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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Father's Day card to my Dad, 1966. That's one of my main childhood memories, Dad unconscious on the settee every Saturday afternoon, the TV still on, empty cans or bottles all around him, smelling of beer. If you woke him, he'd swing at you. I don't think you can buy a card like that nowadays.

A vintage Father's Day card shows a middle aged man asleep on a sofa with empty beer bottles around him.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 1d

The Milngavie Tesco heron.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 7d

Just found out the local care home charges £7180 a month.
That's £86,160 a year.
And apparently they also get council subsidies.
I am truly shocked.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 13d

Almost everyone on the BBC Board was appointed by Boris Johnson, only Samir Shah and Deborah Turness weren't.

Why is this still the case?
Why are we still seeing biased reporting, biased interviewing and biased omission of news.

Can anyone tell me?

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Stewart Lee -
"Peter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile."

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 18d

For over 20 years there have been press reports that Tony Blair is a "plausible psychopath".
He was an instigator in the Iraq War, that led many thousands of deaths.
He destroyed the BBC as we knew it and made it a govt mouthpiece.
Now he is in talks about him running Gaza. ☹️

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 18d

Kemi Badenoch has just said it's a ploy to distract people from Andy Burnham's leadership ambitions. I don't really think Andy Burnham is on the minds of many in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland either. It's a very Anglo-centric notion.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 21d

Amusing to see the local name for Fraserburgh topping the place names in a Japanese history book.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 26d

Similar charisma levels.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 26d

How d'you know it's her?

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 27d

I am genuinely interested in seeing what the charges are going to be. It might have future implications for all of us. Think of banners at political marches, tifos at games.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 28d

Mutual friends, perhaps?

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Touché 🤣

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Sep 9

I remember when the decision was made to make BBC1 a "dumbed down" channel and shift former BBC1 type content to BBC2. All in the name of ratings. BBC4 was supposed to be the "new BBC2", but it was massively underfunded. It's been a race to the bottom ever since.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Racial profiling is now completely legal in the USA. This includes not only what language you speak or what colour your skin is, but also what accent you might have.
"The land of the free". ☹️
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u....

The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Sep 6

I think a lot of people have their blinkers on when it comes to Reform and how many will vote for them.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Sep 4

She seems very suited for Reform. (That's not meant to be taken as a positive in any way).

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Tories have pledged to intensify the extraction of oil and gas in the North Sea.
Reform have promised the same.
May I remind you all this was the oil and gas that was running out in 2014. share.google/fSbZ2CD7inuB...

Tories would maximise North Sea oil and gas extraction, Badenoch to say

Conservative leader says it is ‘absurd’ to shift away from fossil fuels and leave ‘vital resources untapped’

share.google

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Aug 25

Quite a remarkable system. As well as CO2 free energy, clean drinking water from sea water will be part of the process. Not weather reliant, could work in Scotland.
japantoday.com/category/tec...

Japan's 1st osmotic power plant begins operating in Fukuoka

Japan's first osmotic power plant that uses the difference in salt concentration between seawater and fresh water to generate electricity began operations in early August in a southwestern prefecture. The Fukuoka District Waterworks Agency, the world's second operator to use the technology following a Danish firm that began doing so…

japantoday.com

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · Aug 22

Night Sky on Mars

#nasadailyupdates

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Aug 18

Cool!

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Aug 12

A shape shifting grifter.

Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's sad to see the large amount of well known SNP faces standing down. Some I have known for years and genuinely like. But the political scene has become very niche, and the "broad church" approach is gone, along with many members.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Aug 3

🤣🤣 I sent it to a friend to cheer her up.....honest! 😂

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · Jul 30

Get well soon, Ika.

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