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Gaz Shaw
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Building websites at https://www.itseeze-bolton.co.uk

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🎓 @manmetuni.bsky.social & @icshc.bsky.social
🪪 @wearebcs.bsky.social & @mcrdig.bsky.social
👹 @salfordreddevils.bsky.social
This has just worked out handy: Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–92 available to view for free archive.org/details/roth.... Scanned copy a Coventry library.
Rothman's rugby league year book. 1991-92 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
21cm.416. Ill
archive.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The new 'Rugby Reloaded' asks 'what the hell is going on in British rugby league? Listen to a historian's view of the state of the game in Britain: on.soundcloud.com/wJ3BsqOt4TxI...
207. What the hell is going on in British rugby league?
The new Rugby Reloaded looks at the current state of rugby league in Britain, asks 'What's going on?' and tries to provide some answers by looking at how the history of the sport can give us some insi
soundcloud.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Come work with me
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Tap us up Amazon #jamesbond
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Bonus points for what me and my compadres are watching on the propped up phone.
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
An interview with Lance Todd from 1909 on the training methods used at Wigan:

🏉 Dedicated trainer with several assistants/masseurs

🏉 Timed sprint work

🏉 Pre- and post-match analysis two nights per week

🏉 Gameday prep: morning massage and lunch meal monitoring

salford.leaflet.pub/3m5jk6hwp6k2x
The Appliance of Science - Where’s the Myler money?
Lance Todd on rugby league training in 1909
salford.leaflet.pub
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BARM
Five years on, still the definitive word on buns, baps, barms, rolls, stotties, breadcakes and cobs.
My mum and her friend came into work yesterday and said "you'll know the answer to this... What's a bap?"

"It's very complicated..."

Lucky I could her this from @katiematherkm.bsky.social & @pelliclemag.com

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2021/2/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Halley's Comet is on its way back. Patrick Moore is excited.
The Sky At Night - 'The Comet Returns' - Halley's Comet - BBCTV - 1985
With Patrick Moore. Original 1985 recording.
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It's #LoveYourHighStreet week and we're sharing the love for local and independent businesses 🫶

From November 10th - 16th, #ShopLocal to support your community and help keep our high streets vibrant and unique!
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.

Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
For me, the Following tab mostly throws stuff posted from the U.S. Trump, ICE and all that malarkey. Very U.S. centric (and why not). But Quiet Posters is working well as the-folks-you-follow-from-old-blighty tab.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Age yourself with gaming.
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Age yourself with gaming. No idea how many hours I put into this.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Age yourself with gaming
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My point is this person is obsessively shuffling through AI slop genres, spamming tons of stuff til they find something that works and that they can monetize. The thing "that works" are horrifying videos of an AI-generated mother screaming for her baby as ICE hauls her away
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Our latest episode from our associated podcast featuring former journal editor @collinstony.bsky.social who held the post between 2001-2007.

If you are publishing with the journal and/or are interested in appearing on the podcast, please drop the podcast page or us a message to be involved!!
Our latest episode with @collinstony.bsky.social of @icshc.bsky.social & @lborouniversity.bsky.social discussing his book on rugby league legend Roy Francis earlier this year is now LIVE!

Well worth a listen for lovers of rugby league and/or Black British history!

shows.acast.com/sport-in-his...
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is doing my head in a little.
Free cigars
That test match when they doled out complimentary stogies
salford.leaflet.pub
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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UNFORGIVEN
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
THE DIRTY DOZEN
GOODFELLAS
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD

Note "The" is not kerned correctly

(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
D-Day for Salford.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'severe' geomagnetic storm. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'Severe' geomagnetic storm
Activity on the surface of the Sun means the chance of the Northern Lights shining over the UK is high this week as Elizabeth Rizzini explains.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Adieu, pet
Newcastle looks done as a Magic Weekend venue
salford.leaflet.pub
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM