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rikofold.bsky.social
IT Service Consultant by day, irritant by night. Politically unwedded but leans to the centre. Pro EU, pro balanced immigration, pro nuanced debate. Semi bilingual. Reviews (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐): "A confounding and elusive fellow" "A difficult bastard to argue with"
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Brilliant.

submitted 31 days ago • 66 comments

The quiet* of walking on #Dartmoor is one of the main things I love The cessation of other people talking, screen chatter, & once I’ve bimbled enough, the cessation of mindchatter *Dartmoor isn’t silent - wind, grasses, animals, birds, feet in mud or on ice…

submitted 32 days ago • 17 comments

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

submitted 33 days ago • 2682 comments

The other history.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Immigrants are taking all the best jobs.

submitted 33 days ago • 1125 comments

Atmospheric in the fog this morning in Glastonbury. Taken on Wick Hollow.

submitted 39 days ago • 33 comments

Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

submitted 40 days ago • 74 comments

Vaccines are among the best of inventions. There's a high chance that without them, and the herd immunity they can deliver, you'd either not be here or would face a lifelong disability: *whether or not you had them yourself*. It seems crazy to have to point this out, but we forget it at our peril.

submitted 39 days ago • 33 comments

submitted 40 days ago • 9 comments

📷️Nikon Zf 📸SUPER REFLECTA 55mm F1.4 #photography

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

"No longer will we be subjected to woke ideas like manners or bedtime or please try for a just a moment to understand that other people matter. If you’re rich enough, you probably don’t even have to potty-train anymore." lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-ballis...

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

X is a completely lawless platform and nobody in British politics is willing to do anything about it.

submitted 42 days ago • 22 comments

Bravo @channel4news.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

To whom are you beholden?

submitted 42 days ago • 678 comments

This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?

submitted 46 days ago • 86 comments

"I want to put the record straight on this," Norfolk said. "It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible. That happened and there was a huge increase in convictions." www.thetimes.com/article/3a2b...

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 46 days ago • 128 comments

brilliant episode (hope Naomi’s starting to feel better now- Xmas lurgy is so horrible) Heard this earlier and thought I would quote it in a post -beat me to it - but I also love the genuine positivity juxtaposition of @iandunt.bsky.social (I know!!) on policy areas (listen to find out which)

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

In the real world, if you leave a pub because everybody is screaming abuse, there are constant fights, and you get no service because the spoiled brat of a landlord too busy sucking up to Nazis... nobody accuses you of vanishing into an elitist echo chamber. Same applies online.

submitted 95 days ago • 51 comments

I'd submit that the possible next president of the united states being like "I need to be more like Hitler" might be a bigger anti-semitism issue than college sophomores chanting "from the river to the sea palestine will be free" at a campus protest?

submitted 124 days ago • 18 comments

We are just shy of 1,000 Bylines followers so please spread the word that the UK's leading Citizen Journalism publication is now live on BlueSky

submitted 481 days ago • 22 comments

Judge sentences a rioter who, draped in a union flag, ran into police officers “like a rhinoceros”. #riots #uklaw

submitted 195 days ago • 16 comments

It’s going to get busier here. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

Questions about validity of "Tommy Robinson" Irish passport www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

submitted 196 days ago • 9 comments

silent majority my arse

submitted 196 days ago • 7 comments

🧵What do the public think about the riots and those taking part in them? A reflection of legitimate concerns Or the actions of far right thugs? I've written for @FT today on new More in Common polling and focus group research into Britain & the riots www.ft.com/content/4645...

submitted 197 days ago • 10 comments

If you want this site to thrive and draw people away from the Bad Place, retweet liberally. There’s no algorithm here, and a lot of the people still using Twitter depend on it to boost their business. If we boost them, they will come.

submitted 200 days ago • 10 comments

The BBIC have called it... #ElonMusk #Twitter #X

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments