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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, came to the comments to say exactly this.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 19h

Isn't there a verse about this in Eternal Father Strong to Save?

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 19h

Whilst Columbus heralded an age of unbridled savagery, I've never got this - let's be frank - trite jibe. If I 'discover' my wife is having an affair, it simply describes an action from my perspective; doesn't take away her agency or prior knowledge!

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 19h

Cafe with gentrification 1984 Cafe without gentrification 1982 Cafe with heritage without gentrification 1984 Cafe with heritage with gentrification 1982 ...

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

But it's not on the side of a bus or expressed in the SI unit 'weeks-NHS', so how can we be expected to understand it

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Even he has fallen asleep before thanking everyone this time for their attention in this matter.

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

The US has sold the entire planet down the river. The trust that has been broken, the myth that has been shattered - these won't be forgotten. This really is the end of the era of American superpower.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rather sadly, Mamod finally closed a few years ago.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Proper tailors put their label on the inside of the pocket.

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

Yes. What they didn't explain: ensure you have a decapitated leader making the decisions in the first place. Can't decapitate something without a head.

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

The sky? Is the sky at least correct?

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

You can bet your bottom dollar that the govt will entirely balls up capital taxes too, ignoring the nuances that make, eg, Zucman's proposals work, and carrying on with its apparent quest to make SMEs nothing more than private equity targets-in-waiting.

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

The UK's tax system is mad. We barely tax some forms of business, whilst others face crippling levies - heavy/physical businesses essentially subsidise services. Stamp duty on moving house/downsizing is just bonkers. The list goes on.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*Reported for extremist views

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dogs are a sign of being right, just not in the political sense.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Greens have always cared more about the social side, and the look of things, than they have about the actual numbers. And climate change is a numbers game.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Has she specified how many foreign-born grandparents marks one out as an unperson? I think she needs to be pressed on this: when judging nebulous myth-based traditions of recently-invented origin for high stakes against arbitrary criteria, it's very important to be precise!

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

State Liberalism. A Carneyite

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Party' needs the 'p' capitalised to reinforce to more conservative audiences the insanity of this.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe the real drag was our friends talking about it all along...

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Any military action should result in Russia essentially being 'turned off': no financial transactions for anyone connected with Russia, no trade, no bank accounts, no assets, no passports, no travel, nothing. The yachts and money can be returned to people once they get rid of Putin.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Never too late to stop, though. So there's that

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At least we all know what 'American Intelligence' is should he consider another rebrand.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(And the fact that everyone ignored my point, and jumped on me for even hinting that the consensus here may not be 100% fault-free, is a bit of an Exhibit A)

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Feigning precision in order to elicit a counter that contains the info you're after, is classic spycraft.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, latter correct: ie it's lazy, usually unfair, and in any event - and most importantly - ultimately deeply counterproductive to evicerate the centre ground (incl potential allies) on petty points of purity, and for somehow facilitating the extreme nutjobs. The nutjobs are the problem.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She was well to right of Stewart/similar. In any event, as implicit in my original post, I don't think remainers were necessarily at fault; the argument is just made by some (see attached). My point was that ppl spend a lot of time demanding purity/assigning blame, rather than working productively.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The latter was not a *centre*-right line ofc. In any event the replies here demonstrate my point. People are keener on cheap, inaccurate tribal mudslinging than they are on the compromise that effects more inclusive and productive outcomes. And all are punishèd.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It would have been helpful if they hadn't made the dish washer head chef in the meantime, but better late than never

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lots of the replies here are seriously wide of the mark, determined to make enemies of the very people who would have been the most valuable allies. One could just as easily, eg, blame centre-left remainers' obduracy over Brexit for ruining a potential soft Brexit compromise. None of this is helpful

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whatever the truth of it all, it's an undignified and grubby thing to profit off someone's (let alone one's sister's) death by mucking-raking in this manner. I don't think he'll attract the sympathy/approbation/etc to which he feels entitled.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If a moron can do it, then Trump - a real moron's moron - can and will do it.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is this the guy who offshored himself, his business, and even the manufacture of his super-British Grenadier off-roader?!

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is this ex-solar developer Richard Tice? Just checking we're talking about the same hypocrite

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Worth remembering at times like this that X isn't actually representative of how the majority think. But it is representative of a mania, and of how a whipped-up crowd thinks. I just say this to provide a glimmer of hope that these waves can and will be beaten back.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's crazy isn't it. My son won't remember now, as it was about 9 years ago, but it was a bit of a shock at the time, with me having to yank myself and him back sharply. On the Vauxhall Bridge Road in London. It felt faster but the guy must have been going 20+ mph. Didn't give us a second glance.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A sign near us in Lusaka. And so it begins...

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've twice been hit (when driving) by cyclists breaking the rules, but never a car. I also narrowly had my three year old son missed by a cyclist jumping a light. It may be that my experience is unrepresentative, of course. But still: red is red, and cyclists should face the same penalties.

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