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helandro.bsky.social
Rower, coach, teacher & Baggies fan. Owned by dogs & cats. Always late- but not by much.
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Freedom of Movement was robbed from us by a successful Russian influence operation and the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. Please repost if you want it restored.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

A 10-year-old has a better plan for stopping plastic pollution than most politicians. Amaya Edwards discovered an Australian scheme that’s keeping rivers and oceans clean. So why hasn’t the UK adopted it? she wants to know.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1922 #Womensart

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

📢 Let the stones fly Who among us hasn’t accidentally thrown up a Nazi salute on camera? Cast your stones wisely! A poem, by Steve Pottinger @bigstevepoet.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

A really random plea if people could repost please? We are two planks short of V4 silent oak pool NE31 laminate flooring. It is a very long story and yes we are idiots. It is discontinued and out of stock even at V4. Putting out this plea in case someone, somewhere, has a few planks!

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

i think this is pretty much right. not a shock that the political economy of apartheid south africa produced a bunch of reactionaries who hope to replicate that political economy for the 21st century www.ft.com/content/cfbf...

submitted 55 days ago • 92 comments

These things here are emergency wreck buoys, and if you're thinking the colour scheme looks somewhat like a circus big top, just wait until you hear about the clown show that inspired their introduction.

submitted 61 days ago • 30 comments

he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

I regret to announce that my "Overpopulation is a racist myth" article is causing a lot of people to ask questions already answered by the article.

submitted 82 days ago • 10 comments

Massive away win for the little fella.

submitted 82 days ago • 589 comments

Well, someone has to go first ~ here’s Bertie Gregory’s wonderful photograph of a young emperor penguin jumping off a 50-foot ice cliff for its first swim, at Atka Bay, Antarctica (National Geographic Pictures of the Year 2024) www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/...

submitted 90 days ago • 13 comments

"Britain dumped other mistakes: Poll Tax, Sinclair C5, amphibious scooters, shoe umbrellas... Time to dump Brexit." "It’s no longer if but when a UK Government will find the courage to abandon this pointless exercise" www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2473930...

submitted 91 days ago • 19 comments

RT (RS?) and follow us and we'll pull one of you a week out of the hat to win a copy of our smash hit book that lays out the ineffable reasons why we say ‘Birmingham: it’s not shit’ and then effs them.

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

In conversation with @microlabdoc.bsky.social, I discovered that not everyone knows of the hamster's prodigious capacity for alcohol. They love it so much they prefer to drink 15% ethanol instead of water, and can tolerate relative quantities that would kill a human. 1/ (originally a Xitter 🧵)

submitted 105 days ago • 33 comments

Only five more days until "Women in Physics Day". Did you know that both Marie Curie and Lise Meitner were born on November 7th? To celebrate, I've decided to declare November 7th as #WomeninPhysics Day! 🎢 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 ⚛️

submitted 112 days ago • 7 comments

The NHS will pay the King’s duchy £11m over 15 yrs to rent a warehouse for ambulances MoJ pays William’s duchy £1.5m a yr to use Dartmoor prison The army pays to train on Dartmoor, the navy to moor & refuel its fleet Charges are levied on Liverpool container port, the Mersey ferry —& a sewage pipe

submitted 112 days ago • 53 comments

The ball is in your court Lisa Nandy #ToryScum

submitted 113 days ago • 4 comments

All polls show a significant majority wanting to rejoin the EU A huge 92% of under 25’s want to rejoin the EU R/T if you want to #RejoinEU 🙂

submitted 117 days ago • 27 comments

If you see this quote post something green from a photo you took. #photography

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

submitted 119 days ago • 251 comments

Are you a National Trust member? Do you dislike the cancer of concocted right wing culture-war nonsense slowly and steadily making every good thing in this country, go shit? Then grab your membership number and vote online in the AGM by midnight tonight. Just choose the 'NT recommended candidates'.

submitted 120 days ago • 21 comments

Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope! Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C. www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...

submitted 123 days ago • 15 comments