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Craig Winstanley

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Voluntarily severed ex-Professor of Bacteriology dabbling in creative things (music [C÷M, gigs looming], images, writing [a silly children’s story & a sketchbook about old Lancashire towns]). From Chorley (originally). craigwinstanley.online

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Now published as an ebook. A light-hearted & eclectic travelogue, as two ‘mature’ friends embark on day trips to seven Lancashire towns (Bolton, Oldham, Preston, Bury, Blackburn, Wigan and Rochdale) in search of cultural enlightenment (& in the interests of research, beer)
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A Gimmers’ Sketchbook of old Lancashire towns eBook : Winstanley, Craig, Moss, Jonathan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 11h

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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John Perschino @johnperschino.bsky.social · 22h

This All Day Every Day

Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.social · 1d

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 11h

What did you do this morning?
Chagall.
There’s no need for that kind of language…

etc…

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Fi Frightingale👻 @feebee69.bsky.social · 11h

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

OK. Let’s also talk about annual appraisals & minimum standards.

Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 1d

If we can’t even talk in general terms about MPs’ workload- which MPs of all parties agree is v casework- heavy and getting heavier- without a lot of responses being to assume that MPs are not telling the truth/just whinging/ working on the wrong things etc- then I think we’re in a bad place

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Shelby Kent-Stewart @shelbykstewart.bsky.social · 2d

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

Good afternoon

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 1d

. @carolvorders.bsky.social on swearing

"“For fuck’s sake” is my favourite sweary phrase. I can't do it on TV, but I love swearing. It’s so expressive. By the way - FFS also stands for Farage Foot Soldier, as I call them." - Carol Vorderman

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t even win the Peas Prize…

Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning

Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

“Avoid the dismantled old heads stuck in bloody plant pots…

Get out of my city you mediocre pseuds”

Apparently, the Tories came to MCR this week.
#FallFriday

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 2d

Good night

Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 2d

Good evening

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t usually do selfies, but I was feeling a bit frisky tonight…

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. That’s definitely it…

Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 2d

🤦‍♂️

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 2d

But what could Antifa have been opposing in Weimar Ger…. Oh. Oh!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa