Aidan Cook
@aidancook.bsky.social
Not the actor from Star Wars, Dr Who, or The Tweenies - asking me trivia on any of these risks fabricated replies.
Open to exchanging opinions on Leeds, music, politics, Age of Sail navy, and vague memories of the 20th century.
Open to exchanging opinions on Leeds, music, politics, Age of Sail navy, and vague memories of the 20th century.
Hey @gary-loader.bsky.social - look what I got!
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Hey @gary-loader.bsky.social - look what I got!
Don’t look so sad sailor boy - the remembrganza will be back next year…
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Don’t look so sad sailor boy - the remembrganza will be back next year…
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
The letter to my grandmother and her sisters, telling them their brother had been Killed In Action.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The letter to my grandmother and her sisters, telling them their brother had been Killed In Action.
I know there’s a lot of discontent about recruitment, but I can’t be alone in thinking this #lufc squad should be better than the sum of Farke’s parts?
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I know there’s a lot of discontent about recruitment, but I can’t be alone in thinking this #lufc squad should be better than the sum of Farke’s parts?
Not able to watch it, but just checked stats on BBC - I assume there’s a problem with the feed for the #lufc stats, because apparently we’re not involved?
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Not able to watch it, but just checked stats on BBC - I assume there’s a problem with the feed for the #lufc stats, because apparently we’re not involved?
“Where’s my fucking poppy?”
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“Where’s my fucking poppy?”
"Where's your fucking Poppy?"
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"Where's your fucking Poppy?"
Another thoughtless, ill-considered BBC headline. Junior copybots need editors around to say “just have another go at that” from time to time.
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Another thoughtless, ill-considered BBC headline. Junior copybots need editors around to say “just have another go at that” from time to time.
19.5 stone - I questioned how many people would be affected by this, but apparently it’s 2,200. People are big these days.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lose weight or lose your jobs, offshore workers told - BBC News
Thousands of offshore workers are too heavy for the limitations of helicopter winch systems.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
19.5 stone - I questioned how many people would be affected by this, but apparently it’s 2,200. People are big these days.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
19.5 stone - I questioned how many people would be affected by this, but apparently it’s 2,200. People are big these days.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lose weight or lose your jobs, offshore workers told - BBC News
Thousands of offshore workers are too heavy for the limitations of helicopter winch systems.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
19.5 stone - I questioned how many people would be affected by this, but apparently it’s 2,200. People are big these days.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How are you getting on with that Life of WG Grace script that it’s just occurred to me you ought to be writing @paulsinha.bsky.social ?
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
How are you getting on with that Life of WG Grace script that it’s just occurred to me you ought to be writing @paulsinha.bsky.social ?
Did that Remembrance Poppy madness account not make it to this platform? A shame if it didn’t - I want to see front gardens filled with crocheted Tommies, plastic flags, wonky silhouettes of the fallen, and random bits of “army stuff”, with poppies bigger than a house.
Lest I forget.
Lest I forget.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Did that Remembrance Poppy madness account not make it to this platform? A shame if it didn’t - I want to see front gardens filled with crocheted Tommies, plastic flags, wonky silhouettes of the fallen, and random bits of “army stuff”, with poppies bigger than a house.
Lest I forget.
Lest I forget.
Subway’s new sandwich - the Copper-stopper.
"I could smell the mustard and the onions"
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Subway’s new sandwich - the Copper-stopper.
Installing a new printer - which of these seems most likely?
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Installing a new printer - which of these seems most likely?
Reposted by Aidan Cook
Sands to the left of him
Sands to the right of him
Sands in front of hm
Lone and level
Vast and trunkless legs of stone
Wrinkled lip, shattered visage’s frown
On the pedestal these words appear,
Look on ye mighty and despair
My name is Ozymandias
Sands to the right of him
Sands in front of hm
Lone and level
Vast and trunkless legs of stone
Wrinkled lip, shattered visage’s frown
On the pedestal these words appear,
Look on ye mighty and despair
My name is Ozymandias
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Sands to the left of him
Sands to the right of him
Sands in front of hm
Lone and level
Vast and trunkless legs of stone
Wrinkled lip, shattered visage’s frown
On the pedestal these words appear,
Look on ye mighty and despair
My name is Ozymandias
Sands to the right of him
Sands in front of hm
Lone and level
Vast and trunkless legs of stone
Wrinkled lip, shattered visage’s frown
On the pedestal these words appear,
Look on ye mighty and despair
My name is Ozymandias
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Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
And not left me legs buried in dirt
Look on them there
And ye mighty, despair
Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
And not left me legs buried in dirt
Look on them there
And ye mighty, despair
Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
October 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
And not left me legs buried in dirt
Look on them there
And ye mighty, despair
Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
And not left me legs buried in dirt
Look on them there
And ye mighty, despair
Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
A whole five months before you can do horrible things to Liverpool again @sarf-london.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A whole five months before you can do horrible things to Liverpool again @sarf-london.bsky.social
Just recommended My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult to my youngest, and ended up explaining promo inserts:
“This is the record label doing their own ‘You might also like…’, but in paper. Then, rather than download, you could Mail Order records & T-Shirts”
“This is the record label doing their own ‘You might also like…’, but in paper. Then, rather than download, you could Mail Order records & T-Shirts”
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just recommended My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult to my youngest, and ended up explaining promo inserts:
“This is the record label doing their own ‘You might also like…’, but in paper. Then, rather than download, you could Mail Order records & T-Shirts”
“This is the record label doing their own ‘You might also like…’, but in paper. Then, rather than download, you could Mail Order records & T-Shirts”
Reposted by Aidan Cook
FIRST time so far that I’ve heard this clarification that it is a civil, not criminal offense.
You have idiots dressed up like they’re storming Iwo Jima, taking people down to the concrete, beating them, shooting them, for NON-CRIMINAL offenses.
Take back this narrative
Right fucking now
You have idiots dressed up like they’re storming Iwo Jima, taking people down to the concrete, beating them, shooting them, for NON-CRIMINAL offenses.
Take back this narrative
Right fucking now
October 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
FIRST time so far that I’ve heard this clarification that it is a civil, not criminal offense.
You have idiots dressed up like they’re storming Iwo Jima, taking people down to the concrete, beating them, shooting them, for NON-CRIMINAL offenses.
Take back this narrative
Right fucking now
You have idiots dressed up like they’re storming Iwo Jima, taking people down to the concrete, beating them, shooting them, for NON-CRIMINAL offenses.
Take back this narrative
Right fucking now
What the fuck? Scum up to 4th? Have I switched timelines? I thought this was the year they bounce around the relegation zone and meltdown until Casemiro gets sacked and Rooney takes over.
This isn’t nearly as much fun.
#lufc
This isn’t nearly as much fun.
#lufc
October 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What the fuck? Scum up to 4th? Have I switched timelines? I thought this was the year they bounce around the relegation zone and meltdown until Casemiro gets sacked and Rooney takes over.
This isn’t nearly as much fun.
#lufc
This isn’t nearly as much fun.
#lufc
First ten minutes of BBC News at Ten was two items about criminal asylum seekers. Fifteen minutes into the programme they touched on this “local item” from London.
Starmer’s nobody’s favourite, but he has got a lot to work against.
Starmer’s nobody’s favourite, but he has got a lot to work against.
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
First ten minutes of BBC News at Ten was two items about criminal asylum seekers. Fifteen minutes into the programme they touched on this “local item” from London.
Starmer’s nobody’s favourite, but he has got a lot to work against.
Starmer’s nobody’s favourite, but he has got a lot to work against.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Cromartie, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, German Bight
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio.
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy, Beaky, Mick & Titch
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Cromartie, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, German Bight
“Our parents aren’t having children…”
My brother’s coming to stay tomorrow night - I must ask him who the fuck we are if this is true…
My brother’s coming to stay tomorrow night - I must ask him who the fuck we are if this is true…
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
October 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“Our parents aren’t having children…”
My brother’s coming to stay tomorrow night - I must ask him who the fuck we are if this is true…
My brother’s coming to stay tomorrow night - I must ask him who the fuck we are if this is true…
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.