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ukcsi.bsky.social
Marvin.
@ukcsi.bsky.social
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Sometimes photography, Sometimes IT. Sometimes 'flying'.
Definitely not going to Trump-ton anytime soon!
In the deepest, darkest shire.
"Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to make anything up"
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ukcsi.bsky.social
Another sunset from February 2016 on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Looking North West-ish from Kuaotunu, the bush and beach in the foreground, the sea and the north of the land beyond. The moon riding high above the clouds.
#Photo #Photography #Sunset #NewZealand
Just after sunset. High level wispy orange clouds with the moon behind, a few lower level darker clouds above the land that can be seen beyond the sea. Some dark bushes and trees visible in front of a small stretch of beach on the waterfront Just after sunset. High level wispy orange clouds with the moon behind, a few lower level darker clouds above the land that can be seen beyond the sea. The sky changing from light by the horizon to quite dark blue above the moon
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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csmaff.bsky.social
As the temperature rises, lots of walkers and families are enjoying these scenes on the #LongMynd this afternoon. #churchstretton #shropshire #snow @thephotohour.bsky.social @snowhour.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies.

Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever.

So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.
February 14, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Dear UK media,
If you’re going to fall for Farage’s every cry for attention, FFS, be ready with the facts that show that, not only is he peddling anti-immigrant sentiment/racism for votes, but he’s lying about the stats too.
It’s dangerous and dishonest.
Please say so.
Thanks
A v tired-of-this, UK
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Farage is clearly misleading the public.

The main reason that net migration fell by 445,000 (year to June 2025 it was 205k, having been 649k a year before) is that immigration fell by 401,000.

The BBC should fact-check/verify and report that this was untrue.
February 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
A sunset, but looking North East towards Gt. Mercury Island / Ahuahu from Kuaotunu Bay on the Cormandel Peninsular February 2016.
#Photo #Photography #NewZealand #Sunset #Landscape #Seascape
A sunset but looking the other way. a calm sea beyond the silhouettes of some local vegetation along the bottom of the picture, a long low island can be seen on the horizon beneath a sky ranging from light blue at the top, through orange to grey at the horizon. several bands of clouds at differing height are floating across the sky.
February 13, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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suellade.bsky.social
In other unrelated news, you can buy Nige for about £60 on Cameo

He will literally say anything
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
A clump of native grasses at the site of the road on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand overlooking part of the Hauraki Gulf.
#photography #photo #NewZealand #NativeGrasses #Landscape
A clump of native grasses with very hairy spikes. Background is an inlet of the sea with hills behind with a blue slightly cloudy sky
February 12, 2026 at 8:46 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
10 years ago today, I was driving from the Bay of Islands to The Coromandel Peninsular in NZ. Couldn't resist the temptation of activating zl1/nl-076 Mount Parihaka in Whangarei for SOTA.
Nice and easy drive up, which was nice 😀
#Sota #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #NZ #NewZealand
The steps from the car park up to the summit of Mount Parihaka running through the bush, a communication tower and antenna on either side under a blue sky with quite a few summer clouds The World War 2 monument at the summit of Mount Parihaka with the lookout behind, sadly closed when I visited, The metal monument rises high in the photo into the blue summer sky with white clouds and trees behind. the lookout is to one side cordoned off with tape and cones The stone wall surrounding the paved area surrounding the monument. There's a thin yellow wire aerial slung between a tree in the corner of the wall and another behind where the photo was taken. some small portable radio equipment can be seen on to of the wall attached to the centre of the wire antenna
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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padraigreidy.bsky.social
Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...
Uproar as Reform policy chief threatens to defund Welsh university
Martin Shipton Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two lea...
nation.cymru
February 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Today in 2016 found me at the top end of New Zealand, wandering down to the Cape Reinga lighthouse on a hot, sunny day!
#NewZealand #CapeReinga #Photo #Landscape #Lighthouse
A white lighthouse on top of a grass and bush covered promontory overlooking a blue sea with a few white waves under a clear blue sky The Northern tip of New Zealand, the bush covered land disappearing into the blue sea across a sandy beach with waves breaking on the shore under a sumer sky peppered with fluffy clouds
February 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Here's an autumn panorama of Ludlow in Shropshire.
The town viewed from Whitcliffe Common, The castle in the centre framed between 2 trees with Titterstone Clee Hill to the right and Brown Clee Hill just to the left of centre on the horizon.
#Shropshire #Photo #Panorama #Ludlow #UK
A panorama of the town of Ludlow, its castle visible in the centre of the picture beyond some trees and bushes with the town behind. both the Clee hills can be seen on the horizon under quite a bright though somewhat cloudy sky.
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
£240m. With no tender. Palantir.

I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.

Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.

Palantir out.
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d
Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.

Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’

I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
February 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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vicderbyshire.bsky.social
WATCH: Ghislaine Maxwell refuse to answer qtns about Epstein at a Congrssional hearing yesterday

Maxwell appeared virtually from the Texas prison where she is serving 20 yrs for sex trafficking
👇
February 10, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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maryearnshaw.bsky.social
Obviously never been to Bangor University which happens to have to have excellent b&b accommodation and a fantastic restaurant with amazing views over the Menai Straits to Anglesey. Oh and a few Nobel Prize winning alumni and - Oakeshott wouldn't rate him, perhaps 😂 - director Danny Boyle.
travellersuzy.bsky.social Travellersuzy @travellersuzy.bsky.social · 4d
So very Trumpian. Is this really what you want? Your local university having to close down because Reform are having a hissy fit? Loss of jobs, loss of opportunities,loss of investment in your community? Look at who they are and what they're threatening!
February 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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thejase.bsky.social
Nigel Farage shows off the new Reform limited edition shirt.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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simonwhale.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Good grief.
It was 10 years ago today when I walked up Kauri Mountain in New Zealand to activate the summit, ZL1/NL-079, for SOTA.
Pleased to qualify it with 7 QSOs!
A long way to go to be the first to activate it though 😀
#HamRadio #SOTA #Radio #NewZealand
The Trig Point on top of Kauri Mountain complete with seat with my radio equipment on. A travel 'fishing' pole attached to a gatepost held the wire antenna. A couple of trees in the background beneath a summer blue sky with wispy white clouds The private road that had to be walked up to the trig point from the small car park. the road snakes its way up the hillside with trees to either side a small farm building on the left behind a wooden fence A view to the South from the trig point looking through the trees to a sweeping beach terminated by another hill, a summer blue sky with some cloud
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Richard Murphy always talks a lot of sense.
We should be worried by what's coming our way. If we're not it'll be too late!
youtu.be/srCked8HMNc
The US is now funding the far-right in the UK
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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February 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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riotgrandma.bsky.social
😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
Funny how the media is baying for the blood of one man, but nods through this b’stard!
February 8, 2026 at 12:07 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
There's some roadworks that have been taking place on the Shropshire/Worcestershire border for TWO YEARS.
So far, we've seen people working there for about 3 days drilling holes and pouring concrete down them.
Time for a birthday party!
#Shropshire #Roads #Roadworks #Birthday
Some long running (2 years) roadworks with some added birthday banners and party balloons! Image from Google Streetview, I wasn't insane enough to stand and take photos myself! Some long running (2 years) roadworks with some added partying 'workers', birthday banners and party balloons! Image from Google Streetview, I wasn't insane enough to stand and take photos myself! Some long running (2 years) roadworks with some added partying 'workers', birthday banners and party balloons! Image from Google Streetview, I wasn't insane enough to stand and take photos myself!
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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jimallthetime.bsky.social
Trump’s funding a MAGA invasion of UK & EU

🚨 Code fucking red 🚨

'A report from the Financial Times last night made my stomach drop

'The FT revealed that Trump’s State Department is pulling together a “slush fund” to bankroll pro-MAGA groups in the UK and Europe'

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
Trump’s funding a MAGA invasion of UK and EU
🚨 Code f*cking red 🚨
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Some people aren't getting their ASDA delivery...
Apparently last night, an ASDA delivery van attempted to cross the ford at Neen Savage in Shropshire but didn't quite make it.
It's now wedged against a footbridge some 1.2km downstream.
Driver is apparently OK
#Flood #Shropshire
A half sunken delivery van wedged against a footbridge after being swept away from a flooded ford. Brown flood water can be seen swirling around under the small footbridge.a square rear of a delivery van can be seen on the far side of the bridge, partly submerged in the water
February 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
River Teme in Tenbury Wells at 09:35 this morning. If the rain keeps up it could be very 'interesting' for the town again this weekend.
#River #Weather #Teme #TenburyWells #Worcestershire
February 6, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
PM Tusk on Epstein: it is very likely that this was a planned operation by the Russian KGB.

More and more leads are pointing to suspicions that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal was co-organized by Russian intelligence services.
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM