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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 1h

Does this mean they're finally smashing up Albert Bridge House?

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's probably the racist social media posts wot done it.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 5h

Today's heart-warming FAFO news story
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

'I was snitched on for putting up 150 British flags and lost my teaching job'

Shaun Remmer, 49, says he has been left 'devastated'

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 8h

The drivers on Facebook are at it again. This time moaning about parking charges. 50p for an hour FFS!
Maybe they'll think twice about driving to my local park to GO FOR A WALK.

Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 1d

Drivers: please fix congestion
Council: okay, we'll stick some cameras up to discourage folk from blocking junctions
Drivers: no not like that

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 9h

The cringiest of the bars in Manchester (Peaky Blinders) isn't even in NQ.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 9h

I like that the NQ has places like that! It keeps the nobs out of the places I like!

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 9h

Man goes on a tour of the theme bars of the NQ and wonders why the NQ is "full of theme bars"?
Yes there's them and the plethora of Irish pubs but NQ is chocka with loads of normal places!

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 10h

Joe Bishop went to the Northern Quarter's bars, to try and understand why Manchester is the cringiest city in the country.

www.the-fence.com/youre-my-won...

You’re My Won-der-craaaaaawl

What is wrong with the city of Manchester?

www.the-fence.com

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 10h

I am once again begging councils to just concrete in plain old Sheffield stands!

Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 12h

I’m generally a pretty big champion of North Shields and happy to see new stuff happening, but there is so much that is just shoddy about the renovations on the “high street” (Bedford St) and these bike racks are the latest.

Angular black bike racks attached to the ground with screws.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 11h

This last bit got me...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

When my grandparents died, I went to their Liverpool home, and opened their “nice things” cupboard (one was a wartime child and the other a refugee from eastern Europe – they were, honestly, low-level hoarders). They too had bottles of champagne and posh chocolates, all waiting for that next simcha. But the corks had disintegrated and the perishables were years past their best.

When eventually someone comes to clear out my “nice things” drawer, I want it to be found empty, its contents relished and enjoyed with the people I love. I’ve still not yet opened my one posh bottle of fizz, but it lives in the fridge now, ready and waiting.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 12h

Nooo! I still keep forgetting eggs in HG Sainsbury's since they moved everything.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 12h

is Blackwell's still a thing?

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 12h

Some of those are already illegal! (technically all of them if you class parking on the pavement as involving driving on said pavement) Shouldn't need any more restrictions!

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 1d

Also... Bramhall only has an hourly train service into Manchester!

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I looked at Facebook comments.
To be fair, they were more even than I expected! Some drivers do notice that other drivers are awful.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 1d

Drivers: please fix congestion
Council: okay, we'll stick some cameras up to discourage folk from blocking junctions
Drivers: no not like that

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 2d

Am I being unreasonably pedantic and millennial to be annoyed when coworkers talk about their wifi being down?

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 4d

So, they don't have any "proper" bike racks but they also haven't got rid of the trolley park...not the worst cycle parking out there.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 6d

I'll have a nosy next time I'm at Aldi...

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 6d

I am the same and would add Old Jamaican Ginger Beer to the list of ruined drinks.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 6d

Wildboarclough.
Cholmondeley.

More subtly... Salford.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Reposted by Katy

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d

'“It’s a strange mixture of feelings,” he said. “Being happy, being stressed, sometimes being overwhelmed. Living in Gaza for 27 years, then getting here and being in London, it’s completely shocking. The very basic things here are luxuries in Gaza.”'

Happy, stressed, overwhelmed: Palestinians evacuated from Gaza start their studies in UK

Abdallah, 27, and Soha, 31, describe adjusting to their new lives after leaving their war-torn home

www.theguardian.com

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 7d

to be fair, if it were a parked car, I'd agree. But that's wildly different.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 7d

I'm going to hold my tongue and say no more.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 7d

thankfully you've summed up my thoughts so I won't repeat

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 7d

all thanks (no doubt) to the council making the pavement undulate like a mountain range for every driveway!

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