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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It has taken me months to find a spotlight with a sufficiently narrow beam. But hugely pleased with this!

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah, if there’s one thing we can say about the independence movements in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, it’s that they’ve never had any media coverage

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's an office in Moscow where they're betting each other that the next cast to catch the Trumps can/can't be as absurdly easy as the previous one. Yet each time they reel in a fish. The Trump aren't the wolves they're painted as; they're dogs: waive a treat and they sit, stay, fetch, whatever.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026

🚨Theresa May: "Crypto assets are used by people who want to avoid anybody knowing what they are doing." "And in terms of our democracy and political parties, donations to parties or candidates, we actually want the transparency of knowing who is doing that donation, who is making those donations."

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"How can we possibly control what happens when this exceedingly dangerous thing does exactly what it's designed to do, and wreaks havoc on society?!?? Thoughts and prayers." Guns, AI, even Tariffs and Fossil Fuels: the world seems hostage to the childlike limitations of an impossibly stupid nation.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No, Mr Ocado. When I've also ordered guanciale, it should be abundantly clear to the algorithm that Parmigiano Reggiano is *not* an acceptable substitute.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"World's largest metaphor docks in Thailand" youtube.com/shorts/gQhnu...

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Rusty USS Lincoln docks in Thailand

YouTube video by CNN

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A great example of a small local environmental charity, doing the hard yards and - bit by bit, collaborating with communities and other organisations - fundamentally improving a river system. The Deveron, Bogie & Island Rivers Charitable Trust - 25 years old this month. youtu.be/vtHRS_g9mHU?...

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25 Years of the Deveron, Bogie & Isla Rivers Charitable Trust | Celebrating Our Journey

YouTube video by The Deveron, Bogie and Isla Rivers Charitable Trust

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Er, Zesca... How did you get there...?"

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Loving that 'benefits' is given quotation marks

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026

"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Are these wildfire alerts going to be going on through the night?

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Scotland as always excelling itself in matters celestial observation

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Another thing Blade Runner got wrong about the future is the existence of rain.

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto @cortezmasto.senate.gov · 05/08/2026

I’m glad the President has his priorities straight.

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Andy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why's that cunt fucking up the moon

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Abra pulling off the impressive trick of making it look like she's being eaten

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 03/08/2026

I’m bored of waking up and seeing a picture of a demonstrably shit golfer say the same old bollocks next to a tied back curtain by an aeroplane toilet

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Zia Yusuf has gone to Ceuta, because what Spain needs most right now is an entitled shit-stirrer wandering around taking selfies.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 31/07/2026

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/07/2026

"She's a young, attractive woman. She never smiles," said Donald Trump, in an address this week. There's one award-winning journalist the president is obsessed with, and Jon Sopel reveals how this dates back to Trump's first term in office... www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...

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The CNN reporter living rent-free in Donald Trump's brain | The News Agents

Donald Trump gave a long, rambling and unfunny speech at this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, singling out one particular female journalist for criticism and comments laced with misogyny.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 07/07/2026

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

"Belgium is two, maybe three months away from developing a nuclear weapon."
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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My dog has never once so much as glanced at the television, but now seems gripped by Fargo (1996). Maybe it's a good excuse to binge watch Cohen Brothers output. Not sure she's going to be super impressed by humans at the end of it all, dogs not being big on irony. But we'll give it a go.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Trump speaks of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln with Mount Rushmore in the background. “These men could have only been made in the USA,” Trump said. Christ the man's a f*cking idiot. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Fourth of July live: Trump slams communism as he gives speech from Mount Rushmore

‘We are the strongest and most powerful country on Earth,’ Trump declared from Mount Rushmore

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The USA celebrates its 251st anniversary

Scene from Planet of the Apes where humans find the Statue of Liberty mostly buried in sand on a beach

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The fixed look in Zesca's eyes. A long journey with the children. Like Withnail in the film, she's MAKING TIME

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine.”

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In celebration of Father's Day I've penned some thoughts for the Hardy Boys: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

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Max's Maxims

Father's Day thoughts for the Hardy Boys

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/06/2026

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A victorious Andy Burnham MP (24,937 votes), as the result of the Makerfield by-election is announced, flanked by defeated candidates Count Binface (a bloke in a vaguely sci-fi costume with a large bin for a helmet; 95 votes) and Robert Pownall (who is in a full body fox costume, holding a sign reading "Protect British Wildlife"; 18 votes). There are some other candidates there just out of shot but that's not important right now.

Photo: Jon Super/AP

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Speaking to the surgeon just now, I found out that the new cruciate ligament in my left leg came from an American, aged 18-35. I don't know who he was, or how he died, but it's deeply sobering to think he was at least ten years my junior, and deserved better. I'll raise a glass to him.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Two hours trying to get into my car, and so far all Volvo Assist have contributed is: "Have you tried using the key?" Jfc

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Musk really is a leach on society, and the human race really would be quite well served by him just f*cking off to Mars on the first an available rocket.

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

EVs = they’re going to crash the grid!! Data centers = “let’s build 3,000 of them!”

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This really is shocking. And you have to wonder, as El Niño ramps up, whether even hardened anti-science loons might not start to see the folly of it by the end of this year.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Whilst obviously BlueSky considers him the devil incarnate, I challenge people to listen to Blair's short interview by the News Agents and say that the points he raises - and the tenor of his criticisms - aren't entirely reasonable.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

These mega execs talk as if everyone can have the one-in-a-million chance they did, if only they have the willingness to make the correct choices. It's like telling people that the *only* thing they need to do is to buy the right lottery ticket.

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