Brian Normal
@sirbriannormal.bsky.social
I'm dealing with cancer, Type 1 Diabetes, & arthritis. These things cause me occasionally to feel a bit low. But life is great, on the whole, often because of cricket & its people. I try to be nice, but forgive me if I'm blunt.
Albums I bought when I was 16, in order of perfection:
Legend
Purple Rain
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Geffery Morgan
Eliminator
Perfect Strangers
Legend
Purple Rain
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Geffery Morgan
Eliminator
Perfect Strangers
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Albums I bought when I was 16, in order of perfection:
Legend
Purple Rain
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Geffery Morgan
Eliminator
Perfect Strangers
Legend
Purple Rain
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Geffery Morgan
Eliminator
Perfect Strangers
The Beavers have taken a lot of head space
#thearchers
#thearchers
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Beavers have taken a lot of head space
#thearchers
#thearchers
I didn't think my disrespect for this man, his minions & his views could get any more powerful, and then came this:
"... would see an end to such classics as The Archers and Test Match Special".
"... would see an end to such classics as The Archers and Test Match Special".
Farage says BBC must be 'slimmed down'. Farewell to Strictly, Match of the Day, Traitors & all that
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BBC: Farage wants to scrap The Archers, Test Match Special and the Traitors
Nigel Farage is another of his ‘news’ conference has repeated his view that the BBC should become a subscription broadcaster like Netflix and Sky. The exception apparently is the news a…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I didn't think my disrespect for this man, his minions & his views could get any more powerful, and then came this:
"... would see an end to such classics as The Archers and Test Match Special".
"... would see an end to such classics as The Archers and Test Match Special".
Where's your fucking poppy?!
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Where's your fucking poppy?!
Very good. But I despair of the youth of today not having turned "close" into "nonce". You barely see a To Let becoming ToiLet anymore. I suppose they're too busy engaging in critical thought & political discourse to have such fun.
Repurpose it as a warning sign
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Very good. But I despair of the youth of today not having turned "close" into "nonce". You barely see a To Let becoming ToiLet anymore. I suppose they're too busy engaging in critical thought & political discourse to have such fun.
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif
a black and white photo of a woman wearing a hat with the caption if you have to
Alt: A black and white gif of Ingrid Bergman in the film Casablanca
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif
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#Dartmoor #NationalPark & much of #Devon is secretively
(& many regard illegally)
being SOLD to billionaire corporations by #Starmer's #Labour
😡
#SEZ #FREEPORTS MUST BE STOPPED
🌳
#SaveDevon
#ProtectDartmoor
Fears #Okehampton
#Tavistock
#Yelverton
#Plymouth
will become a huge poisonous #Lithium #Mine
(& many regard illegally)
being SOLD to billionaire corporations by #Starmer's #Labour
😡
#SEZ #FREEPORTS MUST BE STOPPED
🌳
#SaveDevon
#ProtectDartmoor
Fears #Okehampton
#Tavistock
#Yelverton
#Plymouth
will become a huge poisonous #Lithium #Mine
February 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#Dartmoor #NationalPark & much of #Devon is secretively
(& many regard illegally)
being SOLD to billionaire corporations by #Starmer's #Labour
😡
#SEZ #FREEPORTS MUST BE STOPPED
🌳
#SaveDevon
#ProtectDartmoor
Fears #Okehampton
#Tavistock
#Yelverton
#Plymouth
will become a huge poisonous #Lithium #Mine
(& many regard illegally)
being SOLD to billionaire corporations by #Starmer's #Labour
😡
#SEZ #FREEPORTS MUST BE STOPPED
🌳
#SaveDevon
#ProtectDartmoor
Fears #Okehampton
#Tavistock
#Yelverton
#Plymouth
will become a huge poisonous #Lithium #Mine
Thank you for your advice. I get a lot of shit like "ooh, my friend had cancer too but she ate [insert random words, e.g. carrots, parrots, mud, horses' faces, bikes] and now she's fine. You should try it". I guess they mean well but I wish they'd just bring useful shit like old cricket score books
Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate.
Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Thank you for your advice. I get a lot of shit like "ooh, my friend had cancer too but she ate [insert random words, e.g. carrots, parrots, mud, horses' faces, bikes] and now she's fine. You should try it". I guess they mean well but I wish they'd just bring useful shit like old cricket score books
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OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n
October 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n
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Can't help but think these stats will be used to show what a dangerous place the UK is and usher in god knows what, but it's just pensioners holding up signs. Agree with them, don't agree with them, whatever, it's a palpable absurdity to call it terrorism.
🚨 BREAKING | 1,339 people have now been arrested on "terrorism" charges in 2025, with almost all of them busted for holding signs at pro-Palestine protests.
This is more than any year on record, by far.
(Source: Home Office)
This is more than any year on record, by far.
(Source: Home Office)
September 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Can't help but think these stats will be used to show what a dangerous place the UK is and usher in god knows what, but it's just pensioners holding up signs. Agree with them, don't agree with them, whatever, it's a palpable absurdity to call it terrorism.
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Work classified! I am an extremely experienced, versatile and funny writer who’s available to work on your TV show,radio show, speech you name it! My website is here with my beautifully formed CV www.mathew-owen.co.uk - have a look and please share. DM me if you have the work👍 cheers.
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I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services.
Get in touch!
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Work classified! I am an extremely experienced, versatile and funny writer who’s available to work on your TV show,radio show, speech you name it! My website is here with my beautifully formed CV www.mathew-owen.co.uk - have a look and please share. DM me if you have the work👍 cheers.
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Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
This is fucking good
For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you.
If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is fucking good
Surely the item on Kay Dumbar in this Last Word episode was taken from On The Hour?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@aiannucci.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Last Word - Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter - BBC Sounds
John Wilson on an actor, tech pioneer, literacy festival founder, a polymath
www.bbc.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Surely the item on Kay Dumbar in this Last Word episode was taken from On The Hour?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@aiannucci.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@aiannucci.bsky.social
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At PMQs Badenoch implied it was she who forced a Labour U-turn on a grooming gangs inquiry. Lest we forget...
Source: @privateeyenews.bsky.social
#PMQs #Starmer #Badenoch #BadEnoch
Source: @privateeyenews.bsky.social
#PMQs #Starmer #Badenoch #BadEnoch
July 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
At PMQs Badenoch implied it was she who forced a Labour U-turn on a grooming gangs inquiry. Lest we forget...
Source: @privateeyenews.bsky.social
#PMQs #Starmer #Badenoch #BadEnoch
Source: @privateeyenews.bsky.social
#PMQs #Starmer #Badenoch #BadEnoch
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@somersetccc.bsky.social I dont do X, what's the latest on play today at Taunton for the #wodi?
June 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
@somersetccc.bsky.social I dont do X, what's the latest on play today at Taunton for the #wodi?
This man, good idea
If only we could tackle the climate crisis like this - mobilising vast sums of money and organising vast industries to produce green energy and other good stuff - like there’s no tomorrow. Rather than bombs.
buff.ly/ecaCCbF
buff.ly/ecaCCbF
May 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This man, good idea
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bill murray in famous works of art: thread
May 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
bill murray in famous works of art: thread
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It was great to have the support of MPs @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @simonforstroud.bsky.social & @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social outside the Supreme Court earlier for wild camping verdict!
Now we need the Govt to pass legislation to extend public access rights to nature!
Now we need the Govt to pass legislation to extend public access rights to nature!
May 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It was great to have the support of MPs @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @simonforstroud.bsky.social & @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social outside the Supreme Court earlier for wild camping verdict!
Now we need the Govt to pass legislation to extend public access rights to nature!
Now we need the Govt to pass legislation to extend public access rights to nature!
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My book 'GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War' came out a year ago today.
All the players are still here. A new team will soon be raising money for Ukrainian causes.
Thank you to everyone who has read the book 🇺🇦🏏
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting...
All the players are still here. A new team will soon be raising money for Ukrainian causes.
Thank you to everyone who has read the book 🇺🇦🏏
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting...
Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War
Getting Out tells how Ukraine's cricketers escaped from Russia's invasion in February 2022, including first-hand accounts of the war. As the foreign-born players fled the bombings, the team’s Ukrainia...
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My book 'GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War' came out a year ago today.
All the players are still here. A new team will soon be raising money for Ukrainian causes.
Thank you to everyone who has read the book 🇺🇦🏏
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting...
All the players are still here. A new team will soon be raising money for Ukrainian causes.
Thank you to everyone who has read the book 🇺🇦🏏
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting...
Just out of surgery. #NHS at its absolutely bloody marvellous brilliant best yet again. Thank you to all receptionists, porters, healthcare assistants, nurses, junior doctors, consultants & surgeons who did me proud again. 💙
April 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Just out of surgery. #NHS at its absolutely bloody marvellous brilliant best yet again. Thank you to all receptionists, porters, healthcare assistants, nurses, junior doctors, consultants & surgeons who did me proud again. 💙
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@jjraimondo.bsky.social
Hey, John, is this you? Getting some messages from this account:
Hey, John, is this you? Getting some messages from this account:
March 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@jjraimondo.bsky.social
Hey, John, is this you? Getting some messages from this account:
Hey, John, is this you? Getting some messages from this account: