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Grumpy and Proud!

@tedsolo.bsky.social
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Proud stepdad and husband. Irish 🇮🇪 & English 🇬🇧 at the same time. Child of the 90's when the music was good and the world felt kinder. STH kop.

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Grumpy and Proud! @tedsolo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Stoke and Seneca - An Unexpected Journey - Elpis Counselling
Inspiration for blogs can strike at odd times and in unusual places, this one was first formed sitting on a coach heading to Stoke for a football match (that really wasn’t worth the effort of going to...
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Grumpy and Proud! @tedsolo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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The Sadness of Cave Life - Elpis Counselling
I have a easily distracted and wandering mind. Sometimes this is quite nice, useful even, other times it is deeply annoying as I find it hard to focus and concentrate on one thing at a time. The thing...
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Elpis Counselling and Psychotherapy @elpiscounselling.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Loving Choice - Elpis Counselling
I am writing this whilst listening to the final act of La Traviata, one of Verdi’s finest works and ostensibly an opera all about love. The final act always brings me to tears (much to the embarrassme...
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Screenshot of polling data from Jan 2025
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RussCazier 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇭 ✝️ ❤️is❤️ 🤟🏻is🤟🏻 @russcazier.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Brick Lane, east London, seen yesterday.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's official: US now seen no longer open and free thanks to Trump's "undue restrictions on civic freedoms." The watchdog group says Trump's "Gross abuses of executive power raise serious concerns over the freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression and association" thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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US added to human rights watchlist over Trump moves
The United States has been added to CIVICUS’s monitor list of potential human rights threats due to President Trump’s restrictive executive orders and institutional cutbacks, which are …
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Grumpy and Proud! @tedsolo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Social media platforms must be ‘brought to heel’, says UK schools leader www.theguardian.com/education/20... Couldn't agree more. Billionaire sociopaths shouldn't be allowed to decide what our children can and cannot see. All governments need to act immediately to halt access yo such content.
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Social media platforms must be ‘brought to heel’, says UK schools leader
Headteachers’ conference to be told that rise in bullying, abuse and malicious use of deepfakes is being reported
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Trump sacked the chairman of the Kennedy Center along with 13 trustees, appointing himself the new chair. He said “So we took over the Kennedy Center. We didn’t like what they were showing. We’re going to make sure that it’s good and it’s not going to be woke” 🤔 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
Attendance of vice-president – who once disbelieved that people listened to classical music for pleasure – strikes sour note at Kennedy Center in light of Maga takeover
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Broadly as predicted that if you make trade with your nearest market harder there will be a fall in exports. Worth noting that an SPS deal doesn't automatically mean all of these losses are reversed - as there are many different barriers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit
Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A new “European Movement Canada” is being built. 🇨🇦🇪🇺 "Canada must not be a spectator to history. Strengthening our relationship with Europe now is an investment in the stability and prosperity of our shared future.”
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Strengthening the European Union-Canada relationship
European Movement International seeks creating a European Movement Canada
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I'm looking forward to speaking at Tunbridge Wells Literary festival this Tuesday - 11th March! I'll be there with my book, CRYPT - Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages - and doing book signing too. www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dr-...
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Dr Alice Roberts - Crypt: Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 08/03/2025
Canadians — tell your friends to leave X. Tell people whose posts you like to read to leave. Tell your governments and your elected officials. Tell your favourite pundits and shitposters. Tell the people with bad takes to bring them here. X is a platform used to undermine our sovereignty. Leave it.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 07/03/2025
Labour MPs need to listen to their pro-European supporters and back growing public calls for a rethink of the government’s doomed Brexit “reset”, @therejoineuparty.com says. londonlovesbusiness.com/labour-mps-s...
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Labour MPs should back growing public pressure for Brexit rethink, Rejoin EU Party says - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Discover why Labour MPs should back growing public pressure for Brexit rethink, as support for rejoining the EU surges.
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Still We Rise @lindsaymeyerharley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
King agrees to host Trump visit Subscribe to Private Eye: subsonline.co.uk
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Tesla sales have plummeted by 76% in Germany, 71% in Australia, and nearly 50% in China. It’s rapidly collapsing across dozens of countries. #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeOver
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Tesla Sales Fall Off A Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, And China
German sales were down by a massive 76.3% last month, with Australia posting a similar

Image of an ugly car in front of three flags for Germany, Australia, and China
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Tell me again how brilliant he is: www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...
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SpaceX again loses its Starship rocket on test flight after explosion during previous attempt
A little over 8 minutes into the flight, live video showed the upper-stage vehicle spinning in space before all communication was lost.
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Zee207702🇨🇦🍁🍃🎃🐈‍⬛ @zee207702.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇨🇦
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Berkshire for Europe @berkshireforeurope.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Ms. Jacque @jacquelyne.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Woah - was not expecting to see that from the Daily Mail… …but spot on.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
JWST captures M51, a stunning 27M light-years away! Locked in a dance with NGC 5195, its spiral arms glow with star nurseries and dust waves. First spotted by Messier in 1773, it later helped prove galaxies exist. Credit:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute), FEAST Program
JWST captures M51, a stunning 27M light-years away! Locked in a dance with NGC 5195, its spiral arms glow with star nurseries and dust waves. First spotted by Messier in 1773, it later helped prove galaxies exist.

Credit:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute), FEAST Program
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🇬🇧🇺🇦 "Did you hear people cheering you on the street? You can see the support. And we will support as long as it takes. We want long-term peace," — Starmer to Zelensky
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Dolly Parton is a god damn National treasure.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🔥 John McCain’s former Chief of Staff 👇
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Grumpy and Proud! @tedsolo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
On 24 June 2023 Prigozhin was 200km from Moscow. Now Putin’s in the Oval. Russian history has always been wild.
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Reviving this one
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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hold up, what?
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🇬🇧✊🇺🇦
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🚨The European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas : “The free world needs a new leader” The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that
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