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Bix Barton

@bixbarton.bsky.social

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Bastard love child of Windsor Davies & Roger Delgado. Bit of a wrong 'un. Frustrated Leggie. Drinks in railway arches. Accidentally sober. All views scenic.

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Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 5d

Finally! Pity Croft is gabbling over it...

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 5d

No Mariachi #F1 theme? Poor show. Poor show.

#MexicanGP

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 12d

Works every time 😎

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 12d

Another thrilling tyre wear challenge #F1 "race"

Amazing with all the technology and plethora of rules, that they have made race cars that can't: race.

#USGP

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 12d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 12d

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 14d

Oh dear. Pray for Button. $ky have inexplicably employed Dimwit Patrick for the #USGP

Now Apple have the #F1 rights in the US, can someone sweep up the UK rights so we don't have to put up with her anymore?

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · May 7

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 18d

pluralistic.net/2025/10/13/c...

Pluralistic: How to fix the UK housing crisis (13 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 22d

What happens when you turn a national utility into a profit generating machine.

Water bills to rise further for millions after regulator backs extra price increases www.bbc.com/news/article...

Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal

Five water companies win permission for higher bills as they seek more funds to fix outdated infrastructure.

www.bbc.com

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · 25d

Ahh. Today's Ear Worm has been found early...

Wyrd Britain @wyrdbritain.bsky.social · 25d

On this day in Wyrd Britain history.
1969, #Chigley, the third of Gordon Murray's Trumptonshire Trilogy first aired. Perhaps the least regarded of the trio, but it does feature perhaps the most famous of all the songs that Freddie Phillips wrote for the three series.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUi...

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 27

We also have a "funny" guard. Constant fortune cookie platitudes through the PA.

This is going to be a *long* journey...

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 27

What's the point of a quiet coach if there are constant banal announcements?

Yes I am very grumpy.

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 26

Channeling my inner Boycott chuntering "Brainless Batting!" at the TV.

Hampshire seem fully succumbed to the "White Ball Disease". They do realise there's another WHOLE day?

But no, has been calypso collapso as usual. Relegation seems a formality now.

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Sep 23

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · Sep 21

Scorpio: The secret to your happiness will remain a secret.

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Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 21

Well. Piastri out before end of first lap.
Norris needs to get his head down.

And Sainz needs to nail this restart.

#AzerbaijanGP #F1

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 20

Might it be time to admit these tinpot street circuits just aren't any good for modern #F1? Unless you like crashes.

*Gives DTS & new Yank audience massive side eye*

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 20

Another rain delay in the One Day Cup. The England T20 rained off yesterday.

Who could've foreseen such weather in this part of the world, less than a fortnight before October.... 🙄

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Nick Webb @nickwebb2017.bsky.social · Sep 20

🏏Reminder there’s BBC commentary on the ODC final

#cricket
🎙️👉🏾 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

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Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 20

How many have the One Day Cup games has $ky shown? But the final is behind the pay wall? Well done ECB, and you wonder why Trent Bridge is practically empty...

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 18

Love this. Humour with a historical sentiment.

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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · Sep 16

All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.

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Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 15

Well. He's clearly never watched it...

Bix Barton @bixbarton.bsky.social · Sep 13

Want to know why The Blast is leagues better than the Crisp Cup?

Well apart from the cricket being better, it's stuff like this. ECB missed a trick not promoting it.

#T20Blast