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The most common form of wildlife in Puglia (apart from tour-guides with flags on sticks) was the European wall lizard. Very handsome males showing off their green and certainly the best portrait of a reptile I've ever taken. #lizards

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two countries voted against making food a human right at the UN, Israel and the USA. The vote would have mandated the UN to prevent starvation, and the US and Israel didn't want to fund preventing starvation.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wildlife during our 2 week stay in Puglia was notable by it's absence; unless you wanted corvids and wall lizards. This beauty though was worth seeing as I've tried photographing them before without luck. A Violet Carpenter Bee, Europes largest bee at 3cm. (more in +ALT) #bees #puglia

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Toby Young or "The Right Honourable Lord Toby Young of Acton" complains of being "cancelled"! An unelected life peer, sitting in the House of Lords, and a regular contributor to any right-wing rag that'll hear him. Schroedingers victim; cancelled and platformed in a daily paper simultaneously!

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We knew Boris was a knob before he was primeminister but somehow he still got the top job. We knew Boris was a knob when he was (essentially) thrown out from being primeminster. The Dail Fail though (where Boris still has a paid job) thinks he's spiffing! Community note wins the day.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Denmark apologises to the US for the "new" Greenland deal that's the same as the 1951 deal. A recommended watch! www.reddit.com/r/thebulwark...

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can we get something straight... Netanyahu has an outstanding arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the ICC. The US doesn't recognise the ICC nor it's judgements, so he cannot be arrested on US soil. It's not the fault of the NYPD nor the UN, its down to the US government. End of.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Puglia stray cats update! The cats are now fatter and much less prone to watery eyes and coughs since we arrived 12 days ago. They now trust us but one kitten has gone too far and we caught her asleep under the dining table. I'll miss them when we go but I wont have one of my own when we get home.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1 of 2 I have two new pet hates, since going to Florence for a wedding at the weekend... The first is tour guides: the ones carrying a flag or umbrella with 20 odd people in tow. Blocking everyones access, getting in evedyones way and completely lacking in manners. (Cont....)

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Puglia, Italy. Yesterday we went to Ostuni, another white-washed, hilltop town. Lots of people visiting, lots of stuff shops to waste your money in (what is it with fridge magnets?) but a pretty town with some good beers and lovely food

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Israel has just banned all Arab Parties from running in their upcoming elections. Arabs make up 21% of Israeli Citizens they have now been banned from having any representation. Israel isn't like Nazi Germany. It is Nazi Germany.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Currently on holiday in Puglia, Italy where they make some of my favourite food. #1... a pizza that has no mozzarella, with yellow toms, capers olives and anchovies. Without the mozz, I didn't feel bloated! #2... avocado, prawns, roasted peppers and cashews on a bed of spinach with a few capers. Fab

I'm on holiday in Puglia, Italy where I can guarantee on getting some of my favourite foods. The pic shows a 13 inch thin crust pizza. There is no mozzarella on it but it has a tomato sauce base and lots of yellow, plum tomatoes and black olives, as well as capers and a few anchovies. The ingredients are not spread evenly and it looks as if the chef just threw a handful of ingredients across the middle. It was amazing and remarkably light without the mozzarella. Perhaps I could have eaten 2.

A delicious light lunch. A large white dish possibly a foot across has a meal at its centre, probably only covering 40% of the dish. Its very colourful with half a dozen pink prawns, some very ripe yellow and green avocado, yellow and red roasted peppers and beige cashew nuts. All on a bed of bright green spinach leaves. There are a few capers buried in the spinach and a very small amount of balsamic vinegar. It was absolutely amazing. All the more so because buy a ripe avocado at home, in the UK is such a lottery... you buy three to improve the odds of getting a good one... one will remain rock hard for weeks, then turn to mush inside 12 hours. One be brown inside and the other... might be ok. You can't plan to eat avocados in the UK!

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Noticed here in Puglia, Italy (2 week holiday) that lots of the towns are pedestrianised. Also saw it in Krakow in May and Carcassonne in August. So it appears that the UK is not "at war with the motorist", they're simply being grown up like everyone else. So Reform can fuck right off. Wankers!

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stray cat in Puglia day 5. A little kindness, a soft lap and a shed load of cat food works wonders on the nervous wreck we met 4 days ago. We've called her "Windy"... it was going to be Wendy because she has a "W" on her forehead but she has a habit of producing the most appalling farts!

Our new friend, a stray cat we met 5 days ago when we arrived at our holiday let in Puglia, Italy, lays fast asleep on my lap looking very content. She's a short-haired tabby cat in the usual two-tone grey striped markings, with a gingery tinge to the softer hair on her chin, upper chest and inside her ears. She's quite small and thin. 5 days ago when we first met as we unlocked our holiday home, she was very vocal but wouldn't come closer than 4ft. On that day all we had to give her was a piece of parmesan cheese which she seemed to enjoy. On day 2 we bought some cat treats and fed her those and we could just about touch her with an outstretched hand. She got close enough to reveal her nipples and we realised she probably had kittens. On day 3 we found some cat food in the house and gave her that and she got a lot more comfortable with us, allowing us to stroke her. That evening we went outside to see her sitting there with 3 kiitens, probably about 12 weeks old. Day 4 and she was so close to us she almost made us trip over her several times as she wandered about our ankles. That evening she arrived for dinner with her kittens and 3 other adult cats one of which is obviously another of her offspring. That's 7 in all... 2 more tabby adults like her although one is long-haired, an all grey cat and her kittens... 2 tabbies and a white one with large black spots. Today she got on to my lap as I sat in the shade drinking a beer.. and fell asleep. The ultimate show of trust. The kittens are coming around but they are still nervous. When we leave here in 8 days time, I'll leave some food and a note in the guest book asking the next guest to be kind. You're probably asking what we call her... well we were going to call her "Wendy" because being a tabby, she has a "W" on her forehead. However after producing a couple of foul-smelling, toxic-waste level farts, we've decided that "Windy", is more appropriate! It costs next to nothing to be kind and is so incredibly rewarding.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Matera, Italy today. One of the oldestest continually populated places on earth. Used as a location for various scenes in "No time to die". Amazing place featuring a rather dapper gent in a panama hat (it was damned hot for an Englishman!)

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reminder 😡Release The Unredacted EPSTEIN FILES NOW!

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are on holiday in Puglia. On day 1 we met a stray cat in our garden and were kind to it. On D2 she brought along a friend and we fed them both. On D3, I opened the door to fond 2 more "friends" had turn up, as well as the first cats 3 kittens. D4 and I'm spending good pizza money on cat food!

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1... The Federal Reserve raises interest rates. 2... Canada looks like it might get associate member status of the EU. 3... A republican tries to get Hegseth impeached. Why? Because we can you feckin orange, paedo-golf-cheat. Because shit happens. Because everyone's had enough. Because you're a c**t

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The world's Fuckwit In Chief says, "The only controls or guardrails that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (high IQ!) PRESIDENT and the USA has that in spades". Only the deluded are so confident. Most wouldn't trust him with a 5-piece Lego ser or a childs 20-piece wooden jigsaw puzzle. What a wanker!

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Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The apartheid state engages English lawyers to proscribe #MedecinsSansFronteir This is unilaterally England. Take note. 👇👇

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A spokesman for the marchers, who identified himself as Dick Head, the shadow education secretary, said, "Well dey woz brarn innit"

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"There’s only one thing stoking civil unrest And it’s not facts Because the fact is illegal immigration on boat crossings is down 43% in a year Nigel won’t come and visit you in jail He’ll be in a private members club in Mayfair Or flying first class to Washington" via Reform Are Not Your Friends

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Always a Trekkie! Live long and prosper. #StarTrek

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdBuddies A pair of Red-whiskered bulbuls sitting on a branch that was very close to our balcony at Destiny Farm Resort, near Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India, in April 2025.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

WOW! At. Bloody. Last. "The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler terrorists." By the JEWISH UK Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband. Eat shit Netanyahu. Eat shit Mike Huckabee.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#BirdofTheDay #BirdsInGreen A female Red-legged honeycreeper sitting on beehive ginger, near Valle de los Quetzales, Costa Rica in January this year

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay A Bare-throated tiger heron, in the Rio Coto mangroves just south of Golfito, Costa Rica in January 2024

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In the Uk, Ed Miliband announced a ban on trade with Israeli occupied territories in The West Bank due to settler violence and continued restrictions on aid to Gaza. The US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee said the UK was motivated by "Jew Hatred". Ed Miliband is Jewish... Huckabee is a cock!

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ready for Farage saying he's never met Cooling "This is Stephen Cooling from Sutton Coalfield a member of Reform UK which portrays itself as “protectors of women & girls” Here's Stephen Cooling attacking a woman with his walking stick while a female companion pulls her hair out" via Mike F Shaw

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yesterday was The Bridport Hat festival Bridport is a small town about 13 miles west of me very close to the Dorset Coast. Bridport has a reputation of being slightly... mad; in fact "Bonkers Bridport" is how a lot of local know it. The hat festival is an annual event where the town lets itself go

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #InFlight A Stripe-tailed hummingbird taken in Valle De Los Quetzales, Costa Rica in January this year. Canonon 7D Mk2 and Canon 100 - 400mm IS USM Mk2 ISO 12800 f9 1/6400sec

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I asked Google AI( I know, I'm sorry but the press are pussy-footing around) if Nige was guilty of any offences (he denies it) or a conspiracy offence. The attached is Google's view...

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Heard "Our Nige" on the radio earlier re the latest scandal and he said he'd "had to let a couple of contractors go". Strange way for a political party to describe their policy chief and "close personal aide"? More lies, more grift, more bullshit, same corruption in their get rich quick shit-show.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Orange golf-cheat thinks Europe is a hell-hole but the Dutch government have, over the last month, moved 94 tons of it's bullion rerserves from New York and Ottowa to London, in "crisis preparedness". Even European governments seem to believe that the mid-terms are going to be a shit-show?

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you're not shocked and scared shitless by JD Vances words about being, "OK with the end of days", when his title has been changed from "Secretary of Defence" to "Secretary of War" then you're either brain-dead or evil. No wonder your founding fathers tried to seperate religeon and state ffs.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We don't need bombs and bullets because Russia have none left to fight with. We need cybersecurity and to close the Russian Embassy. A tiny fraction of the cost of arms that'll never be used and have a huge, ongoing maintenance cost.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trump Straight ffs! Will someone please do something about this fucking buffoon? Do Americans not realise what its doing to their reputation around the world!

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can anyone give me a reason why we have an operating Russian Consulate/Embassy here in the UK and why we haven't thrown all of them out and withdrawn our staff from Moscow? We hear on a daily basis that they are a threat to us and our allies. If it's true, throw the wankers out! The Germans have.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In my Dorchester, Dorset garden today. A hoverfly that I believe to be Eristalis tenax on Salvia "Amistad". Canon 90D and Canon 100mm macro. This salvia is not reliably hardy and was in its pot outside over winter. It was so mild it survived and is now in the garden and 4ft high and 3ft wide

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today in my Dorchester, Dorset garden. A Cinnamon bug (Corizus hyoscyami) on Agastache. Usual kit but at ISO 8000. I use very high ISO to try to get a high enough shutter speed to prevent blur from the subject moving, wind movement and me shaking. Noise has to be reduced using photoshop. #bugs

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdsUpClose A Charming hummingbird taken at El Remanso Lodge near Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reform propose, if you're on hold, to HMRC for more than 30 minutes, you'll get a £30 tax rebate. There'll be 63 million people calling HMRC on day 1, crashing HMRC's phone lines within 5 minutes of office hours starting! Day 2 will be the same! Thanks for the £60 HMRC! Another fag packet plan!

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our Nige was an MEP from 1999 until 2021. He first went to Brussels, Iceland was already in the EU free market and had freedom of movement within the EU. In 2001 Iceland joined the Schengen agreement. Nige says all 3 are a risk to our sovereignty... but he cheers on Iceland? Farage is a lying POS.

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In my Dorchester Dorset garden today, this Common furrow Bee (Lasioglossum calceatum) was the star of the show, too busy burrying it's head in an Aster and getting smothered in pollen, to worry about my macro lens being put on its nose. Canon 90D and Canon IS USM 100mm macro lens. #dorset #bees

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