Brian Plester
@brianplester.bsky.social
Retired software engineer, active gardener, cat servant, local wildlife & habitat guardian. Left of centre veggie. Enjoys making & listening to music and walking bare foot on the beach.
Analogue. Filters switched-off
Wimborne, Dorset, UK
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🦡 🦊
Analogue. Filters switched-off
Wimborne, Dorset, UK
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🦡 🦊
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We believe US military or intelligence personnel are operating at 24 sites in Britain at least -- more than successive governments have told parliament.
Help us find more information because the government is refusing to. See next post...
Pls repost thread
www.declassifieduk.org/the-24-site-...
Help us find more information because the government is refusing to. See next post...
Pls repost thread
www.declassifieduk.org/the-24-site-...
February 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
We believe US military or intelligence personnel are operating at 24 sites in Britain at least -- more than successive governments have told parliament.
Help us find more information because the government is refusing to. See next post...
Pls repost thread
www.declassifieduk.org/the-24-site-...
Help us find more information because the government is refusing to. See next post...
Pls repost thread
www.declassifieduk.org/the-24-site-...
Surprise, surprise. Not. It's happened to me.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Surprise, surprise. Not. It's happened to me.
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In 1970 the Government owned Energy, it owned Water, it owned Rail, it owned Mail, it owned Steel, it owned Shipbuilding, it owned Oil and Gas.
There was a 100% tax on these industries profits.
Now many of them pay 0% tax.
That is where all the money has gone.
There was a 100% tax on these industries profits.
Now many of them pay 0% tax.
That is where all the money has gone.
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In 1970 the Government owned Energy, it owned Water, it owned Rail, it owned Mail, it owned Steel, it owned Shipbuilding, it owned Oil and Gas.
There was a 100% tax on these industries profits.
Now many of them pay 0% tax.
That is where all the money has gone.
There was a 100% tax on these industries profits.
Now many of them pay 0% tax.
That is where all the money has gone.
Signs of spring in the garden. (East Dorset, UK)
February 1, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Signs of spring in the garden. (East Dorset, UK)
Compare Nigel Farage's clueless party political broadcast, all about him, dressed like he's about to go on a grouse shoot, trying to be a normal guy, with the Greens broadcast featuring @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Go Zack !
Go Zack !
Bluesky
kpolanski.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Compare Nigel Farage's clueless party political broadcast, all about him, dressed like he's about to go on a grouse shoot, trying to be a normal guy, with the Greens broadcast featuring @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Go Zack !
Go Zack !
Does Iran need to cough-up a few $billion to buy a Peace License from Donny's Board of Peace ?
January 29, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Does Iran need to cough-up a few $billion to buy a Peace License from Donny's Board of Peace ?
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Your water bills are going up, again.
Why? Because private companies think you should pay the price for their negligence and greed.
It’s time to end the privatisation rip-off and bring water back into public ownership, now!
Why? Because private companies think you should pay the price for their negligence and greed.
It’s time to end the privatisation rip-off and bring water back into public ownership, now!
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Your water bills are going up, again.
Why? Because private companies think you should pay the price for their negligence and greed.
It’s time to end the privatisation rip-off and bring water back into public ownership, now!
Why? Because private companies think you should pay the price for their negligence and greed.
It’s time to end the privatisation rip-off and bring water back into public ownership, now!
Spot on but too close to the bone for our authorities. It was erased soon after being drawn.
January 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Spot on but too close to the bone for our authorities. It was erased soon after being drawn.
Marooned once again. All roads off the heath are flooded, some with stranded vehicles. I have never seen the flood levels so high in 10 years. Chandra dropped a lot of precipitation.
January 27, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Marooned once again. All roads off the heath are flooded, some with stranded vehicles. I have never seen the flood levels so high in 10 years. Chandra dropped a lot of precipitation.
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The whole point of democracy was for the majority to be in charge.
Instead we have politicians who do only what the 0.001% want.
Instead we have politicians who do only what the 0.001% want.
January 25, 2026 at 10:15 PM
The whole point of democracy was for the majority to be in charge.
Instead we have politicians who do only what the 0.001% want.
Instead we have politicians who do only what the 0.001% want.
17 species and 36 individual birds (but there are many more in other parts of the garden)
#BigGardenBirdWatch
#BigGardenBirdWatch
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
17 species and 36 individual birds (but there are many more in other parts of the garden)
#BigGardenBirdWatch
#BigGardenBirdWatch
RSPB
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 3:33 PM
RIP NATO, long live EUTO.
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 AM
RIP NATO, long live EUTO.
Marooned again. All roads off the heath are flooded, one car stranded which is the second stranding of the rainy season so far.
East Dorset, UK.
East Dorset, UK.
January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Marooned again. All roads off the heath are flooded, one car stranded which is the second stranding of the rainy season so far.
East Dorset, UK.
East Dorset, UK.
This is a famous old poem, but, sadly, nothing has changed:
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
<verses 2, 3 & 4>
— Anonymous, "The Goose and the Common"
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
<verses 2, 3 & 4>
— Anonymous, "The Goose and the Common"
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
This is a famous old poem, but, sadly, nothing has changed:
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
<verses 2, 3 & 4>
— Anonymous, "The Goose and the Common"
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
<verses 2, 3 & 4>
— Anonymous, "The Goose and the Common"
We have a night time prowler ! :-)
January 18, 2026 at 10:01 PM
We have a night time prowler ! :-)
Here they come, the first spring bulbs.
Holt Heath, Dorset, UK.
Holt Heath, Dorset, UK.
January 18, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Here they come, the first spring bulbs.
Holt Heath, Dorset, UK.
Holt Heath, Dorset, UK.
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It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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The biggest difference between Greenland and Donald Trump is that Greenland is not for sale. 🔥
~ Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
~ Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
January 15, 2026 at 1:23 PM
The biggest difference between Greenland and Donald Trump is that Greenland is not for sale. 🔥
~ Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
~ Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
In 1953 the US and the UK overthrew the last democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the Shah. In '79 the same actors were involved in ousting the Shah and installing Khomeini. Now the same actors want another regime change, for the largest reserves of natural gas?
January 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
In 1953 the US and the UK overthrew the last democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the Shah. In '79 the same actors were involved in ousting the Shah and installing Khomeini. Now the same actors want another regime change, for the largest reserves of natural gas?