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Chris George

@caldecav10.bsky.social
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Offcomer Cockermothian (>30yrs), proud husband, father, grandfather. Inclined to rant. All views my own. Citizen scientist monitoring meteors. Belfagan Morris dancing groupie.. And Archers fan!

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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What is wrong with people? Is it the sumner holiday boredom syndrome? Someone must have seen something - it shouldn’t happen to our beautiful town!
Street lights are being damaged in Cockermouth. The Council want help from the public to stop it!
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name to make sure Burnham keeps his word.https://water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-the-water-industry-rip-off/?utm_source=bluesky
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Oh, please let it be the end… #thearchers
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I just signed the petition calling on Andy Burnham to kick Palantir out of our NHS and police - can you add your name too?
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Hope For Ukraine @hfu.org · 29/06/2026
Music is not a luxury here. It is proof that we are still alive. Two young women. Two banduras. One bench in a Ukrainian city. They played. People stopped. No one said a word. hfu.org
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/06/2026
⭐ A letter from one of Best for Britain's supporters. Want to get published yourself? Use our new tool and send a letter to your local paper in less than a minute! 👇👇👇 letter-to-the-editor.vercel.app/c/s…
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
How helpful of the World Cup to have prolonged first halves that largely delays the half time nonsense so we don’t have to miss #TheArchers ‘live’…
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Tech billionaires are getting richer while we pay the price for the real-world harm their platforms cause. The "neutral host" loophole lets them off the hook for pushing dangerous content. MPs are demanding emergency laws to make them pay. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Sign the urgent petition
Tech billionaires shouldn't get to hide behind a legal loophole while their algorithms push dangerous content for profit. MPs are demanding emergency laws to finally make them liable for the harm they...
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🚨 Fire every 5 hours. Cheap goods from online marketplaces are causing deadly UK fires, but tech bosses are making a killing due to a loophole that lets them dodge our safety laws. Act now to protect our homes! 🧵👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Exposed: Big Tech behind UK’s deadly fires
A battery fire hits the UK every 5 hours. Amazon, TikTok, Alibaba are exploiting a loophole to import dangerous goods. But now we have a rare chance to stop them.
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
@richardmortimer.bsky.social Richard, don’t know if you’ll still be here or available tonight, but there’s a great event on at the Kirkgate, our local arts centre, that you might appreciate: kirkgateartsandheritage.org.uk/whats-on/coc...
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Cockermouth Live! and Delicious - Kirkgate Arts and Heritage
“Cockermouth Live! and Delicious” – a festival fundraising evening with three of the town’s finest food and drink producers. Learn what they do, how they do it – and why they do it ! Andy Walsh from T...
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@museumbums.bsky.social Lovely pair (and pair) of rears, as Hercules slays the Centaur Nessus, at the Uffizi Galeries, Florence
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milominder @milominder.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Every single day is Nigel Farage Free Pass day at the BBC. Literally above scrutiny. #BBCBreakfast #r4today #wato #bbcpm
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Please repost if you agree that the BBC has been undermining democracy and enabling foreign interference in our politics by promoting and protecting Farage.
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#TheArchers Probably the worst episode ever…?
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@andrewbensonf1.bsky.social @thebishf1.bsky.social Ref the Oliver Bearman crash, surely it would be possible to develop a high speed version of the ADAS used in current cars to detect an unusually high closing speed and brake/steer accordingly? Just a thought…
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Show me something the mainstream media ISN'T missing these days.
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Why is Ambet hosting a Radio 4 ‘comedy’ show…? #thearchers
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Don’t be fooled. The orange excrescence is using his posts to play the stock market and make gazillions for himself and ‘friends’… Wr need to follow the money. So obscene…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Artemis II is a thing of beauty open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)
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Ms. Unformation @msunformation.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Dame Judi Dench! 🤣☠️
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
cumbriacrack.com/2026/03/17/l... A wonderful new attraction to the Lake District!
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Lake District observatory’s most spectacular space pictures so far – cumbriacrack.com
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Can someone please explain how Israel is able to afford to conduct such destructive wars over so many years..?
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
King Charles is STILL set to fly to the US. But after his recent insults to British troops, sending Charles, Head of Armed Forces, to honour Trump, would be a slap in the face to veterans. Will you add your name to the petition to cancel this state visit? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
@museumbums.bsky.social Another fine pair in the Museum of Cyprus: Septimius Severus.
A rear view of a magnificent bronze statue of a Roman Emperor, Septimius Severus, from the 1st Century AD.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It's good that Andrew has been arrested, but more than a thousand women and girls were abused by men on Epstein island, and the only person currently incarcerated for it is a woman.
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 12/02/2026
Says the man colonising Monaco to avoid paying tax in his own country. What an F ing Hypocrite. And wrong on the numbers, immigration is falling fast, its 20% of what it was under the Tories. buff.ly/3U1G52m
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@museumbums.bsky.social Nicely shaped Triton at the Valletta Triton’s Fountain…
A very nicely shaped rear on one of the mythical Tritons at the Triton’s Fountain, Valletta, Malta.
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Strange light towards Workington tonight… #northernlights ?
A strange pink light tonight over Workington , Cumbria with lighter green clouds to the sideStrange colours in the sky over Workington…
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
stoptrump.org.uk/sign-bbc-let...
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Sign the letter: The BBC must not pay Trump a penny
Stop Trump Coalition
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Isn’t it obvious how Trump is playing us all? He now clearly believes that he has sanitised the files to remove his name and any implications…
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
That’s the way to do it!
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A truly exceptional episode tonight - brilliant writing and delivery, even… Adoom! #TheArchers
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🚨I'm joining ChinookJustice in calling on Keir Starmer to hold a judge-led public inquiry. The Prime Minister promised transparency & accountability in public office. His disgraceful decision to deny the families an opportunity to find out the truth is the opposite of that youtu.be/qdGh2sB7mLw?...
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
you.38degrees.org.uk
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@sniffpetrol.com @carpervert.bsky.social Looking forward to your thoughts on the ‘Neue Klasse’ iX3, and its resemblance to the classic album from King Crimson…
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
#TheArchers Clearly a death is coming - swimming in Bassenthwaite (the only water named a lake in the Lake District) is very hard - it’s big and super cold. Is Fallon going to nominate Harrison, who will save Jazzer but perish himself…?
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Brilliant cover from Private Eye
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Brilliant cover from @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Anyone have the coordinates of the Alaskan meeting today…? Just asking…
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I was so enjoying not hearing Adam’s wooden voice… #TheArchers
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Chris George @caldecav10.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I’m guessing the Spanish manager is a fan of Paddington (the 1000 yard stare…) #engspa
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