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Chris M.

@thegiptonombudsman

"socialist", with a small "s" and casual cynic. Ennui is pretty close. Likes road and gravel bikes, football ( soccer to the colonial ingrates 😉 ), particularly Leeds United FC, truth, justice and love. Advocate for pedal power.

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Latest posts by Chris M. @thegiptonombudsman

He's, genuinely, deserved a goal. His performances are becoming, almost, Bremner like.
Ethan, you've found your home.
MOT👍

22.12.2025 09:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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WTF?

09.12.2025 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This could be embarrassing...

23.11.2025 13:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Saw the Fables tour in Manchester, UK and it was a wonderful celebration. Please bring LRP to the UK, if you can.
The Brudenell Social Club, in Leeds, would be perfect.

14.11.2025 23:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Getting a bit fed up with the constant negativity in this world.
Here's a random picture of summer...

14.11.2025 23:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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06.11.2025 02:21 👍 3229 🔁 560 💬 76 📌 114

Stick it in the bin along with that pale purple abomination. All yellow kit as either 2nd or 3rd kit, always!

07.08.2025 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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30.07.2025 19:36 👍 17343 🔁 3270 💬 570 📌 228
Sign for furniture showroom that reads SHACK OF SIT

Sign for furniture showroom that reads SHACK OF SIT

As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...

22.07.2025 10:42 👍 2493 🔁 624 💬 31 📌 28

Still prefer the all yellow strip but this is pretty good.

17.07.2025 08:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

Oh dear. It seems like the publishers & film-makers truly had the wool pulled over their eyes. Thank goodness for good journalism - well done Chloe Hadjimatheou & @theobserveruk.bsky.social and for exposing The #PorkiePath!
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

06.07.2025 18:08 👍 605 🔁 116 💬 39 📌 9
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Sat out in the garden.

20.06.2025 19:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fathers Day cards from my girls. Accurate and appropriate. 👏👏👏

16.06.2025 07:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows an owl with a hobby horse - looks like a witch on a broomstick

Image shows an owl with a hobby horse - looks like a witch on a broomstick

I have a new hero.
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

10.06.2025 16:34 👍 16153 🔁 2809 💬 548 📌 285

Favourite track? Erm, what day/time is it?? Right now I'll say Driver 8.........or maybe Green Grow the Rushes. Love this album.

10.06.2025 19:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Understanding antimicrobial resistance in Yak milk microbiomes June 2025: A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh travelled to Nepal to join colleagues from Research Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology (RIBB) on an extensive data collection tr...

A team visited Nepal to collect data and engage with farmers as part of a project to understand antimicrobial resistance in Yak milk microbiomes

@jessmitch15.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social @microbes4ever.bsky.social

Full article ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

10.06.2025 09:53 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Kim Jong-un furious as North Korea warship partly ‘crushed’ in launch gone wrong South Korea said the destroyer was lying sideways in the water after ceremony to launch the new 5,000-tonne ship

I needed some good news today.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

22.05.2025 04:27 👍 482 🔁 72 💬 49 📌 10
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If you believe......
@rem @remhq.bsky.social

20.05.2025 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rediscovered whilst packing for a house move. #tourdefrance #Yorkshire #cycling

19.05.2025 10:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just to inform the, tragically, ill-informed -

16.05.2025 11:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Borrowdale temperate rain forest -

14.05.2025 14:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good morning walk around Derwentwater -

14.05.2025 14:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Leeds United to spend ‘every last penny’ on Premier League survival Club’s US owner pledges to push outlay on players ‘to the limits’ after securing return to top tier of English football

www.ft.com/content/badb...

04.05.2025 10:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations, lads! MOT!!
Just to let @leedsunited.com know - you've knocked 50years off my life expectancy, this season.

03.05.2025 14:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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He's watching you @leedsunited.com !!
You *need* to win!!

21.04.2025 10:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Billy says - @LUFC, you've got one job to do, today.
JUST DO IT!

21.04.2025 08:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As seen outside newsagents, earlier -
🤦‍♂️

17.04.2025 11:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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He's still Leeds and he knows he is.

14.04.2025 12:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Live At Pompeii, 1972).
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Live At Pompeii, 1972). YouTube video by El "Pink Side Of The Moon"

It's one of those days....
youtu.be/nPKbIUEYNtQ?...

10.04.2025 12:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A must win, erm, won. Saying that, LUFC are going to be the death of me.

08.04.2025 21:08 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0