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Sonny Tuffnell

@sonnytuffnell.bsky.social
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Exiled London cockney living happily in York since 1994. Retired Civil Servant. Pantheist and Fortean, Feminist, Vegan/Vegetarian, Left Wing, and Pro-Europe. Likes include music (including rock, prog-rock, folk, indy and pop), movies, and hedgehogs.

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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Rounding off the year with a nice local story about the 'Crystal Palace Dinosaurs': their past and present, their exalted place in the history of science, and the latest project to conserve them for future generations - in today's @ftweekend.com. as.ft.com/r/aa778cba-5...
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The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are getting a glow up
[FREE TO READ] Age, neglect and vandalism had spoiled the original Jurassic park, imagined into existence by a gang of visionary Victorians
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Hi all. The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are the subject of a fantastic article, by Henry Wismayer, in today’s FT Magazine. We are proud to have advised, and be featured in it. We’re lead to believe that it is Christmas soon, so here’s a free link - our gift to you all xx as.ft.com/r/aa778cba-5...
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Muslim, father of two.
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Next batches of FINAL (and a few All Gone Away) packed and ready to post. Ongoing thanks to everyone who pre-ordered. Wouldn't have happened otherwise. Some beautiful feedback over the last few days. It's been quite emotional. #ycfc #photography #football
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
4 years ago today - a final kick about on a somewhat overgrown Bootham Crescent pitch amid the ongoing archaeological dig to retrieve the ashes of fans prior to demolition. I miss the old ground. Glad to have captured the final days in my books yorktonebooks.bigcartel.com #ycfc
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“The Antediluvians recognize an old acquaintance” This cartoon appeared in Punch magazine, 27/07/1861 - linking the old age of our Dino friends with the previous appearances of the “Great Comet of 1861” The comet is now designated C/1861 J1, and is due to return in 2267 so…see you then, yeah??
Black and white cartoon. The Crystal Palace Hylaeosaurus, on the edge of the lake, is looking up through a brass-looking telescope mounted on a curvaceous tripod on the back.   Behind it, a Teleosaurus is holding a telescope, and the standing Iguanodon is looking up in the distance. Their focus is on a comet, heavily stylised with a grinning face. The caption reads: “The Age of the Comet ascertained to a Nicety. The Antediluvians Recognise an Old Acquaintance of A.M. 1372.”
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Emma LH Ghost Catcher Isles @ghostcatcherisles.com · 23/09/2025
It’s set to be sent out in October, so don’t miss out!👉 Pre-order here: stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci... Let’s rock the wonders of the ancient world! (3/3) #stone #ancientstones #ancientstonebothering #zine #StoneClub #writer #ghostcatcherisles
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Ancient Times: Issue 1
Its here! The first ever Ancient Times, our new zine covering everything stone related and beyond. This issue contains French Megaliths, Daniel...
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
On a small island isolated from the rest of the world an embattled minority try to maintain civilised society while surrounded by a rage infected feral populace of obese slug-like creatures and howling maniacs incited by roaring steroidal 'alphas'. hmmm...🤔
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Another huge thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered their copy of F I N A L photographs from the death of a football ground If you fancy one, head over to yorktonebooks.bigcartel.com #ycfc #football #photography
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I mean it’s spooky season all year round for me but today is the 1st of September (meteorological autumn is upon us) So Woop Woop! Spooky Season is HERE! (GIF of dancing skeleton and the words spooky season is here)
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
FINAL (photographs from the death of a football ground) The last days of Bootham Crescent, 200pp A4 Landscape photobook with a foreword by @danielgraywriter.bsky.social Available to pre-order now at yorktonebooks.bigcartel.com #ycfc #football #photography #photobook
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Massive thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered their copy (or copies!) of this already, it's hugely appreciated. Copies are going fast, which is a relief, but you can still secure yours at yorktonebooks.bigcartel.com #ycfc #football #photography #photobook #archaeology #Yorkshire
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Pleased to announce a new book, finally! Final photographs from the death of a football ground Limited numbers only, pre-order only at yorktonebooks.bigcartel.com 200 pages A4 Landscape More exciting details to follow #ycfc #photography #football #photobook
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The Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In June 1919, navigator Arthur Brown, this black cat toy called Twinkletoes, and pilot John Alcock made the first nonstop Atlantic flight. Twinkletoes rode in Arthur’s Jacket. Both men had served in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI. You can see him in RAF Cosford Museum. #luckycharm #WW1 #folklore
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Bethan Briggs-Miller @bbmiiler.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We need your help! The East Anglian Folklore Centre is having a fundraiser. We desperately want to keep our space open and have achieved so much this last year. But for it to continue we need your support. As little as 50p and a share would mean the world. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I loved this game. A great sound track as well.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Can I ask you a favour please. Can you share the new dates for the Weird in the Wade ghost walk! Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/weird-in-t...
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Weird in the Wade
I have an award winning podcast calledWeird in the Wadeabout strange and unusual history in the Biggleswade and Bedfordshire area. I also host ghost and history walks around Biggleswade.
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
OMG I just saw my first Christmas advert! It’s June! This was for Santas Grotto at a garden centre!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Do you want to rejoin the EU? If so fly the flag. #RejoinEU
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Anyone else playing Oblivion? As a Souls player I have to keep reminding myself that bimbling around is all part of the Scrolls experience. You can totally chill out between fights. Here I am in my Nord about town silk outfit. I'd so wear this IRL and have my hair like that too.
A game character of a woman with curly shoulder length auburn hair, wearing a blue silk top and skirt in a vaguely medieval style. She has a quiver of arrows on her back as well as a sword. She is standing in a town with sonte buildings behind her.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Great to see Private Eye moving from chortle-chortle homophobia to chortle-chortle transphobia. Very humorous and topical.
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Oh this! ❤️
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I can't phrase this in a way that makes me look good. The answer is: embarrassment. I don't innately understand trans stuff, and I have a tendency towards Dawkins-esque pedantry. But then I read a lot and met some trans people. Awkwardly for me, the GCs were wrong and trans people were right.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I found this episode of Archive On 4 very moving: Kenneth Williams reading Bible stories in full and fine voice (his Satan is particularly good), and the programme weaves these into his own life story and complicated Christian faith, much of which feels familiar. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Archive on 4 - Kenneth Williams: Said the Actor to the Bishop - BBC Sounds
Kenneth Williams recorded excerpts from the Bible. They've not been broadcast until now.
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is the kind of Good Friday biblical storytelling I can get behind. I’m so glad I had Keneth Williams telling me stories on the telly as a child. He is one of my heroes. Archive on 4 - Kenneth Williams: Said the Actor to the Bishop - BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Archive on 4 - Kenneth Williams: Said the Actor to the Bishop - BBC Sounds
Kenneth Williams recorded excerpts from the Bible. They've not been broadcast until now.
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Seasons at the stones. Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn at the Devil's Arrows. #photography #StandingStoneSunday #Yorkshire
Snow at the Devil's Arrows neolithic stone row in north Yorkshire Spring sunshine at the Devil's Arrows neolithic stone row in north YorkshireSummer at the Devil's Arrows neolithic stone row in north YorkshireAutumn fog at the Devil's Arrows neolithic stone row in north Yorkshire
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
That's why they fear him...
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Jesus this Zelensky Trump, Vance presser thing is an awful spectacle. A democratic leader of an exhausted invaded nation being publicly humiliated by moronic lying narcissistic bullies. What a fucking world.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Yup.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/02/2025
That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
'I paid the union, and as times got harder I looked to the government to help the working man. But they brought prosperity down at the armoury "We're arming for peace, my boys." Between the wars...' #photography
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
America, 'land of the free' normalising dictatorship and imperial aggression. Watch out Canada! Meanwhile, Europe sits uncomfortably between the new gun totin' hillbilly fascists and the old zombie Kremiln death cult wondering who's the bigger threat. China pissing itself laughing on the sidelines.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So depressing and so predictable. A narcissistic morally bankrupt autocrat 'negotiating' with a murderous totalitarian gangster over the heads of a democratic state and its utterly exhausted citizens. For shame America. Even by your own low standards. This is a shameful, cynical, cowardly sellout.
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Mx. Robbie Bobbie Berta Boeing @captainbobbie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman
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God @thegodshow.com · 02/02/2025
I have many regrets about Earth, but making humans in a wide range of colors, shapes, and temperaments is not one of them. Celebrate thy diversity. Love each other.
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Sonny Tuffnell @sonnytuffnell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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