John Finagin
@johnfinagin.bsky.social
Writer, blogger, cartoonist, guitarist, Europhile & paraglider pilot who's got a thing about solving wordle then writing clue-rhymes about it. So it goes!
I follow back, but dm only those I know, or have had conversations about my listed interests
I follow back, but dm only those I know, or have had conversations about my listed interests
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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
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The economy has not been pretty since you've been in charge", Laura Kuennsberg tells Heidi Alexander.
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The economy has not been pretty since you've been in charge", Laura Kuennsberg tells Heidi Alexander.
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
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Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour.
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour.
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
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Wordle 1,618 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Satisfied
With a four
A win’s a win
Can’t ask for more.
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Satisfied
With a four
A win’s a win
Can’t ask for more.
a group of ballerinas are standing next to each other on a stage in a black and white photo .
ALT: a group of ballerinas are standing next to each other on a stage in a black and white photo .
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November 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Wordle 1,618 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Satisfied
With a four
A win’s a win
Can’t ask for more.
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Satisfied
With a four
A win’s a win
Can’t ask for more.
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A campaign based on lies to further the aims of a couple of narcissists, who sold the UK out for greed and ambition. Rather than making Britain great again it has diminished us globally and wrecked our economy. Not one false promise has been met.
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Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer | East Anglia Bylines
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A campaign based on lies to further the aims of a couple of narcissists, who sold the UK out for greed and ambition. Rather than making Britain great again it has diminished us globally and wrecked our economy. Not one false promise has been met.
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This seems to be something most MAGAts don’t understand (maybe because, like their cult leader, they never served)….
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This seems to be something most MAGAts don’t understand (maybe because, like their cult leader, they never served)….
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"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
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The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
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Nothing like this garbage to focus my mind and remind me to vote tactically.
Reform UK are going to announce a policy where all EU citizens will be stripped of all benefits and double the NHS surcharge
They will be given 3 months notice. If the EU refuses to accept these terms, there will be a ‘trade retaliation’ with the EU?
Race to the bottom in the sewage of racism.
They will be given 3 months notice. If the EU refuses to accept these terms, there will be a ‘trade retaliation’ with the EU?
Race to the bottom in the sewage of racism.
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Nothing like this garbage to focus my mind and remind me to vote tactically.
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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
Happy Sunday. Paradoxically, today's wordle was
not at all difficult, but costly in lines. It's a word riddled with double-entendre, going so far as to make sex cute (in a fluffy kind of way!), which I have tried to get into my verse. I hope it's worked.
not at all difficult, but costly in lines. It's a word riddled with double-entendre, going so far as to make sex cute (in a fluffy kind of way!), which I have tried to get into my verse. I hope it's worked.
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Happy Sunday. Paradoxically, today's wordle was
not at all difficult, but costly in lines. It's a word riddled with double-entendre, going so far as to make sex cute (in a fluffy kind of way!), which I have tried to get into my verse. I hope it's worked.
not at all difficult, but costly in lines. It's a word riddled with double-entendre, going so far as to make sex cute (in a fluffy kind of way!), which I have tried to get into my verse. I hope it's worked.
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Johnson spent years charming, bluffing, and backstabbing his way to the top.
Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
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Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
@noosphere.app
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Boris Johnson: The Covid Tragedy and England's Clown King
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November 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Johnson spent years charming, bluffing, and backstabbing his way to the top.
Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
@noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/boris-johnso...
Positioning himself as a latter-day Churchill when the moment came and leadership was desperately needed, he showed us who he was...
And thousands died.
@noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/boris-johnso...
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
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🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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This needs to be taken more seriously!
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This needs to be taken more seriously!
Happy Saturday. Two letters in three lines. Neither in the right place. Had to resort to elimination, which worked ....... surprisingly!
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Happy Saturday. Two letters in three lines. Neither in the right place. Had to resort to elimination, which worked ....... surprisingly!
Listening to the podcast "Inside Trump's Head" yesterday. The writer Michael Wolff said, "One of Trump's obsessions - a weird obsession - why didn't Nixon burn the tapes. He dwells on it. He asks the question, "What was that dummy doing?"
I couldn't help thinking the following......
I couldn't help thinking the following......
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Listening to the podcast "Inside Trump's Head" yesterday. The writer Michael Wolff said, "One of Trump's obsessions - a weird obsession - why didn't Nixon burn the tapes. He dwells on it. He asks the question, "What was that dummy doing?"
I couldn't help thinking the following......
I couldn't help thinking the following......
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Pam Bondi: “It took the work of 1,000 FBI agents, but here they are — the Epstein files.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Pam Bondi: “It took the work of 1,000 FBI agents, but here they are — the Epstein files.”
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
Happy Friday. Would have liked to have got it in 3️⃣, but it wasn't to be.
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Happy Friday. Would have liked to have got it in 3️⃣, but it wasn't to be.