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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱

@minophis.eurosky.social
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He/Him. UK 30-year software QA veteran and moderate Python developer. Interested in Data Science, Python, IoT, Environmental Sustainability, Human Rights, Ethics, Rejoin EU. Green Party Member.

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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 4h
Wordle 1,949 5/6* 🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 97/88 Luck 29/58 😔
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 19h
The Reform party is exactly what he wants it to be. The only thing he doesn't want is people to know about it.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 20h
A combination ballroom and military complex. Wouldn't he be happier with a combination mcDonalds and Brothel? Or maybe a combination golf course and mental asylum.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 20h
America spent $13 Trillion dollars on the cold war defeating the soviet union. The invasion of Ukraine would be the rebirth of the soviet union and the only reason it has not happened is the courage and ingenuity of the Ukrainian people and they have payed the price in blood.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 23h
"Ally" is one word but "Vassal" might apply equally well.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 23h
Lots of people say I'm smarter than lotus plants Low IQ flower
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026
Wordle 1,948 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 92/90 Skill 28/58 Luck 😆
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
I much prefer the British method If a PM loses an election they move out before midday the next day. If an MP loses a by election their title and legal authority is gone that day, at midnight the next day their security pass is revoked and they have 5 days to pack up their office.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
Zelensky has spent the last 4 years leading a country at war and working in a city under regular bombardment from missiles and drones. I don't think he is intimidated easily. Meanwhile Europe is steadily working together to rearm, extend satellite comms, replace dependence on US tech and more.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Never Forget! #GetFarageOut #StopFarage #FarageScandals
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Nadja from What We Do In The Shadows
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Nadja from What We Do In The Shadows
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1225 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Blue by default.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
Wordle 1,947 3/6* ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
The point is Americans have a lot of options between no kings protests and trying to overthrow the government and appear to be trying none of them.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
Yes the Magna Carta did mostly defended the rights of barons it also did various other things that only apply in a medieval society but it also guarantees a right to trial and that even a monarch is answerable to the law.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
We should be telling every US base on European soil to pack up their shit and get the hell out of our countries. America is no an ally.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Europe's support for Ukraine is absolute and unwavering also we are bust with the biggest rearmament since the cold war. This time it is almost exclusively with European defence companies so US defence companies can go screw themselves.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
In the UK after Dunblane there was enough shock and outrage to create the political will to change laws and prevent it happening again. America has reached a point where this is so commonplace there will never be enough outrage. If Sandy Hook didn't make them change, nothing will.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Eutelsat and OneWeb have a civillian alternative and the EU and ESA are building IRIS2 for military and governmental comms.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
The thing is the constitution requires people to enforce it for it to work.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Wordle 1,946 4/6* 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Going full fascist when you are not in power and dropping in the polls is not a winning strategy.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
I've just added my name to the call for the UK to join the European Union by 2036. A stronger economy, more jobs, greater security, and a louder voice in the world. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/join_eu_by_2...
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
They probably will manage to get Maga out and a few people in the administration might even be held to account in a half-hearted "building bridges" and "business as usual" sort of way. But I don't imagine the system that allowed all this to happen will be changed very much.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Of all the things that never happened, that never happened the most.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Schools so poorly funded teachers have to buy their own teaching supplies can somehow afford their own operating theatre sand medical teams Children can have major surgery and be home the same day as if nothing had happened. Anyone stupid enough to believe this shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
I googled one of the clues in today's connection and Google AI helpfully guessed I was playing connections and helpfully gave me all the answers😡
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
The UK had 2 civil wars to defend Magna Carta and another to defend democratic rule. France literally dragged it's corrupt ruling class out into the streets one by one and decapitated them. Have you considered a general strike?
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
I'm sure Ukrainians will take the time to sympathise for the plight of poor betrayed Americans as soon the next Russian missile attack is over. maybe a country that has never and will never face invasion and collectively pissed itself over a Chinese balloon should stop fishing for sympathy.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Russia is also supporting Iran with support and intelligence that it is using to to target US troops. Trump is indirectly supporting Iran in killing US service personel.
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Vicious @viciousbeans.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
The US electorate need to understand that Trumps diesel deal has helped fund Russia who is not only attacking Ukraine but is also providing intelligence and support to Iran to aid them in targeting US troops. Trump made a deal that helps kill US troops and got only enough diesel to last 10 days.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
America doesn't do "friends". It has alliances that last while they benefit and are thrown away when something better comes along. The only country America supports whether it's beneficial or not is Israel.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Archive October 16, 2026 Connections Puzzle #1223 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨🌈
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Welcome to your new job Ms Zacharia
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South Park: And It's Gone
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
That's less time than a Liz Truss premiership.🥬
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
You could try what most other countries do and not make your judges political appointments.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Wordle 1,945 3/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
These people saying they aren't MAGA after 10 years of support will come as a great comfort to the families of the dead Iranian schoolgirls or of the dead Paraguayan fishermen or of people murdered by ICE agents or of the insulted NATO allied soldiers who died in Afghanistan. Fuck these people.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Burning Russian Refineries Burning Russian Oil Terminals Burning Russian Fuel Depots Burning Russian Warehouses Burning Russian Data Centers
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Jensen Ackles: All Good!
ALT: Jensen Ackles: All Good!
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
That is fantastic. Using America as an example of what we can be like if we don't rejoin is the best argument for rejoining I can think of.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
The US spent $13 trillion fighting the cold war to ultimately see the break-up of the Soviet Union. The only thing that has prevented Russia starting the rebuilding of a new Soviet Union is the sacrifice of the Ukranian people, literally paid in blood. Maybe Trump and Vance should say "Thank You".
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
I doubt Zelensky is done blowing up Russian data centres.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
I'm surprised, I thought watching a man in wheelchair getting shot would be peak MAGA viewing.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
One of the few things in international politics that has made me proud in the last few years is our steadfast support for Ukraine. Their inginuity, courage and spirit have stood unbroken against Russian aggression and they deserve all the thanks and help we can give.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Wordle 1,944 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
It's not a case of Americans can't trust Republicans. It's a case of the World can't trust Americans.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Booked for Saturday
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
I am guessing this is more JD's type.
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Sofa King Sofa King Cool
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