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Joe Tibbetts
@joetibbetts.bsky.social
journalist, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, author ~ advocating de-growth, hyper local community empowerment, transparency in local gov. Enemy of zerosum mindset, paid consultants in local government and FA/FIFA
The Chalk Garden 2

Late September sun
Gatekeepers in tumbling flight
One more day. Then night.

Joe Tibbetts 30 September 2025
September 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
August 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Trump/Putin Ukraine peace deal? WTF? Two habitual & shameless liars unable to keep promises? Putin is more to be trusted than Trump he's never made any secret of what he is. Putin isn't "playing" Trump. He doesn't need to. T is so blinded by vanity & so stupid he will accept anything Putin says.
April 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
For the first time in 200 years Choughs are nesting in Dover Castle due to a reintroduction programme by Kent Wildlife Trust www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk and a pair of them have started to visit our garden. Welcome back guys.
March 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Goodbye Vimeo! They got too big, they're in chaos, their chatbot is funny but needs an upgrade, their humans take 24 hours to answer your email. They seem confused and careless. The simple functions in the Vimeo customer journey are neither simple nor functional. Any recommendations please?
March 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Limits to Liberty
March 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It is still winter in England. We are two weeks away from the Vernal Equinox when Spring officially starts and yet this morning a Brimstone butterfly ~ Gonepteryx rhamni ~ one of the few butterflies that hibernate through the winter is busy in the cold pale sunshine of our south coast chalk garden
March 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Vance is getting most of the blame for the bullying & shouting but Trump chose him & we may judge a man by the company he keeps The shouting obscured the astonishing stupidity of the "policy" that the Tantrum Twins were advocating Is this Brain Power Deficit Disorder? Can BPDO be treated?
March 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Tronald Dump, what can we say, he thinks he can buy the world and he is willing to trash his own country and his own country's reputation AND the world he wants to buy in order to do so.
February 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The closer & more scummy the Trump Putin, dog and bitch, bromance the better. All political lives end in failure. The closer they are the more chance the fall of one will topple the other. Cheer them on, feed their delusions, hand them the spade, they'll dig their own graves and save us the effort.
February 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
February, sunset,
spotlit snowdrops bowing, an
audience of one.
February 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Has anyone else noticed that #Elon #Musk is an anagram of Leon Skum ?
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I am researching a podcast critical of the #disabled & #wheelchair #accessible toilet facilities at the Calais, Le Shuttle terminus. Seeking contributions, sources, source material, lived-experience.
February 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I tried building an online shop on Squarespace. Possible but not easy. Thought I would try Shopify. What could be worse than Squarespace I thought? Now I know!
Squarespace will allow me to enter a link to bsky.social but it does not import the butterfly brand.
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December 10, 2024 at 1:14 AM
WTF ~ I looked at the "Popular with Friends" feed The featured friends & friends of my friends were all from USA, no problem there except lots of the friends I follow and who follow me are in UK or Europe. Is this US bias an algorithmic glitch? Responders pls remember I may be dumb but I'm friendly
November 25, 2024 at 11:32 AM
If the planet & the human race is to survive we will need cooperation on a global scale, cooperation so close & so all-encompassing that it will amount to world government If we survive COP29 will come to be seen as a single though huge step on the long journey. Cooperation not technology is the key
November 24, 2024 at 10:18 AM
4 things to watch on YouTube when feeling down. Anything about Indian Running Ducks, films of kids in the projects doing Double Dutch skipping, The Grand Rapids Lip Dub www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjj... but best of all Madeline Khan doing I'm Tired from Blazing Saddles www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uai7...
The Grand Rapids LipDub (NEW WORLD RECORD)
YouTube video by sefllc
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:20 PM
I now understand why Trump is keen to own golf courses. So that he can hang around the showers measuring the golfer's "equipment". Looming out of the steam, tape measure in hand. I wonder if he has Koro? Maybe that's why he wears his suit jackets so long.
November 12, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Spineless braindead Gov loves obesity jabs/drugs. Overall obesity cost to nation down & increase tax revenue from BigPharma up = win/win Treating sugar & sugar lobby same way as treated tobacco & tobacco lobby ++ better but = lose/lose for Gov. Costs more & war with ++ rich sugar lobby. Comments?
November 2, 2024 at 1:05 PM
for 50 years (WTF) Don't Look Now (dir:Nic Roeg 6/5*) has set the benchmark for movie sex scenes. I felt "If you can do better do it, otherwise don't bother" the long night of personal discovery in Disclaimer (Alfonso Cuarón) sets a new bar now Not an adult movie but a movie for adults. Go look now
▶️ Disclaimer - Official Trailer
Watch Trailer | 2:22
www.imdb.com
November 1, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Don't miss the Slightly Foxed PODCAST - Despatches from but not exclusively for the Middle Classes You don't have to love Bath Olivers or know that Kettles Yard is not a kitchen shop to love their love of books & writers & literary lives. Goes well with dark chocolate & whisky foxedquarterly.com
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October 30, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Help? Both I and my partner are getting loads of Manga (I'm told) posts in our feeds. How do we stop this? It is both tedious and depressing.
October 20, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Bad Behaviour podcasts start 1 October featuring politicians business-leaders & policy-makers + vivid descriptions of their lies & prevarications, toxic self-interest, heart-breaking cruelty, moral turpitude, breath-taking hypocrisy, grotesque stupidity & derelictions of duty. Nothing new there then
October 19, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Can anybody help me. What size of image fits the BlueSky banner header. I need an answer as a ratio. For example I usually publish landscape photos as 16:9 If anyone from BlueSky can find the 40 minutes I have lost trying to finesse their system I would be grateful if they would return them too me
October 19, 2024 at 12:33 PM