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Rich B

@rikub.bsky.social
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Ex-teacher, ex-farmer, ex-Brit, but not expired. Living the good life in 🇫🇮

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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only the view from the swimming pool car park 😄
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
September is called Syyskuu in Finland and literally translates as Autumn moon.
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21
Express Headline:

Twenty-seven young foreign workers hired for every one Brit as immigration fuels unemployment crisis.
Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s, according to a shocking new study.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The flags were up on Saturday for the final events of the school year. Presentations and awards for the final year students. Then many off to parties at home and probably in the garden with sunshine and 25 degrees c in the shade.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Spring has sprung. Change the hour and swap over to summer tyres. Puolarmaari Parkrun, Espoo, starts the season Saturday 4th April.... Next Saturday! #parkrun
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 18/02/2026
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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New photos give glimpse inside Iran’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests
Exclusive: images and testimony from the January uprising, when Iranian security forces are believed to have killed thousands of men, women and children who had flocked on to the streets
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Warmed up to -9 today. Hurrah! The piste basher has been through, which makes Nordic skiing much easier.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's so cold (-18), hence an indoors activity. The studio, and now a museum of the famous Finnish painter Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A strange glow on the horizon. A rarity over the last couple of months in Southern Finland.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We are lucky to have so many swimming pools within 8km of home. This is the newest 50m pool.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 22/01/2026
👉NEW -- Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders by John McEvoy Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-pays-...
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Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders
Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Last week Lux. Where to this week?
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We don't often see a temperature warning symbol so it must be fairly cold 🥶
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 06/12/2025
Criminal gangs have built a mountain of illegal waste by the River Cherwell. The police are calling the mega fly-tipping across the county ‘the new narcotics’. It’s time Labour clean this mess up in Oxfordshire and everywhere else.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Thanks @climateandcap.bsky.social & @blairpalese.bsky.social for listing #ScienceUnderSiege (by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly) on your list of "The best climate books to give and read over the holidays" www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-best-cli...
climateandcapitalmedia.com
The best climate books to give and read over the holidays
Fiction and nonfiction picks (some quite uplifting) for closing out 2025
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Winter tyre time
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref Arron Banks thanked him for it "Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down." - @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
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Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Father's day in Finland and a free coffee and doughnut
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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Dr Talia Abu @drtaliaabu.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Yesterday, I joined a human rights group in Ramallah, the Occupied West Bank, to help Palestinian farmers harvest their olive trees. Then settlers arrived with guns, backed by the IDF, threatened us, and forced us out of the orchard. Violence is surging in the West Bank.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 15/10/2025
The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty
Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 12/10/2025
The Giga Poll shows what Britain really thinks about climate change. 🇬🇧 Find out more at gigapoll.co.uk
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A Russian woman who is not afraid to speak the truth says: “Of course, our great strategist Putin has many “achievements,” but the most outstanding ones, in my opinion, are the following. He replaced truth and reality with wild propaganda.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does. E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Lovely volunteers and a good turnout of runners and walkers today at #puolarmaariparkrun
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Ready at the start line for Parkrun tomorrow, Saturday at 9.20. Cafe and facilities conveniently nearby. www.parkrun.fi/puolarmaari/
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be? youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
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Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Come on BBC! Call this serious journalism. It doesn't show Farage fawning to the Republicans who invited him over. It doesn't show how stupid and inept he looked after direct questions from Democrats. It doesn't show him lying under oath. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Nigel Farage and US congressman clash on freedom of speech
The Reform UK leader has appeared before the US House Judiciary Committee to discuss freedom of speech and online safety laws.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Parkrun Saturday morning activity #puolarmaariparkrun
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 26/08/2025
As we've seen across history, the populist playbook used by Farage is ugly, powerful and incredibly destructive. We know where it will lead if we don't stop it.
youtu.be
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Frustration of running out of gas in Sweden. New bottle on left with different connection to the old Finnish bottle on the right. Why are gas bottles not standardised across the EU?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 12/07/2025
Farage says he’s tough on migration. But he’s offering wealthy foreigners a golden ticket, writes Prof Richard Murphy. Is this really what his supporters are expecting? #BritanniaCard #FarageFraud
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Farage’s dodgy new plan to boost migration into the UK
Reform’s migration plans may be a big surprise to their supporters. Take from the poor and give to the rich
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The BBC and UK MPs all rush to condemn Kneecap and Bob Vylan, meanwhile, Israeli kids sing horrifying state propaganda songs about the “annihilation” of Gaza whilst referring to themselves (white people) as “the pretty and the pure” and nobody says a fucking thing. This shit is chilling.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2025
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Ours is the first study to demonstrate an historical increase (by a factor of three!) in the occurrence of atmospheric resonance, which is associated with many of the most devastating and deadly persistent summer weather extremes in recent years (e.g. Pacific Northwest Heat Dome of summer '21) 🧵
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 16/06/2025
So the millionaire exodus was a complete work of fiction.... built on dodgy data from a company flogging golden passports to billionaires. Henley & Partners spun a PR stunt and the media ran with it. 10,000 headlines later, the truth emerges: less than 0.3% of UK millionaires left. buff.ly/W0MDULn
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Midsummer approaching. Almost perpetual light 🇫🇮🇫🇮
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Plenty of detail here.
opendemocracy.net
These are the wealthy funders who’ve given Reform £5m
Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Great to see Democracy for Sale cited in Private Eye - again! Do sign up to support our independent investigator journalism 😊 democracyforsale.substack.com/subscribe?ut...
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 14/06/2025
A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach. But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.
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Viral video does not show migrants at the beach in Dover – Full Fact
A widely shared clip which contains a voiceover of someone claiming people on a beach are asylum seekers at Dover is misleading.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract. Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal. Here’s how they got it completely wrong. 👇👇
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government
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