It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer. (1/7)
07.04.2025 13:00 โ ๐ 2360 ๐ 637 ๐ฌ 102 ๐ 282@jgarrettfitz.bsky.social
Marooned on brexit island. Watch repair hobbyist. Movies, music and vintage hifi. Dad, partner and carer. Owned by cat and bees Elect a clown expect a circus
It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer. (1/7)
07.04.2025 13:00 โ ๐ 2360 ๐ 637 ๐ฌ 102 ๐ 282Given that just 4.25% of the world's population lives in the United States of America this might be the moment for the 95.75% of the rest of us to leave them to it.
Many overseas markets that the UK could be focusing on for example - you know like the fucking enormous one on our doorstep.
Somewhere on the south coast, UK
13.02.2025 16:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0New
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic โ and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
Article in Daily Mail by Littlejohn entitled โHave I got a deal for you, Donaldโฆ Forget Greenland and buy Britain insteadโ
The Daily Mail has never been pro-British- it has always been pro-fascist.
The Daily Mail is owned by the 4th Viscount Rothermere, passed on from 3rd, 2nd & 1st Viscounts. Itโs been a tool of hereditary power & privilege undermining our democracy.
Musk & Trump excite them to take their mask off.
gofund.me/7592304c
If you can afford to help please do
Fantastic to see Robinson Crusoe on Mars!
02.01.2025 14:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Have a happy new year under the stars. โจ
01.01.2025 23:16 โ ๐ 118 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 3โIt may be a rotten thing to lick a manโs boots, but itโs a lot worse to be the man whose boots have to be licked.โ
~Rod Serling
PATTERNS
danigaravelli.wordpress.com/this-is-memo...
Definitely heard it
This is Erasmus: A transformative EU initiative providing education, training, and growth opportunities. Returning to Erasmus+ means empowering the UK with life-changing experiences and skills. Learn more and support our campaign to bring Erasmus+ back!
bit.ly/3VALlhl
Strike Day 3: going on strike isnโt meant to be fun. Yet here we are. Great colleagues, great craic & great @billybragg.bsky.social.
Whatโs going on inside that building is the opposite of all these things.
โSolidarity forever for the union makes us strongโ
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Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark ๐ฑ, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.
12.12.2024 14:37 โ ๐ 889 ๐ 263 ๐ฌ 61 ๐ 56Acknowledge that emotions like sadness are temporary experiences that naturally pass through our consciousness. While maintaining awareness of these feelings, cultivate an environment that welcomes joy, understanding that both emotions serve important functions in our mental well-being.
12.12.2024 14:07 โ ๐ 524 ๐ 78 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 8This
11.12.2024 02:04 โ ๐ 11403 ๐ 3803 ๐ฌ 245 ๐ 209"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Village Street in Winter
๐จ Alfred Sisley (1893)
Shane
22.5.70 - 10.12.20
IF we are NEXT?
It has already happened.
Not least Brexit.
Thank you for the heads up, she is wonderful!
09.12.2024 10:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just when you thought it couldnโt possibly get any worseโฆ
โBrexit problemโ: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
I had a wonderful Erasmus experience - 6 months of study in Utrecht with 30 others. Horizons and possibilities expanded. I am so sad that my children and their friends do not have the same opportunity.
07.12.2024 09:40 โ ๐ 126 ๐ 29 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2Roses in December. UK south coast. Bizarre!
#gardensky
#roses
#climatechange
democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard
05.12.2024 14:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Brexit Curse
British food exports to EU โhave fallen ยฃ3bn a year since Brexitโ.
Border checks, lower standards on pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal welfare make UK exports harder.
Brexit costing UK economy about ยฃ100bn a year.
Rejoin EU.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Koreaโthe exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.
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