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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 27/09/2026

Source: www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalH... #uspol #trump

This is a cartoon by De Adder showing Trump having smashed his ways through three pillars of democracy (Legislative, Executive, Judiciary) and starting on the fourth & final pillar, Press.

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 06/09/2026

How you do it (Via Zac Whittaker’s excellent newsletter)

Norway's no to pervert glasses: Norway is set to say nei to camera-enabled smart glasses (aka "pervert glasses") after the digital minister said the glasses, made by Meta and Snap, could be banned over privacy fears. (via All About Cookies, TechCrunch ($), Firstpost)

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 02/09/2026

Never let the Tories forget what they did to this country.

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 20/04/2026

Ann Pettifor speaks for me! Here's her six ways housing could be made for affordable in the UK: 1. Capital controls 2. Rent controls 3. Tax landlords 4. Build more public housing 5. Target second homes 6. Support first mortgages #Housing #Britain

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 15/04/2026

I have found the Visible band helpful because it is based around having allocated pace points for each day and then monitoring how on track you are to keep to those pace points. E.g. today I have overdone it a bit.

A screenshot of the home screen on the iOS version of the Visible app. It shows I have used 11 out of 9 pace points, and that may current heart rate at the time of the screenshot was 95bpm.

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 15/04/2026

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to @meactnet.bsky.social and Visible for the Visible band I won last month 👍 Having had ME/CFS for over 15 years I thought I knew everything about pacing but the Visible band has even taught this old dog some new tricks. Very cool 😎 #MECFS #MEAction

This is a photo of a person wearing a Visible pacing band on their upper arm. The photo shows the person wearing a white T-shirt with horizontal black stripes. The person is giving a thumbs up.

The Visible band is a product designed to help with pacing & using energy for people with chronic illnesses like ME/CFS. The company's website is https://www.makevisible.com/.

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 14/03/2026

Are you old & racist? Hoo boy, do we have the party for you!

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 03/03/2026

The more you know Source: www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... #Climate #Environment

Dairy versus plant-based milk:
what are the environmental impacts?

Environmental footprints of dairy and plant-based milks, per liter.
Based on a meta-analysis of food system impact studies across the supply chain, which includes land use change, on-farm production, processing, transport, and packaging.

Land use
Dairy milk: 8.95 m²
Oat milk: 0.76 m²
Soy milk: 0.66 m²
Almond milk: 0.5 m²
Rice milk: 0.34 m²

Greenhouse gas emissions
Dairy milk: 3.15 kg
Rice milk: 1.18 kg
Soy milk: 0.98 kg
Oat milk: 0.9 kg
Almond milk: 0.7 kg

Freshwater use
Dairy milk: 628.2 L
Almond milk: 371.46 L
Rice milk: 269.81 L
Oat milk: 48.24 L
Soy milk: 27.8 L

Eutrophication*
Dairy milk: 10.65 g
Rice milk: 4.69 g
Oat milk: 1.62 g
Almond milk: 1.5 g
Soy milk: 1.06 g

*Eutrophication is the pollution of ecosystems with excess nutrients.
Data source: Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek (2018)

License: CC BY

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 31/01/2026

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 14/01/2026

Saw this on Reddit this morning and thought it was pretty spot on. Source: www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPl... #ukpol #ukpolitics

I believe this is a screenshot of a post on X.com. The post is by someone called Keith Burge @carryonkeith. This is the content of the post:

'So essentially the pattern is, destroy the country as a Tory and then defect to Reform claiming you need to sort out the mess. That you created.'

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 19/12/2025

Hi @samfr.bsky.social, I recently enabled a labeller on Bluesky and it is saying you worked for Michael Gove (see image below). Is that true?

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 09/12/2025

That quote from Badenoch is 😂

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 05/12/2025

'[S]ince 2011, the number of statutory homeless children, mostly in temporary accommodation, has increased from 70,000 to 172,000.' Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6931ae... Never let the Tories forget what they did to this country. #ukpol 1/2

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 20/10/2025

Morning walk - Monday, October 20, 2025 #uk #unitedkingdom

A photo of farmland in Leicestershire in the United Kingdom. In the foreground is a hedge and trees. The photo was taken on a grey cloudy day.

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 08/10/2025

I always like to encourage people to consider not eating meat! 🙂💛

Top five things each of us can do individually to fight climate change

1. Have one fewer child than you were planning to
2. Go car free
3. Fly less
4. Buy green energy
5. Eat a plant-based diet

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 08/10/2025

I have not been able to get this map of land use in the USA out of my head since I saw it on Reddit earlier this week. It turns out it's from a 2018 Bloomberg article: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201... (you may find the archive.org version easier to access: web.archive.org/web/20180801...). #USA

This is a unique map showing land use in the USA. The image is a screenshot from this article by Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/ (Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180801014510/https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/)

Each square on the map represents 250,000 acres of land.

For example: 'cropland takes up more than 1/5 of the 48 contiguous states'. 'Urban areas make up Just 3.6% of the total size of the 48 contiguous states.' 'More than 100 million acres of special-use areas are park and wilderness areas, where most commercial activities, such as logging, mining and grazing, are excluded.' 'According to The Land Report magazine, since 2008 the amount of land owned by the 100 largest private landowners has grown from 28 million acres to 40 million, an area larger than the state of Florida.'

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 08/10/2025

This from the recent Benefits and Work newsletter (bit.ly/3IUbKng) Just brutal to have Simon Wessely, of all people, put in charge of this review. Talk about absolutely tone deaf from Labour. It makes me anxious he is going to use this as an opportunity screw over ME/CFS sufferers. #MECFS #Britain

CONTROVERSIAL PROFESSOR TO INVESTIGATE OVERDIAGNOSIS

Labour is launching a review to decide whether some mental health and neurodivergence issues are being overdiagnosed.

The vice chair will be the hugely divisive academic Sir Simon Wessely.

Back in 2011, the Times called Wessely “the most hated doctor in Britain”.

He was widely regarded by people living with ME/CFS as having popularised the idea that ME/CFS is a primarily a psychological condition, rather than a physical health one.

Amongst other things, this made it much more difficult for people with debilitating ME/CFS to score points for physical health activities when applying for benefits.

Health secretary Wes Streeting, who ordered the review, has already made it clear that he thinks there is widespread overdiagnosis.

And only last week, Keir Starmer told Radio 4 “. . . there are about a million young people who are on benefits, not all for mental health issues, but quite a number for mental health issues.

“I think that is wrong . . .”

So, it appears that ministers are preparing the ground for another attempt to persuade backbenchers that benefits cuts for mental health are in claimants own best interests.

In which case, the choice of Wessely to play such a key role, given his history with claimants, seems like a potential own goal.

(Source: https://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=144836&f=2941&s=6745&m=1195842&t=9e9c98a7d9387eb5c584b7e81a15d03a3040ca2700682dadb514b7c01a8d57f0)

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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 04/10/2025

Whelp. For those of you who still care about this, Covid levels in the UK are nearing October 2024 levels. Mask up 😷 and/or use nasal spray. Stay safe out there! Source: ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-... #Covid #UK

Line graph from the UK government website showing official Covid 'Rate of cases per 100,000 population in 7-day period'. The Y axis is 'Case rate' and the X axis is 'Specimen date'. The Y axis is from 0 to approximately 6.5. The X axis is from October 2024 to October 2025. The line graph peaks at 6.48 on the Y axis on October 10, 2024 before largely settling to an average case rate of 2 until from approximately August 2025 it starts growing again till it reaches 4.83 on September 29, 2025.

Source: https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-viruses/covid-19#cases

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