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Richard Butt

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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s like deja vu all over again
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Five years ago
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really missing being in a newsroom today. General election nights are as exciting as an exciting thing. Anyway, I've already voted, exercising-your-democratic-rights fans.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Cow helps his Dog pal get his stuffy and they play
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Best intro ever
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
One of my promo pages. Defensive, me?
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You are not going to lie on your deathbed and wish that you'd spent more time doom scrolling on your phone whilst the people around you that gave a shit slowly drifted away.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Rest in Peace, Donald, your ex would like a word with your old pals in Australia.
Death notice (possibly in the Maidenhead Advertiser)

DONALD
MacDONALD
RIP
Formerly AT
W Drayton air traffic station
Fondly remembered
as a squash, bridge & home brew expert.
Member of a prestige bridge club in Victoria, got kicked out for peeing in a flower pot
Passed away in Australia a week ago.Letter (possibly to the Maidenhead Advertiser)

Clearing up the source of death announcement

Whilst I have informed those who need to know of my ex-husband's death in Australia, where he has lived for the last 20 odd years, I would like to make it crystal clear to anyone that knows me or knew him, that l did not place the announcement of his demise in last week's paper.
Whilst I have been divorced for nearly 30 years, he was the father of my daughters and grandfather of my grandsons, and we regret his death.
None of them would appreciate the crass memory included in the announcement sent in by one of his ex-drinking partners.
HELEN MACDONALD
Maidenhead
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Daffodils are the best flower. They signal an end to all the shitty cold and miserable weather. It was there for Snowdrops to win the award, but they just look too sad.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It is unconscionable that we have allowed the French to embed their flag in our toothpaste.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Happy tenth anniversary to this absolute masterpiece of an opening paragraph in the Daily Telegraph. "We tried trickle-down economics and it just didn't work!" they wailed, "Why must we have so much money?"
CHARLES MOORE NOTEBOOK
You often hear of people being
"trapped in poverty", but it is
also possible to be trapped in wealth. This is David Cameron's fate.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I wonder why Nigel Farage has pulled out of The Laura Kuenssberg TV programme this morning? 🤔
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Altrincham Dry Cleaners @altydrycleaners.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Yeah hi a bit of cured sausage fell out of someone’s clothes please contact us if you want your bit of cured sausage back. This one feels important please share
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Five years ago
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Your annual reminder that Christmas is not all about mirth and merry-making. Mrs Brown’s Boys is on BBC1 at 10.15.
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Altrincham Dry Cleaners @altydrycleaners.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
People who do the weekly shop in a petrol station at rush hour. A word, please.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Five years ago
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Isle of Man Examiner 1944
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Got any mice that need lathering?
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Anyone who owns a building with a clock on it should be legally obligated to ensure it tells the correct time.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fourteen years ago. Alfred Cannan, Howard Quayle elected
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Braddan is a ridiculous shape
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
If I were an insect you couldn’t stop me pollinating bluepassionflowers
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I refuse to listen to voice notes. Just fucking type.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Interesting friend suggestion. Facebook algorithm malfunction?
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
At the Festival of the Unexceptional, met four people from the Isle of Man
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Is it just me or does the Pink Panther theme enter everyone’s head when they see this?
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's so obvious that Q is in the wrong place in the alphabet. It's got no right to be among common letters like N, O, P, R, S and T. Stick it at the end with the other freak letters.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
@altydrycleaners.bsky.social Your secret is out
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
On our way to the Festival of the Unexceptional
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Base 10 is a terrible counting system that we only use because we have ten fingers. Base 12 is superior in every single way.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Bind weed is having a good year. Outside the Sefton. It might be a nuisance but it is beautiful. I identify with it.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Scrambled eggs should replace fried eggs on all cooked breakfasts.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Happy Tynwald Day, promulgation fans
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Hard to think of anyone better known in Douglas than Raz. His many friends are shocked and so sad to hear of his death.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
What a WEAK & disastrous Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been. After last night’s welfare bill vote he doesn’t even have the respect of his own MPs. We need a PM like Boris Johnson. Bring him back! Even amongst other world leaders he was universally accepted as the BOSS! 🇬🇧💪
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Rachel Reeves weeping? Huh! 🤔 You’d never catch a Conservative Chancellor crying if they were in trouble. No sir! They’d simply go along to The Queen’s Funeral & have a bloody good laugh about it all!
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
At the NSC event today to see cycle track named after Sir Mark Cavendish
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Went for a piss in a urinal and saw a fly at the top. Couldn't fight the masculine urge to take aim and drown it. Absolutely drenched it, however, instead of drowning it flew off and settled straight on a bald man's head. I said nothing, sometimes ignorance is bliss
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I am fully blind. Sometimes when I meet a new person for the first time and they ask why, I'll tell them that I lost my sight from masturbating too much as a teenager. My sighted friends tell me the looks on their faces are priceless.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Labour You have had a WHOLE year to sort out: The economy The NHS Education Crime Migration Potholes Heatwaves Jeggings Manchester Utd Jeremy Clarkson Trainer socks Quinoa Moths What the actual f*ck have you been up to??? ONE WHOLE YEAR! And NONE of these problems solved. 😡
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I’m not sure about Prince William’s official birthday photo. Look closely at his rather angry face. He is glaring at that young dog.🐶 It’s as if he’s saying to the innocent pup: ‘You better do as I say or I’m going to eat you, you little bastard!’😡
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Never Google the witty things your gen-x male coworkers say, it'll only turn out to be a Half Man, Half Biscuit lyric
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Took this at 11pm last night. Best time of year.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
At stock cars in Onchan. Came here as a boy with @dudleybutt.bsky.social Still going. A survivor from mass tourism days.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
IoMN former sports editor John Watterson has been given an MBE. So well deserved! He’s still working so hard. Cares so much about IoM and sport.
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DudleyButt - Binface of Ballaragh @dudleybutt.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
My son had his last day, so far, as a journalist yesterday after 35 years, many as an Editor. Here he is at the start of his career, doing an impression of me when I was young, and at the very end
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Mark Owen @marktowen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
#Manx actor #DursleyMcLinden was born in Douglas, 60 years ago today.
A monochrome portrait photo of a young man wearing an aviator-style leather jacket.
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