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outstack.bsky.social
Former journalist, then charity PR, now a one-man waste of NHS resources. Undercover Lancastrian in Hertfordshire.
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I had to keep reminding myself that this isn't a spoof. Remarkable and horrifying all at the same time.

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Too funny, too real. I once saw this actually happen. I was in a Cancer Research charity shop when a woman bought a top, then "found" a mark - it's all second hand, remember - and demanded a partial refund. This then took ages to process for the volunteer on the till. She saved £2 off a £6 top.

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Sunday morning

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With everything else going on, this downer might be the cheeriest news we get all day

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

#proofofcat (on my clean laundry)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Train at Welwyn, yesterday

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Back in Edinburgh for the first time in years and it did not disappoint

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

It has a small but dedicated fanbase, of which I'm happy to be a member. It's also really good at showing how friendship groups coalesce and break apart slowly and without much drama. You never know when you're going to make friends, and never know when you've seen them for the last time.

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Lovely bit of writing about ABBA, nostalgia and seeing ourselves in our memories www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Contains the wonderful line "Nobody in Steps, to my knowledge, played the accordion."

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NEW How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Stunning. Sports photography must be one of the most difficult skills www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

And a Merry Christmas to one and all

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Good advice from the seafront at Weston

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Very disappointed that the Telegraph failed to get “J’accuse” into the hed of this story about Zola, the crime-fighting dog.

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they will see

submitted 85 days ago • 56 comments

Time to settle an argument that has been plaguing our household for the last few minutes: is I'll Find My Way Home a Christmas song? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKqL... I say yes. Add it to the canon.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

This wrecks me—every single time.

submitted 89 days ago • 283 comments

I once boarded the wrong plane and went to California by mistake.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #Lancashire Day!! 🌹🌹🌹 #lancashireday

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Well, to begin with today, happy 104th anniversary to this quite reasonable equine, whose tale was told in the Evening Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, in this day in 1920

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

On the fiftieth anniversary of Nick Drake's death, Rob Chapman argues that his legacy has been let down by a culture that allows his mental health struggles to overshadow his art #NickDrake Beyond the Black Eyed Dog https://buff.ly/4g06kC2

submitted 93 days ago • 6 comments