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@tiredold.bsky.social

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Tired, old, a boring tit (Eric). Still a saluter of magpies. LUFC. Anarchist, anti-colonialist sort. Professional obsessions: building / construction safety and sustainability with the occasional soupçon of architectural theory & history

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 2d

I was a non-hooligan football fan in the 1980s. Funnily enough, this wasn’t what the Tory government of the time thought or said about me.

Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 5d

It’s like that massive (chickentown) chicken on the KFC ad. We must slay the chicken #LUFC

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I’d love for the Tommeh fans and roundabout painters to be subjected to the same requirement. And deported on failure, obviously.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 5d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, I’d fight you on this. Think it’s book 4 of Lost Time which is one of the most interminably drab snooze fests I’ve ever endured. Ulysses however is terrific. Although I’d draw the line at Finnegan’s Wake.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 6d

A sword and a spear, is it? Fair enough, we’ll just shoot the cunts.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 7d

Aren’t all slogans, by virtue of being slogans, platitudinous?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9d

I will wreak that hate upon him.

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 10d

Drink to forget we have the worst Labour leadership ever known? It’s not a terrible idea, to be fair.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 11d

Agreed but it’s still quite hard to take Tyres seriously

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 11d

I recently tracked my ancestry to a village in Yorkshire in the 1500s, as far back as the parish records go. I also tend to pursue a radical anti-Western ideology. Not sure where I should be living, to be honest.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 12d

I had to, but I’m not 100% convinced. Be good in cocktails I reckon

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 16d

When I was a major Capri2.8ophile, I took it to a bloke in Bromley to get it serviced. Lovely fella, but the only non-NF member in a five mile radius.

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 16d

America is such a fucking weird country. The only place on earth with a constitution which supposedly enables anyone to go and buy assault rifles at the supermarket to protect themselves from state oppression, then when the day arrives no cunt fucking bothers to shop.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 16d

Lads, I’m going in, wish me luck

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 17d

Starships were meant to fly
Hands up and try and fetch something off the top shelf in the pharmacy, as long as your shoulders aren’t too achy.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 19d

Going through one of my occasional forays into early philosophy. Observation: Seneca was a boring tit who probably didn’t get invited to decent parties.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 19d

Currently sitting in my garden sunbathing, on the last day of September. Which is nice. But also: fuck!

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 22d

Ifs and buts. Could equally say they might easily have scored more at other times. On balance, we took a point off a form team and that’s okay.

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 22d

Ha, I guessed right. I know you shouldn’t waste time on calling out twats for being twats, but IIRC some previous instance of twattery particularly set me off.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 22d

The quoted poster here has blocked me. Which melt is it?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23d

There are half a dozen candidates for most absurd sentence or claim in this essay. It is especially weird on race

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23d

Come for the really good essay by Patrick Maguire, stay for the really bad one being shared (approvingly!!) by some Labour MPs: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 23d

No fresh croissants? Lumpen proletariat trash

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 24d

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I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 24d

Cheers for the heads up. Almost started it tonight but thought it had a slightly suspicious vibe.

I would prefer not to @tiredold.bsky.social · 25d

Like a pissed clown looking for a petrol station to buy us some dead flowers, for now. Dunno