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oldgittim.bsky.social
whisky drinking, biker, healthcare professional and Twitter refugee.
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Just imagine if Kate Bush and Mark Hollis had worked together

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey pix11.com/news/local-n...

submitted 16 days ago • 306 comments

Van driver Robert Heyes was wanted on a warrant without bail for a previous drink-driving offence when he struck and killed cyclist Keith Brady while drinking vodka at the wheel, and continued to use his phone for 33 seconds after the fatal collision road.cc/313897 #cycling

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Children's books for preschoolers should give the main credit to the illustrator, not the writer. The person who wrote 12 lines of text doesn't deserve the main tagline.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Hahaha

submitted 22 days ago • 23 comments

i'm like a lion

submitted 25 days ago • 47 comments

In 1913, after suffragette Emily Davidson had been knocked down & killed by the Kings Horse at the Derby, another attempt was made to catch George V's attention. Experience Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action in 'Deeds Not Words'. #booksky #resistance #writing conradbower.com/echoes-of-re...

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New study confirms what bike commuters already know: riding to work makes you healthier, more productive, and sick less often road.cc/content/news...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I love dogs but hate that an Idiot has continually been able to go around with dangerous animals resulting in this tragic death

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Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House on 27 March, in Westminster and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza. #resistance www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Cunt in a van cut me off to get in a petrol station. Sitting behind him fuming, I noticed his g/f or wife was with him. He gave her his phone to hold. I texted the number on the van: "The sex was amazing. Same time next week?" The yelling began as soon as he got back in the van.

submitted 58 days ago • 19 comments

Still love posting on the Facebook group benches with sh1te views

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The Books, Beer and Chips were flowing at my signing soiree. I also premiered a video of a reading from 'To Boldly Go' a story in my collection set during the Winter Hill mass trespass of 1896. Here's a link to it: youtu.be/2byxNp1v9PA #writingcommunity #booksky #books #protest #resistance

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It was my pleasure to talk to Ed @allfm.bsky.social about my new book: 'Echoes of #Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines' We discuss the reasons why I wrote this #protest themed collection, which inlcude the UK govts anti-protest laws. www.mixcloud.com/allfm969/the... (my bits 5:17 to 13:10)

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@spiritual-cramp.bsky.social great gig in Manchester last night. A support act on fire with high energy 🙏

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 109 days ago • 1253 comments

I'm having a literary shindig in #Manchester on Wed 12 Feb to celebrate the publication of my first book - Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines. It would be great to see #Bluesky, #Booksky people there and anyone from #Bolton or #GreaterManchester conradbower.com/2025/01/30/b...

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