Nick Martin
@banksyshrill.bsky.social
Moving from the other place slowly but surely.
Lapsed human. He/him/his. #LFC . Football, TV, film, #ActuallyAutistic. Pandemic bore.
Lapsed human. He/him/his. #LFC . Football, TV, film, #ActuallyAutistic. Pandemic bore.
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Nick Martin
@banksyshrill.bsky.social
· Jun 25
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Heading into 2026 like
bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson is standing in the doorway
Alt: Grandpa Simpson Door meme.
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Heading into 2026 like
Just stop there for a while, let me catch up.
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January 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Just stop there for a while, let me catch up.
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Finished building my lego santa
December 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Finished building my lego santa
Setting myself the challenge of only updating my UC Journal in full stanzas of iambic pentameter was probably a bridge too far for December.
December 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Setting myself the challenge of only updating my UC Journal in full stanzas of iambic pentameter was probably a bridge too far for December.
Priorities for 2026:
1. Make fewer lists;
2. See point no. 1.
1. Make fewer lists;
2. See point no. 1.
December 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Priorities for 2026:
1. Make fewer lists;
2. See point no. 1.
1. Make fewer lists;
2. See point no. 1.
For all the rightful praise of Unai Emery recently, this match is as typical of his career as the previous 11.
December 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
For all the rightful praise of Unai Emery recently, this match is as typical of his career as the previous 11.
I thought last January that, as much as starting to rebuild the team/squad for the future, they were actively creating 'facts on the ground', to shape the situation as 'business as usual' because, well, it must be; we're signing players, aren't we?
Man City have spent more than £500m pounds on new talent since being charged with more than 100 Premier League rule breaches. As another window opens, they’re poised to add another top talent, and still there is no ruling. Shames the Premier League how long it’s taken. Man City deny the allegations
December 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I thought last January that, as much as starting to rebuild the team/squad for the future, they were actively creating 'facts on the ground', to shape the situation as 'business as usual' because, well, it must be; we're signing players, aren't we?
This is some 'first weekdays back after Xmas' type goals, defensively.
Remember like three weeks ago when everybody was writing deeply concerned "Why does nobody score goals in the Premier League anymore?" takes
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is some 'first weekdays back after Xmas' type goals, defensively.
Alas, the dream of accessible Supertoilets for the masses has yet to be realised by the market.
/s
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December 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Alas, the dream of accessible Supertoilets for the masses has yet to be realised by the market.
/s
/s
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Apparently YouTubers are feuding because one criticized another and these folks wouldn’t last five minutes against a real writer
![Lord Byron and John Keats [edit ]
Lord Byron disdained the poetry of John Keats, the son of a livery-stable keeper, calling Keats a "Cockney poet" and referring to "Johnny Keats' piss-a-bed poetry".
In turn, Keats claimed the success of Bryon's work was due more to his pedigree and appearance than any merit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdkhwnxl2l5r7l467t2itbxs/bafkreifriu3tolazac4pbg7lq5i4pe37ut4r5mmd3bo6b2ks4gnupjkehe@jpeg)
![After Poe's death, [Rufus] Griswold prepared an obituary signed with the pseudonym "Ludwig".
First printed in the 9 October 1849, issue of the New York Tribune, it was soon republished many times. (34) Griswold asserted that "few will
be grieved" by Poe's death as he had few friends. He claimed that Poe often wandered the streets, either in "madness or melancholy", mumbling and cursing himself, was easily irritated, was envious of others, and that he "regarded society as composed of villains". Poe's drive to succeed, Griswold wrote, was because h sought "the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit". Much of this characterization of Poe was copied almost verbatim from that of of the fictitious Francis Vivian in The Caxtons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.[31]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdkhwnxl2l5r7l467t2itbxs/bafkreid7sx4k23xtq4rj3cfmfkdolwxuxbp3fkey3gamnko6c33xmi54pm@jpeg)
![Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal [edit ]
In 1971, Gore Vidal compared Norman Mailer to Charles Manson in Vidal's review of The Prisoner of Sex. [28) When the two writers were guests on the same episode of The Dick Cavett Show, Mailer punched Vidal in the hospitality room, then brought up the review again on the live show.[42) Six years later at a party, Mailer threw a drink in Vidal's face and followed it with a punch. Vidal is said to have responded. "Norman, once again words have failed you. "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdkhwnxl2l5r7l467t2itbxs/bafkreihe5wkap56zfs35hwtzfy2jz3ezmg227yjkf3qfzkr3xyylblxjq4@jpeg)
![Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy [edit ]
Mary McCarthy's feud with Lillian Hellman had simmered since the late 1930s over ideological differences, particularly the questions of the Moscow Trials and of Hellman's support for the "Popular Front" with Stalin. 1) Then, in a 1979 television interview, McCarthy, long Hellman's political adversary and the object of her negative literary judgment, said of Hellman that "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." Hellman responded by filing a US$2,500,000 defamation suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdkhwnxl2l5r7l467t2itbxs/bafkreihojzp55e7yexlxqygfrs7yiilin3zgtbsdxq63xhk5h4yvzodahe@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Apparently YouTubers are feuding because one criticized another and these folks wouldn’t last five minutes against a real writer
This, but this shape: 🎄
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This, but this shape: 🎄
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Semenyo to City, then. Turns out they CAN keep getting away with it.
December 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Semenyo to City, then. Turns out they CAN keep getting away with it.
Xmas tree ideas.
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1962, getting into the Christmas spirit
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Xmas tree ideas.
An actual cherry would have been more likely to stop that header than Petrović, then.
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
An actual cherry would have been more likely to stop that header than Petrović, then.
Midfield Pentagram. I'm into it.
December 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Midfield Pentagram. I'm into it.
Yes.
⚪️=🏠
⚪️=🏠
Sphere Houses, Bolwoningen in s’ Hertogenbosch Netherlands Designed by Dries Kreijkamp (1980-1984) r/brutalism
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Yes.
⚪️=🏠
⚪️=🏠
And now, in the week that Hillsborough survivors and victims' families receive further insulting news about the official justice system providing them with no justice for 97 unlawful killings, more horrific tragedy chanting from the @leedsunited.com fans. Ban every one of them from your ground.
Disgusting tragedy chanting and poverty chanting as usual from @chelseafcofficial.bsky.social
Ban them from the ground or withdraw from the league.
Ban them from the ground or withdraw from the league.
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
And now, in the week that Hillsborough survivors and victims' families receive further insulting news about the official justice system providing them with no justice for 97 unlawful killings, more horrific tragedy chanting from the @leedsunited.com fans. Ban every one of them from your ground.
Hello, old friend.
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hello, old friend.
Alisson trying to stop an opposition player getting sent off is a new one on me.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Alisson trying to stop an opposition player getting sent off is a new one on me.
Next-level refcam action in Lima.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Next-level refcam action in Lima.
Kerkez having a full pre-season next year is essential, plus Szoboszlai being able to rest a little during the summer will be vital (if we can keep him). So thanks, Ireland.
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Kerkez having a full pre-season next year is essential, plus Szoboszlai being able to rest a little during the summer will be vital (if we can keep him). So thanks, Ireland.
Great effort by Liverpool FC Women against Chelsea today to get the point, but timewasting while 1-1 at home and fans cheering clearances to nowhere in stoppage time will never sit right with me. Such are the current realities of the club now predictably bottom of the WSL.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Great effort by Liverpool FC Women against Chelsea today to get the point, but timewasting while 1-1 at home and fans cheering clearances to nowhere in stoppage time will never sit right with me. Such are the current realities of the club now predictably bottom of the WSL.