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Chris Hill

@chillly.bsky.social
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Like natural sciences, tech, making stuff including leccy bits and 3D printing. Member of Men in Sheds Haltemprice based in Anlaby.

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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are not working royals and we have been told many times. The BBC covers some event they are at on the News, with a piece by the BBC Royal Correspondent. I assume that's someone who reports about the royals, not royalty working for the BBC.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump sacks Kimberly Guilfoyle, apparently for corruption. Was she not corrupt enough for him?
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dear YouTube, please use some of Google's AI magic to delete YT videos that throw random pictures up vaguely around a subject and string junk narrative to it in a mid-Atlantic accent. YT is being dragged into the pit of slime with this junk, you can fix this.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Do Ferrari want to win an F1 race? Hamilton needs an engineer who understands him and a team that can think fast enough to make strategy changes when things evolve. Ferrari need to improve radically.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sam and Ade go Birding: your collared dove was a wood pigeon.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
F1 interview at the end by the famous Irish driver Timo Glock.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sir Jim thinks Britain is failing. His dream of Brexit has dragged our economy down and killed growth, something he knows about: Man U owner, how are they doing? Ineos Grenadier, sales tanking. Stick to your cash cow of oil and live where you want, you don't pay UK tax anyway, how patriotic.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington: the centre of racism in England
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Local male sparrow hawk just took a sparrow. He flew off with his prize before I could grab a photo. Good to see the hawk, but bad luck on the sparrow.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cold caller knocks at the door selling some crap I don't want. My stock answer is 'I don't have any money mate', and off they go to find the next punter. Works every time.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump orders lake Ontario to be renamed. I think we should rename the White House to the Asylum and Mar-a-largo the Retirement Home for Demented Seniors. Do you think this might catch on?
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Fybocalm is made by Reckitt, a very competent and experienced company at advertising and marketing. Why, oh why do they use Medifacts to make their TV adverts? Medifacts ads are horrible and do nothing to build a brand that Reckitt is usually really good at. A bad choice.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have friends who worked in the USA for a while and then returned to the UK. They didn't make headline news.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I tried to get a good photo yesterday, but the best I could do was of a turtle eclipse of a bun.
A turtle partly hiding a bun
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The house martins are all doing their dusk flight, trying to grab as much food as they can before it gets dark. They be full up in an hour's time when they really need to start!
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
BBC News: Hydrogen is NOT a green fuel. Almost all of the hydrogen is generated by steam reforming methane ('natural' gas). That process emits huge amounts of CO₂ and uses loads of energy too. Hydrolysis needs very clean water and lots of electricity, which we don't have in excess either.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What the hell is BBC News doing? Is the extremely predictable eclipse really the headline? Then, to cap it all, Pallab Ghosh fluffs his interview - he really is not up to the job. C'mon BBC, you must do better.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
BBC News is showing aerial imagery to show how dry it is. Of course it is dry and very hot, but many of the yellow fields shown on the images are ripe crops and should look like that.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The UK Government needs more money to spend on many areas. I have an idea: stop buying MicroSoft licences for things that can be replaced with OpenSource software. It would free up hundreds of millions of pounds, EVERY YEAR, and break another dependancy on the US.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So Peter Levy invites comments on BBC Look North on the investigation into Richard Tice, but only from Reform supporters! It really is time that man walked. (Levy and Tice!) #BiasedBroadcastingCorp
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
BBC Look North EY&L has gone full culture wars. First acting surprised that prices have gone up, followed by a whole piece about the Union flag. It really is time for proper change, why fill half an hour of TV on BBC One with this junk?
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Has Look North just discovered inflation?
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I suspect that if the French navy fired at Chris Philp in the channel, they would have hit him. They are professional sailors and know what they are doing, unlike Philp. Why was he there? What did he expect to achieve other than stirring another culture war pot. I'm glad he is safe, his seat is not.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
When a butterfly flies up from the path in front of you and you wonder why you didn't see it before it flew up ... Here's what a meadow brown looks like on the ground with folded wings. It is hard to see.
A very well disguised butterfly with its wings closed. There is no sign of colour and the pattern on its brown wings hides its real shape.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I like watching the BBC coverage of the Hundred, but that New Zealand accent really, REALLY grates on me and spoils the whole spectacle. Not even useful comments IMO.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm enjoying Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili. I still can't accept the many-worlds theory in Quantum Mechanics, so it's good to hear alternatives that still support determinism. youtu.be/-_8apfiiTR4?...
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Three Competing Theories of Quantum Reality – with Jim Al-Khalili
YouTube video by Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump is pissed off that Iran has tried to charge a fee for shipping to pass through the strait of Hormuz, so pissed off that he retaliates by imposing a 20% charge himself. What is this dickhead on?
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tennis has been on TV, solidly, for two weeks. Now the finals are over they still have guff on. People standing around, then walking around a building meeting non-tennis people. When, WHEN will this awful bollocks end? I guess it's cheap, it is certainly dreadful.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Young magpie can't manage to perch on the feeder, but has worked out that if it crashes into it, food spills on the ground where it is the boss. They are smart.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Young starlings starting to show adult plumage. They are not as daft now too.
A young starling on a bird feeder showing black with whit markings on its body instead of the brown of the juvenile colouring
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It is reported that Farage has pulled RefUK campaigners away from the Manchester mayoral election to focus on his by-election. RefUK is in with a shout in Manchester which would be a huge win, but he's so scared of losing to a man wearing a bin that he has diverted RefUK resources to Clacton.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It's on all day on two channels and when you try to grab a bit of news, it's full of bloody tennis. Roll on Monday.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Times chief political correspondent, Aubrey Allegretti, doesn't know the difference between capitulated and catapulted. Odd mistake.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage is having a large publicity campaign funded by the taxpayer. What a dick.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage has an announcement at 2pm. I'm expecting him to say he is joining the BBC taking over from Fiona Bruce as the host of Question Time. Will anyone notice?
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Someone just showed me a YouTube suggested video section. It was for Current Affairs satire. The first video was 11 year old, the second was 5 years old. Current?
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JenOnTheMove 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jenonthemove.com · 26/06/2026
Don't scroll past this post without taking a big drink of water because you probably haven't drank enough today. You're welcome :-)
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I do wonder just much more #LookNorthEY&L can squeeze out of Brexit. Second day in a row about it. Of course they go to Boston that voted the most to leave, but not to anywhere that voted to remain. Of course I can't link to Look North here, they only inhabit the Xwitter cesspit.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The RW Look North doesn't miss any trick to get Reform on the telly. Today it was Tice; surprised they found him in the UK as he seems to live in Dubai.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Yodel and InPost have merged. i am being encouraged to use the InPost app rather than the Yodel app. Yodel was not always a great experience, but the InPost app is crap. I guess they are more cost effective by not spending money on an app that works.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It seems as though every thing has an epicentre nowadays, even though it means the point on the Earth's surface closest to an underground explosion or earthquake. It seems a shame to corrupt language like this; why not use a better word or even invent a new one?
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
There seems to be a feeling that England men's cricket team is doing so well to thrash NZ, but the pitch at Lord's was awful. Batters stood no chance and bowlers just had to hit a length and let the pitch's uneven bounce take wickets. Tougher games will follow.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There are a lot of starlings about
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When a pack of cigarettes cost £15+ why does anyone think a £5 deposit on a vape will really deter anyone from just throwing it away. The deposit needs to be at least £25 and the penalty for discarding a vape should be £500 minimum. Vapes cause serious fires.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It's not very often that I see a rook on my feeders.
A rook standing on a bird feeder tray stretching up to reach another feeder
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think this is the first time I've seen a stock dove in my garden, though this one thinks it's an ostrich.
A grey stock dove with its head pushed into the gravel, looking for food between the stones.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
#WildflowerHour #TinyPlants Not a tiny plant by any means but holly flowers are tiny. Look at the edge of the leaf for scale.
Holly flowers next to a holly leaf.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
There is no clearer indication that Starmer's time is up than the news that he has turned again to Morgan McSweeney to help Starmer stay in power. McSweeney got him into this hole, but Starmer can't see that. Time to go mate.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wonder if the new Labour leader will be someone no one is expecting. I just hope that whoever they are, they are a leader not a technocrat or an idealist. Corbyn, Starmer, Badenoch and Sunak all demonstrate how someone who is not a leader drags everyone down.
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Chris Hill @chillly.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I don't think I've looked closely at holly flowers before. Very small and very robust.
Very small white flowers next to a holly leaf spike for scale
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