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@ubfriccardo.bsky.social
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Refugee from Birdland. Betting, cricket, lefty politics, rugby, Everton... cba with multiple accounts, so you have to put up with all of those.

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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still laughing my tits off at de Zerbi saying "we need more blood and fight, not just to play better"... ...having deliberately deprived himself of Richy until January.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible. The Phal.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am binge listening The Cure right now, for Reasons*... ...but for those unaware, oh my goodness, their album Faith is *still* utterly magnificent, 45 years after I bought it. *Reasons: I saw them at Rock en Seine last Sunday.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social It's too late here for me to investigate your TL now, but since my MSc is Comp/Data Sci, and my wife's is Psychology, I will definitely have a look later 😀
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I don't know Micah, and he may well have his own reasons... ...but nevertheless, this strikes me as a weird thing to post with replies disabled.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@funsoph.bsky.social Your snack is looking closer to its sell by date... though aren't we all, of course.
Robert Smith, playing at Rock en Seine.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A perennial though whenever I see him, but... Nick Cave. Fucking hell.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
9 1/2 Seconds
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You shouldn't say "y'all" unless you're from the area covered by the Tennessee Valley Authority. That's because it's an Appalachian Controlée
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So, fifty odd years after ai first heard the song, I finally got to see Sparks play This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us. They didn't let me down.
Sparks on stage at Rock en Seine.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well, I thought *I* was overly prone to taking things literally, and missing the joke... but reading the replies to this makes me reconsider my position on the bell curve 🤣
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky on your camera roll. Rain falling from the clouds but not reaching the ground... a few days ago, towards the end of the heatwave.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@columnist.bsky.social Apparently you don't take DMs any more (no criticism intended)... So are you likely to be at Rock en Seine this year? I will be with eldest (who you met) and youngest (who you did not).
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Actual rain. OK, so it doesn't get all the way to the ground... but it's a start.
Rain visible below a dark cloud in early twilight. It re-evapourates before reaching the ground.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@showerabsolute.bsky.social I think your next carriage just landed.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So my run of "walk onto a platform and there's the train" this evening has ended... ...but I think I can cope with a 7 minute wait 😎 Hello, and nice to meet you/see you again to all at Tony's meet tonight.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
At Alexandra Palace yesterday, two little girls - presumably daughters of band members - were handing out hand written notes to everyone in the front couple of rows. Incredibly sweet.
An A4 note in a child's eating in felt tip pens. It reads "the Beta Band Live in London have fun".
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Prettier by the minute.
Sunset again, from the same place as a few minutes ago.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
No, it only *looks like* we are all gonna burn...
A sunset pic that looks as though the horizon is on fire.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I took the quiz. Turns out I'm not very right wing at all! Check yours: moryscarter.com/vespr/starpl... I'm surprised by this. I would say I'm left wing, but not so much so that I'd be a zero on all these axes.
moryscarter.com
Your Right Wing Archetype Political Profile Results
Looks like you're not very right wing at all!
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Add a word, ruin a musician (a band, in my case): The Fall Catalogue
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Windows Ready Print. Thanks, Microsoft, I can no longer print anything from a Windows machine... If anyone has a link to an accurate explainer page, I'd be very grateful.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Share someone who looks stylish in Stripes
Meg White, of the White Stripes, looking stylish at the drum kit.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Saw this and thought of you @brianwoolfinder.bsky.social
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
c.org/NGNMbYcngc I don't usually post this kind of thing, but I am disgusted that the rapists in the highlighted case have barely been punished at all. Please read, and then sign and share if you feel as I do.
c.org
Sign the Petition
Investigate Judge Nicholas Rowland and Introduce a Judicial Accountability Framework Now
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Lydia nailed it. Welcome to planet Bluenose.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Local café no longer accepts cash? Till issue.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Well, I've gone half a dozen QTs down the trail, and have only found 3 or 4 bands I have *not* seen... ...so, here are mine that I've not seen others list yet: Neil Young Chappell Roan The Fall Anna Calvi The Ruts The Wedding Present John Cale Camion Bip Bip Radiohead Miles Davis
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... I'm really not sure how the BBC managed an entire article about football World Cup tourism underperforming expectations, without ONCE mentioning the fact that ICE will be providing the security. I'm a white English speaker, and I would certainly not go.
bbc.co.uk
2026 World Cup: Empty rooms & Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear washout
The 2026 Fifa World Cup was supposed to provide a tourism boom for the United States, but now the fear is that may never materialise.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Change a letter, change a move name: 9 1/2 Leeks
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 14/05/2026
Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Neil Hannon, of the Irish band The Divine Comedy, in a tuxedo and bow tie.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Yeah, offer £1.4m, and start the process. I'm sure something will turn up."
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Stupid prick tweets ‘resign!’, ludicrously (3, 9)
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band: Super Duper Furry Animals.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Convert a band: The Autumn.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band: Cathedrall Roan.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band : OLED Soundsystem.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I don't have my own pet (my wife is allergic to anything with fur), but please enjoy Waffle looking silly.
A large Husky dog wearing a sombrero, with one ear sticking out. He is licking his own nose.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
@quarkquent.bsky.social Link please? I have to go fetch my own son now, so can't promise immediate response.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Happy Everton Cannot Be Relegated Day to all who celebrate #UTFT
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The White Smoke House.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My eldest son, who is too young to have ever seen The Fall... ...has just pointed out to me that the support act at the gig he's at... ...are covering Blindness. I don't think I have ever been so proud.
to.me
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Slept in my Fall T-shirt last night and woke up totally wired.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
@danfriedkinscp.bsky.social Yer boyf had a great match.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I just got a popup from a route finder site, which I was using to estimate the drive time to Norwich. "Interested in Norwich? Try Dubai!"
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Lads and lasses, I think I might have sussed out why my dishwasher wasn't draining properly...
A drainage connector haif blocked with a lump of what seems to be mostly detergent powder.The attachment to the u bend containing the other half of the same plug.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy 2026 everyone. Hope it's better than 2025... which ought to be a low bar to clear.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
How I'm walking out of 2025
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Zylis GIF
Alt: GIF of an old man walking with the aid of a wheeled Zimmer frame.
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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a fucking elf.
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a bearded man wearing a helmet and armor
ALT: a bearded man wearing a helmet and armor
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