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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excellent new camping kettle from temu

Tiny tiny Temu kettle next to cups for scale. Is smaller than the cups.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's called accountability you nonce.

BBC news headline. Failed car salesman Nige 'the take' Farage bleats to a reporter about how being expected to account for a £5m 'personal gift' from a convicted criminal is a sign of a complainants society where people make accusations that are then investigated by the law. How bothersome.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Favourite picture of #Hadrian's Wall back from the short period in June 2021 inbetween #lockdowns. We walked the wall in a week and it felt amazing being in such a wide open space. The weather was perfect and we connected with our #history. #photography #northumbria #romans #archeology

A view west of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, perfect summer sky - blue with a sprinkling of clouds. Image captured mid-summer in 2021 near to Sewingshields.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Revisiting this great documentary about a unique community that used to exist at #Greatham Creek, a salt marsh near #Hartlepool in the #Tees Valley. Produced by a colleague from Teesside University, Warren Harrison. #history #documentary #communities #oralhistory www.yfanefa.com/record/67544...

Filmmaker Warren Harrison captures the memories and experiences of people who grew up as part of a unique community at Greatham Creek, a salt-marsh near Hartlepool in the Tees Valley. One of those who’s memories are recorded is photographer Ian Macdonald whose haunting images of the creek are used in the film along with family photographs, archive film provided by the North East Film Archive and contemporary footage.

In the early 20th century, salmon fishermen built a small community of huts, cabins and boathouses along the banks of Greatham Creek, part of an intertidal salt marsh in Teesside, in the North East of England. By the early 1980’s, the site had been abandoned.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Could kill a radiation-infused weenie right now.

Atomic Weenie sign Nevada. Weenie holding a sign pointing to a long gone hot dog vendor.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Last week Middlesbrough lost a vital part of the support network for some of the most disadvantaged members of the community after 30 years! The place was usually packed and buzzing with activities and people, it's hard to understand how this could happen. #middlesbrough #poverty #charity

The Hope Foundation Middlesbrough announces its closure via a picture after 30 years of supporting the most disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the local community.

The Hope Foundation was a Christian charity working with and as part of the community developing services to support residents to participate more fully in social, economic and community life.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

IMO the best chipper in #ireland is the Little Saltee Chipper at #kilmore quay #LochGarman Fresh #fish in light batter straight from the fishing boats. In this case, plaice. It's great to be back in my spiritual home again.

Lightly battered plaice fillets with lemon and chips from the Little Saltee Chipper, Kilmore Quay, Loch Garman.

An understated and well-lit building faces the harbour of Kilmore Quay in Loch Garman, Ireland. Inside, possibly the best chipper on the mainland.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

St Andrew's Church, Sadberge is on my morning dog walk. It's on the site of a Saxon castle, once the centre of Saxon administration between the Tees and the Tyne - the "Manor and Wapentake of Sadberge". #durham #sadberge #history #localhistory #saxons #britain

A picture of St Andrew's Church, Sadberge,County Durham. Partially obscured but autumnal trees, graves and memorials in the foreground. Seven AM on an overcast November morning, it perfectly encapsulates the greyness and washed out feeling of this time of year.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

'growing my family' - bodysnatcher warning

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Took my son to the NFL London game yesterday at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Don't really understand the game, tbh. But he was totally made up as it's unlikely we'll get into the US to see a game before it breaks apart and I learned what the phrase 3rd and 17 means. #nfl #broncos #jets

A wide angle view of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, which hosted the Jets Vs the Broncos in October 2025. The Broncos won by a narrow margin and Justin Fields made a right balls up (again).

Green fireworks and smoke float over the stadium in celebration of the Jets as the 'home' team at NFL London 2025

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Looking forward to seeing this crossing the River Skerne in Darlington in celebration of 200 years since the birth of the railways. A group of visionary business men caught sight of the future of transport and went with it, despite opposition from the ruling classes. #teesvalley #railways

A replica of the Locomotion No. 1 sits on the rail line in Durham waiting to recreate an historic journey that took place 200 years ago in the Tees Valley. A journey that heralded the birth of the modern passenger railway.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Welcome to Britain you fecking Chump.

Picture billboard of a convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein near some royal residency or other. This is what free speech looks like you play-time fascist.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

On my (re-)read reading list in prep for my PhD proposal Have we been so seduced by Capitalist Realism that we can't imagine any alternatives to billionaires and multinationals telling us how to live and interact? Is mitigation our only option? #capitalism #resist #politics #trump #musk

The cover of Mark Fisher's 2009 book 'Capitalist Realism' - a response to the idea propagated through neo-liberalism that there is no alternative to capitalism as a socio-economic model:

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Dirty Nelly pub, Alesund in Norway. Decent. Music playing, Guinness takes a while to settle, cheerful bar staff. Authentic bar rating - 6/10; Guinness rating - 6/10. Irish kudos - 5/10 (mainly due to the limited range of Irish Whiskey on offer). #guiness #irish #irishbar #whiskey #bars

Picture of the bar at Dirty Nelly's Irish Bar in Alesund in Norway. A range of whiskeys on show and beers on tap. Classic bar fixtures for leaning and standing.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

So excited to finally visit a glacier. Took a while to realise how much the Briksdalsbreen glacier has melted over the last 150 years. #norway #Briksdalsbreen #globalwarming #climatechange #glaciers

The Briksdalsbreen glacier - a sign indicates where the edge of the glacier was in 1900, with the current edge far in the background.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The horror that can sometimes be other cultures.

Whale meat salami in a Norwegian supermarket.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thanks Private Eye for making me spill my coffee. #putin #trump #nobelprize #privateeye

Picture of Putin from the Private Eye saying 'I'm recommending President Trump for the Noballs Prize.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Plus this....coming soon to Europe once again thanks to weak and cowardly world leaders (I use that term loosely in reference to the USA).

'Peace' declares a headline from the Daily Express in 1938, celebrating the greatest act of appeasement of the 20th Century, allowing Hitler to solve the 'Czecho-Slovakia problem'. Peace guaranteed for decades cries the Express, less than a year before a world war (into which the US came late to the party and the Russians had a hand in starting, too). Coming soon, once again a result of a weak and divided America.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Some people fought against fascism whilst the world appeased and looked the other way in the 1930s. Feels a bit like that today to be honest.

Memorial and plaque dedicated to the eight International Brigaders from Stockton-on-Tees who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War: George Bright, William Carson, Wilfred Cowan, Otto Estensen, Myles Harding, Johnny Longstaff, Patrick Maroney and Bert Overton.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Sometimes only the taste of cock will suffice.

Packet of cock flavour soup with a picture of a chicken on it. Ironically contains no meat or cock

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Blah...blah...blah Bob Vylan...blah...blah...blah...Kneecap Meanwhile, in the real world #bobvylan #kneecap #kneejerk #bbc #glastonbury #worldburns

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Don't seem to be too keen on old DJ Trump over here on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. There are a few signs dotted around Stornoway and you can get 'Shame on You Donald John' posters for your window from local shops. #trump #protest #stornaway #scotland #protest

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Discovered a buttercup meadow off the beaten track in Darlington. Had to stay a while to listen.

A meadow in Darlington, County Durham filled with buttercups.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

That statue deserves a bit of messaging.

Churchill statue in Westminster with some messages and a new hairstyle from 2000.

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SmallGeorge @smallgeorge.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Newcastle Castle Keep and Cathedral (formerly the Cathedral Church of Saint Nicholas) from the Edinburgh train. #newcastle #castlekeep #cathderal #photography

View from the north-bound train in Newcastle with the 12th Century Newcastle Keep in the foreground and the tower of the 14th Century Newcastle Cathedral in the background.

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