Paul D
@pauld70.bsky.social
Dogs, football, running, history. Not necessarily in that order #STFC
The weather here is grisly this morning, could barely see Liddington through the sleet/rain combo so instead here's a couple of photos from Monday morning of Liddington Castle dressed in all its late autumn early morning finery #HillfortsWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The weather here is grisly this morning, could barely see Liddington through the sleet/rain combo so instead here's a couple of photos from Monday morning of Liddington Castle dressed in all its late autumn early morning finery #HillfortsWednesday
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Indentured servitude is immoral and a Labour minister offering to consider it should have to resign in shame
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Indentured servitude is immoral and a Labour minister offering to consider it should have to resign in shame
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Why do they lie about something so easily verifiable?
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Why do they lie about something so easily verifiable?
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I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄
Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
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Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
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November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄
Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
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Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
1/26
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Emails: The aristocrats are in a pedophilic cabal and NYT journalists were providing cover for them.
@nytimes.com: Yeah, those were the days…
@nytimes.com: Yeah, those were the days…
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Emails: The aristocrats are in a pedophilic cabal and NYT journalists were providing cover for them.
@nytimes.com: Yeah, those were the days…
@nytimes.com: Yeah, those were the days…
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This is not what I voted for. Labour have a huge majority, just fucking get on with makeing lives better for everyone!
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not what I voted for. Labour have a huge majority, just fucking get on with makeing lives better for everyone!
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To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
@barr222.bsky.social uh oh, it's happening again....
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Strain of bird flu virus never before reported in people is behind first human case in U.S. in nine months
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@barr222.bsky.social uh oh, it's happening again....
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"There are many many more of us than you!"
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"There are many many more of us than you!"
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
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About 50 antiasylum protesters led by far right UKIP leader Nick Tenconi were outnumbered by over 400 anti fascists in Bristol today. Lots of refugees waved at the crowd protecting the Mercure Hotel, with one girl making a silver heart and holding up against the window.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
About 50 antiasylum protesters led by far right UKIP leader Nick Tenconi were outnumbered by over 400 anti fascists in Bristol today. Lots of refugees waved at the crowd protecting the Mercure Hotel, with one girl making a silver heart and holding up against the window.
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Looks useful, but they may not cover an important topic: if you need a #map for your book, where do you go? Many authors, faced with that question, have no idea where to start.
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Looks useful, but they may not cover an important topic: if you need a #map for your book, where do you go? Many authors, faced with that question, have no idea where to start.
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
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The decision to keep paying Ros Atkins but basically stop him doing any of the analysis or explainers which he was a) good at and b) seemed to be quite popular in favour of co-hosting a podcast about the media is really, really baffling.
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The decision to keep paying Ros Atkins but basically stop him doing any of the analysis or explainers which he was a) good at and b) seemed to be quite popular in favour of co-hosting a podcast about the media is really, really baffling.
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And get rid of Robbie Gibb
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
And get rid of Robbie Gibb
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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
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And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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The easiest explanation of what’s happening to the billionaires is that , while wealth cooks everyone’s brains a little, unimaginable wealth deep fries your brain. And that social media has given us a front row seat to the process
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The easiest explanation of what’s happening to the billionaires is that , while wealth cooks everyone’s brains a little, unimaginable wealth deep fries your brain. And that social media has given us a front row seat to the process
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the deaths Musk has caused have had no bearing on his personal standing. It is ghastly to contemplate that no one in the press interrupts his latest announcement about some new waifu robot to ask “what about the children you took food and medicine away from?”
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
the deaths Musk has caused have had no bearing on his personal standing. It is ghastly to contemplate that no one in the press interrupts his latest announcement about some new waifu robot to ask “what about the children you took food and medicine away from?”
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
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It's genuinely worth a quick check of the advanced moderation settings as there's plenty I'm sure people would like to tweak but aren't aware that they can.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's genuinely worth a quick check of the advanced moderation settings as there's plenty I'm sure people would like to tweak but aren't aware that they can.
Liddington Castle pictured from Barbury Castle (Saturday); Barbury Castle from Liddington Castle (Sunday) #DoubleHillfortWeekend #HillfortsWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Liddington Castle pictured from Barbury Castle (Saturday); Barbury Castle from Liddington Castle (Sunday) #DoubleHillfortWeekend #HillfortsWednesday