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Russell Garner

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Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, flippancy, unions. Audi alteram partem. Leeds, UK Founder at @jointogether.online

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · Apr 8

Have you noticed that these days when time travellers grab you by the shoulders and ask what year it is, when you reply "2024" they no longer say "Thank God. I'm not too late"?

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 50m

It's certainly a lot less pasty than I used to be before taking up cycling 17 years ago...

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 58m

I mean I say "brown" I mean "brown for a person from Donny". Greek partner and half-Greek daughter laugh at my "brown".

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1h

ha no I have that too. Brown legs but a sharp line where my shorts end. Brown arms but a sharp white line where my top ends...

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1h

(yes, bicycles. The rest of my family do horses instead I'm the odd one out)

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1h

I think it's just that coming back west on average takes longer, the sun's on my right side if it's out at the time I typically come back and I've been doing 100-200K per week every week for the past 11 years

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1h

in the sense that the right side of my face is more exposed to sun because of the prevailing wind being westerly here and me riding back home *to* the west and having more liver spot-type darkenings already on that side, yeah...

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 15h

Could we perhaps, after Qatar and the US, get back to hosting the World Cup in a country that actually gives a tuppenny stuff about the game?

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but