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iangorrie.bsky.social
35 years in Telecom’s. Scot living in England = British . Refugee from Twitter. Dundee & Redditch Worcestershire Uk. Interested in Technology, Aviation, History, local culture, military history, politics for the people and many other things.
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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If you need a sunday read about sticking it to billionaires, I was interviewed by @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about our @everyonehateselon.bsky.social campaign ❤️✊ bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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23 Feb 1918 // HM Trawler Marion, a Dundee boat in use as a minesweeper, was working off Filfla Island south of Malta with another trawler when she struck a mine and sank within a few minutes. Six of her crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

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"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth" #PRESIDEMENTIA

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'State capture of America's government is underway.' @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social says the President and his 'de-facto Prime Minister' Elon Musk are 'engaging in a wholesale revolution'.

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

STORY Tory Robert Jenrick forced to correct his own CV - after accusing Labour MPs of embellishing theirs www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

Way to go, Sheryl!!

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“The UK and its people are among Ukraine’s biggest supporters, and we deeply appreciate this” Volodymyr Zelenskyy

submitted 19 hours ago • 28 comments

Liz Truss tries her hand at stand up comedy with predictable results.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Can't share this often enough.

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If you think that someone who is not a white male only holds their position of power because of DEI policies, then you are exactly the reason why DEI policies are necessary.

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The Times cartoons are very good at the moment.

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When the political right refers to wasteful spending in the public sector, they are talking about the help given to the poorest families. When they attack "bleeding heart liberal lefties", they are going after the very people trying to defend the poorest in our communities...

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I suppose if nothing else, the last month or so has been an object lesson in how fast a nation can squander its prestige.

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🔴 ‘Don’t Buy a Swasticar’: Tesla Hit by UK Boycott Campaign Over Elon Musk’s Far-Right Support Electric vehicle producer Tesla has been targeted by activists due to its far-right owner’s interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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You know, J.D. Vance wasn't there to inform the defenders of Kyiv in 2022 that Ukraine couldn’t win, so they fought bravely and fiercely and eventually defeated the Russian onslaught to take the Ukrainan capital, thus totally derailing Putin's blitzkrieg.

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Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

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if the US does withdraw troops in Europe, what is it going to do with those troops? Decrease recruitment or redeploy? (and it wouldn't be just the 80K troops currently stationed but also personnel involved in supporting overseas bases (air and sealift, logistics, backend services, etc)

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#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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