Gary Bainbridge
@garybainbridge.bsky.social
Owner-operator of Liverpool's premier bijou editorial services provider, Bus Stop. Occasional bus traveller. Used to be a small deal. Writes plays, it turns out.
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Life is pretty grim these days, but we have one thing going for us. At least the boys have finally left town. That was- ... Oh, here comes Phil Lynott! Hey, Phil, good to see you. Any news?
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Life is pretty grim these days, but we have one thing going for us. At least the boys have finally left town. That was- ... Oh, here comes Phil Lynott! Hey, Phil, good to see you. Any news?
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An update on this. Roughly half the people who got through to a screening interview clearly didn't have the skills to do the job.
I AM BEGGING YOU. Don't use LLMs for your job application. They all read exactly the same.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
An update on this. Roughly half the people who got through to a screening interview clearly didn't have the skills to do the job.
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Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
This made me absolutely furious long before I reached number 54. Also, the Airplane! joke makes no sense without the setup. Did Elon Musk write this?
Making a list so bad people will actually share it is a high art, and including quite so many films that aren't actually comedies but just have 'some jokes in there somewhere' is a masterful contribution:
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This made me absolutely furious long before I reached number 54. Also, the Airplane! joke makes no sense without the setup. Did Elon Musk write this?
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Super Flans!
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Super Flans!
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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I wonder really how well the Victoria Building at Liverpool Uni is known outside of the city. We’ve got so many amazing buildings here, cathedrals and towers and the docks, I don’t know if many folk know about the red brick buildings up the hill.
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I wonder really how well the Victoria Building at Liverpool Uni is known outside of the city. We’ve got so many amazing buildings here, cathedrals and towers and the docks, I don’t know if many folk know about the red brick buildings up the hill.
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Trump’s influence at the New York Times goes way deeper than we first thought.
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Trump’s influence at the New York Times goes way deeper than we first thought.
Just had to explain to people who don’t really care how Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad are two very different films while trying not to sound psychotic.
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Just had to explain to people who don’t really care how Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad are two very different films while trying not to sound psychotic.
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'It's called The Cones of Dunshire.'
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
'It's called The Cones of Dunshire.'
I am on a bus.
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I am on a bus.
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New Politics on the Couch - the world’s most erratically scheduled politics podcast - this time on immigration, storytelling and changing even the most hostile minds (maybe). shows.acast.com/6462652801a2...
Changing minds about immigration | Politics on the Couch
How to talk about immigration with ‘authoritarian’ voters: Rafael Behr in conversation with Dr Tessa Buchanan from the Cambridge Political Psychology Lab
shows.acast.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New Politics on the Couch - the world’s most erratically scheduled politics podcast - this time on immigration, storytelling and changing even the most hostile minds (maybe). shows.acast.com/6462652801a2...
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Vvv vvvv’s Vvvv. Vvvv Vvvv.
- Sweep as James Bond.
- Sweep as James Bond.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Vvv vvvv’s Vvvv. Vvvv Vvvv.
- Sweep as James Bond.
- Sweep as James Bond.
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If Anthony Horowitz can't come up with a way of revealing James Bond is alive after No Time To Die, he should probably take advice from someone who's used to writing stories set in the outlandish world of James Bond, such as the novelist Anthony Horowitz
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If Anthony Horowitz can't come up with a way of revealing James Bond is alive after No Time To Die, he should probably take advice from someone who's used to writing stories set in the outlandish world of James Bond, such as the novelist Anthony Horowitz
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Just hand wave it, Bond writers. Have him turn up in M’s living room, three years after everybody thought he’d died. It really isn’t that difficult.
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Just hand wave it, Bond writers. Have him turn up in M’s living room, three years after everybody thought he’d died. It really isn’t that difficult.
New Elon Musk/Daryl Hall Venn diagram just dropped.
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
New Elon Musk/Daryl Hall Venn diagram just dropped.
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Another rough day for the 'stadium won't lead to redevelopment' experts at the Guardian.
NEW: A major new plan for Liverpool’s world famous waterfront has just been released
Includes a new Merseyfront Walkway, mixed-use spaces, new transport infrastructure and a bold plan to "sink" one of the busiest road junctions in Liverpool
Full details here 👇
Includes a new Merseyfront Walkway, mixed-use spaces, new transport infrastructure and a bold plan to "sink" one of the busiest road junctions in Liverpool
Full details here 👇
Major new plan to transform Liverpool's famous waterfront
Council comes forward with vision to 'reclaim banks of the Mersey' for the people of the city, with proposals for new Merseyfront Walkway, mixed-use spaces, new transport infrastructure and a bold pla...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Another rough day for the 'stadium won't lead to redevelopment' experts at the Guardian.
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(I suspect a lot of why Bluesky far-left Yanks are particularly angry are because they're the ones who either didn't vote to avoid the fucking problem this time last year or at best did so in such a grudgingly bad-faith bothsidesy way that their low-engagement friends and relations didn't bother)
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
(I suspect a lot of why Bluesky far-left Yanks are particularly angry are because they're the ones who either didn't vote to avoid the fucking problem this time last year or at best did so in such a grudgingly bad-faith bothsidesy way that their low-engagement friends and relations didn't bother)
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Trump is far more evil than Theresa May, but the "cartoonishly high expectations placed on the group that ~doesn't control or have a majority for anything~" to reverse the fundamental problem of "a vote which the bastards won" does somewhat remind me of the 2019 UK parliament shenanigans
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Trump is far more evil than Theresa May, but the "cartoonishly high expectations placed on the group that ~doesn't control or have a majority for anything~" to reverse the fundamental problem of "a vote which the bastards won" does somewhat remind me of the 2019 UK parliament shenanigans
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He read out "I and say your name"....
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
He read out "I and say your name"....
It's actually on BBC Four at 8pm and he isn't even in it.
My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It's actually on BBC Four at 8pm and he isn't even in it.
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I'm genuinely astonished that at some point David didn't vote for Claudia
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I'm genuinely astonished that at some point David didn't vote for Claudia
No Traitors spoilers, please. I’m just watching the first episode.
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
No Traitors spoilers, please. I’m just watching the first episode.