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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 5h

I can taste the panic these two felt doing their little stencilling. So casual with ‘own goal’ thinking they had all the space in the world. Look at the chasm between own and goal! Then sudden panic about whether there’s enough room for ‘Neville’. Eventually settling for ‘Nev’ after a crisis meeting

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 19h

Terrible puppet and you can see his lips moving. My daughter’s birthday party is ruined.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 1d

Ban politics bores from football patter

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s all of us or none…”

Joe Strummer and Ray Gange discuss socialism vs capitalism

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

One day everyone will accept Netanyahu to be pure evil. It will be a mainstream consensus. At that point he will be used as a convenient sponge for all the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated in his time. As if it all started and ended with him. Always remember - it was never just him

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Alice Lastname @alphonsus.bsky.social · 2d

Not having a go at all here but I feel like the use of “underfunding” in these situations is so passive and removes responsibility - the decisions are deliberate and the consequences (to the most vulnerable typically) are known well in advance. But it can now be swept up under a fiscal issue

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

This is utterly heartbreaking. Too sad for words. A direct result of underfunding the NHS.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

That bloody Niko!

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

Fishing hotspots and top 5 books

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3d

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

A person of such views working in social care is scary

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

What's going on with Mac Allister? Tiredness?

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

A running theme this season is managers not dropping senior players who deserve to be dropped and being punished.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

Isak is a fine player no doubt but he's a bit petulant. Loves an arsey arm flap when he doesn't get the pass he wants. Rooney used to do that all the time to Nani and it doesn't really help anyone's confidence

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

Cole Palmer always looks like his mum is late picking him up from school

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

Context: A Manchester United goalkeeper successfully claimed a cross

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 4d

PSA

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 4d

Diddy got 50 months in prison and they turned him into black Rolf Harris

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 4d

We used to be a real country

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 5d

Feel like I'm going mad. Feeling sadness for innocent people killed in Crumpsall & feeling sadness for innocent people killed in Gaza are two sides of the same coin. They are not conflicting sentiments. Stop making out caring about the Jewish community means you should stop caring about Palestinians

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d

This is literally down the road from me. I pass this synagogue every day. Feel sick that this has happened to the local Jewish community.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d

This is Robbie Williams waxing lyrical about how *he( is treated in Israel - and how it 'annoys' him to be used as part of a 'narrative'. It echoes what comics are now saying about being part of the Riyadh Comedy Festival. So disingenuous. It's not about how *you* are treated - it's how others are.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d

A cowardly development from Uefa

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