Pete Green
@petegreensolo.com
poet/placewriter, musician/indiepopper, beachcomber/edgelander / north briton /sarahlander / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee / no generative AI, ever Sheffield they/them please, ta 💖 petegreensolo.com
If you could expunge a single word from the English language, what would it be? The word 'politics' is a mechanism people use to transform other people and their concerns into a distant, abstract thing, packed into a box and pushed out of sight The world would be kinder without the word 'politics'
I'm on a train on the mostly very rural and sparsely used Brigg line in Lincolnshire. My window is open. Every few minutes the train thrashes some lineside trees and I'm showered in leaf confetti.
This shit is entirely driven by misogyny. Turns out that women and girls have another thing they need care and accommodations for? In this economy?
Twenty years on from 'The Great Global Warming Swindle', Channel 4 commissions a sequel
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
I had the idea for this survey, designed the questions, drove participation, designed all the social media assets, worded the posts, crunched the numbers, and wrote up the results. Anyone got a job or any freelance #comms work for me?
Football Action Network@footballactionnetwork.com · last wk.😱 The recent #FIFAWorldCup has almost completely wiped out supporters' confidence in #FIFA. See the results of our fan survey for the full story: footballactionnetwork.com/news/fan-sur... 🚫 Surely this leaves #Infantino with zero mandate for his plan to bring private capital into the #WorldCup
Some days those memes just write themselves
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
It's Tramlines weekend here in Sheffield - the annual city music festival that I long since gave up on engaging with because the main stage is shit and the fringe venues are crammed to the point of inducing panic attacks!
I love George because he was like "the fleeting sensations of the material world are a distraction from the pursuit of dharma and oneness with the universe" and also like "fast car BRRRM BRRRM!!"
George Harrison Archive@harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 2w agoOn June 3, 1979, George Harrison (and, as seen here in photo 1), Jackie Stewart) took part in the Gunnar Nilsson memorial race at Donington. The proceeds from George’s single “Faster” also went to the Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Fund. Read more at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8229466....
📢 So far, 1️⃣7️⃣3️⃣ people have shared their views on the #FIFAWorldCup in our survey Here are just a few of their comments. Don't miss the chance to add your voice - complete the survey now ➡️ footballactionnetwork.com/survey
Come and see my band in Cambridge in November, you'll love us (and everyone else)
Pink Opaque 🩷🪩@pinkopaque.co.uk · 2w agoWe already loved Cambridge Indiepop All-Dayer 💖🚲🎓 We love it even more now that we're playing 😆🩷🪩 It'll be amazing to play with @natloftus.bsky.social and @tomboygrandpa.bsky.social too! 🤩 Saturday 14 November, tickets on sale now at wegottickets.com/f/24611 #cambridge #indiepop #alldayer #yay
So I'm working for @footballactionnetwork.com now and we need your help to make a point or two about the running of the game ⬇️
Football Action Network@footballactionnetwork.com · 2w ago😤 Need to let off steam? Have your say on everything you didn't love about the #WorldCup in the Football Action Network survey! ➡️ forms.cloud.microsoft/e/r52HBVw8vW We'll share the findings soon... #WC2026 #WorldCupFinal #FIFA #FIFAWorldCup #Infantino #HydrationBreak
Kevin Keegan may have said the odd daft thing in his later years, but I WOULD LOVE IT if he could be remembered fondly.
The first WSC contributor to hold the office of Prime Minister – Andy Burnham for WSC 101, July 1995
On the first day of my first job in publishing, the company pulled out a crappy old computer for me from the back of a storeroom, and five minutes after I powered it up we had to evacuate the office because a ton of smoke was pouring out the back of it
SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.
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I guess if protesting a genocide counts as terrorism, then losing half a million votes and decimating the membership counts as saving the party
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3w agoSure, why not: ringing the nation’s doorbell to draw our attention to one final, blazing shite-alight left upon the doorstep of democracy. Fuck you, fuck everybody who hoped for anything better: we had an absolute blast. The time of our lives.
My main takeaway from that first half is that the referee bears a remarkable similarity to the former BBC Look North journalist Damian Johnson.
To see a world in a grain of sand, and the whole UK political/media ecosystem in the fact that the Telegraph and Spectator are now running 100% straight-faced hit pieces against a comedy election candidate with a dustbin on his head
If you're looking for some English Englash or Pototo Bliss can I recommend Downtown Burger in Halifax?
