Bob Gower
@bobg27.bsky.social
Living with heart failure thanks to LVAD. E-biker. Electric Cranks. Grateful Dead. Blackburn Rovers. 64 years of Spurs. Love our garden
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Blue Sky absolutely rocks! I just want to say thank you for the polite, thoughtful & intelligent interaction on here. It’s just so refreshing, reminiscent of the “other place” a decade ago. I really do believe that together we are creating something special here, let’s keep going! 🙏
May 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Blue Sky absolutely rocks! I just want to say thank you for the polite, thoughtful & intelligent interaction on here. It’s just so refreshing, reminiscent of the “other place” a decade ago. I really do believe that together we are creating something special here, let’s keep going! 🙏
This afternoon in our garden, spotted the following butterflies:
Brimstone, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood. Not that rare, but good to see them within an hour of each other
Brimstone, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood. Not that rare, but good to see them within an hour of each other
April 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This afternoon in our garden, spotted the following butterflies:
Brimstone, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood. Not that rare, but good to see them within an hour of each other
Brimstone, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood. Not that rare, but good to see them within an hour of each other
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A personal pet peeve: Politicians and car owners who talk about “cyclists” as though they’re a distinct human species.
In reality, urban cyclists are just regular folks who decided to travel by bike. Many, many more people will make that decision if a city provides high-quality infrastructure.
In reality, urban cyclists are just regular folks who decided to travel by bike. Many, many more people will make that decision if a city provides high-quality infrastructure.
April 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A personal pet peeve: Politicians and car owners who talk about “cyclists” as though they’re a distinct human species.
In reality, urban cyclists are just regular folks who decided to travel by bike. Many, many more people will make that decision if a city provides high-quality infrastructure.
In reality, urban cyclists are just regular folks who decided to travel by bike. Many, many more people will make that decision if a city provides high-quality infrastructure.
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We started the national @playingout.bsky.social movement as parents 16 years ago (basically pre-smartphones) to raise and address this. Cars are absolutely the main reason children stopped playing out, and the one nobody wants to tackle. playingout.net/why/the-prob...
The problem - Playing Out
Having the freedom to play in the street near home is no longer a normal part of most children’s lives. The reasons for this are complex.
playingout.net
April 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We started the national @playingout.bsky.social movement as parents 16 years ago (basically pre-smartphones) to raise and address this. Cars are absolutely the main reason children stopped playing out, and the one nobody wants to tackle. playingout.net/why/the-prob...
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April is #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth - a great to time to thank our wonderful supporter @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social for attempting a 5,000 mile cycling challenge!
He's doing this during his treatment for stage 4 bowel cancer. Keith, you're amazing!👏🏾
sirbobbyrobsonfoundation.org.uk/cycling-thro...
He's doing this during his treatment for stage 4 bowel cancer. Keith, you're amazing!👏🏾
sirbobbyrobsonfoundation.org.uk/cycling-thro...
April 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
April is #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth - a great to time to thank our wonderful supporter @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social for attempting a 5,000 mile cycling challenge!
He's doing this during his treatment for stage 4 bowel cancer. Keith, you're amazing!👏🏾
sirbobbyrobsonfoundation.org.uk/cycling-thro...
He's doing this during his treatment for stage 4 bowel cancer. Keith, you're amazing!👏🏾
sirbobbyrobsonfoundation.org.uk/cycling-thro...
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Farage is talking bollocks again. But now @ed-miliband.bsky.social is calling him out.
There is no politician more geekishly knowledgeable about our energy system than Ed. We need geeks like him to keep the lights on, not Trumpist blowhards like Farage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There is no politician more geekishly knowledgeable about our energy system than Ed. We need geeks like him to keep the lights on, not Trumpist blowhards like Farage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Miliband in blistering attack on Farage’s UK net zero ‘nonsense and lies’
The energy secretary has accused Reform UK’s leader of peddling dangerous falsehoods about renewable power
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Farage is talking bollocks again. But now @ed-miliband.bsky.social is calling him out.
There is no politician more geekishly knowledgeable about our energy system than Ed. We need geeks like him to keep the lights on, not Trumpist blowhards like Farage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There is no politician more geekishly knowledgeable about our energy system than Ed. We need geeks like him to keep the lights on, not Trumpist blowhards like Farage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
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I’ve always been perplexed by people who need to leave the planet in order to realise how precious and beautiful it is.
April 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’ve always been perplexed by people who need to leave the planet in order to realise how precious and beautiful it is.
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Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
leftfootforward.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
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Mill Hill 1950s, Blackburn with Darwen, by Carole Pugh, former textile designer. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
March 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Mill Hill 1950s, Blackburn with Darwen, by Carole Pugh, former textile designer. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
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I don't want the Water Companies to be bailed out, I want their bosses to be jailed and their companies repossessed.
I don't want Public Services to be cut, I want billionaires to be taxed.
I'm not interested in the growth of the richest 1%, I want that money to go to the 99%.
I don't want Public Services to be cut, I want billionaires to be taxed.
I'm not interested in the growth of the richest 1%, I want that money to go to the 99%.
March 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I don't want the Water Companies to be bailed out, I want their bosses to be jailed and their companies repossessed.
I don't want Public Services to be cut, I want billionaires to be taxed.
I'm not interested in the growth of the richest 1%, I want that money to go to the 99%.
I don't want Public Services to be cut, I want billionaires to be taxed.
I'm not interested in the growth of the richest 1%, I want that money to go to the 99%.
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An absolutely brilliant and inspiring Richard Dimbleby Lecture from Gareth Southgate. So much resonated with me both personally and professionally. All of us who have relationships or simply come into contact with joys and young men can okay such an important role here. We just need to be brave.
Fair play to Gareth Southgate for calling out the misogynists selling hate to young men on social media. You aren’t much of a football coach but you’re a decent skin
March 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
An absolutely brilliant and inspiring Richard Dimbleby Lecture from Gareth Southgate. So much resonated with me both personally and professionally. All of us who have relationships or simply come into contact with joys and young men can okay such an important role here. We just need to be brave.
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"The notion of incentivising protesters to lie – to affect remorse for conviction views – is both madness and consistent with a legal system that protects those who destroy the planet for personal enrichment and attacks those who selflessly try to save it."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar...
Non-violent protesters should not have to disavow motives at trial, study says
Academics say UK defendants should be able to explain reasons for their actions and not have to express remorse
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"The notion of incentivising protesters to lie – to affect remorse for conviction views – is both madness and consistent with a legal system that protects those who destroy the planet for personal enrichment and attacks those who selflessly try to save it."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar...
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People want secure and accessible cycle parking at home or as close to it as they can get. We need many more of these hangers in Bristol.
Recent research from Sustrans addresses inequality in who has access to secure cycle parking and benefits of providing it: www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/res...
Recent research from Sustrans addresses inequality in who has access to secure cycle parking and benefits of providing it: www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/res...
Bristol bike storage hangars almost fully booked in 90 minutes
The hangars, which provide spaces for bicycles, are becoming a common sight on residential roads.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
People want secure and accessible cycle parking at home or as close to it as they can get. We need many more of these hangers in Bristol.
Recent research from Sustrans addresses inequality in who has access to secure cycle parking and benefits of providing it: www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/res...
Recent research from Sustrans addresses inequality in who has access to secure cycle parking and benefits of providing it: www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/res...
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This sounds like a plan for us from Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
March 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This sounds like a plan for us from Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
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Currently about 350 people living in the UK with the help of an LVAD (left ventricular assist device).
Is this technology the next developmental step ?
Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success
Is this technology the next developmental step ?
Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success
March 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Currently about 350 people living in the UK with the help of an LVAD (left ventricular assist device).
Is this technology the next developmental step ?
Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success
Is this technology the next developmental step ?
Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success
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Because of the brilliance of Privatisation everyone is paying National Grid £150 in profits every year, while they spend only £10 per household maintaining the grid.
But they have 'no money' to upgrade the grid so you are paying them £36bn more, and hoping they don't steal it.
But they have 'no money' to upgrade the grid so you are paying them £36bn more, and hoping they don't steal it.
March 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Because of the brilliance of Privatisation everyone is paying National Grid £150 in profits every year, while they spend only £10 per household maintaining the grid.
But they have 'no money' to upgrade the grid so you are paying them £36bn more, and hoping they don't steal it.
But they have 'no money' to upgrade the grid so you are paying them £36bn more, and hoping they don't steal it.
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Now THIS is true leadership on the world stage. In stark contrast to the weak, ignorant clown we currently have in the White House.
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
March 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Now THIS is true leadership on the world stage. In stark contrast to the weak, ignorant clown we currently have in the White House.
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
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Just imagine a scenario in which PM Liz Truss was in charge now and then tell me that "all politicians are the same"
March 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just imagine a scenario in which PM Liz Truss was in charge now and then tell me that "all politicians are the same"
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The supreme irony of Elmo handing out sartorial advice to *anyone*...
March 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The supreme irony of Elmo handing out sartorial advice to *anyone*...
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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
March 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
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The Norwegians who have just refused to refuel any American military vessels because they’ve “got a moral compass” are giving me life.
Trump’s really fucked up and I’m
here for it.
Trump’s really fucked up and I’m
here for it.
March 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Norwegians who have just refused to refuel any American military vessels because they’ve “got a moral compass” are giving me life.
Trump’s really fucked up and I’m
here for it.
Trump’s really fucked up and I’m
here for it.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."