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Liz Grindrod

@fledgling1.bsky.social

So-called 'scientist' living and working in Vienna. Let's chat about food, fresh air, fremdsprache, physics and far away places. Let's not fall out over politics. Mostly English, some German, and just a little French.

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National Trust members showing that middle-class, middle-aged middle-Englanders will be having none of your nonsense thank you very much and shouldn't you be going now?

09.11.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why doctors fear this winter's flu crisis will be the worst in years An aggressive strain of flu causing record-breaking cases in Australia has been an early warning sign for the UK

The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity

If you haven’t had your flu vax get it

Covid as well if possible

inews.co.uk/news/doctors...

08.11.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6

I also wonder if whatever Andrew has, was used to 'persuade' Trump to change his position on Ukraine.

Yes, it's a conspiracy theory.

No I don't have evidence.

Yes, it's social media and its what we do...

31.10.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Paging Kate Wyler πŸ“’!

30.10.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.

Looking like the election in the Netherlands has taken an interesting turn if the first exit poll is anything to go by.

The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.

29.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1271    πŸ” 311    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 34
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A man builds a monument to himself. A tale as old as time:

29.10.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

28.10.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1680    πŸ” 510    πŸ’¬ 173    πŸ“Œ 42
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Dutch Far-Right Party’s Lead Shrinks Further in Latest Poll Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) is projected to take 26 seats in Wednesday’s Dutch election, according to a poll conducted by Ipsos I&O Research, down from 29 in an earlier s...

Don't get your hopes up yet, but it looks like Geert Wilders is on track for a pretty bad performance in the Netherlands election this week. If this poll is right, it looks like making a non-Wilders coalition will be pretty easy.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

26.10.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4

I watched this this evening, and he was brilliant. The best biopic I have seen.

26.10.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Strictly Ballroom

23.10.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pay attention U.K.

This is what is coming your way if the likes of Farage and his Insurance mates like Arron Banks have their way.

21.10.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

19.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 17882    πŸ” 4039    πŸ’¬ 211    πŸ“Œ 166
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No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.

The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: β€œrail corrugation”.

You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.

19.10.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 14

Translates as

"Divorced men are most likely to trap their next wife in the house by denying her financial independence and making her reliant on him because he doesn't want to be abandoned again"

17.10.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hang on... she will carry on her late husband's *work* by telling other women they should not

... er...

*work* ?

17.10.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or the risk of ectopic pregnancy!

17.10.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is he going to improve maternal healthcare?

17.10.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes indeed, I was aware that pumped water is the only viable option. Also aware that Scotland has a lot of wind turbines - and mountains.

It's a thing in Austria

13.10.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Add in gravity batteries to store excess wind energy, and the graph would look even better

13.10.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can I just add a British perspective. Reform are in trouble. Despite being massively under reported the Gill / Russian money scandal is huge. Remember he pleaded guilty. I suspect MI5 are all over RefUK's accounts and sooner or later this is going to blow up. Timeline πŸ‘‡πŸ½

10.10.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Is that light or an oncoming train?

Staying optimistic for now 😎

08.10.2025 06:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good Bob / bad Bob

07.10.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A man who lost the Aussie vote. I can see why...

07.10.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

30.09.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2196    πŸ” 738    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 25
CANDIDAT
PROCENT
LOCURI
PAS
46.19%
51
BEP
26.93%
29
BEA
8.7%
9
PN
6.31%
6
DA
5.7%
6
β€’PSDE
1.03%
0
β€’ AN
0.9%
0

CANDIDAT PROCENT LOCURI PAS 46.19% 51 BEP 26.93% 29 BEA 8.7% 9 PN 6.31% 6 DA 5.7% 6 β€’PSDE 1.03% 0 β€’ AN 0.9% 0

The Pro-European PAS party has secured 51 seats, an absolute majority in Moldova’s parliament.

A good result and a slap in the face for Putin.

28.09.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 500    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 20

Exactly this. Oil and gas infrastructure will become more and more expensive to maintain and as always, the economic argument wins in the end.

27.09.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

BBC story here

Is one supposed to believe that Farage is just massively massively unlucky about the people and politicians he surrounds himself with.

β€œUnluckyβ€œ for years and years. Repeatedly. His relationship with that Red Dahlia aide went back decades.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

27.09.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I simply can't understand why the US has a problem with a declining birthrate when they take such excellent care of their pregnant women.

Unfathomable.

26.09.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Except Sharia court outcomes as with Jewish Court of the Chief Rabbi are not legally binding in the U.K.

Same as the Pope annulling a marriage is not legally binding in the the U.K…you still have to go through the U.K. legal process to have that recognised in law.

26.09.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

He could have reflected that he would be better than his father, he could have had therapy, but he didn't. Whatever he went through as a child, the decision not to be better / do the work - it's on him

24.09.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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