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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 · 25/09/2026
Desperately hanging on to the failure, the Brexit they promoted and conned the country to accept
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another runway anywhere in the SE, other than Heathrow, would reduce flight congestion, increase capacity and always provide the alternative bad weather option.
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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 · 14/09/2026
In Finland the far-right have had a role in Government for years because of PR. However, with them now sharing power with only the centre-right all their bad policies, failures, and broken promises are now coming back to haunt them. Their popularity has fallen as they have to take the responsibility
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The dinosaurs went extinct because of rapid climate change. Now another bunch of dinosaurs from a backwards looking country wants to take us all the same way.
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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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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Why is the USA stuck in the past using Fahrenheit? Celcius is so much easier to relate to with water freezing at zero and boiling at 100 degrees C.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
£10 million is surely enough for anyone to live very comfortably for how ever long they live
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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 · 31/05/2026
Last summer we travelled across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands without any connection problems. My wife worked on her laptop as I drove. This became near impossible in the UK with the internet dropping out frequently and bumpy rough roads. UK lags far behind with connectivity
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Wife and I deleted ex-Twitter. Gone! Millionaire owned social and news media has been brainwashing the UK for years. You have to choose not to be influenced by the far-right
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Will there be skirt monitoring police? How's that even practical? It's not as if anyone is having to share a toilet cubicle.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
All they'll do is squeeze their suppliers further. Already farm incomes are depressed and the farmers are struggling to survive. The supermarket oligopoly will be maintaining their profits no matter what.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Tickets too expensive. Trump's world far too hostile to foreigners. We won't even be bothering to watch it on TV, let alone visit in person. 👎
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The message should be..... 1. Insulate the house well first 2. Install heat pump 3. Install solar panels to reduce running costs even further. We have no problems living in Finland with long cold short day winters, BUT the houses are well insulated. Notably even houses in Lapland have solar panels.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The triple lock is the only hope keeping pensions up with inflation. Even then, the UK has one of the poorest state pensions in Europe.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Spend all your working life with a retirement age of 65. Then it gets pushed up to 66 and now age 64, am informed it's going up to 67. It's easy to see how benefits costs are going to increase with more elderly folks physically unable to do the jobs they once did and find an easier alternative.
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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 · 16/02/2026
No taxation without representation led to a revolution!
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
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 · 10/02/2026
A price can not be put on the soft power of the BBC world service. Across Europe we already miss access to BBC Sounds and the varied radio output that gave.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I suspect the HMRC gave early retirement or redundancy to the more expensive staff. The more experienced who could stand a chance of chasing the big boys. Pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
If you live in the country, pay the tax owed there. If a company operates in the country, pay the tax there without these sleight of hand accounting practices transferring it to an off shore business or head office elsewhere.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The USA already controls TicToc, Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Are they not wasting tax payers money for this bribe thanking right-wing organisations for their support?
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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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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Tory party defecating to Reform 💩
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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-...
declassifieduk.org
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 · 21/01/2026
Rantings of a mad man
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A possibility if the legs hold out. Went X country skiing yesterday
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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 · 13/01/2026
HS2b
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The shadow fleet of old tankers, that swap their flag depending on what sanctions their avoiding, need taking off the seas. They are also an ecological disaster waiting to happen with their bad safety record, poor maintenance and dubious insurance cover.
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This shadow fleet of tankers change their flag depending on the sanctions they're breaking. So is it piracy to remove these tankers carrying sanctioned oil? There are also big questions about their insurance and safety condition as they tend to be old ships that should have been scrapped by now.
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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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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Why is a democratic country entertaining a monster instead of arresting him with the ICC warrant?
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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 · 29/11/2025
What happened to the previous Russian interference investigation? Did Boris bury it??
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Winter tyre time
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Rich B @rikub.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Whoever pays the piper calls the tune. The presenter's jobs were on the line, no smirking please. It just proves that GBeebies is an entertainment channel and not serious news
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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
channel4.com
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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