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Richard Warner

@richardcwarner.bsky.social
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My auto reply to the many DMs I keep getting:- Greetings from Emerald City! I am the great and powerful Oz. I don’t engage in personal chats. If this is a genuine political debate, proceed with context. Otherwise, expect flying monkeys.

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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Tik Tok, tik Tok, tik Tok, stop...
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Just decided to flick onto gb news, haven't watched it for maybe 2 years. They seem to have evolved into an even worse kind of vile. Smelly talking headed men who are misogynistic, homophobic, and basically, vile. Sky and BBC are actually far superior as is ITV and Peston just.
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Nate Higgins 🏳️‍🌈 @natehiggins.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Greens ahead of Reform among young people but the media don’t want to talk about that.
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Look in your own backyard Musk! "Not confined to one country.: US: Catholic Church: 10,000+ victims Boy Scouts: 82,000+ allegations USA Gymnastics: Larry Nassar's abuse of 300+ athletes These cases mirror UK grooming gangs, showing systemic global failures.
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
True to life:
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Yes, it's comical, but it's also disturbing. To spend $6.2 million on a banana when people are in such distress and poverty. How many humans or animals he could have helped. Capitalism at its finest! BBC News - Crypto entrepreneur eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Crypto boss eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m
Justin Sun described Maurizio Cattelan's infamous 2019 work as "much better than other bananas".
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Rishi Sunak and his wife avoiding public scrutiny by changing their company to 'unlimited'... just as David Cameron did ... Seems to be a pattern with Tory Prime Ministers eh? I wonder why..... hmmmmmmmm
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Starmer's meeting with Xi Jinping at the G20, is an effort to diversify it's economy and strengthen bilateral relations. the UK's objective is to have trade ties with major global economies, as in the context of potential shifts in US trade policies under Trump, who has proposed tariffs on imports
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The U.S. has trade and drug tensions. China banned synthetic opioids in 2019, pushing Mexican cartels to source fentanyl precursors from China, producing it in Mexico, and shipping it to the U.S. Proposed tariffs on Mexico could hurt U.S. automakers despite the USMCA trade pact.
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In the '80s, I was in a pub with a jukebox playing 45s. Between great tracks, someone queued 3.5 minutes of a guy talking over a drumbeat—odd, I thought. Weeks later, more tracks appeared: guys rambling, often narcissistic or sexist, over basic beats. It was rap—my unexpected introduction to it.
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Richard Warner @richardcwarner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It must be horrible to be rejected in such a way because of a disability. BBC News - 'Refused service yet again with my guide dog - I'm done speaking out' www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
'Refused service again with my guide dog, I'm done speaking out'
Sean Dilley is inundated with abuse on social media whenever he posts about discrimination issues.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Wow. Kemi Badenoch thought this Harry Enfield sketch of a Tory, the sneering cliche that is Alex Burghart, whose sole claim to fame is being Boris Johnson's Private Secretary during #partygate, shouting his head off at a working class woman would play well with voters, did she? #PMQs
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
- Angela Rayner expresses outrage at PMQs that the Tories could possibly suggest that Labour broke promises on taxation - here’s an FT reminder of the multiple ways in which Labour misled people over taxes www.ft.com/content/07fe...
ft.com
Did Labour mislead UK public ahead of Budget?
Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising measures come after she pledged not to be a levy-hiking chancellor
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 20/11/2024
Alex Burghart at #PMQs: "What is the government doing to bring down inflation?" Angela Rayner: "Many people might not know but [Burghart] was the minister for growth under Liz Truss when inflation was 11.1% and growth flatlined. So we're doing much better than he did!"
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Australian-style ban on social media for under-16s is “on the table” if tech companies don't take action to protect kids. Tech sec Peter Kyle tells Ofcom to be more assertive with firms ahead of new legal powers coming into force in 2025. He suggests UK could “another level of regulation” if not.
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Will Elon Musk's mission to remove waste from US government spending include space rockets and the amount it gives to private companies for them? Or will that somehow be miraculously ring-fenced? (SpaceX signed contracts for $733m just last month).
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A lot of talk again today about the need for economic growth but no mention that the OBR report the government is quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall admits to MPs that the department's own modelling has found cutting winter fuel payments will push 100,000 pensioners into poverty. Ministers previously denied any kind of impact assessment had been done on the policy
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out. #JeremyClarkson
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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 19/11/2024
Repression of dissent continues in Hong Kong. Brave people sentenced to jail. Full story at the link below. www.bbc.com/news/article... #PetText
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Astronomy pictures @astronomers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
These brightly outlined flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale.
These brightly outlined flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale. A telescopic view toward the constellation Cassiopeia, the colorful skyscape features the swept-back, comet-shaped clouds IC 59 (left) and IC 63. About 600 light-years distant, the clouds aren't actually ghosts. They are slowly disappearing though, under the influence of energetic radiation from hot, luminous star gamma Cas. Gamma Cas is physically located only 3 to 4 light-years from the nebulae and lies just above the right edge of the frame. Slightly closer to gamma Cas, IC 63 is dominated by red H-alpha light emitted as hydrogen atoms ionized by the hot star's ultraviolet radiation recombine with electrons. Farther from the star, IC 59 shows less H-alpha emission but more of the characteristic blue tint of dust reflected star light. The field of view spans over 1 degree or 10 light-years at the estimated distance of the interstellar apparitions.

Image Credit & Copyright: Christophe Vergnes, Hervé Laur
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