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@welshblokewilts.bsky.social
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Welsh bloke, exiled in Wiltshire for over 30 years... and probably for the rest of my life! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 8h
Braverman (and Reform) desperately trying to disentangle the pretzel here.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 8h
Well worth sharing this again…
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 8h
It was a brilliant takedown by Raskin. Notice there’s that ever present “just a contractor” sitting behind Farage’s right shoulder.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21h
This story is becoming the Spiderman pointing meme if every version of Spiderman was somehow the equal-first worst person in the world.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/10/2026
Since September, Nigel Farage has been presenting a show on GB News while sitting as an MP. Sign our petition to demand that Ofcom takes action: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
theguardian.com
UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows
Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 15/10/2026
Shocking undercover footage of Reform!
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Slade - “Cum on Feel the Noize” 1973…
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is very good!
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AngryDigit @angrydigit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My youngest lad had his motorcycle, Keeway Superlight, stolen this afternoon from outside his flat near Downing Street Manchester. Chrome finishes, wind shield and leather studded panniers. 25 plate. Alarmed, and padlock chain cut through. 😞
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I managed 42 seconds before the cringe got too much and I had to stop. Excruciating.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Surprised (not surprised) that it’s even a question that needs asking.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pretty sure Trump will be delighted to hear this.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is SAVAGE
This is a work of photographic genius that deserves to go down in the annals of history. I'm an art historian with a PhD (yes, really) so it's one thing I do know something about.
Let's start with the framing. Dan Winters has positioned his subject lower than the lens. At a basic level it's diminishing the man... no small thing for someone so obsessed with his height.
But it's bigger than that. think about all the portraits you know of Great Men (they are almost always Great
Men)
Statues are set on plinths. Above eye level. So you look up at them.
Or famous images like Washington Crossing the Delaware. Or Napoleon Crossing the Alps. We look up at the figures at the centre of the composition. They're the embodiment of leadership. We are inspired to believe. To follow.
Now, look at the photo. We are looking down at the subject. His mouth gapes. He's as lost and directionless as a toddler in a crowd who can't find his mum.
Or, more aptly, a patient in a dementia wardNow, look again.
It's the eyes that strike you the most.
That's because the photographer has chosen a very shallow depth of field, which means the pinprick focus on the eyes casts the rest of the subject in a hazy wash. Even the American flag pin on his lapel. His one
"mission"... leading the nation... is, symbolically, completely unfocused.
None of this is an accident. Winters made conscious choices when he framed this portrait and chose the settings on his camera.
And the colour saturation...
None of the garish, highly saturated red, white, and blue. Or the glitter of gold. We're looking at a president who has just wandered out of a crypt.
He is a spectre wrapped in parchment-thin, ashen skin with a waft of gossamer-thread hair atop a papery scalp. He's a phantasm with sawdust in his veins and a handful of dust where a heart should be.
But, back on those eyes. If the eyes are, indeed, the windows to the soul, then this man has none...
Trump is wandering through a misty haze. Where is he, even? Who the fuck can tell? He certainly can't.
There's no colour. No sunlight. No life. Just pinpricks of light reflected back from the soulless, senseless, rheumy, red-rimmed eyes beneath hooded and desiccated lids.
They say "I am lost. I am confused. I am not long for this world."
@writtenbymeaghanNo alt text needed, read the alt text on the two prior images. It describes the photo perfectly
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“It was all done with AI…”
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Truss? Fuck it, I’m done!”
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’ll have to skip this episode…
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
…and they both play in sky blue!
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can only assume this is then followed by multiple images of Kemi stepping on rakes that she had placed in front of herself.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still the best quote about Kemi (after her election as leader from one of her supporters). “What we thought she’d be good at, she isn’t. What we thought she’d be bad at, she is.”
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Check out Hegseth announcing this on @atrupar.com feed. If you already thought Hegseth was unhinged then prepare to see the dial turned up to 11.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genuinely thought that was a screenshot of a parody tweet!
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The ‘Dog Friendly’ sticker in the bottom corner is the kicker!
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
South Africa totally owning the aerial game #RSAvNZ
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I understand if Spurs finish 17th for a 3rd time in a row they get to keep it forever.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m now in about my 11th month of receiving the ‘this month only’ “easy printable Tai-Chi guide” offer…
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Norway's Prime Minister marks Trump's homework
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm old enough to remember Nigel Farage ruling out any association with Le Pen's lot "now or in the future" because he considered them "far right". But I guess that's ok now. Here is what he said in 2013 and 2015.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It was an archetypal Nads performance on @channel4news.bsky.social
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Nads been on the wine? #Channel4
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Jules @jules111985.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
👏
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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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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I, too, had a double-take at Mr. Dunt’s “I’m a DC guy” comment! Truly, they walk among us!
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I trust Trump said “Thank you“ during this meeting?
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Stopped clock and all that but, even when he’s on to something, Tim can’t help himself… “The transformation of a tangible ecological crisis into a culture-war abstraction can be pinned on the Left.”
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Still gleaming.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
England have taken on Valium during the hydration break. #NorEng
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Bugger! I couldn’t type it fast enough!!
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
As Sky News have stated they did not have any contact with his family, can only assume that Farage is confused by Posh George calling him ‘Daddy’.
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Jib-BOO👻- scribbits @jibblescribbits.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Its about integrity. If FIFA follows through on this decision, how can we be sure the next FIFA Peace Prize gets awarded in good faith.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If those things were to happen the rest of the world would have to acknowledge that, after 250 years, the USA was finally maturing as a nation.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/07/2026
Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Lovely thread this.
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Given the current weather, I think it’s actually “National Sticky Bits Week”
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Still small and humble…
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It’s always the ones you most expect…
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Adi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚓️ @welshblokewilts.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
My father-in-law, bless him (all of the above).
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