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David JW Bailey

@davidjwbailey.bsky.social
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Walker, photographer, radio ham, gamer, wine lover, accountant, entrepreneur, human friendly activist, ally. English & European. Generally prefer facts and science.

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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 6h
I want to be cross about your being so smart here, but I find myself agreeing with you. Let’s start with everyone driving a Tesla; and Audi; or a Rolls Royce (post 2010)
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 12h
Someone on the radio just now from the Labour conference in Liverpool referred to 'our care service'. There is no care service. There's a care b u s i n e s s, and a very limited one.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 6h
Does Nicki also have a serious mental illness?
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 7h
Lillico is a chaos merchant and saboteur. Trust *NOTHING* from him. Ever.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 7h
This proves the depths of pure craven cowardice in our politics go very deep indeed
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 7h
What if those guns were pointed at Farage?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 7h
Not just tax evasion: over a *trillion* pounds were sucked out of the UK by privatisation and we pay them to borrow it back …
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 7h
Stalin. Putin wants the US to be as crippled as Russian was
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 21h
Are we not, quite seriously, missing the point of motorways?
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think Highways England is taking the Micky today – over 110 miles of 50 mile an hour speed limit on the M1 and M6 with no visible issues, accident, and just a short section of roadworks for H.S. 2 on the M6 Toll Reeks of incompetence and under Investment
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They all mysteriously suffered waves of immigrants, negative press, wildfires and withdrawal of loans immediately afterwards…
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The other option is have prosecutions hot to run … which democrats (being useless) won’t. I guess you are all fucked then
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
…But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.” - Søren Kierkegaard
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it…
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another Old Tory Trope bites the dust. UK workers are NOT massively less productive than the G7, and all their whining about laziness and idleness was just projection of their own inadequacies and loathing of the working class. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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Revision of labour • Resolution Foundation
The UK’s post-financial crisis productivity slowdown has been a defining feature of our economic landscape.[1] But changes in how the Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates the average hours ...
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Vocational GCSE” cries the newspaper headline. I feel slightly sick. UK Labour has become Uncle Tom the neoliberal capital owners. Turning our precious children into “economic units of labour” Oh the irony. All thinking expunged, everything made “profitable” I despair.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brilliant! www.instagram.com/p/DdllUVlDoP...
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DrownedinSound on Instagram: "Today is a big day for DiS, we’re officially entering our magazine era. Yes, you read that right, we’re gearing up to print 50,000 copies of SHOWNOTES, which is a new qua...
1,255 likes, 130 comments - drownedinsound on September 22, 2026: "Today is a big day for DiS, we’re officially entering our magazine era. Yes, you read that right, we’re gearing up to print 50,000 co...
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Removing Immunity and the statute of limitations on Trump crimes should be the FIRST and SECOND actions of a Democratic majority, Sadly Kier Starmer bottled it when he had the chance in the UK.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That’s a Russian / Saudi / US trope. (Independent is anything but.) Same spending on acceleration of green energy vastly better in long term.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fair, and good use of “certain situations”, which seems sensible.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Prosecuted paedophiles being hired with access to children, and parents being unaware. .. Rampant visible fraud at every level, from corner shop to council building contracts. .. 4 deaths in a school of 500 boys in one cohort. RTA, cancer, sporting accident, other… .. The 1980s were awful.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Adults in authority at Church, Youth Groups, upset that age of consent was too high, pursuing 15 year old girls (“grass on the pitch”) Same adults upset that homosexuals had an age of consent at all.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1980s: PE teachers physically assaulted pupils, pupils being put in detention for reporting it. Scheduled gang violence between schools. Bullies who got made school prefects, given licence to act violently. Thinking being a reason to be beaten up. Police walking past “queer bashing” in the High St
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did they also fund Reform and similar saboteurs?
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026
A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
youtu.be/ronwzumrDQ8?... Labour should revoke all Anti-BDS laws in the UK
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Palm Beach County meeting erupts over $1B Israel Bonds investment; attorney arrested
YouTube video by CBS 12 News - WPEC
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And a fair bit of punching nazis in the face?
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What if… Every Parliament (on either side) that declares war was *instantly* sent to the Front Lines as infantry. Along with the sons & daughters of every billionaire who funded it? I have a feeling war would be a lot less popular among governments if this was enforced globally.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“President AOC may have a supermajority in both the House and the Senate and have exceeded Reagan 84’s electoral college results, but does she have a mandate to alter DC’s traditional drone deployment architecture? We’ll be spending the next six months discussing this, here on CNN.”
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stopping charities from lobbying and removing their tax breaks is, of course, already Tory policy
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every single penny given to a political party should be traced to source. None should come from corporates or overseas. None should come from criminals, None should enrich any individual in politics. How hard is that to agree?
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And one or two very very defended capital vessels that can deliver things to the air and boots to the ground at very high speed and with lowest risk of loss. That’s not what he is asking for. And the reason is who is publishing it.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He gets paid for that. So we should have independent evidence and strong analysis before deciding. Odds are that the days of the aircraft carrier and battleship are over, and most value will be fr distributed smaller objects with robust data integration across all dimensions of combat.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They have become this. What could help More of them NOT be this? If they wanted to not be this?
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Laura is a neofascist from a long line of Italian almost-royalty neofascists who have a main business in traumatising the boy children of the ultra rich to make them more sociopathic
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah, he is going to die, along with his family and this won’t save him. Nature is unforgiving, and criminals mostly end at the hands of other criminals.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m really sorry.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Don’t forget the hardest of the hardcore: the “burn the witches and stone the batty boys” so-called-Christian cultists wearing the cloak of West African Angicanism.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Odd response, since I intended this to refer to the Netamyahu govt overseas “spread hate and chaos” strategy, but whatever. Yes, some parts of Israel are slightly safer if the stats are true.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yep, that’s one. Yoga groups on FB another. Lesbian androphobes (often rightly furious at abuse they suffered). Second generation “Inspired by Germaine Greer” style feminist groups another. Add a million r/conservative and 4chan/b trolls Mix with publishers desperate for cash from clicks
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No, foreign money and *data* landed everywhere. When it got a response, it amplified it. On both sides. The UK may have had more hate, or more disgust, or just been more willing to take money to spread it. Read Dugin’s (hateful) work for more.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And unmanaged disgust
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We lost confidence in that jerk a long time ago. Micro-fascist polluter with the design imagination of a housebrick
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t... Yep. As soon as you open the door, in comes big money and corrupts everything
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The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That is going to be a massive problem for Georgia
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What a moron he is
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