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John Hull

@johnhull.bsky.social
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Proud Ulsterman and Christian living in Essex.

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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Found it:
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I haven't heard Yusuf calling for a GE. Clearly they draw the line at *that* level of hypocrisy. 🤣
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Military top secret ballroom"!
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Squaddies like Chinese food! Who'd have guessed?!
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I spent midnight a little differently this year:
Salvation Army support van, providing refreshments to Essex Firefighters attending a cottage fire in West Essex.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We decided to risk a trip to "no-go" London. As you can see, it was like a ghost town. Those masked up babies and toddlers looking at the lights were really scary. There was a choir in Trafalgar Sq. I think they were singing about some winter festival.
A busy London Street under the Christmas lightsA busy London Street under the Christmas lightsA festive shopping arcade Trafalgar Square, showing the Christmas tree, a large choir and a nativity display.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Sir Terry Pratchett had a quote for every occasion!
People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
Terry Pratchett
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
You didn't mention by-elections. You said that Reform had won 54% of local elections.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I think it depends where you are. In Essex, this is a swede. A turnip is smaller, and predominantly white in colour. In N Ireland and Scotland it's a turnip. The full name is a Swedish turnip, which I think explains the two names.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Lauren: this is a photo of the old entrance to the Essex County Council building in the UK, zoom into the top of the columns. I've done it for you: "only Nazis have swastikas..."
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This on the other hand, on a wall in the offices of a Republican Senator *is* offensive 🤷
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
You'd really have to *want* to be offended 🤣😂
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The problems come from outsourcing. It's in the best interests of contractors to keep the ball rolling, and cut corners to maximise profit.
Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo (Discworld, #21
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Here they are with their haul of ducks!
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Proof of it were needed ...
A group of 7 English upper class shooters with around 100 killed ducks.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
No. A group that thinks MAGA is too left wing. *They* are the moderate ones. Nobody thinks of *themselves* as extremist.
A quote from Terry Pratchett. Talking about being "one of us".
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
So closures are about average. 🤷
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It is 😁
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Tiananmen Square vibes:
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Damsel flies for me. 🙂
Blue Damsel fly on a leaf.Red Damsel fly on a leaf over a pond.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I'm currently in Kos on the final day of my holiday (with TUI, by coincidence). Food has been a marvelous mix of ethnicities. The people have been incredible, and other than a little rain on day 1, sunny and hot.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Terry Pratchett has a quote for every occasion:
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
My first Greek Freddo Coffee ... I'll let you know.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Whoops. They amended it already! They've added "county flags" 🤣 What about towns and unitaries. Will Colchester (the oldest recorded town in England) be denied their flag?
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Fortunately the people of Essex can still fly their flag 👍
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
What about this one? You see, as soon as you start to impose limits, you have to think it all the way through.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If someone who looked like this walked into a Ladies' public toilet, what would the reaction be? This person is a "woman" according to the UK Supreme Court decision.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Is it possible that Trump has (accidentally) done Ukraine a huge favour? 🤔 I've seen so much renewed support for them in the last 24 hours.
Outline of a clenched fist in blue and yellow, with the words Slava Ukraini
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Apparently not wearing a suit in the Oval Office is disrespectful 🤔
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Next week's star attraction at the Kennedy Center
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Arctic island" makes it sound like it's a tiny place ...
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
He really doesn't have any idea, does he? Let's say for the sake of argument that Canada wanted to become a State. It would have an area bigger than the rest of the United States combined 🤣
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
My first record was Bowie release of Space Oddity with Changes, and Velvet Goldmine on the B side.
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
😂🤣😂🤣😂 Do you really think our memories are so short?! We still remember #BorisTheLiar and his band of liars!
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John Hull @johnhull.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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