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Paddywack Dave

@paddywackarts.co.uk
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Musician Music Producer Teacher of ukulele and more. Community Music Advocate. Angry, Paying Attention. ME/CFS Living in the moment. ADHD Surprisingly; a degree of bright stoicism. paddywackarts.co.uk #LongCovid #ME/CFS #ADHD #Ukulele

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sad to hear of the death of Dame Esther Rantzen yesterday. After writing about her daughter’s ME in the 90s, she received 4,000 letters from distressed patients and their families. She described treatment resembling methods “used in mediaeval days to punish witches”.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Me neither. Me too! #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 01/10/2026
What do the educationalists amongst us think? @mrweir.bsky.social
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Now this I’d like to know! #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 01/10/2026
An expensive education only buys privilege which is intelligence and knowledge agnostic. And no, there are plenty of boomers like me who have no idea. #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Came here to say exactly that! #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
My partner is 66 and was taught how to do it to some heavy dub from #ArcadiaRoots at #daysinthesun festival a couple of weeks ago! #rovingcrows #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Oh! I see what y……. #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Stella #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Brilliant! #TheArchers
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River Cavy ♿️ @rivercavy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Found Lynda in the paper #TheArchers
Lady in tweed holding two llamas with harnesses.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Just right for a wedding reception curry then! #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Yes Jane! I had to check what he said there. Don’t the SWs live with a family tree on the wall above the typewriter!?!? Who is it this week? … and who’s the Editor!? 🙄🙄🙄🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
“Freddie would HAVE!!” Idiot aristos! #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
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Audience Clapping and Applauding
Alt: Audience Clapping and Applauding
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
@thecidershedpod.bsky.social 🤪
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2026
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Chris Pratt's Finger Wag
Alt: Chris Pratt's Finger Wag
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 29/09/2026
We’re going to need more.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 29/09/2026
After the next election, when Labour won’t have a majority.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 29/09/2026
What are our plans for Social Care Zack?
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m one of the 6 million older people who face “retirement” with never ending rent payments, and with limited capacity for work related activity already. I’ll swap a #triplelock for affordable housing and decent end of life care. Living pension? That’s a target, but skewed growth for ever? Nope.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Yes Alex! Quite. For @unitesharon.bsky.social to talk about morality is a stretch given that Unite maintains that its primary duty is to protect the livelihoods of its members working in the manufacturing, maintenance, and security of the UK's nuclear fleet and defense infrastructure. #TripleLock
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From the archive Long COVID Is Being Erased — Again By Ed Yong in The Atlantic 21 April, 2023 “LC is a huge impediment to the normalization of COVID. It’s an insistent indicator the pandemic is not actually over; that policies allowing the coronavirus to spread freely still carry a cost”
theatlantic.com
Long COVID Is Being Erased—Again
What was once outright denial has morphed into a subtler dismissal.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“They’re the victims of this, but then they’re victimised for the sin of having this illness.” George Monbiot on why government and society as a whole need to stop gaslighting people with #MECFS and making them feel they’ve done something wrong.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 29/09/2026
That’s what I said 🤣🤣🤣
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New polling: climate change is back in people’s top priorities
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New polling: climate change is back in people’s top priorities
Persuasion UK has released polling on climate salience following the UK’s hottest summer to date. Climate is now in people’s top five issues.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"One person from UKHSA then told me that even if clean air was cost effective it still might not be beneficial as preventing infections in children might shift infections to the vulnerable and elderly." 😱
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Bad news for Nige 👀
mirror.co.uk
Blow for Nigel Farage as poll finds more than half of voters dislike him
EXCLUSIVE - The Persuasion UK survey found 43% of all respondents, and 72% of 2024 Labour voters, have a positive view o
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Can you remind me what the Starmer comms campaign was? And the sort of things other countries have done? I think I agree completely but I’d welcome clarification 🙏🏻
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 28/09/2026
You’re right. He’s wrong. (Though after well over 50 years I’m now questioning my pronunciation of Roger’s monkey in the Swallows and Amazons books!)
Instructions for the word “gibberish”. They specify a soft “j” at the start.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Voting against one’s own interests doesn’t necessarily make one stupid. The rest is pretty clear though.😊
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Well, I don’t eat meat, but if I did I’d want to eat turkeys that hadn’t been crammed into cages and pumped up like balloons. The Grundy turkeys are pretty free-range aren’t they? Meanwhile, I value my eyesight and stomach lining, so I may stay clear of the cider! #TheArchers
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There may be one or two patriotic millionaires, but there sure as hell aren’t any patriotic billionaires.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Thank you. (It should have a Bluesky account really, but that’ll do). 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
#bbcbh #laurak
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Is that #bbcbh hashtag really a thing?
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Same can be said about @miketapp.bsky.social
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
@uklabour #lab26 #labour26 #YourFirstHome #AngelaRayner
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
@miketapp.bsky.social is Reform chasing and #DannyTommo appeasing. They’re the “emergency”. That’s all. #Dover #BBCbroadcastinghouse
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This person went on GBNews to attack Labour & call for tax cuts but it turns out her parents took out £2.5 million from the business and that is the cause of her problems. But of course, the BBC simply takes her claims at face value because it suits a certain narrative. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bakery owner calls for Budget help for firms
Frankie Dyer has written to the prime minister urging Budget support for businesses.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Well done on #YourFirstHome but there are 6 million older people who face a retirement with exorbitant monthly rent bills or outstanding mortgage. Nobody can advise about #OPSO, and social housing waiting lists are huge. What is being done about them? #bbcbroadcastinghouse #angelarayner #labouruk
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 25/09/2026
What? #TheArchers
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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 25/09/2026
I enjoyed it with garlic mash! #TheArchers
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