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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What did Esther Rantzen ever do for us? Entertainment, Investigative Journalism, Rear Seatbelts, Organ Donation, Safer Playgrounds, Childline, Silverline, and worked hard to try to bring assisted dying into the UK, to name but a few. RIP to the Queen of Television journalism.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who has been part of #7up, thank you for sharing some insight into how you've got on. Although we won't see you in seven years time, good luck. #70up

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Currently wondering which of the (many) guys in #70up Hegseth would consider real man enough for the US Army. Thank Goodness for being British!

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Peter #70up

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Ailo @airavn.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s been 8 years since we published our report on how Google tricks people into extensive location tracking, and simultaneously filed complaints against Google. Today the decision from the Irish Data Protection Commission arrived: a €400 million euros fine. www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/d...

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Google Fined €403 Million Following Consumer Council Report

Google has been fined €403 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission after the Norwegian Consumer Council exposed how the company manipulated users into accepting extensive tracking.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On isolationism. If you like your Aussies sweary, this works nicely.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKn Fantastically detailed knight's parade armour at the Grand Masters Palace, Malta.

Photograph of Grand Master Alof de Wignecourt's parade armour at Valletta.

This is certainly the finest exhibit in the Palace Armoury collection. This full armour includes a reinforcing gardbrace, a guard-a-rein, a shield and a horse's demi-chanfron. The entire surface is covered with the finest 'azzimina' damascening in pure gold and silver. The ground is blued to further juxtapose the damascening. The profusion of rich ornamentation consists of horizontal bands crossed by straps of arabesque scrollwork. Spaces enclose various arms trophies, musical panoplies, fruit and flowers arrangements, all suspended on drapery festoons, the whole presenting a striking scale-like effect. Two motifs clearly allude to the owner, the richly damascened fleur-de-lys, and the Wignacourt family coat-of-arms. Despite its intended use for parades, the armour is still very functional and designed to offer maximum protection in combat.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For my American friends suffering under the yoke of idiocy, you're not alone. £2.13 for a litre of diesel. That's $10.31 a gallon. Admittedly, this is at a motorway service station and the free market means that prices are higher than average when one is just adjacent to the motorway but ouch!

Photograph of the fuel sign outside a Shell Welcome Break petrol station. The illuminated figures indicate the price of petrol/gasoline per litre as 194.9 pence and for diesel fuel 212.9 pence.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tonight's rabbit hole was Simon & Garfunkel both singing Sound of Silence, after seeing a recording of Paul Simon from 2011.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible Mildly Spicy Chilli Peppers

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"by the time life did become unbearable, I was too physically fragile to make the journey and go through the Dignitas process." This is similar to my mum's situation: mum has regularly talked about Dignitas but felt "now" was always too soon. Now is already too late. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Esther Rantzen says she is too fragile to travel to Switzerland to end life

The broadcaster and campaigner says she missed her chance to go before living with cancer became "unbearable".

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As one who is a yet-to-be disabled, very vanilla member of society, it is shocking that attitudes to disability and race have decayed so much over the last 10-20 years. I have believed so much in enabling equality that it is horrifying to be able to corroborate what Mik talks about.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sometimes a stile looks like it could be a portal to somewhere special. @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Wooden stile east of Great Oxendon in Northants. In the foreground it is shaded from trees. Beyond the stile, which is in the middle of the picture, is a green field and bright sunshine.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've put on a long-sleeved shirt for the first time in months today, after a summer of scraping around to find enough short-sleeved shirts to get through the week. Very, very weird.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Eighteen Ronnies

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: Twelve Disgruntled Men

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Next year! My own tan suit day has always been Easter Tuesday, as the first day back in the office at the beginning of the better weather. Doesn't matter if it's still March unless the forecast is for rain.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BBC News - Hackers steal data from millions of UK airport customers - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Why anyone needs to collect data for a WiFi is beyond me. The parking data could be used to target break ins to find & steal posh cars.

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Hackers steal data from millions of UK airport customers

About 8.7 million customers had their data accessed and a ransom was demanded.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

12% by volume and absolutely gorgeous! Can't really see the TV this evening! "Dried fruits, liquorice, Christmas cake and molasses" in a rich stout. Tell me that's not medicinal.

Photograph of "Society For The Encouragement Of Virtue" rum barrel aged imperial stout 2024 brew 12.0% by volume.

The 2025 brew is just 10% by volume but almost as good. I think I shall have to get used to the 2025 brew.

Available from Round Corner Brewing, Melton Mowbray, including by DHL delivery. I don't get paid by RCB but I probably should.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Calm down by the canal this evening. Grand Union Canal, Glen Parva, Leicester. The canal appears full, with the lock gates replaced in 2019 letting only a small stream sneak through.

Photograph of lock no 37, Grand Union Canal at Glen Parva.

The surface of the water is like glass, reflecting the green and yellow leaved trees almost perfectly.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Made it! @jonpountney1.bsky.social Posted this on Tuesday but it seems not to have posted, so I'm reposting it.

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Richard Johnson @richard0x4a.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For an English person, it’s like being welcomed home after a long absence.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I wrote about the Eleanor Crosses, which commemorate the life of Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, who died in 1290 - and about @historyalice.bsky.social’s brilliantly engaging book about her walk along the route of the Crosses (a route I plan to walk myself next year).

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The Eleanor Crosses, Part 1

The story of the Eleanor Crosses, which commemorate the life of Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I, and a review of Alice Loxton’s book ‘Eleanor’.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

an island for writers is really a "peninsula"

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That's the problem with English libel law. It's rational to give in to bullies because if you fight and win, you can still lose. Andrew is crowdfunding to raise enough money to fight for his costs. If you can afford it, please consider donating. www.crowdjustice.com/case/andrew-...

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGrand The entrance gate of late 13th century Castell Cydweli, Sir Gâr.

The photograph shows a tall square stone built castle from the late 13th century. A rounded entrance tower is seen on the right.

The photograph shows the tall entrance gate of a stone built castle from the late 13th century, with a wooden bridge to the gateway.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

RNLI Poppit Sands Very nearly Back To The Future.

Photograph of a beach with a white pickup near the distant shoreline; red-amber flags stand next to the pickup. Two straight parallel blue lines run to the tyres through damp sand, like a watery Back To The Future.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A first time Rothno, the jetty lamp at the mouth of the Ystwyth. #notrothko

Photograph of the base of a grimy white and green striped harbour lantern on a concrete plinth.

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jodywillis.bsky.social @jodywillis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Stood on Weymouth beach, all the (sea)gulls came back in from the sea. The crowd clapped - I’m not sure for whose benefit. But it was a strange shared experience.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphermeral A late entry this week, a rather handsomely carved melon.

Photograph of a melon carved into a rose. The heart of the melon is red with a cream edge and a green surface to the fruit. The background is a grey restaurant table and blue chair.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Managed to escape mum for a few days last week and went to see my dad for the first time in 2 years. He was pretty good and very happy to have a visitor to watch Interceptors, Lewis and Midsomer Murders with.

Photograph of an elderly man in a reclining armchair, watching "Interceptors" with Norwegian subtitles. Behind the TV, the walls are busy with drawings, paintings, photos, a clock and a banjo.

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Richard @rchdnv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Good luck finding a bank or library! Maybe better to consider charity shops and hairdressers!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

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