Richard Kay
@copsewood.net
Done cyber, teaching, networking. Doing community currencies. Love worship music, country walks, and making wine, cider and beer. A list of my other social media profiles is here: https://copsewood.net/mastodon.html
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You can call it Storm Benjamin if you like but Storm BP would be better.
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
You can call it Storm Benjamin if you like but Storm BP would be better.
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Colbert's reaction to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension is pure satirical gold.
www.youtube.com/shorts/csBWo...
www.youtube.com/shorts/csBWo...
🎶Shut your trap 🎶 — @ColbertLateShow #jimmykimmel
YouTube video by Mona Khalil
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Colbert's reaction to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension is pure satirical gold.
www.youtube.com/shorts/csBWo...
www.youtube.com/shorts/csBWo...
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
September 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
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Jacqui Smith called Musk's comments "dangerous and wrong" & "wholly unacceptable" on calling for violence. After a wobbly weekend, the pressure to notice what was said and to respond has got the government to an important baseline
LibDem leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk has a focus on how significant Musk's call for violence was. I would like to see a strong cross-party response.
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Jacqui Smith called Musk's comments "dangerous and wrong" & "wholly unacceptable" on calling for violence. After a wobbly weekend, the pressure to notice what was said and to respond has got the government to an important baseline
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If any American is wondering why your tourism numbers are down this year, this may help to explain it.
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If any American is wondering why your tourism numbers are down this year, this may help to explain it.
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Ghislaine Maxwell planting fake Trump letters in books decades ahead of schedule makes her less of a socialite and more of a Bond villain with a serious time machine.
September 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell planting fake Trump letters in books decades ahead of schedule makes her less of a socialite and more of a Bond villain with a serious time machine.
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Attn: UK National Trust members
Which reminds me, it's that time of year again for National Trust members to vote. The easiest way is to use the 'quick vote' to keep out the traditionalist 'Restore Trust' candidates. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Attn: UK National Trust members
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Pres Trump gave Vladimir Putin until today to come to the negotiating table with Pres Zelenskiy. He hasn’t. Trump says he’s ’very disappointed’, but doesn’t seem to be planning to take any action to persuade him to talk peace…
September 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Pres Trump gave Vladimir Putin until today to come to the negotiating table with Pres Zelenskiy. He hasn’t. Trump says he’s ’very disappointed’, but doesn’t seem to be planning to take any action to persuade him to talk peace…
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Reform councils are thinking about legal action over asylum hotels but can't find a councillor who'll stick around long enough to see it through.
August 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reform councils are thinking about legal action over asylum hotels but can't find a councillor who'll stick around long enough to see it through.
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Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
August 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
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Ha ha ha. Tr**p imposes his deadline tariffs and he still thinks they're paid by the exporting country.
Not one of his tame gimps has the bottle to tell him he's wrong, probably because they're stupid cowards.
US inflation is gonna go bigly.
Not one of his tame gimps has the bottle to tell him he's wrong, probably because they're stupid cowards.
US inflation is gonna go bigly.
August 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Ha ha ha. Tr**p imposes his deadline tariffs and he still thinks they're paid by the exporting country.
Not one of his tame gimps has the bottle to tell him he's wrong, probably because they're stupid cowards.
US inflation is gonna go bigly.
Not one of his tame gimps has the bottle to tell him he's wrong, probably because they're stupid cowards.
US inflation is gonna go bigly.
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Tax Havens are a con they shouldn't exist, you shouldn't be allowed to say properties in the UK are actually in a tax haven in the Cayman Islands and then dodge all the tax earned on them.
But you can, and it is costing you a fortune.
But you can, and it is costing you a fortune.
July 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Tax Havens are a con they shouldn't exist, you shouldn't be allowed to say properties in the UK are actually in a tax haven in the Cayman Islands and then dodge all the tax earned on them.
But you can, and it is costing you a fortune.
But you can, and it is costing you a fortune.
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In today’s Russian papers: a new nuclear submarine, “car manufacturing down 30%...car market in one of its worst crises”, plus a warning that “political rehabilitation” of dictator Joseph Stalin leads to “rehabilitation of Stalin’s methods and practices.” #ReadingRussia
Russia gets new nuclear sub, but "car market in crisis" - Russian papers
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
In today’s Russian papers: a new nuclear submarine, “car manufacturing down 30%...car market in one of its worst crises”, plus a warning that “political rehabilitation” of dictator Joseph Stalin leads to “rehabilitation of Stalin’s methods and practices.” #ReadingRussia
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Tesla retractable door handles
"Two 18-year-olds killed when Tesla they were in slammed into a tree and caught fire. First responders couldn’t open the doors because the handles were retracted. The teenagers burned to death in the back seat."
- The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Two 18-year-olds killed when Tesla they were in slammed into a tree and caught fire. First responders couldn’t open the doors because the handles were retracted. The teenagers burned to death in the back seat."
- The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Tesla retractable door handles
"Two 18-year-olds killed when Tesla they were in slammed into a tree and caught fire. First responders couldn’t open the doors because the handles were retracted. The teenagers burned to death in the back seat."
- The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Two 18-year-olds killed when Tesla they were in slammed into a tree and caught fire. First responders couldn’t open the doors because the handles were retracted. The teenagers burned to death in the back seat."
- The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Wishing my American friends independence from their new king.
July 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Wishing my American friends independence from their new king.
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As a young reporter in Northern Ireland I twice saw kids squirming on the ground in agony after being shot in the knees by the IRA. The memory still haunts me. Kneecap should be free to sing whatever they want - but why do they choose to celebrate such a vicious form of torture?
June 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
As a young reporter in Northern Ireland I twice saw kids squirming on the ground in agony after being shot in the knees by the IRA. The memory still haunts me. Kneecap should be free to sing whatever they want - but why do they choose to celebrate such a vicious form of torture?
Here's my submission to the Met Office name our storms competition. Let them know your choices at this link:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
June 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Here's my submission to the Met Office name our storms competition. Let them know your choices at this link:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
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I decided to become a journalist aged fifteen after reading ‘1984’ and being appalled at the thought that governments could rewrite history. Orwell knew the USSR did it. Now China pretends the Tiananmen massacre didn’t happen. It did. I was there, and saw it for myself.
June 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I decided to become a journalist aged fifteen after reading ‘1984’ and being appalled at the thought that governments could rewrite history. Orwell knew the USSR did it. Now China pretends the Tiananmen massacre didn’t happen. It did. I was there, and saw it for myself.
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First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.
Stalin statue appears in the Moscow Metro
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.
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Day 149 of #365DaysOfSmiles
An unforgettable bring your kid to work day experience
An unforgettable bring your kid to work day experience
May 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Day 149 of #365DaysOfSmiles
An unforgettable bring your kid to work day experience
An unforgettable bring your kid to work day experience
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I’ve signed this - please sign and share if you agree
Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties
@fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social
· May 24
100s of new MPs were elected last July from ALL parties. The House of Commons is v.different. They’re working hard on lots of issues in parliament. Many are impressive (pop parl channel on to see) yet broadcast media gives them little coverage. Sign petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
petition.parliament.uk
May 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’ve signed this - please sign and share if you agree
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Day 141 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Everyone loves a massage
Everyone loves a massage
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Day 141 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Everyone loves a massage
Everyone loves a massage