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PhD researcher: education in the military. Also historian, rake and villain. Buy my book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915490146/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1687953982&sr=8-10&ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=bd7e70f4-4913-4cf3-8106-542560e1417
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Tom Baker staggering out of the Colony Room at 6am on a Friday in 1976 vibe.

Hanging out with my bluesky buddies

There is a lot of nostalgia for the "end of history" moment at the end of the 1990s but a lot of the ills of modern society can be traced to that era of complacency and spiritual vacuousness www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Little known fact - Percy Sugden was the inspiration for the Che Guevara poster.

Sneaked out for a quick afternoon pint

RIP John Reid of Nightcrawlers.

I hope one day I can be referred to as 'everyone's favourite time-travelling bigamist'

This is one of those where @stephenkb.bsky.social demonstrates his annoying knack for writing about something I'd been kicking around my head for a while and doing it really well.

A phone call with my mother.

New hero identified.

Tuesday

So much of our country's problems would be solved by launching Peston directly into a brick wall.

It's that elusive 10% of lesbians that you need to be worrying about, lads.

'I last long, and I lick that stuff better than 90% of lesbians.'

I bet Barry Scott is a very considerate lover.

'LICKS THAT STUFF BETTER THAN 90% OF LESBIANS.'

Primal Scream announce new LP

Can't have that over here, how else would intelligence be passed between officers?

Multiple guns and he hasn't done the decent thing? I call that decline.

Bluesky is absolutely unmatched for people who seem to agree with you but do it in such a bizarrely aggressive way you've gotta block anyway

Monday office banter: 'I can't do anything until I've had caffeine!' - tame, clichéd, bland. 'I can't do anything until I've had absinthe with laudanum and a boy!' - edgy, novel, carries an air of poetic danger.

When you asked your gran for Starscream but got a Go-Bot instead.

Every time a politician says 'the grooming gangs' my brain says 'the groovy gang'

In honour of being up early to have a new oven installed, let's have my favourite Elton John number. Lyrics courtesy Richard E. Grant's new oven manual: youtu.be/8GuI4UUZrmw?...