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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 6h

As he sits, his bitingly ironic catchphrase swirls through his mind, taunting him, causing his entire body to clench. The microwave pings. He ignores it, walks down the corridor. and gets into bed, fully clothed

Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 6h

It’s Friday night, and Tod from Eat With Tod pierces the film on his Charlie Bingham’s fish pie for one. He wonders if you even need to heat these things, really. The nausea rises again.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 13h

I guess, pre American Recordings, there may have been a perception of Cash as the slightly cheesy Ghost Riders In The Sky guy. But American Recordings was 30 years ago

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 17h

Very early on in my time at Index on Censorship, defending people’s right to burn Qurans or deny the Holocaust, I learned that you support the principle, not the actor.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18h

Shadow Justice Secretary has made a symbolic gesture of support for Quran burning, both in law & apparently in practice too

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 2d

Roseanne called me a Nazi

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so glad James looks just like the weedy nerd I first met all those years ago again

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 3d

I read a few when I was about 12/13. They’re good for that kind of bridge stage - a gap that’s filled by YA now I guess

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 3d

My probably-get-me-banned-from-Bluesky take is that a 45 year old woman saying her favourite author is Terry Pratchett is embarrassing for everyone concerned

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3d

Today at Tory party conference there is a Rally for Liberty featuring many shadow ministers railing against assaults on civil liberties including the tobacco and vapes bill and the police crime and sentencing bill which curtailed protest rights

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 4d

I’d put money on Irish citizens’ rights in the UK being the next staging post in this fucking absurd spiral

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Katie Lam outflanks Reform on unachievable slogans, by proposing the breach of a Treaty commitment, that will harm UK citizens in the EU & scrap the UK-EU relationship on the economy & everything else
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

www.politico.eu

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 4d

There’s no explanation for this other than boredom

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 4d

No.

Tamar @heartinamber.bsky.social · 4d

Has Ireland considered having just one normal presidential candidate

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 4d

Oh she can fuck right off "That legislation [the Gender Recognition Act 2015] was actually not passed by me, it was passed by a previous Minister. And the legislation is in place. And maybe it does need to be looked at.”"

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 5d

Thomas Skinner was probably the worst dancer on #Strictly since Susannah Constantine. But also, not a man whose core demographic are likely to be Strictly voters. Oh well. No doubt someone will blame woke. On the bright side Amy has more time to prep for Panto season.

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The Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social · 5d

The latest from our Lead North team, starts with an exclusive for Lancashire Lead subscribers this morning as we revealed the deputy leader of Lancashire County Council and Reform county councillor for Skelmersdale, Simon Evans, is suing his former employer

Reform UK deputy leader plans tribunal after being suspended in previous role

PLUS: Fracking fizzing back into the national agenda is not good news for Lancashire

lancashire.thelead.uk

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh good one

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 5d

Never seen Pulp Fiction

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 5d

Reidy’s Digest #7 open.substack.com/pub/padraigr...

Reidy’s Digest #7 - what do you say?

Speaking of the unspeakable - the master du Maurier - the problem with publishing - Swift's immodest proposal

open.substack.com

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 5d

Reidy’s Digest #7 open.substack.com/pub/padraigr...

Reidy’s Digest #7 - what do you say?

Speaking of the unspeakable - the master du Maurier - the problem with publishing - Swift's immodest proposal

open.substack.com

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 6d

They called themselves terrorists!

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 6d

Coco Jambo

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 7d

question for the timeline

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The Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social · 6d

Splits, rows and even legal threats have dogged the first few months of what was supposed to be a new start for the left in Britain. Left-wing veteran David Renton dives into just what went wrong.

Can Corbyn and Sultana's Your Party move on from its troubled beginnings?

Splits, rows and even legal threats have dogged the first few months of what was supposed to be a new start for the left in Britain. Left-wing veteran David Renton dives into just what went wrong.

national.thelead.uk

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 7d

Murnane’s publisher put out a very nudge/wink press release this week. I’d like to see Carson, but who knows?

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 7d

Oh wow

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 7d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Posted by the President of the United States.

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