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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 10h

Bonus points for someone with a packet of aniseed balls being chased by dogs.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I fear that Rona is somehow only a click away from the dark web. A very dark web.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My pal Robin wrote a very evocative piece about the trouble of having a giant brutalist carpark in the middle of your city that shouldn’t exist anymore but can’t be removed.

liverpoolalmanac.substack.com

Liverpool’s strangest building is also one of its most important

1,500 parking spaces, broken lifts and a £2bn urban planning paradox: how you do solve a problem like Mount Pleasant?

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve got an episode of @gimmesometruthpod.bsky.social and a new live episode of @cbbworld.bsky.social to listen to so this is a particularly egregious scenario.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Home time and the folly of forgetting one's earphones.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A very merry long lasagna to you!

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We talked for a long time, but fuck it. 1964 is a biggie. I probably said at least three vaguely interesting things and at least one funny thing. Or one thing that I found extremely funny and that no-one else will even notice. Find out next week! Take the long way round on your commute!

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Michael here, plunging deep into issues of both cat empathy and the tragic spectre of how work has caused society to abandon love in the interests of a life on the capitalist treadmill.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mods are alseep, post thinamids.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When we used to visit our grandparents I was sometimes put in my cousin Michael's room which was decorated ALL OVER (walls and ceilings, above the bed as well) in classic massive 1980s Iron Maiden posters and for a sensitive little 7 year old, this did not promote sleep.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(An episode which also contains my favourite joke in the entire series)

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyone listening to this wanting to know the ultimate legacy of the California Raisins, watch episode 6 of @hellocullen.bsky.social’s Strip Law on Netflix and meet “The Hot Dates”.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lashings of reverb for our American friends!

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TRIVIA: the school kids’ singing required scriptwriter Evan Hunter to come up with more lyrics for the trad. song and so he had to register with ASCAP and received cheques for music royalties for years when the film was shown.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A gull keeps trying to harmonise but isn’t fitting in with its rusty-hinged noises.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Peeps and swoops and whistles and clicks and trills.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I like to think they sit on the chimney pots because it amplifies their voices, or gives a pleasant reverb/delay effect like singing in a tiled room.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Laying in bed listening to a Starling on the rooftop opposite running through its repertoire.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well yes but also tell me more about “crisps” you like? What are a “crisps”? Are you suggesting I Buy Crisp?

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Didn't buy any, but how many people ever saw One Album/Two Singles band KING L live? (I did, opening for Del Amitri in the Victoria Hall in Hanley)

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the first week of term and the fun book and record sale is next to it, so they've targeted this very specifically as a location and time of day. Clearly some sort of far right provocative youtuber or something like that. A coward, given the amount of thugs he's got around him.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Went out for lunch to discover that just by our University square there are cranks under a Union Flag gazebo: “abortion should be banned immediately, change my mind” and “millions need to be deported….” and they’re filming at a table, with a bunch of their own ‘security’. I fucking hate it.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm very unlikely to watch This City Is Ours, because I'm fed up of everything produced and set in Liverpool being about crimers doing crime and other crimers trying to do crime on them.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I came home to newts on my doorstep, I would never ever stop talking about it. I would have a t-shirt made saying I HAD NEWTS ON MY DOORSTEP AMA

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bus stop the worst I’ve ever seen it for discarded bottles of cheap wine this morning. Absolute animals, these students. I mean we were young idiots when we came here all those years ago, but (a) there wasn’t loads of ‘newsagents’ selling shitty flavoured Blossom Hill & (b) we knew what a bin was.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally, Ken's Sardines and Mince Shack is getting a call!

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nor would you ever want it to. (Angry Mutley Noises continue)

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's such absolute bollocks. If teenage me had put all my favourite types of music into a Magic Machine, it wouldn't in a million years generate Good Timin' by Jimmy Jones (a song which bafflingly moves me to tears) and also output Dust, Juice, Bones & Hair by Martha and Debussy's Arabesques.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now I'm not a naturally confrontational person, but this would make me supremely keen to get up there and demonstrably get into that pool. WITH A VENGEANCE.

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Perennial @perennialtheband.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why does LinkedIn have such a terrible reputation? * opens LinkedIn * * sees this / closes LinkedIn *

Screengrab from LinkedIn advert saying See how Snowflake got 2.7x CTR discover how trusted voices fuel B2B credibility and leads watch webinar

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But we’ll be big famous musicians by then won’t we

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, it happened, my indie/punk band had a conversation about pensions during practice tonight.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd like to think that when he was doing his ADR work for Pressure - a film about men in WW2 discussing weather maps - he was dressed in his best ALF merch.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not convinced by this use of 'Hants' for Hampshire. Seems like a fake county.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bafflingly, given these experiences, I was saying to my partner that I feel like I've seen nothing but the trailer for this film for ages in the past couple of months, to the point where I knew all the beats of it when it came on in front of the Avengers re-release! How odd.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m cultivating an air of ‘Gibberish Pedlar’

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks! I’m so full of food now, I will be rolled home, like a comedy steamroller.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My first public act on this birthday: go out and scoff a lovely Greek meal… and then discover I had my t-shirt on inside out!

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, I wouldn't want to count the amount of ale I have consumed over the last 30 or so years...

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, it's one of those 'you're really deep into your late-40s' type birthday days today. I never used to be bothered about getting older, but it's starting to seem a bit much, really, all these big numbers. Oh well, better go and have my 50000th cup of tea.

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