Sharpie
@sharpinsky.bsky.social
Cat dad and northern lad. Hillwalker. Probably “woke”. Sometime korfballer. Music, food and travel. And history and architecture. #NUFC
North-eastern England.
Like Reform? Passionate about flags? You’re going to hate me.
North-eastern England.
Like Reform? Passionate about flags? You’re going to hate me.
Musk wanking on about the Illiad after being owned by an intellectual is like in The Office where David Brent goes away to find out about Dostoyevsky. But I say to Joyce Carol Oates: have you ever thrown a kettle over a pub (while down a K-Hole)?
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Musk wanking on about the Illiad after being owned by an intellectual is like in The Office where David Brent goes away to find out about Dostoyevsky. But I say to Joyce Carol Oates: have you ever thrown a kettle over a pub (while down a K-Hole)?
Does anyone else’s house have what seems to be an endless supply of very small fruit flies or midges? Little twats seem to be everywhere (not hundreds just a steady supply). Hopefully they’ll die off when it gets cold.
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Does anyone else’s house have what seems to be an endless supply of very small fruit flies or midges? Little twats seem to be everywhere (not hundreds just a steady supply). Hopefully they’ll die off when it gets cold.
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In 2024, Bet 365's CEO got a salary - not total package, just salary - of £94.7m.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
In 2024, Bet 365's CEO got a salary - not total package, just salary - of £94.7m.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
Ah great, I was just thinking that what we really needed was some more dull and wet weather.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Ah great, I was just thinking that what we really needed was some more dull and wet weather.
Hi BBC, have you met the Labour Party?
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hi BBC, have you met the Labour Party?
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The BBC should reply by asking Trump to participate in their forthcoming documentary based on the copy of the Epstein files they’ve just been provided with.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The BBC should reply by asking Trump to participate in their forthcoming documentary based on the copy of the Epstein files they’ve just been provided with.
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NEWS! Man who spends all year bemoaning 'virtue signallers' pretty keen for you to notice his massive poppy
Man who spends all year bemoaning ‘virtue signallers’ pretty keen for you to notice his massive poppy
The need to publicly signal your virtues through ostentatious displays of support for ideas you think have value is nothing but a liberal cancer, according to the guy in the pub desperate for you t…
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
NEWS! Man who spends all year bemoaning 'virtue signallers' pretty keen for you to notice his massive poppy
Is it just me or is modern music - like basically everything since 2010 or thereabouts - just really bland and uninteresting?
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Is it just me or is modern music - like basically everything since 2010 or thereabouts - just really bland and uninteresting?
It’ll have to be a sea burial then. I worry what would happen if you tried to burn his corpse.
There is no grave for Hitler. Germany didn't want Nazis to worship him at his grave.
When our national nightmare is finally over, Trump shouldn't have a grave either.
And there shouldn't be a picture of him in the White House either. Images of Hitler are banned in Germany.
When our national nightmare is finally over, Trump shouldn't have a grave either.
And there shouldn't be a picture of him in the White House either. Images of Hitler are banned in Germany.
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It’ll have to be a sea burial then. I worry what would happen if you tried to burn his corpse.
Good.
CONFIRMED: BBC Director-General Tim Davie to step down
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Good.
Much as I love Eddie Howe, this doesn’t seem to be working any more.
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Much as I love Eddie Howe, this doesn’t seem to be working any more.
I’ve watched a few drama series recently where WWI has been a plot device. Obviously today we think of those who’ve fallen in conflicts of all types however my mind can’t help but drift to those who survived but were physically or mentally changed. I think about the impacts that war had on them… 1.
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I’ve watched a few drama series recently where WWI has been a plot device. Obviously today we think of those who’ve fallen in conflicts of all types however my mind can’t help but drift to those who survived but were physically or mentally changed. I think about the impacts that war had on them… 1.
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Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
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Rosalind Franklin
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Rosalind Franklin
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
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EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
Fuck Trump and fuck all his lickspittle and acolytes. If you have a job then you should be able to live and buy the food you need and if not the government should be helping you.
I truly do not understand how so many people can be indifferent to what is happening with SNAP —if they get stamps or not.
The trump govt. cruelty is simply terrifying !
Listen to these working Americans' heartbreaking tales of not knowing where their next meal will come from if SNAP is cut off.
The trump govt. cruelty is simply terrifying !
Listen to these working Americans' heartbreaking tales of not knowing where their next meal will come from if SNAP is cut off.
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Fuck Trump and fuck all his lickspittle and acolytes. If you have a job then you should be able to live and buy the food you need and if not the government should be helping you.
Spare a thought for someone who missed it last night, eh?
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Spare a thought for someone who missed it last night, eh?
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It’s 2025.
The worlds richest man has landed a target based pay deal of $1trn, despite Nazi salutes and ongoing white supremacy.
An obvious racist is president of the USA, he’s also a nonce and a rapist.
A career racist is leading polls in the UK.
I mean, fucking hell people 🤷♂️
The worlds richest man has landed a target based pay deal of $1trn, despite Nazi salutes and ongoing white supremacy.
An obvious racist is president of the USA, he’s also a nonce and a rapist.
A career racist is leading polls in the UK.
I mean, fucking hell people 🤷♂️
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
It’s 2025.
The worlds richest man has landed a target based pay deal of $1trn, despite Nazi salutes and ongoing white supremacy.
An obvious racist is president of the USA, he’s also a nonce and a rapist.
A career racist is leading polls in the UK.
I mean, fucking hell people 🤷♂️
The worlds richest man has landed a target based pay deal of $1trn, despite Nazi salutes and ongoing white supremacy.
An obvious racist is president of the USA, he’s also a nonce and a rapist.
A career racist is leading polls in the UK.
I mean, fucking hell people 🤷♂️
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This is Labour’s problem: thinking the good things mean we’ll forget about the abysmal and xenophobic immigration kowtowing to Farage, the failure to remove the 2 child benefit cap, the ridiculous crushing of protest.
It’s all a bit ‘well, at least the trains run on time’.
It’s all a bit ‘well, at least the trains run on time’.
Workers rights legislation renters rights breakfast clubs increase in minimum wage record investment in the NHS what part is not “Labour”?
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is Labour’s problem: thinking the good things mean we’ll forget about the abysmal and xenophobic immigration kowtowing to Farage, the failure to remove the 2 child benefit cap, the ridiculous crushing of protest.
It’s all a bit ‘well, at least the trains run on time’.
It’s all a bit ‘well, at least the trains run on time’.
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“Instead of offering real solutions, Reform is promising to rig the tax system further for a small minority of the country.”
Reform commits to abolishing inheritance tax
“Instead of offering real solutions, Reform is promising to rig the tax system further for a small minority of the country.”
leftfootforward.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
“Instead of offering real solutions, Reform is promising to rig the tax system further for a small minority of the country.”
This, but on a t-shirt.
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This, but on a t-shirt.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
Continuous detonations from 5.30 until 10.30 at night. For the celebration of a 425yr old plot to kill a king that failed.
I like fireworks but they shouldn't be sold to the general public. Obviously some twat's going to lob one at a paramedic. Garden fireworks are always shit anyway. Go and give the rotary club a fiver and watch a good display in a field with a candyfloss machine and a tombola.
'Notable reduction' in Bonfire Night disruption
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Continuous detonations from 5.30 until 10.30 at night. For the celebration of a 425yr old plot to kill a king that failed.
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Heba is a young mother in Gaza who desperately needs our help - she has two young children to care for but she also needs sanitary provisions for herself as well which are often out of reach. Please give if you can and share:
gofund.me/6650fc8e8
gofund.me/6650fc8e8
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Heba is a young mother in Gaza who desperately needs our help - she has two young children to care for but she also needs sanitary provisions for herself as well which are often out of reach. Please give if you can and share:
gofund.me/6650fc8e8
gofund.me/6650fc8e8
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Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.