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Andy B

@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social

Left leaning, pro-EU, politics and history nerd. Work in tech. Like stones. Peace, love, and unity ❤️

created August 13, 2024

528 followers 367 following 1,368 posts

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Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Ha! Me too but I'm on holiday in Madrid so it doesn't count

2/9/2025, 11:56:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they good?

2/9/2025, 11:33:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah but the fact that Luke isn't even there and 'force protecting' himself is such a let down in the movie. They literally showed Kylo Ren stopping blaster laser boots in the TFA, Luke should have been able to stop loads of them and then force them back to blow up the AT-ATs.

2/9/2025, 11:30:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Cheap flags hastily erected

2/9/2025, 12:20:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

And that remains true

2/9/2025, 12:18:10 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Legalise and tax marijuana and everyone's a winner

2/9/2025, 9:55:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Scotland > Ibiza

2/9/2025, 8:49:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Legislation could fix all this in a heartbeat

2/9/2025, 8:46:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

You know what? Stop trying to make fake meat burgers and 'baykon'. I hate that stuff. Why not make dishes using real vegetables, beans, and pulses? www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

2/9/2025, 8:45:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks awesome 😋

1/9/2025, 9:13:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm gonna try it too but I'm expecting similar results. People are so unobservant.

1/9/2025, 4:14:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Has anyone noticed?

1/9/2025, 3:28:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

The Times used to be a serious newspaper of record. It has moved a long way past that with rubbish like this. Misogynistic and wrong on every level for a serious newspaper.

1/9/2025, 3:26:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Twitter had celebrities tweeting a few times a day as a draw in the early days. Anyone remember Stephen Fry? He was hilarious. Made people jump into twitter. Bluesky lacks this. No-one talks about bluesky outside of bluesky

1/9/2025, 12:20:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

They don't care, Earth will still be habitable, but for a much smaller global population.

1/9/2025, 7:22:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yo...

31/8/2025, 9:55:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

Get in

A lovely full pint of Guinness in a branded glass
31/8/2025, 3:32:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Kier Starmer's silence on this matter is deafening

31/8/2025, 10:43:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Turn off GB news.

31/8/2025, 10:40:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Haven't old people done enough damage to this country already?? Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster and now unchecked racism? We used to be a tolerant supportive country

31/8/2025, 10:40:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

The people who sell the oil own the media and the politicians. We are truly screwed

31/8/2025, 10:31:57 AM | 51 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 8:19:53 AM | 753 292 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Angelique (@ladydelancelevee.bsky.social) reposted

Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

30/8/2025, 6:33:06 AM | 843 433 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

FFS 🤦🏼‍♂️

30/8/2025, 9:19:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture pondlife (@pondlife.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

And maybe they could also explain that Brexit is a major cause of the asylum backlog - probably the main reason asylum hotels are needed.

Explanation of the Dublin Agreement - that the UK can no longer use to refuse asylum cases.
30/8/2025, 8:20:39 AM | 5 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture shades75.bsky.social (@shades75.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Not surprising. Every radio channel and tv news channel has been talking about immigration NON - FUCKING STOP for weeks. Sick to the back teeth of the media’s agenda to blame every ill the country faces on “small boats.

29/8/2025, 9:51:16 PM | 46 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Racism, pure racism. I hate Reform and everything they stand for. This flag campaign is not patriotism 😡😡😡

30/8/2025, 7:20:16 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Clearly written by AI!

30/8/2025, 7:17:54 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣🤣🤣

29/8/2025, 7:03:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

oo?

29/8/2025, 6:56:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you 🙏🏼

29/8/2025, 6:54:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marina Purkiss (@marina-purkiss.bsky.social) reposted

It bothers me that today I had to point out… To former Tory MP @PhilipDaviesUK That the Hillsborough families invoked the ECHR in their fight for justice Because he, like so many, either doesn’t know …or is being disingenuous about the vital protections the ECHR affords us.

28/8/2025, 4:07:55 PM | 821 256 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, it gets worse. Much worse. Long hairs start to grow in very strange places and you don't notice them until they're at least 6" long! On your ears! On your back! Eyebrows are the least of your worries 😞

28/8/2025, 7:37:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

Apparently, this 🤬

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28/8/2025, 7:34:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Amy increases will go straight onto people's rent 🤦🏼‍♂️

28/8/2025, 6:44:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

See also the UK and we don't have any guns!

28/8/2025, 6:43:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Or a worse case a Reform / Tory coalition 😨😨😨😨

27/8/2025, 12:02:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

As demonstrated by Rees-Mogg and co during the Brexit years

27/8/2025, 10:51:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

That's not what I said.

27/8/2025, 9:11:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Big news!!!

27/8/2025, 7:52:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

The power loom replaced the hand loom weavers but the rest of the world carried on and we're all still here..... 🤷🏼‍♂️

27/8/2025, 7:51:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Why? Why can't we just deal with the aging population?

27/8/2025, 7:46:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a very big difference between "take" or "alter" your job. Sure AI will alter a lot of people's jobs. Just like other technologies the mobile phone, PC, telephone, the power loom... It won't actually take your job though

27/8/2025, 7:45:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

They're a fancy new pair of trainers 🤩

26/8/2025, 8:54:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Where have you been for the last 10 years???? NF is on TV all the bloody time!

26/8/2025, 8:48:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

Older fella coughing all over the place in the gym, not covering his mouth.... Put me right off... I don't want COVID muthafucker! But so I didn't come across as a racist, I left the gym. Am I overcompensating? I should feel able to confront anyone about unhygienic behaviour.

26/8/2025, 7:26:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

Is it ok to take down the flags? Asking for a nation

26/8/2025, 6:55:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

😍😍😍😍😍

26/8/2025, 6:51:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 6:13:46 PM | 88 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

War is everywhere already...

26/8/2025, 6:45:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Flags going up in my area... I know it's a very small number making very visible signs to intimidate the silent majority but it is very unnerving and uncomfortable

26/8/2025, 6:41:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

26/8/2025, 6:39:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Labour has lost its way. The signs were there but we were so keen to vote out the Tories we failed to see what Labour had become

26/8/2025, 6:39:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Speak up for the little guy! You've got my support 💪🏼

26/8/2025, 6:37:33 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rose 🌹 (@rose.bsky.team) reposted

(1/9) Sharing some thoughts on the recent age assurance regulation discussions across the world…

26/8/2025, 6:19:23 PM | 1392 235 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Money buys influence, and influence buys power. We are heading to a right wing future Beware all who approach

26/8/2025, 6:30:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

26/8/2025, 11:01:46 AM | 8536 3331 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture STAR MAN (@starmansuperpants.bsky.social) reposted

Vitamin B

25/8/2025, 1:07:28 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

I'm waiting for a leading politician to stand up to these nationalists/racists putting flags up everywhere and painting red lines all over while things on the road. England is taking a very worrying turn towards accepting racism and I don't like it at all.

25/8/2025, 12:49:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

Migrants didn't take your jobs. China did. Every time you buy something made in China you make it stay that way. It's not the people in boats, it's the people in suits who you should be angry with.

23/8/2025, 6:50:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com) reposted

god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all

22/8/2025, 9:28:45 PM | 1524 258 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bob White (@rwdwhite.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It’s disgusting, she’s a prisoner presumably on licence so probation should be recalling her to prison. She is not taking responsibility for the crime she plead guilty to. No other prisoner on licence is given this sort of media attention. If Starmer doesn’t proceed with Leveson2 now we’re sunk.

23/8/2025, 12:41:34 PM | 21 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

People are gullible. People are stupid. Stupid people are really gullible. We're in trouble

22/8/2025, 12:51:46 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Paul Nuttall of the UKIPs

22/8/2025, 12:46:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

True

21/8/2025, 7:38:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Malthus was wrong but there is a limit to the number of people that can live on earth. It might be 675 billion but there is a limit. The population cannot grow forever

21/8/2025, 7:28:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm gonna buy it now 😁 thanks for the recommendation

21/8/2025, 6:54:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah yes, I agree with you on that.

21/8/2025, 6:53:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Originally done by hand too! That is an amazing feat. Although I'm also saddened by the slow demise of the Trig Point. They're no longer needed or used

21/8/2025, 6:05:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

The BBC Newsroom has lost all credibility

21/8/2025, 6:00:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

I cried over that picture

21/8/2025, 5:57:28 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Me too. Me too....

21/8/2025, 5:56:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

It's utter nonsense. He's talking nonsense.

21/8/2025, 5:55:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

🤦🏼‍♂️

21/8/2025, 5:52:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

VPN companies advertise them as safer web browsing. Businesses use VPNs all the time. What's next? Ban encryption? Banking apps and other secure websites use encryption. What's next?

21/8/2025, 5:52:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you got a link to the stats?

21/8/2025, 5:50:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Please explain why this is a bad thing? There are too many people on this planet for the finite resources. A gradual declining population should be applauded

21/8/2025, 5:49:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

When a local budget hotel is better than your house it speaks more about your house than the hotel Poverty is driving this debate as much as racism and xenophobia

21/8/2025, 1:36:43 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

Stop voting Reform you f*cking tw*ts! bbc.com/news/article...

21/8/2025, 11:30:04 AM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼😁 (@patrickopatrick.bsky.social) reposted

Reform Joseph Boam, 22, has been sacked as cabinet member for adult social care after just 3 months He was deemed “wholly unqualified for such a critical role and lacked the experience or judgement to bring anything of value to the position” He’s an active Andrew Tate supporter on X too 🥴

20/8/2025, 12:13:37 PM | 152 53 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally, I can't think of anything worse than having to live for months on end in a hotel room. No storage for clothes, toys, food, drinks. It's certainly not luxury after more than a couple of days

21/8/2025, 11:21:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

The trouble is that for a lot of people, staying in a hotel is luxury. The hotels used for housing immigration/asylum are standard hotels, at best. But these are still much better than some people's homes and that's a cause of frustration that the right wing are tapping into.

21/8/2025, 11:20:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

I've hit snooze 6 times. That's one complete hour before actually getting up.

21/8/2025, 7:07:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone gloating. It's an ugly look. That's my pension pot (and yours!) Oh and by the way, AI is coming anyway, regardless. The dot com bubble burst in 2000 and we still have the internet.

20/8/2025, 5:02:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder who has the list and why they haven't published it yet

20/8/2025, 11:23:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

I once mistook the National Portrait Gallery for the National Gallery. Never have I been so disappointed. Made worse because it's so hard to walk around and impossible to find your way out.

20/8/2025, 11:22:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Private Eye Magazine (@privateeyenews.bsky.social) reposted

“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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20/8/2025, 10:57:23 AM | 1122 395 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that a real photo or AI? Hard to tell these days...

20/8/2025, 11:19:51 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

I often ponder this myself. Victorian architecture and planning, built on over the subsequent decades but underfunded and hard to upgrade. Also, HS2 is mind-blowingly expensive which is going to make future projects less attractive

20/8/2025, 11:09:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Quakers in Britain (@quaker.org.uk) reposted

Israel has just announced the go ahead of the long-frozen E1 settlement plan. If allowed to proceed, the plan will forcibly expel thousands of Palestinians, cut the West Bank in two, and destroy the possibility of a viable Palestinian state.

20/8/2025, 8:59:16 AM | 16 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

The media are fanning the flames. It's very worrying

20/8/2025, 10:08:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Caroline Lucas (@carolinelucas.bsky.social) reposted

5 years after Brexit, it’s shamefully clear that UK is being left behind on environment policy. With few exceptions, Govt has *deliberately* chosen not to keep up with standards of EU neighbours. Worse, in a number of areas they’re planning to actively go backwards @ieep.eu @europeanmovement.co.uk

19/8/2025, 3:47:48 PM | 505 226 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

It's incredible how bad the whole political establishment is. The press, politicians, lobbyists, all in it for themselves. Brexit was a massive mistake, it opened the way for selfish winner takes all economics and very few people are calling it out

20/8/2025, 9:57:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Because LLMs are just probabilistic machines. They write the next most probable word based on inputs (your prompt, and the information it already knows) So of course it's going to be close to existing works

20/8/2025, 7:20:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social)

Why do trades people ring the door bell and knock at the same time? Is it something they're taught at trade school? Does my head in 😫

20/8/2025, 7:14:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Just nationalise the bastards

18/8/2025, 10:39:57 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a lot closer to the truth

18/8/2025, 8:58:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

Please give an example. My experience is that Britain is fine. My GP surgery is fine. I get prescriptions without bother. I pay my car tax online and my passport arrived in a matter of weeks.

18/8/2025, 8:57:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy B (@wyt3fr0g.bsky.social) reply parent

No apology from the pitcher? No rushing over to see if he's ok? That's not very sporting

18/8/2025, 8:56:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view