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Robert Foxon

@robertfoxon.bsky.social

220 followers 77 following 640 posts

United Kingdom. Likes: hiking, gardening, reading sci-fi and fantasy, cooking, folk music, canal holidays, model railways and visiting other countries. Hates: beetroot. Politics: centrist. Mutuals and co-ops not corporations or nationalisation.

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Goose (probably) @augustagoose.bsky.social · 1d

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TraceyB @ineeddirection.bsky.social · 8h

Random acts of senseless beauty #19

View of bridge 73 and its reflection on the Coventry Fazeley canal, Tamworth. My dog is in the distance on the towpath.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 1h

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Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social · 3h

Fűrage wants US style “health insurance” in the British NHS. Let’s just be clear what that means.

Image from Quora.

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 23h

1) Why is this woman still in the House of Lords?

2) Why is she (along with her equally odious husband) not in jail?

Profiteering, by putting health workers at risk during a pandemic. Nice people... 🤮

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Michelle Mone-linked firm fails to pay back £122m over PPE breach

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robert Foxon @robertfoxon.bsky.social · 44m

We picked up a length of nylon rope attached to a grappling hook in Burton-upon-Trent. It stalled the engine and put a dent in the prop. It took forever to get the nylon strands out from between the prop and bearing.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 11h

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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 10h

One for 🍄🧪

Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 5d

A profound rethinking of the history of #biodiversity.

"In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom."

scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...

Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have prepared the world for life to flourish on land.

scitechdaily.com

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tadaaa.bsky.social @tadaaa.bsky.social · 11h

Reminds of the Alexi Sayle quote

"Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton."

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6h

🇷🇺 Those links to the Kremlin just won't go away...

🕰️ Well, they are long founded!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/08/revealed-leaveeu-campaign-met-russian-officials-as-many-as-11-times?CMP=share_btn_url

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

www.theguardian.com

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 5h

According to the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century guide for witchhunters, witches could steal men’s penises and keep them as pets.

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Robert Foxon @robertfoxon.bsky.social · 1h

Perhaps they should have campaigned against it more vigorously in 2016 instead of sitting on the fence to try and appease both sides and appealing to neither.

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38d.gs/leqi

Ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels

I just signed the campaign calling to save ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels

38d.gs

Robert Foxon @robertfoxon.bsky.social · 7h

There's still something interesting in the garden. Every October this pops up to surprise me. I have no idea what it is.
#gardening #flowers

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Robert Foxon @robertfoxon.bsky.social · 7h

Rachel Reeves could slash the Cash ISA limit to £4K — a win for hedge funds, a loss for the rest of us 💸 Even the banks are against it. Tell the govt to protect savers, not risky investments! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Protect Cash ISAs

Rumours started swirling that Rachel Reeves might slash the tax-free cap on Cash ISAs from £20,000 to £4,000 after meeting with a group of bank executives back in February. [1] Now it looks like those...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 1d

Stop calling them "cats." They're house gremlins. We just happen to like them

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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, on board an eggspress train in Germany...

Tim Knopf @lokfuehrer-tim.bsky.social · 2d

Unbekannte haben mehrere Hühner in einer S-Bahn Richtung Köln ausgesetzt 🐔

Drei Hühner auf Stroh, die in einem Art Abteil mit mehreren Sitzen und einer Glastür abgetrennt zum Rest, in einer S-Bahn vor sich hin leben.

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Robert Foxon @robertfoxon.bsky.social · 1d

'Tis but a scratch'

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 1d

Richard Norris Williams was advised to have his legs amputated after he survived the sinking of the Titanic, but he instead walked it off and won the Men’s Doubles Championships at Wimbledon in 1920.

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Robert Foxon @robertfoxon.bsky.social · 1d

We are lucky to have a very talented artist who has painted several beautiful and striking murals in our neighborhood. My favourite is the stained glass window on the end of the Methodist church.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 1d

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 1d

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 1d

Store electricity produced by solar during the day, and release it at night. That is happening all over the world. It is still far cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient than using fossil fuels. Battery costs have plummeted in the past decade, and battery capacity is growing exponentially.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 1d

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