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Ian McCulloch

@pompeymac.bsky.social
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Green Party activist, volunteer archivist and retired librarian in Portsmouth/Southsea. Also occasional driver of a mobile library. Linux fan.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5h
625 New Cosy Crime Novels for Autumn! (My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com)
Title: 625 new cosy crime novels for autumn! (pick one option from each column) 

Column 1: (one option) The.

Column 2: (five options) Chipping-Sodbury, Bishop's Stortford, Kirkby Stephen, Saffron Walden, Melton Mowbray. 

Column 3: (five options) Retired Librarians', Parish Council,Lawn Bowlers', Pub Regulars', Women's Institute.

Column 4: (five options) Murder, Burglary, Littering, Bigamy, Poisoning. 

Column 5: (five options) Investigation Society, Revenge Guild, Detection League, Punishment Club, Inspection Unit.
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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 4h
Before you laugh at this level of fucking idiocy. This mindset is alive and well in the UK with followers of Farage, Lowe and Yaxley-Lennon
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 4h
The dirty secret is that rich people need to live in politically stable regimes in order to keep their wealth. They will piss and moan about taxes, but they will not flee en masse. They like paved roads and not being kidnapped too much.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Maybe the most amazing aspect of the Russo-Ukraine War is that Russia is getting backing from both China and the USA, the two largest powers of the moment--and Ukraine could still emerge triumphant as long as Europe backs it stoutly.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Doctors' code for "Doesn't appear to be making it up". I usually get pleasant, as in "a very pleasant Liberian gentleman". He must have asked what I did for a living, then couldn't read his own handwriting.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2026
“Burnham wouldn’t be there without Zack, because we won four times as many votes from Labour as Reform.” Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward, on BBC Newsnight, discussing Zack Polanski’s influence on moving Labour to the left.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You know it's right anyway, now there's evidence that it works.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This will be close. Greens can win!
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The idea is that insisting on either one or the other of those outcomes is colonialist, whereas leaving it to the people who actually live there to decide which is best for them is supporting self-determination (a core part of Green Party philosophy up until now).
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can't think of any event in the last 15 1/2 years that would lead me to think this is a problem
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 03/10/2026
The pope holding a baseball bat in front of a burning data centre with the text "I like the pope, the pope smokes (dope crossed out) data centres".

Because he said ai art is shit
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nigel Farage has been very vocal about people who might have been terrorists and who might have had a theoretical bomb, but when an actual terrorist detonates an actual bomb in London he seems to have gone quiet. What could the difference between them be? www.lbc.co.uk/article/reti...
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Retired engineer, 64, was 'motivated by terrorism', judge says as he is jailed for 16 years over ULEZ camera bombing | LBC
The blast sent shrapnel flying more than 100 metres, causing damage to a nearby van, the window frame of a child’s bedroom and the passenger side of a passing car.
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you have something important to say in a meeting.
A cat's paw reaching up from under a table.
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Climate breakdown and replacing fossil fuels with renewables wasn't mentioned in Burnham's address to conference. He's left the confirmation that he'll allow more North Sea drilling until after the Holborn & St Pancras by election. Pandering to vested interests again. Vote #Green 💚💚
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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) is at FantasyCon 2026 @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Living on an Orange March route is what made me understand why the military have marching bands. They are designed to invoke a lingering sense of terror in stages by instrument, and then by lyrics. Noone should be forced to hear hundreds of people singing joyfully about spilling their blood.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour already have a huge majority. Another Labour MP putting Thames Water "on notice" isn't going to lower our water bills or protect our rivers. Nationalise Thames Water. Vote Green on October 8th. 💚
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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Cowleyforniadreaming @holybollards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t you love it when there’s a public awareness campaign about how we can individually save water by taking shorter showers when our water companies lose 25% of freshwater to leaks and the government says data centres are Critical National Infrastructure?
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cllr Vernon-Jackson announced he's bringing a motion to the next Council meeting to give the freedom of the city to the RNLI, to a chorus of boos from the gallery.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Meeting now resuming. Most of the hecklers seem to have been removed.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I really must learn how to do threads on BlueSky.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mayor calls a ten-minute break after prolonged heckling and abuse from the gallery.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Deputation stopped again while the Mayor tells those shouting at the deputee that the meeting will be cancelled if they continue to disrupt.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Break in proceedings while City Solicitor explains how the deputation works to those shouting from the gallery. All already detailed at the start of the motion. Speech in favour starts again.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
First speaker against the motion being repeatedly shouted down from the gallery. Three warnings given so far.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tory councillor from Havant saying that Portsmouth City Council has signed up as a city of sanctuary, "and that is your burden".
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cockleshell Heroes klaxon.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two more deputations talking about locals worried about the illegal immigrants.
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ant Middleton currently giving a deputation in favour of Reform's emergency motion to the council seeking the prevention of small boats landing in Portsmouth. Talking about illegal immigrants, and how we need a Reform govt. democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Remember this story when people tell you that compliance is just red tape, bureaucracy and adds no value. Can we now also have an informed policy discussion about correspondent banking vulnerabilities and KYC?
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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom took time out from attending the United Nations General Assembly today to send a message to Danny Dyer but not to Danny Tommo. This is what we’ve got and where we are.
Burnham responds to Danny Dyer after actor’s expletive-laden rant about PM
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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A lot of people are still at the stage of wailing "Why won't Labour do or say anything to STOP this" but they need to once and for all face the fact that Shabana Mahmood is kicking herself over the fact that the person filmed doing this should have been her.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are the Royal Family public servants or not? And if they are, then why do they have a blanket exemption on rules that others have to follow? In July I introduced a Bill to end outrageous Royal exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act. You can read it here: bills.parliament.uk/bills/4267
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Alastair Harper @alastairharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thomas Edison in 1910. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves on this net zero business, lads
Someday some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire.
I'll do the trick myself if someone doesn't get at it....
This scheme of combustion in order to get power makes me sick to think of—it is so wasteful.... We should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel.
We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it cannot be destroyed.
Now, I am not sure but that my new storage battery is the thing. 167
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Had a successful trip to the charity shop today. I gave them three books, and only bought two.
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Portsmouth Greens @pompeygreens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Green MP Hannah Spencer told The Guardian’s Business live blog: “we need rent controls now, and council homes built at scale. Families in my constituency and across the country can’t afford to wait any longer." www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
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UK rents accelerate as London house prices fall, and inflation rises to 3.1% – as it happened
Soaring motor fuel costs have pushed UK inflation to a five-month high in August
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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t understand the hand-wringing reaction to claims that nueral networks have a 10% chance of destroying civilisation. Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event. Maybe we could address that?
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Portsmouth Greens @pompeygreens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can help Zack get elected... from the comfort of your own home. RSVP via linktr.ee/PortsmouthYo...
Want to help make history on your lunch break? Join the Young Green phone-banking takeover next Wednesday to help get Zack elected from your sofa... or office... or wherever you fit at lunchtime! No experience needed!
We all know London's calling, now we need you to get calling for London! Every person we speak to, every volunteer we mobilise, gets us one step closer to getting Zack elected!
RDVP via https://linktr.ee/PortsmouthYoungGreens
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Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Perfect! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Martin Rowson on King Charles, Earl Spencer and a row over Diana’s memory – cartoon
The brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales has claimed that King Charles sounded ‘giddily elated’ in a phone call to him after her death
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The BBC’s “Earl Spencer, who shares his first name with the King” is giving me strong 👇 vibes
A picture of a lion with the words “CNN reports that, according too senior park official, Cecil the lion's brother Jericho, who is also a lion, was killed on Saturday in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.” The words “who is also a lion” are highlighted
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