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Craig Almond
@alarmingcod.co.uk
260 followers 1.2K following 430 posts
By day: Charity sector CRM wrangler. By night: Watcher of Crap TV At weekends: Rambler, BogHopper, HillBotherer, Ultra-dilettante. Lover of the Lakes, stuck in MCR. Generic Reply Guy account.
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 3h
Volunteering is a human gift of compassion, not a bureaucratic test of worth

The Home Secretary’s proposal to link volunteering to migration status doesn’t just miss the mark – it sets fire to the whole target

www.thirdsector.co.uk/debra-allcoc...
Debra Allcock Tyler: Volunteering is a human gift of compassion, not a bureaucratic test of worth
The Home Secretary’s proposal to link volunteering to migration status doesn’t just miss the mark – it sets fire to the whole target
www.thirdsector.co.uk
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 6h
Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 23h
...and now we can add "snails" to "swifts, newts, bats, and allotments" on the list "Things that Starmer and his soulless billionaire-fellating shills hate"
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d
In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 2d
Fucking hell.

Some cunts really do get it sideways, don't they.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d
Rubs eyes. Looks again. Rubs eyes.

It's still there.
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 3d
After all the bluff and bluster of the last few days online, this is a personal and quietly moving piece on life in North Mancheter.

More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 3d
Sounds like a fair trade off.
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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 3d
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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 3d
Starmers two pronged attack of being varying degrees of racist whilst using baseless ad hominem attacks on any progressive policy really isn't enough to deliver this kind of polling. Think he has to come off as a bit of a prick too. Masterful strategy really.
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 4d
Hit the off button quicker than when I hear the opening bars of the archers tune.
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R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · 5d
Cant even have men Archbishops any more

Because of Woking
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 5d
In memoriam...
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 5d
Do we know her view on pens yet?
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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 5d
Sold out before Nick Clegg, but not like Nick Clegg
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 5d
Well, this news has finally got me round to hitting the donate button
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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 5d
We are not afraid. We at the @wikimediafoundation.org will keep doing our jobs defending and protecting the right of @wikipedia.org's volunteer communities to write, edit, and govern content on projects dedicated to sharing encyclopedic content across borders.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
The speech wars come for Wikipedia
www.politico.com
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 6d
Dreadful news. All thoughts with those affected, especially given the high importance of today for Jews. Prejudice, hatred, and violence against anyone for their identity is abhorrent and everyone in our country should be safe to practice their religion in peace. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Manchester synagogue: Four people injured in car and stabbing attack
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says it's believed the suspect is dead, and that the immediate danger appears to be over.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 6d
Thank fuck, didn't want to Tuesday again.
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 6d
Is it Wednesday or Thursday today?
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 6d
people having a go at taylor swift's music probably haven't even heard any of his songs
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 7d
a man in a red suit says i 'm covered in bees on stage
Alt: Eddie Izzard running around a stage saying "aaaaasargh, i 'm covered in bees"
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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 7d
You need to break this habit of checking your feed the moment you open your eyes in the morning. Nothing good comes of starting your day with high anxiety. Nothing good happened overnight. A broken world won’t mend because you read how it’s broken; it’ll just break you. This has been a note to self.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 8d
Those of us who don't live in a "Pride in Place" neighbourhood (most of us) seem to have to wait for something to be unlocked in the economy, but are there no small, everyday things to be offered - no bones to be thrown? Otherwise it's just hanging around, waiting for growth to arrive, like Godot
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 11d
Planes over Estonia, drones over Denmark

Perhap's Kenny was right all along?
Dodgy screengrab of Kenny Everett wearing a pair of giant fake hands at tory confereence some time in the long ago times
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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 11d
I have tried very hard, but I have still not strangled a horse.
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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · 11d
If you (somehow) missed it yesterday I have made my first ever game!

It is called "i will strangle a horse", and is a comedy choose your own adventure game with over 7660 words of hot nonsense, and is free to play!

brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Will YOU strangle a horse?
i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE
A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job
brainmage.itch.io
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11d
RIP
Tony Harrison V.
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