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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧

@jonrapley.bsky.social
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B.1994, London | Interests include Motorsports, paddling (SUP, canoeing, kayaking), politics & the UK re-joining the European Union 🇪🇺🇬🇧 | Centre-left SocDem, pro-EU Brejoiner, pro-Schengen for UK & IE, proportional representation, pro-HS2 | #RejoinEU

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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
On a non-geopolitical note, I am really looking forward to the cooler weather and the extremely overdue incoming rain. The soils are hard and not very absorbent though - some areas may get devastating flash flooding. I can only hope the rain comes in gradually to prime the soil.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today, Russia, Israel and the US are the biggest threats to world peace militarily speaking - these three nations have caused the most direct state-sanctioned suffering to people in other countries in the last few years. Iran has its villains, helps RU and killed it's own people - US hasn't helped
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Oman added on to the number of US allies under threat from the wannabe Orange King. That's Canada, Greenland (and Denmark), Ukraine, Spain (and the EU), South Korea and Oman who have all received a threat or actually been directly damaged by the leader of their most powerful "ally".
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just got a phone alert about the heatwave and fires on my phone. And so did the BBC News presenter on-screen so it seems.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In Italy, many railways have the sides of the rails painted white instead of bare rusty steel - I wonder if painting the sides of rails a reflective white colour can reduce the amount of sustained heat from direct sunlight and reduce the chances of the track bending - a cause of trains de-railing.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
2026 must be one of if not the busiest year for fire fighters in the UK and Europe in peacetime.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Watched the solar eclipse while on the water in Richmond
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I may not like cold weather, but if it rains nearly every day from the 1st October until the 31st of February then I promise I won't complain about the rain. The cold? Perhaps, but not the rain - we need the rain!
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
BBC News - London launches bid to host WorldPride in 2032 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Ironic since our government has brought in a bunch of transphobic laws.
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London launches bid to host WorldPride in 2032
If successful, the festival would coincide with the 60th anniversary of London's first Pride march.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Rain! It's finally raining! In Richmond upon Thames! It won't be enough but beautiful beautiful rain on my skin 🥰
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We need emergency reservoir building. I don't know the legal framework required to do so, but we are heading in the direction of water emergencies. Drought + regular consumption + new consumption (data centres?) + firefighting against wildfires = water emergency (in my opinion).
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
All these wildfires in Europe and North America further increasing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Climate change and global warming fuelling global burning, fuelling more climate change and global warming.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If I had magical powers, I'd make it rain overnight at least two times a week, every week in the summer. I'd welcome occasional temperatures above 30 degrees in southern England but keep things between 22 and 27 degrees. But I'm just not being realistic.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We need: -more reservoirs to hold rainwater during the wetter months to help keep adequate supplies in the drier months. -a nationalised water supply so more income goes towards infrastructure repairs and building We don't need: -NIMBYism within councils blocking new reservoirs -Shareholders
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
National governments facing dry conditions and drought (including the UK) should put a temporary ban on shops and supermarkets selling disposable BBQs while also making it illegal to use bought ones during these prolonged dry conditions. Enforcement on places of cigarette disposal is needed too.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I hope Andy Burnham will be a good PM. I also hope he brings in proportional representation before the next general election rather than after (since he might not get the chance). Next GE needs to be PR - STV or better. I'm not confident he'll take us on a path back into the EU or SM though.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
His Orangeness just HAD to stay in the shot with the winning team for as long as possible didn't he - hopefully he can be photoshopped out of the still photos.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Boos for two men who walked onto the pitch. One of them probably very smelly below the belt.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congrats to Spain on defeating those unsporting bullies 👏🇪🇸🏆
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Farms need water to grow food There is no rain People need water to drink and wash in There are too few reservoirs Lack of rain and lack of reservoirs to capture the Autumn and Winter rain is a recipe for food insecurity and water insecurity. We've been too late to slow climate change.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm rooting for Count Binface!
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Nevertheless, congratulations to Charles Leclerc on getting back to the top step of the podium. Congrats to George Russell and Lewis Hamilton on joining him on the podium (Russell's first). Congrats to Gabriel Bortoleto on P8 for Audi. Commiserations to Kimi Antonelli. #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Was Bernd Mayländer told to stay out in the safety car or did he make a blunder? Exciting ending denied #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
That fan trying to get Verstappen to sign his cap while Max is p*ssed off after having retired from the #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Verstappen's out! George Russell is finally going to get a #BritishGP podium! So unexpected! Last laps are chaotic for everyone! #F1
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Bortoleto and Audi managing to have a good day with Antonelli's Mercedes' troubles though. Shame Hulkenberg's Audi had to retire though. #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Stroll just pretending he's not getting penalties - not much of a difference 5 seconds would make back there I guess #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Whatever has failed or dislodged around Antonelli's suspension is unfortunate - I hope the car is safe enough to continue if he does try to continue. #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
HAM vs RUS is fun to watch but how much of it is caused by power "clipping"? #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There's going to be one very embarrassed fan who caused the VSC with their umbrella #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
564,000 fans at the #BritishGP!
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Was gifted a day off to watch the British Grand Prix without even asking ❤️ On TV, but still thankful. Last year I got to watch it live on my phone due to a thunderstorm halting work (outdoors, on the water). #F1 #BritishGP
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My favourite films of the 2010s -Interstellar -The Martian -La La Land -Rogue One -The Death of Stalin My favourite films of the 2020s -Project Hail Mary
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I watched Project Hail Mary - it made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me laugh and it made me bawl my eyes out. Possibly the most beautiful science fiction since Close Encounters of a Third Kind. Absolutely loved it! I'd like to forget I watched it and then watch it all over again.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I shall be sound asleep on Monday at 1 am
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In London this heatwave is only taking a four day break to return to normal warm temperatures before it rises back into the 30s.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reports of power cuts due to the heatwave. I strongly advice that if you are using a computer plugged into the mains that you write a lot of data to your storage drives unless you have a highly rated uninterruptable power supply (UPS). Prioritise laptop useage. Don't do any BIOS updates.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's happened, Starmer's out. We can only hope that Burnham doesn't f**k it up and manages keeps Reform out of government in 2029. Also nice to hear Ode to Joy in the background (Steve Bray and co presumably?) #ProportionalRepresentationNow #PRNow #RejoinEU
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Must be sweltering hot in those suits
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We did the #RejoinEU #RejoinEUMarch #RejoinMarch in sweltering hot weather today but it was good to march together in solidarity. We want to rejoin the EU - remove those "red lines" and realise that #TheFutureIsEUropean
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Terry Reintke @terryreintke.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Rejoin March👏 every year until 🇬🇧REJOINED🇪🇺 #rejoineu #rejoinmarch
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Jane @woolner.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🇪🇺#rejoineu march in Central London
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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 20/06/2026
See you from 12noon 😊 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Following this frightening train collision on the news and listening to phone calls between the presenter and the apparently few slightly less hurt people who were on the train. It sounds like more people are hurt than not - the current caller has a painful back and cannot sit.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Andy Burnham might be able to turn Labour's electability around positively and might be able to lead Labour to win another parliamentary term in government (but possibly as a minority government or in a coalition), however, a Green Party candidate will win Holborn and St. Pancras.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Congratulations to Andy Burnham on winning in Makerfield with a strong majority against Reform's Robert Kenyon. I will admit - I was nervous and expected the result to be closer. I hope Burnham can prove to be the politician both Labour and Britain needs.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Finished constructing the frame and handle for my A2-sized foamboard placard for the @marchforrejoin.co.uk National Rejoin March IV this Saturday 20th June! 🇪🇺🇬🇧 #RejoinEU #RejoinMarch #NationalRejoinMarch #MarchForRejoin #Breturn #BollocksToBrexit #TheFutureIsEUrope
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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 16/06/2026
"Rejoin march to mark 10 years since EU referendum" Sat 20th June, London northeastbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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Rejoin march to mark 10 years since EU referendum
Saturday 20 June, 12noon-4pm, central London
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I fear more and more governments in countries in the politically/culturally Western Hemisphere are going to introduce restrictions to access for websites and apps following the example of Australia and the UK where ID will need to be shared with unsecure US-based commercial companies.
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Jon Rapley 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @jonrapley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
With online newspapers often featuring comment sections where strangers will interact, will online news articles require age verification?
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