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ianmartin.bsky.social
State Pensioner and nuisance: https://pod.link/1774465485
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Circumstances have forced me to take a part-time job as a small commercial airport. Unpredictable hours and terrible pay. On the plus side, I get to meet such an interesting and diverse range of commuters.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Donald Lungbleach MD, here to answer all your legitimate scientific questions with calm authority. "If a bad mutant germ escaped from an animal market it would have either wings or legs so it could never get through your breathing tubes. Impossible. Who's hungry?"

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

All dignity, all credibility gone, destroyed in just a few months. "The White House" - incredible. It's like watching someone losing their fucking mind, every day another mad hateful cry for help. Is it time to section America?

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

The Morecambe & Wise Show (18th April 1964). Eric and Ernie meet The Beatles.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

SCICERS ALERT! COMETH T'FACT ONT 14TH and witness QTV on the big screen!!! www.fact.co.uk/film/qtv-arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What a world. Time to leave war and tragedy behind and check in on the genteel world of architecture and what the tessellated FUCK @news.architectsjournal.co.uk "Architect erased from register after chasing child with meat cleaver".

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

My first (and last, because fuck) Substack piece last year referenced this printing error and the increasing dependence of some newspapers on AI to write stories: statepensioner.substack.com/publish/post...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just shown this to my daughter, who'd never seen it, and she is helpless.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Been seeing pictures of/opinion pieces about the recent Jazzagals In Space thing then suddenly remembered I'd written a doomed (of course) pilot about a mad billionaire who takes celebrities into space then announces that they're actually going to Mars, to populate it with his zygotes... 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The glorious green of new oak leaves

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Arguably the best photo I’ve ever taken of an ominous stranger on horseback approaching lazy cattle on a chalk hilltop beneath an irascible sky.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments

Unbeatable entertainment.

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

“Israel’s soul is being ripped out and we, members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, fear for the future of the Israel we love and have such close ties to” The Board of Deputies of British Jews write an open letter, condemning Israel govt’s actions. www.ft.com/content/6a50...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Perfect perfect perfect. Don't come the old Vikingur, son. Nobody - NOBODY - has ever sculpted this aria from thin air into something so transcendentally profound. Good old Golden Gouldy, bless him. Next on Essential Classics, the Flying Ford Anglia theme from Harry Potter...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Some absolutely life-affirming architecture here. It's from a PROPER century too, not this privatised, willowy, cheapskate pretend one.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I full expect this to be enshrined in law by the US government in the next few days.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Huge congratulations. My heart soars at every example of investigative journalism demonstrating that it remains alive in these febrile/trivial times, and still very much kicking. This is important stuff, thank you!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Christ, I must be old. Found myself slightly emotional at the end of this. A credit to the performance of the woman whose name I don’t know and can’t find, but who I slightly recognise

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I think they’ve run out of money for the statues

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Thank you for what you have done for me, now I must pull a lettuce from the garden.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Self-Satirising Guardian Headlines #62 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Low Truss economy open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Bought granddaughter (13) a short scale bass and amp and yeah baby the beat goes on. ❤️

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

It really offends me that this is doing the rounds without attribution. It’s by Jim’ll Paint It.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

10/10

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Alts for that ridiculous, made-up name for I Can't Believe It's Not Socialism: Induced Labour Casual Labour XL Labour Pub Labour Premiership Labour Turkish Haircut Labour Phoneporn Labour MMA Labour Anti Labour Deform

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The obvious thing to do with Adolescence S2 would be to tell the same murder-aftermath-going on with life, but from the POV of the murdered girl's family.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Longshot. Glasgow North/East end trusted plumber/tiler urgently needed. Leaking 1st floor shower room into ground floor living room. Help.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

(seem to have found myself with some free time this week if anyone needs some words written - can be found at marie.s.leconte@gmail.com, my rates are reasonable, etc.)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment