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taffysbrother.bsky.social
@taffysbrother.bsky.social
Left of centre and long in the tooth. Lunar-tic. Fascinated with culture.
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Playing with my phone this morning, Isnap clouds, it's not too clear, but chuffed to snap a swift and contrail together. 🙃
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?

Interesting

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Stones and a shadow.

The stones are on Mars.

The shadow is from a nuclear-battery-powered robot.

Taken earlier today.
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A little list of some of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Remembering astronomer Carl Sagan. (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996)

"We are all starstuff"
December 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Robert Reich
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy reports from Kupyansk, where Ukrainian forces conducted successful counterattacks. Nevertheless, it is quite a move.

That man has balls of steel.
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Why do I call Tories scum? Badenoch suddenly pretends survivors were let down, while Johnson threw a tantrum over police digging into historic abuse. The Tories are a party that pissed away 14 years of investigation while victims begged for truth and justice. #ukpolitics
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#LateNightThoughts ..

(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Had to try a snap before the clouds came over.
December 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Once again, a Scottish newspaper takes a stand, refusing to follow the mainstream media mob in perpetuating the great fiction that is the Gaza “ceasefire”.

The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Young people: Europe wants to hear from you!

Policies that affect you should be shaped with you.

This is what the Youth Advisory Board is all about.

Today, we exchanged on the impact of social media on young people.

Thank you for your insights.
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Jonathan Gullis has defected to Reform.
What a coup for them!
Jonathan will add:
Hair
Grunts
An odour of hay
An itchy hole
Fungi
Wrinkled shirts
Porridge
Jizz
Conker hairs
Squirrel food
And damp patches wherever he sits.
He truly will be a great asset.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Low sun over a tranquil river Great Ouse, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire 🥰
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Pure evil - how can the UK do this to these precious wild animals
They suffer. They die. For nothing.
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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If you wait for the right time to come it will never come. Begin where you are and with what you have 😊

Dada J. P. Vaswani

#Time #Begin #Rose #Vaswani
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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You are less likely to be a vicitm of violent crime in London than in the rest of England and Wales - Sadiq Khan.

Lawless London garbage of the British and US reactionary Hard and Far Right is another con job.
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine 😊

Lord Byron

#Laugh #Joy #Medicine #Byron
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Kuenssberg and Mason must resign as well.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The wrongful release of prisoners happened 800 times under the Tories.

The media bias and lack of reference to any past is just hideous.
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The government has STILL not cleared out the highly partisan decision-makers imposed on the BBC by the Tories. Starmer and co are so amazingly spineless and feeble.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak
Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Between 2010–2024, 860 prisoners were accidentally released under the Conservatives. Yet the first and second accidental releases under Labour are getting more headlines than all 860 Tory f***-ups combined.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM