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Philip Grobler

@philipgrobler.bsky.social
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Occasional curmudgeon. Not a fan of fascism. Solvitur ambulando. 📍Leafy Surrey, England

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Norway’s former Chief of Defence, General Sverre Diesen: “Under the current Trump administration, we cannot consider the United States our ally. Trump’s America is a hostile actor that, in the event of a conflict in Europe, would side with Russia rather than with us and other European countries.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 17h
Is it screaming?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are currently generating 100% of our electricity demand from net-zero sources, with a further 10% being exported (plus 10% more from legacy gas). At a cost of just £8.27/MWh. Yet the Tories and Refuk want to take us backwards to more fossil fuel pollution and higher prices... grid.iamkate.com
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jim 🔥 @jim.chat · 01/10/2026
Privately funded politics is not democracy, it's oligarchy. Full stop.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Banx @banxtoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now without the crop marks
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On Question Time Danny Kruger just explained that our crypto billionaire donors will "get absolutely nothing" in return for their donations. In unrelated news, we plan to cut capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10% and set up a Bank of England Bitcoin Reserve Fund.
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Treat compute, the main ingredient in AI training, like fissile material. Track it and restrict access to quantities large enough to improve AIs beyond known-safe levels. We have real options for verifying compliance with international compute-restriction treaties, without trusting adversaries ...”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am sad that the Bellever Youth Hostel has closed. What a great location in the middle of Dartmoor.
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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
With thanks to all who fought for this right, especially @righttoroam.bsky.social
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
These are the official guidelines with an interactive map of permitted camping areas. Enjoy. www.dartmoor.gov.uk/enjoy-dartmo...
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Camping | Dartmoor
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yes Richard, you can legally wild camp in designated parts of Dartmoor. It’s a real tonic for the soul. This was me three weeks ago.
A tent pitched in splendid isolation on a wild hilltop in Dartmoor with far reaching views across the unusually dry landscape.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it is refreshing to see the latest technology being used to help us through a difficult time, rather than mining our personal data to annoy us, steal our identities, rip us off, and interfere with our elections.
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Ben Jennings on the Bayeux tapestry – cartoon
The medieval artefact, currently on loan from France, has gone on display at the British Museum in London
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“We have stone age emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technology.” — E O Wilson
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/09/2026
Sharpeville massacre, 66 years on: Families still wait for justice aje.news/yh9rdu
Sharpeville massacre, 66 years on: Families still wait for justice
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reminder: we are one of the most nature-depleted corners of this planet, with #biodiversity in a terrible state
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“We’ve been at war for a very long time,” Juma explains. The Amazon “is not just a forest. She’s our mother. She is knowledge, and the cure. They’re invading, stealing our territories. Our sacred place, home of the enchanted, of our protectors, of the animals, and the rivers they are drying up.”
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Art credit @coldwarsteve.bsky.social.
Cold War Steve excels in artistically manipulating photographs and paintings to comment on current political affairs. He first produced this image round about January 2025 in response to certain salutes made by Elon Musk. In this image a 1930s photograph of crowds lining a German street festooned with Nazi flags cheer a parade of vehicles. In the front vehicle - a Tesla - stands not Hitler, but instead Elon Musk, returning the Nazi salutes of the crowd. The remaining fleet of vehicles consists of tank-like Cybertrucks.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 03/09/2026
It’s been 960 years John, you should probably move on.
tweet by John Redwood

As we consider the Bayeux Embroidery we should remember the many killed by this French invasion. English men and women had their lands stolen. Many were put into serfdom by a new Norman governing class.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
MPs now demanding that government releases the full un-redacted national security report on the severe threats from nature collapse. This is a vital debate for the future of this nation. Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #NationalEmergencyBriefing It's #TimeToStepUp
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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cleaning up politics without first cleaning up the press is pretty much exactly analogous to tidying a room without doing anything about the herd of cattle penned therein.
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“America is an oil company with an army.” — George Carlin
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Banx @banxtoons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
From Friday’s @financialtimes.com #storms #climatechange
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's the only global what....?
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“America is an oil company with an army.” — George Carlin
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Man mistaken for messiah ends up singing on a cross.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.
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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Canadian Strait of Hormuz Every ocean going ship from the great lakes must pass through the Welland Canal
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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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kindnessmatters @djdigitalangel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing mural in Southend. Artist still working on it in bottom left of pic.
A massive mural of Sir David Attenborough on the seafront in Southend.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excellent, pugnacious piece by new Environment Secretary @angelaeagle1.bsky.social on defending England from climate impacts by rewilding & restoring nature - explicitly rejecting the arsonists on the hard right & the grouse moor owners who just want to burn more: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Extract from Angela Eagle’s Guardian piece: “But some, including the Conservatives, have made the argument that rewilding lowers resilience to fire and that we should reverse restrictions on burning heather on our moors and peatlands. The exact opposite is true.

The evidence clearly shows that wetter, healthy peatlands hold more water and are less likely to develop species that are vulnerable to fires. The damage that has been done to these vital habitats by decades of burning has made them more vulnerable to wildfires in the long term, not less.

The solution to raging wildfires is not more burning of our countryside. It is to restore and better manage our environment.

Where rewilding has been prioritised, as at the National Trust’s Holnicote estate, you can clearly see the stark difference that it makes to the ability to withstand extreme weather. In areas where rivers and wetlands have been restored, the plants are green and blooming. Elsewhere, the ground is brown and dry.”
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From De Strandharker.. just lovely
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great little series detailing how they got us to this point … www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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How They Made Us Doubt Everything - Welcome to How They Made Us Doubt Everything: The Tobacco Playbook - BBC Sounds
From climate change to smoking, this is the story of how doubt has been manufactured.
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Philip Grobler @philipgrobler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I bet that Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci never imagined his name would be so widely known.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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