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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 17h

grey-haired former post-punks spilling out of the Edwyn Collins farewell tour and mixing in the streets with blue-tied Tory conference delegates. a snapshot of this divided nation ?

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 20h

confidently and wrongly told the bartender i had been served then stuck in bar purgatory for ten minutes. humiliating.

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · Aug 13

State of the nation novel that follows the lives of 12 diverse, seemingly unconnected people living in London, interspersed with vignettes about the dismantling of wet wipe island. At the end of the book it's revealed they all flushed wetwipes that contributed to the island.

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 2d

It’s happened again

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 2d

Sébastian Lecornu taught me it was okay to be weird

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 2d

(guy who keeps getting populist and poptimist mixed up) It's time for the Left to embrace Sabrina Carpenter

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 3d

Good vibes and making friends: is queuing the cool new thing to do?

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 3d

first time back manning the BBC News app after my moderately severe head injury

Good vibes and making friends: Is queuing the new cool thing to do?

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Grave Abandoner @questabandoner.bsky.social · 4d

(Flipping a bug upright) Up she goes. Chin up. There's a good lad

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · Jun 16

the "brat" songstress, the lime green phenomenon - hell, i probably don't even need to say her name. and that kids (misspelling MARKETING in giant font on the chalkboard) is the power of Brand

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing beats slumping over to the side in your throne, making a slight hand movement and saying "Enough...I tire of this." - then later you hear people saying things like "our lord has been in poor humour as of late"

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 10d

getting the ick after they get placebo effects from a double blind trial

Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 12d

gently approaching the bond markets with a tempting handful of hay and a heavy weighted blanket

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 12d

enormous crispy leaf just fell on my head like i am Winnie the Pooh. undignified but autumnal

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 13d

Andy Burnham strolled Mancunianly into the room. His voice carried the twang of a New Order bassline, and his eyes shone with a steely determination, like a steel mill.

Would he consider becoming prime minister, I asked offhandedly. His noble Northern brow furrowed in thought. "Maybe", he said, with typical taciturn wit

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 14d

probably feels soooo good to stand Together In Enterprise

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18d

It is strange the way some forceful women are attracted to Calvinism. Not sure what that is about.

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 19d

we have such a short window of opportunity to break the morale of Gen X before the current wave of 90s nostalgia curdles into the worst reactionary voting block of all time

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · Sep 7

Warning Signs For The Left? After muted reception for recent album I Quit, industry insiders say Columbia is set to unveil a new, fourth, anti-woke Haim sister in the latest conservative coup over corporate America

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 19d

(thoughtfully) that's a great question. i'd describe myself as something of a poptimist for alternative dance. but with a keen and playful ear for the indie sensibilities of my youth ...

my date (visibly mentally composing her shit date text to the groupchat) What animal do you think you'd be?

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 22d

I can't use dark mode on bluesky, it reminds me of twitter. Let's get a new colour. Let's do a dark burgundy felt, with a mahogany wood trim. There could be a candlelight effect that flickers and is brighter in the middle of the screen. You could click on a wee dagger or guild crest for group chats.

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 21d

some prime ministers were born to reshape the economy. some were destined to transform geopolitics. others were fated to eat shit for slightly over a year before raising income tax by 2% and immediately being couped by three different factions. politics is the art of coming to terms with this 👆

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 23d

actually i reckon this is all just downstream of location and urbanisation ... minimum level of population density required to pull off takeaway pizza which goes soggy, tupperware friendly cuisines can penetrate further into exurban and rural UK

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 23d

woke metrolibs go to chinese restaurants, which don't meaningfully exist outside of the cities

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