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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 10h

These are my go-to pens.

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 23h

As ever...

Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 1d

Very good. 📺 The Age of Uncertainty, www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002l6s9 via @bbciplayer

The Age of Uncertainty - Series 1: 1. 1. The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism

John Kenneth Galbraith tells the story of the men who laid the foundations of economics, including Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus.

www.bbc.co.uk

Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 11d

(Yes, it's in my pocket.)

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 11d

£150 to see 25% of Kraftwerk!? Where's my pocket calculator?

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13d

Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech quoted Martin Luther King. MLK was a socialist, of course.

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 15d

"They wrote me off. I ain't write back as I'd just been flattened." Geno Smith, 2025. 🏴‍☠️

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 16d

Where did Spurs get this pitch? #nfl

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 16d

Yes, I'll definitely upgrade my laptop to Windows 11 way before the October 2025 deadline, which is light-years away. 😬

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Skinny @uncleskinny.bsky.social · 17d

This is taking the piss

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 19d

Might have to give up eating.

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 19d

Might have to give up drinking.

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 19d

Just looking at my big budgeting spreadsheet. Why does everything cost so much!?!?

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 20d

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 20d

Octoberish. #nowplaying open.spotify.com/track/1AAQbI...

Mapa

open.spotify.com

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 23d

The graphic on the NFL coverage showing how the Vikings might sail from Dublin to London shows them landing somewhere near Kings Lynn.

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 23d

-Ok Google, 6 Music
-Ok, here's a Spotify playlist called 'This is Sex Music'
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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · 29d

Mystified by people around this time of year who do or don't "put the heating on". Do you not just have a thermostat so it's on if it's cold and off if it's not?

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · Sep 20

Yes, a firm favourite here; can't remember who it was either. (Why not just have Band of Gold?)

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · Sep 20

Oooh! 👜

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · Sep 20

To 'Dancing On My Own', perhaps?

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · Sep 20

A female impersonator and a right-wing activist? Bloody woke BBC! #strictly

Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · Sep 19

I thought we were announcing that next week.

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Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · Sep 19

Just saw someone wearing sunflower print trousers and a sunflower t-shirt. (Didn't notice a lanyard.)

Matthew Walker @matthewwalker28.bsky.social · Sep 19

It is too early. open.spotify.com/track/0UrV08... #nowplaying

September Brings The Autumn Dawn

open.spotify.com

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