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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈

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European, Dancer, Ceramicist, Bird watcher, Rust programmer, Python programmer, MBTI = INTJ-T, Views are my own. @dave_port@mstdn.social. DMs by invitation only.

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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 12h
Good morning #Wordle team 😁☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,934 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Three slurps today. Huzzah.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,933 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nearly ended in tears. No tea was harmed in the solving of the puzzle.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,932 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Almost slurped out.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,931 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Where do they get ‘em. Two slurps, but I thought it might have been more.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,930 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ineptitude strikes again. Five slurps.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,929 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 On one of my school reports it said ‘could do better’. Oh! How that phrase has resonated with me over the years. One slurp.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,928 5/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wasted line 3 due to ineptitude. At least 6 slurps of tea consumed. Not good.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,927 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Two slurps of tea.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team. 🧐☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,926 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Strangely, no slurps of tea consumed.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐☕️☕️🥐 Have a good day folks. Wordle 1,925 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was a five slurp puzzle. Think I’ll have a bagel for breakfast as compensation.🥯
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🌞☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,924 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No slurps of tea consumed in the solving of this puzzle.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team. 😁☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,923 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Three slurps today. A bit of a head scratcher.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,922 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Three slurps of tea consumed during the solving of this puzzle. No animals were harmed.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🤭☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,921 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lucky with knobs on. Zero slurps consumed.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Palantir should not have a seat in the house of Lords. Tom Watson shouldn't be allowed to work for Palantir and be a Lord he should be fired ASAP.
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Minnette @minnette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@mattbishopmp.bsky.social
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A balanced view tilted in favour of fossil fuel providers exposed by The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐☕️☕️🥐. Hope you have a great day. Wordle 1,920 X/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 That was a two slurp failure.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team. Have a good day 😎☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,919 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 One slurp of tea consumed.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation. Looking very foolish again, UK.
EU suggestion of Canadian membership

2 of the letters 

Sir, Gerard Baker is right ("Grin and bear it, Andy, and stick with Trump", comment, Sep 18)……

….The problem is that the US is neither as reliable nor as reliably friendly as it once was. If it is willing to impose tariffs on friends, that economy becomes rather less reassuring. If the US prevents the UK regulating to protect our children, those new industries are not as positively transformative as we may have thought. And if Washington no longer thinks European security is its concern, then all that military might counts for little as far as we re concerned. Ultimately, the UK has little choice but to try and limit its dependence on a partner that is far less reliable than it was, and to do so, in part, by working more closely with its European neighbours. Managing this without further irritating the US president must be the ambition.
Anand Menon
Professor of European, KCL; director, the UK in a Changing Europe

Sir, Mark Carney's address to the European parliament was
extraordinarily impressive. It was a vision of what politics can be when it looks beyond the next poll, election or headline. Carney spoke of Europe and Canada building something together based on democracy, freedom, sovereignty and resilience. He offered both a dream and a practical route towards it: co-operation in defence. energy, critical minerals, technology, Al, trade and education. What struck me most was the clarity and scale of his thinking. He spoke of the challenges confronting western democracies but did not simply complain about them: he asked what could be built in response.
His metaphor of the forest was particularly memorable: a single tree mav be brought down by the storm. but a forest will endure because its roots are interconnected. I am 80 and I cannot remember recently hearing a western political leader speak with quite this combination of ambition, seriousness and intellectual clarity.
Thomas Kendall
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🤭☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,918 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just about. Yet another quickie. One slurp of tea consumed.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This might not have happened had the software been written in the Rust language. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Flight chaos caused by millisecond software defect, says air traffic control body
The failure led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers affected.
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Tim 🌱☕️🏉🏏☀️🌧 @timash.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey @jacobcolliermp.bsky.social Please ask the PM why he hasn't treated the black-clad hooligans disrupting ports and RNLI stations as domestic terrorists. Those people are far more dangerous than any supporter of Palestine Action, yet hundreds of those calm people were arrested.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s no good hiding under the seat.🤭
Bench seat with a glove underneath.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🤭☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,917 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hardly engaged brain on this one. Zero slurps of tea consumed.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I love autumn colours.
Hydrangea (I think) showing lovely autumn colour mix of reds and greens.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐🏺🏺🥐 Wordle 1,916 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Another quickie. 0 slurps of tea consumed.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,915 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That’s me done. 1 slurp required so fairly quick.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14/09/2026
When Margaret Thatcher privatised our water, she told MPs to wait and see before judging. Well, we've waited. We've seen (we've arguably seen too much). Now we are judging. Water privatisation has been a monumental failure. Public ownership now
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐😊☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,914 5/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yet another quickie. 0 slurps of tea required.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🤭☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,913 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Another quickie. Solution time was 1 slurp.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🧐🤭☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,912 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Quickie again.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team🤭☕️☕️ Wordle 1,911 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That is so!
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🌞☕️☕️ Wordle 1,910 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A quickie today.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
😂 It's science captain
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😐☕️☕️ Wordle 1,909 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Trying hard to keep a straight face
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Upsetting photo of a sparrow trapped in a fat-ball feeder. Best not to use fat-ball feeders with large enough holes that they can get their little heads through and become entrapped. A sad end of a dear little sparrow’s life.😢
Sparrow trapped in a fat-ball feeder.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🤭☕️☕️ Wordle 1,908 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Better
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The new photo of the Reform ‘team’ from their recent conference should go down well with their supporters…
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
😂
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️ Wordle 1,907 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A close shave
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️ Wordle 1,906 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Better than yesterday.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 🤭☕️☕️ Wordle 1,905 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Tea went cold whilst trying to figure this out. Should have got it sooner as it was a favourite of my mum.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,904 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That’s a good question.
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team 😊☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,903 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The new average ☹️😊
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David Porter 🇪🇺🔸🌈 🐈 @porterd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning #Wordle team.😢☕️☕️🥐 Wordle 1,901 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just not good enough
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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