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Alistair Leadbetter

@indolentfop.bsky.social

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Fop, likes ideas, food, beer, books, and Sunderland AFC. Doesn't like fascists, bigots, bullies, or celery.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 3d

That is tragic. Is it Mark or Steve Townsend though?

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 3d

Starmer is so unrelentingly wrong about everything, it's astonishing. He's also a weak and wet sycophant to genocidal Zionists.

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 3d

I'm quite happy to see Maccabi fans banned from the Villa game. I'm quite happy to see all Israeli teams and representatives banned from all events.

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 5d

I've got a kobo and I have to be honest - I love it. But yes, a right to repair and affordable, accessible, replaceable parts should be mandatory.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 6d

This is not just a great team, and this is not just a great shirt.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 6d

"an monolingual" "and the US"

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 6d

Would a driver who overstays their visa / time be uninsured? I'm sure the insurance companies might view it that way.

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 7d

But a big yes to currywurst

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 7d

You're fooling noone 🤣

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 7d

#5debutalbums8084

I can't see this being high in the final rankings, but it's definitely one of my top five. Loved this album then and still play it now.

The Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 7d

Mashup Bands

Talk Talking Heads

I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social · 7d

Jesus Lizard Jones

bsky.app/profile/jake...

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 9d

Mash up bands:

Guns 'N Oates

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 12d

William Onyeabor - Fantastic Man (Official) [Funk] (1979)
https://redd.it/bnf11p
https://youtu.be/xyL4c_LDCl0

William Onyeabor - Fantastic Man (Official) [Funk] (1979)

youtu.be

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 8d

Incredible album

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 9d

I've remembered to decant my blackcurrant vodka. I've forgotten in previous years and I've ended up with a sloppy vodka jelly.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Adrian Goldberg @goldbergradio.bsky.social · 11d

Looking forward to seeing you tonight in #Blackpool at 6.30pm

I'll be talking about my new book 'Where's The Money Gone? The Battle For The Soul of English Football," and signing copies
Join us at the Armfield Club before the #England game

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 11d

Jesus fuck, you never really think of the term "scorched earth" until you see it literally.

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 12d

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12d

I may need to get a sandwich board

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12d

I'll even ask for fart goblin.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12d

This is a top fact. I am definitely going to remember this as well as buy some pumpernickel bread.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe Thunder doesn't deserve nice things?

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12d

Spanish potato omelette. In a sandwich.

I used to love pasties (preferably cheese and onion, but corned beef was also good) in a buttered stottie (a round, soft, white oven bottom bread from north east England).

Both obviously carb overload.

Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12d

Neil Buttery ( @neilbuttery.bsky.social ) does an excellent podcast on British Food History. Here's a link to the fascinating episode on tripe. Obviously other podcast links are available open.spotify.com/episode/6WXb...

Tripe Special: Sam Bilton & Neil Buttery Talk Tripe

open.spotify.com

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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 12d

Free.

Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 12d

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles Francesca Albanese's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.

The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @unrwa.org to support their critical work: www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

Book cover and promotional image for A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine by Francesca Albanese, edited by Mandy Turner and Lex Takkenberg. The cover features an illustration of two women in red and black dresses holding a white dove against a red background. Text above reads “READ THE REPORTS FOR YOURSELF.” A yellow circle on the right says “FREE EBOOK – Available on plutobooks.com.

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