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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary
PURLOIN: Meat 🍖 from a Feline??

(Waiting for 5000000 replies!! I will be popular tonight!!)

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 1d

"Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document... Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable."

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 4h

Lib Dems welcomed Prof Matthew Agarwala contribution.

Labour & Tories pulled him from their similar panels

Total Politics and the panel’s sponsor Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said that they did not want a dissenting view on the panel about the importance of North Sea oil and gas to the UK economy.

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 14h

A small gripe in the grand scheme of things but this shows what's increasingly obvious to people attending UK party conferences

Many fringe events are not open discussion of policy & political options, but *adverts* for whoever is paying for the event

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy

Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, that's it. After writing about Brexit for 10 years, ignoring God knows how many insults & death threats, I'm suddenly dumping on a low follower account because someone else made a joke about something I wrote. Or is is more likely I'm calling out the latest account of a stalking campaign?

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Joe Public 🇨🇦 @joepublic.bsky.social · 9h

🇸🇪 Sweden speeds up renovation of civilian shelters as it prepares for possibility of #war

#civildefence

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Sweden speeds up renovation of civilian shelters as it prepares for possibility of war

YouTube video by The Canadian Press

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary
PURLOIN: Meat 🍖 from a Feline??

(Waiting for 5000000 replies!! I will be popular tonight!!)

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 4h

I shall be purloining this gif for future use. 😎

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

😁😁👍👍

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

Must visit!! On the list!

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

Take it easy!! Invite friends to visit you!!

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 5h

The torn muscle in my calf is going to keep me from long walks with the camera for a time, but at least I've got all the photos from last weekend in Extremadura to edit & post highlights of. Saturday morning dawned like this over the village of Torrejón el Rubio.

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

Must work a plan!

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 5h

Spain has hundreds of towns & villages with lovely historic old quarters, but Trujillo must be one of the very best of them. And in perfect weather it looked even better. Here are a couple of shots taken in the main square.

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 5h

The old quarter of Trujillo in Extremadura, western Spain, topped by the castle.

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 5h

Looking down on the town of Trujillo from its Medieval walls.

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 4h

Generally they never did! Still many of them around Bexhill-on-Sea 80 years after he left!

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 4h

Traditionally it’s thr Germans who cross the border into the neighbouring countries.

Hey, I’m allowed, I’m German.

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📎 Bakerhelm of Vikingland (Janice Greve) @bakerhelm.bsky.social · 14h

Good morning #Wülferhampton weirdos 👋🫶😃
The Baker and the Viking are off to Germany for a few days! 🪓
Have a great 🐪 of the week 😉

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 4h

And to round off Saturday's visit to Trujillo with a taster for our 4x4 route around the Monfragüe national park later in the day, I spotted a couple of griffon vultures over the town's main square at mid-day. #birds

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 6h

If a song comes on the radio and I know the lyrics, I sing along but in the style of The Monster Mash, you know with that sort of sarcastic tone. It genuinely infuriates my wife to the point I think she will leave me but I can't stop.

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jesuisbenrob.bsky.social @jesuisbenrob.bsky.social · 5h

I was driving through the Lincolnshire woods one night
When my eyes beheld a curious sight
For a well dressed man (with a visible rise)
Emerged from his Jag, and to my suprise...

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 2d

Windows 10 support ends tomorrow.

They designed it to be EVERGREEN. The UI is still modern. It works flawlessly. Users love it.
Microsoft is killing their most successful OS for literally no reason except to push Windows 11.

This is customer-hostile nonsense.

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 12h

Morning & All Hail!! Pace oneself today.

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