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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 17h

Uwe’s grandad with a near miss

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 18h

Groundsman inspects a crater in the middle of the pitch at Old Trafford cricket ground after a German bombing raid on December 22nd 1940.

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 19h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Wayne Lineker. With shots

Emma @juxtaposedwithyou.bsky.social · 19h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Oat decaf pumpkin latte

ᴷⁱᵐᴮᴼᴼ👻 @ohyertiz.bsky.social · 19h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Full Moon. Skeleton staff.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20h

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 20h

Definite Sutcliffe vibes

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20h

Who She Wanted and What She Got, South Bank, Middlesbrough, 1982, photo by Graham Smith.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20h

Female welders, Sunderland shipyards, 1943.

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 20h

Half marathon nonces

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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 2d

Aye it was inspired by someone's post on here for sure.

Samuel Pepys Shat In The Chimney | Daily Reckless

An extract from Samuel Pepys diary stramashed with The Fall's 'Exploding Chimney' from the album Stramashed. see also: https://www.dailyreckless.com/2025/03/23/joker-hysterical-fez/ https://www.dailyr...

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 2d

Oi @bsgorrie.bsky.social I think this mash up song in the mighty Daily Reckless was inspired by your Samuel Pepys tweet 🤣

Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 2d

This week's free Daily Reckless newsletter featuring Laughtivism, Samuel Pepys, Robert Jenrick, Brelvet Underground and the Greeks. mailchi.mp/981dbaaca5e5... Subscribe if you want, I don't care.

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 3d

Is this a Jockanese thing? Don’t get it

longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 3d

Justin Warfield, Fisherman’s Grotto
Digital Underground, Doowutchilike
Jungle Brothers, Beyond This World
The Roots, What they Do
Del the Funky Homosapien, Mistadobalina

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 3d

Branagans was the best bar in town for a few years. You could buy anything from E’s to a shoplifted jacket on a weekend

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 3d

a man with a mustache is making a funny face and says oof

ALT: a man with a mustache is making a funny face and says oof

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

Didn’t he go on to form Curiosity Killed The Cat?

longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

Ridiculous dictators and dodgy businessmen, with some of the worst hair ever seen on a human being in the history of mankind?
Nothing like each other m8, don’t know what you’re on about

longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

Haha 😂😂😂
Never ever change, Stonehenge

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

I asked @garyjames.bsky.social if he was planning any future shows. He didn’t seem to think there was much interest unless he found something new to say.
But it was one of the best things we went to in the last decade or so, what a great night. And lots of people missed out
I’d 100% go again

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a genuine shame, used to be a right laugh and some legendary nights, before Space Karen ruined it

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

They elected their current president on less gravitas than that

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

That’s why you’re back here and not on the Reichstag app

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

AKA “The Greg(g) Wallace tension”

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

I have no idea how coke-addled tech bros in California think they are somehow going to monetise photoshops of Peter Swales @johnstafford72.bsky.social @williamshuttoh.bsky.social

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

Ps here’s the link, enjoy
There’s a later yarn involving the Baths Chippy in Chorlton, a disgustingly grubby hobo and a B-list snooker player that is absolutely glorious

youtu.be/m5gsu-P6DLM?...

Gossipmongers S1 Ep1

YouTube video by Seasoned Gamer

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

Claude
He had the biggest individual page on Local Legends
Also a legend of the Bert basement bar Branagans in the Royal Exchange
With his GMT bus driver tie and pink toy microphone

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longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social · 5d

The old website Local Legends (RIP) used to document all the local ‘characters’ and nutters by region
Since gone offline, but the Gossipmongers podcast picked up the baton
For some weird contractual thing, the first couple of series are YouTube only, but would heartily recommend. So so funny

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