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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 8h

It’s his default response to any perceived slight, have lawyers look for redress, $$ redress. Doesn’t mean the lawyers will make anything stick.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

exists for detailed news & they can switch if they’re interested. News everywhere, on every channel, is really unecessary. I listen often/a lot to BBC radio but rarely live, Sounds is more typical, it’s stupid to hear 5 min bulletins of old news in programmes. My hill!

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the olden days, tuning a radio was a pain, a hit or miss process, does one stay on MW, switch to FM, whereas now everything’s a touch away (I think my first touch button PLL FM radio without any tining display at all was 1980). Just inform the listener that there’s new news on the channel that

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I would have suggested that rationalising the way BBC radio ‘does’ news might be a recipe for saving money. The bulletins on every channel, including those on DAB & streaming (eg R6 Music) are somewhat redundant in this age of touch button re-tuning.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Testing, qualifying competency. That’d be a good start. In the way trades & professions evaluate human competence. This tacit assumption of erudition for present forms of AI is inane.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

&, similarly, paddle boarding off a beach where an offshore wind is blowing (& maybe, also a falling tide). Nearly every episode of BBC’s Saving Lives at Sea - if only the producers would be more overt about this idiocy (klaxons, on screen warning msg, loud & forthright danger alert by narrator).

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please, please - someone arrange for James Earl Jones, Jack Nicholson, Brian Blessed, or Morgan Freeman to voice the president’s part - unedited - in the recent Time Magazine interview.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good to see another voice calling out the Christian ethno-nationalism but, really, it’s been a thing for years. The recent networks building out, ‘planting’, ‘churches’ are extremely dubious in their choice of leadership.

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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 · 02/10/2026

Ready made script for SNL or any pair of comedians. Actually, not even comedians: Sir Ian McKellen, Brian Blessed, Kevin McAleer (Uncle Colm/Derry Girls), or Sir Anthony Hopkins reading the Trump part could be hilarious.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And for no apparent reason, the wx radar map returned. It has reappeared in the app. I have another, WiFi only, iPhone - same iOS release, same app version - the map was always available. I have screenshots! Fairies & banshees playing tricks?!

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Xi Jinping visited the US in 2017, travelling on his 747-8i while Trump perceived himself to be trundling around on 35+ yo converted 747-200Bs. Like a baby, he wanted same as Xi (& Boeing isn’t to deliver the VC-25B til 2028).

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He visited Beijing, was soda’ed & dined in the Banqueting Hall within the Great Hall of the People. Like a baby, he wanted same.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He’s certainly provided journalists & commentators with subject matter to fill 100s of columns & pieces like this. But it’s simple: he went to see Macron in Paris, noticed Paris has the Arc de Triomphe & enacts the Bastille Day parade. Like a baby, he wanted same.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

as it’s Labour Party conference time. Possibly senior military or diplomatic pax.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

UK gov acquired 2x F900LX via Centreline Aviation to be operated by RAF (on civil register) & known as ‘Envoy IV CC1’, ostensibly replacing the BAe 146 VIP transports. The one highlighted here is operating with flight ID RRR160 so definitely not carrying royals. Senior gov ministers not likely

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

I was in Seattle in either ‘88 or ‘89 during Seafair. I went downtown & rented a 500mm Nikkor standard (not reflector) lens, a total monster, to use with my Nikon FE. Shot two rolls of Koda or Fuji-chrome. Got a few good shots out of 72 frames, 😂

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

Accelerating a building’s fall into disrepair then demolish it so as to replace with something else is shitty real estate developer 101.

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

And it’s gone. So, now I have to find another app ‘cos someone at MetOffice has come up with whizz bang idea for a super dooper new (can’t call it revised/updated) app.

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

Next, I swipe down for the map/weather radar view - it’s gone, it’s not there?!?? Now, the map/weather radar is my most used feature - what’s the weather doing 30-40-50 miles away in the direction it’s approaching. That’s my weather forecast - am I likely to get wet while walking the dog(s).

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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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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Recently, I checked out the audio book version of Karen Hao’s ‘Empire of AI’ voiced by the author. Or possibly an AI facsimile of the author. More than a few words were pronounced very unusually, tech vocabulary words that would have been familiar to the author.

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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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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump’s invitation to Xi was motivated by the Orange Oaf’s need to show he now has a 747-8i, his new S-92 helicopters, & construction of his banqueting hall is well underway. It is Trump’s foreign vists that are the national hazard, exposing him to objets he then attempts to recreate in the US.

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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

I’ve been very taken by Joe Bonamassa, especially after his homage gig to Rory Gallagher in Cork last year.

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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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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Need more dogs in that café, that’d get fat boy Kevin burning some calories.

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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 · 19/09/2026

I thought the choice of this (now dormant) bluesky user to be odd?

Edward Lucas posts his decision to deprecate use of Bluesky, preferring to use Linkedin & X instead.

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

The oval suggesting that BLE receivers were moving along its major axis, a walkway, corridor, or such. The length of the major axis vs minor indicating the variance in sensitivity of the receivers.

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

Jon shared a diagram with an ‘oval’ sketched overlay based on a collection of positions. Given that Apple’s ‘Offine’ Finder tech is crowdsourced, the centre of that oval is likely very close to the position of the item.

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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

A nice A109 Grand in & out today too, Mike Ashley’s ride. Must’ve been handing out bonuses at Vic Sq Fraser’s. And a chartered Challenger.

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

My ‘OSINT’ tentacles where twitching about where those on that list might be today (see court circular) and who lives close to where G-GAAL is now headed. However, I’m a little weary today & can’t muster much energy to do properly constructive things 😂

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

By a process of elimination, I’d bet on Princess Royal 😉

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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 · 14/09/2026

Does their behaviour follow the Bannon advice, “to flood the zone with shit”? To continually stretch the boundaries with more extreme behaviours. The typical English sensibility may not tolerate that in the same way as an American.

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Don Thompson @guardeddon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have you seen the clip of a flypast of 12 Spitfire’s? They appeared to follow a ‘Z’ track to approach & overfly the runway.

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

It’s scary, really scary. Forget the zombie apocalypse, even the zombies will be running in the opposite direction to these people!

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

A significant proportion of people are just plain stupid, stupid as in plain ignorant, they do not not have the cognition to process rational, logical concepts & a conclude a ‘safe’ outcome. I only came to realise this quite recently when my circle of acquaintances extended more widely.

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

If… The James Bond grade psychopaths are made real.

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

Pandora’s box, blown wide open? But if this is a case of LLM’s that have learned from ingesting knowledge that is already in the public domain, then the human domain experts know how to do these things. The LLM’s are simply spreading the knowledge around?

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