This. Weโll all miss it when itโs gone.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@markgretton.bsky.social
Green Runner, Vegan Runner (UK), Green Party member. Also cycles, walks, drinks, reads, complains, enjoys. Suffers from Lancashire CCC, Minnesota Twins, Hull City AFC. Relieved retired academic and nurse. He/him. Wonders what Elvis makes of it all.
This. Weโll all miss it when itโs gone.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Thank you my lovely pal. Particularly for the birthday wishes, anticipating the day by little under three months.
Or possibly more than nine months late for the last one?
Either way, genuine Pie knowledge! x
Louise and I grinning behind two Margaritas! x
First few hours in Lanzarote, drinking Margaritas in American Indian with Perfect Circle blasting out bangers, with Louise. Life is good, very, very good ๐
01.11.2025 22:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
๐จ New study reveals that marathon records are now less likely due to climate breakdown.
Yet the industries fuelling the crisis for profit continue to use the sport as a billboard. ๐คจ
More on running's sportswashing problem ๐ thegreenrunners.com/sportswashin...
@thegreenrunners.bsky.social
After parting ways with Rocco Baldelli, the front office seems determined to replace him with someone who feelsโฆ oddly familiar. #twins #minnesota #mntwins
29.10.2025 19:18 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh ๐
29.10.2025 19:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Again, this seems practical commensense.
29.10.2025 18:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A sentiment to which we can all give a loud 'Amen!'
29.10.2025 18:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Have spent the last few days trying to glean email addresses from websites, and it occurs to me that there are too many people out there who think it's OK to have an incredibly cool and visually stunning site that is utterly unuseable.
29.10.2025 16:32 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Screenshot of graph showing distribution of votes for and against by party. The 'for' votes are from Reform, Conservatives and some smaller parties. The 'against' votes are from Green, Plaid, SNP, Independent, Lib Dem, some Labour and some smaller parties.
Farage's motion on leaving the European Convention on Human Rights failed: 154 votes to 96
All 4 @greenparty.org.uk MPs voted against it, because we believe international agreements on human rights are a good thing.
But only 63 out of 401 Labour MPs did:
votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
Meanwhile, over on FB, a photograph of Englandโs World Cup winners of 1966 lined up with footballs at their feet: โProper footballs waiting to be kicked by proper footballersโ.
29.10.2025 18:06 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0And so it goes:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Always amusing reading Larry Elliott on economic woes; as ever Brexit, of which he was an enthusiast and itโs subsequent disastrous effect on the U.K. economy gets no mention.
Unclear why ๐
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LOP 69 (25 Nov 1977) text of story headlined Women reclaim the night. Plus photo of women's march through Leeds, lit by torchlight.
WOMEN RECLAIM THE NIGHT
There are lots of Reclaim the Night events across West Yorkshire this weekend - here's Leeds Other Paper's report of the first one, back in 1977.
#ReclaimTheNight #SaferStreets
Brilliant story, this!
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18.10.2025 18:09 โ ๐ 180 ๐ 29 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 4Lolz Jez
Notes:
โIt looks like he takes a picture of Shane MacGowan to the dentistโ might work if he were going to the hairdresser and wanted hair like Shane MacGowan. But people donโt take pictures of famous peopleโs teeth to the dentist so Iโm afraid youโll have to re-write this. And everything else.
If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly โhumorousโโ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
12.10.2025 15:56 โ ๐ 163 ๐ 374 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 13BookSky wouldn't exist without my underpants and I think that's nice.
08.10.2025 20:57 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Did you know? More than half the people in the UK living with HIV are now over 50. Thanks to testing and treatment, people can live long, healthy lives.
If you test positive for #HIV, treatment is highly effective, and most can expect to live a long, healthy life.
Early diagnosis can be lifesaving, so please get tested regularly if youโre sexually active.
Visit the NHS website to check your options: https://t.co/rvJOa6bo28 https://t.co/TxoVjMSA1n
Thank you so much for posting that! What a lovely, lovely band they were. One of the main reasons why I still think the music I heard in my mid-teens has never been bettered in the subsequent 45 years or so ๐
08.10.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Truly wonderful โค๏ธ
08.10.2025 21:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Billy Bragg has started a โreclaim the lamppostsโ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH
04.10.2025 19:03 โ ๐ 191 ๐ 91 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 3LlllLoooLzzzz
LoLLllllllzzzzz
05.10.2025 13:50 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The Guardian in full Dick Emery mode ๐ณ
05.10.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I just said โhey labubuโ in a yogi bear voice and my kids donโt appreciate my brilliance at all
05.10.2025 15:12 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Football with friends
Thatโll do ๐๐ #itfc