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Dean Lipscombe

@lean-dipstick.bsky.social
225 followers 668 following 140 posts

Boomer who grew up in Coventry and now on sunny Kent coast. Long career mostly in IT, project & programme management. Pub quiz specialist subject is 1970s (esp music), also opines on current affairs & CoD 🍿

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Anonymous Tory MP in 2018: "If we try to cancel Brexit, we destroy ourselves. If we go ahead with it, we destroy the country." They did both. And now the culprits are running from the wreckage.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Right. If you want to know what's really going on, we're going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions. What on earth was Palantir's top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal? broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-u...
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A secret US-UK sweetheart tech deal?
What's really going on? And what's *Palantir* got to do with it??
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Daily reminder that the whole of Gaza is being starved to death and every Western nation is allowing it to happen. (📸 NBC News, see ALT text for more details)
A photo of 6-year-old Osama Al-Raqab, a child in Gaza. He has sunken cheeks, stick-thin arms and ribs jutting out of his chest.

His aunt, Nour Sameer Al-Raqab, is seen holding a phone in the photo with an image of a healthy-looking Osama from a few months before the war began. He now looks like a skeleton.

The photo was taken on April 13, 2025 and published in a story by NBC News. The full story is available at this link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/children-gaza-hunger-aid-blockade-israel-rcna201085
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🔥 This is important. Really important. And none of the mainstream media are reporting it. So please read and share — because we are the news community for ourselves and the “mainstream” media are utterly hopeless for meaningful news.
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On Her 7th Birthday, We Know Who Killed Hind Rajab. And We’re Taking Them to Court
​ Brussels, 3 May 2025  — Today, little  Hind Rajab should have been blowing out candles on her 7th birthday .  On this day of remembrance and heartbreak, the  Hind Rajab Foundation  has...
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The Brits are savage 🔥
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I’m sensing there could be a demand for a certain iconic poster when the state visit happens.
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Does the US still need all those military bases across Europe and Turkey etc? (Asking for a friend) #trump #tarriffs #defence #specialrelationship #ukraine #zelenskyy
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/02/2025
RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Watched #TrevorPhillips on #SkyNews and I’m wondering why politicians like Steve Baker are so obsessed with growth. Beyond EU it’s worth looking at Japan’s growth record and they seem to do OK
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
According to the satsuma, America “won two world wars”. Well I never knew that
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Reading about this has made my Sunday. Just hours after Farage called him a hero announcing, “Free speech is back”. Hilarious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Elon Musk calls for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader
Nigel Farage claims Musk's call is due to a disagreement over support for far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
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NPR @npr.org · 26/12/2024
The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.
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Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year
The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
SPOILER ALERT: If you’re planning to watch Gavin & Stacey Christmas special on catchup DO NOT watch BBC News today. The idiots in the newsroom have played a key scene whilst reporting on its large audience yesterday. What were they thinking? D’oh! #BBCNews
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Not usually that impressed by Dame Angela Eagle but she just adeptly made #TrevorPhillips look like he was asking stupid questions. He seemed uncomfortable and out his depth to me.
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Never known anything like this before, worth a watch…
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’m certainly not anti-royalist and loved the late Queen Elizabeth II as much as anyone else but £40 million for a memorial? WTF? Not a good look right now methinks
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Saying I’m proud to be British is a struggle all the while certain people have and post such lack of compassion and empathy for fellow human beings. Happy Christmas in this season of goodwill
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Truth To Power Ⓥ 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇭🇰 @truthtopower.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Today’s video looks at the toxic influence of Dark Money on British politics. The Dark Money In British Politics Exposed youtu.be/OW_fmjcDYYE
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The Dark Money In British Politics Exposed
YouTube video by Truth To Power
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Last night on #bbcqt Nigel Farage stated that Trump “loved the UK” and is keen to do a trade deal. I’m calling BS based on previous presidency 2016-2020, the first four years post #Brexit vote where there was no such inclination.
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
LOL…
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Never mind Winter Fuel Allowance, I’m paying £281 a month Council Tax for a 3 bed house. That’s the killer
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Seemingly disproportionate widespread coverage & commentary about alleged outdated and potentially lecherous remarks. Meanwhile little outrage about physical sexual assaults by the Knightsbridge grocer, who else knew and covered it up. Priorities?
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
No. Shit. Sherlock. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
BBC News’ @chrismasonbbc.bsky.social reporting that Reform party now has 100,000 members today. I thought it was a limited company meaning that there were no ‘members’ as such? Am I wrong?
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just wondering if any of those tractors in London were running on pink diesel yesterday. That would be awkward
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Jon Morter @jonmorter.com · 18/11/2024
Just had a suggestion from a friend that ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky would be a great contender for the Christmas No.1 this year if we do it solely as a Bluesky campaign. Not only will it help bring people over here but perhaps wind up the Musk fan club by not mentioning it on the other app whatsoever
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
TV ad just now: “Amazon Black Friday Week - starts Thursday” Right, got ya 🤦
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Morning everyone, this is what we’re missing on that other platform. A bit of trivialising from Sky News and the expected pike-on from usual suspects. Enjoy!
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
👋🏻 HELLO! Welcome to our Blue Sky profile. If you could be a love and share our profile to your followers, please, we would be much obliged. Thanks. babe x bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
With Trump’s latest appointment of Robert F Kennedy, the irony here is off the scale - UK now looks quite sane. She’s on tour, maybe time to amend the title methinks?
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 13/11/2024
This seems like an incredibly useful tool. It will tell you which Bluesky users a lot of your followers follow, but you don't. Makes it easy to find other accounts you probably want to follow... bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
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Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election
Social media platform has become a ‘refuge’ from the far-right activism on X, experts say, after Elon Musk teamed up with Donald Trump
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Dean Lipscombe @lean-dipstick.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Several years ago I left Facebook as it had become too creepy and I was annoyed about complicity with Brexit etc. I’m now migrating from the Musk quagmire for the reasons highlighted here…
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