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@probablydrunk.bsky.social
Writer, degenerate, malcontent
Hi I'm Surfing while Hungover.
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you:
Greetings! I am a very, very dusty lamp with no bulb in my socket and I am turned on. Dust me?
Greetings! I am a very, very dusty lamp with no bulb in my socket and I am turned on. Dust me?
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you:
Hi, I'm the fireball from the kitchen oven
Hi, I'm the fireball from the kitchen oven
January 2, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Hi I'm Surfing while Hungover.
Unputdownable *is* a word, and it's a bloody good job because Fever House by @keithrosson.bsky.social is exactly that.
Thank you @thehauntedstacks.bsky.social for recommending it as a gift for me
Thank you @thehauntedstacks.bsky.social for recommending it as a gift for me
December 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Unputdownable *is* a word, and it's a bloody good job because Fever House by @keithrosson.bsky.social is exactly that.
Thank you @thehauntedstacks.bsky.social for recommending it as a gift for me
Thank you @thehauntedstacks.bsky.social for recommending it as a gift for me
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Andrew Ridgeley has the best life in the world because he was kind to the fat kid at school. We should all recall that.
December 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Andrew Ridgeley has the best life in the world because he was kind to the fat kid at school. We should all recall that.
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This lovely bit of writing by the smashing @probablydrunk.bsky.social is very good indeed and well worth five minutes of your time open.substack.com/pub/probably...
Drama, Destiny, and Diarrhea
notes from the night shift just past the edge
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December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This lovely bit of writing by the smashing @probablydrunk.bsky.social is very good indeed and well worth five minutes of your time open.substack.com/pub/probably...
One from the vaults - Ever wonder what goes on in the trenches of the welfare tent at your favorite festival? I tell all.
open.substack.com/pub/probably...
open.substack.com/pub/probably...
Drama, Destiny, and Diarrhea
notes from the night shift just past the edge
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One from the vaults - Ever wonder what goes on in the trenches of the welfare tent at your favorite festival? I tell all.
open.substack.com/pub/probably...
open.substack.com/pub/probably...
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Boris Johnson's slurs are one thing. Keir Starmer overseeing the introduction of a new Section 28 in schools for trans and non-binary people, supporting segregation and backing Wes Streeting as he drives kids to suicide after stripping them of their healthcare is on a whole other level.
i hate it when i mention how bigoted keir starmer is and someone is like 'huh? are you forgetting that boris johnson called gay men bum boys?!'.
no. i haven't forgotten that. that's nothing compared to the shit keir starmer has done.
no. i haven't forgotten that. that's nothing compared to the shit keir starmer has done.
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Boris Johnson's slurs are one thing. Keir Starmer overseeing the introduction of a new Section 28 in schools for trans and non-binary people, supporting segregation and backing Wes Streeting as he drives kids to suicide after stripping them of their healthcare is on a whole other level.
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Farage: "there are people who don't think i'm racist but they go to ̶ ̷a̷n̷o̷t̷h̷e̷r̷ the same school"
Nigel Farage says he won't release the names of his former school friends who have written to him to say he definitely wasn't a massive racist and anti-semite, because journalists will: "chase after them and make their life a misery"
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Farage: "there are people who don't think i'm racist but they go to ̶ ̷a̷n̷o̷t̷h̷e̷r̷ the same school"
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I wonder how different this week would have been if the Girl Guides' statement had said "we're closing the Girl Guides with immediate effect due to legal threats by transphobic organisations funded by JK Rowling, which we cannot afford to contest".
Could have been the moment the tide turned.
Could have been the moment the tide turned.
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I wonder how different this week would have been if the Girl Guides' statement had said "we're closing the Girl Guides with immediate effect due to legal threats by transphobic organisations funded by JK Rowling, which we cannot afford to contest".
Could have been the moment the tide turned.
Could have been the moment the tide turned.
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"There's a billionaire threatening to sue the WI through her proxies if they don't throw out their trans members" makes you sound like a lunatic but that is in fact what's happening. Is that good or bad? I think a simple question.
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"There's a billionaire threatening to sue the WI through her proxies if they don't throw out their trans members" makes you sound like a lunatic but that is in fact what's happening. Is that good or bad? I think a simple question.
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Speaking as the president of an NGO and as a trans woman: when orgs decide to abandon a group, to sacrifice them, it is not that group’s job to “understand how hard it would have been to fight.”
If trans people hope to survive, it is our job to make that abandonment costly as hell.
Make them hurt.
If trans people hope to survive, it is our job to make that abandonment costly as hell.
Make them hurt.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Speaking as the president of an NGO and as a trans woman: when orgs decide to abandon a group, to sacrifice them, it is not that group’s job to “understand how hard it would have been to fight.”
If trans people hope to survive, it is our job to make that abandonment costly as hell.
Make them hurt.
If trans people hope to survive, it is our job to make that abandonment costly as hell.
Make them hurt.
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This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
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"“My hope is that the message that the transgender community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the transgender community will know that we stand with them."
Nope, it's betrayal.
Nope, it's betrayal.
“I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"“My hope is that the message that the transgender community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the transgender community will know that we stand with them."
Nope, it's betrayal.
Nope, it's betrayal.
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And do follow, and purchase and read the books of, @jasonkpargin.bsky.social.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
And do follow, and purchase and read the books of, @jasonkpargin.bsky.social.
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Your annual reminder.
Time to post the new Whamaggedon rules again I see
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Your annual reminder.
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The problem with that Whamageddon thing is that Last Christmas is a stone cold banger and trying to avoid it proves that you don't truly understand the meaning of the season, to celebrate our Lord and Savior, Saint George Michael.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The problem with that Whamageddon thing is that Last Christmas is a stone cold banger and trying to avoid it proves that you don't truly understand the meaning of the season, to celebrate our Lord and Savior, Saint George Michael.
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We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs.
We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3.
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We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs.
We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3.
paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...
We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3.
paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...
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Over at @paradisecircus.com we’ve got an ideal Secret Santa gift for anyone in your office who is best defined as “a Brummie”
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(It’s our book, delivered within the UK—and Manchester!—for seven quid)
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(It’s our book, delivered within the UK—and Manchester!—for seven quid)
Secret Santa 2025 – Paradise Circus
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Over at @paradisecircus.com we’ve got an ideal Secret Santa gift for anyone in your office who is best defined as “a Brummie”
paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...
(It’s our book, delivered within the UK—and Manchester!—for seven quid)
paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...
(It’s our book, delivered within the UK—and Manchester!—for seven quid)
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I agree, and in particular I would look at things like: It could not possibly have been more obvious that Johnson’s “levelling up” plan was back-of-a-fag-packet bullshit and an insult to the public, the second it was announced. Was it received and explained as a pitch black fraud and an affront?
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I agree, and in particular I would look at things like: It could not possibly have been more obvious that Johnson’s “levelling up” plan was back-of-a-fag-packet bullshit and an insult to the public, the second it was announced. Was it received and explained as a pitch black fraud and an affront?
Next up on my Substack is a short piece of a potential series about loving a city that dies in the Winter.
open.substack.com/pub/probably...
Please tell me what you think
Also if you're feeling flush you can support my writing for less than the price a pint.
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Please tell me what you think
Also if you're feeling flush you can support my writing for less than the price a pint.
Overcoat Necromancy
How a heavy coat holds you together in Brighton’s dead season
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November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Next up on my Substack is a short piece of a potential series about loving a city that dies in the Winter.
open.substack.com/pub/probably...
Please tell me what you think
Also if you're feeling flush you can support my writing for less than the price a pint.
open.substack.com/pub/probably...
Please tell me what you think
Also if you're feeling flush you can support my writing for less than the price a pint.
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I remember this time distinctly, watching the Prime Minister on holiday while many of us were looking at infection rising in other countries, aware that something needed to be done as a matter of extreme urgency. It was incredibly frustrating.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I remember this time distinctly, watching the Prime Minister on holiday while many of us were looking at infection rising in other countries, aware that something needed to be done as a matter of extreme urgency. It was incredibly frustrating.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Between Running Man, One Battle and Long Walk we're def getting a lot of movies whose theme seems to be "someone's probably going to have to shoot some of these rich guys in the face to literally save the Earth soon, so we better start normalizing that behavior."
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Between Running Man, One Battle and Long Walk we're def getting a lot of movies whose theme seems to be "someone's probably going to have to shoot some of these rich guys in the face to literally save the Earth soon, so we better start normalizing that behavior."
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People can more easily imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
People can more easily imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
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If i say what i think should happen to the likes of Wes Streeting (and yhr current labour government in general) i will be banned from bluesky.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If i say what i think should happen to the likes of Wes Streeting (and yhr current labour government in general) i will be banned from bluesky.
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A simple and efficient strategy
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A simple and efficient strategy
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.