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Pete Green

@petegreensolo.com
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poet/placewriter, musician/indiepopper, beachcomber/edgelander / north briton /sarahlander / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee / no generative AI, ever Sheffield they/them please, ta 💖 petegreensolo.com

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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 26/09/2026
Just got home and got into bed. Not sleepy.
Selfie in bed
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 25/09/2026
Five and a half hours from the bus out of Walkley to the pub in Stockwell. I definitely looked better this morning.
Selfie on the busSelfie in the pub
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 17/09/2026
It all begins on Friday night with this rather sumptuous line-up including my band @pinkopaque.co.uk
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 15/09/2026
THROW IT IN THE FUCKING SEA
Screengrab from BBC Sport, asking "What would you do to fix VAR?"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 02/09/2026
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 13/08/2026
Governments/freedom etc
The Drake meme

Forcing retailers not to sell incendiary devices ❌

Forcing actual people to use and not use particular toilets ✅
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 11/08/2026
Screen grab from The Simpsons, showing a high school-aged Homer scorning the suggestion to lower the national speed limit to 55mph with the argument "sure, they'll save a few lives, but millions will be late"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 09/08/2026
Potentially the greatest election stunt in the history of political campaigning. #clacton #binface
Screen grab from Flightradar24, showing the dustbin-shaped flight path of a plane over the sea next to Clacton
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 07/08/2026
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 06/08/2026
Can you be handed a blow though
"Plymouth Argyle Handed Transfer Blow As League One Rivals Clinch Striker Deal"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 27/07/2026
Gianni Infantino with the quote "You mentioned the few people denied visas and overlooked the millions who were approved"Steve Coogan's swimming pool attendant in The Day Today saying "in 1975, no-one died. In 1975, no-one died"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 25/07/2026
Who looks at this and thinks "great process, I'm in"?
Screengrab from a LinkedIn job posting
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 About the job

This is a job that Jill, our AI Recruiter, is recruiting for on behalf of one of our customers.

She will pick the best candidates from Jack's network.

The next step is to speak to Jack.
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 19/07/2026
That stadium announcer needs zipping.
Image from the old kids' TV show Rainbow, in which the gobby character Zippy has had his mouth zipped up
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 19/07/2026
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 11/07/2026
I love it when this happens
A section of Bluesky timeline where a post about an album by Mavis Staples is immediately followed by a post about staples
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 08/07/2026
#CountBinface #Clacton #fanart
The Obama 'HOPE' poster but with Count Binface
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 06/07/2026
🎵 You can stick your AI banner up your arse *SIDEWAYS*
Section of the crowd at Portugal v Spain with a frankly embarrassing AI-generated banner being held up, something to do with one player being better than another, whatever
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 01/07/2026
#engdrc
Harry Maguire, with the text "not so memeworthy now am I"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 14/06/2026
You think you can't possibly revere @greenpartyhan.bsky.social any more highly and then she posts about buying a chunky knit cardigan in Sheffield AND soundtracks it with the Go! Team 🤯💚🤩 www.instagram.com/p/DZiBjVeih0...
Hannah's insta post showing a pic of her in front of the pop-up shop in the Winter Garden wearing an absolutely *mighty* cardigan with brightly coloured horizontal stripes, and grinning beautifully into the camera
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 10/06/2026
Screen grab from BBC news, headline "US official says banned referee had links with 'terror organisations'"Jimmy Hill scratching his chin, yeah I reckon he is
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 10/06/2026
It's been a while since anyone shared the most unintentionally hilarious band photo ever taken, so please enjoy this classic image of Razorlight looking like 24-carat bellends.
The members of Razorlight are dressed in a kind of country gothic style; there's a lot of black and unnecessary scarves, with an especially preposterous broad-rimmed hat and an Olympic-standard gormless expression
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 21/05/2026
Fastest block I've ever received! Why do poets publish in the far-right Spectator, and why is this poet so reluctant to discuss it?
A post from Peter Devonald about having a poem published in the Spectator A post from me in reply to Peter. I'm quoting Rishi Dastidar's post about a Spectator piece by Simon Heffer saying "it's time to uncancel Enoch Powell". 

My post says "Hi Peter. Genuinely curious about the relationship between poets, poetry and the Spectator. Are you OK with your work appearing alongside stuff like this?"It's two minutes later and Peter Devonald has blocked me.
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 16/05/2026
I know it's late but I could do without bus stops sounding like doomy American male novelists
The bus stop is saying No Forthcoming Departures
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 03/05/2026
Of all the kinds of places to use a shit genAI image, why would an art and craft centre ffs And why would I buy art or craft from here if I can't trust that it's human-created
A poster on a stand saying "welcome to Sherwood Forest Art & Craft Centre" with a shit genAI image of acorns and oak leaves
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 01/05/2026
Funding goal achieved
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 01/05/2026
Looks like @panicpocket.bsky.social have got this #maymusicchallenge sewn up today *and* tomorrow
Tracklisting from Panic Pocket's 'Never Gonna Happen' EP. Track 1 is The Boss; track 3 is Pizza in my Pants
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 01/05/2026
As always, no artificial intelligence has been used in the creation of this work
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 11/04/2026
Several months have passed since I learned that a real person exists with this name and I still can't stop thinking about it
Wikipedia page about the Treasurer of Alabama, Young Boozer
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 06/04/2026
Venn diagram with three segments labelled "British people abroad", "TERFs", "journalists covering Artemis II", and an intersection labelled "obsessed with toilets"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 01/04/2026
UK local media: we don't need subeditors any more Also UK local media:
Screengrab from the Grimsby Telegraph website - text reads as follows:

"The 29-year-old joined fellow defenders Doug Tharme and Cameron McJannet, as well as winger Charles Vernam, in extending his Mariners deal this season, as head coach David Artell, who he wants in his squad beyond this term."
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 22/03/2026
Part of a graffiti wall with the words "Pete Green has no first name or last name"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 18/03/2026
They've invented a job title specially for poets
Grab from a job description with the British Heart Foundation; the job is Senior Heart Stories Officer
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 05/03/2026
Honestly, just to look at this guy you'd have no idea he's a Tory
Alec Shelbrooke, the Conservative MP for Elmet and Rothwell, wearing a three-piece suit, David Cameron hair, and a "paying tax is for the little people" face
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 03/03/2026
At last, a relatable football manager
Screengrab from the Guardian with a picture of the Liverpool men's team manager Arne Slot and the headline "Slot admits he does not enjoy watching most Premier League matches"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 26/02/2026
The thing, it happened
A bit of the board from the Crossplay app, which is basically Scrabble, with the word SCRABBLE on it
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 18/02/2026
Wake up babe, new verb just dropped on LinkedIn
Job description from LinkedIn which says "This isn't about maintaining a brand; it's about architecting a new category"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 16/02/2026
Bit of a step up, but he certainly wouldn't be the worst prime minister this century
Screengrab from BBC Sport asking "is number 10 role the next step for Saka?"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 11/02/2026
Honestly, I just clicked on this to see who @pinkopaque.co.uk would be playing alongside at @walesgoespop.bsky.social and at that exact moment the sun came out 🩷🪩
Saturday 4 April

Heavenly / Even As We Speak / Lande Hekt / The Cords / Tulpa / Sassyhiya / Lilith Ai / Red Sleeping Beauty / The Yellow Melodies / Pink Opaque
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 11/02/2026
BBC Sport there, demonstrating the importance of a snappy opening which really grabs the reader
Screengrab from a BBC Sport piece which opens "The unintended consequence of exiting both domestic cup competitions at the earliest possible stage and ending up with the smallest season games-wise since 1914-15 is that the remainder of Manchester United's campaign is divided into blocks before a longer than usual spell without a game."
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 25/01/2026
It's quite a long title but I'm really enjoying the new @thejustjoans.bsky.social album
A screengrab from a local news site with a photo of a flat-roof pub called the War Office and a headline "Topless Motherwell man in flip flops entered pub carrying two knives amid Christmas cocaine binge"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 21/01/2026
@theguardian.com has overestimated by precisely nine the number of things I need to know about the Beckham family feud
A screengrab from the Guardian website with the text "My mum went so far as to call me evil: Nine things you need to know about the Beckham family feud"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 15/01/2026
tag urself I'm "pretty items"
Two people walking past a shop front. The shop sign is painted in an old-fashioned style and reads "Pretty Items & Useful Things for... Gardeners * Dreamers * Holidaymakers / Call in and take a look!" The picture was taken by the seafront at Cleethorpes in the late 2010s.
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 25/12/2025
"insights"
Screengrab from Instagram congratulating me that "new people had a chance to discover your content", just after a breakdown of views for my post which says "non-followers 0%, followers 100%"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 25/12/2025
The resistance has never stopped for Christmas.
Black and white photo of five people with a long narrow placard reading "N.U.M. / Victory to the miners / A merry Xmas to you all / Except scabs + pigs"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 10/12/2025
It will surprise none (0) of my associates in the Bluesky community that @theguardian.com's understanding of "affordable" candles includes candles that retail for the sum of twenty-eight (28) pounds sterling
Screengrab from the Guardian with pictures of candles and the text "The best scented candles in the UK: 17 affordable, genuinely great-smelling candles – tested"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 24/11/2025
At the @pinkopaque.co.uk show last night someone said playing synthpop is "a great reinvention" for me, and now I feel a compulsion to go full Kylie and follow up Indie Pete, Poetry Pete and Disco Pete with Soap Opera Pete and Girl Next Door Pete
Me on stage playing a synth and a theremin
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 17/11/2025
Well played, Guardian crossword. Well played.
Screengrab from a crossword with the clue "Trump a Protestant?" and the answer "Orangeman"
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 14/11/2025
I fancied playing a Christmas popshow with @pinkopaque.co.uk so I organised one 🎄✨🎹 It's at Hatch in Sheffield on 20 December and we've got Precious Metals and @mylofiheart.bsky.social to play too 🤩 More info/tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precious-m... #sheffield #sheffieldgigs #20251220
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 24/10/2025
Labour Party hq today
Principal Skinner meme with this text:

Does this terrible by-election result amount to a devastating indictment of Labour's hard-right policymaking?

No, it means we're not doing enough of it
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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 13/10/2025
Yes, there are times when I need reassurance as to the value of my contribution to the world, as well as unconditional love in the face of humanity's folly among a seemingly cold universe Yes, there are other times when I just need a Hula Hoop sandwich
Hula Hoops on white bread with tomato ketchup
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