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Paul Burley

@paulburley.bsky.social
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Designs things, tries to doodle, fails at sleeping, will die for cats, wants to eat Japan, quite a dork. Repeat forever. Also @paulburleyffs on other places. 📍 Manchester, England 🌐 linktr.ee/paulburley

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Nicky @nickysee.bsky.social · 43m
“My love has got no power he’s got his…”
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 16h
I know Maya Jama is a traitor, but was it really necessary to murder the Honey Monster and wear his fetid carcass?
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vera told the robot: "If you mention Vera Lynn or Winston Churchill once, your plug is coming right out. Have you got that? I was twenty in 1972"
bbc.co.uk
Meet Robert the robot looking after Vera, 74, in her own home
At least a thousand people across England use the droids, health tech company Cera says.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Kemp has actually turned into Folded Ross Kemp, hasn't he? #CelebrityTraitors
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Richard E Grant: no fucking idea what this is, but he's invoiced them already. #CelebrityTraitors
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Content Creator. #CelebrityTraitors
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Celebrity Traitors. Some people are in a castle and some of them are lying. I'm enjoying it. Hannah Fry to win because I'm a bit in love with her.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wednesday.
static.klipy.com
ALT:
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, America.gov was launched. The new online home for the United States of America. 29,000 websites into one, apparently. Great work. 🇺🇸
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the proper use of a Freedom of Information request.
thestar.co.uk
This is how many times council has repainted ‘L’ on Pool Square street sign
Highways teams have attended Pool Square many times to repair the road sign due to a missing ‘L’
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monday.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think I’m now obsessed with Inde Navarrette, which feels entirely appropriate. What a performance! #Obsession
Film poster for Obsession, depicting a snapped One Wish Willow.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ardwick Empire, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87).
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's mostly the swearing about his bad back. You’d swear too if you'd spent 70 years walking around like that.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sexuality: Nigella Lawson shovelling down cake like someone’s about to take it away forever. #GBBO
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
COLEENROONEYAROONEY. Please stop, Danni from Dorset. #GBBO
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They HATE each other, don't they? You can tell. #GBBO
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Colin Charles Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor. He is known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (1984–1986) and Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers (1974–1976).
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Have you heard Ed Sheeran's music? He's a bit fucking wet. What were you expecting? A spine?
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Where I do my posting from.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When life imitates art, etc.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just submitted my Doctor Who tender bid.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Circa 1980. They've got a Waitrose now.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We've had a two day team off-site. (Yes. Two bastard days.) My colleagues haven't heard of Beck. Either I should question my life choices or they should question theirs. Not sure which. #Grandad
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 02/09/2026
The opening "foreshadowing" scenes on Casualty
Two cunts singing in an SUVAn apparently sober Ant driving a panicked looking Dec with a concerned looking passenger in the back.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MVP = Minimum Viable Paul™. #Monday
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Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New Note from Behind the Sofa! It's bisexual visibility month — who cares!? notesfromb3hindthesofa.substack.com/p/its-bisexu...
notesfromb3hindthesofa.substack.com
It’s Bisexual Visibility Month — who cares!?
on bisexuality, botany and Bowie
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: - My auntie by marriage had a load of Pierrot dolls and masks lining the stairs in the 80s. If you needed the bog, you had to run a gauntlet of silent French clowns. - The intro to Storybook. That demented fucking face. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfHJ...
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STORYBOOK INTERNATIONAL UK Opening Larry Grossman 1983
YouTube video by ILOVETHE80S
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remember the episode of Doctor Who where John Simm aged David Tennant by 900 years and he turned into Gollum? Apparently he’s doing appearances now.
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 60th anniversary to the world’s first selfie. Live long and get the entire bridge in shot. 🖖
Leonard Nimoy taking selfie.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What’s your favorite workplace sitcom? It's a tough one. I can revisit both of these on repeat and never grow tired of them.
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Keith Say 50dw50 @keithsay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Woman at work “are you going to watch the new Harry Potter “ Me “no” Her “What’s the matter you to woke?” Me “I’m fifty five “
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In news for an *extremely* specific demographic: John Fitton, of John Fitton Books & Magazines fame, "Near Goole", is currently on The 1% Club. IYKYK.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
First Ski Sunday, now this. How will we cope?
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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We've been doing some stocktaking and have just added some discounted damaged books to our webstore. These have minor scuffs or denting, but are affordable reading copies for anyone who fancies a bargain. Order from tenacrebooks.co.uk
Covers of The Long Game, Drama and Delight, Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene and You Are Not Alone.
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
He correct, charity is not a positive thing, taxing wankers like him out of existence and using that money to build a fair society is.
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Coll Hamilton @collhamilton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter - Prints of a painting in my artist’s shop I realised today when reading a novel based on The Good Life that I have been spelling Margo as Margot in the listing for the print - Mrs Leadbetter wouldn’t have been impressed - collhamilton.bigcartel.com/product/marg...
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
[Deactivates tomorrow’s alarm because I always forget when it’s a Bank Holiday, safe in the knowledge that my middle-aged body will wake me up at 6:47am anyway.]
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just finished Project Hail Mary. It's basically this, but with pretty lights.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I've left my regular barbershop visit a bit *too* long this time.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Plan a horrorfest using only your first name: P - Paranormal Activity A - Alien U - Us L - Longlegs Or maybe a catastrophically shit horrorfest: P - Psycho (1998 version - WHY?) A - Alien: Resurrection U - Unfriended L - Leprechaun 4: In Space
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
thenextweb.com/news/bill-ga... "Bill Gates has proposed - what he calls - 'Human Reserved' jobs." I propose - what I call - 'Billionaire Reserved' opinions, where they simply shut the fuck up.
thenextweb.com
Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs and a tax on AI tokens
Bill Gates has proposed ‘Human Reserved’ jobs protected from AI, naming childcare and jury service, plus taxes on AI tokens and robots
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Your nan's posting slop, again.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Loved Rotherham. Financed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Covered 'Help!' by The Beatles and somehow made it even better. RIP Dolly Parton. youtu.be/DZeQf3fnHOU?...
youtu.be
Dolly Parton - Help! (Official Video)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You know what Friday means? One hour of corporate organised fun with people I barely know in a Teams meeting. Every Friday.
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Been to the barber's. Looking sharp. ✂️✂️✂️
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Me: Corporate cash grabs are a disease. Also me: I would refinance my soul for McDonald's Happy Meal Godzilla x Hello Kitty.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reform: We're going to leave babies outside so only the strong survive to become our elite warrior class BBC: Reform will save NHS 100 TRILLION Pounds
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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Air raid are sirens going off across Manchester. Is it VJ Day, or are there more sodding wildfires? Genuinely impossible to tell what genre of emergency we're doing today.
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