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NorthumbrianLights

@joethetoad.bsky.social
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Artist, Light Painter, Photographer, man with a mad cat. If you're racist, nationalistic or homophobic, jog on. Not interested. Anti-Gammon Man. Child of the enlightenment. My artwork can be seen at www.northumbrianlights.co.uk

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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Do you think Trump was offered a lot of bitcoin?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I imagine it's a transaction in return for bitcoin.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I don't think Labour had completely collapsed. There were still some people voting Labour because they believed "only Labour can stop Reform." They won't in May. That's when the collapse will come. Good start though. Well done.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I'm sure someone offered bitcoin in exchange for the use of US forces.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How much bitcoin do you think Trump was offered to commit US forces to an assassination?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How much bitcoin do you think Trump was offered to do this?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sky News' correspondent at the count on the night was positively scathing. Possibly the most biased reporting I've watched on TV.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How much Bitcoin do you think Trump was paid for this?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Epstein Wars have begun, by the no more wars President. When fuel prices go up, and delivery costs go up, and the cost of living goes up, remember it was the Donald.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Oh you looked knackered on The Last Leg last night. Get some sleep matey. Don't burn yourself out. You work too hard.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Thanks to Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer, this is what a terrorist now looks like in the United Kingdom. 83 year old retired priest Sue Parfitt faces 14 years in jail, for an act of conscience. #saynotoFascism #saynotoLabour #StarmerOut
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
You should be in jail for wanting to proscribe Palestinian Action. Genocide is the crime, protest is legitimate. Shame on you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #jailyvettecooper
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Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones
The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Which is the crime? Protest against genocide or genocide. Yvette Cooper wants to proscribe Palestine Action. She & Starmer should be in jail for still calling Netanyahu an ally, when there's an arrest warrant out for him from the ICC. officialedballs.bsky.social‬www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...ry
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Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones
The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Hey @officialedballs.bsky.social‬ - when did you marry Priti Patel? Protest against genocide isn't terrorism. How about she condemn shooting starving children instead?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Reeves needs to go. Her attacks on the elderly and poor have split the party. Starmer needs to go. His poor judgment and uturns show poor decision making and an inability to read the room. Cosplaying Reform will lose Labour voters to the Greens and LibDems. #starmerout
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Starmer needs to go. When he has more support from Kemi Badenoch than his own party, you know he's lost the plot. Labour will hemorrhage support to Greens and LibDems. By becoming Nigel Farage, Starmer has lost his traditional base. Maybe andyburnham.bsky.social for PM?
andyburnham.bsky.social
andyburnham.bsky.social
Mayor of Greater Manchester
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
On the subject of poverty in the area, not too late to join the local discussion on Facebook or to sign that amendment alongside other NE MPs.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Not too late Joe to sign that amendment, or to join the discussion on Hexham Matters on Facebook.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
joemorrismp.bsky.social voted for winter fuel payment cuts, he isn't one of the 6 NE Labour MPs signing the letter against benefit cuts. Can't be sure if he's enamoured by London city lights on his £93,904 salary or, like Starmer, we made the mistake of thinking him Labour. Not to be repeated.
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Joe Morris MP (@joemorrismp.bsky.social)
Labour MP for the Hexham constituency
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I think a £93,904 salary and being in the metropolis is probably too much of a distraction for wor Joe. I see unlike 6 other NE Labour MPs, Joe hasn't signed the letter opposing disability benefit cuts. Don't derail the gravy train? Maybe @laverymp.bsky.social could educate him?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So are you joining your 123 Labour colleagues (hopefully you're already one of them) in not attacking the disabled? Cameron, May, Boris, Truss and Sunak considered me disabled enough to need independent living arrangements. I'm on ketamine 4 times a day for extreme pain. You try working with that.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
In fairness, I've just been on an Australian news chat page and they're trash talking it more than we are.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I thought the filming from Fox was dreadful. Don't they have steady cams? The picture was bouncing about more than the troops were marching out of time. Horribly amateur.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It did seem horribly amateur.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Can we call them #wankpanzer instead? I mean if you prefer #swasticar that's fine, but I think the word #wankpanzer is rather appropriate.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Would it be appropriate to rebrand it this?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
While he's playing, I see Tesla sales (and their share price) have started to tank. Not this tank. This tank's a Wankpanzer. I wonder how many times that phrase must be said to enter the lexicon?
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Happiness is morning coffee. Made the oak worktop last year. Rave Coffee's No.1 blend...
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Easter Eggs for breakfast. #death #Saturday #justforfun #spottheeasteregg #Sunday
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I've mixed with people from the working class, middle and upper classes and all had men who sexually assaulted women and passed it off as humour. Behaviour like that has nothing to do with class, it's about a lack of it, and power play through insecurity. It's about a lack of respect.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"Oops, I left the portal open." My doorstep... Using the magilight during a long exposure photograph. #lightpainter #lightart #lightpainting #longexposurephotography #fantasy #dragons
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Fascists aren't nice people.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
You have two problems. Education and culture. Flag worship and patriotism to a fault. The object becomes the matter of worship, but the ideals behind it have become easily twisted. Your founding fathers are turning in their graves. On a positive note, you came back from McCarthyism and the Clan.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Tonight's subject. I've finished making a new fibre optic brush... tools which will be used include that brush, the Antsonamelon RGB Critter colour changing torch, their DIY adapter, a Magilight, two UV torches on light stands, a fixed RGB panel light... let the light painting begin.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Meet Floki, my belligerent, loving, I want a fight lunatic whose purpose in life is to stalk me like Kato and bring me live moles.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One of the favourite photographs I've taken. I'd waited 2 years for the RGB Critter torch enter production. I'd attached a home made fibre optic brush, and traced the light over a female mannequin head, captured in a long exposure photograph.
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NorthumbrianLights @joethetoad.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Meet my #art #lightpainting #longexposurephotography Reinterpreting the Nordic symbol of protection "The Helm Of Awe" as a single 1,200 second long exposure photograph, using a gimbal to rotate the camera, EL wire, UV paints and lighting and acrylic rods.
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