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John Waine

@johnwainephoto.bsky.social
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Staffordshire, UK It’s nice to be important but it’s important to be nice. Photography, blues-rock music, politics, cooking, science, Stoke City

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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 5h
Football isn’t just a game : youtu.be/vIzLllotJpk?...
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Rebecca's heartfelt monologue at super league meeting | Nate's beautiful violin | Ted Lasso 3x10
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The Crystal Teardrop @thecrystalteardrop.bsky.social · 8h
Thanks to Shindig magazine for the cracking review in this months issue
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Darryl Sterdan / Tinnitist @tinnitist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Albums Of The Week: The Crystal Teardrop | Love You More THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Crystal Teardrop’s first album, The Crystal Teardrop Is Forming, came out in 2025. Steeped in classic psychedelic guitar… tinnitist.com/2026/10/01/albums-of-…
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Albums Of The Week: The Crystal Teardrop | Love You More
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Crystal Teardrop’s first album, The Crystal Teardrop Is Forming, came out in 2025. Steeped in classic psychedelic guitar pop and the Paisley Underground scene, not to mention the broader ’60s cultural aesthetic, it has made them firm favourites with audiences in the U.K. and Europe.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14h
Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 16h
Elementary dear Hannah! #traitors #celebritytraitor youtu.be/twDvxNooI_4?...
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How would Alan Turing have played the Traitors?
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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Michael claims to be Welsh but I thought Mr Sheen was Polish.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 17h
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery #farmmachinery #abstractphotography #tractor
Almost abstract photo of a deep tread farm tractor tyre half in shadow and on the right, the metal mudguard of the tractor over saturated orange
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 18h
Forget huge stadium concerts and over produced recordings, this is all music needs to be for me. youtube.com/shorts/eTaYz...
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This song brings such a huge smile to my face!!! 😭♥️
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 19h
britmap · 4 OCTOBER 2026 ● 98 ● 99 ◐ 53 ○ 11 ◐ 70 Total: 546/1000 · www.britm.app Worst score yet 😟
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The daily British history map puzzle.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow #3rdPlace
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Keep chasing the audiology department about an appointment for my severe hearing loss. But I've still not heard anything. 🦻
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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very pleased to be a guest on Word In Your Ear talking about my new 2xLp comp 1976: Something Was Going To Happen, the Ramones, Jeans On, buying records in 1970-71 and the upcoming republication of England’s Dreaming. Thanks to Dave Mark and Alex youtu.be/THm6xpeU3Ao
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Jon Savage loathed the 1976 singles chart so he’s made an album of should-have-been hits
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
britmap · 3 OCTOBER 2026 ● 97 ● 91 ● 87 ● 85 ◐ 76 Total: 845/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 11 And I’ve visited all these places (except NI)🙄
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 02/10/2026
Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...
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Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools
Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.maptap.gg October 2 100🤯 91👑 96🏅 99🔥 89🎉 Final score: 947 One of these must have moved since I visited there !
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
britmap · 2 OCTOBER 2026 ● 100 ● 100 ● 100 ◐ 79 ● 100 Total: 937/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 10 Must mug up on the rope bridges of Britain
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A, timely, and timeless, lesson. “Never be afraid to make some noise. It’s their shame, not yours.” Destroy the patriarchy.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.maptap.gg October 1 80🌞 98🔥 87🎓 80👏 84😁 Final score: 844
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
britmap · 1 OCTOBER 2026 ● 100 ● 94 ○ 24 ● 89 ◐ 79 Total: 746/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 9 Caught out by NI and Scottish Islands as usual. Also the compiler seems unaware that some place-names are used for multiple locations.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...
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Most TV is Just This Now
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
britmap · 30 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 97 ● 95 ● 84 ● 98 ◐ 75 Total: 879/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 8 Maybe one day there will be an England only version for me ?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Consumers who ask an AI assistant to recommend a solicitor risk being directed to firms that have been fined by their regulator or even shut down, a report says today. It was researched by Blind Justice UK, a charity that seeks to improve access to justice. rozenberg.substack.com/p/need-a-goo...
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Need a good lawyer?
Don’t use AI unless you know how to ask searching questions
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 29 80🌞 86🎓 94🏅 85😁 84😁 Final score: 861
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
britmap · 29 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 100 ● 100 ○ 7 ● 81 Total: 664/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 7 We’re expected to know where every rock is now!
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 28 87🎓 94🏅 89🎉 93🏆 72😐 Final score: 854
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
britmap · 28 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 100 ● 86 ● 83 ○ 33 Total: 720/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 6 No chance with places in NI 🙁
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Small boat crossings account for ca 3% of total net migration to the UK. Watch GB NEWS or Talk or listen to Farage and Co and you'd think it was the majority.
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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada 🇨🇦 This is my art, let me know what you think!
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
britmap · 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 99 ● 91 ● 100 ● 99 Total: 978/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 5 Blundered the NW estuaries
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 27 93🏆 95🏅 99🔥 96🏅 76😂 Final score: 902
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How many weeks has this international break been going on? 😴
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☠️🐈‍⬛ Dave @deadcatdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Actually Stoke City did win the FACup in 2011 love” 😜
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man City being guilty of 115 charges is serious business. 115 slaps on the wrist is gonna leave a bit of a bruise.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
britmap · 26 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 89 ● 93 ● 87 ◐ 65 ● 99 Total: 848/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 4 It’s hard without having the place names on the map
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 25 98🔥 86🎓 82🌟 65🙃 84😁 Final score: 795 So Costa Rica is no longer and island ?! Plus the daily blunder 🙄
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
britmap · 25 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 100 ● 96 ◐ 50 ◐ 49 Total: 689/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 3 Some of these places feel made up!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 24 96🏅 90🎉 97🔥 1🤮 80🤗 Final score: 623 See me after school!
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
britmap · 24 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 99 ● 97 ◐ 57 ○ 24 Total: 636/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 2 Sack the manager!
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 23 96🔥 95🏅 98🎯 92🏆 91👑 Final score: 936 Never travelled anywhere near these
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
britmap · 23 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 100 ● 91 ◐ 72 ○ 35 Total: 703/1000 · www.britm.app One howler - there is an airport there FFS! And one ambiguous clue - I went for the private school
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'll repost this. The triple lock is being weaponised, using it as an issue to divide the generations. If it's dropped, the real losers will be the future pensioners. For a currency issuing government keeping any cohort in poverty is is a political choice.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Zé à Esquerda @zedaesquerda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If only there was a name for this...
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 21 100🎯 97🔥 80✨ 100🎯 84😁 Final score: 909
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
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John Waine @johnwainephoto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
britmap · 21 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 99 ◐ 54 ◐ 46 ● 98 ◐ 76 Total: 767/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 14 No chance with Scottish and NI castles
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