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Charon's Rubber Boat

@gusofsudbury.bsky.social
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Making a stand while I sit on my arse. Technology and sustainability PR. Pro EU, democracy, tolerance, and nuanced debate. Beer, wine, sailing, song, rugby.

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MellowSteadyFlow @mellowsteadyflow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The real danger migrants pose to the UK is that they're used as a lightning-rod for formenting division, unrest & instability by unscrupulous people & hostile countries for their own selfish, ugly and anti-democratic ends. It's not the migrants blocking ports or torching houses.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Reading Robert Graves' Greek Myths has made me realise that Trump is like a Greek god; thin-skinned, vindictive, narcissistic(!), fractious, grudge-bearing, quarrelsome and forever thrusting themselves on the unwilling.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Koi fish are wonderful they recognize faces and are very social
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
How to make $1tn look like you have less than nothing. Lone Skum: skewered, dissected, eviscerated and humiliated - Pie-style. 10/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZEH...
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A Trillion Dollars
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Pat riots
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
You'd think he'd have binned the tie he wore to that Moscow hotel all those years ago.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Old(ish) but oh-so-good.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“When the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken…” - attributed to Albert Einstein We have been here before, and we know what to do. RESIST!
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Today I received a response to my FOI request to the Cabinet Office about a £735,000 contract awarded to Palantir Technologies in 2015, with no competitive tender, for what was described as an "enterprise analytical platform and intelligence service" for Brexit preparations. Thread
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦‍♂️ thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Pam Bondi is not the US Attorney General. She is Trump's consigliere.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You may be pleased to hear that Boodles, London's 2nd oldest gentlemen's club, founded in 1762, has a signature pudding dish. It's called Boodle's Orange Fool. Strangely prophetic.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Ice is out of control. It's gone rogue. It's like Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now - gone way up river with no oversight, control or accountability. Its mission must be terminated.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Trump's choice to run Venezuela until it's been pumped dry revealed.
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Stephen J.Reid @stereid.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy 21st of December to those who celebrate
A picture of pagans cavorting with fire. And the words 
 'WINTER SOLSTICE.
Get naked, drink mead and party like a Pagan because Christmas spent queuing at Argos is just bollocks.'
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
So Reform Wales boss Nathan Gill gets 10+ years jail and it perhaps becomes clearer as to why Farage and MEPs from his Brexit Party (now Reform) voted against a European Parliament resolution in Oct 2019 that called for stronger EU measures to counter Russian propaganda and election interference.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
MusK is like the Zorg character in The Fifth Element. With all his power and with all his scheming he's suddenly choking on a cherry stone. In this instance the cherry stone has a name, Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Well played Plaid
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Hey Palantir, why not go the whole hog with branded tazers, cable ties, hoods and cattle prods? You know, all the lifestyle accessories favoured by dictators and authoritarian regimes. Next you'll be saying that Nazis had a good logo and mission statement. www.wired.com/story/palant...
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Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand
Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Between being called The Butcher's Apron and right now, the Union Jack had a period where it stood for fairness, justice, tolerance and welcome and I bloody well resent it being appropriated by those who have in their hearts none of the above.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
No doubt this is what man-made climate change-denying Andrea Jenkyns would like to see happen here. All the Reform types say their anti-migrant protest is about protecting children but that doesn't extend to passing on a habitable planet. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump to scrap landmark finding that regulates carbon emissions
Experts warn the move will severely curb the federal government's ability to combat climate change.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Shithouse headline of the day %age of UK population born abroad = 16%. If prison pop. reflected that it should be c1 in 6 prisoners - but as it is, foreign-born people c22% less likely to be in prison - but that won't play well with the Times white-collar knuckle dragger readers
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Israel's a country where for many the red mist's descended. The blood lust's up and kept up by those whose political lives depend on the genocide continuing. But when the last medic's been bombed, the last journalist shot & the last family buried alive, who's next?
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Scotland welcomes Trump with a special commemorative statue.
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Rick @calder12.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This just came up in my FB memories, from FIVE YEARS AGO! Lego always was ahead of their time.
Lego City set. Non-identified Federal Goon Squad. Seems more relevant now than when it was made in 2020.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
For those bitching about lowering voting age - young people will be the most impacted by the climate change. They see many of the supposed adults in the room - mainly those doing the bitching - doing Jack Shit and decrying Net Zero targets. It's only right they should have a say.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Some people's president. Some people's predator.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Just figured out why Trump's head is orange. He is, in medical parlance, termed PP - Pumpkin Positive Shine a torch in his ear and the whole head lights up.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Would all those, on the Right and Left, who were so enraged by Bob Vylan at Galastobury care to weigh in with the same level of vociferousness on this? Yvette Cooper - perhaps we'll see the Orange Order being proscribed with the same speed as Palestine Action?
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
MAGA NOAA MAGA FEMA ⬇️
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Ways to milk sheep: 1) release a new iPhone 2) . . . !
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A litttle cartoon to make you smile after your decision to fire the entire US vacccine panel, Robert Kennedy Jr.
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My cake effort this year for 13 year old daughter. Meal and games with friends at board game cafe followed by D&D film at mini cinema in an old video rental place. And an Eye of Sauron cake. 🤓
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Career criminal, face looking like a three-week old party balloon found behind a sofa and brains addled by the sun, forgets to put his mask on before going on the rob.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The @BBCNews' motto is "Nation shall speak peace unto nation". The motto was adopted by the BBC in 1927, when it was formed. It now now has a caveat: "unless it's about the Israeli genocide in Gaza, in which case we keep silent."
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump's had his 100 days. Anyone with some spine to hand him his Waterloo?
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Total silence from the usual RW yahoos who'd be incandescent with selective outrage were the accused a person of colour, a muslim, a migrant. Why - because the attack was fuelled by far right idealogy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Otley run crossbow attack suspect dies, police confirm
The 38-year-old posted online before the planned violence and listed his targets.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Finally found something good that Trump has done. Cheers Donnie. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Canada PM Mark Carney pushes for 'unity' in face of Trump threats
During a victory speech, he asked supporters:
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Whose anger? What freedoms?
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What a sunset looks like from space 🌅 Video Credit: ESA/NASA
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Prophetically fitting that the Deranged Orange Demagogue should have a cameo in the 2001's Zoolander - a film that centres on all that's vain, self-absorbed, jealous and without substance.
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Charon's Rubber Boat @gusofsudbury.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Will Labour's Sarah Jones have any more nous on striking trade deals that the series of disadvantageous, desperate deals Conservatives were trumpeting in a scramble for post-Brexit success or will we have no NHS and chlorinated chicken by teatime? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
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Vance says good chance of UK-US trade deal, as Trump moves closer to pharma and chip tariffs
The US vice president suggests a US-UK trade deal may be easier than an US-EU deal, due to
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