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MSc, LibDem (non-vegan), supporter of the underdog IT Geek by day, DAW Maestro by night Egg-shaped ball follower Poker of sticks Tongue-in-cheek at times Grauniad & Private Eye reader Dad jokes Does typos RSPB 2/3 Geordie 1/3 Kerryman No DMs

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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 12h
He was hired,and he fired!! 👊👊
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 3h
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 4h
A romantic candle light breakfast this morning thanks to the National Grid.
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 22h
Tucked in the corner of Private Eye :)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Sue 🌵For Release of the Epstein Files @new2018world.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Perhaps it's just the little voices in his head that have agreed.
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thought I'd post this. Something I knocked up a few weeks ago in Ableton Live. The title is a bit tongue in cheek. Thought I'd test the water in bsky.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For real 👇
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The 'Idiot in Chief' kicks a wasps nest, runs away and expects others to sort it out.
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Middle East crisis live: Houthis warn passengers against using Saudi airport after deadly attack on Riyadh
US president Donald Trump says he is weighing whether the US will join Saudi strikes against the Iran-backed Houthis
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Hear Hear" Not like that turncoat in the Whitehouse.
theguardian.com
Britain stands behind Zelenskyy, says Streeting after Trump’s call for new leader in Ukraine
Defence secretary backs Ukrainian president and says priority is to maintain western unity over Russia conflict
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump, when your sham political stunt backfires and Ukraine destroys the Russian oil refineries which were meant to supply it. While you ignore Canada, who previously was your main foreign supplier.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Zelenskyy is the greatest Western leader of the modern era. Trump is the worst. Zelenskyy is the leader of the free world. Trump is its most treacherous betrayer. Zelenskyy saved his democracy. Trump destroyed his. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes, impossible to forget...
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump goes "Full tonto"
bbc.co.uk
'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
Ukraine's leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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Rob Pattenden 🔶 @polrobuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Given the choice between President Zelensky and the disgrace that is currently residing in the White House - I know who I’m choosing 🇺🇦 Come an America - you know what you need to do on the 3rd of November, Trump needs humiliating at the ballot box 🇺🇸
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Love the tail flick. Now behave!
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Tessa Munt MP 🔶 @tessamunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today, Lifeboat Saturday, I’d like to pay tribute to the many brave men and women who volunteer for the #RNLI, risking their lives to save others in grave danger. I’m appalled at the abuse and intimidation faced by RNLI crews in recent weeks. Let’s support and celebrate this incredible charity.
Tessa Munt MP with Marie Goldman MP and Sarah Gibson MP visiting the Brighton Lifeboat Station.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cartoon of tiny-handed lardy gangster Donald Trump handing a red heart-shaped box with a white ribbon across it which says "Ukraine" to a shirtless Vladimir Putin who is clasping his hands together in delight like a gushing goomah girlfriend.

(Bill Bramhall,New York Daily News)
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man who starts wars he can't finish, invades other countries, attacks his own people can't understand why he don't get a Nobel peace prize. Perhaps he should talk to Obama for some advise.
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Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway
President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
🚨 ANALYSIS: Trump eased sanctions on Russian diesel weeks before the midterms, despite analysts doubting the deal will meaningfully lower prices. Zelenskyy accuses Trump of using Ukraine’s peace talks as a “smokescreen” for his Putin deal. The full story is worse than you think.
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BREAKING: The Truth About Trump’s Oil Deal With Putin
Trump eases sanctions on Russian diesel as energy analysts question the deal and Zelenskyy accuses him of betraying Ukraine.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
'The US is facing worldwide condemnation over a “barbaric” plan to execute a disabled man by firing squad and livestream it to the public, with critics comparing the Trump administration to dictatorships in Iran and Afghanistan.' UN the killing would amount to a public execution.
theguardian.com
‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump “I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin.." No you rolled/dent over and submitted, in an act of cowardice. A fraud precedent whose only bones in his body are his bone spurs. I'd push Lidocaine or Pramoxine up that fat ass after that Putin rogering.
theguardian.com
Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel
President says deal essential to lower US fuel prices but move set to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato allies
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh dear, trumpy will be throwing things out of his pram again!
theguardian.com
ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law
Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza
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Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A month ago I predicted Polanski’s result in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election 😂
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Delo and his fellow crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne have now given Reform £100m+ Reform has pledged to deregulate crypto. Delo and Harborne say there is no quid-pro-quo. But should crypto money buy British democracy? 🔴Read the full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Exclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm
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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Those who buy a Tesla or use Twitter are on Putin’s side.
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Shocking The government should step in Burton in the home of cask ale www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Carlsberg plans to shut Marston's Brewery in Burton
Burton-upon-Trent's links with beer and brewing date back centuries.
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Under arrest….
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'it’s hard to contemplate a more audacious appeal to American society’s darker angels than this looming entertainment event... Pass the popcorn, Don and Pete! It would be heartening today to hear political leaders the world over condemn Hegseth and Trump’s planned introduction of Ghoul TV.'
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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley
A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
President Zelenskyy’s comment on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that the war in Ukraine is at a "strategic stalemate" and that there are now "no prospects for a negotiated settlement": "You cannot negotiate future economic projects with Russians on the one hand and, on the other,
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Its this quietly spoken gentleman's 90th birthday today. :)
theguardian.com
‘He punched a polar bear on the nose!’ Ninety glorious years of Brian Blessed – by Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester and more
Peeing in the sink he shared with Derek Jacobi, making a badger video with Brian May, climbing Everest with Alan Hinkes … as the great actor blasts into his 90s, stars celebrate his ‘loudness and madn...
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Mr. Pink Floyd Larson @pinkfloydlarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com · 07/10/2026
Today marks 20 years since Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow. She recognized Putin's true nature earlier than most—and the regime could never erase the truth she died to tell.
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bostin'
bbc.co.uk
Donated Birmingham accent gives man confidence 'to voice his opinion'
Christian Wilson wanted help not to "sound like a character from Star Wars or a cyborg from Doctor Who".
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 07/10/2026
I absolutely LOVE this!! Men showing up and standing with women. The El Paso, Texas Fire Department is walking a mile in her shoes to support survivors of domestic violence. #SheShed ♥️👠
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"I've had a very frank word with myself and it turns out I was totally innocent"
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 07/10/2026
JUST IN: Latest from the Liz Truss Supporters' Club
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stolen from FB
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every single leader of Reform UK is an ex member of the Tory Party responsible for 14 years of austerity which killed thousands of old, poor, sick and disabled people Don't listen to their promises to make life better They are the problem "From one bin to another......" via We Demand UK
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some great local pics from the 60's "I didn't really know much about aperture, film speed or shutter speed"
bbc.co.uk
Teen's lost Coventry archive found after six decades in attic
Photographer Elizabeth Tyler rediscovered the images, now donated to City Archives, in her attic.
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Grumpy Brummie 🔶💻🏉🎵🍺🕵️‍♂️ @grumpybrummie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That doesn't look woke to me.
bbc.co.uk
Jaguar unveils new electric car after 'woke' ridicule
Two years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV.
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