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NORTHERN RESIDENT ARTIST @northresidentart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Childwall abbey Liverpool @childwallabbey Another pub painted on my mission to paint 285 Liverpool pubs Please repost so others can see my art #Liverpoolpubs #Liverpoolartists #GaryNorth

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Not sure the national media have worked out how bad these wild fires have been. It didn't smell of smoke in Liverpool this morning but I've just got on a northern train and it stinks of smoke.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I do wonder if @brianbutterfield.bsky.social had any relations in Liverpool in the 1930s?

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

No product celebrates its own enshittification and shrinkflation so obviously as the Fox's Party Ring. They still advertise the neat lines of spikey icing I remember from childhood on the packet but when you get inside it's just one or two shapeless blob of colour (if you're lucky).

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A church with two towers? One is the remains of the 16th Century Church which was destroyed in the most stupid fire in history.

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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 13/12/2025

An important statement from the desk of Robin Ince

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Made a confit byaldi (Ratatouille film-style). Pretty good.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

People are ignorant reactionary idiots.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If anyone is in Wavertree, Liverpool you need to get to Sticky Fingers Bakery. Just got some amazing sourdough for my poached eggs. Fantatsicly tasty and good quality. 2b Grove Street, L15 8HU.

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Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd @heritagecomment.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Snow Graffiti has started work on the mural at Andy's All Day Breakfast in Ashton-in-Makerfield. This is part of the Public Art Project aimed at improving the street scene (funded by UK Government). We can't wait to see the final result! @wigancouncil.bsky.social @tourguideliverp.bsky.social

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This was written in 1914. Plus ca change.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Yet fuel duty will no doubt remain frozen for yet another year. Making it ever cheaper to drive and more expensive to get the train. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

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Rail fares in England could rise by ‘outrageous’ 5.6% next year

Campaigners say passengers may be priced off trains as July inflation figure is likely to push up ticket prices

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

@planningshit.bsky.social FOR SALE 1930s suburban semi. Suitable for Young Familes/Dark Lords of Sith. Has own star fighter bays and fully protected exhaust port/chimney. Apply to D. VADER for details.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I'm watching #fakeorfortune, drinking a white Rioja and snacking on a nice cheddar with slices of ice-cold golden delicious apple. I'm pretty happy.

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Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd @heritagecomment.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Scaffolding is officially up at The Cupcakery and Vapour Trader! This is the first project to start on site as part of the Ashton-in-Makerfield Town Centre Building Grant Scheme. @wigancouncil.bsky.social @tourguideliverp.bsky.social #heritage #highstreets

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Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd @heritagecomment.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

As part of the Ashton-in-Makerfield Building Grant Scheme, we are producing a series of blog posts exploring the history of some of the town's shops and pubs. Our first one is about the Brian Boru Club, the oldest Irish pub in Great Britain! You can give it a read at: shorturl.at/3mtpv

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

You can shove your Bob Dylan and your Kneecap. The most political, outrageous and subversive musical ever - Tom Lehrer - has just died. "But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude, Like the widows and cripples in old London town, Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun"

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"How did the planners allow this?" ignores the point that a profession designer designed it.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Do moths eat strawberries? Found this fella on mine.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/06/2025

Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers. Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Forgive me if I am wrong but I guess the Liverpool incident today is peak car brain on coke/booze.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

One group here hates the idea of identity politics.

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Explore Liverpool @exploreliverpool.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🎉 | Liverpool to host Cunard’s 185th anniversary celebrations this month as HRH The Princess Royal will tour Queen Anne and open the 'Sea of Glamour' exhibition at the Royal Liver Building.

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Liverpool to welcome Queen Anne for Cunard's 185th anniversary celebrations

Liverpool will host Cunard's 185th anniversary celebrations this May, with a return for Queen Anne and an unveiling of a glamorous new..

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Really nice to see a gang of older ladies and gents returning from the VE day celebrations in Liverpool having clearly enjoyed Scouse hospitality. What way to remember the glorious fallen than having a piss on the platform behind the ticket machine!

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Down at the Williamson Tunnels we have a collection of glass bottles belonging to Houldings Brewery in Liverpool. Houlding was John Houlding who owned Anfield, the Sandon and was the founder of #LFC

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Today I have caught three people whistling absent mindedly in public. One was a dog walker, the other a BT engineer feeding a cable down a hole and the third was myself. It must be catching.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child. It's a genocide.

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Dave Joyce @hydraulic-dave.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For anyone wondering, I am not 38 (if only!)

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A'v bin Fettlers. Baldys Pie & Pint. Belting. #wigan

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hello Trans people out there! 👋 Hope you're all well.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Now that we cannot rely on the USA it is good to see Liverpool strengthening ties with our strategic international partners.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Wes Streeting: "The NHS is addicted to money." Meanwhile a private company with a monopoly on providing an essential resource is whinging it shouldn't have to go bankrupt or pay its taxes and fines. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Thames Water begs to be spared fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away

Exclusive: Managers and lenders racing to find a buyer want regulator to agree to leniency amounting to billions of pounds

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The ludicrous double-think that the literati utilise to justify their support for the entho-fascist Israeli government is actually sickening.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is really scary and throws a harsh new light on the recent meltdown by "farmers" protesting in the UK about inheritance tax.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Grrr... tried to book a bike on the 8:38 Avanti West Coast to Lancaster from Wigan and they don't make it easy.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Down at Wigan Central. Well, when you've got a wait for the train...

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Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd @heritagecomment.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We're proud to have switched Banks, choosing one with an Ethical Policy that matches our values. This completes one of our @carbonliteracy.bsky.social pledges! @heritagenetwork.bsky.social #netzero

Image is a screenshot from a letter with the Cooperative Bank heading, saying 'Welcome'

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the wilk @thewilk.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Been browsing through the Echo's old coverage of Joe Anderson's leadership (100% uncritical fawning until the police got involved) and this article from 2014 is a great example why all local government press releases should be taken with a dollop of salt www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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Exclusive: Mayor unveils ambitious £1.5billion plans for Liverpool city centre

Olympic-standard ice rink on Kings Dock is at the heart of plans

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Ben Cooper @btcooper.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In total, 66 women served in what became known as the Western Approaches Tactical Unit (WATU), picked for their skill in logic, mathematics and strategy, not (and I can’t stress this enough) their naval skill. Many had never even _been_ on a ship.

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It is indeed, Pancake Day. youtu.be/gj_aHCpZl4k?...

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Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thankfully my work allows me to work from home. If I was in the office 5 days a week it would cost me £61 in train fare. £244 a month. This is a war on commuters. @heidialexander.bsky.social

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