Matthew Perren
@matthewperren.bsky.social
Dog and cat owning ex-bookseller. Lives in Scotland.
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Matthew Perren
@matthewperren.bsky.social
· Apr 27
Mike Walz absolutely nailed it in his state of the state address:
“Let’s be real clear about something: If you say you love freedom, but you don’t believe in freedom for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom – it’s privilege.”
“Let’s be real clear about something: If you say you love freedom, but you don’t believe in freedom for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom – it’s privilege.”
So are we saying that, putting aside some clumsy editing, Trump *didn’t* try to incite the Jan 6th insurrection?
Wasn’t this already proven?
In what way has the Panorama programme changed anything?
Wasn’t this already proven?
In what way has the Panorama programme changed anything?
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
So are we saying that, putting aside some clumsy editing, Trump *didn’t* try to incite the Jan 6th insurrection?
Wasn’t this already proven?
In what way has the Panorama programme changed anything?
Wasn’t this already proven?
In what way has the Panorama programme changed anything?
When are bins?
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
When are bins?
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Bookselling friends. Sad news if you’ve not heard, the very wonderful @feexby.bsky.social has gone to the great Dr Who/The Archers mashup in the sky. He was a wonderful, warm, brilliant, very clever & very funny man. My latter contact with him was all on socials but I was glad to have him in my life
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Bookselling friends. Sad news if you’ve not heard, the very wonderful @feexby.bsky.social has gone to the great Dr Who/The Archers mashup in the sky. He was a wonderful, warm, brilliant, very clever & very funny man. My latter contact with him was all on socials but I was glad to have him in my life
Tories appoint a Tory to be DG of the BBC. Turns out he and his team can’t tell the truth.
The Farage starts bumping his gums about the end of the BBC and you have to wonder if there’s any degree of coordination.
I’m sure no one in Tufton Street is disappointed.
The Farage starts bumping his gums about the end of the BBC and you have to wonder if there’s any degree of coordination.
I’m sure no one in Tufton Street is disappointed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Tories appoint a Tory to be DG of the BBC. Turns out he and his team can’t tell the truth.
The Farage starts bumping his gums about the end of the BBC and you have to wonder if there’s any degree of coordination.
I’m sure no one in Tufton Street is disappointed.
The Farage starts bumping his gums about the end of the BBC and you have to wonder if there’s any degree of coordination.
I’m sure no one in Tufton Street is disappointed.
The AI generated Christmas Coca Cola advert is creepy as hell isn’t it?
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The AI generated Christmas Coca Cola advert is creepy as hell isn’t it?
It’s OK @thegodpodcast.com. Eric Trump is here to save you.
Eric Trump, "We're saving Christianity. We're saving God. We're saving the family unit. We're saving the nation. DEI is out the window"
"People can coexist with one another without having top pick up arms and destroy one another, other than for incompetence and egotistical governments"
"People can coexist with one another without having top pick up arms and destroy one another, other than for incompetence and egotistical governments"
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It’s OK @thegodpodcast.com. Eric Trump is here to save you.
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Just thinking about the 50th anniversary of both the Sex Pistols and Bohemian Rhapsody.
In 1975 when both were brand new we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 2, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 1 and Louis Armstrong’s first solo recordings
In 1975 when both were brand new we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 2, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 1 and Louis Armstrong’s first solo recordings
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just thinking about the 50th anniversary of both the Sex Pistols and Bohemian Rhapsody.
In 1975 when both were brand new we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 2, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 1 and Louis Armstrong’s first solo recordings
In 1975 when both were brand new we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 2, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 1 and Louis Armstrong’s first solo recordings
This is magnificent
Dream last night involved destroying a haunted and malevolent computer by powering it with energy from hell rather than connecting it to the national grid and then tricking it into travelling through an interdimensional portal. A greater person would make a novel or comic out of that
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is magnificent
Had to tell a new colleague that I’d prefer to not be called Matt. Why do people assume you’ll want your name to be something it isn’t. If I want to be called Matt, I’ll sign my emails that way.
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Had to tell a new colleague that I’d prefer to not be called Matt. Why do people assume you’ll want your name to be something it isn’t. If I want to be called Matt, I’ll sign my emails that way.
Who am I kidding. He’s going to buy civil war in the UK so he doesn’t look even more of a dick.
🧵
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bsky.app/profile/matt...
He’ll be able to afford avocado toast AND a mortgage with that
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Who am I kidding. He’s going to buy civil war in the UK so he doesn’t look even more of a dick.
🧵
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Reposted by Matthew Perren
Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
Lotta would just like to thank the firework-loving denizens of North Edinburgh for scaring the shit out of her last night.
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Lotta would just like to thank the firework-loving denizens of North Edinburgh for scaring the shit out of her last night.
See also people who “don’t suffer fools gladly”
I have a low opinion of anyone who says "no offense but".
It's up there (down there) with "just sayin'".
File alongside: "Unsolicited advice on social media is always intended as criticism".
It's up there (down there) with "just sayin'".
File alongside: "Unsolicited advice on social media is always intended as criticism".
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
See also people who “don’t suffer fools gladly”
Even if you do hate spiders…
This is such a good book. 99p is a total bargain even if it is just the (gags) ebook.
This is such a good book. 99p is a total bargain even if it is just the (gags) ebook.
Children of Time by @aptshadow.bsky.social.
99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...
99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...
Children of Time ebook by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Children of Time Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel" by Adrian Tchaikovsky available from Rakuten Kobo. Humanity is overrated.
**The tenth anniversary edition of...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Even if you do hate spiders…
This is such a good book. 99p is a total bargain even if it is just the (gags) ebook.
This is such a good book. 99p is a total bargain even if it is just the (gags) ebook.
Don’t get too excited about Christmas decorations. We have to get through poppy-nonce season first.
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Don’t get too excited about Christmas decorations. We have to get through poppy-nonce season first.
Reposted by Matthew Perren
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
Some years ago I made up a bunch of Halloween jokes for my kids to use when out guising. They did not use them.
1. I’ve been washing the Mummy’s bandages for hours. I’ve just finished though so that’s a wrap.
1. I’ve been washing the Mummy’s bandages for hours. I’ve just finished though so that’s a wrap.
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Some years ago I made up a bunch of Halloween jokes for my kids to use when out guising. They did not use them.
1. I’ve been washing the Mummy’s bandages for hours. I’ve just finished though so that’s a wrap.
1. I’ve been washing the Mummy’s bandages for hours. I’ve just finished though so that’s a wrap.
The true horror of Halloween is your AI renderings of Halloween.
Please fuck off with them.
Thank you.
Please fuck off with them.
Thank you.
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The true horror of Halloween is your AI renderings of Halloween.
Please fuck off with them.
Thank you.
Please fuck off with them.
Thank you.
Reposted by Matthew Perren
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreib7lt736b6rmzinml5s7kxjdaapo2a36xp4d4lssypimx3taqicdm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
I love Stephen Collins but this classic English failure to understand that the rest of the UK is not the same as their bit.
![For this comic you have to imagine it as two separate pictures depicting almost identical scenes. There are three kids dressed as a devil, a ghost and a witch, and they are outside a person’s home receiving treats on a tray from the resident. In the background, their parents - parent 1, parent 2 and parent 3, watch on from the pavement. There are labels pointing to every person in each scene.
HALLOWEEN IN AMERICA
[Labels]:
Joyful [a person at a cosy party seen through the window of the house]
Ebullient [Another person at the party, we see them laughing through the window]
Charmed [A fully dracula-costumed guy handing out trates at the front door]
Home made skull cookies and lemonade [The contents of the man’s tray he is handing out to the kids]
Delighted [The first kid on the path, dressed as a devil]
Excited [The second kid on the path, dressed as a ghost]
Enraptured [The third kid on the path, dressed as a witch]
Emotional [Parent 1, stood back on the pavement, beaming in joy]
Proud [Parent 2, clasping their hands, tearful]
Capturing the moment [Parent 3, taking a photo on their phone]
HALLOWEEN IN BRITRIN
[The same sort of scene, but in Britain]
[Labels]:
Angry [A dog barking out the window. There is no party going on in the house. Through the window we see a woman just wtching telly]
Offended [The woman having her TV show interrupted]
Resentful [Guy dressed in normal clothes, grumpily handing out ‘treats’ on a tray at the door]
2 Celebrations and a Rennie [The contents of his tray]
Disappointed [Child 1]
Awkward [Child 2]
Awkward [Child 3]
Awkward [Parent 1, standing with arms folded]
Mortified [Parent 2, looking embarassed]
Checking for paedophiles [Parent 3, looking suspiciously at the guy answering the door]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiectvkbxvx4qhm6halid6gw2qzd5c3atdhxsdnkdvfkriabfrfny4@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I love Stephen Collins but this classic English failure to understand that the rest of the UK is not the same as their bit.
AWS: “We weren’t out”
Yeah well neither was I when you said you tried to deliver my parcel.
Now you know how it feels.
Yeah well neither was I when you said you tried to deliver my parcel.
Now you know how it feels.
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
AWS: “We weren’t out”
Yeah well neither was I when you said you tried to deliver my parcel.
Now you know how it feels.
Yeah well neither was I when you said you tried to deliver my parcel.
Now you know how it feels.
Not gonna lie, much as I’m not really interested in The PE, here in Scotland it’s nice to see the SPL arranged in an Edinburgh-centric order with Hearts and Hibs 1st and 3rd respectively, Celtic in 2nd and Rangers finally reaching the giddy heights - for them - of 5th
#ThePE
#ThePE
October 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Not gonna lie, much as I’m not really interested in The PE, here in Scotland it’s nice to see the SPL arranged in an Edinburgh-centric order with Hearts and Hibs 1st and 3rd respectively, Celtic in 2nd and Rangers finally reaching the giddy heights - for them - of 5th
#ThePE
#ThePE