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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 4h

Little cover of Golden Slumbers from Abbey Road to start the week.

Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 1d

The last time I rode my bike was in lockdown. For such a grim time, it was a magical experience; riding round a deserted London at night. Today, I dragged it out for the first time in 5 years. I'd forgotten how blissful it feels. I expected to be a bit wobbly. But it was just like getting on a bike.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, it should probably be renamed

"ADHD Too *Much* Fucking Awareness Month."

Or "ADHD Too much awareness, I'm looking everywhere at once, in all directions, like a fucking housefly Month."

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 3d

Hadn't realised October was ADHD Awareness Month. I was distracted.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 3d

Top Tip: to replicate the practice of nervously posting something you're a bit unsure about on social media - then immediately deleting it, so you get the dopamine hit of typing it out but entirely without consequence or anyone actually noticing, post it on Bluesky instead.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 3d

It was. Oh God.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 3d

Top Tip: to replicate the practice of nervously posting something you're a bit unsure about on social media - then immediately deleting it, so you get the dopamine hit of typing it out but entirely without consequence or anyone actually noticing, post it on Bluesky instead.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 3d

On balance, I'd probably *not* advise the following: becoming aware of a near-subliminal in the Ed Gein Netflix series, curiously filming the scene on your phone, and scrolling through it, frame by frame, to check it out. Quite, quite unnecessary.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 6d

Fun with Gilbert and George last night at the Royal Festival Hall, whose selection of classical favourites was accompanied by a screened series of relevant paintings.

The very first of which carried the logo: "OUR GRANDPARENTS DIDN'T VOTE FOR FASCISTS. [*pause*]. THEY SHOT THEM."

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 6d

Fun with Gilbert and George last night at the Royal Festival Hall, whose selection of classical favourites was accompanied by a screened series of relevant paintings.

The very first of which carried the logo: "OUR GRANDPARENTS DIDN'T VOTE FOR FASCISTS. [*pause*]. THEY SHOT THEM."

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 7d

Crying with laughter over Alan Patridge citing "safeguarding issues" around Winnie the Pooh wearing just a tee-shirt and no underpants.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 10d

A day in the life.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 10d

It's easy to post that you're standing alongside your Jewish friends and family, and all British Jews under attack at this hateful time.

It's easy... because it is. Necessary and urgent. And because you bloody well ought to.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 10d

It's easy to post that you're standing alongside your Jewish friends and family, and all British Jews under attack at this hateful time.

It's easy... because it is. Necessary and urgent. And because you bloody well ought to.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 11d

Wow, blimey! And thank you!

Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 11d

Just returned from a night in the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool - one of the most incredible hotels I've ever stayed in (and, not-coincidentally, one of the lowest-rated on Trip Advisor). Do Google it for more images.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 13d

John Lennon Night

As I'll be in Liverpool later

Here's my cover of Tomorrow Never Knows

From the days when I shaved my bonce

Big Lewis Carroll fan, John

Hence the Walrus

And this White Rabbit

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 15d

"Faircloth-Mutton" (noun, c.1600): Rustic slang for rag strips kept for cleaning after defecation, particularly in households with heavy meat-based diets.

"Thou eat’st like a lord, yet keep’st none to sweep after. Best fetch a strip of Faircloth-Mutton, else thou’lt sit all day in thy own stew.”

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 18d

Jimmy Somerville Night.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20d

Those who wish us harm: you have no idea how fucking nails we are - because we've had to be, since birth. We will keep fighting beyond all reasonable limits. Come and find out.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20d

The inexorable countdown to Neurodivergency being dubbed "Woke" starts here. Enemies of the People. Bring it on.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20d

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In those pre-internet times, can you guess what the most frequent item to be found in the dump was?

Yes, you've guessed it: ripped-up jazz mags.

I've a vivid memory of standing atop a gigantic Razzle mountain, like some sort of porny Edmund Hillary, amid the sweet, sweet stink of putrefaction.

Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20d

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Today's Guardian article about the British rubbish industry reminds me of my days when I worked as a dustman in the early 90s. The smell of rotting rubbish is surprisingly sweet; sickeningly so, and brings it all back. Proust's madeleine has nothing on it...

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20d

Those who wish us harm: you have no idea how fucking nails we are - because we've had to be, since birth. We will keep fighting beyond all reasonable limits. Come and find out.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20d

The inexorable countdown to Neurodivergency being dubbed "Woke" starts here. Enemies of the People. Bring it on.

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