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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️

@david-elsmere.bsky.social
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Y Fenni dweller, Cycling, Rugby, Poetry, lots of music Folk,Jazz,Soul,Bowie,The Clash,Manics,Suede,Bruce,Roots. Like a quiz. Food, cooking..walking, nature, do partnery things helping people back into work...Emergency Juggling Balls... #BetterTogether

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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Am sitting at Brum and have been for 20 odd minutes. Currently running over 30 mins late. WiFi non existent and the seat room is tiny... Wish I'd driven now!
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cross Country trains really are shit aren't they?
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I shall be pinching this and using it from now on! It's perfect ....
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Big yes!
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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sums up my feelings. 
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Where is this?
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ah but the front lifted as you put the power down....
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sledge hammer in mine!
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Had one of those in black .....it didn't like corners ....😎
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How is this village idiot anywhere near the Senedd?
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh come on … sing it with me 😉😘
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Alan Partridge - Quote of the Day @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Smell my cheese!
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah I know but I haven't found any of the others have the functionality and works with Alexa... But I will change soon.
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is Spotify glitchy for anyone else today?
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always
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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool
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Andy Ibbs @andyibbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That nook-shotten fucking isle of Albion
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yet another reason not to vote Labour ever again .... Idiots
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Bible literally says that a woman can be created from a man’s rib, Janet.
Telegraph and Mail journalist Janet Murray on Facebook: Apparently the Church of England has ordained its first 'transgender woman' - following a 'gender transition'.
Now, I'm no biblical scholar. But I did go to a faith school, study compulsory RE until I was 16, and get an 'A' in Religious Studies (back when that was the top grade). So I'm scratching my head here.
Genesis says God created humankind "male and female". Where does the Bible say that men can become women? Sarah Jones is a man, not a woman.
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is the word "horse" an actual horse?
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You Honour, could Danny take a short break from proceedings....he's feeling a little DEFLATED
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI......" FFS
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
. ... does not work. So I had to rely on family to drive me to my appointments How the NHS works also adds to car dependency
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had an operation last year and am still receiving care as on a waiting list for a second operation (nothing too serious) . I have had appointments at 3 different hospitals . One is in my home town and is walkable. The other 2 are really only accessible by car from where I live as public transport
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I see Ocado vans in Abergavenny.....
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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David E (& a Sloth....) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦥🏉🎻🎸🎶🏳️‍⚧️ @david-elsmere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well this has made me smile this morning! Great record and Sweep What's not to like?
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A man who raced over 90mph in a 30mph zone got a £253 fine and a 56-day driving ban. "If these men had caused the same level of endangerment by any other means, it’s hard to believe they would have got off so lightly." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Especially as we are not one ......
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Didnt know the Battle of Britain was won in Braintree .....🛩
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HG Rugby @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It blows my mind that the WRU is claiming it is at a ceiling in terms of revenue when they were literally giving away unsold tickets to staff members during the 6N - some say in the thousands Meanwhile less than one full stand at CAP will be open for the women’s game on Friday
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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 16/09/2026
🇸🇮 Urska Zigart fires back at a social media comment suggesting she should quit racing because Pogacar earns millions. 🗣️ "Exactly. Pogi earns his millions, while I earn my own 'peanuts'." 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/i-ea... 📸 Cor Vos
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'Night Tracks' on BBC Radio 3 is one of my favourite music shows. Late night listening, everything from electronica to classical. Wonderful stuff. @hannahpeel.bsky.social and Sara Mohr-Pietsch curating a fantastic selection of music. #music
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BBC Radio 3 - Night Tracks, Immersive music for after-hours
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The main answer is separate infrastructure. But it's also mutual respect - cyclists should give priority to pedestrians; pedestrians should recognise that cyclists passing them with 1.5 metres of space didn't "nearly hit them" even if they didn't hear their bell & that both deserve to travel safely.
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Didn't know that.... Good fact!
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Suggested ground rules for the ‘debate’ on 'bad' cycling 🧵: 1) Cyclists or cycling advocates are not collectively responsible for the bad behaviour of individuals. What’s your actual point? You want less cycling or rules that have that effect? Be clear.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Free buses? Free Trains? Secure bike parking? Of course not let's just subsidise cars again whilst the planet burns ..... FFS
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
21.00 FARTHER TED
Some priests are small, but this one is far away.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What neoliberalism did to the UK. 25.3m people, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Richest 1% has more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 families hold more wealth than 34m people. Can't grow economy on mass poverty.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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It's Monmouthshire ...just put it in the headline it's not a secret FFS And the story is actually this "an assessment had shown more than half of people couldn’t afford market housing in Monmouthshire" People can't afford to own or rent housing
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👇 this , definitely this ....
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Lee Waters @waterslee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Some thoughts on Burnham, Manchesterism and Wales amanwy.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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The Blind Spot and the Bluff - Why Growth in Every Postcode Needs More Than Devolution
What does Andy Burnham’s pledge to deliver "deeper devolution" to trigger economic growth ‘in every postcode’ mean?   The Welsh Government a...
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