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Chris Rand

@chrisrand.com

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Ipswich, England. "In a Venn Diagram of one" – The Guardian. • Curator of the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project. #hmhb • Supporter of Ipswich Town FC. #itfc • Expect to see mainly stuff that amused me. https://chrisrand.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23h

Own it. Take the win. You absolute clowns.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23h

It also demonstrates the strength and appeal of the Britishness they’re always wanging on about. No one is queuing up to become Hungarian or Russian or North Korean. People want to be part of what we’ve got going on here. They want their kids to sing Jerusalem & wave flags when the king goes by.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23h

It’s not a necessary evil, to be tolerated or have to live with. It’s absolutely extraordinarily brilliant. It offers a glimpse of a future where we all stop killing people with marginally different complexions or national identities
It’s a triumph of enlightened education over dark primordial urges

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 1d

Would love to read the HMHB bit!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 4d

It's weird how nobody ever talks about the fact that we all hear incredibly loud discordant high-tempo circus music in our heads at all times

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Craig Hamilton @craighamilton.bsky.social · 4d

That’s enough Tay Tay for now lads. Thanks.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 4d

Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond)

Obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B4k...

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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 6d

It’s Friday & I’m pleased to announce that for the Half Man Half Biscuit fan who thinks they have everything,a new HMHB map of the UK has arrived with over 200 locations mentioned in their inimitable lyrics. Something for the weekend? Oh, yes, I think so. xx

www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...

Half Man Half Biscuit map of UK. Close up of Wirral

Half Man Half Biscuit map of UK. Close up of that London and the South.

Half Man Half Biscuit map of UK in a fancy frame on a fancy wall.

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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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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5d

Red-faced, outdated, and (once primed) designed to explode on the slightest shock, this thing here is a Gammon.

I hope it's survived hearing about the new Archbishop of Canterbury.

Gammon hand grenade from the IWM collection. A screw off cap with a red top sits on a metal collar and cloth bag. Unlike many of its namesakes it didn't have a sneaking respect for the Nazis.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6d

Thoughts and prayers with Alexis Petridis, who will shortly be going into hiding. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled

Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic w...

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 7d

Seven minutes of bliss. Worth listening to in full. Kudos to the person who recorded it for resisting the urge to hold up their phone and annoy everyone around them.

youtu.be/ymPn3IogLYY?...

Sigur Rós — Ára Bátur live at Royal Albert Hall

YouTube video by Eivind Sorgenfryd

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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 8d

Sigur Rós at the Royal Albert Hall. Breathtaking.

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 9d

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Prag Vec At The Melkweg – The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project

The assiduously-discussed lyrics to 'Prag Vec At The Melkweg' by Half Man Half Biscuit, from the band's 1991 comeback album, 'McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt'.

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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 9d

Fantastic (long) article about the state of the UK electorate and party attitudes towards different working classes.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9d

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10d

Does One Battle After Another take place in the Saying The Structure Out Loud Cinematic Universe, alongside 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, John Dies At The End and Four Weddings And A Funeral?

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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 11d

Pretty standard for anything in the USA nowadays. The terminally stupid have discovered they have a voice and are determined to make the rest of us hear it.

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Peter Swanson @peterswanson.bsky.social · 12d

Autism causes vaccines

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Craig Hamilton @craighamilton.bsky.social · 12d

If you were wondering “Whatever will AI Tech Bros invent next”?

The answer is: really shit RSS feeds

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 13d

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 13d

How the government's new digital ID will work… and why I’ve changed my mind on ID cards (FREE TO READ!)

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How the government's new digital ID will work

And why I've changed my mind on ID cards

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 13d

I’d give the project the benefit of the doubt if it was run by the department that’s been doing government web sites, which may not be groundbreaking but are so much easier and more reliable to interact with than most commercial companies can manage.