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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 2d

@banquetrecords.com Hiya, will there be any signed copies of From The Pyre after the in-store? Thank you :)

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 2d

Passing thought, a week out from leaving my teaching job (before going to another teaching job): My favourite fictional teacher is Mr Farthingwell from Outnumbered. Virtually unseen, but he helps Ben feel confident enough to be the lead in his own musical version of Spartacus, which slaps. He rocks.

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 4d

And this is why I posted that.

youtube.com/shorts/2-4Fr...

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, the fellow behind the Black Farmer sausages certainly is a nasty piece of work. #lbc

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks. I get a bit jittery around it because my mum has been very much taken in by this type of thing, and has copies of it strewn around her front room.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 4d

#NowPlaying
Leftfield & John Lydon - Open Up

Always fun to hear on the radio, c/o @bbc6music.bsky.social today. Not often you can mark precisely the last moment an artist had anything to contribute, but for Johnny Rotten it's pretty easy - this very track

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a lovely poem about the good old days, to go with the nice pink one off Facebook that's quoted below.

The Good Old Days

Tuberculosis, ricketts
Polio and smog
He kicked the wife for five days
On weekends kicked the dog
The choir boys were fiddled with
The priest put round the plate
And then those lads went off to war
And mental health was great.
My gran made broth with only bone
She couldn't afford cheese
And several of her kids died
From preventable disease
Wasn't allowed a bank account
Couldn't get a job
Tuberculosis, ricketts
Polio and smog.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d

hello from Frieze where I just spent five minutes queuing for what I thought was free champagne and was in fact £20 a glass champagne and never had anyone walked out of a queue to go take a call elsewhere this purposely before

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 8d

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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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 6d

An 80s training montage of me preparing for a thumb war.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, the fellow behind the Black Farmer sausages certainly is a nasty piece of work. #lbc

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Listening to the 20th anniversary edition of American Idiot, the demos disc. Whoever managed to stitch the magnificent 9-minute final take of Homecoming together out of fragments from the 20mins+ of rather poor material presented here deserves a place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Gold from dust

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 10d

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 10d

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

I get it, this is your one rhetorical device. It's been fun

the word sarcasm is written on a meter

ALT: the word sarcasm is written on a meter

media.tenor.com

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

Please know that I mean it when I say that this is wrong and has to change. We may not get together on everything (eg a Green government to enact their policy ideas is never, ever going to happen, and some of their new leader's wider ideas are, imho, bloody awful) but pls don't doubt my sincerity.

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

We're all always learning, provided we're open to it of course.

I sincerely hope that our government will reverse the steps they've taken that have made your life worse. Those things are indefensible.

And yet, the likely alternatives are much, much worse. As I said, it fucking sucks.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

That fucking sucks.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

Ie, being a reactionary dickhead like James gets people's hackles up and on the defensive (ie, me). But if you engage people with genuine reasons for your views there's no reason not to be open and conciliatory. It doesn't get the clicks and replies, but it is real and honestly felt. Night & best.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

I've responded to this separately so I hope you now know my answer.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

I do, even though it is a course of action that makes a Reform government more likely, if you have been treated this way already I can understand why that carries a much reduced threat. And as a long time Labour voter I'm saddened and very sorry for that, as this is not the party I recognise.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

No, I think you misunderstand me. I can't know what you haven't told me. I am responding to reasons, not others who are calling Starmer a cunt or comparing him with Hitler. What has been shared with me is plainly wrong. I don't know you or your struggles but I hear you and am seeking to understand.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

I don't support this and unequivocally support you.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

I appreciate this but if the person hasn't mentioned they are trans or that they are referring to policy against trans people, I hope I can be forgiven for not jumping to that conclusion.

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

I also was not aware that the original poster was referring to being a person that's trans, I'm not familiar with them aside from this discussion. Am still reading.

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you for the link. Not sure why you would doubt I'm in good faith, I can't see anyone else being remotely honest on this thread. But I appreciate it.

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