Richard Levesley
@richardlevesley.bsky.social
Housing caseworker for a local authority, and DJ on hospital radio. Yorkshire born, Devon based. Love music, most sports, comedy and reading biographies and other fact-based books.
If it’s your round, mine’s a pint of pale ale around 4%.
If it’s your round, mine’s a pint of pale ale around 4%.
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Half Ma’am Half Brisket
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Half Ma’am Half Brisket
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Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Glinner: In my tv show, I invented the Enemies List, as an indicator of a deeply unlikeable character.
Also Glinner: At long last, I have created the Enemies List, from the classic comedy series Father Ted
Also Glinner: At long last, I have created the Enemies List, from the classic comedy series Father Ted
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Glinner: In my tv show, I invented the Enemies List, as an indicator of a deeply unlikeable character.
Also Glinner: At long last, I have created the Enemies List, from the classic comedy series Father Ted
Also Glinner: At long last, I have created the Enemies List, from the classic comedy series Father Ted
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i have at least two questions
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
i have at least two questions
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(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)
![[TWO PINTS OF BEER are on a pub bar, one is PERONI and one is a brown Christmas-themed beer]
1
PERONI:
Hello there
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Hello Peroni
2
PERONI:
So nice to have someone new on the lineup!
And you are…?
3
CHRISTMAS BEER:
You know who I am, Peroni.
4
CHRISTMAS BEER:
I am Brown Christmas Liquid.
I come back each year.
5
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Every time with a new name, and a new horrible ingredient.
Last year I was Reindeer Stomper. This year I am... Cheeky Elf.
6
PERONI:
Oh god
You were on the bar for two months and…
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Three pints sold, aye.
7
CHRISTMAS BEER:
I’m a seasonal blend of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, orange peel, nutmeg and this year, for reasons of late-capitalist sadism, vanilla.
8
CHRISTMAS BEER:
My name is Cheeky Elf,
I taste of jam,
and I want to d*e.
9
PERONI:
Well somebody’s trying you
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Poor bastard
[A hand comes down to lift CHRISTMAS BEER to sip the pint]
10
[CHRISTMAS BEER being sipped, off-scene]
11
[CHRISTMAS BEER being sipped, off-scene]
12
[CHRISTMAS BEER gets put back on the bar ]
PERSON [who just drank CHRISTMAS BEER]:
Oh my god
CHEEKY ELF:
SEE?
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December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)
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Also: why songs are like Rubik's cubes, why he carries a knife, and the scandal of knowing more about the Mariana Trench than the mind. www.thenerve.news/p/richard-ha...
Musician Richard Hawley: ‘I'd abolish the role of prime minister. I'm half serious!'
The Sheffield rocker, in rehearsal for his homecoming tour, answers the Nerve Q&A - on songs, socialism, swearing ... and the joy of dogs
www.thenerve.news
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Also: why songs are like Rubik's cubes, why he carries a knife, and the scandal of knowing more about the Mariana Trench than the mind. www.thenerve.news/p/richard-ha...
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Shame Jonathan Gullis joined Reform. He had a bright future in standing next to a pub fruit machine telling you what buttons to press.
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Shame Jonathan Gullis joined Reform. He had a bright future in standing next to a pub fruit machine telling you what buttons to press.
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Imagine if you were Mariah Carey’s boyfriend, getting her nothing for Christmas and saying “I thought it was just me you wanted”. They would find your shattered remains being pecked at by crows in a field near her house.
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Imagine if you were Mariah Carey’s boyfriend, getting her nothing for Christmas and saying “I thought it was just me you wanted”. They would find your shattered remains being pecked at by crows in a field near her house.
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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Following Prince Andrew’s titles being removed, Prince Edward becomes the Duke Of York. Basically, it all shifts up one. For instance, I’m now my next door neighbour, Pauline Cathcart.
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Following Prince Andrew’s titles being removed, Prince Edward becomes the Duke Of York. Basically, it all shifts up one. For instance, I’m now my next door neighbour, Pauline Cathcart.
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"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
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"It is striking that Calgie’s apology went down far worse with the population of X than his original offence. Perhaps the conservative soul has changed. But if the right’s problem is ideological hygiene, then perhaps it’s because it’s swimming in an open sewer."
The British right is swimming in an open sewer
We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme
www.newstatesman.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"It is striking that Calgie’s apology went down far worse with the population of X than his original offence. Perhaps the conservative soul has changed. But if the right’s problem is ideological hygiene, then perhaps it’s because it’s swimming in an open sewer."
I feel euphoric today despite the fact that #SWFC have gone into administration and are now on minus six points. It was worth it to get rid of the useless skint idiot in charge.
October 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I feel euphoric today despite the fact that #SWFC have gone into administration and are now on minus six points. It was worth it to get rid of the useless skint idiot in charge.
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You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
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I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”
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It’d be tragic if all Sean Connery ever wanted was for someone to sit on his face, but he was too scared to ask.
September 13, 2023 at 7:54 PM
It’d be tragic if all Sean Connery ever wanted was for someone to sit on his face, but he was too scared to ask.
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I wrote a lovely poem about the good old days, to go with the nice pink one off Facebook that's quoted below.
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I wrote a lovely poem about the good old days, to go with the nice pink one off Facebook that's quoted below.
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One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five to speak to customer services,
Six to return to the main menu,
Seven to hear those options again
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five to speak to customer services,
Six to return to the main menu,
Seven to hear those options again
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five to speak to customer services,
Six to return to the main menu,
Seven to hear those options again
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five to speak to customer services,
Six to return to the main menu,
Seven to hear those options again
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I'd missed Dolan's interview with @sidlowe.bsky.social when it was published. So happy to have read it now. What a beautiful young man Ty is.
Good morning. On love, life and loss. Frienship and football. Ty is so impressive, an honor to speak to him www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Maybe I’m the way I am because I lost Jeremy’: Espanyol’s unexpected Englishman Tyrhys Dolan
As he prepares to take on Real Madrid, the former Blackburn forward talks emotionally to Sid Lowe about the pain of his close friend’s death and why football has to change
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'd missed Dolan's interview with @sidlowe.bsky.social when it was published. So happy to have read it now. What a beautiful young man Ty is.
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Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
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