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Russell England

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Moodle/Totara developer Love travelling (41 countries so far), silly jokes, Marmite Brummie, Remoaner, bit of a nomad, fact finder Mostly post about climate, Brexit, health, poverty, UK politics and comedy 🌍💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🍉🗿🐧

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · Oct 17

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime"

- "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain, 1869

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 6h

[the original 3 dragon meme is King Ghidorah by MikeJLarsonArt on the other place]

Post on Threads from winterpolitics1 "This is why we love Portland!" with an attached comical meme of King Ghidorah by Michael J. Larsen (MikeJLarsonArt) - showing 3 dragon heads. The first head looks fierce, labelled "Los Angeles", the second head "Chicago" looks fierce but is looking sideways at the third head "Portland", which has wacky eyes and a tongue sticking out

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 6h

"Merge conflict in xxx"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 8h

In tomorrow's paper: As Israel continues to deny genocide after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words from Israeli politicians and media showing how the atrocity came to pass.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 7h

"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks

Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."

- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022

Tweet from Manveen Rana on Aug 24, 2022

"Funnily enough Andy, the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and @Arron_banks. Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running. So I’m really not surprised you support him…"

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 7h

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 7h

Before the EU Ref, the BBC were running an expose on how Leave dot EU were recruiting far right extremists. Robbie Gibb closed it down.

"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down." - Arron Banks

- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019

Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists

Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation

www.channel4.com

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 7h

Doomscrolling break...

Museum postcards

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 7h

"Merge conflict in xxx"

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 7h

Dr. Seuss in 1941, he opposed fascism and "America First"

www.nj.com/opinion/2017...

Cartoon of a woman wearing an "America First" top, sitting on a chair, reading a book called "Adolf the Wolf" to 2 children

"... and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones... But those were *Foreign Children* and it really didn't matter"

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 8h

Been there :) stunning scenery

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 11h

Kamala Harris, October 2024

"He’s saying he would use the military to go after them… and we know who he would target, because he has attacked them before

He’s talking about the enemy within … anyone that doesn’t support him, or who will not bend to his will, an enemy of our country"

Harris uses Trump’s ‘enemy from within’ comment to portray GOP rival as dangerous and unstable | CNN Politics

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Monday night over the former president’s comment that the US military should handle “the enemy from within” on Ele...

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 11h

Incredible

Trump was president on January 6

The FBI director on January 6, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump

The 274 agents were dispatched in response to Trump's attempted insurrection

Truth Social post by Trump on 12 Oct, 2025 at 12:38am

"THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT"

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 23h

One of my pet hates - parking apps

Don't force drivers to use parking apps, RAC says - BBC News

A survey suggests three-quarters of drivers had issues with parking apps.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

"It's no longer America"

"Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It"

Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 2d

New Column: You know how some historians wonder if people recognize the onslaught in real time? Well, I'm here to tell you that millions of us do. And we're fighting it. newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

That's another myth

France nationalised energy (EDF) in 2023

The Italian steel company, IIlva, became state owned in 2020

Germany bailed out Lufhthansa in 2020

The UK, while in the EU, bailed out the banks in 2008

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda hoping they will adopt "We All Stand Together" as their anthem

The Frog Chorus and Paul McCartney, originally released in 1984

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 1d

Just under two weeks ago Ted Cruz accused Qatar of funding Antifa.

Yesterday Pete Hegseth announced Qatar is to build an Air Force base on US soil.

Now guys, who didn’t read the brief!?

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda hoping they will adopt "We All Stand Together" as their anthem

The Frog Chorus and Paul McCartney, originally released in 1984

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

Doomscrolling break...

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

Cartoon of Trump and President Xi standing either side of a trade line. Trump has used a slingshot/peashooter to fire a tiny stone which has bounced off Xi's forehead. Xi is standing in front of a giant catapult loaded with a big rock.