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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 4h

🤣 Maybe she’s trying to bump you off. ‘They had an accident falling off a ladder trying to fix a window in a storm’

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 4h

Ooft! Hope it’s not too rough a crossing.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 5h

I’ve spent the day with Crumble following my husband round checkpoints during their ultramarathon 🙈

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 5h

My husband spent the day doing an ultra marathon 🙈 I spent the day being the lackey

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 5h

The winds have really picked up here in Newcastle. The rain is lashing the windows.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 5h

Bet they use the pedestrian drop curb to exit

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 10h

Thank you! I’m spreading the word!!

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 12h

Yup. Everything is ported across, all followers, message, posts, likes, bookmarks etc.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 12h

It was super easy to do, a few clicks and everything has moved across. You then log back into Bluesky using the new server (click sign in then at the bottom there's a slightly hidden thing saying change server - change that to eurosky.social and then sign in. Back up and running. 👍

eurosky.social

Eurosky Portal

Your Portal to the Atmosphere

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 12h

You may have noticed my new handle! I’ve decided to port from US hosted bluesky servers and across to the Eurosky instead. The data is hosted on servers in Germany, subject to GDPR & European law. Eurosky is operated by Stichting Modal, a Dutch non-profit foundation. They do not sell your data.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 15h

Somebody is feeling a bit of a 42-carat plonker

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

I was yes - I had a mix of different companies and charities at my table. Across the tables there were a really eclectic mix of people including a number of front bench Westminster politicians, charities, big music people, local organisations etc

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Looks to have been a good turn out and the weather held up! Great photo outside Wylam! I’m sorry I wasn’t able to join you.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

A really phenomenal night last night. A huge thank you to the team who pulled together the Mercury Awards and the fringe over the past week. For a second year in a row the blossoming Newcastle & North East music scene was put on the map. All great nominations, tho Raye was a very deserving winner

A photograph of the Mercury Award Newcastle stage. The arena is bathed in blue lights.

A photograph of the Mercury Award Newcastle stage, Raye is singing on stage and is on the large screen to the left. The arena is bathed in red lights.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

I don’t blame you! If you have damp, tell housing you have damp and mould. They by law should prioritise the repairs necessary under Awaab’s law.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Hugs. I’m sorry! Ask them to do a smoke pen around the window and see where the air leak is coming from. If they can do that around a load of the openings, you’ll be far more comfortable, warm and it not costing a fortune.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

It would also be remiss of me to forget a shout out to gevulde speculaaskoeken

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

You became a bed buddha - at one with the bed

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

My breakfast this morning included these bad boys 🙈😅

A photo of a box of dutch pink aniseed sprinkles.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

IMHO finding a way to bring home charging rates to public chargers is the key. Let people charge at 8p overnight somewhere locally.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Im not in favour - we already have crumbling pavements, let alone having a load of gully’s cut into them. Wo foots the cost of further deterioration? It also drives obsessive behaviour and I’m already dealing with enough residents complaints about people parking in front of their house.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Yup! I did wonder as much. I also think, of all the issues going on in the world, of all the things we are doing in the city. They’ll probably have forgotten about it by May.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Thankfully as somebody who doesn’t eat chocolate, I don’t get cravings for the festive chocoladeletter that then follow! But poffertjes season. That’s another matter 😁

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

And stroopwafel and bitterballen 🤤🤤🤤

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Yup! But many don’t see it that way. They only see a loss, not the indirect or unrealised gains

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Yup! That’s what we want to try and change - the physical, mental and environmental benefits are immense. But today’s traffic and road conditions are some of the biggest barriers

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Less potholes, quicker journey times, healthier family and friends. All they see is what they’ve lost, not what they stand to gain if more people felt safe, confident and able to cycle.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

I get the sense it’s from people who don’t ever see themselves as a cyclist. So they feel like they’ve lost something - whether that’s parking space, road space or other. They don’t see the benefits they gain indirectly from more people cycling. Cleaner air, less traffic, quieter streets,

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Being told by two people that will no longer vote for you because you are pro-bike 🙃 When there are hundreds more issues facing the UK and Newcastle. It’s amazing what voters focus on.

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Octopus Energy @octopus.energy · 19/10/2026

Two gas crises within a decade with no end in sight — and still, some think gas heating is the answer. China’s EV wave started with subsidies, now they’re reaping the benefits. Greg writes on how Britain’s got to back itself on heat pumps 👇

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Why do these people desperately want to stoke fires. They’ll also be the first to wring their hands when everything kicks off and say ‘’how did we let this happen? Nobody could have m predicted this would happen in the UK?’ Mysteriously these articles will probably also disappear too.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

It’s grim, especially because I would bet my house on these thoughts being peddled by social media and algorithms. Many of these people will have interacted with something briefly, maybe without consciously thinking about it. And then get drawn in and that’s now all they see/hear/read

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

On the doorsteps in the run up to May, I spoke to a gentleman who came out with this exact phrase. In his words (and I quote) ‘asylum seekers should be rounded up and put in concentration camps’ My response was to snap back ‘that’s vile, racist and you need rethink’. He looked back shocked at me

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

🤣🤣🤣 Recently a man was found drowned in his bowl of muesli. Early police reports say he was dragged in by a strong currant.

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Biollante @bivouacchillin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

Frogs chilling inside the frog sauna. It's basically just a black masonry brick

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

🤣🤣🤣 If you’ve seen the clip circulating you’ll understand this reference.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

😬 Yup! But that £4 is negative because of our solar export.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Hmmm, it’s a difficult one. Given the gas prices are rising, it may be more expensive - but we’re also going into autumn so more wind = cheaper prices. It’s difficult to know what to do.

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

In the last month our heat pump has used 76.24kWh electricity delivering 426.15 kWh space heating as well as 22.96kWh electricity delivering 91.49 kWh of heat for DHW. The house has been a stable 20.6C (set point is 20.5C). Total cost - £4.09 🤯🤯🤯

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Active travel upgrades to Argyle St, Glasgow :) #Urbanism

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Noooo! We had to book a year in advance to get in 😬

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

🙈 went to the garden centre. Came away with two more trees 🌳🌳

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

You can rent the ruins at the top of Hackfall Woods - 11/10 would recommend!

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