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Russell Garner

@rgarner.bsky.social

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Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, flippancy, unions. Audi alteram partem. Leeds, UK Founder at @jointogether.online

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · Apr 8

Have you noticed that these days when time travellers grab you by the shoulders and ask what year it is, when you reply "2024" they no longer say "Thank God. I'm not too late"?

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 7h

I think it's zero. It's zero, isn't it? This is a weird trick question, and that one weird trick will amaze you.

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 8h

Saw them in 2016 and Raymond looked like a geography teacher close to retirement even then

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 9h

I only saw the trailer and wanted to bleach my own face off so yeah

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 9h

Woody's not been let out so he's resorted to swiping my soap dish off the sink in protest again

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 10h

fine eye-swivel work here from Catherine O'Hara

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 10h

Legs are absolutely *wrecked* today. I've to be out in the afternoon but this morning is going to be spent largely horizontal

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 11h

Ying-ing-ing-ing-ing-ig-ing-ig-ing-a return to the gold standard would be foolhardy, Maurice, given that it ties inflation to the rate at which the gold is *mined*

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

How close this is to correct depends entirely on your attitude to olives

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Under 6 minutes for Cow and Calf South side, which is 56 seconds faster than my previous best and crucially 9 seconds faster than my nemesis, the Head of Regeneration at Leeds City Council

A rock formation at the upper left of the frame rolls into the right of the frame with the "calf" (a smaller rock) underneath.

There's a lot of heather in the foreground and a sliver of car parking leads to the stone café and ice cream shop

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Ah I see

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

idk man, isn't making things the point, isn't connecting and taking care of each other the point of it all

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

I think you've got different lyrics to me, I only get the first of those repeated four times

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps!

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

I won't bore you with all the favourites. But I have lots. I still think the one-minute Renfield's Afoot from the same album as Every Time A Bell Rings is the best summation of British parochial belligerence ever committed to record.

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

I covered For What Is Chatteris in a folk club once. Still has (for me) one of the best lyrics of all time:

For what's a park if you can't see a linnet
A timetable if your journey's infinite
My bag's packed and I'm leaving in a minute
For what is Chatteris without you in it

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you feel better soon.

As an aside I saw Tuesday's OMITB last night and... yeah. What on earth.

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a fan of their wider work?

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Now I've got Collaterlie Sisters in my head because the first time I saw her I thought it was Philately Sisters

The Day Today: Collaterlie Sisters - BUSINEWS

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday. Bike ride, then cut a hedge. Half Man Half Biscuit:

Started watching the Tour de France highlights on ITV4
worshipped at the altar of Wiggo and
Froome-dog. Goes out every Sunday in full Sky replica kit
Get your hedge cut
Get your fuckin' hedge cut
Stop analysing Strava
And cut your hedge

Half Man Half Biscuit - Every Time a Bell Rings [Official Audio]

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Like, you want to sanction that punishment for that crime? Write to your MP. I won't agree with you, because we're better than that, but that's the route.

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Still thinking back to Sean Bean's Time (2021) in which he's in prison and his parents, on hearing about him being attacked, relate: "you're in here *as* punishment, not *for* punishment" and those celebrating extrajudicial executions would do well to remember that, regardless of the prick who died.

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

It's certainly a lot less pasty than I used to be before taking up cycling 17 years ago...

Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I say "brown" I mean "brown for a person from Donny". Greek partner and half-Greek daughter laugh at my "brown".

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 1d

ha no I have that too. Brown legs but a sharp line where my shorts end. Brown arms but a sharp white line where my top ends...

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