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Richard Kay

@copsewood.net
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Done cyber, teaching, networking. Doing community currencies. Love worship music, country walks, and making wine, cider and beer. A list of my other social media profiles is here: copsewood.net/mastodon.html

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/08/2026
Obama’s real sin was interrupting America’s cherished tradition of turning every foreign-policy problem into a 20-year war.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface
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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 30/07/2026
Totalitarians need scape goats. 1984's Daily Hate manufactured its own enemy. Different groups are singled out for hatred by fascists each time. In Salem witchcraft was the thing. For Nazis it was the Jews. McCarthyism held communists responsible for all evil. MAGA is going after the scientists.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Farage forgets that the receipts are everywhere This should be enough to trigger the investigation of the Bannon / Epstein connections to Brexit and of course emails exist verifying those connections already
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I could get on board with a lot of this. Would probably keep the Elizabeth and Victoria towers too, but my heresey is that the gothic revival bit of the Palace is mostly Not a Good Building
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/01/2026
Sometimes democracy survives just because a penguin had a shovel and boundaries.
Started // Going
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 06/12/2025
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A LAND VALUE TAX WOULD SOLVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry could not help it)
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Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.uk · 23/10/2025
You can call it Storm Benjamin if you like but Storm BP would be better.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 20/10/2025
Then fix it.
Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy.

Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.
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Cap Wilhelm-Safian @capws.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Colbert's reaction to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension is pure satirical gold. www.youtube.com/shorts/csBWo...
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🎶Shut your trap 🎶 — @ColbertLateShow #jimmykimmel
YouTube video by Mona Khalil
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country" "When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously" "I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Jacqui Smith called Musk's comments "dangerous and wrong" & "wholly unacceptable" on calling for violence. After a wobbly weekend, the pressure to notice what was said and to respond has got the government to an important baseline
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Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.uk · 10/09/2025
If any American is wondering why your tourism numbers are down this year, this may help to explain it.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/09/2025
Ghislaine Maxwell planting fake Trump letters in books decades ahead of schedule makes her less of a socialite and more of a Bond villain with a serious time machine.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Attn: UK National Trust members
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Pres Trump gave Vladimir Putin until today to come to the negotiating table with Pres Zelenskiy. He hasn’t. Trump says he’s ’very disappointed’, but doesn’t seem to be planning to take any action to persuade him to talk peace…
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Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.uk · 21/08/2025
Reform councils are thinking about legal action over asylum hotels but can't find a councillor who'll stick around long enough to see it through.
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
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Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.uk · 01/08/2025
Ha ha ha. Tr**p imposes his deadline tariffs and he still thinks they're paid by the exporting country. Not one of his tame gimps has the bottle to tell him he's wrong, probably because they're stupid cowards. US inflation is gonna go bigly.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Tax Havens are a con they shouldn't exist, you shouldn't be allowed to say properties in the UK are actually in a tax haven in the Cayman Islands and then dodge all the tax earned on them. But you can, and it is costing you a fortune.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
In today’s Russian papers: a new nuclear submarine, “car manufacturing down 30%...car market in one of its worst crises”, plus a warning that “political rehabilitation” of dictator Joseph Stalin leads to “rehabilitation of Stalin’s methods and practices.” #ReadingRussia
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Russia gets new nuclear sub, but "car market in crisis" - Russian papers
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 04/07/2025
Wishing my American friends independence from their new king.
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
As a young reporter in Northern Ireland I twice saw kids squirming on the ground in agony after being shot in the knees by the IRA. The memory still haunts me. Kneecap should be free to sing whatever they want - but why do they choose to celebrate such a vicious form of torture?
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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 19/06/2025
Here's my submission to the Met Office name our storms competition. Let them know your choices at this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I decided to become a journalist aged fifteen after reading ‘1984’ and being appalled at the thought that governments could rewrite history. Orwell knew the USSR did it. Now China pretends the Tiananmen massacre didn’t happen. It did. I was there, and saw it for myself.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.
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Stalin statue appears in the Moscow Metro
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net · 29/05/2025
Day 149 of #365DaysOfSmiles An unforgettable bring your kid to work day experience
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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I’ve signed this - please sign and share if you agree
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Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net · 21/05/2025
Day 141 of #365DaysOfSmiles Everyone loves a massage
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 07/05/2025
Kind reminder to all of my followers 😉 #linux #unix #backups
YESTERDAY

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone and Ilong for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay, Now I believe in yesterday.

Credit: Geza Giedke
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In recent days Moscow and Pyongyang finally confirmed that North Korea had sent troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine (in Russia’s Kursk region). Time to recall what Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told me last October when I raised the issue.
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Alexander Lukashenko on North Korean troops - October 2024
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 30/04/2025
An inspiring and emotional heart-felt and very personal testimony, beautifully written by Allison Becker, Liverpool and Brazil goal keeper. You'll never walk alone. www.theplayerstribune.com/alisson-beck...
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When You Walk Through a Storm | By Alisson Becker
I hope to meet my father again one day. Until that day, I know one thing for sure: I never, ever walk alone.
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DenisTheMenace @denistheman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Nice solution. There's a startup in the usa that connects your house to a public charging pole outside. The house owner gets a fee if someone else uses it and just pays his own tariff when he uses it.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/04/2025
Shopping at Walmart will soon feel like viewing a minimalist art exhibit on failed trade policy.
Empty Walmart shelves
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Rupert Murdoch International Tribunal 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪 @hey.rupert.murdochbait.click · 12/04/2025
It it too early to call?
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A Chinese Daoist maxim from the third century BC: ‘Govern a great empire as you would cook a small fish’ — i.e. don’t keep poking it and stirring it up.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/04/2025
The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For World Piano Day I play the Irish ballad The Rose of Tralee.
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Rose of Tralee - piano solo
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Signal @signal.org · 25/03/2025
One piece of misinfo we need to address is the claim that there are ‘vulnerabilities’ in Signal. This isn’t accurate. Reporting on a Pentagon advisory memo appears to be at the heart of the misunderstanding: npr.org/2025/03/25/n.... 2/
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Science girl @science-girl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Don’t stop trying
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