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Ian Andrews

@ianbof.bsky.social
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Just retired. Love natural sciences. Live in beautiful Dorset. Will photograph anything. My garden keeps me sane. I must go back to India again. Slightly mad. Canon 7D Mk2 permanently coupled to a Canon 100-400mm Mk2 and a Canon 90D and Canon 100mm macro

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 7h
You know the UN voted to call zionism racism in 1975 and it was only revoked in 1991 in order to get Israel to attend the Madrid peace conference? Even then they refused to speak to Gaza Palestinians and only West Bank ones if they went under the flag of Jordan. 75 countries voted for it, 35 against
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 9h
... Palestinians unless they joined the Jordanian negotiators and then only West Bank Palestinians were allowed to attend. The talks lead to a "relative" calm. Today, is not calm so perhaps (!) there are grounds for revisiting the vote because the UN currently DOESN'T agree that zionism = racism.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 9h
1/2 As much as I hate it, the UN revoked the zionism is racism vote in December 1991. The vote was sponsored by the US (Surprise!!) as a sweetener to Israel for agreeing to participate in the 1991 Madrid peace conference. Needless to say, although it went ahead, Israel refused to speak to the ...
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 9h
Israels cost them 10 billion 17years ago and the UK covers an area 15 times greater. What's she gonna do put the ugly bastard Gove on HS2 and run him back and forth at 180mph with a fucking catapult? The wankers lapped it up like she'd just turned water in to wine and the media ... yep!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 10h
"Leaders of the free world"? I wouldn't even call them fucking civilised; they make me wanna puke. God they're fucking sick.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 11h
Just like last time eh?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 11h
70% of Englands water is owned by foreign investors. I thought Kemi supported Brexit to get more sovereignty? But we don't even own our own fucking water and she happy with that!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 11h
Why fuck about? Just tax the rich ones who use them ffs!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 11h
In his second lecture to the underclass, Jeff explains the benefits of Trickle Down Economics.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 11h
Its so nice now in Europe. We used to get lectured by Americans visiting or on the internet about democracy and how America protects it around the world and how we should all have a constitution just like yours. Look at yourselves and eat shit you self obsessed idiots. Just look at yourselves.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 11h
National debt 30% of GDP when they came in. 14yrs of austerity, cuts to NHS, courts, prisions, probstion, police, military and local gov. National debt 100% of GDP when they left and only 18% due to covid. Where did the money go? Wankers: all of 'em!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 12h
It'll be "bigly" next. "Anyone using the word huge is the enemy. You should be using the the worlds MOST INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT's word and it's bigly. Thankyou for your attention to this matter.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 12h
Utter, utter twat.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 23h
I did sound like a bit of a twat though. Nice display as always but it costs so much to do it. I haven't been for quite a few yrs... used to go when I was in the Met Police. The last day was the one to work because they'd give all the plants away!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Shit, no wonder we've not heard of any of her cabinet ministers... she's barred anyone who agrees with net-zero and now she's barring racists... from the Tory cabinet! The list of candidates must be getting fecking short? How's she gonna reshuffle or sack someone?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey, you take the harridan cow and I'll take her old man! Fellah, they are not worth the weight of your farts!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
... and Sharia Law!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel's "Dome" cost them £10bn 17yrs ago. If you include UK territorial waters, the UK is 15 times bigger than Israel. She doesn't know what it'll comprise of, whether it'll be based on land or sea or how many units would be req'd to cover the country. But she knows it'll cost £10bn. Yeah right!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh just spotted a pink Lupin.... what June to August?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well you'd never get them to flower together in your garden! The foxgloves fl in May/June, the antirrhinums any time between May and September, the Delphiniums June to September but the Eremurus only in late June to July. But I'd rather have a garden than a fridge full of plants and a greenhouse.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But tellingly, didn't explain how she'd pay for ... free childcare for the richer, no inheritance tax on homes + a free £1 million, increased military spending, scrapping net zero for fossil fuel and, of course, "The Britannia Shield". If Burnham delivered the speech she'd describe it as vacuous!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Brilliantly written article in The Grauniad
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You couldn't make it up... oh, but we did! Fuckers!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know when their up to something when you see stories about 50yr old Russian bombers intercepted over the Shetlands or Russian war ships in The Channel. These things happen every other day, just as we send missions over Russia and in to the Barents Sea. The Russians shot down a U2 in the 60s ffs.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'll never profess to understand religeon but whilst travelling around Europe you come across some, mainly catholic, strange sights. This is in Noci, Puglia. I called it "Sexy Jesus" because why's he showing a bit of leg and his underpants and wtf is that dog chewing on? Sorry about the poor image
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I had similar near my tear duct in February.... removed a lump about the size of a 5p piece... cut me from eyelid to lip and no scars!!! The massaging thing with your fingers does amazing things getting rid of scar tissue... do it as often as you can for a minute or two. Good luck. NHS are brilliant
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Brazil is small beer when you consider what the US has been involved in. Makes the cries of "foreign interference" all the more hypocritical when you realise. I asked Google AI (sorry) how many military coups have been instigated or supported by the US goverment...
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All you need to do to these fucking morons is point to Europe where speed limits are lower and pedestrianised roads more common. Just come back from southern Italy where speeds in town are 30kmph (18.6mph). Pedestrianised town centres everywhere. Morons
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We should have thrown them out long ago. Off you fuck; mind the door doesn't hit your arse on the way out.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I suspect you've all seen this but it's worth reposting. It's a shame that the subject of the piece hasn't the wit nor intelligence to understand a word of it but hey-ho. I give you the words of the most eloquent, Oliver Kornetzke...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As well as a Britannia Magic Dome, Tories will build a Halo Array, a Stargate, a Dark Tower, and a Death Star - named respectively Spirit of the Blitz, Maggie's Opening, Boris-Dûr, and Churchill's Clacker - funded by sales of a new wellness smoothie made with carrot, ginger, and poor people's tears.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Doesn't know what it is or how it works but confidently states it'll cost £10bn.... complete and utter bollocks.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi says he was "an inspiration"... yeah like Ronnie Biggs?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A few pics of Alberobello, taken during our recent holiday in Puglia, Italy. The conical looking buildings are called "trulli" (singular trullo) and I believe originated in the 14th century. They were originally made without mortar. Many have been converted in to holiday homes for tourists.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You can see the arrogance has been with her forever from her wiki entry. Got a B in chemistry, a B in Biology and a D in maths (UK A levels) but insists that in Nigeria she was a straight A student and was failed by the UK system. ie I think I'm brilliant despite the evidence.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow she wrote a fucking essay. She got a B in chemistry, A B in Biology and a D in maths but claimed she was let down by "the system" because she was a straight A student in Nigeria! No wonder she got a D in maths. Oh and then there's the lie about the Stanford scholarship! But she wrote an essay!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cheers; she does make it very easy with a 400mm lens.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well I think the 75 has been inflated?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow...never saw it do that at Arenal Observatory!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well Andy Burnham is UK resident at least and pays his taxes here. He drinks the water here and swims in the water here, so has a vested interest in quality standards. If Andy Burnham ran a water company he wouldn't have to pay share-holders dividends. Tell us the advantage of foreign owners?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A brief question; before our children were born we had 3 holidays in the Bantry area. Now we're retired we'd love to go back. I have few memories of wildlife there other than grey seals and minke whales off sheepshead. What the wildlife like 30yrs later?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dead right. She's quite amenable really, unlike her mate, and if I'm quiet and slow, I can get within about 15ft of her. Miserable cow or not, she's undeniably stunning, even standing on one leg in the rain.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #BadWeather A female sparrowhawk often visits our garden during rainy spells. No idea why but she always looks really pissed off.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you be high IQ and a tosspot? I mean, I can be a tosspot at times and I can be intelligent but both at the same time? Mind you, if I stood in front of Trump and said, "I can be the world's biggest tosspot sometimes", you just know he'd come right back and say, "I'm the world's biggest tosspot"!
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well lets hope the Japanese authorities get a better result than those in the UK. Here, several US airmen based at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, who committed sexaul assaults, assaults and rapes have been quickly dealt with by US military authorities rather than the UK court system.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good to see the back of these "purely defensive" strategic bombers.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In the Met Police, we used to joke that traffic cops used crayons. Thankfully for London, all of them could beat Trump at... anything.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can tell the bad actors, when they use the anti-semitism line to counter everything said about Mossad, The IDF, the Israeli government or simply express their disgust at genocide or support for Palestine. A non-thinkers response and it should be treated as such. Always The Daily Fail. Morons.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The Golden Age" must be a description of the oval office decor?
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yep, she believes in austerity despite it increasing national debt from 30% of gdp to 100% of gdp. Where did all the money go?
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