Hurleyburly
@hurleyburly.bsky.social
EAP teacher. I love performing, travelling, and my dog Rufus (not in that order).
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Our mental health is so important. If you’re struggling please reach out. UK numbers:
Call Samaritans: 116123
National Suicide Prevention helpline: 0800 689 5652
The Calm Zone: 0800 58 58 58
Under 25? Call The Mix: 0808 808 4994
Under 35? Call PAPYRUS: 0800 068 4141
SwitchboardLGBT: 0300 300 0630
Call Samaritans: 116123
National Suicide Prevention helpline: 0800 689 5652
The Calm Zone: 0800 58 58 58
Under 25? Call The Mix: 0808 808 4994
Under 35? Call PAPYRUS: 0800 068 4141
SwitchboardLGBT: 0300 300 0630
August 14, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Our mental health is so important. If you’re struggling please reach out. UK numbers:
Call Samaritans: 116123
National Suicide Prevention helpline: 0800 689 5652
The Calm Zone: 0800 58 58 58
Under 25? Call The Mix: 0808 808 4994
Under 35? Call PAPYRUS: 0800 068 4141
SwitchboardLGBT: 0300 300 0630
Call Samaritans: 116123
National Suicide Prevention helpline: 0800 689 5652
The Calm Zone: 0800 58 58 58
Under 25? Call The Mix: 0808 808 4994
Under 35? Call PAPYRUS: 0800 068 4141
SwitchboardLGBT: 0300 300 0630
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Deep joy to have James in the studio for this mammoth political review of a year that was pretty devoid of joy. Whether you're trimming sprouts, enjoying the solitude, or trying to digest while walking the dog, let us share the day with you. x
🔔 Nothing to see Year... with James O'Brien ☃️
Who's up? Who's down? Who's in and who's out?
🎅🏽 Join us for a review of 2025 🛷
Part I of a @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrjamesob.bsky.social special.
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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎄 open.spotify.com/episode/2dbS...
Who's up? Who's down? Who's in and who's out?
🎅🏽 Join us for a review of 2025 🛷
Part I of a @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrjamesob.bsky.social special.
🎁
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎄 open.spotify.com/episode/2dbS...
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Deep joy to have James in the studio for this mammoth political review of a year that was pretty devoid of joy. Whether you're trimming sprouts, enjoying the solitude, or trying to digest while walking the dog, let us share the day with you. x
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If you find🎄 hard due to grief,trauma,family stuff,wonky self esteem,neurodivergence &/or an urge to throw Christmas down the loo, become a reclusive pagan & maybe make a small hat out of mistletoe at a push,then hi,me too.Here are some good twigs & I’m sending gentle thoughts. It’s only a few days🌿
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If you find🎄 hard due to grief,trauma,family stuff,wonky self esteem,neurodivergence &/or an urge to throw Christmas down the loo, become a reclusive pagan & maybe make a small hat out of mistletoe at a push,then hi,me too.Here are some good twigs & I’m sending gentle thoughts. It’s only a few days🌿
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⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here.
✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that:
www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...
✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that:
www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...
Take Action: Stop Elon Musk's Energy Power Grab
Change Minds → Change Politics
www.bestforbritain.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here.
✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that:
www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...
✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that:
www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...
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Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever
May 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever
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We believe the Supreme Court has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us?
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Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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goodlawproject.org
May 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We believe the Supreme Court has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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"If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders."
Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey
April 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders."
Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey
🇮🇳 New Episode Out 🇵🇰 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social tell the story of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. To what extent did the personalities of a handful of politicians dictate the course of world history? Essential listening ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
April 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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If only someone had written a book on this very subject, with specific advice for how to deradicalise your son if he falls prey to Andrew Tate. Oh, they did! It was me! www.penguin.co.uk/books/447366...
Sir Gareth Southgate, the former England football manager, has warned that young men are falling victim to “callous, manipulative and toxic influencers”
Gareth Southgate warns of ‘toxic influencers’ harming young men
www.thetimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
If only someone had written a book on this very subject, with specific advice for how to deradicalise your son if he falls prey to Andrew Tate. Oh, they did! It was me! www.penguin.co.uk/books/447366...
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March 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
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Brexit five years on: A triumph of lies iandunt.substack.com/p/brexit-fiv...
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Brexit five years on: A triumph of lies iandunt.substack.com/p/brexit-fiv...
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Just a few days after receiving his Nobel prize, the writer Albert Camus wrote this beautiful letter to his old teacher (h/t www.themarginalian.org/2014/11/19/a...)
January 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just a few days after receiving his Nobel prize, the writer Albert Camus wrote this beautiful letter to his old teacher (h/t www.themarginalian.org/2014/11/19/a...)
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SUNDAY SCHOOL!
@sturdyalex.bsky.social is joined by @snellarthur.bsky.social to discuss the future of NATO, Ukraine, Gaza, Syria - and whether The West, capitalised as one entity, may be coming to the end of the unity of purpose
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@sturdyalex.bsky.social is joined by @snellarthur.bsky.social to discuss the future of NATO, Ukraine, Gaza, Syria - and whether The West, capitalised as one entity, may be coming to the end of the unity of purpose
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
open.spotify.com/episode/5acu...
Sunday School: To Be Or NATO Be
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 26/01/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
SUNDAY SCHOOL!
@sturdyalex.bsky.social is joined by @snellarthur.bsky.social to discuss the future of NATO, Ukraine, Gaza, Syria - and whether The West, capitalised as one entity, may be coming to the end of the unity of purpose
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
open.spotify.com/episode/5acu...
@sturdyalex.bsky.social is joined by @snellarthur.bsky.social to discuss the future of NATO, Ukraine, Gaza, Syria - and whether The West, capitalised as one entity, may be coming to the end of the unity of purpose
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
open.spotify.com/episode/5acu...
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Banksy drops another bomb.
January 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Banksy drops another bomb.
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He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.
January 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.
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Household Log Entry:
Wine supply depleted. Snacks dwindling. Must don
real clothes and exit base. Human interaction likely.
Morale:low. Prognosis:grim.
Wine supply depleted. Snacks dwindling. Must don
real clothes and exit base. Human interaction likely.
Morale:low. Prognosis:grim.
January 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Household Log Entry:
Wine supply depleted. Snacks dwindling. Must don
real clothes and exit base. Human interaction likely.
Morale:low. Prognosis:grim.
Wine supply depleted. Snacks dwindling. Must don
real clothes and exit base. Human interaction likely.
Morale:low. Prognosis:grim.
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I wrote a review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the brand new Bob Dylan bio pic. And I guarantee you it is totally unlike any other critique of the film that you are ever going to run in to. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...
'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI
And INTRODUCING 'THE TOSHI AWARDS!'
merrillmarkoe.substack.com
December 30, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers.
Please share.
Please share.
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November 29, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers.
Please share.
Please share.
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I'm sorry, I remembered your dog's name
but I've forgotten yours.
but I've forgotten yours.
December 6, 2024 at 11:28 PM
I'm sorry, I remembered your dog's name
but I've forgotten yours.
but I've forgotten yours.
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There's a special place in heaven for bus drivers stopped at the lights just after the bus stop, who see you crossing the road and open the door for you because they know what a bastard long wait you'll have.
December 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
There's a special place in heaven for bus drivers stopped at the lights just after the bus stop, who see you crossing the road and open the door for you because they know what a bastard long wait you'll have.