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Charlie Budd

@charliebudd.bsky.social
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Photographer, video producer, writer and eater of cakes. Fond of trees, mosses and fauna and suchlike. Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.
Refugees

They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way

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Charlie Budd @charliebudd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Just rewatched Contact for the first time in a long time. What a great film. I’d forgotten its scale, how layered it was, how many great questions it asks. And it makes me want to watch Interstellar next.
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Use this tool to find out if your local health services use Palantir software, and register your objection. It takes 30 seconds. Well done @goodlawproject.org notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Far-right tech oligarchs have the most pathetic ideology. They hate minorities, except when they are coding for them. They want no taxes, no rules, and absolutely no democracy. There is no grand vision for society, just raw greed and a relentless pursuit of personal interests
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...
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UK to give homes ‘free energy’ instead of turning off wind turbines
Europe’s outdated and under-invested energy grid means huge amounts of renewable energy are wasted every year.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...
Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say
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ceej @ceej.online · 20/03/2026
I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Happy Mother's Day!
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Zack’s response to Shabana Mahmood. My friend sent this to me an hour ago. She said “This is why I will vote for the Greens. They have a moral compass of hope.” I wholeheartedly agree. Life’s difficult enough without a politician in the government advocating cruelty and marginalisation
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.
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Charlie Budd @charliebudd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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a man says i was like eureka in a black and white photo
ALT: a man says i was like eureka in a black and white photo
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/12/2025
having spent a while watching this I would say that it was at its absolute funniest on the seventh, maybe eighth replay
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Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Morning.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
To de-stress, I often imagine myself as a dragon who solves the worlds problems by eating the people I deem responsible for them. I imagine the taste to be disapponting but the texture pleasantly crunchy and vindictively satisfying.
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.
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Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’
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Steve (low effort Halloween name edition) 👻 @chompmancobra.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If you're going through it, there are people who want to do their best to help.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
#ChristmasPresent #Ebook #ChangeEverything @hivestores www.hive.co.uk/Product/Nata...
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
An Invention of Collective Nouns
 
A reckoning of spreadsheets.
A distraction of smartphones.
A prattle of podcasts.
A mispronunciation of scones.
 
A clique of photographers.
A heard of precedents.
An enjambment of
poets. A grope of presidents.
 
A pile of haemorrhoids.
A bunion of personal trainers.
A bout of estimations.
A condescension of mansplainers.
 
A stroke of geniuses.
A spot of adolescents.
An embarrassment of Richards.
A collection correction of pedants.


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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect. “Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”
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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Nice of the BBC graphics team to capture @vicderbyshire.bsky.social’s inner monologue. #Newsnight
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
www.worldofmoose.com/products/dem...
Cartoon of a man talking to a dog. He is saying "What's that Lassie? So long as wealth can buy power it's not really democracy?"
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Nebullama @nebullama.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes: “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.” More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!
How will the government fund scrapping the two child benefit cap? Talks about the fact it's important to remember public finances are not like household finances.
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Charlie Budd @charliebudd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
One of my favourite jobs of each year, filming the autumn production from @kes-drama.bsky.social at @kes-stratford.bsky.social This year it’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, which I’ve never seen… until now.
Two video cameras in focus in front of out of focus tiered seating in a theatre with an archway at the back of the stage.
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters”

The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas." Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
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KES Stratford @kes-stratford.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We're looking forward to Wednesday's matinée performance of Love's Labour's Lost with an audience of Y7 & Y6 pupils from local primary schools. With Saturday sold out, your only chance to watch is Thurs or Fri. Tickets are selling fast so book now before it is too late! www.ticketsource.co.uk/kes
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Original titles to "Doctor Who" (first transmitted 23/11/63). Theme music composed by Ron Grainer; arranged by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. #DoctorWho #scifi
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Does anyone know of any groups who offer support for people who have had a bad experience with the Court of Protection? Asking for a friend.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
You could be forgiven for looking forward to him being PM. 😂he will actually have to attend PMQs & fulfill his duties -what a shock that will be.🤣 He's a workshy, lazy grifter who barely fulfills his duties now as a constituency MP. Ask them, When was the last time he held a constituency surgery?
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
But if the government start taxing the likes of Starbucks & they leave, Are we seriously saying that Britain will stop drinking coffee? £3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax? It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.
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Sheffield charity given grant to fit 'swift bricks' in homes
The Sheffield Swift Network was given £7,000 by the council for a project to help the birds nest.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
Two pigeons on a London street, pecking at crumbs.

Pigeon 1:
"I'm sorry you missed out on the Booker prize. I thought your novel was wonderful."

Pigeon 2:
"It’s a stitch up! They always give it to a human!"

Pigeon 1:
"It’s nice they considered it." 

Pigeon 2:
"Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!"

Pigeon 2 again:
"Zadie Smith had a bestselling novel and an armload of literary prizes before she was 25*."

Pigeon 1:
"You’ve got to stop comparing yourself to Zadie Smith"

Pigeon 2:
"Why?"

Pigeon 1:
"We’ve all got to find our own path through the world. Plus, it’s much harder to type with claws."

pigeon 2:
"That’s true."

They both go back to pecking.

Pigeon 2: 
"I’m glad you liked my book."


*Pigeon 2 is 3 years, 11 months and 22 days old, the equivalent of 42 in human years.
https://pigeonpedia.com/pigeon-years-to-human-years-calculator/
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spooky24.bsky.social @spooky24.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/
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Car Size
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all . @nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Whimsical Illustrations and Motifs Dyed with a Traditional Wax-Resist Method Cover Caroline Södergren’s #Eggshells More info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/caro...
Whimsical Illustrations and Motifs Dyed with a Traditional Wax-Resist Method Cover Caroline Södergren’s Eggshells
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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