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Joe Harrison

@lancsjoe.bsky.social

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🏵️🇻🇦 Dyed in the wool grouchy Lancastrian. Husband of one & dad of four. Old punk rocker 🧷🎸. Long suffering PNE fan ⚽ 💙🤍.

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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 14h

#OTD 1915
Edith Cavell was executed
Some of today’s “patriots” might want to take note of a true and brave one. She didn’t shin up a flag pole. She died for others.
#WW1

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 14h

I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in Manchester.
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A collage of some of my products: art prints with record players, books and brutalist architecture, a teal T-shirt with cassette tapes, 70s patterned cushion, orange patterned phone case, cassette mug, and a spiral design slipmat.

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely horrific. Shallow justice for Georgia. What a devastating read.

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Someone took a shit in a lift.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Only in Lancashire.

Colne cafe seeks to reunite false teeth left there with owner - BBC News share.google/S0YdJtSMg5CZ...

Colne cafe seeks to reunite false teeth left there with owner

The bottom set of false teeth are in a burger box waiting to be collected from a cafe in Colne.

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

80th v 136th according to the FIFA rankings...

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Linda S @vatskills.bsky.social · 2d

Can someone in the @libdems.org.uk explain what the "Liberal" (or even "Democrats") means in their party name? 'Cos I'm confused.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d

I think the reason this is significant is that Maria Corina has managed to unite people with very different views in opposition to an increasingly authoritarian government. She is an amazingly brave woman who refuses to give up.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

There was an exchange on that other place a while ago about what kids called these region to region. In my bit of Lancashire it was inexplicably "a trolley".

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 2d

Morning all.

Photograph by John Bulmer, Play Street.
Children playing on a home-made go-cart outside a corner shop in Manchester, 1976. Above them is a traffic sign designating a play street.

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Bruce, you're clearly unwell and I'm not sure my continuing to have a discussion about a serious women's rights issue is doing you any good. For your sake I'm going to have to block you. Seriously man, get some help.

Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

All you've got to give is abuse really isn't it Bruce?

Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Answer: Neither. Anything else?

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

So no actual answer then? Just abuse. Ok Bruce. You have a great day.

Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Quote post all you want. You're still avoiding answering my question. And we both know why that is.

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

You're avoiding answering my question there Bruce.

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Oops. Bruce sounds a bit cross. "Git in the kitchen"? I'll be humming UB40 all day now.

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning Bruce. Just for clarification, which basic rights do you feel women should be forced to do without?

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J B Banks & Son Ltd @jbbanks.bsky.social · 3d

Staff are getting as old as the shop now! #cockermouth #halloween

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 3d

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Kirk Brandon @kirkbrandon.bsky.social · 4d

So friends, here’s something that’s been brewing for quite awhile…. The Spear dates!
The band that has been my vehicle for songwriting for most of my life…. Big songs, big albums, tragedies and victories.
12 shows across the UK….

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Bit of a theme to my blockers...🧐

Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 4d

First live album I bought as a kid.

Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks I'll give that a whirl.