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Nick M

@plodinnotts.bsky.social

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Book hoarder, woke, old but working (mentally) when you've always wanted to be TC, occasionally had moments of being Choo-Choo but were actually Benny The Ball all along. If antifa existed, I'd join

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 3m

#booksky #books 6178 Penguin 11999 A Helping Hand / Celia Dale (1990) seeming to offer a room and a helping hand to successive lonely and wealthy old ladies is actually a smooth business operation and the only helping hand on display is pushing them through the door marked "Exit"

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 16m

#booksky #books 6177 Penguin Modern Classics Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov (2004) not just shocking but shockingly good, adding a term to his adopted language and telling uncomfortable truths about male desire and obsession and the acutely observed complications of tarnished innocence

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 7h

would need a dish to catch the gelatine and then baste the pie with it...hmmmm

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 7h

#booksky #books 6176 Penguin 9954 Small Changes / Marge Piercy (6th post-1987) as an author you know you've made it when your name on the cover is more than twice the size of the title and given the mint condition I'd say someone bought it after "Woman On The Edge Of Time" and then never read it

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 7h

#booksky #books 13021 Elidor / Alan Garner (Armada 1974) 2 years after the edition Ithat was the first book we read at senior school under the tutelage of Mr Norris who gave me a detention for calling him a troglodyte though tbf he looked more like Penfold but it was some years before "Dangermouse"

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 7h

#booksky #books 13005 Penguin Modern Classics 700 Junky / William S Burroughs (3rd post-2002, charity shop £1) not a lot of fiction in this account of addiction to heroin. Also (see RFK Jr) it may be horrible but it's a damn sight easier when you're only spending the family trust fund

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 8h

#booksky #books 6175 The Pope's Rhinoceros / Lawrence Norfolk ( QPD 1996) ranges and romps over the whole of Europe weaving a fiction around the true lunacy behind a 1516 Italian shipwreck of a Portuguese ship bringing the fabled beast to His Holiness inspired by Durer's woodcut of the previous year

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 8h

chimney breast - currently under re-construction

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

the lack of representation gave the lie to every US intervention for "freedom and democracy" That and the pledge of allegiance which would get any other country invaded by America for brainwashing children

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

ooo you mean Ameriican citizens actually being represented within the legislature and many of the bklack and brown? Can't possibly have that.

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

everything I don't like is fascist because I don't like a lot of things and i don't like fascists

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

this high quality gag came from someone who is also here but as he hasn’t posted it himself I assume he doesn’t want to be tagged to share in the glory

Farage is being interviewed. He says “I WAS ABOUT 14 AND IT WAS OVER THE PHOTO OF EVA BRAUN”. The interviewer says “ERM... I ASKED YOU ABOUT THE WEST BANK”

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

Date set : 13/03/2026 - and yes. it's a Friday

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

behind the telly

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 2d

shored for god's sake

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 2d

I've never paid stamp duty because like millons of my fellow citizens I've never been able to buy a house. Tell me how inflating house prices and cuttig revenus will help me?

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/oJ4mxOluXY4

Tony Hancock and Magna Carta

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 2d