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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman. She/Her.

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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 8h
My wish is granted, thanks Andrew!
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 22h
There is a beeping in my house that is driving me to despair.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 22h
Oof. Come on Renee.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham's comments today expose the situation of selling national football teams to foreign states. He's taking a view, at least in one reading of his comments, that corrupting the national game is not as big an issue as potentially losing foreign investment in Manchester.
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YankeeGunner @arsenalvisionpodcast.com · 30/09/2026
This is the literal reason why sportswashing works. This is exactly the aim.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah not the one sorry peeps, try something not linked to still unpunished child abuse allegations.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting that 3 ex players don't think titles should be stripped. Wonder why. youtu.be/whXKIhRERiE?...
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Reacting To Man City’s 115 Charges Verdict
YouTube video by The Rest Is Football
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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They should've, but we should also loudly protest our partnership with we never have. We never had a real protest for Visit Rwanda, nor against Thomas Partey. A lot of Arsenal fans wanted Usmanov. It's them but it could've been us or any other club. It's pathetic. It's past time to wake up.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
stuck in the office today writing a training session about working with sex offenders so to lighten the mood i'm listening to multiple podcasts about the city sham.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Miguel Delaney meanwhile going in the exact opposite direction youtu.be/aiQgglL5c7Y?...
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The great Man City sham
YouTube video by Miguel Delaney's Inside Football
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Listening to this athletic podcast and think Ornstein is being too kind to city. Especially in light of the PL statement. youtu.be/JEyCAVlGUUQ?...
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Inside the Man City scandal, with Ornstein and Horncastle
YouTube video by The Athletic FC Podcast
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am really enjoying all the content around the city decison i have to say. Its been a long time coming.
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Captain Holt Brooklyn Nine Nine
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ooh they big mad.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I keep seeing the term triple lock and people keep telling me what it means but I just can't retain it. Feels like someone else's problem to worry about, pensions won't exist when I need it and I'll be living in a shoe.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did they spike the market just to be spiteful then?
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are ones I come back to again and again, ones that have stayed with me and one i was obsessed with back in the day. My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/9ae...
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember the picture of the little boy Alan Kurdi dead on that beach after fleeing Syria and we were all sad. 11 years ago. Things are even harsher now than then and apparently that's the only way we can solve this issue.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Think it might be the end soon for slegers at arsenal. They should be better than this with the talent in that squad.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks
In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.
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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To illustrate Man City's intimidatory approach to journalists asking Qs, here's a piece from last Dec, paywalled then, now free. Docs & legal letters show process. REVEALED: Manchester City legal letters where the main aim was to get me sacked sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/revealed-m...
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REVEALED: Manchester City legal letters where the main aim was to get me sacked
In 2023, I wrote an investigative feature for the Mail on Sunday about the behaviour of multi-club ownership groups, focussing on Man City's owners. They didn't like it!
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well damn they actually got found guilty.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watching a YouTube video titled 'the most evil spy agency you've never heard of' expecting it to be about an agency in a small dictatorial country somewhere in the world. Instead it was the Stasi. I dont think im the correct audience for this one.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Repping the birbs today via an @rspb.bsky.social t-shirt. Yay for fat pidgy.
T shirt with a fat grey pigeon on it.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for
Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can we PLEASE get some leadership from this government rather than placating these people. It just emboldens them.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Arsenal were shit on Saturday but this cheered me right up.
Screenshot of vini junior in an arsenal shirt with headline 'the fact we could have sold him to arsenal for 150 just 2 months ago and now we are stuck with him until 2031' from a real Madrid fan.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They always sound so excited, too. “It’s a political earthquake! It’s a shockwave!“ Well yes, that’s the rumble of approaching jackboots. Why are you so hyped?
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can honestly say, upon visiting Aushwitz that the last thing on my mind was a quick snack and a beverage. That's what the beer was for afterwards to decompress.
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 21/09/2026
That Wes Streeting ordered this report *less than a month* after NHS England delivered the second part of its independent inquiry into exactly the same thing more than suggests he wanted a very specific answer. Shame on him and on MPs for using health as a scapegoat. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Peter Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What a complete twat. Any respect I had for him is long gone.
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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James Pond James Pond Codename Robocod
Alt: James Pond James Pond Codename Robocod
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Are we?
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026
I was looking at the website of a dedicated romance bookstore in Devon and saw they had a section called "Books written with AI that are actually worth reading", and when I tell you I was inhaling deeply as I clicked. Should have known better. Props to Moonlit Chapters in Barnstaple, good work.
post reading: Look, if your using Gen AI to generate content in any form, then you need to rethink whether this community is for you.

I've seen an influx of authors, readers and bookish businesses using Gen AI in some form on their socials (and websites)  and somehow i am flabbergasted every time.

We should all know by now that Gen AI steals from creatives. So using it while claiming to love authors is a choice. Using it as a bookish business when you are making money off of your love of books, is a choice.

And its the wrong bloody choice. And you should see yourself out.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 18/09/2026
Should have forgotten the first one and made a TV show of the book
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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