Gavin Johnson
@gavingjohnson.bsky.social
Love the outdoors, hiking and paddle boarding, good company, interesting posts and great coffee
I’ve finished reading #BabysBreath by @russincheshire.bsky.social the pace is relentless as the story develops. At times the tension was almost unbearable. I was lucky enough to be an advance reader, it’s out on September 1st - preorder it and enjoy!
August 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I’ve finished reading #BabysBreath by @russincheshire.bsky.social the pace is relentless as the story develops. At times the tension was almost unbearable. I was lucky enough to be an advance reader, it’s out on September 1st - preorder it and enjoy!
A rare trip into London also gives me an extra chance to read #BabysBreath can’t put it down!
August 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A rare trip into London also gives me an extra chance to read #BabysBreath can’t put it down!
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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For those no longer on X, my news of the day, week, month - no year (!) is that @sangitamyska.bsky.social and I have finally met. She is everything you'd expect and more. This friendship was forged in the strangest of circumstances, and I'm sure it will endure.
November 29, 2024 at 11:11 PM
For those no longer on X, my news of the day, week, month - no year (!) is that @sangitamyska.bsky.social and I have finally met. She is everything you'd expect and more. This friendship was forged in the strangest of circumstances, and I'm sure it will endure.
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Yes. This experiment will work if you make it your own. Customize your experience, build new ones, make a social network that can be controlled by the people who use it an idea we do not go back on.
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
December 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Yes. This experiment will work if you make it your own. Customize your experience, build new ones, make a social network that can be controlled by the people who use it an idea we do not go back on.
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The courage of those Georgians and especially of this woman is just amazing.
December 1, 2024 at 7:11 PM
The courage of those Georgians and especially of this woman is just amazing.
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Having just looked below the line of probably my first ever viral LinkedIn piece (a posting yesterday of this open.substack.com/pub/democrac...) ‘brain rot’ feels pretty apt for the word of the year
(The most ‘likes’ is an approving comment about that petition to re-run the general election 😬😬😬)
(The most ‘likes’ is an approving comment about that petition to re-run the general election 😬😬😬)
Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy
Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences
open.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Having just looked below the line of probably my first ever viral LinkedIn piece (a posting yesterday of this open.substack.com/pub/democrac...) ‘brain rot’ feels pretty apt for the word of the year
(The most ‘likes’ is an approving comment about that petition to re-run the general election 😬😬😬)
(The most ‘likes’ is an approving comment about that petition to re-run the general election 😬😬😬)
Captures the situation perfectly
November 29, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Captures the situation perfectly
Emotional and heartfelt goodbye on @bbc5live.bsky.social from @chris-warburton.bsky.social with Eleanor Oldroyd
November 24, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Emotional and heartfelt goodbye on @bbc5live.bsky.social from @chris-warburton.bsky.social with Eleanor Oldroyd
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Search for the MAGA Cockroaches list on here. Hit subscribe and then block. You can block the whole list in one button push. And it is the most satisfying thing I have ever done!
November 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Search for the MAGA Cockroaches list on here. Hit subscribe and then block. You can block the whole list in one button push. And it is the most satisfying thing I have ever done!
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Rare photo of the Milky Way seen from the surface of Mars
November 24, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Rare photo of the Milky Way seen from the surface of Mars
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Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical! 🦊 Oxford -
🎞️ from: @EleonoraSberg
🎞️ from: @EleonoraSberg
November 19, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical! 🦊 Oxford -
🎞️ from: @EleonoraSberg
🎞️ from: @EleonoraSberg
In the interests of public safety the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Easex has postponed tonight’s public meeting for Chelmsford District www.facebook.com/share/p/15Mh...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
In the interests of public safety the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Easex has postponed tonight’s public meeting for Chelmsford District www.facebook.com/share/p/15Mh...
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Important context here:
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽
#FarmersProtest
#FarmersProtest
November 20, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Important context here:
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
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1,000 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. It's also 161 years today since Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America delivered the #GettysburgAddress - one of the most influential speeches in history. The world awaits the 47th President...
November 19, 2024 at 1:55 PM
1,000 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. It's also 161 years today since Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America delivered the #GettysburgAddress - one of the most influential speeches in history. The world awaits the 47th President...
1,000 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. It's also 161 years today since Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America delivered the #GettysburgAddress - one of the most influential speeches in history. The world awaits the 47th President...
November 19, 2024 at 1:55 PM
1,000 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. It's also 161 years today since Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America delivered the #GettysburgAddress - one of the most influential speeches in history. The world awaits the 47th President...
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Zoe Ball to leave BBC Radio 2 breakfast show
Zoe Ball to leave BBC Radio 2 breakfast show
Presenter tells listeners it’s time to ‘focus on family’ after six years but will remain on the station
The BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has announced she is stepping down from her breakfast show after six years.
“After six incredible years on the…
dlvr.it
November 19, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Zoe Ball to leave BBC Radio 2 breakfast show
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Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain | Will Hutton
Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain | Will Hutton
Prices and rents will fall under Rachel Reeves’ plans, enabling a younger generation with new ideas to enter the field
One of the baleful dimensions of our times is the way that the conversation about what constitutes the good society is framed by the…
dlvr.it
November 17, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain | Will Hutton
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 8:18 AM
@rickedwards1.bsky.social Welcome, it’s nice here
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 AM
@rickedwards1.bsky.social Welcome, it’s nice here
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Busy start to the week tomorrow on @bbc5live breakfast…
We’re talking US military support for Ukraine, waiting times in gynaecological treatments for women, attacks on police officers, Monday Breakfast Club on #NationsLeague, bit of rugby union, #ImACeleb… and our In MyOpinion World Cup…
We’re talking US military support for Ukraine, waiting times in gynaecological treatments for women, attacks on police officers, Monday Breakfast Club on #NationsLeague, bit of rugby union, #ImACeleb… and our In MyOpinion World Cup…
November 17, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Busy start to the week tomorrow on @bbc5live breakfast…
We’re talking US military support for Ukraine, waiting times in gynaecological treatments for women, attacks on police officers, Monday Breakfast Club on #NationsLeague, bit of rugby union, #ImACeleb… and our In MyOpinion World Cup…
We’re talking US military support for Ukraine, waiting times in gynaecological treatments for women, attacks on police officers, Monday Breakfast Club on #NationsLeague, bit of rugby union, #ImACeleb… and our In MyOpinion World Cup…