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David Shepherd

@davesheph.bsky.social
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Husband, Father, ex NHS GP trainer & LCCCG Board, Genetics, Astronomy, CoE Reader & Lay Canon Kiteto Diocese 🇹🇿, Fair Trade, Tigers! Views my own (he/him)

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus - updated
AI image of a haloed Jesus entitled The non-sayings of Jesus with text
"Let the little children come to me but do not vaccinate them, for fatao infections belong to such as these"
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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NO! The BBC should not be closed down... that is EXACTLY what the international press-barons want. It just needs its politically appointed directorate replaced with people who will uphold its original mission instead of pushing / both-sidesing far-right agendas and views of racists and deniers.
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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And they used to call the Conservatives the "nasty party"...
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Stings: an explainer for the Reform hard-of-thinking 1 a singer you can choose to listen to 2 an insect defence you don't choose 3 a context where a someone freely chooses illegal acts, thinking they are hidden, revealing their true nature This was number 3, not a sort of 2!
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Even if Farage is only trying to do the right thing (🤣!), losing one trusted aide to treason is unfortunate, losing another to a sting careless, losing a third proves such appalling judgment he should never be allowed to choose a cabinet!
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looking forward to the extensive coverage of Reform corruption on R4 Today program tomorrow am... ... with not a peep about small boats
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
channel4news.substack.com
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Enjoying my new #GB2026 T-shirt! @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social The colour? 'Pronoun purple' obviously
Greenbelt 2026 purple T-shirt with words "Utter woke nonsense", as someone tried to dismiss the festival
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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After the release of yesterday’s UNEP report about the urgent necessity of radical climate action and the death of any hope of keeping temp rise to 1.5, BBC R4 Today leads, predictably, with small boats.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Enjoying the obvious discomfort of #R4Today programme having to admit that Kahn's London ULEZ scheme very likely improved children's lung health "but it might have been COVID blah waffle blah incoherence' Just rejoice at having healthier kids won't you?
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How do we know anti net-zeroers are dangerously dishonest? Simple When they see this same pattern in a stock chart they are very keen investors! Oh, they know full-well what this graph means They are paid to say otherwise
Graph of increasing global temperature showing persistent growth over 100y from https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/climate/climate-change/
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Having won a stunning victory against the establishment you'd have thought a rousing speech in presence of adoring supporters would have been an opportunity too good to miss... Somebody with a fridge/catering van could have snuck him in/out for well under £5m
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Snapped an early #Perseid this am heading down the Milky Way past the Andromeda Galaxy into Cygnus
Perseid meteor in Cygnus
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The only plus of the unignorable predicted(!!) floods/wildfires is it's now undeniable that anti-net-zeroers are either inconceivably stupid.. ...or paid for
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026
Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.
AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Utterly nonsensical. No good science backs this up but a lot of data says it could be bad- inconveniece is a huge barrier that prevents people getting vax or completing full course so splitting vax up further will compound this. In a country where measles clearly now endemic this is utter insanity
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It’s on iPlayer, prog fans. And it’s awesome! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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BBC Proms - 2026: Prog Rock at the Proms
Classic tracks on an orchestral scale from Genesis to Tubular Bells with epic new arrangements of works by ELP, Yes and more, featuring Guy Garvey and curated by Stuart Maconie.
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Strange, how for the likes of Reform, getting 'sovrinty' back was worth the price but the ecosystem and human race surviving via net-zero isn't
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
At what point does insisting on more safeguarding training, exposing people to reports, resolutions, procedures, books which they should all read, learn and adhere to - or else, itself become abusive? 😉 Asking for a friend
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Create your pseud cosmetic additive by combining:- 1 a 'boosting' phrase 2 a word ending in 'o' 3 a cell component 4 a number 1-9 Eg enhanced with proto golgi 6
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Presumably Farage has calculated that spending weeks publicly arguing with a Binfaced Recyclon from Sigma IX is less embarrassing for him and fellow Reform MPs than talking to a standards committee about his finances in private Just what is he hiding?
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Imagine Farage had gone to his GP, got an opinion he didn't like, screamed "It's a medical establishment stitch-up" and self-righteously called a by-election to 'let the people decide' It's exactly that loony Clacton voters are as well-equipped to judge parliamentary rules as medical diagnosis
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Is see FIFA failed to do their mandatory training 'Tackling Fraud and Corruption' module ...again
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Poor Farage Hasn't clocked that the 'lie and blame anyone' strategy has been totally busted by his US hero Daylight is a wonderful thing
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The USA, on its 250 birthday, is surely a contender for the unfunniest joke of a government of all time The WH for what it does and the rest for not stopping them
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Excellent tap tackle on Kane by DRC goalie - sign him up for Tigers!
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm old enough to remember when the footy was a game of two halves instead of four quarters
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Many years from now an alien archaeologist gazes sadly over the remains of a civilisation that destroyed its own ecosystem Its seminal paper: 'We got global growth to 4%!', followed by an exo-facepalm The title was based on an obscure post retrieved from something called BlueSky
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You've had:- far too much water too little too hot to sleep lost elderly relatives to heat forest fires accelerated coastal erosion food shortages so what kind of net-zero are you? Carbon or IQ?
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This pool business reflects very badly on the US
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
All together now... "If you're racist and you know it But you don't want to show it Immigration is your go-to talking point"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Stop saying, "It's iconic" - just stop it!
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Imagine if a fraction of the goodies Brexiteers promised in 2016 had come true Farage and his crew would be a shoo-in As opposed to something deeply unpleasant on its underside
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Despair. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog about how politics is stuck whilst violence intensifies, how ‘the first lie wins’ in constructing political narratives, and how Brexit ruptured the 'cordon sanitaire'. Long and depressing read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/desp...
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reframe asylum seekers as winners of 'Hunted' and 'Race Across The World' combined, but where you might actually die taking part Having passed that 'interview', ask if they might make very capable citizens if you treat them well at last
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If the world's referees can't see that banning one of their own from doing his job because he's non-white is a red card, I question their on-pitch credibility
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Poor Trump Putin clearly has one of his balls in a vice Looks now like Netanyahu has the other Just how compromised is US? ...by it's President!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
That the urgency and appetite (nay, rage) for correcting injustice to a white person in custody feels so much greater than it has for other groups strongly suggests our media/country still has a race problem
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Why don't these NEETs go and look for work in Europe? Oh!
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21
Express Headline:

Twenty-seven young foreign workers hired for every one Brit as immigration fuels unemployment crisis.
Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s, according to a shocking new study.
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Remember folks drugs are best done as directed by your doctor
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🔥 Now over 75,000 signatures! So an increase of 5K in less than a day. Keep going folks. Share to friends.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Amazing work from @hopenothate that found ANOTHER account for Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate, after my deep dive yesterday into his suspended one
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
You were (wrongly) told a cosmetic op would solve a problem! After 10 years of the pain of repeated botched surgery that was never going to work anyway, remarkably, a real path back to the status quo ante opens Why on earth would you let another plastic surgeon near you? #Brexit
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Isn't it interesting that the first instinct of these "freedom of speech warriors", who lose their mind if someone takes down one of their cheap polyester flags, is totry and destroy property in order to shut down anything that might challenge their view?
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Dear Eurovision You can't unite people by pop-washing genocide and ethnic cleansing I won't be watching
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