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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is so incredibly sad to watch Trump singlehandedly make everything about the USA less than it was. The world hopes it can be fixed but is less than optimistic.

A picture of a dark grey T shirt with Trump's head as he pulls a weird face. The text reads: The Diminisher

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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For the first time in 50 years, America lost its status.

American democracy is in a “much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times.”

The Polity project, a third independent dataset used by political scientists for half a century, now classifies the United States as an anocracy, a hybrid system, writing bluntly that the country is “no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy.”

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I am very content to live in a democracy which enables anyone to stand for public office, including Count Binface and a Fox. It's all part of being British...

A picture of five electoral candidates for the post of Member of Parliament. They include a person, Count Binface, with a rubbish bin over their head and face and another person, Robert Pownall, the founder of the campaign group Protect the Wild, in a full-length fox costume.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

US citizens ask what the rest of the world think about Trump. This sums it up perfectly.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you’re stuck with time on your hands, how about this? In Utrecht, Netherlands, there’s a Fish Doorbell that allows the public to tell lock keepers when fish are waiting to get through a canal lock to their spawning grounds. Sometimes humans do the right thing… visdeurbel.nl/en/

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I have been told by Bluesky that I am registered as under 18 and need to undergo an age verification process. I am 68! I'm really, REALLY suspicious though when it turns out that the age checking outfit, KWS, insist on being given my credit card details. Not going to happen. Deeply disappointing.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Hmmm. Fairly obvious ploy isn't it?

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

On Monday, the Home Secretary is supposedly due to announce a change to the number of police forces in the UK. Wonder if it'll look anything like this?

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

People from the USA ask what other countries think about Trump.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Only seven of these UK warning signs are genuine. Which are fake do you think?

A set of 9 UK road warning signs, all red triangles with apex uppermost, each with a silhouette of one of these: Chicken, Sheep, Horse, Cow, Hedgehog, Toad, Deer, Rat or Duck. Two of the signs are not genuine.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

There's nothing showing under your screenshot Gill.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I wonder how long it'll be before the UN applies sanctions to the USA for its racist regime?

The top two thirds of the USA flag, on black background, overlaid with two older bespectacled men's heads and titled U.S. Apartheid.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This is what integrity looks like in a real leader.

Beside a photograph of Adm McRaven in dress uniform the text:

Writing of Trump:

“Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.”

Admiral (Retd) William H. McRaven
U.S. Special Operations Commander
& Best-selling Author

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Five Eyes intelligence sharing network of UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand needs to become the Four Eyes network as the USA can no longer be trusted to keep secrets.

The Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance showing the flags of USA, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In 2016 17,410,742 people voted for UK’s Brexit. In 2024 77,302,580 people voted for USA’s Trump. While coping with the awful consequences of those elections, please be kind to those who wish they hadn’t voted the way they did. They are suffering as much as everyone else.

15 yard signs supporting Trump in 2024 election in USA. They represent Amish, Blacks, Catholics, Farmers, Firefighters, Gays, Kids, Latinos, Police, LGBTQ, Teachers,Union Members, Truckers, Veterans and Women.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This reminds me about a time when the British military had to be ordered to stop calling local citizens 'Bennies' (after a moronic TV soap character). Soon afterwards they began calling them 'Stills'. Still Bennies. Still FOTUS then?

A cartoon of a corpulent man in a suit holds an enormous megaphone with the words: "Stop interfering with my freedom of speech" emerging from its large end startling a smaller person, with a much smaller megaphone.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

10/10 An old K6 red phone box with a black telephone and the ‘A’ and ‘B’ buttons. I’d forgotten all about pressing the ‘B’ button in every telephone box. Explanation here: www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-pub...

The inside of an old telephone box with a black bauxite dial telephone and a box with 'A' and 'B' buttons. All children used to press the 'B' button on every phone box just in case the last caller had forgotten their unused coinage.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

8/10 The Automobile Association hut with patrolman (they were all men back then) and his motorcycle & sidecar.

A roadside assistance hut from the AA (Automobile Association) with a patrolman and his motorcycle / sidecar combination.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

7/10 Various old road signs, many now obsolete such as the hospital sign.

A row of old black and white road signs from the 1950s and 1960s UK. Many now obsolete but can still be seen in smaller villages.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

6/10 Aaaaargh, bad memory! When I was in junior school in the 1960s we had the world’s worst toilet paper. It was a form of grease-proof paper, that smelled of antiseptic and caused havoc you know where!

A roll of the dreaded toilet paper used in junior schools in the 1950s and 60s. It was much like very thin cardboard that smelled of antiseptic which, when folded, could cause some nasty paper cuts just where you least want them!

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

5/10 Miscellany including Hardware, Millinery and Bookshop

A photo showing an array of five shops from hardware, bookshop to milliner etc Originally they would all have been in their own separate buildings, often on a High Street or in a Market Square.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

4/10 Chemist Shop (AKA Apothecary) www.oakhamtreasures.co.uk/collections/...

The Chemist's shop showing all manner of jars, pots, tubs, bottles and packets containing everything to make you better when ill.

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Stephen Wilkinson-Carr @stephenwc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

3/10 Sweet Shop www.oakhamtreasures.co.uk/collections/...

An old sweet shop with numerous large jars of boiled sweets and shelves filled with chocolate bars and other assorted delights.

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