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it was! I remember you handing out Edinburgh Anarchist Book Fair flyers in the queue

and, as I am fond of reminding people, Emi's first documented match was on IWA: Japan's Kawasaki Dream tour. If you don't recognise that name, you may know it better for how it was marketed on VHS and DVD for years in the US and UK - "That Japanese Tournament", or The King Of The Deathmatch.

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So of *course* Emi Sakura is someone I have all the time in the world for. ChocoPro is the most perfectly micro of all micro-indies, but before that was Gatoh Move, bringing wrestling to Thailand, wrestling in Malaysia, the Philippines, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and more besides. An icon.

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I started my career in wrestling with Channel Islands Wrestling, and partly as a result of that I have always been fascinated by and had an immense fondness for wrestling in scenes that fall under the radar, and promotions started in odd places with no history of a domestic pro-wrestling industry.

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It was! My camera memory card corrupted, so I was gutted to have lost my photos with Aja from the meet and greet. Next day, sat in the window of the Dundee Arms, I saw them all walking past on their way to ResGal and rushed out to say hi and get the photo.

I should take more photos, but you can do worse than these two.

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...people in all of pro-wrestling. Globally, the scene is better for having her in it. There is nobody who deserves the late career resurgence that she had more than her, and (if she wants to) she will have plenty to offer for years to come. Wrestling would be better with more people like Emi in it.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 12h

she'd hate me saying pretty much every bit of this, but yesterday was Emi Sakura's 50th birthday, and it was a pleasure to see her on Friday for the first time in a while; to be greeted with her smiling and waving is always a joy. She is one of the kindest, warmest, most creative, and funniest...

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Blue Skies Over Whitby, painting by Bridget Wilkinson.

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 03/10/2026

Once, I was talking to Lance Russell on the phone and he mentioned that he had been watching ROH on channel 3 in Pennsacola. "The wrestling is good, but the dang lighting is terrible!"

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wouldn't be surprised if whatever noise I made at that made tape, it was fucking horrible to see. No idea how she got right back up from that one.

Jim Valley FKOR @jimvalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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If I was writing a story pinning unrelated wrestler deaths on a wrestling company, I might do a little research to get a broader perspective. This story was circulated just 11 days ago. A Google search will bring up other acts of medical generosity by TK. Seems like pertinent information to me.

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IANdrew Dice Clay @iandrewdiceclay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PAC's wife and parents are normal working class people from the North East of England. Think about that when you are playing tribal games over fake ass wrestling. You think they want speculation on his death plastered all over these sites? Pathetic cunts, I swear.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would settle for someone unearthing full footage of Rik and Ade's Waiting for Godot.

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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maffew going to wXw Grand Prix @maffewgregg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.loudersound.com/news/venom-f... Fucking hell, two influential long-haired Geordies in one week? R.I.P. Cronos

loudersound.com

Venom frontman Conrad “Cronos” Lant dead at 63

No cause of death for the black metal innovator has been given

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is National Poetry Day in the UK, so for my contribution, I humbly share one of my favourite poems of all time, written by Robert Florence,

BATMAN'S AFF HIS NUT
Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody's ma and da dies
And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws."
And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin
and everybody else.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I shook hands with an otter yesterday.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

no Dynamite posts for me today - I'm in a shepherd's hut in Oxford with no TV and limited WiFi- but it sounds like it was as beautiful and brilliant a tribute as Pac deserves. AEW does these things so well, I just wish they didn't have to be so well-practiced at it.

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

Fine. Sure. Yeah. Why wouldn't they?

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

Incredible. This band can go from this, to being one of the heaviest, most punishing acts I've ever seen live, without ever feeling like they have lost focus. There is nobody like them. There couldn't possibly *ever* be anyone else like them again.

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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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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

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

Much love to you and Tom from a lapsed magpie 🖤🤍

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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

The thing with wrestling is that it's a small world, and the distance between top and bottom isn't that far. So there are people I've known and worked with in pretty much every major promotion, and I'm *nobody*.

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

Thank you. His time in the UK never really intersected with mine, but some of my favourite people on the scene worked with him on the way up, and some good friends owe a lot to how generous with his time he was whenever he came back. He was a star-maker, because he wanted to make everyone better.

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

Different training school, but I remember a 16/17 year old Nathan Frazer taking one of the nastiest spills I have *ever* seen a wrestler take. Immediate concern, checked over, made sure he was alright. Then immediately pivoted to, "if you could figure out how to do that on purpose, it would be sick"

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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

There is no greater joy for a British wrestler in America than sneaking in impenetrable references, a nod to fans "back home" that America hasn't beaten it out of you. This is for my generation, and for the North East, as much an example of that as Regal doing Morecambe & Wise bits.

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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

the latter is The Dog House in Kennington, where Morrissey allegedly used to drink, making it spiritually still part of Andy Burnham's Manchester. And Morrissey probably didn't even actually drink there. But Steve Lamacq does, which is enough for Britain's First 6Music Prime Minister.

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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.