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Rob Manuel

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · Apr 28

Look I've got shows on sale ok? Hawking them is embarrassing.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 40m

In a Keynesian way, you actually do want businesses to spend money on external things as it spreads it around

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 57m

Yep. It's a reasonable change that's being mocked for some reason. Maybe coz it sounds a bit self-important as a headline.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1h

feel free to use it

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2h

it was worth it

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2h

Parties aren't often dictatorships. The line would be a mash-up between his thoughts, and donors, and advisors, and senior politicians, and appeasing members, and the press etc.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2h

It's having to stick to a party line. We respect people who say what they genuinely mean, even if we disagree with them, but following a party line is like having a weird gremlin in your head, constantly second guessing everything you say, and fundamentally making you inauthentic.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2h

Needs to revive Oink! to give Robinson his ideological nemesis.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2h

Doing a gig tomorrow (weds) in Worthing. I would like you to come, yes you, personally, I'd like you to come. It'll be history of b3ta (a bit), history of fesshole (a lot) and audience confessions (funny and unpredictable). It's better than another night scrolling. sites.google.com/view/fesshol...

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Fesshole LIVE is me Rob Manuel who created @fesshole making it into a live comedy show. People ask what to expect? It's a show of two halves and they're both laser precision designed to be fun - first...

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 3h

In your face to that weird cunt who keeps insisting that I make them all up.

Also get well soon to Alistair who isn't a weird cunt and alright actually.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 3h

Crappy week with illness, but @fesshole.bsky.social published one of my (true) fesses the other day while I was bowking rich brown vomit day and night, so that’s alright then.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 3h

Well yes. That's kind of the point of entertainment?

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 6h

I know we all must make a stand and stop buying Teslas. But I'm going struggle with that personally, maybe I'll just cut down my Tesla purchasing to the odd one with a pint.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 6h

Never realised I'd find $25m comically low. (Not to say, I'd find that comically low if that's what was in my Midland Bank Griffin Savers Account.)

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 7h

An exaggeration of something I thought when reading it for maybe the 15th time. You get something different from that book every time, and the last time I read it, all the having a relationship in secret stuff stood out. I should read Coming Up For Air again, as I've only read that one once.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 7h

More of the response I was looking for than the po-faced dude fact checking me on dates on when Orwell was married.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 7h

Nineteen Eighty-Four is an absurdist rom com about the practical difficulties of having an affair, which Orwell wrote a dystopian exploration of totalitarianism to disguise the fact he was either having an affair, or had spent six months pondering exactly how he would do it if he did.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, don’t know – it’s complicated, is the only sane answer to this. I could write an essay, not do it as multiple-choice.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

BRILLIANT NEWS.

I haven't seen you since about 2004?!

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to the internet. Every post is a prompt for people to free associate whatever bollocks they like.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

My complaint is the recent stuff tends to be long stories stretched out over seasons. I want a 45 min story, and a different one next week.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

I realised the internet had leaked into reality maybe 7 or 8 years ago when I saw flat earth stickers on a gate on my local disused railway path. It was a moment of, oh dear, there's no putting this back in the box, it's escaped.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

It's not so bad. All classes of people have dogs, rich and poor, and many are happy to have a chat. And I do think a few words here and there with strangers is good for your soul, even when some of them are quite odd.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

oh god yeah there's loads of dog anti vax people - which I didn't know until I had a dog and started swapping a few words with other dog owners on walks

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 1d

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

Newsletter hanging over me this weekend like a black cloud. I'd half done it on Friday then busy weekend with family stuff meant once I missed that initial deadline it wasn't to be returned to until now. Anyway, it is done, so sub now and I'll send in ten mins. b3ta.com/subscribe

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

What's wrong with him is he's very very rich. I mean, there's probably six people who believe in insane nonsense in a hundred feet radius of you, but it doesn't matter that much, as they've got limited power to act on it.