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Jim Buck

@jimbuck.bsky.social
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You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot! (J. Heller Catch 22)

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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Anybody would think that war pays.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Politics and people's inability to think straight, generation after generation.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are some of the lyrics from a song written a long time ago, following the slow then sudden break-up of a good and creative friendship and alliance. I was bringing myself to terms with how that felt after some time had passed. I'll have to seek out the rest of the lyrics.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Not doing too much, just listening to David Attenborough explain the electrical fields between flowers and bees. If the planet's finest achievement, its pinnacle, and the meaning of everything was this extraordinary relationship, I would be absolutely fine with that.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A journey around the garden.
A red climbing rose in flower with dark green leaves against a blue sky with a small fluff of cloud lazily drifting by.A flourishing Ceanothus (California Lilac) in full bloom, attracting a great many bees.Solomon's Seal, or what we refer to as the 'hand plant, thriving in the dappled shade.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Though George Orwell's writing is quite brilliant. Whoever writes reality right now is a total hack.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
You've just reminded me of another book I've always been meaning to read.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Sleep well, my brother, for we fist at dawn."
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
If the President and his men weren't in the Epstein files, they'd already be released.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My wife visited Oban today in beautiful weather. It took me back some years when I spent a week on Mull and visited Iona during a terrific storm. The dramatic scenery may've appeared harsh as it quickly ate into my bones, but when the sun finally appeared it was the most exotic place I've been to.
An almost monochrome picture looking out across the water with a slither of light between it and the grey heavy clouds.The hills of Mull as we winded our way along the roads, saturated, oozing rain.Beautiful carving of entwined plant life, almost resembling a delicate design made in sand, glimpsed before the terrible storms might wash it away.The stone face of a Bishop or a priest or a Saint, perhaps, the nose eroded, the mouth strangely resembling a kiss.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
These are not serious people, but they are a serious problem for the rest of us.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Not too far from where I live, there's a burning bus sat on the bridge that takes people over the river. The bridge has been closed. #elections #localelections #Councilelections
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Did he say anything about how he would vanquish Luke and the rebel alliance?
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
From a man who gushed about 'sunny uplands' when the outcome of the disastrous Brexit vote was announced.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Is this the Vance effect?
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I don't think I'm alone in my hatred of a world leader who recently threatened civilisation. He is your madman, but the world has had to put up with his brand of lunacy for too long. Enough.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This 'situation' has just slipped even closer towards 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hell was not the newsworthy word he used.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What a fabulous photographer of life.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I read a headline earlier about Trump telling Europe to get their own oil. To me that reads, you win the war, I can't.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is my church. #Easter
Between avenues of tall trees someone has built a pyramid of branches.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Poem and picture by J. Buck
Poem by J. BuckThe forlorn stone statue of a seated naked man upon a rock, his arm eested on his knee, his head against his hand.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Poem and picture by J. Buck
Poem by J. BuckNext to the seat and beneath the table, a tired dog lays upon the stone slabs of The Ship Inn, Porthleven.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A cobweb man With bearded ears Pulls to him all his years. As old as hills He says to me "I am all my ancestry." A mither of moths With finger crooks Waving at unopened books. A man unmade Just like his bed Too tired to sink his silver head. Poem and picture by J. Buck
One of York's Ghosts in the Gardens sculptures. Created in partnership with York-based Unconventional Design. This is a translucent wire-mesh male figure riding a penny farthing.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The US government's determination to create new controversy is endless. So the question becomes what turmoil will it unleash next. The collapse of its own midterm elections, violence against voters, more arrests, destruction of evidence, & the ultimate death of NATO & the alignment with Putin.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Today, I am free.
A black and white photo of the rafters above the Riding House at Bolsover Castle.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I'm partway through watching Poliakoff's Shooting The Past again. The character Oswald, played brilliantly by Timothy Spall, is constantly referring to himself as prat etc, and goes out of his way to annoy practically everyone. I just ended up wanting to work with him at Fallon Photo Library.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Sounds to me, for all intents and purposes, that Trump, as near as damn it, gave her the job and still hasn't fired her, irrespective of her ineptitude. Tillis even sang Trump's praises, which is a big giveaway. Castigate the unqualified minion, while exonerating your superior. That's cowardice.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Non-US citizen here. Why was none of his vitriol reserved for #Trump, the man who, I presume, gave her and is keeping her in the job?
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
My wife took this picture at the entrance of one of our public lavatories (fraught with danger, I know). It caused much hilarity at the time. I now see it more as a political cartoon, a perfect illustration of what our choices are, and a cautionary tale for a certain so-called world leader. #Iran
A public lavatory sign that shows a sitting figure on the toilet with a thumbs up, and next to it a figure bent over and exploding from the rear, a thumbs down above it.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We used to go to war against people and ideas like this.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Those individuals who adorn their lampposts with the union flag need to realise that they're hanging 'For Sale' signs on their country.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I am preparing for the day as if I were an Argonaut.
A kitchen work-surface with a jar of homemade June tea containing pineapple mint, nettle, blackberry leaf, elderflower. Sat beside it is a black pot, inside the brew stirs into life.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
That's started my day off perfectly, thank you.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It looks like a walrus.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A whole system based on individuals associated with a criminal paedophile gang?
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A vote for Reform will put the country in the hands of those who want to sell it. That's how patriotic they are.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Is she saying China cares more about US citizens than the US Government do?
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
There should be things like this dotted about, for anyone to happen upon them unexpectedly. Next to your bed when you wake, on a garden wall, on the windowsill of a house you pass every day. They would brighten our mood immediately and return to our thoughts long after experiencing them.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Caught between a rock and a hard place. But, eventually, you would think that something must give. When is enough enough?
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'd like to thank all those who responded with their thoughts, greatly appreciated and educational (something I'm sure your current government are dead against).
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
From afar, your Democrat party does appear toothless and lacking in the energy needed to protect its citizens from this kind of onslaught. Our own Labour government, which is very central in policies and outlook (some would even call them right-leaning), also come across as slow & lacking a spine.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Of course, and I'm glad you've reminded me of that. I sometimes forget which cities these crimes are perpetrated in. A deeply shocking event. At least that officer was convicted of murder.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This I can believe, it's almost Kafkaesque in it's predictably bureaucratic political doublespeak. You have my sympathy.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Beautifully written by Bo, and a great shame its contents are so depressing.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Well, didn't the US go through a civil war? I know it's not 'cop on cop'. Even England, where I'm from, has had many uprisings, plots and battles around who should lead it - we've even executed a king! I know this is not what you're specifically asking, but you get my point, I hope.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I immediately thought of that line, 'the land of the free', when reading this. Ultimately, it sounds like US citizens have wafer-thin protections and this government was almost inevitable at some point.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is extraordinary. A powder keg.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Thank you.l for the insight. Anyone might be forgiven for thinking that this situation is heading towards a clash between the two groups with more violence & bloodshed inevitable. I look at your midterm elections in almost the same light as Jan 6th, as if it were yet another test of your democracy.
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Jim Buck @jimbuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm beginning to realise.
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