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Retired - English; left leaning; indie guitar music; PNEFC; dogs

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 2h
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz359bs
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 5h
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 18h
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 16h
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 15h
Happy tenth anniversary to the time the Reading Chronicle didn’t know what a plant room is.
Crane disruption
AN enormous crane that will lift a room full of plants into a 14 sto-rey building will close town cen-tre roads in October.
Station Road and Garrard Street will be shut and Friar Street and Blagrave Street reversed between 5am October 15 and 5am October 17. The temporary measures will allow contractors working on the Thames Tower to install a 500 tonne crane that will put a prefabricated plant room onto the roof of the building.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours of secret flights into Dubai: plane loads of complete nutcases. I have never believed it and still don’t. If true, it should bring down Isabel Oakeshott as she is one. 🤪
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So the Green Party’s leader is too much of a coward to actually lead his party. Figures.
Polanski to skip "Zionism is Racism" vote
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Donkey looks out from a manholeEd Sheeran in a wee plastic hot tub
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shandyman.bsky.social @shandyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maya’s come as the honey monster #traitors
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Retro Sugar Puffs Honey Monster Cereal Ad
ALT: Retro Sugar Puffs Honey Monster Cereal Ad
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City unveil their 2027-28 kit
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The inventor of bubblewrap shoes has popped his clogs.
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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”
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davidjohngreen.bsky.social @davidjohngreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE END OF THI
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our Danny Who art in prison Racist be thy name Thy balaclava come Thy will be done In ports as it is on dinghies Give us this day Our daily funding & forgive us our racism as we intimidate those who speak against us & lead us all into aggravation But deliver us from being civil. 🙏
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mind-blowing story in Private Eye about how the Telegraph's chief reporter reached out to James Orr (or meant to) after the Channel 4 donation revelations


...within hours of journalists on either the *Guardian* or *Sunday Times* contacting Reform for comment on the same stories ahead of them publishing their own investigations. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice and his fiancée, supposed journalist Isabel Oakeshott, even crowed online about their spoiler tactics.

Not that the *Telegraph* doesn't do its own leg work when reporting on Reform. After James Orr, the party's head of policy, had to resign after a sting by *Channel 4 News* (see "*Right Orr Wrong*, p14"), *Telegraph* chief reporter Rob Mendick texted Orr: "I was hoping to talk to you entirely on background," he schmoozed. "You must be feeling very bruised and I totally Appreciate [sic] the sensitivities. I suspect you deserve better and I wanted to see how I can put the record straight in some way." Alas, instead of the Reformer and Cambridge theologian, Mendick messaged someone else, who shared it with the *Eye*!
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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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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I don't fucking think so"
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That fucking shower of human piss reckons it acts for the British people. Let's have a 'this-or-that' referendum then, as with Brexit. - RNLI or - Angry racists with past convictions for violence. When we discover that most of us prefer heroic volunteers to wife-beaters can we bang the cunts up?
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson was born on this day in 1936.
Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks', but the man and woman at the counter of the diner are now Fozzie and Miss Piggy. The guy with his back to us is now Bert, but Bert is being operated by Frank Oz, who is crouched down in front of the counter. The waiter/server is now Jim Henson who is looking intently at Kermit, and Kermit, who is occupying half of Jim's right arm, is looking intently at Jim. The diner is now called "JIMMYS".
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 23/09/2026
Hampshire police 'conducting enquiries' into an incident in the Channel during a small boat rescue trib.al/8BudOr5
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Text which says "The best way to stop grey squirrels from multiplying rapidly is to take away their calculators."
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"I have become increasingly convinced that we are heading for a disastrous confrontation and that the 21st century will be remembered for a terrible war between mankind and goats"
Goat war: an apology
FRIDAY'S Argus featured a Your Interview with Richard Robinson.
We would like to clarify that the quote "I have become increasingly convinced that we are heading for a disastrous confrontation and that the 21st century will be remembered for a terrible war between mankind and goats" was a reader question and not a response from Mr Robinson.
The next paragraph: "People often underestimate how dangerous a goat can be - I personally know six people who have become severely injured by goats, and the annual death toll racked up by goats is over
2,000,000",
, is also a reader question and not a response from Mr Robinson.
The Argus is happy to correct this and would like to apologise for the error.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Morning
Viz Comic cartoon: Wacky Racists, featuring David Irving and his dog Mosley, Hitler in his Meinkampfervan, Eugene Terre Blanche in the Afrikaner Chug-a-Bug, Unity Mitford in her BLACKSHIRT PUSSYCAT, with BERNARD MANNING'S FATCUNTMOBILE bringing up the rear. Irving is scuppered by his own robot goose which he expects to goose step over his opponents’ vehicles, but which instead stamps all over his
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/09/2026
as.ft.com/r/f257abde-7... Morning all
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Trumpton @trumpton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of these men is saving lives , safeguarding women and girls, boys and men. The other one has forgotten to wear his trousers.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone supporting this motion is, at best, an imbecile. More likely they're a straight up cunt. If Polanski backs it, it would be an outrage. But even his failure to speak out against it is pretty damning. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Greens urge Zack Polanski to take stance on proposed policy declaring ‘Zionism is racism’
The Green leader has not spoken publicly about the motion, which is likely to be debated at the party’s conference in October
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Call me Bill @williamshuttoh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You'd think Rooney wouldn't be so brazenly open with his new bit of fluff
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's Popularity Plummets Over Channel 4 Donations Sting www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage's Popularity Plummets Over Channel 4 Donations Sting
More than half the country are away of the donations row dogging Reform UK, according to new poll.
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PNE Online @pneonline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Little owls stare up from the bottom.of a deep cylinderTherese May looks down inside a tea urn
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 13/09/2026
Help I can’t stop watching this
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rod Hull, time traveller. Villa Romana Del Casale.
Roman mosaic depicting man carrying a large bird like an emu.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good luck to Putin if he ever tries to push this official out of a window.
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh, dear, Mr Ferguson. Oh, dear. ID'd through your Instagram, cross-checked against your self-published photos of you at your place of employment, and a phone call. Your head office is talking to your boss, right now. Enjoy the rest of your week.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015)
I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy
who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“The Tubs are an exceptional band, casually delivering brutal truths in the most glorious way - ★★★★★” Welsh/Scottish folk rockers The Tubs deliver a knockout with their third album, Hard Life, out this week on Merge Records. Read MOJO’s 5/5 review in full...
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The Tubs – Hard Life Review: Folk rockers deliver a classic
Welsh/Scottish indie-folk-rock outfit The Tubs land a knock out with their third album, Hard Life. Read MOJO's five-star review in full.
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