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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 10h

presumably he is inside in the interim ? (press reports don’t make it clear)

Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 10h

Caine is on record as saying everything was better and fantastic in the mid 20th century compared to today. More contradictions from the Brexit liar?

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 10h

even 99% of tolerant blueskyers won’t countenance anything after Labour of Love but this is indeed great - thanks for the reminder

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 1d

PLAY SAFE! DRINK SAFE! The Neon Raptor Brewing Company's new beer collection is based on the public information films of the 70s and 80s: No Swimming, Fluttering Kite, and Shockball. A big thank you to them for sending these samples - at 8.5%, No Swimming will have me floating on me back!

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 1d

happy to hear of anything that works… I normally just stare, with limited success. even just a voice call when you can hear the other side is annoying, but it’s usually enough to drown one’s own music.

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 1d

on the train from Liverpool St to Chingford - probably 400 people on here and you can hear a pin drop… blissful contrast to WM buses where you get phone noise when there’s anything above three or four passengers. Those “people who respect other’s right to ruin everyone’s commute” are absolute idiots

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 1d

weird that this patriot can’t speak his mother tongue

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 3d

lots of people aggrieved at having to pay £90 for a covid jab. nothing can change it for now. only way to change it for the future is (if discussing it with a potential Reform voter) keep telling them very many NHS things we take 4 granted will become impossible or chargeable if they vote 4 Reform

Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 3d

why on earth would anyone take philadelphia to the beach…? ah I see it’s a Christmas offering. I thought I was reading a British newspaper; why not just say Winterval.

Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 3d

just in case you couldn’t love Ed Davey any more… he listens whichever music he fancies whenever he fancies listening to it

Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 3d

nice to start the day with a good news story

The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 3d

"A man who cut down a ULEZ camera before it was destroyed in an explosion said he has lost his job and caused his children embarrassment."

www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/2552170...

a young boy is riding on the back of an elephant in the water .

Alt: Short Round from Temple of Doom is riding on the back of an elephant in the water saying "ha ha, very funny! Ha ha ha ha ha!

media.tenor.com

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 3d

Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 4d

so trump’s loons think he should get the Nobel prize which is voted on and announced before his ceasefire even comes into force ? (yeah I know he ended seven other beautiful world wars)

Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 5d

absolutely… bit like privatised utilities tho it is so entrenched after three or four decades that there seems to be no solution. Thatcher selling off the family silver has thrown future generations to the wolves while her supporters still reap the millions

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 5d

The Press in thrall of Badenoch’s astonishing rabbit out of the hat of abolishing stamp duty. it’s not a vote winner, it’s just yet another recycling of dead Thatcherism. How many people today want social services and libraries cut further so that rich people can get thousands off their house price?

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 5d

hey, the police… it was jenrick

Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 6d

had assumed that she had got over-promoted due to being Sunak’s pal… but things must be really desperate for The Opposition if she is still the best they can offer for Energy SoS. good grief.

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John Styx (Ix) @frogalapeche.bsky.social · 6d

"I 'ate that immigrant duck!"

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Bruce Gorrie @bsgorrie.bsky.social · 7d

Just appeared in our NextDoor. Reggie you are a fucking BOY

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 7d

true, especially as they’ll start looking more bedraggled too - just hoping it doesn’t turn violent anywhere

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 7d

the ‘resplendent’ Kingstanding Circle was stripped and slashed over the weekend… arseholes have promised to replant and re-hang with double the numbers so we’ll see

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 8d

best cheese ever is obviously the spilt bits from cheese on toast a bit later when they’ve cooled… afternoon ruined by someone being too enthusiastic with the cleaning up

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 8d

fair comment, but he wasn’t unpopular on polling day just went into an inexplicable descent very soon afterwards?

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 8d

agree with everything you say here… just wondering whether anyone unpopular has ever won a parliamentary majority (or even more than about 150 seats)?

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