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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 1h

Trudat. I guess it doesn't matter where the prompt comes from, the actors can choose to act responsibly. 😀

James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 3h

exactly - and that's why the "compromat" are desperately blaming the far left instead - not gonna risk their little donations, are they ...

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 3h

#nooligarchs sounds like an obscure disease of sheep - that's my excuse for backing #nokings

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 3h

I'm not Scottish but would love to see Scotland independent from the downward drag of (my) England.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 3h

Hi, I left WhatsApp about a year ago - not regretted it.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 3h

Well, there's a broad brush boycott !

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 20h

Huge regret in life: never been to Italy. Yes, possibly the best on your route.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 20h

Wonder if "lend-lease" had some psychological effect, you know, feeling indebted, as though a 2nd class population, so might as well act 2nd class? And, perhaps, successive governments took the easy path of gradually increasing exploitation (Thatcher not so gradual!) instead of active input.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 20h

tRUmp and mUSK are truly appalling people, not really humans at all. Sometimes wonder if Putin's blackmail of Krasnov is actually less damaging than the scant info we have already seen from the epstein files.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 20h

The "lump" is not big enough for Vance but too big for a Musk probe. Maybe it's a printer for his "executive orders"

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

In effect, Putin is in the Hague, albeit as a permanent UN member, just down the road. Maybe power of veto needs change: eject Ru from UN - they are clearly a rogue state, + iSRAEzl and soon, usa, give UN and ICJ REAL teeth + military extraction of rogue leaders, by whatever means available

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

tRUmp, that is and hopefully, soon to be "was"

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

Which was your favourite country on the trip?

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

Also 💯. It all feels like planned obsolescence combined with unfair business practices in general. Anything rather than what would suit the consumer best. Just when did the customer always become wrong?

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 14/10/2026

It's grim, isn't it - unrestricted USA stranglehold on the world - IT, data, transactions, wars - ok-ish up to now, but with the bloated floater at the helm, looking v.threatening all round.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 14/10/2026

@stefancouper.wsocial.eu Sedum Spectabile looking good and feeding insects in autumn

Sedum Spectabile in late September, glowing pink on fleshy acid green leaves

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 14/10/2026

Yes, of course you are right. Just wish there were some way of forcing interoperable SoC (without sacrificing USP's, for makers). "Adaptors" would slow performance, I guess

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 14/10/2026

Must apologise for my ignorance of sailfish. For me, what all the suggested alternatives to USA domination need is a one-click "switch" for ANY device, preserving ALL data and providing ALL services (mail, spreadsheets, message, socials, videos, cloud, etc) Sit-rep too arduous for Joe Public

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 14/10/2026

"we need to destroy the ballroom on the lower decks and drill down through the hull to construct a secret bunker"... "by the way, those funnels have to go to make room for drones and missile silos, if the penguins attack again"

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

Absolutely. I don't think trump does "niceties", or truth, or honesty, or common sense, or justice or anything that would prevent Ukraine pursuing the course of defense against a stupid and horrific war started by an evil dwarf in the kremlin

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

I guess Hall and Woodford are great economists, but the kind of economic shocks most of us would like to see remedied are: homelessness, healthcare cuts, ICE, low wages, inequality in extremis, loony billionaires, planet-destroying fossil fuel economics, political corruption, wars....

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

Best to ignore tRUmp and his absurd childish tantrums and imbecilic posturings; better to keep hitting russia where it hurts.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

Yeah. Rich people, rightwing nut jobs, corrupt politicians and Zionists should all be caste in the Thames

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

Desperate attempt to escape from tRUmpistan....

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

I don't know: parliaments have been around for a very long time....

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

oh! He's not resigning already is he?

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

Funny, yet sadly true also. One advantage insane dictators have over more reasonable democracies and alliances is, they can launch absolute and instant action (and then run away or claim the "right to defense")

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

Absolutely do not want any deaths, let alone more than we already have. Deterrence is, WAS, needed. However, it's possible to consider various drone incursions, subversion of politicians and bot saturation might constitute existing attacks?

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

Yes. I'm just annoyed the various leaders didn't do anything concrete back in the last century. It seemed an obvious future problem (among many)

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

"Momentum is building" - good, but it started building in the 19th century. Now is time for the guillotine blade to drop - on fossil fuel execs, politicians, investment banks, the lot - or we all perish to the point where money ceases to exist.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

We need, the planet needs, ACTION by 2030. "Framework" just kicks it down the road another 10 years. Arrest fossil fuel execs and client politicians. Accept major disruption now instead of total collapse later.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

Situation has been past urgent for over a decade. Heads must roll or the backsliding and backpockets full of fossil fuel money will continue, until half the planet dies and money becomes meaningless - no good saying "told you so" then !

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

not really facetious, since this is a very serious subject, but couldn't resist commenting "Unified Army of Europe" (UAE) and "European Defense Force" (EDF) have been taken. Serious note: time to stop rogue states and leaders laughing at ICC and sanctions

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

💯 and the unified EU military force should back ICC with force if necessary. NATO is currently a spent farce (sic) and UN has no real clout. tRUmp, Putin, mileikowski/netanyahu, etc, have made the world "us and them". Time "we" formed an "us". If only UK could be brought to reason!

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

💯 Ukraine, as you suggest, is a prime example of fractured weakness. Genocide an even more extreme example . Similar for UN and NATO.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 11/10/2026

floccinaucinihilipilification ? (something to do with uselessness)

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

This was 4 years after "clearing" the bamboo - it been coming back every few weeks ever since. Have just about prevented it getting into the drainage fosse but it's tricky driving through Portuguese Laurel to find the shoots

Bamboo shoots, persistent and pesky, in the long grass area, (Phyllostachis Aurea?). Smoke bush in the background (Cotinus Coggyria).

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

He cannot tolerate the thought of any leader with a backbone, courage and honesty, even if they're 6000 miles away.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026

It would be great if tech actually worked. Instead, I spend wasted hours, for example finding Google console raises problems that don't exist, one drive and Google drive don't actually talk together well and freeze up if you dare ask for 5GB AND you can't delete the storage upgrade! etc , etc, etc

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026

Apologies - but I can't get over how lovely it is to be able to look down our driveway from #GiteMilvain and see beautiful #horses, right there, in front!

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

As a former chemist I should be able to say what crystal structure this represents but my poor feeble old brain had to look it up - Iron Ferrite

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

We have a cat in a box. His name's Teeny, not Schrödinger.

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

You're 100% right. I think there are many reports of (actual) Jews and Palestinians living peacefully together for centuries. Why oh why couldn't it continue? Colonists (again).

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James Martin Groves @gite-milvain.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

The new horses in the paddock opposite our driveway filmed this afternoon. They're looking more relaxed now.

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