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Chris Gravell
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Retired, reads a lot, doesn't dust, vague lefty. Bikes, e-bikes, cargo bikes, disability rights, trans rights, Palestine, etc.
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With alt text. Love this idea.
Replacing the words "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money". - How can we respond to COVID without sacrificing rich people's yacht money? - Saving the environment sounds nice but what about rich people's yacht money? - Medicare for all would destroy rich people's yacht money.
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Over a million now.
September 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Heading for a million signatures.
Screenshot of ‘Do not introduce Digital ID cards’ petition showing 964,308 signatures.
September 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Let’s get this to 250,000!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Screenshot of UK Parliament’s page for the Petition ‘Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza‘ showing 172,977 signatures.
July 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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No comment.
Adjacent headlines in tonight's Guardian: 'More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action'; 'At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food'
July 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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My complaint, sent to newsonline.errors@bbc.co.uk
In your story ‘ Trans ex-judge says gender ruling risks lives https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gry1q7664o’ you gave a welcome airing to the the reasonable fears of Dr McCloud after the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex. However, your report included a claim by Maya Forstater which is untrue and was allowed to stand unchallenged: ‘Ms Forstater said: "Women have already been assaulted and many, many are self-excluding because of the policy Dr McCloud endorses of allowing men to self-identify into women's toilets, showers and changing rooms.’ There have been no such assaults resulting from trans women using these spaces. Please check this and add that information. Self-exclusion may happen but probably arises from the kind of panic Maya Forstater’s rhetoric is encouraging, and would not be helped by allowing it to stand unchallenged.
June 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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A variation but still contradictory.
Screenshot of Google search asking whether Jane Austen and Mary Shelley were sisters. Result says: ‘No, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley were not sisters. They were not related by blood, though they did know each other and shared an intellectual connection through their mother, Mary Wollstonecraft. Elaboration: Jane Austen was the daughter of Reverend Thomas Austen, a clergyman, and Cassandra, his wife. Mary Shelley was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft (the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) and William Godwin, a philosopher and author. While Mary Wollstonecraft was the intellectual inspiration for Jane Austen, they were not sisters in the traditional sense. Mary Shelley had a half-sister, Fanny Imlay, who was also Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter.’
June 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Today’s peacock butterfly on plum blossom.
A peacock butterfly on white plum blossom brilliantly lit by spring sunshine against a vivid blue sky.
April 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The Atlantic story.
The photo displays this text: 'When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true. Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.'
March 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Complain at www.hbclark.co.uk/contact-us
Screenshot of H.B.Clark Co. Ltd's 'contact us' web page linked to in the post. Includes phone number 01924290149 and email address sales@hbclark.co.uk.
March 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Two grebes retreating from a massive grebe bust up (well probably four or six grebes). There was wing biting and awful shrieks.
I think it probably amounted to grebous bodily harm.
Two grebes seen through tangled dead vegetation left by floods, on a small waterway in early March sunshine at the Flood Plain Forest Reserve near Wolverton, Milton Keynes.
March 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Today on the allotment, female hazel catkins.
Extreme close up of three red flowers (female hazel catkins) emerging from fuzzy buds on a hazel twig, with fully open yellow male catkins dangling below them, in sunlight.
February 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Bee in crocus today.
Honeybee in sunlit yellow crocus.
February 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I made three jars of Seville orange curd which looks like preserved mellow sunshine and tastes amazing. Pic from a previous year.
Close up of two jars of orange curd on a kitchen counter. The curd is a rich golden yellow.
February 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Now.
Daily Express poll asking, ‘Are you happy with Brexit five years on?’, with results Yes = 25%, No = 74%, Don’t know = 1%.
February 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Just finished, lots of making it up as I went along, very happy with it till the moths attack.
Hand knitted Fair Isle jumper in muted colours worn by the knitter.
January 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Delivering cardboard to the allotment.
Teen quick haul cargo bike with two panniers filled with flattened cardboard boxes on a grassy ride on an allotment site in low January sun.
January 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Feathers McGraw from Vengeance Most Fowl sitting in a big black chair stroking a white fluffy seal on his lap.
January 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Hoarfrost on the silver birch at the allotment today (Milton Keynes).
Top of a sunlit silver birch tree covered with hoar frost against a very blue sky.
January 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Well.
IMDB listing of the top movies of 1957, 12 Angry Men, Bridge over the River Kwai, Paths of Glory, The Seventh Seal and Witness for the Prosecution.
January 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Started the willow harvest on the willow plot. Leicestershire Dicks and Le Bleu in this pic, and also cut the first two rows of Harrisons.
Two colourful heaps of newly cut basket making willow varieties in winter sunshine.
January 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The horrible makeup signals both his vanity and his insensitivity to how others see him. And his incompetence.
Detail from the photo of Trump and Musk in the post this is replying to showing Trump’s face and neck, with his fake tan makeup ending under his chin and leaving skin around his eyes, nose, mouth and ears exposed as well.
January 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Screenshot of Daily Express poll results showing 53% support Sadiq Khan’s knighthood.
January 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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So today I rode my ebike for the first time since an operation in mid November and it was glorious. 15kg of birdfood delivered to the allotment. Was greeted by one of the robins plainly saying, 'It's about time,' even though I've been walking there to refill their feeders. And snowdrops showing.
Close up of woodland ground with dead leaves, pale green snowdrop shoots (no flowers yet) peeping through in the centre of the photo.
December 15, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Seedheads
A mass of brown, dried seedheads, teasels, thistles and willowherb.
November 23, 2024 at 12:42 AM