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Same Old City podcast @sameoldcity.bsky.social · 1d

NEW EPISODE: "Have I got Newbs for you"

Featuring guest Paul Plowman & including:
🏆 Wins v Rochdale & Hartlepool
📈 Who are NL title favourites?
🔮 October fixtures preview

Listen now 👇
Spotify: spotify.link/iK00FY85rXb
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

📸 Tom Poole #ycfc

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 13h

Impossible not to read that in a Hull accent

Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 13h

Hartleplol more like.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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York City FC Supporters’ Trust @ycfcst.bsky.social · 1d

Trust & Club working together to get tickets to Halifax (a) let’s make sure we fill that away end! #YCFC

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 1d

The best eps are the ex girlfriend eps.

Makes you think….

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 1d

*arrogant North Yorkshire face*

They are up to £80k?!

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

"We've had about three of them so far already today. They are nice sounds to me. But what you two are paid to do is to make sure the frequencies don't interfere so there's no point asking me if it sounds alright."

Andy P @arcticreviews.bsky.social · 2d

Released on this date in 1987, George Best by The Wedding Present #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2017/12/08/y...

You Can Have Your Dream – 30 Years of The Wedding Present’s George Best

Tomorrow night, 29 years and 364 four days after I first heard it played live, I’m witnessing the final performance of The Wedding Present’s George Best, the band’s long cherished…

arcticreviews.co.uk

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 3d

Chatham away please

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3d

A bastard burgled my house while I was at work. Saw it all on my home CCTV & called the police. The police caught the burglar because he was having so much fun playing with our Golden Retriever, Daisy, that he didn't realise the cops had surrounded the place.

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 3d

“He said ‘No’ and that’s what counts.”
#inject
#bigmatchrevisited

Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 4d

Argh! I wanted that! Little yellow thing.

@kentwix.bsky.social

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 4d

Must get warm wearing that thing.

Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 4d

Feel absolutely dreadful. Not sure if it’s flu or covid. Awful
#FACUP

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely superb article. In it for life x

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Max Rushden @maxrushden.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the Liverpool ‘crisis’ and the ongoing impact of losing Diogo Jota x

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Liverpool go to work and Diogo Jota is not there. Why wouldn’t that affect them? | Max Rushden

We know so little about players’ personal feelings. It means everyone’s analysis of the game is fundamentally superficial

www.theguardian.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 7d

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 7d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7d

Also...
New council offices were built in the early 80s
Rumour had it that
A) there was a nuclear shelter in the basement (true)
B) that in the event of nuclear war the people who would go into it were local councillors and school dinner ladies with the aim of repopulating the county (unlikely)

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 7d

Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?

A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 7d

Saw Yer Da out and about.

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Tom Putnam @yorkcitytom.bsky.social · 8d

I have never seen a hostess trolly in real life, despite my weekend childhood telly being full of the bastards.

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