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RivermanRob
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Homo viator, father, grandfather, story teller, F/friend, OBOD Bard /|\, labyrinth enthusiast, professional adviser in social care and health sector, Appreciative Inquiry practitioner. Interesting in arty things, folklore and the supernatural. FRSA
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makevotesmatter.bsky.social
Under FPTP, elections feel like playing 5D chess.

If I vote for this candidate, will I keep that one out? Or will voting for this party let that party in?

It's exhausting.

Under PR, you can vote for the party you support, knowing that your vote will count. Simple - and fair.
January 8, 2026 at 11:41 AM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
Actual very, very, very good 😂🤣😂
sarf-london.bsky.social Pete 🟥🟦 @sarf-london.bsky.social · 7d
Oh this is good. This is very good.
January 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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standingmountain.bsky.social
Do not curse the darkness of men,
for they act from necessity,
moved by causes of self importance.

Seek not to hate, nor to mock, nor to lament,
but to understand.

For understanding is the mind’s liberation,
and joy is the increase of one’s power to be.

The freer you become..

#StandMighty
#Free
Clear mind, settles the heart. BCS MX 2026.
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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prum.bsky.social
This!
January 8, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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york.ac.uk
Did someone say ducks? We've got you covered 🦆

A very happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all!
A female mallard peeks over a row of foliage, looking at something off camera. A duck flaps its wings majestically as it prepares to hop out of a lake onto a nearby footpath. Long Boi, an Indian Runner duck with unusually long neck, stands on a footpath. A duck paddles in water in front of a grand, red brick building.
January 6, 2026 at 12:19 PM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
Herring gull in profile
The head and breast of a herring gull. It is perched on a 5th floor windowsill
January 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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opsnowcrash.bsky.social
Billionaires drain 35%+ of global GDP. Cloud‑capital keeps 99%, workers get 1%. Read🔻

Europe Needs Its Own Amazon—Owned by Citizens, Not Billionaires

We’re paying a 35% private tax to tech oligarchs. A public digital marketplace could end it overnight.

#EU #Future #Society #Democracy
Europe Needs Its Own Amazon—Owned by Citizens, Not Billionaires
We’re paying a 35% private tax to tech oligarchs. A public digital marketplace could end it overnight.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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lomelindi12.bsky.social
The last day of the year. A white pony by the menhir is a blessing.

#Dartmoor
A standing stone in early winter light looking dark with a white pony standing behind
December 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
The Riverman loves this!
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
A pair of foxes in the garden
Two foxes foraging in the flower beds of a suburban garden. In the foreground are a number of shrubs and plant in a flowerbed. In upper right corner a wooden garden bench, grey with age, stands on a small area of crazy paving. In the upper quarter of the picture is a high laurel hedge. The centre third of the picture is a grass lawn cut by the flower beds.
December 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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soapachu.bsky.social
"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbour, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." - Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor.
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25d
👇👇👇👇
December 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
York’s other River: The Ouse near Beningbrough Hall, North Yorkshire, England
The lower 40% of the picture shows the River Ouse. The blue skies which form the upper half of the picture are reflected in the river water. The far bank is a band across the middle of the picture with a few leafless trees silhouetted against the sky. Part of the best bank is visible in lower right
December 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
Riverman’s walk 26.11.25 - Where waters meet: the confluence of the Nidd and Ouse near Beningborough Hall in North Yorkshire, England
A picture taken in early afternoon in late December. The camera is pointed towards the low sun on a day when the sky is mainly clear, with a few wisps of white cloud. In the foreground is a small triangular section of river bank with two leafless trees in silhouette stretching up from bottom left. The right hand tree reaches the upper middle edge of the picture The broad River Ouse is joined by the smaller River Nidd and, at the point of confluence the waters form a large pool. The sun, slightly above centre of the picture is reflected in the water.
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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jabb.bsky.social
📸: Philip McKay
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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gavinmacgregor.bsky.social
Wishing you a wonderful #wintersolstice

A time of rest, reflection and renewal, today was spent playing with images of standing stones and cycles of time.

#StandingStoneSunday #Art #ArtArchaeology #Archaeology #prehistory
Pastel on cardboard showing rising sun and row of standing stones Found page of book, overlaid by image of moon detailed with curvilinear rockart including spirals. Below which is rows of standing stones as seen at Carnac
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
Sunday 21st December

#SORC
#OriginalRollCall
#ORChestra

Good morning Sunday ORChestra.
Solstice Blessings to you all
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
Manchester night scene December 2025
A giant illuminated ferris wheel stands in the centre of the picture, towering over a multi/coloured helter-skelter tower. In the foreground is a road and hoardings showing various pictures of Manchester town hall
December 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
Saturday 20th December

#SORC
#OriginalRollCall
#ORChestra

Good morning Saturday ORChestra. How are we today? Hopefully no sore heads or black eyes?
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
This is a wonderful story, especially if you know your Lear
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Dec 18
It’s also the 65th anniversary of Stephen Spender having dinner with Edith Sitwell, and her telling him how she answered letters she considered stupid
Extract from Stephen Spender, Journals, 1939-1983: She had a letter from some silly woman saying, ‘Dear Dame Edith, As an admirer of your poems I am nevertheless greatly disturbed by a poem containing a line about the mating of tigers. I have a daughter of 19 - at that age where the brook runs into the river - and a son aged 10 who is very restless. I wish to entreat you dear Dame Edith when you write your poetry, to consider the disturbing effect that lines like those about the mating of tigers may have on the young.’ Edith wrote back: ‘Tell your dirty little brats to read King Lear.’
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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jabb.bsky.social
📸: JA_BB, “winter solstice”

#photography
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
rivermanrob.bsky.social
The cellarium at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, England with Advent illuminations. December 2025.
The rib vaulting of the cellarium in the ruined abbey is illuminated in colours of red, green, yellow, blue and purple. The impression created by the coloured soaring arches is of a firework transformed into stone.
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM