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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 12h

England suddenly look really good under Tuchel. Wild to think the likes of Bellingham, Palmer and Foden aren't automatic picks - they'd each have been the first name on the team sheet at certain points I can remember.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 13h

I bet he wheezes as he eats.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 13h

I know it's tough to believe but this lad is a Young Republican.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 14h

Perfect!

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 14h

Well, this is all well worth accelerating the climate crisis for isn't it??
Bubble can't burst soon enough.

The Verge @theverge.com · 15h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 16h

Oh man. That's terrible news.

Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 17h

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK
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D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 17h

This is a classic of the 70s public information film genre. The music was added more recently but works brilliantly, I think. Just an absolute carnival of bleakness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuAq...

'Illusions' - A film on Solvent Abuse

YouTube video by Nick Herd

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 17h

Just nightmarish. Fuck me, the 70s were weird. It's no wonder all us 70s kids are a bit odd.

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 17h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 17h

It's hard to think of a more despicable human.

Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 18h

Good. Pay up, crawl under a rock and die.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think anything or anyone can really prepare you for the reality of it. I think death is pretty much just an abstract concept until you experience it so I'm not sure how much use explanations can be.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21h

Country House is worse!

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21h

Well. This is awesome. Three underground US rock legends wig the fuck out.
orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt...

Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller

5 track album

orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose the challenge now is to get voters to associate Farage/Reform with the ongoing misery of Brexit and the baleful shadow it still casts over British life. Because somehow and for some mysterious reason, he seems immune from the consequences of his one, terrible achievement.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 1d

This is the absolute focal point of Tory collapse.
All my life, there'd been the suggestion that the Tories were the 'common sense' party. The pragmatism party. Labour were somehow the idealists, the unrealists.
Brexit turned that on its head - if the Tories die, it'll be Brexit that killed them.

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1d

"An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories."

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1d

"One reason the successive Tory administrations from 2016 to 2024 achieved so little beyond damage control is that they traded middle-aged voters who needed little from the state for older voters who require rather more"
So much good stuff by @stephenkb.bsky.social in his FT column today.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 2d

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Rodon!!!
Goal machine!

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 1d

The Wales anthem is an absolute banger innit??

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 2d

Come over here, if you think you're hard enough.

Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 4d

You're all missed over at X..

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, fuck the Telegraph.
This is like saying 'Yeah, I'm not going to be paying my leisure centre subscription any more. But I would still like to use the pool. And the gym. And the squash court...'

Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 3d

Since the Brexit referendum, the Telegraph has become the Pantomine Dame of confected outrage against the very thing it fought for and continues to uphold. The new Schengen Entry and Exit System isn’t sound border management but a “pointed insult”. Hilarious.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! We need more of this, to show there are more of us than there are of them. Well done Birmingham for leading the way.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation When Mus unfurled the leaflet lying on her driveway, she was left shocked, angry and upset. “White Britons are already a minority in London … it is clear that if these trends continue white people will become a minority in Britain,” it read. The leaflet, written by a far-right group, was distributed along her street three years ago in Moseley, a leafy suburb of Birmingham. It went on to blame NHS waiting lists, a shortage of social housing and even traffic on “the rising population”. Continue reading...

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legalclaret @legalclaret.bsky.social · 3d

Watkins was one of the most vile criminals I have ever read about, an offender whose depravity fell to lows even this hardened ex-prosecutor had not seen before. I am however uncomfortable with the celebrations of his murder. /1

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after being attacked in prison

48-year-old was serving 29-year prison sentence after admitting multiple child sex offences The convicted child sexual abuser and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison. The 48-year-old was serving a 29-year prison sentence at HMP Wakefield, with a further six years on licence, after admitting a string of sex offences including the attempted rape of a baby. Continue reading...

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The whole internet loves Cola Bottle Nate, a lovely guy who almost kills himself eating Haribro cola bottles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Mr. Rimmington is racist

Nathan Rimmington, 33, is a haulier and owner of an HGV driving school in Barnsley. Huge, tattooed, always sweating and always pining for a pint, he is portrayed in the series as an incorrigible joker: "If the government don't crack down on immigration, my kids will have to go to school on fucking camels."

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