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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At last a clear night sky. First light on my new #SeestarS50Pro: M27, a planetary nebula, remnant of a dying star. #astro #astrophotography

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Eastern Veil from my front garden last night. Straight out of the #Seestar #Astronomy

The Eastern Veil Nebula, a striking supernova remnant located roughly 1,500 to 2,400 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation, is the glowing, filamentary debris of a massive star that exploded 5,000 to 8,000 years ago

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Donate £3 to help Count Binface beat Fartrage in the Clacton by-election. ko-fi.com/countbinface

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The Munich Security Conference 2024 was attended by delegates from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, China .... Bizarrely, god-botherer JD Vance was disappointed in a lack of reference to "Christian values":

To Vance, faith and western values are inseparable. In Communion, he recalls his first visit to the Munich Security Conference in 2024 as a senator. He found it to be "a place where people trafficked in comfortable lies rather than accepting uncomfortable truths" and with no reference to Christian values. In fact, he said, the Munich conference had "as much Christianity as a 1959 meeting of the Soviet high command".

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is spot on. PMs will always have weaknesses. A Cabinet that doesn't compensate for them isn't just disloyal — it's useless.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"I didn't think it through properly" 😂😂😂 I'm beginning to worry that universal franchise will bring about the end of democracy.

When Roger and Carol (80) woke up on the morning of June 24, 2016, in their home overlooking the fairways of Mijas golf course, they had some big regrets.

The couple had lived in Spain for 15 years, but both had voted for Britain to leave the European Union. They were "shocked" when the result came in.

"We didn't think it would actually happen," says Roger, sipping a cold beer last Wednesday lunchtime in the Magpie bar in Fuengirola, where the couple are visiting friends. Roger had worked at Luton's Vauxhall car factory from the age of 16, retired at 55 and moved to Spain. Suddenly, their future on the sunny Costa del Sol hung in the balance.

Fearing (incorrectly, it would turn out) that the consequences of Brexit could mean losing their pension and NHS access, they sold their Spanish home and moved back to the UK shortly before the transition period ended in December 2020. "It was the biggest, worst decision we ever made," says Roger, who declined to give his surname. "I didn't think it through properly."

The couple now live in Luton. They "hate it", and would like to move back to Spain. But with freedom of movement gone, they can't. "We're stuck." They plan to vote for Reform at the next election.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK Brexit's not working. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin the EU, reverse the damage, boost growth, increase tax revenues and restore opportunities in the UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Not the most aesthetically impressive image, but my #Seestar S30 caught the supernova in the Splinter galaxy (NGC5907) last night from Staffordshire, UK. 649 30s subs, stacked in Siril and some small adjustments using GIMP. #Astronomy

A galaxy viewed edge on, looking like a splinter of light with a supernova showing as a faint spot.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Listening to BBC R4 PM discussing Amazon stopping support for pre-2012 #Kindles. They're missing the real reason: the DRM on #ebooks downloaded onto older Kindles is easy to break. Amazon do not want us to own the ebooks we purchased from them.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Later, a 5 hour image capture of M51, the Whirlpool galaxy. #astronomy #seestarS30

A spiral galaxy and a dwarf galaxy interacting.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Gotta admire Channel 5's precise scheduling.

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Elizabeth Baker @lizzieab.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Farage trying to use class identity to silence criticism of him, but this time it's not like stifling concerns over Brexit for fear of class betrayal. His comments are abhorrent. How dare he implicate whole communities in his disgusting racism. People everywhere, of every class care. #DontVoteReform

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Energy bills soar & the King is making profit at our expense. Charles says he cares about the environment. You’d expect him to stand behind cheap, clean power. Sign the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds & make wind farms more affordable to build. act.gp/48TINlv

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King Charles: Stop Profiting At Britain’s Expense!

Energy bills are soaring, and the King is getting rich at our expense. Sign the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds and make wind farms more affordable to build.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The Museum of Failure: along with the Sinclair C5 and Dyson's air purifying headphones: museumoffailure.com/exhibition/b...

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BREXIT — Museum of Failure

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Today we're dining on Planet Shalimar, part of the Minton empire 😂

A Minton dinner plate, looking like a planet against a starry sky.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

M42 captured with a #Seestar S30 from a location just north of #Lichfield in late November. #Astronomy

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This morning the BBC were selling their new TV series Civilisations:Rise and Fall as some kind of sequel to Kenneth Clark's 1969 TV series Civilisation. Not even close.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#Covid #Inquiry Who'd have thought it? Cummings and Johnson weren't geniuses! We need an inquiry into their roles in #Brexit

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Limiting the right to jury trial will not get rid of the backlog of criminal cases. The criminal justice system is the epitome of inefficiency. Almost every part of it seems designed to cause unnecessary delays. Correct that and the backlog will go, without infringing on the rights of defendants.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Courts minister: “Do we think that someone who has stolen a bottle of whisky from a minimart should receive the right to trial by jury?" Idiotic. An innocent person falsely accused of stealing, whose life would be ruined by a conviction, has a right to a jury trial.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I don't have a good view of the northern horizon from my home near Lichfield UK, but early this morning the clouds cleared, the UK Aurora Watch app ticked up over 700 nT and I managed to snap a faint aurora behind the trees.

A dim red aurora in the northern skies peeking out from behind tree branches

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Wax caps on Pipe Green, ancient meadow Lichfield UK. Some are like ruby cabochons nestling in the grass. #fungifriends

Wax caps. Bright red mushrooms growing in a meadow.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I've just wasted nearly two hours of my life watching House of Dynamite. Dr. Strangelove tells the same story, but is ten times more engaging.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Afternoon dog walk on Pipe Green ancient meadow #Lichfield #Staffordshire #fungifriends The wax caps aren't up yet.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It is Jon Culshaw doing an imitation of #Trump currently addressing the #UN , isn't it?

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I'm watching The Thursday Murder Club, quietly so as not to annoy my companion who enjoys this kind of film. It's dreadful. Like something written by AI.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Just listened to Matthew Syed's BBC radio 4 programme "Sideways" exploring the interaction between language and thoughts ... incredibly without once (as I recall) mentioning the Sapir Whorf hypothesis.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Pacman nebula, captured last night through an open window. The first starry sky in weeks round here.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I'm worried my postie will be prosecuted for possession and distribution of material supporting a designated terrorist group when he delivers my next Private Eye.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

If Boeing 787 fuel cutoff switches are not meant to be used in normal flight, why are they situated immediately below the thrust controls, which are used in normal flight? Looks like the designer took the simple approach of grouping controls according to the systems they control.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hoping for a dark cloudless sky tonight for real #astrophotography but the Moon in a clear blue sunlit evening sky is irresistible.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Precious of MPs to be angry at Rantzen's suggestion that some opposed to assisted dying have "undeclared personal religious beliefs which mean no precautions would satisfy them” I want MPs to declare all "interests" that could potentially influence their votes. Nothing special about religion.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Mr Sullivan had previously applied to the CCRC in 2008 ... the Forensic Science Service (FSS) advised that any further testing would be very unlikely to produce a DNA profile" Many lawyers & investigators (such as the CCRC) are unintelligent customers of forensic science ...

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Did a SPAD use #AI to help draft the #Starmer #immigration speech? All the top #LLM s would have seen Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech & identified #stranger as a core theme. From #Gemini: Powell presented anecdotes including...an elderly woman who...felt like a stranger in her own country

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