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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 6h

Womble

Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 6h

Good to see Bobby Gould and the Wombles at Wimbledon today

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 1d

Salt yard borough for lunch, Sparky approves of the jamon

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 1d

What has happened to the rate of council house building since labour got to power ?

Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 1d

They have said some good things in these areas, but its not happening. House building has ground to a halt in the last year

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, it will be won on the cost of living which labour is doing nothing about

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 2d

Ok understood, your lighthearted comment just made me immediately think of cole and Sheringham. Apologies

Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair they won the treble in 1999 with a lot of them hating each other. Cole and Sheringham, Keane and everyone else etc

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 2d

No one is perfect. Im not sure if those cuts have happened. How many landlords are in the your party leadership group?

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 2d

Disgusting. Alison McGovern should resign

Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 3d

Let's go bunting mental

Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you

Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 3d

My wife has it and has been rough for 10 days so far, including 3 days in bed so its definitely worth the money

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 3d

This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 3d

Rodent loves the punishment, I can barely read dunts writing without being sick. I wouldn't be able to listen to him

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 3d

Have you listened to duntys history of socialism podcast ?

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Liam Doyle @doyleliam.bsky.social · 3d

Why bother? Just join the greens instead

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.com

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Jan @janhopis.bsky.social · 3d

good for Barry honestly but it is quite funny to be employed for so long by talkSPORT/talkRADIO and wake up one morning and say, hang on, these guys are idiots! you think?

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 4d

Going to a city at complaining it's full of non-white faces is racist. No ifs, no buts. No quarter to be given. It's among the most common things you'll hear from the worst knuckle draggers everywhere. Jenrick is a posh racist and should be hounded everywhere he goes.

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