Romeo
@romeoromeotango.bsky.social
Translator/editor and cricket follower, especially emerging/associate and county cricket
Blues, soul, Emmylou
Name is my initials
romeoromeotango.wordpress.com , mainly about cricket - email address there
Image is Polygraph XV Anys; 1980. Antoni Tàpies
Blues, soul, Emmylou
Name is my initials
romeoromeotango.wordpress.com , mainly about cricket - email address there
Image is Polygraph XV Anys; 1980. Antoni Tàpies
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Yes, Matt. They were all sick of listening to people like you.
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Yes, Matt. They were all sick of listening to people like you.
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but seemed to get the hang of them. and dry feet when we came back inside!
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
but seemed to get the hang of them. and dry feet when we came back inside!
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He wasn't at all sure about the whole "snow boots" thing
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
He wasn't at all sure about the whole "snow boots" thing
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IT IS LIKE A NUDIST COLONY & BOOZERS & SMOKERS PARADISE.
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
IT IS LIKE A NUDIST COLONY & BOOZERS & SMOKERS PARADISE.
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Eighteen-year-old Brendon Bracewell signs an autograph on the eve of his Test debut for New Zealand v England, The Oval, July 28th 1978. He played in all three Tests on the tour but only three more overall, finishing with 14 wickets at 41.78
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Eighteen-year-old Brendon Bracewell signs an autograph on the eve of his Test debut for New Zealand v England, The Oval, July 28th 1978. He played in all three Tests on the tour but only three more overall, finishing with 14 wickets at 41.78
May I humbly recommend this entire (and very long) thread to everybody?
I do not think that anger is a helpful emotion. It does not really do anything that is positive.
But I must admit that I am angry at a very fundamental level these days because everything that is currently happening in the UK was predictable and predicted. Not in every detail, but in the ... 🧵
But I must admit that I am angry at a very fundamental level these days because everything that is currently happening in the UK was predictable and predicted. Not in every detail, but in the ... 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
May I humbly recommend this entire (and very long) thread to everybody?
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Special view of London (from the bell tower of St Mary Le Bow)
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Special view of London (from the bell tower of St Mary Le Bow)
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Robert Jenrick ensuring he has a personal and plentiful supply of bullshit.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Robert Jenrick ensuring he has a personal and plentiful supply of bullshit.
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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📣 Règlement Retour : France terre d’asile appelle l’Union européenne et le gouvernement français à rejeter une réforme qui porterait gravement atteinte aux droits des personnes étrangères
Retrouvez notre communiqué 👇
www.france-terre-asile.org/communiques-...
Retrouvez notre communiqué 👇
www.france-terre-asile.org/communiques-...
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
📣 Règlement Retour : France terre d’asile appelle l’Union européenne et le gouvernement français à rejeter une réforme qui porterait gravement atteinte aux droits des personnes étrangères
Retrouvez notre communiqué 👇
www.france-terre-asile.org/communiques-...
Retrouvez notre communiqué 👇
www.france-terre-asile.org/communiques-...
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Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
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We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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why can they not just fix it
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
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CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
2
McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
3
CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
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EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
5
EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
6
EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
7
CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
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[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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[Customer looks inside the cup]
10
[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
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EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
why can they not just fix it
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The two levels of rabbit alertness
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The two levels of rabbit alertness
Just look, for god's sake.
...And in terms of asylum applications per 10,000 people the UK is lower down, at 16 per 10,000 people in 2024...
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Just look, for god's sake.
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My 87-year-old father, who first campaigned for the Labour Party alongside his mother (a union organiser) in 1945, and was still canvassing for the party as recently as 2019, tore up his membership card earlier this year over immigration. Today's sickening announcements only show how right he was.
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My 87-year-old father, who first campaigned for the Labour Party alongside his mother (a union organiser) in 1945, and was still canvassing for the party as recently as 2019, tore up his membership card earlier this year over immigration. Today's sickening announcements only show how right he was.
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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
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If Rachel Reeves wants a simple, low-cost yet progressive tax reform, this is it, writes tax expert Dan Neidle for @thehousemag.bsky.social:
Nobody, particularly the vulnerable, should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax — this unfair system must change
Nobody, particularly the vulnerable, should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax — this unfair system must change
If Rachel Reeves Wants A Simple, Low-Cost Yet Progressive Tax Reform, This Is It
One tax reform should be easy for Rachel Reeves, writes Dan Neidle, who says an obscure technical change has become an ‘automated wrecking ball’ fo...
www.politicshome.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If Rachel Reeves wants a simple, low-cost yet progressive tax reform, this is it, writes tax expert Dan Neidle for @thehousemag.bsky.social:
Nobody, particularly the vulnerable, should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax — this unfair system must change
Nobody, particularly the vulnerable, should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax — this unfair system must change
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With the Epstein emails at a new fever pitch, please read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s 2022 “They Knew” (as well as her prolific other writings) — it is a window into the past about things that seem only to be “discovered” now. Strongly recommend, I owe a lot to her thinking/writing.
They Knew
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville."—Timothy Snyder...
us.macmillan.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
With the Epstein emails at a new fever pitch, please read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s 2022 “They Knew” (as well as her prolific other writings) — it is a window into the past about things that seem only to be “discovered” now. Strongly recommend, I owe a lot to her thinking/writing.
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Incidentally, both the Wilson and Heath UK gov'ts supported the junta, due to “commercial interests” and seeing the generals as “ardent NATOists”.
“It would be right to do business with the regime and try to push them into a suitable political evolution.”
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
“It would be right to do business with the regime and try to push them into a suitable political evolution.”
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
How Britain got on board with Greece’s dictators
When Greek army officers seized power in Athens in 1967, Harold Wilson’s Labour government decided to do business with its repressive NATO and commercial ally, overriding human rights concerns, declas...
www.declassifieduk.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Incidentally, both the Wilson and Heath UK gov'ts supported the junta, due to “commercial interests” and seeing the generals as “ardent NATOists”.
“It would be right to do business with the regime and try to push them into a suitable political evolution.”
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
“It would be right to do business with the regime and try to push them into a suitable political evolution.”
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
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At 3AM, November 17, 1973, "The Colonels" sent a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. It had been occupied by students protesting the fascist junta. Dozens died, mostly teens, 20s and one boy of 5. Over 2,000 were injured.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
At 3AM, November 17, 1973, "The Colonels" sent a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. It had been occupied by students protesting the fascist junta. Dozens died, mostly teens, 20s and one boy of 5. Over 2,000 were injured.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
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It is Ashes week and today we announce our all-time best combined team:
Matthew Hayden
Len Hutton
Don Bradman
Ken Barrington
Steve Waugh (c)
Ian Botham
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Sydney Barnes
Glenn McGrath
Drinks waiters: R Ponting, B Stokes & D Gower
Matthew Hayden
Len Hutton
Don Bradman
Ken Barrington
Steve Waugh (c)
Ian Botham
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Sydney Barnes
Glenn McGrath
Drinks waiters: R Ponting, B Stokes & D Gower
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It is Ashes week and today we announce our all-time best combined team:
Matthew Hayden
Len Hutton
Don Bradman
Ken Barrington
Steve Waugh (c)
Ian Botham
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Sydney Barnes
Glenn McGrath
Drinks waiters: R Ponting, B Stokes & D Gower
Matthew Hayden
Len Hutton
Don Bradman
Ken Barrington
Steve Waugh (c)
Ian Botham
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Sydney Barnes
Glenn McGrath
Drinks waiters: R Ponting, B Stokes & D Gower
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Yep, Harmer only gets cheap wickets at Chelmsford
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yep, Harmer only gets cheap wickets at Chelmsford