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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩

@rickadams82.bsky.social

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MD ANT🥇Music and book lover. Former secondary school English teacher of 13 years and former mental health OT. "Between jobs." Current Dad of 3 maddening and wonderful young children. Scribbler of things that I hope might become something someday.

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 6h

Three amazing books read this week

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! It's a UK midlands accent but he does switch accents and registers

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 1d

He's tremendous

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Head of UK Muslim charity ‘deeply worried’ as anti-Muslim hate crimes up by a fifth

Shaista Gohir says latest government figures are probably an ‘underestimation’ as many incidents go unreported

www.theguardian.com

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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 1d

Think there's just a couple of tickets left.

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2d

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2d

Always on point #riyadh #comedy

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Stewart Lee goes off on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Louis CK and Cancel Culture

YouTube video by Class Clown Podcast

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2d

Aye not bad mate, cheers. Taking tentative steps back into the job market after prolonged time off unwell. Never been out of work this long so it's a bit of a head fuck tbh!

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3d

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing! Congrats mate

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think you can go wrong with any of them - a very autumnal band!

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn nights are for making soup and listening to Yo La Tengo

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 3d

A mosque was burnt down by masked men in East Sussex a few days ago but you wouldn't know from recent news coverage

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Police release photos of mosque arson suspects

The images are of two people in balaclavas seen outside the mosque before the large blaze spread.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 4d

#readandplay (491)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶

youtu.be/_E5i0w_YNJw?...

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7d

#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 65

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/4
The Wicked Witch of the West – The Wizard of Oz

youtu.be/nm5r6YgvraE?...

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7d

Made a Calzone...baddabing!

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7d

That looks mint

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7d

Got a nod for me Townes Van Zandt tee too. Nice sojourn

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 8d

Brief respite from 4yr old daughter's play-date-bedlam at home. A quick book'n'pint sojourn at the local

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 8d

Ha! That's next on my list. Hopefully before I catch the new PTA film which I believe is inspired by it. There is a new podcast by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social to go along with Vineland that has just started. It's called Slow Learners. The one for Gravity's Rainbow was ace

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 8d

I fear you're right! Trying to choose what to read next is tough

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 8d

@johnsemley3000.bsky.social's guide was an indispensable companion throughout this amazing trip of a novel

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 9d

A month spent inside this. Any advice on how to put my mind back together now I've finished?

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 9d

#NowPlaying

'The Music Information Company' - Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, James Muir & Christine Jeffrey