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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 9h

I thought cerebral was a disqualification in the Tories. All thinkers were kicked out by Johnson. "Girly swot" was the phrase he used. And that was against Cameron - hardly a towering intellect, but head and shoulders above anything in the party today.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13h

I bet those gold trimmings didn't come from a Hobbycraft spray can - like the whore's bedroom themed Oval Office.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13h

It's not what she said. But if she said they were going to use the money to feed kittens it's still a proscribed organisation. The merits of the proscription is another matter - but today it is so payments destined for them are stopped at source.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 14h

Implicit is all we have. If Trump notices he could do the work of a thousand Russain bot farms with three phone calls. We would be as weak as new born kittens if UK iPhones, Google, Android and Windows computers found themselves cut adrift.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 14h

I say the banks won't - they can't - it's illegal with criminal sanctions for the bank and staff.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 14h

It's not the publisher directly but banks won't move money they suspect is destined for a proscribed organisation. If the publisher tried they could find themselves complicit and with no bank account.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 21h

Is it richer or just more unequal?

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 21h

Between this and Starlink being throttled it's time for the UK and EU to call a spade a spade and declare the US a power, hostile to Continental European interests. But we can't because we are overly dependent on US tech. Three phone calls from the WH and we would be on our knees within 24hrs.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Not in most of England you don't.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I had a card fraud call when I was out one day. I said, nice as you like "Thanks for letting me know, put your extension no on my customer file and I'll call you back from my landline in a few minutes". The dog's abuse I got. He ended up swearing and screaming at me!

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So will that be the "I want a blue passport" brigade back in the rejoin camp?

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wonder if he'll take a hit from the Russain bots no longer replying and reposting his shit?

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How much of Johnson's reluctance is related to his off the books meetings with known KGB agent Lebedev Sr when Foreign Secretary and the enablement of Lebedev Jr?! He can trumpet his support for Ukraine but his possible undermining the of UK needs to be looked into.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That is exactly what I said when I was watching Time on iPlayer last night. About a different part of the system but equally applicable to all parts. It's about punishment and degradation. Justice and rehabilitation costs too much apparently despite the benefits.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wikipedia is just there. Well known. Trusted (with caveats). Open to anyone to write, edit and upload articles on any topic. Why try and start a rival when the incumbent would welcome your contributions adding to the sum of human knowledge and filling gaps?

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Maybe companies and governments will realise that much of the engagement they were seeing on X is in fact bots and not customers and voters and realise the cost of leaving X will not be as high as they thought.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

According to Farage £5m into his bank account weeks before an election is not interference, so it's quite a high bar he sets

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Due to falling birth rates schools in most areas are struggling to fill their places just now.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

All the more reason for the council to support the plan to reduce their housing waiting list...but hey ho. Councillors will not have heard from them, but they will from the house owners on the edge of the land and who don't want to lose their dog walking area.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And what about the 660 future occupiers - were they consulted or represented in the planning process? Of course not. Nimbys 🤢🤮

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So you'd stand aside and watch a friend self harm?

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unfortunately the biggest users of the rights bestowed upon them support the government and would join in this tyrannical government opressing the others.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Teff is naturally GF - but...a very big but - it is grown on rotation with or alongside non GF grains and harvested, milled and processed with shared plant & equipment so is very likely to be cross contaminated with gluten. So you should only use GF certified teff and teff products. Same with oats.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

From an employee experience there is a connection between direct and PE ownership, as Mrs Andgrump has found out, with cost cutting, value extraction, product enshitification and preparing for sale to the next PE owner to start the cycle again.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You'll outsell her as long as Tesco stocks toilet paper. But come the next pandemic we'll be rummaging in the remains bin at The Works looking for it.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The US has joined the axis if evil.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes - but it will kill us through ignorance rather than malevolence.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's an old trueism - there are none so blind as those that don't want to see.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Only if it didn't fit him like a couple of potato sacks stitched together. Then it looks cheap, means and nasty. Clothes maketh the man they say!

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

TBH, even for a couple of hundred quid I'd expect my suit to not fit like it was stitched together from a couple of potato sacks. All his money and he's too tight to visit a tailor once a year and have a couple of suits made. Or did he stiff some NY tailors and get blacklisted. Probably.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump acting out Regan's most feared nine words in the English language "I'm from the federal government, I'm here to help." Let's see how this pans out.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And what percentage of London voters will ripping up the Renters Rights act affect?

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Winning is for losers and sellouts.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It always was. There was only a thin veneer of respectability over a broken society and system.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've always contended that Americans are only half civilised. There is a very thin veneer of respectability - but scratch the surface. Permissive gun laws. Death penalty. Penal slavery. Voter suppression. Gerrymandering. All virtually absent in Western democracies but alive and kicking in the US.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My dog found one one night. Went in for closer inspection and a sniff. He touched the spines with his nose and did a Basil Fawlty style backwards leap! After he got the measure of them he used to just pick them up in his mouth and trot off. Would only swap it for a ball.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He couldn't run an effective government with a huge majority and public goodwill behind him (until he managed to lose it), nor could he stop Burnham's rise but he could arrange all that? There are bridges aplenty for sale in La-la Land.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wheat is a globally traded product and Europe uses a lot of N.American wheat. And gluten is gluten. There is celiac and NCGS in Europe. If bread in Europe does not trigger the same effects as in N.America then it's not the wheat or gluten you need to look at. Look at other ingredients.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

More likely the celiac children that would have died young grew into adulthood after GF diets were adopted in the 1950s, passing the gene to the next generation. Same for T1 diabetes from the discovery of insulin 100 years ago.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Soil depletion debukned here. And the depletion in vegetables is not proven. Poor data and different analysis methods make historical comparisons difficult. Not saying malnutrition is not a thing - but it's likely poor diet or other causes (e.g. celiac) rather than the vegetables.

bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Are carrots becoming less nutritious?

Have crops lost nutrients since the 1950s? We dig into the evidence.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Flour fortification is required to replace vital nutrients lost from wheat in the milling process and a bulwark against various diseases associated with a diet dominated by flour and bread and folic acid in particular to reduce birth defects. He wants to make our health poorer. Why? Bastard.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great listen as normal. There *was* something for everyone in Badenoch's speech. Tax cuts for the rich, threats of a kicking for the working age poor and for the rest of us - the frustration of watching middle income voters panicking over an IHT regime that will never affect them. Still nasty.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@mrkennycampbell.bsky.social posting in the early hours is my weekly reminder to refresh my podcast feed at 6am to find the @quietriotpod.bsky.social he has been up all night kicking into shape like Farage kicking immigrants. Or maybe it's done with the love that Badenoch has for crafting tax cuts.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Propagandists. Thats what they are recruiting. Please don't demean your profession by calling these journalists' roles.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Considering IHT is only applies to less than 5% of estates I'd say that is a fairly safe bet. We are talking about the most asset rich estates. Not the ordinary voters - which is why I am constanltly amazed IHT has such a sway on voting.

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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'd question if they opened it at all if they don't show their workings.

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