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Russell Garner

@rgarner.bsky.social

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Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, flippancy, unions. Audi alteram partem. Leeds, UK Founder at @jointogether.online

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · Apr 8

Have you noticed that these days when time travellers grab you by the shoulders and ask what year it is, when you reply "2024" they no longer say "Thank God. I'm not too late"?

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 18m

Could we perhaps, after Qatar and the US, get back to hosting the World Cup in a country that actually gives a tuppenny stuff about the game?

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 12h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 59m

Private Eye always gets it. It’s becoming clear to me that MSM journalists care more about themselves than the story. #ukpolitics

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1h

I shall leave pushing the tripe envelope to others

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 17h

🎵 🎵 "Freed from desire, mind and senses purified ..." 🎵 🎵

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

This is good wanky photo.

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

And being like 20 years old

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

Ah, I was going to say, what Frowny-Cruise monstrosity did this get unwarranted airtime off the back of?

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

#totp

𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭 (@[email protected])

dance like everyone is watching and this is their punishment

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

Bobby Vinton only had one song and that might be true or not and this might be it or it might not frankly I'm phoning it in at this stage #totp

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

Brant the Physical Cartoonist / Singer out of Deacon Blue #totp

A floppy-haired gap-toothed fellow with a mic

A floppy-haired gap-toothed fellow without a mic

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

Technotronic had one song that got on Cunk, and this isn't it #totp

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

*Everyone* had a ski jacket as everyday school wear in the late 80s #totp

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

There's a lot of filler with the hits. But I really do love the hits. Borderline in particular.

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

I imagined Chevy Chase was an incredibly nice and funny person based largely on his face in this video and well, people can be wrong #totp

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

True Blue is a terrible Madonna song that wouldn't look out of place on a hyper-marketed one-hit wonder, don't change my mind #totp

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

Same evening

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

Uh-oh. Jinx

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

I can just imagine you, sitting there, rubbing your eggy soldier in your hair

BUT IF YOU WERE RUBBING THE SOLDIER YOU'D ALREADY *MADE* TOAST, PAUL #totp #continuityerror

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

Can't believe this is what Noseybonk was reduced to #totp

Howard Jones and a man with a plastic face

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 12h

You cannot believe this is the same man that did the classic Streetband '45 Toast #totp

Streetband - Toast

YouTube video by thecatkeaton

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 13h

Jermaine Stewart: We Don't Have To / Take Our Clothes Off

Doctor: that's all very well Mr. Stewart but it's going to make this rectal examination particularly challenging #totp

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 13h

ACAB

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 13h

"Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" is the equivalent of retweeting a song for the evening crowd #totp