RickBean
@fenmonkey.bsky.social
Polite (Yet Awkward) Engineer with a silly sense of humour. Will only argue about politics.
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🌏 "The geopolitical situation bolsters the case for closer co-operation with the EU."
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
Global forces are pushing Britain and Europe closer together
2026 will mark ten years since the Brexit referendum. The geopolitical landscape supports closer co-operation between Britain and the EU
econ.st
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🌏 "The geopolitical situation bolsters the case for closer co-operation with the EU."
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
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The President of the United States Of America was a close confidante of one of these most powerful & prolific paedophiles in US history, had close contact with many of his victims & has legally sought to hide this fact.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The President of the United States Of America was a close confidante of one of these most powerful & prolific paedophiles in US history, had close contact with many of his victims & has legally sought to hide this fact.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
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Apropos of nothing in particular: SHOES
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular: SHOES
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
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Fresh lemons can deter cats from urinating on your lawn but it largely depends on how good your aim is.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Fresh lemons can deter cats from urinating on your lawn but it largely depends on how good your aim is.
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
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There is literally a storyline in The Wire where a drug gang withholds wages from their street dealers to smoke out disloyal employees by seeing who starts complaining. This is organised crime thinking.
Trump: "'We can't make it. We can't.' You know, a lot of people who showed up also had a second job. They took a second job temporarily. But they all know the money's coming, and the money was coming. So I want to reward the people who showed up without a lot of nonsense, without a lot of talk."
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
There is literally a storyline in The Wire where a drug gang withholds wages from their street dealers to smoke out disloyal employees by seeing who starts complaining. This is organised crime thinking.
Dear BBC. If you want previously unheard levels of public support, tell the British public that appeasing trump will mean no strictly, no traitors, no children in need and no EastEnders in 2026 and let's see what the outcome will be. Oh and sack Robbie Gibb.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Dear BBC. If you want previously unheard levels of public support, tell the British public that appeasing trump will mean no strictly, no traitors, no children in need and no EastEnders in 2026 and let's see what the outcome will be. Oh and sack Robbie Gibb.
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Gary Lineker for DG
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Gary Lineker for DG
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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
It's time we called out racists for being racists and calling out those living off the politics of division, the scumbags they are.
Goodwin says "it takes more than a piece of paper" or birthplace to make somebody British.
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
November 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's time we called out racists for being racists and calling out those living off the politics of division, the scumbags they are.
I can't stress how important this statement is. It's proper Cassandra territory.
The racists are now saying that the mere presence of immigrants and/or Muslims in the UK is the reason for any violent crimes committed in the UK. It doesn't matter if they committed the crimes or not. It's the type of country these people have somehow turned the UK into that's the problem.
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I can't stress how important this statement is. It's proper Cassandra territory.
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Think they might want to rephrase this
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Think they might want to rephrase this
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🔥 Excellent from Lisa Nandy!
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🔥 Excellent from Lisa Nandy!
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
Your reminder that this is not about what we know. It's about what they know, that we don't.
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
Stripping Andrew of the title 'prince' is colossal, says the BBC's royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Your reminder that this is not about what we know. It's about what they know, that we don't.
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🎶My name's not Prince
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🎶My name's not Prince
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶
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I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
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Racist Unhappy Racist Has Been Called A Racist
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Racist Unhappy Racist Has Been Called A Racist
He really has the thinnest skin of any man.
BBC News - Trump raises tariffs on Canadian goods in response to Reagan advert
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Trump raises tariffs on Canadian goods in response to Reagan advert
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump raises tariffs on Canadian goods in response to Reagan advert
Saying that airing the advert was a hostile act, Trump announced an additional 10% "over and above what they are paying now".
www.bbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
He really has the thinnest skin of any man.
BBC News - Trump raises tariffs on Canadian goods in response to Reagan advert
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Trump raises tariffs on Canadian goods in response to Reagan advert
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Ohhh, the east wing is where the woman stuff happened, everything makes a lot more sense now
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ohhh, the east wing is where the woman stuff happened, everything makes a lot more sense now
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Beautifully observed – and so true
www.thetimes.com/article/c646...
www.thetimes.com/article/c646...
Why I love England — and I don’t need to wave a flag to show it
‘The train to Leeds is clean, on time and half-empty. I know this is rare, like finding a sixpence in a Christmas pudding — and so I enjoy it’
www.thetimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Beautifully observed – and so true
www.thetimes.com/article/c646...
www.thetimes.com/article/c646...
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“And I’d have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.”
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“And I’d have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.”
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...