Richard Shilling
@wildeyedtrot.bsky.social
Brummie, Londoner and European. NFP accountant, leftie. All views personal
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If you aren't utilising Paddington's role as the Angel of Death, please don't waste my time.
Social media is full of clickbait designed to divide and demean. Rather than walk away and let that fester, offer the alternative.
December 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If you aren't utilising Paddington's role as the Angel of Death, please don't waste my time.
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We’re just innocent men
December 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We’re just innocent men
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Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
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Henry Ford's dad was Irish, the first commercial US pilot was of Hungarian descent, USA's nuclear program relied heavily on immigrant scientists, Buzz Aldrin's grandparents were Swedish immigrants & Miller's ancestors escaped both the Russian pogrom & the Holocaust. He's a moron & a fascist.
December 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Henry Ford's dad was Irish, the first commercial US pilot was of Hungarian descent, USA's nuclear program relied heavily on immigrant scientists, Buzz Aldrin's grandparents were Swedish immigrants & Miller's ancestors escaped both the Russian pogrom & the Holocaust. He's a moron & a fascist.
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Chatted to my great uncle yesterday – a northern, working-class guy, not that political. I told him my job involved exposing Farage.
His first question was: “who funds him?”
Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇
His first question was: “who funds him?”
Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇
New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
How to stop Farage...
writesbright.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Chatted to my great uncle yesterday – a northern, working-class guy, not that political. I told him my job involved exposing Farage.
His first question was: “who funds him?”
Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇
His first question was: “who funds him?”
Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇
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wait I’m sorry I just learned that the Oklahoma professor who was fired because the student wrote a shitty paper in twenty minutes
that professor is also trans
why I am just now learning this for the first time. I feel like this is a key detail
that professor is also trans
why I am just now learning this for the first time. I feel like this is a key detail
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
wait I’m sorry I just learned that the Oklahoma professor who was fired because the student wrote a shitty paper in twenty minutes
that professor is also trans
why I am just now learning this for the first time. I feel like this is a key detail
that professor is also trans
why I am just now learning this for the first time. I feel like this is a key detail
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Searched back through Blue Sky for this.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Searched back through Blue Sky for this.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
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No matter our beliefs, Jesus’ message of opening our hearts to those who are different from us has never felt more important than this Christmas.
I want to wish everyone celebrating in London and around the world a very Merry Christmas.
I want to wish everyone celebrating in London and around the world a very Merry Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
No matter our beliefs, Jesus’ message of opening our hearts to those who are different from us has never felt more important than this Christmas.
I want to wish everyone celebrating in London and around the world a very Merry Christmas.
I want to wish everyone celebrating in London and around the world a very Merry Christmas.
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This has made me cry - such an uplifting story
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This has made me cry - such an uplifting story
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Corporate concentration and resulting state capture is a huge ongoing global trend that's being largely ignored in both policy and trade worlds
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Corporate concentration and resulting state capture is a huge ongoing global trend that's being largely ignored in both policy and trade worlds
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A sixth of public - 10 million - report being very sympathetic to people crossing the Channel in boats. Up to half have a fair amount of sympathy. A broad majority want to play our part protecting refugees in a better managed way. Contact between refugees & local people should be part of that
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A sixth of public - 10 million - report being very sympathetic to people crossing the Channel in boats. Up to half have a fair amount of sympathy. A broad majority want to play our part protecting refugees in a better managed way. Contact between refugees & local people should be part of that
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when the other beatles ask ringo 'what do you see when you turn out the light ' and ringo says "I can't tell you but I know it's mine", does he mean his penis
is ringo singing about seeing his penis in the dark
is ringo singing about seeing his penis in the dark
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
when the other beatles ask ringo 'what do you see when you turn out the light ' and ringo says "I can't tell you but I know it's mine", does he mean his penis
is ringo singing about seeing his penis in the dark
is ringo singing about seeing his penis in the dark
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From the perspective of a jurisdiciton other than the US, what is wrong with SCOTUS is not SCOTUS itself, which has not operated for 50+ years in the way that courts behave elsewhere, but the open textured constitutional values it is asked to "interpret".
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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
From the perspective of a jurisdiciton other than the US, what is wrong with SCOTUS is not SCOTUS itself, which has not operated for 50+ years in the way that courts behave elsewhere, but the open textured constitutional values it is asked to "interpret".
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Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
December 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
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What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
December 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
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This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
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Right, she may have played for Birmingham City (and sadly not Aston Villa) but can you all vote for Karen Carney this evening on #strictly.
Not least because she has the most beautiful Brummie accent, and she is an absolute star and deserves to win outright.
Not least because she has the most beautiful Brummie accent, and she is an absolute star and deserves to win outright.
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Right, she may have played for Birmingham City (and sadly not Aston Villa) but can you all vote for Karen Carney this evening on #strictly.
Not least because she has the most beautiful Brummie accent, and she is an absolute star and deserves to win outright.
Not least because she has the most beautiful Brummie accent, and she is an absolute star and deserves to win outright.
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Ok time for Some Thoughts on that compact piece.
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Ok time for Some Thoughts on that compact piece.
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Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”.
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
Nigel Farage-Backed 'Raise the Colours' Campaign Pivots to Racially Abusing Migrants and Harassing Aid Workers on French Beaches
Far-right activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrants and aid workers
bylinetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”.
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
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*Screams endlessly in infrastructure* Just build stuff! Just build it now! We've got so much cheaper and quicker light rail tech now, the whole country should look like a tram line.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leeds-Bradford £2.5bn tram plan delayed after government review
West Yorkshire's mayor says she is confident the trams will be running
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
*Screams endlessly in infrastructure* Just build stuff! Just build it now! We've got so much cheaper and quicker light rail tech now, the whole country should look like a tram line.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The enemy within
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The enemy within