Bruce P 🐻🏳️🌈🇪🇺🏴🏊🏼♂️
@bearden64.bsky.social
Retired(ish) Agri-hort-systems scientist based in Edinburgh. Views my own and not who I work for (He/Him).
If all you do is repost I’m likely to block you, likewise if you have a blank profile and never post.
If all you do is repost I’m likely to block you, likewise if you have a blank profile and never post.
This is deeply depressing. Looking around the most economically depressed parts of the UK its hard to see that this rising tide has lifted many there.
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There is a fund to create jobs in the poorest areas, and Labour has quietly gutted it. This is what betrayal looks like | Larry Elliott
It’s a scandal laid bare. A stark new report highlights the price paid in Britain’s former industrial heartlands for this silent piece of ministerial vandalism, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is deeply depressing. Looking around the most economically depressed parts of the UK its hard to see that this rising tide has lifted many there.
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My acclimatisation to Scotland and low level central heating is complete. I'm in an overheated office in shirt sleeves while the women around me (there is only one other man and 8 women) are wearing knitwear and scarves.
an elderly woman in a robe is standing in front of a refrigerator holding a large piece of cloth .
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December 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My acclimatisation to Scotland and low level central heating is complete. I'm in an overheated office in shirt sleeves while the women around me (there is only one other man and 8 women) are wearing knitwear and scarves.
All meetings done. My rapporteur reports submitted and signed off. Waiting for 2 more reports from others rapporteurs to appear but cannot leave the building until they do.
a woman in a white shirt and floral pants is sitting on a bed with #schitts creek written on the bottom
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December 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
All meetings done. My rapporteur reports submitted and signed off. Waiting for 2 more reports from others rapporteurs to appear but cannot leave the building until they do.
Its always fun working with European colleagues and you learn so much. Just had to ask one of the Irish guys what 'GRMA' meant in his message. #EveryDaysASchoolDay
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Its always fun working with European colleagues and you learn so much. Just had to ask one of the Irish guys what 'GRMA' meant in his message. #EveryDaysASchoolDay
Fourth day of hotel breakfast. Yogurt and fruit as the rubber eggs and (good) sausage/bacon were just too much.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Fourth day of hotel breakfast. Yogurt and fruit as the rubber eggs and (good) sausage/bacon were just too much.
I’m really enjoying the work but this 07:00 alarm is killing me.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I’m really enjoying the work but this 07:00 alarm is killing me.
Just had a napcident. All this working is just exhausting.
a dog is sitting on a couch with its eyes closed and a person is standing behind it .
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December 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Just had a napcident. All this working is just exhausting.
I am working in a relatively large office in Brussels which currently 3 women and me. One of them keeps farting very loudly? Is this what caused Brexit?
*since covid I have very little sense of smell.
*since covid I have very little sense of smell.
a man in a striped sweater covering his mouth with his hand and the words pretends to be shocked below him
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December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I am working in a relatively large office in Brussels which currently 3 women and me. One of them keeps farting very loudly? Is this what caused Brexit?
*since covid I have very little sense of smell.
*since covid I have very little sense of smell.
They told me it’s Covent Garden but not an aria to be heard 🤷🏼♂️
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
They told me it’s Covent Garden but not an aria to be heard 🤷🏼♂️
The chair of our work this week is one sassy queen.
a little girl wearing a scarf and glasses is holding a cup of coffee and a syringe .
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December 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The chair of our work this week is one sassy queen.
I’m not thrilled to be up, dressed and breakfasted before 08:00. Dr P on duty all week. Looking forward to the work but this time is homophobic #MCM
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I’m not thrilled to be up, dressed and breakfasted before 08:00. Dr P on duty all week. Looking forward to the work but this time is homophobic #MCM
Having breakfast in my hotel dining room realising how many posts I daren’t click on ‘show’ until I get back to my room 🥵🥵. #MuckyBuggers
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Having breakfast in my hotel dining room realising how many posts I daren’t click on ‘show’ until I get back to my room 🥵🥵. #MuckyBuggers
25 mins at passport control with the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES) and moved 10 metres. I think I could be here for sometime.
a chimpanzee is laying on a couch and pointing at a piece of paper
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December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
25 mins at passport control with the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES) and moved 10 metres. I think I could be here for sometime.
I’d forgotten how much of a zoo LHR T5 is
an older woman is crying while leaning against a door .
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December 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’d forgotten how much of a zoo LHR T5 is
The Assembly - Never Never (Extended 12" Version)
YouTube video by The Assembly
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December 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Way too early but a boys gotta earn a dollar. Brussels was so much easier to get to from London.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Way too early but a boys gotta earn a dollar. Brussels was so much easier to get to from London.
80K views · 2.5K reactions | On 3 let’s gooo | Derrick-Veigh Robinson
On 3 let’s gooo
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December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I knew trying to manage a change process remotely and with very little time per week wasn’t a good idea. Unless you are in peoples faces it never becomes a priority.
a man making a funny face with #schitts creek written below him
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December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I knew trying to manage a change process remotely and with very little time per week wasn’t a good idea. Unless you are in peoples faces it never becomes a priority.
He has put another one of my wool sweaters through the tumble drier
an elderly man wearing a hat and a jacket is saying `` i don 't believe it ! ''
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December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
He has put another one of my wool sweaters through the tumble drier
I mistakenly bought fat free greek yogurt! A whole litre.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I mistakenly bought fat free greek yogurt! A whole litre.
Just looked at my ‘Replay 2025’ on Apple Music. I’m a #BasicBitch.
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Just looked at my ‘Replay 2025’ on Apple Music. I’m a #BasicBitch.
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party 😆
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party 😆
This handsome fellow would’ve been 94 today. He died about a decade ago after a pretty good life.
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This handsome fellow would’ve been 94 today. He died about a decade ago after a pretty good life.
Just stopped for a mocha and cake at my favourite cafe. So sweet my teeth hurt.
a woman is making a funny face while sitting in a crowd of people .
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December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just stopped for a mocha and cake at my favourite cafe. So sweet my teeth hurt.