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Red Pete

@redpete.bsky.social
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Freelance software engineer currently retired/between contracts. In a previous life, a chemist. Cryptic crossword addict

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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Brilliant choice, but if FIFA call, don't answer
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ProdnoseAsWas @lordshortcake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer, who I knew and really liked, made up huge swaths of his academic life and achievements. Even styled out his prison era. He is being now portrayed as an endearing rascal. Except. Wasn't there a fantasist recently who was hounded to the grave for just such lies?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well we've had D and now R. How long before RVO?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BBC News - Speedboat killer jailed for attack on girlfriend www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Released on licence by the Tory government, just sayin'
bbc.co.uk
Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd jailed for attacking his partner
Jack Shepherd was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court after previously admitting the violent assault.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm... Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president' - BBC News That confirms it, we're doomed
bbc.co.uk
Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president'
Stock markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says AI development should be slowed "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sorry to be pedantic but did she mean except and not accept?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Man, you've changed 😉
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Who cleans the robot's panels?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's not the fact that 67% disapprove, I just don't understand how 33% can approve!
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Right up there with Clinton's "I didn't inhale" and Starmer's "I had a good time".
theguardian.com
‘I wasn’t even listening,’ Farage says of donations scandal meeting
Reform UK leader maintains innocence in overseas funding controversy on last day of party conference
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anyone remember Sam Allardyce?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BBC News - UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Over to you flat earthers
bbc.co.uk
UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sadly yes. There are many stupid people around
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Was friends with Dr Dark when he lived locally who wrote for Nascom magazines. He wrote a version of Othello for the N2. I remember being jealous of his Pluto graphics board and some form of inkjet printer in the early 80's. I had a young family to support so could afford neither!
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Colossal Cave Adventure on Nascom 2 via 1200 baud cassette from Syrtis Software. If you did too it's likely I made the tape, Mike Evis had a Nascom 1. He used Huffman encoding for the text and told me the '&' took many bits (>10 IIRC) but there was only 1 of them!
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I don't need no drugs to calm me
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Read it. Half way through "Year of the Rat", another compulsory reads
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
People died so that workers could have weekends and an eight hour day, but the fight is never over. Luckily we are standing on the shoulders of future generations who came before us.
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Goddess Chloe is the Sweetest Cat 🐈‍⬛ 🥳👸🏽 @scurvy00.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As we burn
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Spoiler alert... It's not
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not sure you are alone but I feel your pain
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Wild West🦬 @jb360.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Unbelievable scientists do it again…. mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer shows remarkable potential in clinical trials. Let’s hope this is a big win.. one of my best friends died of pancreatic cancer… science & vaccines save lives and expand human life expectancy #VoteBlue and get vaccinated
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 😡🤬
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mine ended in 1967! I too dislike the sex/gender bigotry.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Remind me again which candidate is anti-establishment
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Jen 🐦‍🔥 @jen4man.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters
They say ‘the machines of the future’ will be as smart as people…Oak, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
While we're at it, remove charitable status too!
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
No need for nuclear weapons, they've just proved you can hold the world to ransom by closing the Strait of Hormuz. Nice work Donald, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 12/06/2026
Britain was promised sovereignty. Instead, Starmer stands alone with a flyswatter while Trump, Putin, Xi, Musk and Thiel circle overhead. Europe built a shield. Brexit left us exposed. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 #RejoinEU
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Belfast knife suspect won asylum in Britain under 'fast-track' scheme introduced by UK Tory govt. Then home secretary Suella Braverman and immigration minister Robert Jenrick – who have both since defected to Reform - oversaw the introduction of the scheme. They have a few questions to answer.
dailymail.com
Belfast knife suspect won asylum in Britain under 'fast-track' scheme
Hadi Alodid was given permission to stay in Britain after completing a 10-page Home Office questionnaire rather than undergoing the standard face-to-face interview process.
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
+++ The remaining people still alive from the Sgt. Pepper's album cover +++ #TheBeatles #sgtpepper #peterblake
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Cartoon showing a man on a branch. He is cutting it off with a saw, and will fall down with it. A sign reads Brexit reenactment, 10th anniversary celebration.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I heard this on the @mrjamesob.bsky.social show yesterday and today but seeing speak those words takes it to a whole new level.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Possibly because they've reduced overall waiting lists?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
What was it like 5 years ago? My money is on worse.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I hope Christian Erikson is ok, maybe time to call it day?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Illegal?
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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?
bbc.co.uk
Man who stabbed student to death in Cambridge is jailed for life
Chas Corrigan, 22, will serve a minimum of 22 years for the murder of Mohammed Algasim last August.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Wow, thats a blast from the past. Used Forth didnt it?
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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
😆😆
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social recognising the late, great Peter Cook: I'm writing a novel. Congratulations, neither am I
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Looking a bit more like a political donation then.
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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Malhavic777 @malhavic777.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.
@ BobGolen

The speed at which a virus spreads depends on:
1. How dense the population is.
2. How dense the population is.
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This time Trump sent 2, how many have Iran sent?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
He sent 3 stupid religious fanatics to negotiate with 5 clever ones. What could possibly go wrong?
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Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
He has a point but does he mention he represents a group lobbying for US arms manufacturers (The Cohen Group) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief
George Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at ‘historic low’ and two allies are likely to keep diverging
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