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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know the world's in a fucked up state when Laibach are making more or less unambiguous & unironic political statements, but at least they had the decency to do it while releasing an album of Eurovision-friendly pop bangers, & putting on an incredible show. What an absurd, brilliant, vital band

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🎵This is a warning that the 🎵Caves are precarious 🎵Caves are precarious

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

uk politics is getting as bad as comics for dead dads

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A wrestler I trained under who shall not be named, on seeing something like this, would have said, "you just invented a great new finish, but let's try that again".

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Slightly morbidly, the first part of the line is "I could've popped me clogs", but the follow-up "but I diiiiiiidn't" is 100% Lenny Biscuits.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

perhaps the worst part of this is that the show is pre-taped, so not only will they be counter-programming a tribute show, but if it's presented "as live" then they risk presenting friends and former colleagues of PAC as either complicit or uncaring. It needs, at the very least, a full disclaimer.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

walked past the Chandos yesterday and was grotesquely tempted by the idea of Andy Burnham's London Pub Crawl. Reminder - that's a Sam Smith's pub crammed with tourists, a Wetherspoon's that's been closed since 2022, and one decent pub in South London.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In this thread, Monbiot explains how political decisions are made for reasons of power and interest, but then justified with pretextual arguments about logic and morality. The reason I cannot deal with most political coverage is that it takes the latter arguments seriously and ignores the real story

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is Tuesday and this already feels like the longest week ever.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good for Drama King Matt

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a lovely time having a big autists' outing.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish I could remember the show and the specific context, but I cracked up earlier remembering the time PAC slipped an Athletico Mince reference into an AEW promo segment. Just gloriously niche work to pop a handful of people, but still made it work in a heel promo.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's important to have dreams, I guess.

A screenshot of a checkbox next to the phrase "I would like a wizard to analyse my table after importing the data"

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If anyone hasn't seen PAC's Riptide match with Cara Noir, where he was an unannounced opponent, today is as good a time as any.

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Cara Noir vs PAC | RIPTIDE

YouTube video by RIPTIDE Wrestling

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think about this a lot, and the grief this young company has had to go through. I think about Bryce and Eddie Kingston, who I grew to love as humans after Larry Sweeney's death, and how grossly unfair it is that such good souls should have to go through this so often. I think about Excalibur...

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PAC was *incredibly* funny, and the reason that stuff like this and the Orange Cassidy matches worked isn't just because he was an all-time great straight man, but because he had the confidence in his own ability and credibility to know exactly how far he could take "funny" without becoming a joke.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got an email today intended for the golfer Patrick Reed, which hasn't happened in a long time (used to get the occasional Twitter DM).

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just in shock about PAC. To have been just watching him yesterday and singing his praises, as I do every single time I see him, then to wake up to such horrible news. I only met him once, but honestly what stood out above all else was how quiet, humble, and kind he was. No one had a bad word.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okada vs Ospreay is massive, but it's *another* champion vs champion match, with Andrade coming up as a future challenger to Will too. I don't think jobbing out all your other singles champions to the World Champion is a very productive way to create a hierarchy of prestige.

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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why is Chicken Tonight a perfectly fine brand name but Beef Soon isn’t

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

However many months into this gimmick, Andrade has not only still not invested in tearaways, he somehow manages to find a series of increasingly complicated trousers.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love Public Service Broadcasting almost as much as I hate Ally Pally.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On one hand, we have been robbed of years of grumpy veteran heavyweight Steve Corino. On the other hand, I wouldn't be half as excited by this nonsense if Steve was working every weekend.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every fandom - every single one - is toxic as fuck because they're all basically ad hoc, anarchist collectives that police themselves and have no established societal norms. They're a microcism of what you get when you put loads of humans in a community without any particular goal in mind.

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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I used to write for a kids tv show and we had a binman character who’d look through a celeb’s trash and you’d guess who it was (for example medals, running shoes = Usain Bolt) and we got through so many layers of compliance before being told he just couldn’t be called Gary Litter

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is 4 for £1.00.

Sign in a Clacton charity shop which reads Books 99p each. Fact based books 4 for £1.00

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is no purer art form than NWOBHM songs where the song title is the same as the artist name. Bonus points to Angel Witch for hitting the trifecta with the album title too. Witchfinder General by Witchfinder General rules, though. It sounds like they tried to rip off every Sabbath song at once.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Went to the RA Richard Dadd exhibition - The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke is such a staggering, overwhelming piece of work; so much so that I was shocked to discover how small it was, given the amount of intense detail. I neglected to buy a print, because if I saw it every day I would Go Wrong.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

mine was in the wrestling magazine Fighting Spirit. An article about showmanship and pageantry in wrestling was accompanied by a photo with the caption, "The Undertaker always puts on a shoe".

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my one criticism of "Already Gone" by Orville Peck is that it's far too easy to replace the lyrics with: 🎶 Ooh-ooh Homes Under The Hammer 🎶 And that's been stuck in my head for two days now.

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IANdrew Dice Clay @iandrewdiceclay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Vampiro was so fucked up at the time. Hips, knees, back, neck. All a mess. Clearly overweight, too, due to not being able to work out. It was such a great match, too. Smoke and mirrors and playing to the strengths of the babyface. It was a work of art.

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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was in a Teams call recently where someone said, "these particular individuals". Just the most Vince McMahon language I had ever heard in real life.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The only spots in the PWI 500 that have ever mattered are #1, #500, and whichever your favourite indie wrestler paid for this year.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"little bit of crime, yeah". The New Level/Swerve dynamic is great fun. When it was first rumoured they would be together, I was dreading that it meant a post-WWE New Day would want to be all super-serious, but them being self-aware & goofy and bringing Swerve into it has worked out so much better.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*horrific racist fascist blackshirt actions* UK gov official: first of all, they are correct in their beliefs, however they should trust us to enact the violence and racism, can’t they see how good we are at it Burnham on tiktok : hey kids check out this barm! What am i like eyy up

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Daily Mirror front page shows grainy image of horde of children in a cemetery, and the headline “Amazing scene as hundreds of children rush cemetery”

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

deputy head was a big fucker, terrifying ex-rugby player with the hair and beard of Gerry Adams. He once opened an assembly, without explanation or introduction, with a solo performance of the opening scene of Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters, playing all three witches with big camp panto dame voices.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the headline the BBC chose to best illustrate acts of attempted murder, terrorism, and attacks on an emergency service by an organised mob of fascist thugs. The media is completely captured, and yet cunts will still have the audacity to claim the BBC has a "left-wing bias".

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Write what you know" is useful as far as reflecting emotional honesty, but beyond that it's nonsense. It *can't* mean only write from personal experience, because that eliminates 99% of fiction. And like Gail says, if you don't know it, learn it. Then write it. Above all, write what you *feel*.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

that Danny Tommo cunt should be charged with attempted murder and terrorism, and if our government had half a backbone and if our justice system is worth owt, every fucker who has stood by him, publicised him, cheered him on, and *especially* whoever is funding him should be tried as conspirators.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A sheep doing a double-take in the GBBO intro was just a more convincing actor than Paul Hollywood in the opening skit.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the most common ghost animals appear to be horses, dogs, and cats. So we can assume that there is something about the domestication process that makes animals more inclined to become phantoms.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I find most writing guides fall somewhere between tedious, obvious, and empty platitudes, but then I read Ursula Le Guin saying, "there's one best way for the parts of a sentence to fit together, and your job as a writer is to find it" and I can actively feel my brain being rewired for the better.

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