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Trent Bridge legend, socialist hero, Chris Read fanboy. Lifelong Seattle Orcas fan. Lord's is fine, but Lauderhill has better curry goat. For E.M. Petersen, read Petersen, E.M.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Jan 22

Come for the cricket chat, stay for the spiraling mental deteoriation.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 1d

Bank robber describes getting caught robbing banks as "one of the most difficult moments" in his career of bank robbery.

ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 1d

USA Cricket has described the ICC's decision to suspend it as "one of the most difficult moments" in its history and "difficult to comprehend"

USA Cricket calls ICC suspension 'one of the most difficult moments' in its history

USAC said it remains committed to navigating through this "challenging" period and will hold elections in line with the timeline agreed upon with the ICC

www.espncricinfo.com

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 2d

I don't deserve this. It's a Notts championship year, I don't deserve this too, oh no this would be my fault

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Lord.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 2d

What? Oh, you know, not much. It's fine, everything's fine.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 4d

I just think it's nice that Audie Murphy's still dating.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly I do not have Marlins Man ticket money. (I've seen him do this at hockey games too.)

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 12d

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 13d

TBF I've also seen UK leftwing folks parrot Fox News talking points about places like San Francisco. One man's hard truths to people who don't want to hear it is another man's rightwing boilerplate.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 14d

There are obviously global trends driving this as well. But in Britain, Brexit remains part of the story of why things are more expensive than they used to be.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 14d

Which was not the article I was criticising.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 14d

Of course it's not the sole reason. But it's big enough to at least warrant a single mention.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 14d

This is good, but I'm curious: is nobody allowed to mention Brexit anymore? It seems strange that a piece purporting to explain why everything keeps getting more expensive would not include the word even once. (It might also help explain why a "Let's Brexit even harder!" party is so popular now.)

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 17d

Tonight in sport: Stu v European football's most notoriously hard-to-find goal.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 17d

I presume there's wanton fornication in the streets of West Bridgford by now. Or, you know, more wanton than usual.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 17d

Huzzah.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 19d

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 25d

I think the thing I hate most about the term "bad light" is that it's gaslighting light. The light is not bad. All light is content-neutral. Granted, "insufficient ability to deal with perfectly normal light that's less bright than it might otherwise be" isn't as pithy, but still.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 10

Mandelson writing to Epstein that his initial legal troubles "just could not happen in Britain" has got to be this year's True, But Maybe Not In the Way You Were Thinking winner.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 8

This feels real because an Anglophile American would be polite enough to imply there are Worcs cricketers who aren't obscure.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · Sep 6

Prolific American novelist here. For some reason that I genuinely cannot remember, I name most of my male characters after obscure Worcestershire County cricketers. Now that they have a women's team I have started naming female characters after them as well. Too late to stop now.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah, the Dragon. The outstanding landlady's (optimistic) 3-months-a-year beer garden instantly became a 12-month, all-weather one. Fantastic for business.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 3

I guess technically an entire expletive county council isn't an "event," so ... www.the-independent.com/news/uk/poli...

Reform local media ban is a glimpse of what may happen with Farage in power

As Nigel Farage prepares to attack the state of free speech in the UK in front of a congressional committee in Washington DC, The Independent’s political editor David Maddox discusses Reform’s attitude to a free press

www.the-independent.com

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you're unfamiliar with Jared Moskowitz, he's got something of the Australian slip fielder who literally never shuts up about him, and it's fantastic.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · Sep 3

Democrat member Jared Moskowitz asks Farage why he has to leave the hearing early, and if it is because he is having lunch with Trump. Farage declines to say.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 3

NOTTINGHAM HAS ENTERED THE GODDAMN CHAT.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · Sep 3

Under very tough questioning from Jamie Raskin, Nigel Farage says he does not think Reform has ever barred any journalists from its events. I *personally* know of some who have been.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hank Johnson here, hitting Nigel with a little Your Ground's Too Big For You.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · Sep 3

Democrat member Hank Johnson is basically taking the piss out of Farage, asking how many seats he has in the Commons, and accusing him of trying to get money from Elon Musk. "You're trying to ingratiate yourself with the tech bros," Johnson says. Farage getting quite annoyed.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · Sep 3

Gotta admit, Nige has a point here. If I turn up at Heathrow and start suggesting people beat up other people in toilets, I could be in for a rough ride.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · Sep 3

Farage says what happened to Graham Linehan "could happen to any American man or woman that goes to Heathrow, that has said things online that the British government and British police don't like".