Cornucopist
@cornucopist.bsky.social
Writer and humanitarian. Optimistic realist. When you sleep you wake up eventually. Politics, philosophy, humanism, books, photography, history, football, post-punk. And cats and birds of course.
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Cornucopist
@cornucopist.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Morning! Final postcard of the River Tweed from my week away. If you haven’t been to the Scottish Borders, do go. So much to enjoy. Finished writing my book so now for the hard part.
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Denmark isn't mucking about.
January 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Denmark isn't mucking about.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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🔴Boris Johnson’s Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million
Full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
Full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
Boris Johnson's Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million
The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
🔴Boris Johnson’s Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million
Full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
Full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
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If you’re a racist and have been all your life, and refuse to face up to the damage you do, then these accounts will trail around you forever like you’ve gone off.
But Farage insists his voters love the stink of bigotry. So, he should be happy it just got worse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But Farage insists his voters love the stink of bigotry. So, he should be happy it just got worse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries say Reform leader often used antisemitic language and racial epithets
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
If you’re a racist and have been all your life, and refuse to face up to the damage you do, then these accounts will trail around you forever like you’ve gone off.
But Farage insists his voters love the stink of bigotry. So, he should be happy it just got worse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But Farage insists his voters love the stink of bigotry. So, he should be happy it just got worse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Brings tears to my eyes 💚 ✊
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January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Brings tears to my eyes 💚 ✊
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For those in the UK horrified at events in Minneapolis ....
January 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
For those in the UK horrified at events in Minneapolis ....
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This is also a field test.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
This is also a field test.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
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Labour councillor thinks that the murder of a woman - with plans that political parties in the UK are specifically looking to emulate - shouldn't be political.
Labour have no intention in every challenging the far right - which is why they'll be next to follow unless we stand up to them.
Labour have no intention in every challenging the far right - which is why they'll be next to follow unless we stand up to them.
How low can Polanski go? Weaponising the killing of the mother of a 6 year old girl, that’s how low.
Leadership clearly isn’t a Green Party strong point.
Leadership clearly isn’t a Green Party strong point.
Trump started it.
Reform and Tories are at it too.
And Labour already heading in that direction.
All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.
Reform and Tories are at it too.
And Labour already heading in that direction.
All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.
January 8, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Labour councillor thinks that the murder of a woman - with plans that political parties in the UK are specifically looking to emulate - shouldn't be political.
Labour have no intention in every challenging the far right - which is why they'll be next to follow unless we stand up to them.
Labour have no intention in every challenging the far right - which is why they'll be next to follow unless we stand up to them.
January 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
My Millennial kids are saying this. All generations are facing climate change together. Gen Z are already rising up around the world to overthrow outdated corrupt political models. Look at Iran, Nepal, Bangladesh, Mexico, Madagascar etc. Power to the people!
January 8, 2026 at 10:57 AM
My Millennial kids are saying this. All generations are facing climate change together. Gen Z are already rising up around the world to overthrow outdated corrupt political models. Look at Iran, Nepal, Bangladesh, Mexico, Madagascar etc. Power to the people!
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Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics.
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics.
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
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The death of a legal observer in Minnesota by ICE is a warning to the UK in so many ways. We’re tying ourselves to a violent, corrupt, racist nation which does not care about its citizens. Reform believes in its model, Labour is appeasing it. It is the public who will suffer.
January 8, 2026 at 7:50 AM
The death of a legal observer in Minnesota by ICE is a warning to the UK in so many ways. We’re tying ourselves to a violent, corrupt, racist nation which does not care about its citizens. Reform believes in its model, Labour is appeasing it. It is the public who will suffer.
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You do not feel safer in London *despite* it being more diverse than other towns.
You feel safer in London because it is generally safe, and there being a lot of brown people here has LITERALLY NOTHING to do with how safe you are.
You do not feel safer in London *despite* it being more diverse than other towns.
You feel safer in London because it is generally safe, and there being a lot of brown people here has LITERALLY NOTHING to do with how safe you are.
January 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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You do not feel safer in London *despite* it being more diverse than other towns.
You feel safer in London because it is generally safe, and there being a lot of brown people here has LITERALLY NOTHING to do with how safe you are.
You do not feel safer in London *despite* it being more diverse than other towns.
You feel safer in London because it is generally safe, and there being a lot of brown people here has LITERALLY NOTHING to do with how safe you are.
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This should be pointed out to every British government representative currently saying "not our job guv, take it up with OfCom"
Anyone who has posted a picture of themselves on the internet, regardless of age or gender, is one message to Grok away from being shown wearing a swastika bikini and performing a fascist salute.
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This should be pointed out to every British government representative currently saying "not our job guv, take it up with OfCom"
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Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
January 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
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So yesterday Trump mused about a 3rd term, said ideally he'd cancel elections because Democrats are evil, and today it emerged that he's appropriated all the proceeds of Venezuela's oil industry
can we (ie number 10) *please* stop saying US is our closest ally.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
can we (ie number 10) *please* stop saying US is our closest ally.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Venezuela ‘turning over’ $2bn in oil to US, Trump says, in move that could cut supply to China
Deal indicates Venezuelan government is responding to Trump’s demand that they open up to US oil companies or risk more military intervention
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:20 AM
So yesterday Trump mused about a 3rd term, said ideally he'd cancel elections because Democrats are evil, and today it emerged that he's appropriated all the proceeds of Venezuela's oil industry
can we (ie number 10) *please* stop saying US is our closest ally.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
can we (ie number 10) *please* stop saying US is our closest ally.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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"This article traces the anti-migrant protests back to their racist roots in the summer of 2023, when conspiracy theories, tabloid scare stories and far-right agitators first ignited a wave of hostility on Britain’s streets."
via Simon Childs
novaramedia.com/2025/08/13/t...
via Simon Childs
novaramedia.com/2025/08/13/t...
These Six Media Lies Are Stoking the Anti-Migrant Protests | Novara Media
The Sun published a report claiming asylum seekers are enjoying discounted boat rides, while the Mail on Sunday says the UK is in the midst of a ‘migrant crime wave’. Neither is true. Simon Childs rep...
novaramedia.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:05 AM
"This article traces the anti-migrant protests back to their racist roots in the summer of 2023, when conspiracy theories, tabloid scare stories and far-right agitators first ignited a wave of hostility on Britain’s streets."
via Simon Childs
novaramedia.com/2025/08/13/t...
via Simon Childs
novaramedia.com/2025/08/13/t...
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #Macro #MacroPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin
Gotta love a wee raindrop
Abstract Nature
Gotta love a wee raindrop
Abstract Nature
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 AM
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #Macro #MacroPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin
Gotta love a wee raindrop
Abstract Nature
Gotta love a wee raindrop
Abstract Nature
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Great to see recognition for people doing heroic work in what is now a difficult environment
‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK
Groups are coming together across the country to help refugee families settle and integrate into local life
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Great to see recognition for people doing heroic work in what is now a difficult environment
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Morning! Off home today. Will miss this quiet sturdy landscape
January 7, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Morning! Off home today. Will miss this quiet sturdy landscape
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I lost faith in polls so I looked further into them, many have links to the right, either set up by right wing individuals or ties to right wing groups like Reform. Some their origins hidden overseas, don't trust them they are used as propaganda for the right.
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Just read on Twitter that the latest pollster recording high polling votes for Reform was registered at exactly the same address as Reform. They quickly tried to change their address….. caught. This is why I don’t believe the Polls. They’re rigged to make you believe Reform are popular. They’re not
January 7, 2026 at 8:03 AM
I lost faith in polls so I looked further into them, many have links to the right, either set up by right wing individuals or ties to right wing groups like Reform. Some their origins hidden overseas, don't trust them they are used as propaganda for the right.
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