Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I bet all those idiots buying internet connected appliances are enjoying finding out some 17 year old can now defrost their fridge remotely like happened to French supermarkets. But being able to remotely check if you have milk without opening the door was worth it right? Tech stupidity ftw 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cat owners are as bigger twats as their pets. Bengal cat just killed 2 young squirrels in the garden while screaming 6 year old watched on. When she tried to stop it the cat has clawed her Keep your boody pets in and stop them wandering into other people's gardens 020
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Somebody explain to the fplks cheering a Reform proposed personal allowance rise that they will pobably end up spending the same amount when the £80bn services cuts takes out the stuff they need and they have to pay commercial rates 010
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The whisky list in Wunderbar Taormina was extensive 010
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Today Americans celebrate Independence Day when Americans inc George Washington refused to pay taxes to help with the 7 years war debt, a war started by a shot fired by George Washington... 020
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Why do I get the feeling the DIP drones announcement is the new attrib a capability to something and say cheaper so can cut elsewhere 010
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Over on other social media Reach Media and Daily Express as pushing bullshit that pensioners will be charged 20% income tax on their state pension and gullible pensioners are going apeshit. This is why just banning kids from SM achieves nowt 010
Reposted by Phill DixonChris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026No , Natural England aren't looking to kill all the Dartmoor ponies , as disingenuous politicians across the political divide would have you believe . A lot of hysteria about this news story over the past few days – well and truly debunked here . . . www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/ponies-...dartmoornature.org.ukPonies, Dartmoor and fake newsThere’s been a deluge of misinformation recently about ponies on Dartmoor. Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s Tony Whitehead looks at the origins and potential impacts of the current “pony campaigning". He st... 529779
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Sustainable transport thought- we have masses of canals in this country with limited traffic on them. Autonomous electric canal barges with a single crewman for locks ( until pay automate infra) every 5 or 6 barges. Slow, steady and green for non-perishable loads. Could run 24/7 too 120
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026FFS just ban Twitter if they can't act to remove Doxing of 2 police officers 010
Reposted by Phill DixonDoctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026We have supported children to get a correct age assessment after they were wrongly assessed as adults by the Home Office. These are not decisions for AI systems. Age assessments must be human and expert-led. No child should be stripped of the protections they need.theguardian.comCharities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekersCoalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities 0138
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026When someone makes a statement that companies 'just want your details' and when you explain thst breaches GDPR they tell you loads of companies do it and its legal... you explain no its not and they have a meltdown its like arguing with a sponge! Honestly supposed intelligent ppl and ignorance 020
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Given the negative comments about young peopleafter the Alan Milburn report, mostly from older eople and pensioners itsprobably a good idea to remind them without young people paying tax the state pension ceases to exist. They 'paid in all their lie' for the people retired before them 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Failure Gullis seeks to shaft his community. Remember he said he was unemployable after being voted out www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNewcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council axes net zero plansNewcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council also plans to rescind a climate emergency declaration. 010
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Another day wasted on politicians desperate to position themselves and not getting that the more of this circus the more people think politicians aren't interested in improving the lives of public just their own job prospects. Slow hand clap 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Watching the political car crash that is the factions in Labour vying to do wat best suits their preferred leadrship contender over any national interest and filling papers, hiding all those Reform councillors that are having to resign / be suspended or in one case may not exist. Toryshambles mk2 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026And the Labour self indulgence begins - what the country wants another leadership contest and rife infighting FFS. Morphig more into crazy Tory days each passing moment 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Overheard in cafe yesterday - two pensioners saying tax is state theft then complaining about potholes and UK not paying decent state pension... Because billionaire owned press has convinced people taxes are bad 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Today a contact passed my details to a woman who found 3 dead small fox cubs in her garden. Expecting poisoning or something similar found 3 cubs covered in scratches dead - and her bengal cat playing with the bodies as she tells me he never bothers the wildlife... No poisoning just dumb cat owners 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026@tanktales.bsky.social You recently commented om the SDR discussion on here being positive. Side note am also seeing what I believe is Treasury placed pushback against Lord Robertson and Fiona Hill. Note how quickly folks with no understanding of SDR were directed to his jobs as if a revelation or 200
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Its amazing how many people when shown they are actually completely ignorant of the thing they are spouting off on have to generate a fake bogeyman and then block 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Imagine you are a shot down aircrew and during your descent to terra firma the thought the asshat in charge of Pentagon made a big 'no quarter will be given' speech a short while ago... That's why shit for brains people cost lives 0489
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Who knew that a guy with a crusader cross symbol and pontificates about God being on his side would blunder into the Middle East clueless and cause havoc... 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The amount of people on this platform that are no better than the Twitter types is getting ridiculous. Same level of brain death but think they are geniuses 000
Reposted by Phill DixonIan Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Where the clothes you give to charity shops or recycling bins really end up - my report from Ghana on the destructive impact of fast fashion and clothes dumping mol.im/a/15669611mol.imWhere old clothes you donate or put in 'recycling' REALLY end up'You pull the net and it is heavy so you think you have a lot of fish - but when it comes up you see a lot of this rubbish, the clothes, mixed up with maybe small fish.' 094
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026There is a telling moment in original Arnie The Running Man film where a crappy TV host asks his oft insulted bodyguard to protect him and gets told he's 'off to pop some steroids' instead of savinghim from his comeuppance Can't think why Trump thretening NATO allies then being told to FO reminds me 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Somewhere in an Emirates lounge I have created what can only be termed a kit explosion 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Italy deserved to win that, they must be absolutely gutted #IREvsITA 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026If anyone wants to complain about the NHS and wants a Farage insurance setup I can show them the £275 referral fee I've just had to pay for a consultation before I've even been looked at... this is with the NHS dentists providing all Xrays, etc... for a single £30 NHS visit.. 011
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026FFS Wales I'm annoyed for you at this. The off field mess is bad enouh for a proud rugby nation but boneheaded antics costing 2 in the bin #Rugby6N #ENGvWAL 110
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This French side are looking ominously dominant #Rugby6N #FRAvIRE 010
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Pandora's box level 1 opened - the exped boxes slowly being emptied into duffel bags... Exped countdown started #kitexplosion 010
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026When a Trustafarian who bought a RED and calls themselves an expert tries to explain how they are right by saying how expensive their watch collection is 😂 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026#Craghoppers seem to be having a nightmare with their sizings atm. Worn them for 25 years and tried on 3 different pairs of 32" trousers and only 1 was actually 32". GF is size 12 in Rab and Montane and older Craghoppers kiwi trousers, couldn't get the 12s or 14s on except in zip offs which then 100
Reposted by Phill DixonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards. 2182198703
Reposted by Phill DixonFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 22/01/2026My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring. I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter. 51716232
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I know its easy and they acknowledge it themselves but FFS this a story that answers its own questions inc 'fitness influencer' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Also doing the Yorkshire 3 Peaks is not adequate exp for the mountains FFS BBC. One is an endurance trail, the other a knife edge arete routebbc.co.uk'Overconfident' young men prompt multiple rescues from Yr WyddfaLlanberis Mountain Rescue Team say winter weather can turn a manageable day extremely dangerous. 110
Reposted by Phill DixonPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The government is announcing a raft of animal welfare measures that include a ban on trail hunting, claiming they're just a smokescreen that masks the hunting of real animals. Chris Packam talks to Good Morning Britain 👏 47629176
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025So unexpectedly ran into someone I haven't seen in 10 years since hemoved to Spain. Listening to the anti-immigrant bollocks and views he has gained from watching GB News from Malaga myself and all mates agreed happy he's been missing 10 yrs and hopefully gone another 10. The cherry ontop was him 100
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Bunch of photographers having photo club dinner evening and it was like the pub bore club unleashed hearing them wang on about system X or Y being no good and all the excuses. If you cannot take a half decent photo with any major manufacturer's camera released since 2012 the issue is not the camera 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025It is the 21st Century and I'm having to drive a letter to a dr surgery because the NHS still sends out letters instead of emails to GPs and the one detailing an important change of meds for parent got lost in post... 010
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025If I hear one more 'they want the army to fight with one arm tied begind their back' because of a war crims investigation into potential extrajudicial killings will slap that person with a bloody rules of war VHS. Its a war crime whoever does it 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025One thing missed in all the 'we are punishing fat cats' talk of salary sacrifice is a lot of private sector pensions went here and quite a few 30 somethings I know who never had pensions got told only way could retire is by putting half their age in as % of salary... That blows the new cap 110
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Just watched Evri driver drop item over gate without even opening it. I'm in, I'm expecting delivery, not even troubled the doorbell 110
Reposted by Phill DixonSJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 21/11/2025UK government consultation alert. Details are in the linked website. 21111
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Joined up thinking NHS rant no god knows how many. MDS prepacked meds a requirement for most care companies... most pharmacies opting out as too time consuming and costly... those that do have waiting lists. GPs & soc serv recommending MDS for patient + carers Round and round the circle we go. 000
Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Evri delivery to 'secure location' supposed to be 6.30-8.30pm realy 11pm so spent night in frost Was in and up they just don't care 020