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Scott

@merseytart.bsky.social

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Train stations, James Bond, telly, general nonsense. He/Him/Twat. 🏳️‍🌈 http://www.merseytart.com

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 4d

New blog: The Dutch Cap - www.merseytart.com/2025/10/the-... - where I return to Amsterdam to finish what I started two years ago, and get annoyed again about the state of the UK.

The Dutch Cap

A couple of years ago I went to Amsterdam in search of the stations on this map. Those coloured lines form the five lines of the Amsterdam ...

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 7m

Thing that occurred to me while I watched an old Top Of The Pops: Altered Images were a Scottish Blondie in the sense that they were a great band completely overshadowed by the absolute star power of their female lead singer.

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1h

Diane Keaton. What a goddess.

Diane Keaton as Annie Hall, looking incredible in a suit and tie.

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1h

Jared Leto *is* AI: a tacky thing corporations keep forcing on consumers by putting him in everything even though he’s unprofitable and nobody likes it

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 2h

On a delay with #Strictly and this is like Doc Brown running up to warn me about my future.

Three Bluesky posts in a row:

Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social • 18m
William Hanson (36) #Strictly

Dave Matthews (aka Wi... @wiltons... • 18m
What's that prick doing on the telly?
#Strictly

Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bs... • 18m
oh not this prick #SCD

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 3h

Amy in the Clauditorium can’t stop smiling for some reason. #Strictly

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 3h

Cynthia being bald and sitting next to Motsi in that awful wig feels like a read. #Strictly

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 3h

He’s too boring to win over the nice old ladies.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 5h

“How gay are you, Scott?”
“Well today, thirty five years after I first saw it, I noticed there’s a drawing of a woman with her tit out next to the “Les Beatles” graffiti in the first shot of Casino Royale.”

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 7h

Britain is rightly proud of its historic architecture.

A sign: THE FIRST (or last)
PUBLIC TOILETS
AS YOU ARRIVE IN (or leave)
THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 10h

a woman is sitting on a couch with candles in the background and says ham !

ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch with candles in the background and says ham !

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 11h

Current pet hate: the ribbons people put round lampposts along the route of a funeral procession, then don’t take down afterwards.

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 14h

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 14h

You know you’re old when you still think of it as “Croydon Tramlink”.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 21h

U&W is showing the Birthday episode of Ab Fab and imagine the horror of turning 40.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 22h

Should have had a pint of Guinness, clear the pipes

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 23h

Chickens and twinks coexisted though. I was a chicken but I wasn’t a twink.

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