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Mattzki

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Audiohead. Video refusenik. Formerly BBC/SE/Guardian/News UK. The man in the hills. Yes, I’ve turned off auto correct. Can you till?

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 29d

Hidden Food Tours was featured on Radio 4’s The Food Programme last Friday. It was great hosting Sheila Dillon (the doyenne of UK food journalists) on our #MeltonMowbray tour, and brilliant that she got what we do. Have a listen & come see for yourselves! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Food Programme - Follow the Food: The Rise of Food Tourism - BBC Sounds

Sheila Dillon investigates the growing number of food tours and trails.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 11h

And a crappy paperback thriller. And listening to evening Radio 1.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 11h

Da iawn chi, Caerdydd.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

Come for Tom Baker, stay for (*slaps back of neck in manner of Eric Morecambe*) Gabrielle Drake.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

Crumble, all day every day.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

Until they silence that fucking drummer and trumpeter I’m afraid I have to agree

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

I definitely see the comparison of… *checks notes* …making farmers pay the same taxes as everyone else with forced collectivisation of 25 million farms. Definitely.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Still remember when ‘Devil’s Pie’ dropped. First heard it in Uptown in Soho. People were fighting for the white label 12’s. Such a hard record, sounded like Sly Stone had gone gangsta.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone have info on what happened when a bunch of racist knuckle draggers previously tried marching through immigrant communities in East London? Did it go well?

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Also, regularly update hardware to ensure optimum playback.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

I have an outsized 1st edition Picador paperback of Hunter S Thompson’s ‘The Curse Of Lono’ which, while I’ve taken the best care of it I possibly could over the last 40 years, has totally disintegrated (much like it’s author’s reputation, in fact). What should I do, Andy? WHAT SHOULD I DO?

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Two weeks is plenty time to upgrade to Carnegie Hall. Fly, my pretties, fly!

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 2d

If Tommy robinson was a journalist he wouldn’t have thousands in cash and a flash car

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 2d

Gianni Infantino's latest Instagram post on how FIFA is going to help the Palestinians is only for those with strong stomachs. Infantino appears to be laying the ground to buy off the Palestinian Football Association and get them to drop their complaint against Israel, which has FIFA in a corner.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

a) he told the cops ‘you look like c*nts’ and b) it wasn’t his £170K car, it was ‘a mate’s’. Even more perfectly normal.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Desmond Bagley, Dick Francis, Alistair McLean… my dad was a connoisseur of those books.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 4d

‘No’ said Tom, pulling a full pint of perfectly poured Guinness out of his coat pocket. ‘I’m good, thanks.’ Paul Simonen (the coolest man alive) said it was the coolest thing he’s ever seen.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 4d

Never seen him, but love the story about The Clash going to see him at Ronnie Scott’s in the 70’s - the doorman wouldn’t let the scruffy punks in, until TW, in a long coat, got them in. They stood chatting to him at the bar for five minutes, then someone said ‘Anyway Tom, fancy a drink? 1/2

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 4d

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 4d

Snap!

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 5d

MC Hammer was a proper hard core gang banger. Took no shit. #totp

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 5d

Give him enough acid, he’d consider anything.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 5d

JC claims that, each of the three times he was on #totp he wasn’t wearing underpants. Let that sink in.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 6d

Interviewed Charli Baltimore when she came over on this trip. Don’t think I’ve thought about her since then. #totp