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The Great Valerio 🕶

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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 10m
Howay me bonny bairns - IT'S UP YER ARSE! #NUFC #COVNEW #BOOZE
Sepia-toned colour photo of The Great Valerio (sexy me) wearing a confident (as always) air, dressed as a Crow Native American warrior, black striped war paint, feathers, earrings and Ray Ban shades.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 42m
Woke this morning atop Primrose Hill, conversing with the spiritual sun. Spare a thought for those of us living on bluesky and a prayer, I told him.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 55m
Dreams, Amelia, dreams and false alarms.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 7h
Good morning. I won’t sit at a table with meat eaters.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 16h
Selling my watch tomorrow. What the Dickens?
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 21h
Yeah, "Propinquity" is great. Also "Wax Minute". But my favourite has to be this Monkees version of "Nine Times Blue", with harmonies that aren't on any of the studio versions.
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Nine Times Blue
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 22h
Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Improve a book by adding a word. 'Sweet Jane Eyre'
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out the fungus gnats were in fact eye floaters. Wondered why there was always that one pesky little fucker dancing around in front of me. #VIP
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Didn't realise Solanke was playing. #MUNTOT
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well the good news is that the tiger is still alive.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nooooo! #SlowHorses
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Uplifting. Emotions #TOTP
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Yanny @yanny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I bet this is fantastic. A meeting of lovely northern intelligent minds!
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Since dipping my toes in the linn yesterday, my approval ratings have plummeted and hit rock bottom. And so it is with a deal of sadness that I announce today, my retirement from politics and the political arena, generally. Thank you for your attention.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#BOTD 1940
John Lennon circa 1969
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Woke this morning, thinking about the times in which we live – and I began to categorise them. We inhabit a fucking cesspit; a septic tank, a sewerage complex through which runs the dregs, the filth and the misery-laden swill of humankind – its hatred, its prejudices, its passions and its violence.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did Cathy Ames use topical plumping glosses, hyaluronic acid serums, and peptide treatments instead of invasive fillers?
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My beautiful monstera continues to unfurl and leaf out.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'Moody Grandpa' (2022) Livvy Valerio Biro and felt pen scribble on the back of an envelope £Priceless
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Do you want to know how I categorise the times in which we live? WELL? DO YOU? Keep it Valerio. #ValerioForPresident #VoteValerio #PoliticalValerio
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Dr. Benjamin Uproar of Bag @upstartjuggler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tautologists of the world, unite together!
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shaft. #etc
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Great Valerio for President.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazing just how much Phil Oakey’s hair has grown. #IYKYK
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Woke this morning in a ceramic jar, like Diogenes looking for a wise woman, an honest woman who'll try just one sip of my l’elisir d‘amore and tell me why all my teachers looked like they came out of a pickle jar.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You heard it here first.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
High time I went political.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here are the names of all the cats with whom I've been honoured to share a property: Dylan Lennon Ziggy Limmy Spitfire Murphy Willow Mookie They're all dead now.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornflakes are so versatile, aren't they? You can put anything on them - cherry tomatoes, sugar snaps and Frank Cooper's thick-cut marmalade, Marmite - and most recently, capers. Don't knock it until, etc. Live a little.
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Spencer Vignes @spencervignes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On this day in 1974 John Lennon released 'Walls and Bridges' featuring a picture he'd drawn as a child of George Robledo scoring Newcastle's winner in the 1952 FA Cup final on the album's cover. Read 'Postcards From Santiago', my 2025 biography on Robledo, to find out more.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sleep now Valerio, and rest with the woeful, watchful shepherdess on your shoulder, talking shop, divorces and headline causes - else burn her in the Horlicks.
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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
PP Arnold is 80 today, the fact she's still around and performing fills me with joy
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My Courvoisier glass has been chipped. Which means if it ever gets lost or ends up in *someone* else’s gaff, I’ll be notified.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did you take your knitting along?
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I ever wrote about myself, I’d never be so uncool as to admit it. #autobituary #art
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thought the #Amazon app was asking me if I was ready to add a cunt to my basket. Doctor my eyes.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Appointment for 'flu vaccine = 11.31am Actual 'flu vaccination time = 11.30am I love the #NHS
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Things I can hear my Bosch dishwasher saying between midnight and 5.00am: an occasional series. 2. Approximately half way through a 4.5 hour eco-cycle - ‘Shush up ya mush. Shush up ya mush. Shush up ya mush.’
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Day six.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The walrus was Sebastian.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And here's the little fucker who's responsible.
A fieldmouse climbing along my tomato vines towards its supper.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a matter of interest, my tetraptych, ‘The Dissociation of Sebastien’ is an exploration of fragmentation, instability and reconstruction, expressed through the conflict between imposed structure and uncontrolled gesture.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ooh. #Beatles
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘The Dissociation of Sebastien’ (2026) Household paints on canvas 300x300mm Floating frame ALT for description #art #tetraptych
Spatially complex. Large blocks of red and yellow collide with quieter areas of cream, grey and blue, while thin black lines cut across the surface almost like an unstable architectural drawing.

The most striking feature is the thick white diagonal gesture through the centre. It appears to tear through the underlying grid rather than sit politely on top of it. The surrounding drips and scratches reinforce the feeling of something being disrupted.

There is a strong tension between order and destruction: rectangles and lines suggest a constructed environment, while the vigorous paint application continually undermines it.

It is the beginning of fragmentation.The second painting is more open and atmospheric. Grey and cream dominate, giving the red, yellow and blue passages considerably more impact.

A dramatic white-and-black diagonal sweeps from upper left towards lower right, dividing the composition like a fault line. Around it are vertical drips and thin linear marks that suggest scaffolding, streets, maps or electrical diagrams without ever becoming representational.

Compared with the first painting, there is more breathing space. The result is a combination of violence and restraint: one powerful gesture interrupts an otherwise comparatively quiet field.The third painting is the most obviously circular and psychologically suggestive of the tetraptych.

The composition is dominated by a large spiralling form, built from concentric sweeps of black, red, yellow, blue and white. The eye is repeatedly drawn towards the pale centre and then thrown back around the circumference.

That circular motion is intended to make this painting feel less architectural than the others, suggesting recurrence, memory, introspection or a thought looping back upon itself.

Thick ridges of white paint make the spiral physically present, as though the movement has been carved into the surface.

The works are about dissociation and this is the inward-looking piece: fragmentation has become circular, repetitive and internal.The fourth painting returns to a more fragmented, grid-like structure intended to be particularly energetic.

Red, blue and yellow areas are strewn across the canvas rather than concentrated around a single centre. Black verticals and diagonals create a loose skeleton, while numerous drips pull the image downward.

Across this structure run several broad, heavily textured white gestures.

There is no obvious resting point for the eye. Instead, the eye moves between competing incidents—red blocks, black marks, yellow passages and raised white strokes, which gives the painting a sense of manifold simultaneous impulses - less like something breaking apart and more an attempt to assemble fragments into a new configuration.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's World Smile Day. #WorldSmileDay
A neo-expressionist portrait, tribal-inspired abstract.

A stylized, dark-toned humanoid figure against a textured brown background. Asymmetrical eyes (one white with a black pupil, one red), prominent white eyelashes, and a triangular nose dotted with green and white details. A large, bright red rectangular mouth filled with squared-off white teeth. A simple dark collar and suit jacket visible at the base of the neck.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Woke this morning in conversation with Claudette, the sandman’s apprentice, blethering on about how her old wounds only seem to open up in autumn, as the bruises shift seamlessly through their colours. ‘So, are you still determined to marry that married, west country freemason?’ I ask.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A second Hull City player has crashed near the training ground.
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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The single greatest comic strip of all time just popped up on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/Viz/s/i5Sv...
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From the Viz community on Reddit: (Viz 123) Driving Mister David ... The Very First One.
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The Great Valerio 🕶 @thegreatvalerio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, absolutely - as long as you extend her a similar courtesy and allow her to hang you up by the testicles.
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