NickRichards®️🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇵
@nickrichards935.bsky.social
A Devonian happy in Burdigala. Interested in world news, local info, culture & ... CFC🔵. Not interested in "across-the-pond" political antics, or screenshots from X thereof. Bots & trolls =⛔️&🗑. Occasional writer: ko-fi.com/ripper38
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‘The Russian Bond is on his way’: exclusive extracts from the letters of John le Carré
Former spy David Cornwell, best known as John le Carré, was a bestselling novelist but also a prolific letter-writer. Here we publish extracts from his correspondence with Alec Guinness, Graham Greene...
www.theguardian.com
In one of his letters dated 1993, John le Carre wrote "If we ever doubted that the world had altered after the Cold War, a couple of days in Moscow would put us out of our misery".
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/o...
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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
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Phil Wang, "I'm looking forward to the World Cup being held in America"
"All these teams from around the world getting tear gassed by ICE"
"The US wins at the end because it's the only team left"
#HIGNFY
"All these teams from around the world getting tear gassed by ICE"
"The US wins at the end because it's the only team left"
#HIGNFY
December 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Phil Wang, "I'm looking forward to the World Cup being held in America"
"All these teams from around the world getting tear gassed by ICE"
"The US wins at the end because it's the only team left"
#HIGNFY
"All these teams from around the world getting tear gassed by ICE"
"The US wins at the end because it's the only team left"
#HIGNFY
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🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
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This is simply gobsmacking in the impenetrability and immensity of its dumbness. ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is simply gobsmacking in the impenetrability and immensity of its dumbness. ~AA
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PRO TIP: If you're going to lash out at reporters for questioning your stamina, don't fall asleep mid-rant.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
PRO TIP: If you're going to lash out at reporters for questioning your stamina, don't fall asleep mid-rant.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
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Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
What a world when you have to fact-check Snopes 🤷♂️😉
Look out for this CBC headline about an asylum-seeker in Canada who abused the immigration system. The headline isn't real: www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
Look out for CBC headline about asylum-seeker in Canada who abused immigration system
The fictional article claimed the asylum-seeker would fly home, buy himself a new identity and live on benefits until they ran out.
www.snopes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What a world when you have to fact-check Snopes 🤷♂️😉
If they can do it!
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
If they can do it!
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An increasing number of bookstores in Japan are leasing out their shelves to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
As bookstore numbers decline in Japan, many are leasing out shelves
The shelves are leased out to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
ebx.sh
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
An increasing number of bookstores in Japan are leasing out their shelves to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
Apparently I've been out of 🇬🇧/🏴 far too long, and while I do like pigs in blankets, is this really a thing?🤔 & (the question I didn't want to ask) what next? Straight from the shop to the airfryer?
www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/fo...
www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/fo...
Aldi launches 'world first' lickable pigs in blankets wrapping paper
Yes, you read that right...don't just rip your wrapping paper, you can now lick it too
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Apparently I've been out of 🇬🇧/🏴 far too long, and while I do like pigs in blankets, is this really a thing?🤔 & (the question I didn't want to ask) what next? Straight from the shop to the airfryer?
www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/fo...
www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/fo...
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Sorry, pardon, what? Russia to lease land and pay rental? How naive!
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Sorry, pardon, what? Russia to lease land and pay rental? How naive!
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<whinge mode>First it was Black Friday(I never saw the point)and now it's Black November. As if the general mood isn't sombre enough. Methinks advertisers should perhaps read the room: Black is the bottom line for businesses, not consumers. </>
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
<whinge mode>First it was Black Friday(I never saw the point)and now it's Black November. As if the general mood isn't sombre enough. Methinks advertisers should perhaps read the room: Black is the bottom line for businesses, not consumers. </>
