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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 22h

Guess he doesn't believe in microscopes either then. Which is really weird, cos you can see them easily.

John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Worse, the small boats began when the Tories were in power, soon after Brexit. Which was also brought upon us by the Tories. Perhaps they're unembarrassable.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To be fair, with that consistent track record of lies and perjury he could be described as irrepressible. Irrepressibly devious and dishonest.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Has Jeremy not seen the graphs that show '76 as an outlier at the time, and 2026 as just another step in the steadily increasing temperatures of the last decade or more? Unlike him, I was farming in '76. What we have now is not like '76! There's no 'going back to normal'!

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Imagine sitting on a plane looking out the window and watching your pilot walk to the plane like that.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nearly 70 years old. Never once used a 'deodorant'. They stink. You smelly buggers are all mad!

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's a good way to make sure they don't get bundled up into a pillow case or duvet cover.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I spent a week under it. Ran aground on a falling tide and it was a week till there was enough water to float free again. Each day on its side and back up, each night move the mattress onto the wall and sleep again until till tipped out. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Not much for me!

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To the extent you allocate moral agency to a machine, you remove liability from the machine's creators. Wasn't me sir, it was the machine what did it.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, clearly you deserve to be ostracised and constrained in your rights for choosing the wrong ancestors. That's how it works isn't it?

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It really is loathsome to me. Where someone is born and who their ancestors were are not options anyone can choose, and judging them on that and making assumptions about their values based on that is madness. As useless as astrology or phrenology. Throw it in the bin.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You'd think so, but someone I knew very well had to be restrained on their death bed due to lashing out at carers - Philippino and Indian. He died a racist. Oddly, the same man briefly stopped being racist after a stent was put into an artery leading to his brain. That lasted 2-3 weeks anyway.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I miss the dark ages. When men were men, if they survived to their twenties. Burying dead children was a steady job back in those days. What's happened to all those jobs now? I blame the Angles, and the Saxons, and the Romans, coming over here...

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, that's not helpful! If you were fat and lazy, would you need telling? You'd probably be the first to know! I guess some people need others they can look down on, and they'll find a reason to do that. No logic. No empathy. It's a bit sad.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good article. Thanks. I have given up on apples and am propagating pomegranates and apricots instead. I'll look into pistachios. Driving past fields of sunflowers and maize that looked hardly worth harvesting, dead trees and brown landscapes I .think this should be at the top of the agenda.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have an orchard here in Correze. It hasn't rained here since the end of March. Been up to 42 degrees. Obviously, no fruit this year. When I bought the land, I checked the weather data for the previous 25 years. Even amount of rain through the year... That's long gone.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Or, 'just try harder. '! I think some people regard disability as a moral failure. You're just not trying hard enough. You're not pulling your weight. I'm usually very active but spent a winter on the sofa exhausted with anaemia. It was an eye opener for me.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm a bit short of teeth too. On account of my dentist buggering off back to Poland when he concluded Brexit was going to happen. So you can't blame them for the lack of teeth. Lots of dentists went home. Unless they voted for Brexit maybe?

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To be honest, they looked better with the masks on. With the masks on, they were only threatening. Without the masks, you can see the threat is built on ugly anger and stupidity.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel

Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If the report contained information relating to political enemies, you'd understand the intelligence services wanting to suppress some of the information. But here, the 'enemy' is the climate, which won't take advantage of the revealed information. Publish it fully, of course!

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's strange she would use the term 'ice age' and refer to the warm period in Roman times as arguments against current climate change. She apparently trusts climatologists enough to accept historical changes as fact but denies their ability to recognise today's issues.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And he described himself in the interview as a 'wealth creator'. No push back! He has accumulated a percentage of the wealth created by many real workers, who created real stuff of value. Then he's buggered off to Monaco to avoid paying tax on it. A wealth extractor. An odious parasite.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's understood. I was replying sarcastically.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not certain what you mean, but I agree with you anyway. And here we are. Anywhere.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wouldn't worry about it. It's really very small news, Pidlington.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bridgetown no longer counts. It's becoming part of Torbay. We'll put the border down the river Dart. Passport control on the bridge. And it'll all pay for itself with tariffs.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes. He wants to pass it all on intact to the fifth Lord Rothermere. Where would we be without Rothermeres lording over us?

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Have it embroidered onto your dressing gown.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh I'm fine. It was a routine thing. For them I guess, though not for me! Thanks.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yep. Spent yesterday at the hospital, and it was 'foreigners' all the way. Grateful to them all. They made a difficult day pleasant. How I hate people being judged and valued based on where they were born!

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When they were discussing a call, it was 500,000. Presumably to keep the unions in with it. Fat too much. But your solution is far cleaner. That's how it should be. Thanks. Where can I vote for this?

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Osprey with a pipefish, New Providence Island, Bahamas. #BirdOfTheDay #birds

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think belisha beacons are equally as dangerous as traffic lights, but please don't tell them that.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Even though I'm from up north, I hadn't appreciated that that's how you spell ur nuh.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For chrissake - don't anyone mention to them that it was Arabs in Baghdad who developed algebra as a separate study to geometry. There was a House of Wisdom there around 800 BC. It was them. Probably bombed now, using coordinates calculated with a bit of algebra (and geometry).

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wait! Did you two work in the Mail's editorial room?

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We can ID them by their knees. don't tell them though.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The idea that some people will get an income who don't deserve it. People will do whatever it takes to stop the undeserving.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Intimidating? Of course! The whole point of the masks is to provide anonymity, and to give license to these thugs to act outside of legal and normal moral constraints. Intimidation by denying culpability is the point.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Imagine being that distant from the inter-connectedness of nature and so immune to its wonder that the hunted-for species are reduced to targets, and anything reducing the availability of targets is wiped out. Like a soulless video game.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's funny those men in black have been labelled thugs. That's a word of Hindi origins, that migrated from India in the days of empire. Some of them might live in bungalows, use shampoo, sleep in cotton sheets on a mattress. And I expect, they think these things are English.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And strange to me, that rights and constraints are also applied depending on the place of birth, which side of an imaginary line. Two people can be born a mile apart, and may never meet because at least one of them was born on the wrong side of a border.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When you've read it, just let us know whether it's good or bad. Thanks.

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John Pedersen @john-pedersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Come on, look on the bright side! There's still time to invest in balaclava manufacturing.

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