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Owner of HiFi businesses in South Manchester. European. Visit London a lot. Boring centrist. Fascinated by music, wine, food, theatre, & beer. Feel the world should be nudged into better, not lambasted. HiFi people follow @theaudioworks on BlueSky
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Seen at the Bristol HiFi show. Accuphase E-700 / DP-570 on MusicWorks ReVue Ultra. Sounding great with Russel K 120SE loudspeakers.

Humanity is on life support. 😢 Rebecca Marodi, a California based fire captain, was targeted by right-wing extremists who touted her a ‘DEI hire’ and blamed her for the LA fires. She has been found stabbed to death in her home. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

Wow! Look at the Reform lot. Who are these people?

Trump aids and sends arms to Russia. Anybody going to be really surprised when this happens?

I have a series to pitch. People crying. Only with happiness / nostalgia. I reckon we can get 70 criers in a half hour programme. Any buyers?

Clearly Trump really does want the US to be more like Russia. The hollow shell of a once great country.

Not using Duck Duck Go yet? Maybe now’s a good time? Maybe too late?

Amazing how the booking teams at Sky News, BBC News, #bbcqt who usually have Tice and Farage on speed dial are suddenly rinsing their Lib Dem/military/diplomacy expert contact books. Funny that. #wato #bbcpm

Imagine being an ‘ordinary person’ working for Truth Social. You must be medicated to hell to get through your day, and sleep at night.

Looks like the Axis of Evil is just two old codgers. Unfortunately both empowered dictators.

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

So Charles Ponzi and Josef Stalin offer you a peace deal. Whadya say?

FU Trump & Putin!

It’s a good job for western civilisation that Ukraine has taken Russia out. No wonder Trump is mad at Zelensky. We owe Ukraine a giant debt of gratitude. Please let us know the most effective financial routes to support Ukraine.

Now even Trump supporters struggling to reverse engineer his pro Kremlin statements into rhetoric that resembles something that could possibly come out of the mouth of a pro western pro democracy President.

#Ukraine is not for sale, and neither is US foreign policy. We stand with them even as Trump, Musk & J.D. Vance try to sell them out. Ukrainians know how to stand up to oligarchs and kleptocrats. Now it's our turn. And together we'll win #Indivisible #Ukraineview

In the old days, truth kept you alive, lies got you killed. Then the state stepped in to protect the gullible from knaves, fools and themselves. In the USA the state is stepping out of that role.

Russia is not the Soviet Union is a (convenient?) thing commentators keep forgetting. Europe, with ex Soviet bloc European countries can contain Russia.

The ad WaPo refused to run. Jeff Bezos👎🏼

You might almost think our enemies have caused this problem through their shills? Imagine if that were true.

Nature abhors a vacuum….

Somebody was saying that the US may pull all its troops out of the Baltic countries, and that would be an open invitation for Russia to invade Europe. Erm…. brilliantmaps.com/us-troops-ov...

I wonder how active back channels are between US intelligence and its now former allies? However betrayed we are feeling, US intelligence people must be weeping.

By boycotting American fast food you get to send a strong message & live longer. Now that’s a win / win.

Anyone else cancelling plans to visit the USA this year?

Really depressing. Not surprising that Baltic countries and countries with a RU border contribute the most. Fair play to the Netherlands though. Ireland, France, Italy, Spain & Portugal - well, I guess you can see what an easy target for the Trump W Europe has become.

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We've just closed our Airbnb account, which also means taking our Airbnb offline (potentially forever). Please consider closing your accounts, if enough people do it, it might send a message.

America has gone from Trump is great to not my MAGA in one bound. At least Brexiters went through the we “won suck it up” phase, before the crying bit.

Watching your entire professional life be burnt to the ground....

It’s cute he thinks Trump would read this. And care if he did.

I do hope those voices claiming the rule of law and the checks and balances of Congress will win out are correct. While we wait, let’s act like they won’t eh?