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@johnbownas.bsky.social

Hastings, festivals, live music, stage lighting, truth, justice, and Any Which Way You Choose…

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Meanwhile at Chalk in Brighton…

05.12.2024 22:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup!! I’ve been plugging them for a couple of years… check out VLURE and Scustin as well…

05.12.2024 19:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So… zero engagement here… meanwhile on good old FB… loads of views, likes, and comments… hmmm

04.12.2024 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Any thoughts on what these are for? Silverhill junction of London and Bohemia Roads in Hastings…

04.12.2024 10:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Here’s a thing - my last week of posting on FB and here.

3,500 engagements on FB vs about 6 on BS.

I call BS…

03.12.2024 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tonight on Masterchef they are all at it… have you ‘done a Gregg’?

03.12.2024 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That time Carol had to get someone with a calculator to check a contestant’s answer and multiply 318 by 75 … and then after subtracting 50 dividing 23,850 by 25 to get to 952… that was proper numberwang!!

03.12.2024 09:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Migrants moved from secretive UK military island after three years

The irony here is that we are looking at grudgingly giving temporary asylum to refugees from an island which the UK forcibly (and illegally) evicted the entire population in the 1970s to clear it for military use.

Migrants brought to UK from remote military island www.bbc.com/news/article...

03.12.2024 07:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My Facebook feed is local and relevant to me. My BlueSky feed is globally worthy, but lacking in ‘me’

30.11.2024 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So I put some lights on our town tree…

30.11.2024 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Career [alt.def] back of the car

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Mascarpone [alt.def] disguise our small horse

29.11.2024 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Catastrophe [alt.def] The winner receives a cat…

28.11.2024 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Forget seasoning on #masterchef - let’s go for overproof rum…

27.11.2024 23:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sometimes you need a bigger ladder… this is ‘Crocodile Dundee’ size…

27.11.2024 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How we used to live…

27.11.2024 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quiz: you burn a gallon of unleaded petrol weighing about 3.3kg - will the weight of the resulting CO2 be the same, heavier or lighter?

26.11.2024 10:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just a few cool Hastings gigs incoming…

25.11.2024 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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John Travolta in one of his finest movie scenes…

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The slightly tongue-in-cheek Jack O’Neil scenes in Stargate always make me laugh… #stargate

24.11.2024 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Average fuel costs per year in the UK are around £1,500. If the average hydrogen car usage is 1kg per day at £15 per kg then that equates to more like £5,500 per year…

24.11.2024 09:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stats on the web are increasingly hard to verify. This KI piece broadly agrees with UK Defence estimates on troop and ship losses, but the numbers for tanks, planes, and armoured vehicles etc are very different… ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russia-hits-...

24.11.2024 09:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Publication scheme About the Ministry of Justice publication scheme

@georgegreenwood.bsky.social have you stumbled across the MoJ’s attempt at giving people a chance to submit FoI requests… try following the link on their FoI explanation page www.gov.uk/government/o...

23.11.2024 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Crime spree leads to 56-week sentence for string of burglaries and shop thefts for Hastings man – Hastings Area Business Crime Reduction Partnership

This is why I’ve found myself sitting in on cases in person to write up reports - except for the big high-profile cases local court reporting is essentially dead. A false economy in my view as readers of local papers are likely to be interested in these sentences www.bcrphastings.com/crime-spree-...

23.11.2024 08:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bert Alert…

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Yup!!

21.11.2024 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now the job of attorney general is open again I’m sure Trump will be considering a few of these names as people with a deep understanding of the US legal system…

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That didn’t last long…

21.11.2024 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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