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Simon

@squonk61.bsky.social
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Interests in no particular order: Guinea pigs, storks, hedgehogs, Genesis, Beatles, F1, things mechanical. Late diagnosis for ASD, which has been... interesting. planetsi.com

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Latest faux ad collage for the excellent @thenewworldmag.bsky.social out now!
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh my. Casper owns the pellet bowl #guineapig
A white Teddy Guinea pig reclining by a plastic bowl of pellets
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fire extinguisher for Mr. Farage’s Y-fronts please
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Attention #twitch users
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In Clacton right now. (Real, not AI!) #VoteBinface
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hedgehogs: we got ‘em. Still some babies to come too. #hedgehog
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Binface for the win
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Swamp thing
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2026
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sometimes, rules and good manners just have to be broken.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Storks over our garden today: the parents taking the children out for an afternoon glide. There is nothing like it. #storks #whitestork
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Casper and Stanley taking a break from their bickering. #guineapig
Two Teddy Guinea pigs (one white, one red) looking out from from a hide
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Something of a standoff between the hedgehogs hogs last night. There is a fourth lurking in the undergrowth. The pregnant female sensibly passed by earlier! #hedgehogs
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Considering the amount of activity around here I have a strong suspicion this may be a pregnant hedgehog. Moving slowly and quite erm, rotund in the lower quarters. Anybody have an idea? #hedgehog #pregnant
A hedgehog eating from a small orange bowl
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Four hedgehogs together last night - watch carefully as the fourth emerges from the undergrowth. I wonder how many young we’ll get this year? #hedgehogs
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's another scorcher.. 🥵☀️ Be sure to put out plenty of water for birds & wildlife in your garden so they can keep cool and have enough to drink. Got your patch covered? Share this reminder!
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Stanley never looks happier than when out and and about looking for trouble. #guineapig
A red Teddy Guinea pig with a cheeky smile on his face surrounded by old toilet roll tubes filled with hay
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Forty years old today. #petergabriel #so
An album cover of Peter Gabriel’s “So” behind a turntable playing said LP (or vinyl if you must)
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Casper looking like lord of all he surveys #guineapig
A white teddy Guinea pig standing beside a cardboard tube full of hay
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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yesterday this tweet appeared on my X account, which has been hacked. I no longer have access to it, so I can’t delete it. Anyone who clicks on the link may lose their X account for ever, as I have. If you’re on X, please post a tweet advising all F1 twitterati to unfollow & avoid my X account. 😔
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Make it so
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Brilliant
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
When you peel a banana at the OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM. These two have an incredible Banana-dar! #guineapigs
Two Teddy Guinea pigs standing expectantly on a wooden hide behind their cage bars, having scented a banana being peeled.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Oh my, this is a first for these two. #guineapigs #guineapig
Two Teddy Guinea pigs laying very close to each other. The red one has his eyes nearly closed
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Quite a lot of nightly hedgehog activity now: here’s three together yesterday evening. And that’s not all of them - at least one more has been circulating. #hedgehog #wildlife
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The faces… Turning the looks up to 11 in the hope of more banana #guineapig
Two Teddy Guinea pigs (white and red) looking hopefully through the bars of their cage
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The Plumpers have worked out that they don’t have to try and eat from the same end of the hay filled cardboard… #guineapigs
Two Teddy Guinea pigs eating hay from opposite ends of a cardboard roll stuffed with hay. There is also a lot of hay on the floor of a cage that could frankly do with a jolly good clean.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Cork self destructed when opening a bottle of wine? Today, I’m experimenting with a French press - quite effective so far. What it will taste like is another matter. At least it will be well aerated…
An open bottle of Bordeaux wine standing next to. French press coffee maker containing erm, wine. The wine has been passed through the press after the cork self destructed on opening.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Having three hedgehogs visit last night has hastened me to relocate one of the houses - they are currently too close to each other. This is the base structure taking shape. It’s slow going as the location is not so conducive to humping heavy slabs about… #hedgehog
The beginnings of a hedgehog house: concrete slabs with bricks laying on top around the edge.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Three (!) hedgehogs visited our garden last night, including one born here in 2022. He has an eye missing and it’s always special to see him back. #hedgehogs
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Watch this. Now.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Banana? Who peeled a banana? BANANAAAAAA #guineapigs #banana
Two Teddy Guinea pigs - one red, one white (on top of a house) looking at the camera expectantly because somebody just peeled a banana close to them.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
And then there were two! This could be a long courtship or some early babies. Looks like hedgehog corner will be busy this year. #hedgehog #spring
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Sunday nature watch: here we see the genius Floofius Plumpius in its natural habitat. #guineapig
A white Teddy Guinea pig relaxing on top of a wooden hide.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
First visit this year of a stork to the telegraph pole in our garden. I dream of one building a nest there but previous attempts have been nixed by the male from the next village kicking interlopers off. (He uses it in the summer when his own nest gets crowded with babies) #stork #cigogne
A white stork standing on top of a telegraph pole
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
These two love a timetable. Every morning about the same time they gather in front of the pellet bowl in anticipation of their faithful servant finishing his breakfast. #guineapig
Two teddy Guinea pigs (one red one white) standing expectantly beside an empty blue food bowl
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A vision of plumpness #guineapig
A red teddy Guinea pig standing on a blue bath mat looking incredibly cute. And plump.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Washington Behind Closed Doors (the 1977 mini series) was always a thinly disguised retelling of #watergate but watching in the present climate it is remarkably prescient. Either that or not much new under the sun…
The DVD case of the 1977 mini series Washinton Behind Closed Doors starring Jason Robards, Robert Vaughn, Cliff Robertson and Stephanie Powers
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A 31 year old McLaren Vale Shiraz from Chateau Reynella - perhaps past its best? - but rather lovely #shiraz #reynella #mclarenvale #wine
Lablenof a wine bottle: Chateau Reynella 1995 basket pressed Shiraz McLaren vale
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looks like it’s time to stock up on hedgehog food. #hedgehog
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Is it true that Amazon will give you a reduction if you add Melania tickets to your order? I think we should be told.
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The boys looking a little like rock stars. Plump Floyd, perhaps. (They are, in the words of their greatest fan, satisfyingly plump) #guineapigs #plump
Black and white wide angle photo of two Guinea pigs looking like they should be on an album cover
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Some light rumblestrutting and celebratory popcorns from Stanley. Casper is suitably nonplussed #guineapigs #rumblestrutting #popcorning
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Simon @squonk61.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Stanley, our smiling despot. #guineapig
A red Teddy Guinea pig with a smile on his face
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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