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@andyc279.bsky.social

NHS admin dude. Former rock journo and serial failed rock star. Husband. Cat dad. Northerner. Socialist. Long suffering Hartlepool United fan. ‘Ow do.

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Latest posts by andyc279.bsky.social on Bluesky

I have literally no idea what the Lib Dem’s stand for even if Ed Davey seems like a nice bloke and Your Party give the impression that they couldn’t run a piss-up in a brewery as well as having some suspicious characters in their ranks. So Green it is. Let’s see where this thing takes us eh?… (3/3)

01.11.2025 00:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let’s face it, hell will freeze over before I even consider joining the Tories, Reform are downright evil and need to be stopped at all costs, Labour are a busted flush and on a deserved one way ticket to electoral oblivion for their broken promises (2/3)

01.11.2025 00:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Well, the deed is officially done. I swore after 2019-20 that I wouldn’t join a political party again but for the first time in way too long I actually feel a sense of hope again. (1/3)

01.11.2025 00:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Note to any friends with journalistic ambitions over in Ulster - I think Belfast Live might be looking for a new online content creator as of this afternoon… 🤣

29.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Nerve Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech

Pretty sure most of those I’m in contact with on here know about this already but this new newsletter comes highly recommended.

www.thenerve.news?utm_source=s...

06.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No sympathy whatsoever for the scumbag owners who’ve gone from cool guys making tasty innovative beer to staff-exploiting union-busting Tory-voting corporate scumbags depressingly quickly. If you act like out of touch w@nkers, don’t be surprised when your customers abandon you and your profits tank.

22.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beloved UK bar chain to close 10 locations - with staff given just three days' notice Fans and staff are reeling as the firm shutters key venues with minimal warning 🍺

I do feel slightly sad about this as Camden Brewdog was my regular drinking haunt back in the early London days (before the brand name became tainted) and I feel desperately sorry for the staff who’ve been well and truly shafted here. However… (1/2)

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business/con...

22.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Johnny Vegas for Pope.

21.04.2025 13:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So this week both one of my favourite bands (the Stranglers) and one of my favourite TV shows (The Last Leg) have left Dr Strangelove’s Amazing Den of Social Media Hate. Hopefully both of them’ll be over here soon.🤞

16.02.2025 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For anyone who needs something to cheer them up today, may I present this frankly amazing quote from @robinince.bsky.social’s rather excellent “Bad Book Club”.

03.02.2025 12:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Starmer's own team are briefing that their man is a useless waste of space.

The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.

That's why his government is a disaster.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...

02.02.2025 21:17 — 👍 917    🔁 284    💬 80    📌 70

I’ve tried to separate the art from the artist but after reading that, I just don’t feel I can anymore. A lot of books being deleted from my Kindle tonight. Absolutely heartbroken.

13.01.2025 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So until now I’ve been trying my best separate the art from artist with a now former favourite sci-fi author of mine but after reading an article with the full details of what an absolutely horrific piece of sh*t he is, I genuinely felt sick. Books deleted from Kindle. Genuinely heartbroken. 😢

13.01.2025 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 7 (The Top Ten!) And so we come to the bit everybody's been waiting for - it's our Top 10 albums of the year. Did your favourite make it? Read on to find o...

It’s here! Click below for the Nite Songs Top 10 albums of the year!

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31.12.2024 10:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 6 (20-11) We're very much in the upper echelons of the list now - the Top 10's coming tomorrow but let's go through those who just missed out on the...

The Nite Songs album of the year countdown continues as we enter the Top 20…

nitesongswebzine.blogspot.com/2024/12/nite...

30.12.2024 10:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 5 (30-21) We're into the top half of this list now so let's get going and breach upon the Top 30... *** 30.     CAROL HODGE - "EffortLess InSecurity...

Somehow we’re already at part 5 of the albums of the year countdown - this is going quick! Top 30 via the link below…

nitesongswebzine.blogspot.com/2024/12/nite...

29.12.2024 12:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 4 (40-31) Jump for joy, it's Top 40 time - cue Whole Lotta Love / Yellow Pearl / The Wizard /your TOTP theme of choice... *** 40.     THE MARCH VIOL...

Album of the year list part 4 now up.

nitesongswebzine.blogspot.com/2024/12/nite...

28.12.2024 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 3 (50-41) So then, we've finally got to the place where this list SHOULD have started if I hadn't gone down about thirty different musical rabbit ho...

The Nite Songs Album of the Year countdown has finally reached the Top 50…

nitesongswebzine.blogspot.com/2024/12/nite...

27.12.2024 12:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 2 (60-51) Welcome to the second part of our end of year rundown as we look at those albums who agonisingly missed the Top 50 by a whisker. *** 60.  ...

Albums of the year list part 2 is now live…

nitesongswebzine.blogspot.com/2024/12/nite...

26.12.2024 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 1 (70-61) Okay, let's get this show on the road then. First twenty coming today then ten a day from now until New Year. As with previous years, I've...

Part 1 of the Nite Songs end of year best albums list is now live. Part 2 to follow later today…

nitesongswebzine.blogspot.com/2024/12/nite...

26.12.2024 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A brief return from the dead... Yup, we're back. Don't all get excited at once. I’d been toying with the idea of doing an end of year list again this year and after a lot...

Nite Songs is back! Well, for a little bit anyway…

nitesongswebzine.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-br...

24.12.2024 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tories destroyed everything we had. Although some of this is more relevant in England & Wales.

28.11.2024 09:08 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Become ungovernable… 😸

27.11.2024 10:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jareth the Goblin King had pretty much given up in his later years…

27.11.2024 10:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hartlepool United. Hell, we’ve tried everything else to stop our slide down the leagues and it’s been in vain, we might as well give appealing to divine intervention a go…

25.11.2024 11:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

23.11.2024 18:42 — 👍 114904    🔁 16482    💬 1492    📌 864

It surely can’t be just a coincidence that ever since Oasis announced they were reforming, Man City have started playing like it’s the late ‘90s again… 🤔😂

23.11.2024 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has to be Bob Mortimer for me. For the umpteenth year running. The man is a ray of sunshine in these gloomy times. 🙂

19.11.2024 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same with the QB’s for me - huge favourite of mine but literally just missed the cut here (see also Mott the Hoople and LA Guns)

18.11.2024 08:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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