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ultra-dave.bsky.social

🇬🇧 Retired electronics engineer. Centre-left politics. Volunteer trek-master for ultrachallenge charity events. Proud father and grandad. #climatechange #solar #battery #renewable #ev

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“Our biggest consumer market, 27 neighbouring countries that we lost, is open again. It is the small producers that lost out from Brexit." “Now we can stop fishing in this small pond and cast our net wider again." Full story: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

No excuses now from the rest of the world.

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Brexit....the "gift" that keeps on taking.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Do you want to rejoin the EU? If so fly the flag. #RejoinEU

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Unbelievable. No one is safe in the US.

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Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.

submitted 23 days ago • 625 comments

Absolutely!

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Disrespectful

submitted 24 days ago • 296 comments

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

submitted 27 days ago • 2123 comments

The BBC needs to grow a backbone. As Gary Lineker said, they worry too much about the minority who hate them, rather than try to please the majority.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Love it 😂😂😂

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submitted 29 days ago • 45 comments

Sometimes I just can’t resist doing an ink drawing before working on a full oil painting. It’s a fun way to get the ideas flowing. Plus, black and white ink art has always had a special place in my heart! ♥

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 32 days ago • 8455 comments

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

submitted 33 days ago • 3920 comments

This is absolutely shocking. Arresting people without warrants then deportation to concentration camps in El Salvador without bothering with any legal process. This is the end of America as a democracy. And a large number of Americans voted for this. America is fucked.

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The US has broken trust

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In reply to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s complaints that the EU (& UK) doesn’t buy American beef & chicken. The reason why we (I) don’t want to consume the stuff is because it’s cr*p. I don’t want hormone fed beef & I don’t want chlorine washed chicken. I want to know what’s in food I buy

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Let's just bury our heads in the sand 🤣

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Make America Pay Again

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Good to hear. The last UK coal-fured power plant closed last year.

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Bloody hell. What a point.

submitted 47 days ago • 58 comments

Hilarious 🤣🤣

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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is meeting this perilous moment in American history — taking an exceptional stand for ALL of us. The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…

submitted 49 days ago • 412 comments

I admit that I moaned a bit towards the end, but I managed to drag this almost 70yr old body across the finish line in a respectable time of 10hrs 32mins (and 1 second 🤣🤣).