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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If your vehicle is of an age that it reports fuel consumption in mpg, £2.20 will be a milestone price (ie £10/imperial gallon).

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@metoffice.gov.uk Awoke this morning to hear rain (natural weather status indication - window’s open, I hear the water gurgling from the guttering, car tyres slushing along) Opened the Met Office app - it also tells me it’s raining. No sh** Sherlock.

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada 🇨🇦 This is my art, hope you like it!

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 21/09/2026

A silent procession stretching through Whitehall created a "peaceful thunder" in central London on Saturday as more than 600 people joined a Quaker-led Silent Walking Vigil for Peace. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A large group of Quakers marching silently down Whitehall with a hot pink banner saying 'Quakers for peace'. Big Ben/Elizabeth Tower is visible in the background

People gathered in a circle for an outdoor meeting for worship with people sat on the ground and on benches/walls.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Right, let’s get to it… (Having just replaced gas cooking appliances with electric in preparation for renewables/battery installation)

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Art cards are available in my etsy store. There are two different sets to choose from. Thanks for looking! monicamorrillart.etsy.com

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And why not a wave of wind turbine generators, PV panels, utility scale batteries, and community heating tech.

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A circular, sea-polished, septarian nodule. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lux Aviation Cessna Citation 560XL into EGAC. G-GAAL operating KRH75R. Princess Royal? @wingsandspace.bsky.social

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Think this gets at something quite important: 'If sustained evidence of changing public opinion can justify reopening a fundamental constitutional question in Northern Ireland, why shouldn’t [it] at least allow us to reconsider Britain’s relationship with the EU?'

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wouldn’t it have been great to visit Duxford today! @wingsandspace.bsky.social Maybe you did?

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All those expensive Palantir contracts and the police are still surprised by the covert organisation and mobilisation of far right thugs in Dover and Portsmouth

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

11:30 Saturday morning, day after assault occurred at the fashfest. LBC & Guardian reporting. Seems as if #ChrisMason & BBC looking the other way?

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape artist from British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦. These are some of my paintings, hope you like them!

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dear #BBC, Please find Chris Mason a new role reviewing Christmas pantomime productions. I do believe he’d be much better suited to that.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope there are journalists , producers & news editors at BBC News who are ashamed that they aren’t breaking this story which affects our national security & democracy. I also hope that someone in our national broadcaster will break ranks & find the courage to tell us why .

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"champions of free speech" latest

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🤔 I really wish more of the discourse around Cofnas, Yarvin, Musk, Thiel etc and their successful lynching of a Black academic would refer to @quinnslobodian.com's "Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" tracing Silicon Valley's route from Ayn Rand to 'race science.'

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#Belfast / lots of maritime themes on the banks of the River Lagan. The extension to Waterfront Hall evokes the bow of a ship.

Fleadh 2026 brings a ferris wheel to Laganside

Extension to the Waterfront Hall, like the bow of a ship pointing down river to the sea.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#Belfast / Industrial heritage Harland & Wolff Samson & Goliath cranes over the building dock and the Scirocco Works chimney. Scirocco manufactured what we’d now call HVAC systems used on H&W ships.

Looking across the River Lagan to the Scirocco Works chimney then the Harland & Wolff gantry cranes named Samson & Goliath.

Looking across the River Lagan to the Harland & Wolff gantry crane named Samson glimpsed between contemporary apartment buildings.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#Belfast / the bar library Not a library of bars A library for members of the bar

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A spanish galleon, made in Spain, docked in Belfast!

The stern of the galleon Andalucia docked at Queen’s Quay, Belfast

The ship’s bell on the galleon Andalucia docked at Queen’s Quay, Belfast

The noble quarters on the galleon Andalucia docked at Queen’s Quay, Belfast

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

‘Jack, aged 10’ gets it 😉

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

WHY IS THE UK GOVERNMENT STILL USING X AS THEIR MAIN SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE?

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Musk IPO, value falls, Musk related press noise. Couldn’t possibly be related, no…

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

& the rest of the world apply tariffs for the uncontrolled leakage of methane (‘natural’) gas over the past 20+ yrs?

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Millionaires including Gary Lineker and Brian Eno write to Andy Burnham asking to be taxed more, telling him: “we can afford it”. #PatrioticMillionaires says a 2% tax on wealth over £10 million could raise £24bn a year for the UK, while reforms to capital gains tax could raise a further £12bn.

bbc.co.uk

Gary Lineker among millionaires campaigning to pay more tax

A group including former England footballer write to the new PM telling him "we can afford it".

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

[Elluswamy] said the growth in robotaxi miles driven is "literally exponential. Just it's in the early part of the exponential. That's why it's hard for others to comprehend." Your mathematics teacher would like to have a word about that!

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Kinda prefer the FAA to concentrate on safety.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Abbey Road DLR station has confused so many Beatles fans that TfL installed a sign directing them to the real Abbey Road at St John's Wood, North West London. So I thought it would be fun to bring the Beatles to East London instead, staging a tiny reunion cutout from a poster.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just a couple of thoughts related to US aerospace, UAVs, & others. B-21 - $700mn a pop UKR FP-1 OWA UAV - $55k a pop 13k OWA UAVs for one B-21 (whose lifetime fleet cost is $203bn) While US tech bro business is obsessed packet delivery?

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For various reasons: 1) Irish nachos from Gilligan’s Bar in Arlington, Texas. Served with Harp lager in a frozen glass. It certainly wasn’t haute cuisine but the fiery jalapenos were a massive novelty. 2) A steak, any, from the Cafe de Klos, Kerkstraat, Amsterdam.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage versus Binface is absolute the summer we deserve

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It’s a lectern not a podium.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The reason we keep changing PMs is simple: Brexit. Until a PM is honest about Brexit, they’ll be stuck living a lie. They won’t be able to do any of the economic things they claim. We’re many years from that honesty.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/06/2026

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

On his way to Satriale's Pork Store.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

First rule of negotiation, be first to get your demands on the table! Art of the deal, art of the deal 😉.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Every other department should follow. Today.

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