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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 49m

"The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Mr Donald F Trump of Muskie, Iowa, for his extraordinary ability to allow us to troll the guy bin the White House who's never getting his hands on this medal."

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 9h

Wolves' pre-Premier League sponsor was a British payday loans company and promotion brought a whole new level of dodgy sponsorship.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 11h

It's somehow beyond "good" and "bad" but definitely something you need to be in the right mood to enjoy.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 11h

A bunch of celebs asked to bring mourning outfits could have upstaged her, so of course Claudia turns up on a horse. #CelebrityTraitors

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 15h

Rule one of cover-ups: Don't loudly scream THIS IS A COVER-UP

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 23h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 21h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 19h

Latest walking post is up, this time a quick stroll up Fellbarrow from last week. nickbwalking.medium.com/wainwrightin...

Wainwrighting: Fellbarrow

Short-cutting to the end of the ridge

nickbwalking.medium.com

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 1d

The producers must have spent the first night redoing the rest of the puzzles once they saw how good Nick Muhammad is at them. #CelebrityTraitors

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 1d

#CelebrityTraitors continues the series' commitment to the musical genre of overly dramatic cover versions.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan's going to be sussed out as a traitor very quickly becauae he just can't shut up. #CelebrityTraitors

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 1d

Really hoping they find some convoluted way to reference Celia's appearance in Highlander (she's Connor's girlfriend who tries to get him burnt at the stake in his home village) #CelebrityTraitors

Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 1d

Nation's dads now demanding Charlotte Church lasts a long time in #CelebrityTraitors

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 1d

People obviously haven't watched Weird and understood how much all modern lyricists owe to Al Yankovic.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to do a "which Game Of Thrones character are you?" which would answer either "nameless peasant" or "nameless dead peasant" (with a very slim chance of "nameless minor nobility (probably dead)"

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

"What's the tone for this photoshoot? Friendly and wholesome, or Midsommar?"
"Yes."

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2d

Tory party conference got you down?

Far-right rhetoric left you feeling scared for the future?

Then why not take a minute to enjoy eighteen (18) pictures of Ed Davey on a pumpkin farm with young carers 🎃🚜

www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

Also think there's room for a Who episode about why there's not a Battle of Salisbury Plain in our history (James II's nosebleeds were obviously something to do with aliens).

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

Said for years that there's an excellent historical drama series waiting to be made that starts from the death of Charles II. Bonus points for getting a non-British company to do it, then watching the tabloids complain about them making up an invasion.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

John Thomson as Joe Beasley with puppet Cheeky Monkey on Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

I'm British, I'm regularly told on Bluesky my entire diet is perverted and/or wrongly named.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

Dubai etc appeal to the wealthy because they're Wilhoit's Law in physical form: a playground for the rich to do whatever they like while the poor who make it possible are kept mostly out of sight and (sometimes literally) bound.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

The value here might be "unthinking deference to the wealthy" which was kind of still around when I was young (1 year older than him). But their general love of Dubai etc is that it's a rich man's playground where the poor are kept out of sight.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d

A new copy in stock, thank you autocorrect. (I mean, it might well be in Stockport if they have a warehouse there)

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