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Clive

@watcherskies72.bsky.social
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Brit living in Sweden and that's 'bout it.

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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You belong, you belong more than anyone at this moment. ❤️
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love it !
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Once in a while, I will go through old cassettes and stumble upon Hazel O'Conner's "Will You" and wonder why why this track is not better known and remembered. The saxophone is incredible and it's really haunting.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just found my old Minidisk player which I have not used for 20 years and damn, I have a great taste in music 😍
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Always gets me how the US continually goes on about being the "Land of the FREE!" whilst it is one on the least free countries in the Western World... (most of the Eastern too...)
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is hideous ! You can't see what it represents anymore with gold slathered all over it. Also, should the gritty reality of Iwo Jima be represented with gold ?
Trump's gold encrusted Iwo Jima memorial
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't follow politics at all in my adopted country Sweden, but there was an election on Sunday. I rarely receive any Swedish political posts on my social media, but for the past week was inundated with FB/Instagram posts from the far-right Sverigedemokraterna party. No posts from the left parties.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, I came out of a meeting and saw all my colleagues in the office coffee corner watching an action film with a plane crashing into a building, My initial thought was "Slackers"... That was the start of the next 25 years.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I remember when Obama forgot to do the salute and Fox News went on about it for days..... "Disrespect from the commander in chief towards our service members...etc..etc"
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The solo performance by the super talented young Ukrainian drumming prodigy Daniel Varfolomeyev. [📹 dvarf777] Original post
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Eric the Lemon-Fresh @roalddhalsim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I really recommend this video. This is the sleaze of politics which #reform have always claimed to be against...
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@atrupar.com Why is no news media actually reporting what is really going on in Hormuz, other than repeating what Trump says ? What is the true situation there ?
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gotta say, in Europe we still see it on Google Maps as Lake Ontario and also the Gulf of Mexico. Seems like you 'Muricans are living in an alternative reality ?
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
....so Trump is also killing wild horses ? Hmm.... 🤔
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#Stockholm #Sweden is really buzzing right now, it's normally a bit sleepy in July but apparently #badbunny is playing this weekend with street parties and after show events. I have not seen this level of buzz since #TaylorSwift 's last concert. I had never heard of him before the Superbowl.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
.... @cnn.com This is the second time today that CNN is reporting Trump's ravings as fact ! Please stop ! Tell us the news !
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
@cnn.com Please stop reporting obvious lies as if they are based on any form of reality. Tell us the truth !
CNN's reporting on the reflecting pool
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I always think that these adverts for a Swedish dental chain is an invitation to punch them..
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
One thing I have realised about this Bluesky outage is.. . Just how terrible Twitter has become...
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coastpaul.bsky.social @coastpaul.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The United States of America is the ONLY Nation on earth who's citizens are permitted to have guns SPECIFICALLY in order to rise up against an Authoritarian government and yet they choose to do FUCK All 🤔 This is the feeling we have in Europe.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Guardian: As lawmakers condemn Trump’s comments, saying they are tantamount to the president telegraphing war crimes, my colleagues Joseph Gedeon and Lauren Gambino have more on the implications for international law.
Neither the US nor Iran is a member of the international criminal court, they write, meaning no formal ICC jurisdiction applies.

The more immediate legal framework is the Geneva conventions of 1949 onwards, which both countries have ratified. Article 33 of the Fourth Convention explicitly prohibits collective punishment of a civilian population.

Article 54 of Additional Protocol I – whose core principles are binding as customary international law even on states, like the US and Iran, that never ratified it – prohibits attacks on infrastructure indispensable to civilian survival, with only a narrow exception for objects used exclusively to sustain enemy armed forces.

The US has itself acknowledged this customary obligation, though the adoption of this position came under the Biden administration in 2024. In one formal UN submission, Washington said it treated the fundamental protections of Additional Protocol I as legally binding even without ratification.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Guardian: Margarita Robles, the Spanish defence minister, has reiterated her country’s commitment to Nato and unilateralism saying that the US and Israel “can’t be the ones who, without anyone’s support, not even of their allies, decide what type of rules or peace apply in the world”.
Image of: Spain's defence minister Margarita Robles waits for the start of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defence ministers format at Nato headquarters in Brussels late last year. Photograph: Omar Havana/AP

Speaking to congress, she said “we are faced with a scenario that the government defines as a war that runs contrary to international law and to which our response has been firm and consistent.”

“Our position is supported by the majority of people, and not just Spanish but European,” she added.

Defending the decision to deny the US use of its bases in Spain to pursue the war, she said the prohibition applied “exclusively” to the war on Iran.

This decision absolutely doesn’t imply a break with our transatlantic links. The bases continue to function.

Spain feels no obligation to join an illegal war whose objectives, 30 days into the conflict, have yet to be defined, she said.

“No one knows what will happen with this war,” Robles said.

“Two countries went to war and expected us to join them,” adding that “we don’t accept lectures from anyone in regard to our commitment to peace”.
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Andy Jolley @andyjolley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
As a Brit who won’t be baited by a sycophantic halfwit like Hegseth I would suggest the Royal Navy might consider a more active approach once American politicians stop slagging us off and the US Navy demonstrates its ability to sail one of its Aircraft Carriers through the “Safe” Strait of Hormuz
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Canadian Liberal @cliff229.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Technically, the president can't leave NATO without congressional approval. He also can't start a war without congressional approval, yet here we are. (2024 National Defense Authorization Act)
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ci... A message from the past, from the great Tony Benn...
youtube.com
Tony Benn's incredible speech against the war in Iraq
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
OK, all well and good, but does this mean that OpenAI and ChatGPT are openly monitoring our conversations with their LLM ? Isn't this against their terms of service ? edition.cnn.com/2026/02/25/p...
edition.cnn.com
A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT accidentally revealed a global intimidation operation | CNN Politics
A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating U...
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just went on the 'other platform' to check some accounts I follow, non political. But I accidentally clicked on the "For you" tab and 90% of the posts were from Elon/Hegseth/Joe Rogan. Like, why is anyone still there ?
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Private Eye cover from 2011 !!! They nailed it, years before anyone really knew about it...
Private Eye cover from 2011 !!! They nailed it, years before anyone really knew about it...
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I sometimes doom scroll on #bluesky and feel that I have picked up on all that is happening in the US. I then realize I am just scrolling through @atrupar.com's feed. Thanks @atrupar.com for the service you provide us !
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
What exactly did the EU say to #TRUMP about Greenland ? That topic has vanished out of his narrative faster than the #EPSTEINFILES.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Still getting strange vibes about this under-reported incident.
bbc.com
Treat Barron Trump account of alleged attack cautiously - judge
President Trump's youngest son told UK police he had seen a friend being attacked during a video call.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In other news Make it make sense
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Is this for real ? Under the banner of "Board of Peace" which hasn't even met yet ?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Jared Kushner presented a 'master plan' for Gaza at the Board of Peace event this morning. Slides included 'New Gaza' and 'New Rafah'.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
How did we go from America First ! To giving each Greenlander $100,000 ?
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I am scared to go to sleep, as I am scared to what I will wake upto.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Two things could happen here, either Putin rejects the invitation, he wouldn't want to be seen to be beneath Trump. Or secondly all the other members will drop out, no one wants to be seen to be at the same table as Putin. Whatever happens, the board is useless; Trump will just veto every decision.
cnbc.com
Putin invited to join Trump's 'Board of Peace,' Kremlin says
The "Board of Peace" has been created by U.S. President Donald Trump to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I love watching Americans wake up to see the disaster that we Europeans have been looking at all day.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When Trump claims that the Ukraine/Russia conflict is a foreign war that the US shouldn't be involved in. Why does he want to bomb Iran/Yemen etc which are even further way ?
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
YES ! This is getting to him !
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Danish MP Rasmus Jarlov tells Matt Frei that Denmark will not hand over Greenland to the US, it would be a war
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Does the US actually have boots on the ground in Venezuela? Or have they just kidnapped it's President and left the rest of the Government in status quo ?
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Quite proud that me (not a programmer) and Google #Gemini have built a PHP webpage which tracks the daily indoor and outdoor temperatures based on #raspberrypi sensors. I am a total novice at this stuff, but #AI has made it so easy !
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Interesting that the Russians removed all of their Diplomatic families before this. Almost like they knew of the impending invasion before the American Congress did ?
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Not joking, but I logged into X on my burner account and 90% of the 'For You' posts mention fELON in one form or another. Who would want to spend anytime there ? It reeks of desperation...
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 17/12/2025
McDonald’s USA — Employee: $15/hr, no benefits — Big Mac: $5.79 McDonald’s Denmark — Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension — Big Mac: $5.49 Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
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Clive @watcherskies72.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Sort of happy that even the most rabid MAGA defenders on Truth Social are calling out their cult leader on this..... It's the drip, drip of his supporters moving away from his rhetoric.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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