Didactylos47
@didactylos47.bsky.social
Bookworm, amateur artist, retired. Ex National Trust Guide, Ex English Heritage Guide, Ex Feral Cat trapper, Ex Wildlife Trust Volunteer, Ex Teacher, Ex Traveller. Wow that’s a shed load of Xs. Political views, mix of Stoic and Buddhist philosophy.
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Didactylos47
@didactylos47.bsky.social
· Nov 16
I ran out of words, live in Northumberland - a very old and interesting kingdom of the past. Steeped in history and glorious scenery, though pre Covid we explored all manner of places including Amtrak across the USA, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Bali, Singapore and loads of Europe by train.
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Durham will scrap full council-tax rebates, forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to start paying for the first time | Peter Morris
Council tax shock for thousands of Durham’s poorest – thanks to Reform UK
Durham will scrap full council-tax rebates, forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to start paying for the first time
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Durham will scrap full council-tax rebates, forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to start paying for the first time | Peter Morris
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“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
Russia used a network of 150,000 Twitter accounts to meddle in Brexit
Russian-based Twitter accounts focused their attention on the Brexit referendum in the days leading up to the vote, data scientists have concluded.
www.businessinsider.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
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Also, I think the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee should publish a statement like this one;
- "The Nobel Peace Prize was never awarded to Neville Chamberlain. The Prize will never be awarded to anyone who trades somebody else's land for a few months to a couple of years of peace."
- "The Nobel Peace Prize was never awarded to Neville Chamberlain. The Prize will never be awarded to anyone who trades somebody else's land for a few months to a couple of years of peace."
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Also, I think the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee should publish a statement like this one;
- "The Nobel Peace Prize was never awarded to Neville Chamberlain. The Prize will never be awarded to anyone who trades somebody else's land for a few months to a couple of years of peace."
- "The Nobel Peace Prize was never awarded to Neville Chamberlain. The Prize will never be awarded to anyone who trades somebody else's land for a few months to a couple of years of peace."
You can’t receive something you actually wrote surely, you already had it?
Russia has not officially received any settlement plans on Ukraine from the US, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow has not been informed of Ukraine's agreement to negotiate on Trump's peace plan.
November 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
You can’t receive something you actually wrote surely, you already had it?
Profound thanks to those who use hashtags for posting stuff like #cricket stuff, real annoyance to those who don’t and flood my timeline with irrelevant postings.
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Profound thanks to those who use hashtags for posting stuff like #cricket stuff, real annoyance to those who don’t and flood my timeline with irrelevant postings.
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"Official policy should never be driven by ethnic stereotyping. That is the very least humanity expects from the great Great Britain."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
Albanian PM accuses Mahmood of 'ethnic stereotyping'
The home secretary told MPs on Monday around 700 Albanian families were
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
"Official policy should never be driven by ethnic stereotyping. That is the very least humanity expects from the great Great Britain."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
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Does he even own a suit?
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Does he even own a suit?
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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What on earth were they thinking?
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What on earth were they thinking?
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In 1974, our local Labour Party Young Socialist group invited a bloke who'd just sought asylum in Yorkshire. He was from Chile, a critic of Pinochet and had fled for his life. He opened our eyes to the world.
Not sure how he'd be treated now.
Not sure how he'd be treated now.
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In 1974, our local Labour Party Young Socialist group invited a bloke who'd just sought asylum in Yorkshire. He was from Chile, a critic of Pinochet and had fled for his life. He opened our eyes to the world.
Not sure how he'd be treated now.
Not sure how he'd be treated now.
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So the plan is, we just take their valuable possessions off them, and put them in a camp...
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
So the plan is, we just take their valuable possessions off them, and put them in a camp...
Isn’t that what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany??
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 10:49 AM
Isn’t that what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany??
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Forced to resign over how a video shown on the BBC of Donald Trump over a year ago was edited.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Forced to resign over how a video shown on the BBC of Donald Trump over a year ago was edited.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
There is obscene and something beyond obscene that I think we need to make a new word for. Trillionscene?
Elon Musk is now the highest paid CEO on the planet his $100bn a year for 10 years deal is 2,500,000x the wage of his average employee
In fact it's 20x the entire wage bill for all 125,000 of Tesla's other employees
For comparison World Hunger could be cured for $37-50bn a year
In fact it's 20x the entire wage bill for all 125,000 of Tesla's other employees
For comparison World Hunger could be cured for $37-50bn a year
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
There is obscene and something beyond obscene that I think we need to make a new word for. Trillionscene?
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All of the productivity benefits from AI are going to go to billionaires.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
All of the productivity benefits from AI are going to go to billionaires.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
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7m Britons can't work or do limited amount of work due to sickness
Result of
Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing.
NHS queues
Can't see GP, dentist
Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems
Lack of support from employers.
Need good income & public services
Result of
Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing.
NHS queues
Can't see GP, dentist
Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems
Lack of support from employers.
Need good income & public services
Why millions of Britons are off work long-term sick
Almost seven million people have a health condition that has forced them out of work or limited the amount they can do. As workers and businesses await government plans to grapple with the spiralling ...
news.sky.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
7m Britons can't work or do limited amount of work due to sickness
Result of
Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing.
NHS queues
Can't see GP, dentist
Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems
Lack of support from employers.
Need good income & public services
Result of
Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing.
NHS queues
Can't see GP, dentist
Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems
Lack of support from employers.
Need good income & public services
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Full update video here:
youtu.be/yeM9l2OCAKY
youtu.be/yeM9l2OCAKY
UKR Drone Strikes Relentless - Two More Refineries Struck
YouTube video by Jake Broe
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Full update video here:
youtu.be/yeM9l2OCAKY
youtu.be/yeM9l2OCAKY
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Russia is creating fake AI videos of Ukrainians surrendering. Dumb people fall for it.
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Russia is creating fake AI videos of Ukrainians surrendering. Dumb people fall for it.
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
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UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
www.unitetheunion.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Increasingly I feel like we are all on a gigantic Titanic and the first class passengers are seizing all the lifeboats, whilst encouraging the orchestra to play ‘nice’ tunes for everyone else to dance to.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Increasingly I feel like we are all on a gigantic Titanic and the first class passengers are seizing all the lifeboats, whilst encouraging the orchestra to play ‘nice’ tunes for everyone else to dance to.