evil, but the people are nice.

Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

- So what did your friends enjoy most about your birthday? The outstanding and varied cuisine or the scintillating and inclusive programme of activities? - The bit where you said, "Oh bollocks, what shall we do now? OK guys, get kazoos & wigs & let's do a parade round the park."

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"When I started, I was dealing with boys who'd go into a pub, drink 3 pints of cider with some old men, & vomit in the toilets. Then the government spent millions stopping that, so now they're sitting in the park with junkies vaping DIY spice & ending up on psychiatric wards."

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 07/10/2026

Just because a building is built doesn't mean it ought to be there forever. but this was a long-serving parish with a lot of history in the Ancoats area, it could have made a great community space if it wasn't camped on for profit. and it would seem now that the camper played the long game and won.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very good to see the blue plaque for Jackie Hill on Alma Road

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How we dry sunflower seeds: put them on muslin laid on a gantry over the warm air exhaust of the washing dehumidifier. Otherwise they tend to sit around and rot.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Still chasing several permissions for the 2027 almanac. An incredible range in reaction speed - a personal message within seconds from the magnificent ed of the Speccie, bureaucratic weeks for big publishers, a certain learned society, which took 4 years to say yes.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought this was going to be about the Harrying of the North. (It wasn't a Henry wot dunnit - why's it not called the Willying?)

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The ongoing destruction of the web by AI bots is affecting Wikitree. My stuff is only accessible now via Cloudflare, & closing it all down & going back to paper is an option.

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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tories pledge end to specialist bit of infrastructure

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In what sense did Britain ever embrace Europe if the maximum strength chocolate you can buy in Waitrose is 72%?

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A couple of industrial railways in northern Spain in the 1960s shop.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/7/a... I cycled through Mieres on a Barcelona-Babia-Bishops Waltham route in July 2012 and would have loved have seen this beforehand

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A FREE RAILWAY IN SPAIN

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One suspects this school-induced mysophobia relates to the conversion of grass play areas to artificial surfaces (bonus: raised flooding & overheating risk), & wonders if it also ties into the presentation as a woman of a male teacher - biophobia stranger than anything Victorian

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two mums on their 6-year-old boys' marriage of the doctrine of toilet hands to their natural aversion to water: - He lifts the seat with his elbow and wees all over the place because he doesn't want to touch his willy. - Mine wears gloves.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's a tangible rural past - take the Hampshire Bowman at Dundridge before it was turned into a restaurant

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Strategically moving bins into the gutter of a road with heavy, fast-moving traffic - Monk Bridge Road - in order to allow schoolchildren to walk along the narrow pavement, one wonders why councils don't simply forbid bins on pavements & thus begin to displace some parked cars

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The depths of my ignorance: I'd never heard Andrea Chénier, which is tremendous. The 1955 version from La Scala with Callas (on YouTube) has partially converted me to crowd noise.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are lots of roads in the Dales which would benefit from this. Access restricted to permit holders and emergency vehicles to showcase the beauty of the area without the hazard presented by motorists.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After school the infant whispers, "X from Reception just came up to me and said, 'So where's the fucking ladybird then?' I know all those words, but I never say them, unlike you."

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The importation of Saxon/Angle/Jute mercenaries by British rulers to fill the gap left by the Roman army & the subsequent takeover presents an interesting challenge for Reform/Restore

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it still true that to be on the BBC you simply need to buy a house in Highgate? www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthe... I was only on Midweek because a researcher met me quite near Highgate

bbc.co.uk

The Third at 80 – a brief history of the unexpected

Weird and wonderful highlights from the early years of BBC Radio 3’s celebrated forerunner The Third Programme

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I thought I would be dead by the time Leeds finished a couple hundred metres of cyclepath through Headingley. Please can they build a tramway.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If Jacques Brel loved Marieke so, then why didn't he learn how to pronounce her name? youtu.be/wfGDpzL9H7Y

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Jacques Brel - Marieke

YouTube video by alenaapril

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tempted to interpret floods of tears from a 6-year-old boy on being unable to get a 2nd slice of orange, almond and polenta cake as evidence that one is at last a Proper Cook, but his mum thinks it was the Cointreau in the syrup

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Monstrous house spiders could stay put if only they were more discreet

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Overheard the infant (Y2) making reading suggestions to girls in Y5

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“It’s not about pitting one mode of travel against another. No one is declaring war on this or that. And you definitely won’t find me leading a charge of the Lycra brigade. I simply want to give people greater choice in their lives,” transport secretary Heidi Alexander said today

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“The equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction”: National Cycle Network set for £104m investment as transport secretary promises to go “hell for leather on active travel” – but campaigners are ...

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has pledged to go “hell for leather on active travel”, as the government announced that it will invest £104 million in the National Cycle Network (NCN) over the nex...

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One wanders mistakenly up Bradford's Thornton Road, past mills awaiting a redevelopment fire, and meets a junkie: - Excuse me, can you tell me the way to the university? - [With a wild look and a dramatic toss of the arm:] It's them buildings up on the hill, but don't go there!

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another epic day out with a bunch of friends in Upper Wharfedale (Kilnsey - Conistone Dib - Barras - lead mining - Bronze Age / Iron Age detritus - Grassington) thanks to @dalesbus.bsky.social 874, marred only by a failed attempt to sing the Hallelujah Chorus on passing the Bolton Abbey arch

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Impressions of Woodhouse Ridge trees at today's Meanwood Arts Collective show, 10-4 at the Institute. Also: "Everyone's talking about the sunflowers."

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1925: smoking concert to raise funds for a cancer charity. Anyone seen the cartoon?

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing another such sign on the back of lorries indicating to cyclists that it is illegal to undertake them on the left

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is that Rachel Reeves just to the left of her?

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Old enough to recall the last "automated annihilation that would allow no room for individual heroism or stoicism, just a sudden extinction" (Rod Liddle). But maybe we have already been extinguished by the smartphone & just don't realise.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What kind of swine steals a children's bike trailer? Last night, Quarry Mount, Leeds.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Explanation: he's addicted to satnav, and has absolutely no idea where he is

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Argument against political and religious uniforms

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One's enthusiasm for banning all facial coverings is increased by the suspicion that all the Muslim women will turn out to be male Monty Python fans

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

With authenticity a key element in AfD's branding, it's curious that it does rallies with an AI music merchant youtu.be/GgWxKEjL10w A great poem: Es schienen so golden die Sterne, / Am Fenster ich einsam stand / Und hörte aus weiter Ferne / Ein Posthorn im stillen Land.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Suspicions that the infant has been colonised by a LLM: - So tomorrow we're going to have a good look at an Olympic-size smelter flue. - I know all about that! - Really? Tell me more. - Have you got half an hour?

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Unable now to go to Ilkley without thinking of I's Twelve Opossums up on the moor

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Didn't see Klaus Bednarz's 1994 Reise durch Ostpreussen in the days when I'd cycle that way. The decapitated statues of the Prussian kings at Königsberg/Kaliningrad in part 2 recall the shamefully faceless Goethe in Leeds's Tiled Café youtu.be/UBOUlH5Ozws

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Reise durch Ostpreußen - Königsberg und Kurische Nehrung (1994)

YouTube video by Retro Channel

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