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Ed Bridges

DrEdBridges@toot.wales

<p>Social science policy wonk, pacifist, dysgwr Cymraeg, talk a lot about Newport County, more fun than I sound. Views ≠ my employer’s. 
North Cardiff, via South Oxfordshire.</p>

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    All this #ManCity stuff should be the prompt to disband the entire #PremierLeague and the financial doping it has bred. Scrap it all, go back to four divisions overseen by one organisation, with television revenues split equally between 92 clubs, and genuine competition again. The quote below, nearly 30 years old, remains as true as ever.

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    A pretty bloody good weekend in #Dorset, all told, combining some #birdwatching with the #SwanageFolkFestival and even seeing a few good steam trains along the way. I can take or leave all of the above, if truth be known, but collectively it played to all our interests. 🚂 🪕 🦅

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    No doubt some GBNews type will come knocking soon demanding to know details of my donation to the campaign… 🛒 https://www.binfaceshop.co.uk @CountBinface@mastodon.world #VoteBinface #UKpolitics #UKpol

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    Listen, we all know it’s unlikely to happen, but it clearly would be the FUNNIEST THING EVER if Count Binface were to do the impossible and beat Nigel Farright in #Clacton. @CountBinface@mastodon.world has an online shop, some of the t-shirts are great, and it can help cover some campaign costs. Treat yourself. https://www.binfaceshop.co.uk #UKpolitics #UKpol

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    My yucca plant has suddenly flowered rather spectacularly, and it’s made me very happy indeed. #bloomscrolling

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    RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-KezZUkGqRtOWiQx_ZyqIzg%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0 Hurrah! I don&amp;#39;t expect this to mean that a return ticket to London will suddenly stop costing me north of ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY POUNDS, but at least a chunk of that money won&amp;#39;t immediately get hoovered up by shareholders.

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    I can&amp;#39;t believe how swiftly most of the UK media has skirted over the fact that a political party expected to do well at tomorrow&amp;#39;s polls is proposing literal concentration camps. WTF?!? https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/straight-out-donald-trumps-playbook #UKpolitics #UKpol

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    @BBC5Live Does it count as an experiment if you go months on end without posting anything‽

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    THOUGHT FOR THE DAY I’m at a work thing. Lots of talk about UK Government missions and priorities. Instead of political parties relentlessly talking up economic growth in the hope that money makes us happier as a by-product, I’d love for them to prioritise making us happier and hoping that a by-product might be that we become richer too. #UKpolitics #UKpol

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    Looking forward to doing the Newport Riverfront #parkrun this weekend for the first time. Anyone else on here going? #Newport #Casnewydd #Gwent

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    Some excellent #ShoutyBlokesWithGuitars action in #Newport / #Casnewydd tonight. Nice to visit The Pit, my first time there. Great support from youngsters #FlatCat and the very talented #MilkInCrisis (good band, terrible name); and an excellent first headline set by local lads #Maeve. #LiveMusic #gigs

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    Bore da o BarkRun Casnewydd! 🏃🏻 #parkrun #Newport #Casnewydd

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    A heartwarming 36hrs in Newport full of friends, fun, love and laughter utterly ruined by as insipid a second-half performance as you could hope to witness at Rodney Parade. #ncafc 🧡🖤

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    Which of these things makes more noise?

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    #heddwch #pacifism #peace #WelfareNotWarfare

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    As another bonkers US president gets embroiled in another pointless war in another Middle East country, it’s high time this moment from #PeepShow was updated…