blackthorn64.bsky.social
@blackthorn64.bsky.social
Old, interested in most things.
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Is Nigel Farage actually on the skids a bit or are we in a bubble downwind of people who read The Guardian?
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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My uncle broke ranks with my Methodist family & told me the Glyderau mountains of Dyffryn Ogwen are home to Gods, & Angels live in the rivers & trees on the valley floor

As a child I listened in awe to his stories of a life with Nature, & still have no reason to not believe him
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Swansea Bay / Bae Abertawe on a Saturday afternoon.
December 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”

Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Just a glimmer of sunset over Devon this evening.
#SwanseaBay#Wales
December 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Delighted @mrjamesob.bsky.social is doing what appears a full hour monologue on Nigel Lying Farage. A joy to hear someone talking about his overt racism and of course the cover up by those professing to be journalists 👏👏👏
December 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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For Leslie, hope, with all my love.
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Sorry, this is from the other place.

Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?

But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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It's good to see Labour trying to recoup some of our money from the PPE scandal
bsky.app/profile/pete...
The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.

www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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You'd hope, nearly 50 years after admitting to doing racist 'banter', individuals would have grown, matured, and become better.

Not double down on it all to make a career of the back of it and embolden others that it's ok to do the same.

That shit needs shutting down at every opportunity.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Bore da 😎 Sun is up!
Pic of lovely Langland Bay taken from the terrace of the Brasserie. 💙
#Gower #Wales
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Time for a breather on a busy Monday. Here's today's #SwanseaBay 💙
Hope your day's going well 😊
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Important not to overlook the fact that this bilge is amplified & disseminated by many prominent - and very real - racists who benefit financially, professionally & politically from the process.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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“If a doctor makes a mistake it’s not such a big deal. But if I make an error it will sit in books for hundreds of years”
Peter Wollny

But taking out the wrong kidney versus mis-identifying the author of an ancient bit of music…?

Good on you mate, love Bach!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light
Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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A billion journeys will benefit from the freeze - saving passengers a total of £600m, Labour says

inews.co.uk/news/rail-fa...
Rail fares to be frozen after 30 years of increases
A billion journeys will benefit from the freeze - saving passengers a total of £600m, Labour says
inews.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”

“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”

You can have those for nothing, lads.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded

inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths
A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM