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Siphoning off red diesel from a farmer’s tank was a right of passage for rural lads where I’m from. Not getting an arse full of rock salt fired from a shotgun was as much of the thrill as the free nicked diesel.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 10h

When you see several hundred birds on a random roof, it’s because for thousands of years their ancestors sat in the tree that once was there.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 10h

It even *says* in the video it’s from Nivelles…

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 10h

Um, always check your source. This is from Nivelles, in Belgium. I live a few KM away. I wasn’t actually aware of the incident, but I knew those weren’t French police uniforms. www.lessentiel.lu/fr/video/bel...

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Un policier frappe au visage une femme menottée

Une vidéo d’interpellation choque en Belgique. À Nivelles, un policier frappe une femme menottée au visage avant de la pousser dans une voiture de police. Selon le parquet du Brabant wallon, la femme...

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 10h

Didn’t you post this a couple of days ago without identifying it - and I commented it was a Vauxhall SRV?

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 10h

2001 I was > < this close to buying a bit of NorthWest Scottish lochside real estate & setting up a mussel farm. You get up in the morning, see that the lines of seeded rope are mussel-ing away, then go back to bed. A couple of days before harvest you lift them & put them in fresh water, then sell

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The Dude

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 13h

Unfortunately HM Gov would be liable for all kinds of court challenges without the result of a Commission then a vote into law of the findings. I understand the sentiment though!

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 13h

Royal Fail more like. King Chaz should claim author rights & take back the “Royal” part.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16h

On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account. This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras. This is foreign interference in British democracy. And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 15h

Britain needs an independent parliamentary commission into the influence & interference by foreign actors via social media. Not only are the broligarchs guilty of directly interfering, they let hostile foreign states target Britain with unchecked bots & propaganda.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 15h

“When I saw that Thatcher had died, I pumped my fist in the air several times & shouted ‘fuck yea!’ I now realise as the first responder at her home, that was not appropriate behaviour”

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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 19h

I know it’s hard to imagine now, but b4 George Galloway disappeared up his own arsehole & popped out in Moscow,he was a good example of Scots debating style. He took on a Yank around the time of the invasion of Iraq, & best way to put it was a chess grand master playing against a pigeon.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 19h

😳 thx! Mucking around with idioms is a particularly Scottish debating trait,& whilst I didn’t make a profession out of it-one of my closest mates was world debating champion finalist & now one of Scotland’s top legal minds. Basically we’d argue in the pub with fellow sci-fi fans weekly 🤣

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I still find it sad that Greenock unceremoniously lost its iconic structures such as Goliath & the massive sheds lining the road into town. Literally wiped from memory.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I bet one of your favourite Christmas presents as a kid was a magic set. Most people love to have their beliefs suspended for a while. Some of us love to be the ones building the illusion.

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Car Optical Illusion Trick

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s amazing how quickly you learn as you reach terminal velocity 🤣 Your nervous system has had millions of years of training to keep you alive. It’ll pull the chord even though your prefrontal cortex is screaming like a skewered pig.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For those who paid attention during flight school, certain manoeuvres become unrecoverable no matter altitude. It takes particular skill to put a light civil aircraft into an unrecoverable spin, but not impossible. If your pilot enters the aircraft wearing a parachute, you should have one also.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A good pilot *never* makes mistakes. Well, at least not more than once. An old pilot has made plenty of mistakes. “There’s old pilots, & bold pilots…there are no old bold pilots”.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Where’s the fun I that?! My first experience of aerobics was my flight instructor being pissed off that I’d actually learned a lot from flight sims & was far in advance of normal. His exact words as we pulled a snap 3G roll was “you can’t do that in a simulator, can you!”

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A fellow Scot, a Cold War submariner made me laugh when he said “Bagpipes are best appreciated from a pair of strong binoculars” I’ve been on a British Army parade ground as a phalanx of pipers marched. It reverberates through you. I get that up close they can sound utterly shite!

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t disagree, but 99.9% of cinema audiences don’t get to peek behind the curtain. I’m a geek, I love the technical side. I far preferred being a Stage Hand than on stage. Seeing how the illusion is built is far more satisfying than the end result. We are weird that way.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cinema is an illusion. How it’s made is the old “sausage” analogy: enjoy the end result, don’t ask how it was made.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not really. Normally they’d have been taxed throughout their lives. Inheritance Tax made sense when it was the only tax levied. Now, every transaction is subject to VAT, & all labour is taxed. An Estate in modern days has already been taxed multiple times. Prove me wrong.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If he’d been able to get his fingers to the top strings, he’d be the most sought after lover since Rasputin…

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was a classically trained musician from age 6. Concert violinist in my teens. I can spot AI slop a mile away, but the vast majority of the population can’t. To them it sounds fine. Most don’t know their arias from their elbow. Music is emotion. If it makes them happy,why should we complain?

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When people do that in an amusement park, it’s all good fun. When I accidentally do that as a pilot? Whole different story…

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You should throw them in the bin now & save yourself the misery of doing so in 6 months time 🤣 (Joking aside, my kids love gherkins-genuinely fight each other for them. They last at best a week)

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel sorry for anyone who doesn’t know Tesco tbh. They’ll have no bliddy clue what we’re whittering on about 🤣

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m holding out till they go BOGOF 🤣

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We all remember Her Madge having tea & sarnies with Paddington. Not sure what they were thinking tbh

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Paddington Bear and Queen Elizabeth Share Tea

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That was from Right Sayeth Froderick

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you go to Tesco you’ll come back with BOGOF veggies that’ll end up in the bin, chocolate hobnobs that were on sale, some new clothes, a mini electric pump cos it might come in useful - and nothing you went into Tesco to buy 🤣

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My cousin is an award winning theatre & TV producer + director. I asked him what led to his (quite honestly unexpected given our family history) success, he said something like “my medium is light, dark & colour. I know how to make them look good” End of the day,that’s all that cinema is.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not taxing dividends & no capital gains tax on foreign investors is just madness. Sure, offer a predictable & reasonable return for foreign investors-but not a buckshee trough. FFS, offer tax free Energy Bonds to UK individual investors! Raise capital internally for the renewables shift.

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Its Not Rocket Science Funny Astronaut

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unfortunately those imbeciles & cowards hide behind both the brave & honourable US military- as well as *real* Nazis like Proud Boys, ICE etc. I don’t know which I’d prefer first; the collapse of the Russian Federation or the collapse of USA. Both are far closer than folks realise.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know it terrifies many Western politicians (v.few of which remember the Cold War let alone were military)-but I genuinely dream of the collapse of the Russian Federation. To me, it’s the only way to ensure a peaceful future for my kids without fear of “crazy Ivan” & his imperialist ambitions.

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Boney M - Rasputin Dance

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m pretty confident in my nutritional bioscience;nobody *needs* carbs-but do need protein & fats.I love my carbs btw,pizza-yum! Humans do gluconeogenesis in the liver from both protein & fats.Humans also thrive on ketones,which are produced in absence of carbs Many feel better/clearer in ketosis

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pete would be scared to have his hair ruffled & makeup smudged. God forbid, maybe even a broken nail! He infuriates me.Covered in “tough man” tattoos-he’s a sheep in wolves clothing. He’d piss his pants & throw women & children in front of him if shit kicked off. A plastic Nazi,not even real Nazi

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 07/10/2026

Captain Murca – aka the Testosterone Top-Up Toddler – should just grow a pair.

Hegseth Toughened the Fitness Test to Prove Women Couldn't Meet the Men's Standard. More Than 90% of Female Combat Marines Are Passing

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As my dad said-11 yrs military then 37 years civil cop;”it’s not the size of the dog in the fight-it’s the size of the fight in the dog”. Once saw a 5’3” skinny female Scots cop down a 6’+ heavy bloke & have one hand in cuffs b4 he hit the ground. 5’0” lass knock out cold a lad 2x her size,1 punch

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was a martial arts instructor for 15 years, for a tough & quite lethal discipline. Guys can be brutal,but can *never* be as vicious as a woman.Tiger mama instinct. During 1st Dan grading with international board of a female friend, I heard gasps & “fuck me” from the panel as she went feral.

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unpopular opinion,but I have an academic background in psychology where my strong point was “hard” neurobiology. At some point humanity will classify “authoritarian/right wing” as a disorder. It falls into many DSM-V categories such as delusion, lack of empathy,cognitive dissonance & many others

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Boy Playing Banjo from Deliverance

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In exactly the same the Ketamine Kid gave the Nazi salute - twice - in front of the entire planet. Thing is, they’re sheep dressed as wolves. Hegseth has the tattoos of a hard man, but needs a full Hollywood make-up room. If shit hit the fan, they’d be throwing women & children to save themselves

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Us Cold War lot were just happy to make it to the next major holiday without being vaporised. As said before, I had a 6 yr old cousin who said “we’re all going to die when the bomb drops”. At least you Millennials got through childhood before nihilism kicked in 🤣

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Kaboom Nuke: Massive Explosion

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OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I spent 4 yrs at Uni doing combined BA+Masters in Mgmt,with joint BA in Psychology. The defining difference wrt “automation” of any kind is;does it reduce the human to being a *part* of the system,or does it *augment* the work of the human. AI,like many tools,can be used for both. Choose wisely

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