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Wilbur Mudd

@wilburmudd.bsky.social
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Nonsense monger. Lefty-Twitter refugee pivoting toward the less contentious (ahem) pop culture commuinity.

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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There go those famously reliable 'Labour sources' getting their mates in the press all foamed up over absolutely toss all as usual. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
I'm not tempted to call an early election, Andy Burnham says
The prime minister told the BBC an early poll would throw the country into a "backward-looking process".
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The main parties don't believe they can save the world. They don't even really believe there is a 'world' to save. They have resolved instead to steal as much copper wire out of the walls before someone changes the locks.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Turns out Fat Bear Week is absolutely not what I thought it was... Boy is my face red...
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Bear Gently Takes Apple from Hand
ALT: Bear Gently Takes Apple from Hand
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's nothing on earth that will sway me from the opinion that Rory Stewart is some strange alien/wolf hybrid in a skin suit who learned all his human behaviours from a West Side Story DVD.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Once again, the issue with AI is absolutely not the tech advance - human history is full of massive leaps - but the specific moment in time in which it is ocurring.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fuck - and I cannot stress this enough - off.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The obvious need for a full public inquiry into political funding and donations has existed for approximately 5 seconds longer than the absolute, rock solid cross-party consensus that there must never be one.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When Homer is protesting a real injustice he does it in his own clothes. When he's doing something shady like stealing Moe's car however... Just saying...
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I dunno y'know? I don't remember Just Stop Oil's 'strong visuals' stretching to a paramilitary aesthetic and desperate attempts to conceal their identities. I'd argue that maybe gives some indication of their view on the moral certainty of their respective causes.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We quickly need to recognise that the end purpose of AI is not to trick people into thinking fake things are real. It's ultimately being trained to convince us that real things are fake.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Can't help but feel that Jason Arday would still be with us if most of us had never heard his name. It was not a matter of 'public interest'. It was not our business and that the press decided it was, is a scandal far in excess of anything he was alleged to have done.
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If we can all see the potential danger in creating a massive outflow pipe for the money generated by the World Cup, maybe we can reconsider the wisdom of that time our governments invited the horror of ever increasing profit required by private finance into ALL of humanity's absolute essentials.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Our small seaside town has - for one weekend only - been blessed with a visit from 'SpudMan'. Half mile queues for a baked potato served by a middle aged man with a pink mohawk. Expecting the next tiktok craze imminently, I look forward to 'Tripe and onions Man' and 'Powdered Egg Man' any day now.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
BBC News - Australia probes mystery space balls that washed up on beach www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Scooby Doo's Ruh Roh Moment
ALT: Scooby Doo's Ruh Roh Moment
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I swear TV execs and commissioning editors are the laziest breed working in the media. Just as once they jumped on obscure Dutch game-show formats, today they dole out shows to any Johnny with a 7 figure instagram follower account. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
TV personality Ashley Cain accused of using explicit sexist and misogynistic language towards women
The former footballer is known for presenting BBC Three's Ashley Cain: Into the Danger Zone.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My garden is full of weeds? But I always go over it with my...GRADEN WEED BURNER?
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So, Milburn blames the public, this guy blames the schools, but nobody blames the employers cutting costs, downsizing, rationalising, outsourcing and generally trying to do as much as they can with the minimum number of paid staff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Stop blaming young people for being unemployed, says Amazon's UK boss
John Boumphrey says the education system "isn't necessarily producing young people who are ready for work".
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Erm.. Not to be 'that guy' but Grimsby Town finished 6th in 2021 and got promoted through the play-offs.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Do What You Gotta Do
YouTube video by Clarence Carter - Topic
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My eyesight isn't what it should be so this looked at first glance like a stage set up for a 1968 Beat Club show with random techies buzzing around while Georgie Fame fires up a Vox Continental.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wes Streeting was supposed to be Labour's succession plan. 'Talented' in that vague, unsubstantiable way that only politicos pretend to understand and recognise, he's not yet had time to formulate a full set of fully flexible principles. And those he has formed thus far suck great big donkey balls
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The year is 2038 and Jess Phillips issues her latest resignation letter - she's nine for nine now, but in a twist worthy of Rod Serling, the leader she has 'front-stabbed' this time.. Is herself.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Apparently he was named after Sir David after a public vote. But the zoo think it's a bit stupid so they're naming him Slothy McSlothface. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Edinburgh Zoo's baby sloth Atty is the first born in Scotland
Zookeepers at Edinburgh Zoo named the baby Atty to mark Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Now at least it's Jess Phillips the press are reporting actual names. Yesterdays resignations were reported like the 'many more' appearing at BiMonSciFiCon with Mark Hamill and ALF.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I see Starmer is shoring up his popularity with two big beasts that even in their heyday were about as publicly popular as picnic wasps and gastroentiritis.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hi Labour MPs. I expect this result will be accompanied by a proportional level of furious finger-pointing media interviews and constant agitation against your own party than was seen in 2016 when you lost a mere 18 out of 1600+ seats (while increasing your overall vote share by 2%).
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Imagine being one of those full-time LAB/CON footsoldiers who whooped and hollered as your parties and their media outriders deplatformed and de-legitimised a youth-oriented left-wing groundswell,only to STILL find yourself obselete a decade later. Not replaced by a bunch of bright young idealists,
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Yeah. If, by 'staggering' you mean impossible to believe.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
bbc.co.uk
Keir Starmer says it's 'staggering' he wasn’t told Mandelson failed security vetting - live updates
There is renewed anger about the ex-US ambassador's appointment after it emerged the Foreign Office did not tell the PM about Mandelson's vetting.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
You probably all know this is up for free on Prime, but if not.. The set-up is creepy af, and not even Jane Birkin, Irene Handl and a brief sight of Suki Potier can save it from the 'product of it's time' excuses. Essential for historians and Harrison completists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderw...
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Wonderwall (film) - Wikipedia
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Thinking of the future today. Our post apocalyptic future. And thinking about how I'll probably die way sooner than most cos instead of fighting over tinned peaches and cat carcasses, I'll waste my energy bitching and berating any Centrists I meet for leading us to this ridiculous place in time.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Maybe I'm way off base but surely a British SNL would have worked better when anyone under 60 actually watched live TV on a Saturday Night?
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Daryl Hall might have been the biggest star on the planet the second this was released. Cheesy? Of course. Under-rated. Also yes. youtu.be/ugcURF7B_gw?...
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions - The Only Flame In Town
YouTube video by ElvisCostelloVEVO
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Costello is rarely covered, and I get why. But when he is -annoyingly - it's usually better..
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You Bowed Down
YouTube video by Roger McGuinn - Topic
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I think you can tell a lot about a person just from how they react to the piano riff from 'Werewolves of London'. Or the first lines of 'Tom Traubert's Blues' when you realise it's Rod Stewart..😕
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
TBF If I used this service, AI would assume I was a cat with a special interest in puppets..
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
'You got so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't ever stop to think if you should.' share.google/d9SPmK2UlxlO...
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Man pulls two tonne car along Yorkshire street with his testicles in 'UK first'
A painter and decorator proved he's got balls of steel after becoming the first person in the UK to pull a car - with his testicles.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Reading Chris Difford's memoir and totally sympathise with his lifelong guilt over his gang rolling an old granny for the meagre contents of her purse. When I was 15 we all got pissed up on Strawberry Concorde and one of my mates nicked someone's garden gate. Sorry to whoever that was.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If, by this, you're saying these GPs have never refused to sign off anyone with genuine mental health issues then that would be the correct side of caution to err on surely? Unless there's some other wankery you think they should employ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a fit note for mental health concerns
The number of fit notes issued has been rising, with more than 11.2m approved in England last year.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The day they put this guy on our banknotes, I'll give up Google Pay for good.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Reasons Badgers are better than Winston Churchill No 28. Churchill was so chicken shit he'd jump out of the way if a speeding Vauxhall Mokka came directly at him on a dark night.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Started learning piano a little under 2 years ago at the age of 48. Not properly, you understand. Not with lessons and theory. Not with 'Ode to Joy' and 'Clair De Lune' Just for the fun of it. I last tried (the right way) in my early 30s but Dyslexia and Dyspraxia made the whole thing absolute...
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Today's podcast shout-out is for This Is Vinyl Tap share.google/Grs2MzvFsVCP... Doug Cooper hosts with venerable wing-man Tony Slagle and their humble producer Jonathan 'JM' Roe. Celebrating music produced for the long-player format, celebrating albums as 'cohesive bodies of work that must be..
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This Is Vinyl Tap
Mining the layers of long players. We focus on great albums in their entirety and believe every album tells a story. We take a deep dive into the history of the artist and the album while discussing t...
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Felt Collie dog. Might delete later..
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Did you know, 52 years ago tonight, Terry Scott drove off the end of the Tees Transporter Bridge? 🧵
Terry Scott, a middle-aged man in a very 1970s jacket, gestures at a gap over a river, with a rueful expression on his face
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Today's podcast shout out is one that really needs no introduction, but here goes anyway. @beatlespod.bsky.social Nothing is Real represents no less than the greatest, most accessible and detailed audio Beatles resource in the universe. Jason Carty and Stephen Cockroft built over the course..
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Hearing unconfirmed reports that the popular Hollies track 'Bus Stop' is in fact based on the courtship of Dr Harold Shipman and his wife Primrose.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If you are currently facing down a snake that may or may not be venemous, I have been advised that my previous post could potentially contain a minor factual inaccuracy. Please disregard the advice therein until future notice.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
People get awfully confused about snakes but I always remember this handy rhyme.. Red on yellow, kills a fellow. Tangy and brown, you're in cider town.
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Wilbur Mudd @wilburmudd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Stretching out my fav podcasts list across the Atlantic - not for the last time - my next plug is for the fabulous @discordpod.bsky.social Discord and Rhyme takes it's name from the lyric from Duran Duran's 'Hungry Like the Wolf' and that's just a hint of the depth with which the team delve into..
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