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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

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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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 2d

My painting GREAT PLAINS STORM

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Jenrick has photos of him climbing a lamp post and putting one up.
Rupert Lowe has photos of him climbing a lap post and putting one up.
It's about time these people were spoken to regarding the Highways act 1980 section 132.

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 2d

Most won't last more than one storm anyway and are going to cost council tax payers thousands to remove. 😠

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

Shropshire Council removes damaged flags in Shrewsbury

The authority said a number of the flags had become 'torn, unsightly, or potentially hazardous'.

www.bbc.co.uk

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 2d

As suspected these cheap Chinese 'flags' didn't even survive one storm.
If only the people used the cash they wasted on something useful in the community.
No doubt council tax will go up to pay for the removals too.
Ho Hum...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shropshire Council removes damaged flags in Shrewsbury

The authority said a number of the flags had become 'torn, unsightly, or potentially hazardous'.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11d

This is all authors.

Unless we post about our books, you don't know they exist.

And unless happy readers recommend us, our books die.

And we don't eat.

There is no "marketing dept". Algorithms favour the megastars, so they're no help.

Anyway. I'm sorry for being repetitive. I have no option.

stitch is holding a sign that says `` sorry '' .

ALT: stitch is holding a sign that says `` sorry '' .

media.tenor.com

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 5d

Of course, databases like that would never get hacked...

Oh.

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users

As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 6d

It seems that the original Star Trek series predicted the future with the 'Tholian web'
Anyone attempting to take photos of the night sky now has to contend with thousands of streaks from mainly starlink satellites. 😠
(Article from spaceweather.com)

An article from spaceweather.com including an image of a comet in the night sky where the image of the comet and stars is crisscrossed with trails of satellites in an image reminiscent of a star trek episode where the enterprise is held in space by a 'web' created by aliens.

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 7d

Just flying into it on a brief couple of hours stopover it looked an awful place!
My experience with their airport 'security' didn't enamour me to the place either!

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 7d

That was very humorous, thanks for sharing!
"Love to the family" etc. etc... 😂

ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 9d

Now, having just returned from Israel, Richard 'stupid' Tice says that there's no famine in Gaza.
www.conservativewoman.co.uk/on-the-gaza-...

A twitter post from Richard Tice from Reform UK, stating that the 'famine in Gaza is a blatant lie'
Picture attached to the post is a small black and white map of Gaza

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 10d

I thought the leader said she'd found £50 million down the back of the sofa, to pay off debt, r something, last week?
Was she not telling the truth?
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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

www.ft.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10d

But, but, but… what about DOGE?

They promised.

UK politics
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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage's party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 10d

I may be late to this, but I just found skyview.social
Rather like the old threadreader app on that former twitter place it's useful for sharing long threads in a readable form.
Apologies if you knew about it already 🙂

Skyview

Share BlueSky posts and threads externally

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11d

🔴NEW🔴

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 12d

That and 'his' house and subsequent tax shenanigans that 'journalists' seem to have forgotten about.

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P'eed off old woman @lesleyak.bsky.social · 12d

Don't spread this one, either

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12d

Don't spread this Nigel Farage really wants it to disappear.

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ClearSkyImaging.co.uk @ukcsi.bsky.social · 15d

It's times like these when the waybackmachine from archive.org is so useful. 😀
It's little wonder that certain people would like to see it disappear, and why lots of people donate to keep it going!
web.archive.org/web/20180405...

Nigel Farage: Stop opposing Vladmir Putin in Ukraine and join forces to defeat Islamic terrorists

The Ukip leader says that West must stop poking the Russian leader with a stick and realise he is 'on our side' in the fight against terror

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16d

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this.

Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.

And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.