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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dragon's Den idea: supermarket where all the contents, no matter what, are arranged from heaviest to lightest.

Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hearing rumblings that posting an LP is going up to fckn £4.60 next month!?! I've never bothered to look before, but are there actually cheaper reliable couriers in the UK? Just seems insane to pay more than I personally would pay for most records to post...a record :-/ >:{

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Impressively weird thing off the local swap site: custom-made Hans Bellmer jigsaw puzzle!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does any1 still have a big pile of random flyers etc they mail 2 ppl? The best kind of package. I got my 1st 4 ages 2day. I had 2 dump mine when I moved 2 look after my Olds 3 yrs ago, & havent had (m)any since...but Ive now got half todays 2 pass on + random music/film/books. Any1 wanna trade?! DM!

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Sabrina Carpenter's Halloween 🎃 @misslucyp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Didn't think it was achievable, but Ed Sheeran has finally managed to do something worse than writing Galway Girl.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jason Watkins' Agent sighs. He glances at his laptop screen. The email arrives. Subject: Casting for 'Head of Piddington Parish Council'

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You couldn’t ask for clearer proof of how the right basically hate the country they claim to love, and would rather be rid of it

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Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?

Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They won’t hold; they’re already rationing smoked salmon in piddington.

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Blue Baby⭐️⭐️ @bluebaby1967.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come friendly bombs and fall on Piddington

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

UK Border Forces have just smashed a smuggling gang trying to get 2 cases of San Pellegrino sparkling water and a Daily Telegraph into Piddington.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why are asylum seekers being sent to Piddington? Haven't they suffered enough?

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'd like to wish Piddington Parish Council good luck in explaining why everyone in the village now has to pay the surcharge to use the NHS

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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hookland will never establish diplomatic relations with Piddington.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everyone in Piddington keeps binoculars by their front window.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We should be very British about this new independent nation by invading it and claiming it for the Crown. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received - and that consequently, this country is at war with Piddington.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Ed Sheeran to represent Piddington at Eurovision

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I trust that border controls are currently being set up around Piddington, to ensure no illegal use of the NHS, schools, etc. I would encourage the local council to make extensive use of these new tourist taxes as well.

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Are there any grassroots music people at all out there doing 3XL t-shirts?!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Random Q: anyone know what No Pain In Pop NPIP 002 was? I've ended up w/a white label 7 & can't see what it is. There's a comp 0002 which it might be a promo from?! We Smoke Fags is written on the sleeve (nu rave band) & it sounds that way, but they were on 679, so I think the sleeves got mixed up 🤔

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As previously stated, I'm fine down in the Cambridgeshire fens, looking after the olds, but... Any interesting music people (I know about DJ Trax) living around Ely/Cambs fens these days?!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I discovered that the vast containers of CDs/DVDs at the tip don't go to charity/Music Magpie, as presumed, they are just being separated out for easier recycling. Don't throw out yr CDs & DVDs, there is always something worth salvaging, even it is just the boxes...DM me & let's sort something out!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Looking for something old on Twitter...This from me still made me chuckle and is worth repeating! ... "The missus' summing up of grime lyrics: 'I hate your snatch'."

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From the local vets...I guarantee they would do more for attracting custom if they took the money they've shoved into advertising and lopped it off everyone's bills instead!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm OK back down in the fens, but I do miss the north...The other day, the missus ordered a lat-tay in a restaurant, and the young waiter looked absolutely terrified, like a rabbit in the headlights, checking the menu...until she deigned to order a "laa-tay" instead.

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Charity shop regulars I always presumed would be crap but turn out to actually be alright: Mantovani ("Charmaine", oh god!), Victor Silvester, Charlie Kunz, and now...Vic Damone!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Getting interested in Creedence (sorry, CCR!) recently, so pleased to turn up a couple of reish CDs in the ongoing Simon Morris Collection project. Am I just getting old or am I a hipster? 🤔 I only really knew Bad Moon Rising til recently, then found a best of in a book swap...Shit hot band!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

These, a Schoenberg, a Shankar and more, all for a tenner today...Not bad if I do say so myself!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How have I managed to think David Sylvian was David Sylvain til the day before my 49th birthday?!

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Can't think why Northern Ireland is the only major part of the UK I haven't visited, at nearly 50.

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Well, I finally made the legendary Rob's Records in Nottz...but he is ill this week & it is closed :-( Cool to see it at last though! @astralsocialite.bsky.social etc

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Highly influential street in drum n bass

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

How come all old VHSs are now about 10p, except when you get a hankering for some trippy rave videos, and then they're £40?!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Where do you get tapes with that beeeeep lead-in section, like on police dramas? I don't think I own any, but surely all noise tapes should start with it?!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Fell asleep to this 6 hour 70s disco epic last night, from the late Jim Burgess. Mixing/selection makes it comparable to top end house/tech sets. Ppl seem most into his white bread late 80s Saint sleaze mix, but this is real deal space disco vibes: youtu.be/19ot6l6-d4U?...

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DJ Jim Burgess 12 West New York 20 08 1977

YouTube video by MIX UNDERGROUND

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Don't allow myself much mid price catalogue these days (chazzers 4 Life), but this is a nice one, CD with repro card slip and label-repro art on disc. All the tunes I've heard other people play for years but didn't own the OGs/Sonics versions of.

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

45 Day - quite a cool idea, but given the brevity of 45s, I think rather than people doing 45 min mixes of 45s, someone should prob do a 45 min mix of 45 sec 45s or, poss, a 45 second (digitally created, I suppose, ho hum) mix of Evil Moisture/Gero/etc trax from 45s www.instagram.com/fortyfiveday...

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Rigged up the VHS to watch some Simon Morris collection stuff this week: so far chomped some Whitehouse, Shimmy Disc, various Costes, PTV acid house period, & now getting dirty with GG. S&Q/The Haters, Stan Brakhage,Buttholes, Dr Devious & Tea Culture yet to come!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A Diz Willis painting is being offered by someone on eBay: ebay.us/m/WbMuI1

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Pardon our interruption...

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It must be hard for poor old Donald, not understanding what NATO is for.

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm now conclusively out of touch! I thought UK Ug was a shoe factory & UK jerk a carnival dish. Recce suggests UK jerk's reviving a 20 yr old US genre I'd not heard of either, + there's apparently plugg, rage, digicore & Milwaukee lowend also. A 5 year lifetime film catchup was too long a break!

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Richard Long lives down my street

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Phil Sniff @philbeardless.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Picked up, among other things, some cheap Tom Lehrer CDs today, & was singing heartily to old faves in the car. Apparently he died only last year at 97...How did that pass without being commented on a lot? He's an all-timer for me, the snarky ol' kook.

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