Pete's Avatar

Pete

@spajn.org.uk

Retired IT bloke. Now riding my bikes, hiking, volunteering for the Wildlife Trust, occasionally hanging out with my rather wonderful children. One day I might get my Moto Guzzi back on the road. Born at 316ppm.

366 Followers  |  941 Following  |  474 Posts  |  Joined: 20.11.2023  |  1.9946

Latest posts by spajn.org.uk on Bluesky

"I like him cos he's one of us"

27.10.2025 12:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image

@geeg1994.bsky.social

23.10.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Things like this keep happening.

23.10.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23549    ๐Ÿ” 9165    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2139    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1152
Post image Post image

"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code ยง 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both"

Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.

23.10.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25714    ๐Ÿ” 7621    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1230    ๐Ÿ“Œ 310
Post image

CZ pleaded guilty to a criminal money laundering charge and was sentenced to prison.

But then he financed President Trumpโ€™s stablecoin and lobbied for a pardon.

Today, he got it.

If Congress does not stop this kind of corruption, it owns it.

23.10.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1976    ๐Ÿ” 658    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 102    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43
Post image

Trumpโ€™s โ€œwar on drugsโ€ pardons the biggest fentanyl trafficker in the world

23.10.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The US froze aid to Colombia
Much of which is used to fight drug cartels
Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen
In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels

23.10.2025 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3007    ๐Ÿ” 837    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

Pส€แดษขส€แด‡ss แด›สœส€แดแดœษขสœ Aแดแด‡ส€ษชแด„แด€ษด Cแด‡ษดแด›แดœส€ส แดา“ HแดœแดษชสŸษชแด€แด›ษชแดษด

โ–“โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 9.32%

23.10.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 716    ๐Ÿ” 110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Preview
Dear Britain, do you worry that Team Farage is just a hot mess in power? Or is everyone too angry to care | Marina Hyde Footage of Reform councillors fighting is further proof that uselessness abounds, but thatโ€™s almost moot. To voters they are very useful idiots, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

In my experience, things have to get really, really bad before people will consider genuine change. It looks like really, really bad is where we're headed, but at my age I'm not sure I'll live to see the change.

22.10.2025 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Obviously I will give the money to a cause I consider more worthy than just making me richer. My point was that Reeves was right in trying to reduce the amounts paid to people who don't need it, even if her implementation was clumsy.

21.10.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because I don't need it, and nor do a large proportion of the recipients.

21.10.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Lolz. What a complete waste of public funds.

21.10.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
The Stochastic Parrot vs. the Sophistic Monkey: Why I Trust AI More Than Most Humans In a world drowning in human bias and misinformation, artificial intelligence offers surprisingly reasonable answers.

Interesting perspective ๐Ÿ˜

21.10.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Suggest you jump in on this poll.

โ€”> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...?

And shareโ€ฆ

21.10.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 982    ๐Ÿ” 837    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 332    ๐Ÿ“Œ 88
Preview
People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.

So when Farage rails against the latest migration figures, he's railing against a monster of his own making. The EU didn't impose uncontrolled immigration on us; it offered a framework that reflected geography, economics and realityโ€

ie - control.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...

21.10.2025 07:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1226    ๐Ÿ” 533    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

20.10.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9252    ๐Ÿ” 2567    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 197    ๐Ÿ“Œ 50
Post image 19.10.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1470    ๐Ÿ” 849    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 91    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44

Got buried in the news this weekend, but President Jesus said the F word on CNN at like 2pm in the afternoon. The next day he posted a poop-filled scat video, but tell Me more about the dignity of the office of the presidency.

20.10.2025 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24545    ๐Ÿ” 6249    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 743    ๐Ÿ“Œ 191

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

20.10.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29481    ๐Ÿ” 7339    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1037    ๐Ÿ“Œ 363

Votersโ€™ anger is largely focused on asylum, and perhaps on low-skilled immigration.

The government response seems to be focused on making sure no high-skilled immigrant will ever pick the UK in future, and the ones currently here will rapidly rethink their decision.

This will not end well.

20.10.2025 09:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 415    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
Post image

[checks calendar]

19.10.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11641    ๐Ÿ” 2723    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 549    ๐Ÿ“Œ 194

I wonder what Alistair Cooke would have said about the 'King Trump' jet video.

19.10.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Tel Aviv football derby cancelled as 'violent riots' see nine arrested Police said dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 12 civilians and three police officers.

I am outraged that apparently jews are not welcome at football matches in Tel Aviv (am I doing this right?)

news.sky.com/story/tel-av...

19.10.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 494    ๐Ÿ” 148    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Remember folks,
all around the World,
#TrumpsAmerica is No longer a safe #Business or #Tourist Destination

So do the right thing people

#BoycottTrumpsAmerica

19.10.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Donโ€™t let the frogwater thatโ€™s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another countryโ€™s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. Thatโ€™s freakish.

19.10.2025 13:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7757    ๐Ÿ” 2706    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 116    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com are you going to write about the president of the United States posting a clip of himself literally dumping shit on Americans, or is it nbd?

19.10.2025 02:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3262    ๐Ÿ” 796    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

18.10.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13520    ๐Ÿ” 4783    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 323    ๐Ÿ“Œ 186

Patriarchy
says
donโ€™t wear that
skirt
or
that
shirt
or that
dress;
donโ€™t sleep
with x number
of men
donโ€™t be too
sexy
hide
yourself
past
45
donโ€™t show shoulders
thighs
knees
necks;
Patriarchy says
men canโ€™t control
themselves,
women must do it for them-
I say zip it up.
#retroartprompt #poetry

18.10.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 445    ๐Ÿ” 96    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

19.10.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19105    ๐Ÿ” 3988    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 172    ๐Ÿ“Œ 222

@spajn.org.uk is following 20 prominent accounts