Squonkster

@squonkster-uk.bsky.social

Opinionated and occasionally outspoken leftie. A dog lover, mushroom hunter, quizmaster and almost retired. Lives in Scotland.

19 Followers | 19 Following | 118 Posts | Joined: 15.11.2024 | 1.7003

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20.11.2025 23:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Scary Monsters? What's Up? Does anyone else find it ironic that the BBC is coming in for criticism for all manner of dodgy things? The reason for this was t...

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15.11.2025 10:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

14.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - This Is All You Have Left... What's Up? Have I mentioned that I've not been well? I have? Oh, well, I'm still not well. This is becoming slightly concerning, but apparen...

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08.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - King of Halloween What's Up? There's another reason why I hate the autumn so much. I've talked about Facebook Memories a lot in these blogs and one thing I ha...

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02.11.2025 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Diminishing Returns What's Up? I expect the next General Election will be a straight referendum with one question being asked: Are you a racist? I know some Ref...

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02.11.2025 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Pottering About What's Up? I'm surprised that atmospheric pressure can still have effects on television signals despite the switchover to digital. That was ...

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18.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Uncultured Life - Something Beginning With U What's Up? Fucking search engines, that's what. Both Google and Bing have been 'improved' so that if you search for something now you get ...

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11.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Nothing Really Matters What's Up? The problem with fascism isn't obvious to most people who look at it as being the solution to their woes. Nationalism and fascism...

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04.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Take Two What's Up? It's never nice to speak ill of the dead, but there was this guy in my past who really did me a disservice. It was around 1992, e...

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27.09.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crazy Diamonds - A Re-Appraisal of Pink Floyd Re-appraising Pink Floyd You know that discussion/conversation; the one where you’re asked, ‘what is your favourite band of all time?’ Wel...

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20.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life: 10 (and Other Ratings) What's Up? My monthly pub quiz at my local was last night. Yet again it was plagued by technology issues and that was after I'd got very str...

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20.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Killers and Lots of Filler What's Up? I saw a conversation about the Dublin Agreement. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is an agreement between all EU ...

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13.09.2025 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Multiple Personality Disorder What's Up? So, the press have finally nailed Angela Raynor. They've been after her for five years and they've finally succeeded. Yeah, I kno...

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06.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

04.09.2025 10:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Massive Highs and Putrid Lows What's Up? TL:DR... I first encountered this about 20 years ago in the comments of a national newspaper webpage. I had to Google it because ...

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30.08.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - ESP and the Fallen Arches What's Up? Nothing much. At least not as far as watching the telly this week. I write this Wednesday evening and so far this week we have w...

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23.08.2025 08:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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My Cultural Life - Some Big Ones What's Up? In London last Saturday, over 500 people were arrested for showing solidarity with Palestine Action, a group of 'terrorist' pro...

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16.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She's very good, except she's in this show.

11.08.2025 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My Cultural Life - The Barrel is Being Scraped What's Up? Facebook memories, that's what's up. I've been going through them daily now for a couple of years and deleting things that either...

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09.08.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

man made or naturally occurring?

03.08.2025 21:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Possibly Interesting-ish What's Up? It would appear that having a provocative title for weekly blog does not increase viewing figures. In fact, while last week's b...

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02.08.2025 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - The Eleven Foot Long Penis What the F...? Twice last weekend I was left feeling bemused about British society. The first was the amount of exposure a couple obviously ...

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26.07.2025 22:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Internet - A 'My Cultural Life' Special The Case Against... The Internet. I've been saying for a number of years that it will be the root cause of the downfall of society, probab...

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23.07.2025 11:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eight years ago today we moved to Wigtown 😍

19.07.2025 11:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - Grim and Gritty What's Up? Fed up with me being all serious and shit in this opening segment? Then fear not, this week levity is far more important. The wor...

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19.07.2025 11:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

16.07.2025 10:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not literally, dear. I suppose I meant where does he get the money to buy his suits and when does he buy them because he can be standing in what he has on in Tangiers and then he has a fucking portable wardrobe with him by the time he reaches Austria, like an hour later...

13.07.2025 08:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Cultural Life - My Word is My Bonds What's Up? We live in a country where money is tight - for a large percentage. The current government seems obsessed with targeting the lowe...

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12.07.2025 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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