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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 3h

He's fencing mercenaries to oligarchs.

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 5h

I've forgotten the name of the zoomer but the logo is in the style of an 80s metal band.

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know who YouTube thinks I am but the two most frequent ads I'm getting are for some middle-aged super-special outdoors wear (Baerskin?) and some ultra-zoomer Hyperpop-lite singer touring soon.
Swing and a miss, swing and a miss.

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 8h

I need public transport to be affordable. I buy tickets to gigs then realise I can't afford to Actually Get To those gigs. Also, last train back from London is 22:05?
Everything is the worst.

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe they want Musk to fuck off and shut up. I never thought I'd ever share common ground with the UKIPs.

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 10h

The non-Wales portion of the UK ostensibly has a population of .71m Muslims? Is that their point?

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 10h

The population of the UK includes the population of Wales. So, like... Actually, I dunno. This hurts my head...

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 12h

So, yeah, looking for any kind of venue (house, even) for an excellent singer-songwriter to play in the East Midlands on Saturday 1st November. Matinee is fine.
It will be so good!

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 12h

Also Coventry.
Doesn't have to be any place large or fancy. Can do totally acoustic.

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone in the Leicester area wanna help me book a Very Exciting antipodean who just happens to be in the country soon and has made himself available on Sat 1st Nov?

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone in the Leicester area wanna help me book a Very Exciting antipodean who just happens to be in the country soon and has made himself available on Sat 1st Nov?

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era.

Presented without comment.

Old photo of young man with long plaits and a beard.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 2d

Weekend catch-up: Andrew Maxwell played the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, Chortle has revealed http://dlvr.it/TNd7mf

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 2d

I propose vouchers/extra annual leave for holidaying using rail etc.

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 2d

There's no real reason that you should be bringing pizza.

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 3d

That's obscene

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 3d

hardskin.bandcamp.com/track/acac

ACAC, by Hard Skin

from the album Hard Nuts and Hard Cunts

hardskin.bandcamp.com

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 3d

I don't live with my mum but I'd have to not visit her. And I work with vulnerable people. And my meds are weird. We'll see. NHS FOREVER!

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 3d

I never have a go at health staff. If I get turned away I'll take it up with the relevant parties. Like I said, I genuinely don't have the cash atm, but if I have to pay I'll pass it on to my employer (and notify my union)

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 3d

Like I said, I'm on meds *and* front line. We'll see. Regardless, everyone deserves free healthcare.

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 3d

Hey everyone! My new imaginary punk or pop band is called PERFORMATIVE

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 4d

I will add that if you're not "eligible" and haven't already been vaccinated, you should be given the vaccination upon request. Health is a right and germs don't give a shit about nationalities or borders. (And neither do I)

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 4d

Look, I don't wanna say it was better in the old days but can someone @helenlove1.bsky.social point me towards some contemporary sparkle punk that's as good as this youtu.be/HyM9RSi8-Dw?...

Disco Pistol - Solid Gold Radio

YouTube video by mirafan

youtu.be

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Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone remember Spraydog? We should be listening to Spraydog.

Nom de Guerre @brunepherine.bsky.social · 4d

*no dirt

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