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Pete Turton

@peteturton85.bsky.social
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A walking cloud of portable darkness. Eurovision, paddle boarding, appalling clarinet playing.

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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 9h
HOLY SHIT ITS EXACTLY LIKE TWITTER
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 9h
Jesus Christ medics on TikTok are acting like MedTwitter 10 years ago. We get it, you bought a coffee for your registrar, you’re basically Jesus.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Look I thought the headphones were connected to the phone, but actually I think the locals would like Cocktail Chic
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lovely stuff. Now start trials at 9am, scrap two hour lunch adjournments and end the day at 5pm. I get it’s not as easy as that given the preparation barristers and judges have to do, but honestly I got more work done on jury duty waiting for things to happen than I would have done in work
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some Charlie Kirk wannabe has set himself up on the Liverpool uni campus under a Union Jack gazebo. So that’s fun. I don’t know what worse that it’s happened or that people are just stood around it like they’re watching the antiques roadshow
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look I just don’t think anyone knows what the triple lock actually is.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No leash no BA.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Personally I can’t wait for James Buckley to do a podcast six months after this telling everyone how it wasn’t what he planned and he let everyone down like the inbetweeners reunion
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have heard this on hospital radio several times today.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But which one is the truth - either: We subject children to academic subjects they don’t want to do for 5 years, hate the education system and leave unprepared. Or We decide “no no, vocational subjects for you Darren!” and say its classist.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
THE BIGGEST CHANGE. Since the T-level. Since the VGCE. Since Key Skills. Since O-level woodwork.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Start of a new MSc term yields the period where I do my notes neatly in multi colours and bullet points. In 2 weeks it will be scrawl in highlighter.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Polanski pledges to raise taxes to rich people so that we can afford to pay for Adele to take part. He’s calling it A-Del-th tax. No you fuck off.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is Eurovision value for money? That’s the question government needs to ask when assessing it. At a time when the bbc is slashing programmes, 10 hours of tv for the cost of one episode of bloody Casualty is probably good value
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He’d probably just shrug.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eurovision in the wild. Mae Muller in the McDonald’s directly opposite the 2023 arena….
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Considering Shirley Manson got bad press for going nuts over a beach ball, the response to Ed Sheeran needs to be a billion times stronger
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It should never have to come this for Ed Sheeran. It should have happened when he release Galway Girl.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can’t believe it’s taken this fucking long for people to realise Sheeran is a massive douche
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I dunno I just read this as Ed Sheeran chose performing his syrupy diarrhoea music over his friend in a problematic venue.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People: there’s a potential concern there’s a lot of barbers springing up on the high street Politicians: how about a GMC for hairdressing?
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fact that in Liverpool in the 21st century your child’s school place is determined by whether you pretend to like the popes fictional character or Henry VIII’s fictional character absolutely blows my mind. That priests are complicit in knowing kids rock up to church for a school place is nuts
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Louder for the people at the back: YOU CAN HAVE GOOD PALLIATIVE CARE AND ASSISTED DYING, FUNDING ONE WELL DOESNT NEGATE THE NEED FOR THE OTHER.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What’s the social media obsession with getting Kazakhstan into Eurovision? Have they got some incredible music scene we didnt know about?
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now I’m not sure, but Mrs Bacon at Wade Deacon High School screaming SIIIIING, SIIIIIING to 300 bored widnesian teenagers during an assembly hymn, made them any more Christian. Pretty sure forcing them to write lines from BBC Come and Praise as a lunchtime punishment didnt work either.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I can’t be sure but I think it’s a scoping review protocol.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
All medical students DO and have always learnt about interactions and polypharmacy.The F1 in general surgery isn’t the right person to suddenly de-prescribe. Point 2 is valid but 10 is an entirely arbitrary number WHERE DO YOU THINK 1850 GERIATRICIANS ARE GOING TO MAGICALLY APPEAR FROM IN 4 YEARS.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
FFS you HAVE to be water tight. Feels like their momentum is slowly dissipating.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Genuinely, people don’t care about Nigel’s dodgy dealings. He emboldens their hatred of anyone not like them, and they like that they can get away with it now
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Restaurants and cafes shitting their pants and taking photos of their own food in a panic as a chatGPT goes down
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There really is an intersection of people in a Venn diagram who claim to be both an ally and a smugglepudd or whatever the fuck they’re call themselves
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If one notebook will solve your problems it logically follows that many notebooks will solve an infinity of problems right?
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An old woman just set off the security alarm in Tesco and for some reason my mind thought it would help the situation by singing STEALING, NOTHING MORE THAN STEALINGS, Set to morris Albert’s “feelings”
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
29 years ago Nickelodeon had a caption saying “WE URGE YOU TO GO TO SKY NEWS” during an episode of Rocko’s Modern Life.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If you’re on call on my weekend we get a Dominoes in - now you’re telling me I’ve got to bring granola in too?!?
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“He was also a judge at Song for Europe ‘88”
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Once in my life I’d love a rejection letter that actually says exactly you weren’t chosen rather than meaningless platitudes about my alleged calibre.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Insert “Stewart Lees let himself go” here
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great now put the same limits on everyone racist auntie
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A restaurant I booked has changed its menu to be “less pretentious” and by Christ this is even more pretentious. THE RULES ARE DEAD TOTAL NEIGHBOURHOOD HEDONISM. It’s the when the fast show did Indie Club and described a band as being totally uncompromising and they were just another indie band.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I really did have a lovely time.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
English, as it’s taught in the UK, is the most boring subject known to man. It could be creative writing but instead it’s spending months of your life wading through a chapter of a novel, writing “ooh irony” in the margins followed by an exam where you have to write a fictional newspaper article
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I continue to be amazed by the abject stupidity of adults in an airport How do you even get past border control AND THEN figure out you’re in the wrong terminal
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’ve just been in a Specialist Jazz record store in Paris and these experts didn’t know who Monica Zetterlund was and honestly what the hell.
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
GCSEs are fucking mental though aren’t they? A 2 week decathlon on unconnected events “Right Pete you’re going to do some sums, cook a meal, find the racism in To Kill a Mocking Bird, run a bleep test, play your bass guitar and most important order a hotel with bath in both German and French”
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
2001. Radio Halton decided to interview 5 people who did well in our school. Just as the interviewer gets to me, I’m about to speak and a girl behind me bursts out the main entrance screaming YES YES I FUCKING FAILED FRENCH
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yeah but zero factorial equals 1
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Pete Turton @peteturton85.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh no. Not Nick kyrgios. Not Nick testing positive for cocaine? Nick kyrgios?!? This is the least surprising news ever.
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