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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩

@rickadams82.bsky.social

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MD ANT🥇Music and book lover. Former secondary school English teacher of 13 years and former mental health OT. "Between jobs." Current Dad of 3 maddening and wonderful young children. Scribbler of things that I hope might become something someday.

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2h

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2h

Always on point #riyadh #comedy

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Stewart Lee goes off on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Louis CK and Cancel Culture

YouTube video by Class Clown Podcast

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 4h

Aye not bad mate, cheers. Taking tentative steps back into the job market after prolonged time off unwell. Never been out of work this long so it's a bit of a head fuck tbh!

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1d

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7h

Amazing! Congrats mate

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 17h

I don't think you can go wrong with any of them - a very autumnal band!

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 19h

Autumn nights are for making soup and listening to Yo La Tengo

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 1d

A mosque was burnt down by masked men in East Sussex a few days ago but you wouldn't know from recent news coverage

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Peacehaven: Police release photos of mosque arson suspects

The images are of two people in balaclavas seen outside the mosque before the large blaze spread.

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 2d

#readandplay (491)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 5d

#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 65

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 5d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/4
The Wicked Witch of the West – The Wizard of Oz

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 5d

Made a Calzone...baddabing!

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 5d

That looks mint

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 5d

Got a nod for me Townes Van Zandt tee too. Nice sojourn

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 6d

Brief respite from 4yr old daughter's play-date-bedlam at home. A quick book'n'pint sojourn at the local

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 6d

Ha! That's next on my list. Hopefully before I catch the new PTA film which I believe is inspired by it. There is a new podcast by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social to go along with Vineland that has just started. It's called Slow Learners. The one for Gravity's Rainbow was ace

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 6d

I fear you're right! Trying to choose what to read next is tough

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 6d

@johnsemley3000.bsky.social's guide was an indispensable companion throughout this amazing trip of a novel

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7d

A month spent inside this. Any advice on how to put my mind back together now I've finished?

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 7d

#NowPlaying

'The Music Information Company' - Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, James Muir & Christine Jeffrey

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 8d

The Gluten Centipede

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 11d

Gutted about Tony Harrison. One of my absolute favourite poets.

"Back in our silences and sullen looks,
for all the Scotch we drink, what's still between us
not the thirty or so years, but books, books, books."

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Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 12d

Good turn out in town today. Racists hugely outnumbered. Fuck the fash

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 12d

Newcastle folk. Racist Cunty McCuntface is rallying racists in town tomorrow. Counter protests at Monument and the Quayside. Come to show the fash what the NE thinks of them!

Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social · 13d

...then back to funny again and you've got a classic Lee routine

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