Dave
@daveacoley.bsky.social
Brummie lineage of 150 years, Blues since 1900.
Ip Man WT lineage|runner|Paddy Doyle trained|Survivor.
NHS Acute Director Rtd| UoB MBA Alumni
European Movement Member -Rejoin.
Excuse typos, epiretinal membranes make my world more wonky than it actually is.
Ip Man WT lineage|runner|Paddy Doyle trained|Survivor.
NHS Acute Director Rtd| UoB MBA Alumni
European Movement Member -Rejoin.
Excuse typos, epiretinal membranes make my world more wonky than it actually is.
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Dave
@daveacoley.bsky.social
· Oct 10
" If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Let's play a game of fantasy accession. A 🧵
I meant to reply to this post from
@YouBrokeItMate
at the time, but forgot. As it happens, since then I've seen lots of comment that MSs should get blood from the UK.
Will this play out like the Merchant of Venice?
I meant to reply to this post from
@YouBrokeItMate
at the time, but forgot. As it happens, since then I've seen lots of comment that MSs should get blood from the UK.
Will this play out like the Merchant of Venice?
January 6, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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January 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Well, European relations are pushing their way up the agenda again.
But pro-Europeans shouldn't get too hopeful yet. Because this all looks a bit 2019.
Indicative vote anyone?
Reality remains that UK, including Starmer, is not taking this seriously and not thinking about the other side
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But pro-Europeans shouldn't get too hopeful yet. Because this all looks a bit 2019.
Indicative vote anyone?
Reality remains that UK, including Starmer, is not taking this seriously and not thinking about the other side
A🧵
January 5, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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Anyone can be a magistrate - you just need to serve a minimum of 13 days a year. It can be done alongside a full-time job & caring responsibilities.
You get full training & an assigned mentor.
Magistrates are being sought across criminal work, youth cases, and some civil & family proceedings.
2/2
You get full training & an assigned mentor.
Magistrates are being sought across criminal work, youth cases, and some civil & family proceedings.
2/2
Thousands of new magistrates wanted in 2026 as Government launches national recruitment campaign
Thousands of ordinary people from all walks of life are being called on by the Government today (3 January) to volunteer their time to delivering justice by becoming a magistrate.
www.gov.uk
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Anyone can be a magistrate - you just need to serve a minimum of 13 days a year. It can be done alongside a full-time job & caring responsibilities.
You get full training & an assigned mentor.
Magistrates are being sought across criminal work, youth cases, and some civil & family proceedings.
2/2
You get full training & an assigned mentor.
Magistrates are being sought across criminal work, youth cases, and some civil & family proceedings.
2/2
EES is up and running. And again loads of conversations are being had about Schengen and its functioning again.
Often times someone turns around, and says, thinking they've delivered a killer blow, saying "eh, just one more question. What about bilateral agreements?"
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Often times someone turns around, and says, thinking they've delivered a killer blow, saying "eh, just one more question. What about bilateral agreements?"
A 🧵
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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I told my generals that this is what a special military operation is supposed to look like.
They're looking nervously at the window.
They're looking nervously at the window.
January 3, 2026 at 10:06 AM
I told my generals that this is what a special military operation is supposed to look like.
They're looking nervously at the window.
They're looking nervously at the window.
No cheating repost the most recent picture of your pet
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
No cheating repost the most recent picture of your pet
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A plunge into the moral depravity of fascism. Otto Ohlendorf - head of Einsatzgruppe D (Ukraine/Crimea) and later head of Gestapo SD informant system - on the genocidal logic of killing children
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
A plunge into the moral depravity of fascism. Otto Ohlendorf - head of Einsatzgruppe D (Ukraine/Crimea) and later head of Gestapo SD informant system - on the genocidal logic of killing children
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Here’s my official Top 10 films of 2025!
1. Wicked: For Good
2. Roofman
3. One of Them Days
4. Karate Kid: Legends
5. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
6. Good Fortune
7. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
8. K-Pop: Demon Hunters
9. M3GAN 2.0
10. The Gorge
1. Wicked: For Good
2. Roofman
3. One of Them Days
4. Karate Kid: Legends
5. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
6. Good Fortune
7. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
8. K-Pop: Demon Hunters
9. M3GAN 2.0
10. The Gorge
January 2, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Here’s my official Top 10 films of 2025!
1. Wicked: For Good
2. Roofman
3. One of Them Days
4. Karate Kid: Legends
5. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
6. Good Fortune
7. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
8. K-Pop: Demon Hunters
9. M3GAN 2.0
10. The Gorge
1. Wicked: For Good
2. Roofman
3. One of Them Days
4. Karate Kid: Legends
5. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
6. Good Fortune
7. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
8. K-Pop: Demon Hunters
9. M3GAN 2.0
10. The Gorge
December 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Sorry for the extremely bourgeois question but I’m tempted to buy a decent carry on wheeled suitcase for a forthcoming trip - one by Away, which is a fancy brand.
Is the user experience improvement of branded luggage significantly greater than a generic case from Amazon?
Is the user experience improvement of branded luggage significantly greater than a generic case from Amazon?
December 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Sorry for the extremely bourgeois question but I’m tempted to buy a decent carry on wheeled suitcase for a forthcoming trip - one by Away, which is a fancy brand.
Is the user experience improvement of branded luggage significantly greater than a generic case from Amazon?
Is the user experience improvement of branded luggage significantly greater than a generic case from Amazon?
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Time for some more 2026 predictions, I've covered everything from Trump to beans so far, but now we get on to the hard stuff: polls, leaders, seats - follow on in the thread below
No idea but as an avid baked bean consumer I hope we aren’t going to face shortages or price spikes
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What is happening to global legume prices?
December 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Time for some more 2026 predictions, I've covered everything from Trump to beans so far, but now we get on to the hard stuff: polls, leaders, seats - follow on in the thread below
Jasper Carrot said hello to me in Monkspath Tesco one Sunday morning.
I was more interested in making sure my shopping went in the right bag to engage.
I was more interested in making sure my shopping went in the right bag to engage.
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Jasper Carrot said hello to me in Monkspath Tesco one Sunday morning.
I was more interested in making sure my shopping went in the right bag to engage.
I was more interested in making sure my shopping went in the right bag to engage.
#ignoranceisbliss
America is well and truly eff'd.
America is well and truly eff'd.
The UK is very different from Medicare. In Medicare you can mostly go to a specialist of your choice. Not in the UK
This is how most UHC works. Will Americans be ok with this change to Medicare ?
Referrals for specialist care - NHS share.google/X84C9oCy1rE1...
This is how most UHC works. Will Americans be ok with this change to Medicare ?
Referrals for specialist care - NHS share.google/X84C9oCy1rE1...
December 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#ignoranceisbliss
America is well and truly eff'd.
America is well and truly eff'd.
Share a great female villain
December 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Share a great female villain
Worth a read 👇
Predictions for British politics in 2026 will be even tougher than usual because I think we are potentially near inflection points for both Lab and Con - if current steep declines continue, that will soon provoke leadership crisis/challenge which will change poll dynamics.
A reminder of yesterday's post reviewing last year's Christmas predictions for 2025. I will start a new prediction thread for 2026 about a week from now. If there's a prediction you'd like me to make, post it in the replies here!
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Worth a read 👇
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Because Trump is an idiot and crap business person who bankrupts and Elon is a toxic narcissist who thinks because he is good at one thing he is good at everything: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Because Trump is an idiot and crap business person who bankrupts and Elon is a toxic narcissist who thinks because he is good at one thing he is good at everything: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Hallelujah 👇
#abolishthelords
#abolishthelords
I spoke too soon. We will lose an ongoing anachronistic national embarrassment that we have people who sit by birthright in our legislature. Let them get real jobs, by their own merit.
December 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hallelujah 👇
#abolishthelords
#abolishthelords
#Putin
#Trump
#Witkoff
I still maintain that at some point in the future Steve will go missing and his carcass found in a ditch. I'm sure the former Azov operatives holidaying in the vicinity will have nothing to do with his demise
#Trump
#Witkoff
I still maintain that at some point in the future Steve will go missing and his carcass found in a ditch. I'm sure the former Azov operatives holidaying in the vicinity will have nothing to do with his demise
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce an American billionaire, real estate developer, and wannabe diplomat, Steve Witkoff. He’s best known for trying to sell Ukraine to Putin and for helping Trump sell this treason and encouragement of genocidal war as “peace”.
1/20
1/20
December 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Post of the year 😁👇
Also hilarious rhetorical bullshit here.
Fuentes should be judged on what he's doing while not in charge, while AOC should be judged on what my fevered paranoia poisoned imagination tells me she might do if she were in charge.
Fuentes should be judged on what he's doing while not in charge, while AOC should be judged on what my fevered paranoia poisoned imagination tells me she might do if she were in charge.
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Post of the year 😁👇