Mark Hurst
@hurstaka.bsky.social
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Ah, Juicy Fruit..
https://hurstaka.wordpress.com/
Traffic, Lights..
23 days ago
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Bloke in the supermarket, picking up watermelons, holding them to his ear, and tapping them. Can't help imagining his face if one tapped back..
24 days ago
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Political Nonsense. Twas Brylcreem, and the slimy tories Did squirm and dangle in the wabe All mimsy were the Faragegroves And the Reform wraths outgrabe. “Beware the Jenrickwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Kuenssberg, and shun The frumious Badenochsnatch!”
25 days ago
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(To the tune of Puff The Magic Dragon..)
#Grok
The AI Chatbot Developed for X Takes quite decent images And turns them into sex It's little Elon's caper And some have had enough They want Ofcom to take it down For making dodgy stuff..
28 days ago
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Suggested opening song for tonight's
#Panorama
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#Evri
#WheresMyParcel
Evri time they don't come by I die a little Evri time, they lie & lie I cry a little I need my 10L Compostable bin Liners When they change from 'We're nearly there' to 'Some other time', Argh! Evri's times? Pie in the sky..
about 2 months ago
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"Last one to leave, turn out the lights.."
about 2 months ago
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Whoever arranged this draw is, ironically, a massive ballbag..
#WorldCup2026
2 months ago
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In-store music in supermarkets provides no great salve for the monstrous costs and greedflation on display. However, if there has to be a soundtrack to one's ire at Tesco's latest mushy peas price-hike, then it could be worse than John Holt's, Help Me Make It Through The Night. I was almost jaunty.
3 months ago
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This Budget has had a bigger build and more publicity than the Oasis reunion. After Weds they should take it on tour. Generate some extra revenue..
3 months ago
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Redcoat..
3 months ago
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It's all new Singing With Squirrel! Me: Do you like punk/new wave, mixed with music hall-esque lyrical wordplay? Her: I don't know what any of that means. But you crack on, fella..
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3 months ago
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R-E-L-E-A-S-E - by Lammy Wynette His R-E-L--E-A-S-E came early today Him and another L-A-G got clean away Now they're on the run, because of what they've done In the past, Illegally Oh I can't believe this accidental R-E-L-E-A-S-E
3 months ago
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It's not easy directing a squirrel and a monkey nut. And yet.. 'Dracula meets Autumnwatch' - Transylvania Bugle 'Scarier than when Twitter tried to cancel me' - Stephen King
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3 months ago
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Roll Up, Roll Up..
3 months ago
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Squilhouette..
4 months ago
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Kemi going from Badenoch to Worsenoch..
#PMQs
4 months ago
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Must have had a good night at the state banquet, I found him on the pavement this morning, looking quite chuffed with himself..
5 months ago
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Herondipity..
5 months ago
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Coming up on tonight's episode of 'Singing With Squirrel'..
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5 months ago
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Logferatu..
5 months ago
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RIP
@coachpolly.bsky.social
So long, and rest easy.. x
5 months ago
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At first, I thought they said 'a conservative scottish MP has defecated to
#Reform
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6 months ago
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I just saw the new Cadbury's ice-cream advert, and it exposed a horror story for our times..
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I Scream, You Scream..
I Scream, You Scream.. I saw an advert earlier today for a new Cadburys ice-cream. In it, a young lad opens a fridge, takes out an ice-cream carton, removes the lid, and sees it’s completely …
https://hurstaka.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/i-scream-you-scream/
6 months ago
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I've never owned an apple corer before now. Feels quite grown up, but also slightly dangerous, like it could turn on you and put a hole through your hand..
6 months ago
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Heads up to any insomniacs out there! The best bedtime story, and best version of Goldilocks, that you'll ever hear..
youtu.be/bgPcPOS9_X8?...
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Pack Up Your Troubles - Laurel & Hardy (Bedtime Story)
YouTube video by Gerry Watts PoL
https://youtu.be/bgPcPOS9_X8?si=mdieIm806uj6u35f
6 months ago
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Sometimes I get misty-eyed for the old days of Broken Britain and the Credit Crunch, before everything turned to shit..
6 months ago
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Me, mum & sis at Butlins, Skegness. Can't help feeling it's like they're peering through a little window into the future, and I'm here, smiling back, waving and wishing I was there..
6 months ago
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Remember singing this when it came out, thinking you were being really grown up.. 'Will you do it anymore? As soon as you walk out the door Well I just wondered, did you ever? All the time..'
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Nancy Sinatra Lee HazlewoodI Did you ever all the time
YouTube video by Simonoves simon
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FCjS4bU-kUM&si=hx4j01wfjWFvCkN9
6 months ago
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I found the perfect food item for bridging the class divide - Yuzu Jaffa Cakes!
6 months ago
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Imagine if hack journalists used the same language irl. They'd refer to their kid 'breaking silence' about what they want for lunch. Followed by an 'important update' which would be that they still haven't decided..
6 months ago
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'Smile, though your bark is breaking..'
6 months ago
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Following revelations of drug taking on
#Strictly
, dances on the next series are to include, The Crackstep, Pass a Doobie and the Cha-Cha-Charlie..
6 months ago
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There once was a storm, name of Floris With more bluster than ex-PM, Boris The amber alert Means it could lift your skirt And might even overturn lorries..
#StormFloris
6 months ago
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I see Twitter is now using Rage Verification. It means you can't get access unless you can prove you're a toxic sociopath who's determined to start an argument..
6 months ago
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Not sure who's bought the big house on the corner, near me, but I think it might be Bela Lugosi's dad..
6 months ago
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'Don't Make Me Angry - You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry..'
7 months ago
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Reminds me of the old Hale & Pace characters, The Management - 'You understand the rules, one in, one out, yeah?' I do Macron, Ron, I do Macron..'
7 months ago
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Crossing The Line - A lyrical lament for the loss of the Wimbledon line judges..
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Like a circus without a clown A knees up without Mother Brown A soul compilation without Motown Or Bridgerton without Lady Thistledown..
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Crossing The Line
I’m not vindictive by natureNor am I one to bear grudgesBut damn and blast whoever got rid ofThe Wimbledon line judges! Some say it’s an improvementNo more challenges or doubtWhen a pre…
https://hurstaka.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/crossing-the-line/
7 months ago
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Crackhead..
8 months ago
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Hedegecrow..
8 months ago
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'Ever fallen in love, in love with someone Ever fallen in love, in love with someone You shouldn't have fallen in love with..'
8 months ago
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Farewell to an iconic Sheffield venue where I won over the toughest crowd, got heckled by Jesus, 'manifested' before it was a thing and did an angry dance till my legs hurt..
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Stand Down, Leadmill
Like many others, I’ve recently been saddened by news regarding the demise of iconic Sheffield music venue, The Leadmill. Though, long sequestered down south, I had not visited for many a moo…
https://hurstaka.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/stand-down-leadmill/
8 months ago
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Little Bough Peep..
8 months ago
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You might say, the height of latterday pop and rock culture cool. But which one of them visited my Hackney flat in the mid-80s, and why...?
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Cool For Cats..
This photo, from a Bowie aftershow party in 73, crops up on various group posts from time to time. You could say it epitomises the height of latterday pop and rock culture cool. And when it does ap…
https://hurstaka.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/cool-for-cats/
9 months ago
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Thufferin' Thuccotash..
9 months ago
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Marty Feldman does Tom Lehrer's Vatican Rag..
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The Vatican Rag
YouTube video by Ignatz mousse
https://youtu.be/ovv6C9MPooQ?si=2yD53vx8h6lYxrJB
9 months ago
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Passing the local fairground, where the big, scary ride blasts out Edith Piaf's, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, promptly followed by the Benny Hill theme tune..
9 months ago
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'And by the way..'
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Pulp - Spike Island (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pulp
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-27a1ugJX8U&si=vpdNmjnsNY-FHCwk
10 months ago
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Happy Birchday..
10 months ago
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Had to smile at a comment on a thread about
#Adolescence
, on Netflix: 'I don't usually watch TV series, only films and Emmerdale. But I enjoyed this' Praise indeed..
11 months ago
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