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@kmconnolly.bsky.social

Journalist in Manchester, regular BBC Radio Manchester chatty person. Wiganer. Music, film, books, fashion, travel and…cats and dogs.

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Huge thunderbolt in the middle of the night- sat bolt upright in bed like something from a Hammer horror film and scared the life out of the cat on the bed.

19.07.2025 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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3:16 am. All I got for you

20.06.2025 07:16 — 👍 705    🔁 143    💬 71    📌 34

The grace of them is outstanding.

20.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This sky terrace view of today’s protest in NYC

15.06.2025 04:29 — 👍 194    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 1

You were.

11.06.2025 07:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have a chance to improve our relationship + trading terms with the EU, give musicians + young people more freedom and make travel easier…
And Brexiters are howling about betrayal, fish, ‘holding all the cards’ and immigration.
Same lies. Same prejudice. And same failure if we don’t ignore them.

18.05.2025 08:00 — 👍 2026    🔁 503    💬 107    📌 20

Absolutely @london.gov.uk 👏

18.05.2025 09:22 — 👍 573    🔁 128    💬 25    📌 4

Sometimes I like to muse on how in the UK we instinctively understand the nuanced differences between, for example, a prat, a prick, a twat, a cunt etc. You could plot them on a graph. What would the axes be? Harmfulness? Mildness/Severity? Warmth/cold?

17.05.2025 08:14 — 👍 271    🔁 23    💬 57    📌 7
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I’m coming. I’m coming don’t go anywhere

11.05.2025 14:14 — 👍 177    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 4
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Luna sends Ollie love 🖤🖤

25.04.2025 08:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Life lesson: be Keanu

19.04.2025 13:27 — 👍 1036    🔁 148    💬 39    📌 7

And mine 😂

19.04.2025 11:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'I'm a friend of Charles': Trump says state visit to UK may happen in September — The i Paper The President is expected to visit Windsor Castle and spend time with the Royal Family

I’m betting this will never happen.

18.04.2025 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In GM, we know we’ve more to do to improve taxi licensing.

But our new system won’t work if it can be undermined by out-of-area licences.

So we’re launching a bid to change the law.

Please ask your council to support the #BackingOurTaxis campaign. 🙏🏻

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

18.04.2025 08:53 — 👍 83    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 1
A group of people at a protest holding signs. The main sign reads: "HEY TRUMP, NOBODY PAID US TO BE HERE! WE ALL HATE YOU FOR FREE!" Other signs include one with the word "RESISTANCE" in red and another in pink with partially visible text

A group of people at a protest holding signs. The main sign reads: "HEY TRUMP, NOBODY PAID US TO BE HERE! WE ALL HATE YOU FOR FREE!" Other signs include one with the word "RESISTANCE" in red and another in pink with partially visible text

They’re in such a cult bubble that they can’t understand why so many free-thinking people voluntarily give of their time to oppose him.

13.04.2025 14:30 — 👍 5316    🔁 601    💬 65    📌 22

It’s fab isn’t it?

06.04.2025 10:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just two weeks after a cancer scare, I’ve been seen by a doctor, examined by a specialist and had a mammogram. Thankfully all clear 💙What a spectacular service our #nhs provides. I’ll fight tooth and nail to keep it. It’s our national treasure. Thank you 💙💙💙

31.03.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah right.

25.03.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a woman in a blue suit is sitting on a couch with a microphone . ALT: a woman in a blue suit is sitting on a couch with a microphone .

Oh yes 👏

25.03.2025 09:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The power of the people.....Let's keep it up!!

19.03.2025 00:43 — 👍 21201    🔁 4007    💬 432    📌 223

A thing of beauty ❤️

19.03.2025 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Mark Carney walk up a set of stairs inside 10 Downing Street. 

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Mark Carney walk up a set of stairs inside 10 Downing Street. 

Thanks, Keir, for the warm welcome at 10 Downing Street. 
 
At a time of great consequence for our country — one in which our sovereignty has been called into question — alliances and friendships like ours matter.

18.03.2025 15:51 — 👍 12490    🔁 1909    💬 297    📌 121
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Kelly: I think it's probably the worst 50 days of any presidency I can think of in my life. It's been, you know, pretty much a shit show since day one…

14.03.2025 19:11 — 👍 17780    🔁 3171    💬 419    📌 131

Is there a ‘Severence For Dummies’ manual?

08.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Total tosh wasn’t it?
Here’s Churchill’s red war suit he wore to visit Roosevelt. No backlash on that back then.

02.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Keir Starmer is tonight the leader of the free world
#slavaukraine

01.03.2025 21:01 — 👍 123    🔁 20    💬 7    📌 1
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Starmer hugs Zelenskyy ahead of crisis talks at No 10 Both the Ukrainian president and the British prime minister visited the White House this week - but the two meetings had very different outcomes.

Starmer hugs Zelenskyy ahead of crisis talks at No 10 👏

news.sky.com/story/starme...

01.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 1077    🔁 158    💬 27    📌 11
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BREAKING: 'You have full backing across the United Kingdom'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 'We stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take' 👏

01.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 3290    🔁 623    💬 84    📌 70

Beautiful words then and perhaps more so now.

01.03.2025 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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