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Charlie Bavington
@cbavington.bsky.social
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Translation (Fr-Eng) and teaching English for a living.
Music (rock/metal), sport (football), history (ignorant dabbling) for fun.
Politics if I feel my mood dropping below incandescent & I need a fury booster.

Seldom, if ever, actually gruntled.
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explaintrade.com
How big a piece of shit would you have to be to buy the confiscated jewelry of asylum seekers at a government auction?
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
cbavington.bsky.social
Aren't Labour just stupendously brilliant, and not at all determined to disappoint at every turn? Those #GTTO at all costs loons have a lot to answer for....
libertyhq.bsky.social Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · Nov 4
🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.

Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.

This is worse than we feared.
Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
Presumably at least partly the point of the new regs is that you either comply or you shove off.
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
This map includes an interesting potential radial road blatting its way through #Barnet
roads.org.uk Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · Nov 3
Earlier today we published the Ringways Map, in collaboration with @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk. We are beyond excited to finally put it online - below is a thread explaining why it's so special, but to see it for yourself just follow the link: www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.p... 🧵
www.sabre-roads.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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theregister.com
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/l...
One week to opt out or be fodder for LinkedIn AI training
: Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line
www.theregister.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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henrymance.ft.com
The same people who defended the collective punishment of Palestinian civilians, which meant thousands of innocent people died, are now outraged by the collective punishment of Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans, which will mean a few hundred innocent people miss a football match.
October 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
cbavington.bsky.social
That whole thing last year about absolutely having to vote Labour to #GTTO ? a) it was never true, and b) is working as well as could be expected, i.e. bloody dreadfully. Mainly because it didn't get Tories out at all. Just gave us some different ones.
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Oct 7
Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
Badenoch does realise that most of the people who agree with that first bit think that she doesn't belong here either, doesn't she?
October 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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themckenziest.gay
Oh my god lol

This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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roberthutton.co.uk
Peter Mandelson Sacking Day seems to come around sooner every decade. My SKETCH of Today in "No! Not Peter! Not again?"
Oh Mandy … | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
Some of us are old enough to remember where we were every time Peter Mandelson resigned. His departures from high office are like royal weddings: a chance to freeze a moment in our nation’s long story…
thecritic.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
I do hope all the #GTTO obsessives of last year are suitably impressed.
September 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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localnotail.bsky.social
Castle Bromwich Über Alles
Viz Top Tips John Constant. [photo of a white mini roundabout with a red cross painted over the top by a radicalised nationalist fool of a Brummie. Except there are some additional lines added for the joke]] Adding two well placed, straight red lines to "patriots"; graffiti already on traffic islands creates your very own Dead Kennedys tribute. Liked by You and 2.9K others
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
Clear & obvious not a thing any more? Bloody absurd decision. #FULMUN
August 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
officialjackwhite "Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear" that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults. How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being. officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and "ample time on at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot. No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves. And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief.
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
Hard to see fewer political ads as anything but A Good Thing, wherever it happens (sadly not in the UK obvs, unless there is a knock-on effect from advertisers somehow deciding not to bother at all, anywhere, not just the EU)
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
I had heard of The 1975, but never actually listened before.

Fair to say I won't be listening again. And the singer is an insufferable tosser. You'd think they'd make an effort being live on the telly. Or are they always this.... nothing-y? #Glastonbury
June 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
@darklordofbarnet.bsky.social Sharon's last few weeks of squeezing a bit more cash from Ozzy's name take an interesting turn!
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
Ooohhhh (I mean, not a surprise but still)
June 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
How dynamic pricing works for live events in Britain

From the new Private Eye, out now.
April 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
cbavington.bsky.social
One man's donation is another man's bribe.
everydoctor.org.uk EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · Mar 24
BREAKING 🚨 Can you guess which 5 MPs have taken the highest total donations from people+companies linked to the private health sector between 2023-2025?

1. Wes Streeting - £179,575
2. Yvette Cooper - £165,439
3. Shabana Mahmood - £136,168
4. Tom Tugendhat - £106,297
5. Rachel Reeves - £94,043

...
March 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
Seems quite appropriate as I've been following loads of folk on here in the last couple of days, who I used to follow on X but under a different handle.
pastpostcard.bsky.social Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Mar 20
Hope you know who I am.
March 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
Just seen a wasp bouncing around our ceiling in a pretty lively manner.

Seems a bit early in the year.
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
cbavington.bsky.social
I've not drunk #Brewdog for a few years, since that exposé of J Watt being lecherous old goat with staff, then dropping the living wage, but if you still need a reason not to buy his beer...
February 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM