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Adrian Cherry

@apcherrys7.bsky.social
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Cynical, curmudgeonly old engineer. Happily married and proud father to two fine young men. Unix and Matlab geek. Keen cyclist, modeller and book worm. Basically an inquisitive idiot & just wish everyone would treat others with compassion & understanding.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Ian King @twoht.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This morning, on how weird it is to see Brighton in such a strong position near the top of the Premier League: unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-monday...
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The Monday Almanac: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Brighton & Hove Albion doing a damn good impression of a team that could challenge for the Premier League title is extremely jarring for those us who remember when they played at an athletics track.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit. Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need. Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.” Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.” Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Only a few months ago, Reform UK candidates were promising to lower Council tax while balancing the books ... "Darren Grimes’ Reform council faces £83 million financial black hole" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dar...
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play. So we finished reading The Wolf that Ate Rocks by @russincheshire.bsky.social What a wonderful Bill Bryson style walk through the canine world. A keen observation on the joys and challenges of dog ownership and hilarious from start to finish.
Two Lakeland terrier dogs staring out of the window at the rain, much the same as the kids in the Cat in the Hat.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Nezaroo. May your home be full of light this Diwali. @nezaroo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You may want to start using this, pass it on. noai.duckduckgo.com
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DuckDuckGo No-AI: Private Search Without AI
DuckDuckGo private search with all AI features turned off. The classic results you expect. Always private.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This need’s distributing widely. Hopefully it will make people understand what people mean by privacy concerns re SM, this is the consequence of being the “product and not the customer”.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm now watching the BBC programme Race Against The Tide, which involves sandcastles (I don't really get the premise but anyway) and I've just realised why, on childhood family holidays, my parents encouraged me and my brothers to dig massive holes in the sand and the bury each other up to the neck.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
‘Listening’ to ‘legitimate concerns’ is what led us to violent riots in Thetford. Embracing flag-shagging is what inspires lynch mobs. These are the worst of people, and we should have said so clearly and loudly from the start. We should be saying it now.
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What a brilliantly simple idea. For the negative posters saying surgeons use staples, well surely they can just put a short length of the suture trapped under the staples so everyone is happy.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Judge rules Trump must hand over financial records sought by BBC in discovery, in defamation case Trump brought against BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There's a basic leverage issue here: Trump's cronies run the FCC & FTC, so he can threaten broadcast licenses and mergers in the US, but not UK
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Judge rules Trump must hand over financial records sought by BBC in defamation case
The judge grants a motion to compel the release of files held by the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I understood from Burnham supporters is that he is politically far more astute than Starmer. If that is true then appointing Mahmoud as Chancellor is an astonishing faux paux. Quite apart from her utterly alienating record as Home Secretary www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Shabana Mahmood expected to be named Andy Burnham’s chancellor
The home secretary is the frontrunner for the role ahead of ‘risky’ Ed Miliband, according to senior Labour figures
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Delay, denial, delay. It’s almost like he’s reading and following the Trump playbook.
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A classic example of Betteridge’s Law.
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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I think you could get the tube to the last public hanging, which seems a bizarre crossover.
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Kev Moore @kevmoore.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Morning all! 😉
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Because it doesn’t suit the narrative of the overseas owners of 🇬🇧 RW press!☹️
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sick & tired of people being unable comprehend that you can totally decry Farage for inciting violence and rage AND ALSO believe that the murder of Henry Nowak was utterly horrendous and that the police got it very wrong. These things are NOT mutually exclusive!
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David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 30/05/2026
Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Oh dear another fragile poster in @bluebirdk7.bsky.social who can't handle the truth, I'm guessing that they don't have any evidence at all of K7 on full plane like this photo from Bute because they would've shown the evidence but because I didn't fall for the museum gaslighting I get blocked.
BluebirdK7 userid showing they simply blocked me because I dared to point out to them that they didn't get K7 on full plane on Coniston. Poor fragile ego can't accept facts, if it had been on full plane they would have printed the photo but I can only assume that they don't hence me getting blocked.
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
and on the reserve list Nigel Farage - Russian Stooge Nigel Farage - Trump Apologist Nigel Farage - AI promotion Nigel Farage - tax avoidance specialist Nigel Farage - crypto laundering expert.
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Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#speclist Things will get more simple, they promised us...
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Max Wilkinson MP @maxwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#BBCNews - 'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system
The government said its in-house IT system was
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Many a true word spoken in jest.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
This is why I’m here: 🧵Trigger warning: suicide I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice. Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
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Janey Llou (Jane to my friends) @janeyllou.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It’s more common than you think. I heard about a MP who thought he was going to Clacton and somehow ended up in the Chagos Islands
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I second the motion… 👍
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
and our 2 dogs wonder why I keep telling them to simply leave the cats alone. I don’t want to have more vet bills.
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
No more turning away From the weak and the weary No more turning away From the coldness inside Just a world that we all must share It’s not enough just to stand and stare Is it only a dream that there’ll be No more turning away
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♫ Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away [Lyrics]
YouTube video by MrOLMOBE
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”
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Lehigh County exec says he’s evicting ICE agents from Allentown office, citing 3 years of unpaid rent
Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel’s announcement to evict the ICE agents came shortly after the county’s financial watchdog revealed the agency owes more than $115,000 in rent.
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Books returned to the shelves upside down and back to front. Entire rows pushed to the back. Spines broken by casual browsers. Wet dogs leaning against paperbacks... All these moments will be lost in time like tears of a bookseller."
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a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe
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ealdwine @ealdwine.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A photograph Robert Jenrick being painted over by Mickey Mouse
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this. All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN. Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration
Guardian article screen shot saying 2/3 Brits wrongly think immigration is still rising
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is truly brilliant!👏👏✨ I wondered why I disliked Trump so much……🤭 londondaily.com/british-writ...
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British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
We All 👇 Agree 💯 Chumpster......
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We need to focus more on perpetrators of Child Sexual Exploitation & Abuse rather than focusing solely on a single group/ethnicity 98% of the adults who sexually abused me as a child were white while 100% of the teenagers trafficking me were white Focusing on a minority is detrimental to victims
All Recorded Child Sexual Abuse
Cases
According to a 2025 report by the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, which used Ministry of Justice statistics where ethnicity was recorded (around 69% of cases), the breakdown of offenders was:
• White: 90%
• Asian: 5%
• Black: 2%
• Mixed/Other ethnic backgrounds: 3%
When compared to the 2021 Census data for England and Wales (81.7% White, 9.3% Asian, 4% Black, 2.2% Mixed), white offenders are slightly over-represented in these figures. Asian individuals are statistically underrepresented in CSA statistics relative to their population size.Group-Based Offences ("Grooming
Gangs")
"Group-based" child sexual abuse (involving two or more perpetrators) accounts for less than 5% of all recorded CSA crimes.
For these specific group-based offences recorded in 2023, the data shows a different picture, with a higher, disproportionate representation of Asian offenders in some areas:
• White: 85% of suspects were white.
• Asian: 7% of suspects were Asian.
• Black: 5% of suspects were black.
Baroness Casey's recent government audit highlighted that while most perpetrators are white, there is sufficient evidence from local police data in specific areas (such as Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire) to show a "disproportionate number of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds amongst suspects for group-based child sexual exploitation" in those localities.
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Adrian Cherry @apcherrys7.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Farage the hypocrite, who’d have thunk it!
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A Write Highland Hoolie @highland-hoolie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
​​A Write Highland Hoolie is Scotland’s friendliest book festival. Held in Mallaig every November, it combines literature, poetry and music under one roof in a unique immersive, unforgettable weekend of fun, friendship and fine food. Follow us to keep up to date with our latest news!
An aerial view of the village of Mallaig, West Highlands.
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𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗄 @flicknow.xyz · 21/06/2025
the first rule of bluesky is do not publicly plan assassinations on bluesky. the second rule of bluesky is if you are going to publicly plan assassinations on bluesky at least do it in remspeak, give your lawyer something to work with
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K. Cook & Cats, Co. [Old] 👵 @iamkaymichelle.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Wow, #JethroTull stone-cold classic #progrock #album #ThickAsABrick is HITTING today, for some reason 🤓 music.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNL... Really don’t mind if you sit this one out/ My word’s but a whisper, your deafness a shout/ I may make you feel, but I can’t make you think #Resist #lyrics
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Really Don't Mind / See There a Son Is Born (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)
YouTube video by Jethro Tull - Topic
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