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@graemesow.bsky.social

I fell asleep and I woke up here. Madrid based guiri talking all kinds of shit about Spanish life and politics. Can't even do a decent profile description. Posts in English and pidgin Spanglish

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I'm hearing that the wild boar have drones now.

07.08.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'We should all learn more history'

07.08.2025 17:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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China now in charge of Spanish judicial system, I'm reading.

07.08.2025 05:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Outrage as Spanish town bans Muslim religious festivals from public spaces Conservative People’s party in Jumilla votes to stop civic centres and gyms being used for activities ‘alien to our identity’

Done by the PP, not by Vox.

06.08.2025 19:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, it's a variant on the theme

06.08.2025 18:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Obviously business is good.

06.08.2025 07:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"la mediación comercial"

06.08.2025 07:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A bit of clearout is welcome, but it ends up as low grade eye for an eye politics

06.08.2025 07:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Rewilding group to assess possible return of white storks to London Citizen Zoo to map habitats in the capital and consult boroughs and the public about reintroduction of the birds

Why storks go to certain places is very weird, in Portugal the other week I saw electricity pylons chock full of nests and suddenly there were none.

05.08.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wave of Spanish politicians edit CVs over incorrect claims of degrees and diplomas Resignation of rising star of People’s party prompts others to revise entries about educational qualifications

We'll see who is the last one standing.

05.08.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Well you showed me an opinion poll as a reply, that doesn't have much to do with facts. Renewable prices are still falling and the nuclear lobby is aware that they don't have a lot of time left to sell their virtues.

05.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well I'll call them deniers then. I see a lot of them turn to nuclear because it's getting harder to be a denier but they still have a hatred of renewables. Large scale battery installations are already used in some countries, and by the time a new nuclear plant is built a lot will have happened.

05.08.2025 14:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The fantastic thing about nuclear is how cheap it is, I'm hearing from almost all climate change negationists.

05.08.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The only bad side to this is that we'll probably end up seeing more of him in Spain again.

05.08.2025 11:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Truss accuses Badenoch of not telling truth about Tory failures Ex-PM’s criticism follows Tory leader’s article comparing Labour policy to Truss’s disastrous mini-budget

We do need someone (else) to talk about Tory failures.

05.08.2025 07:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

It's a government of the people, you see.

05.08.2025 07:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The same numbers with the PP in charge will be 'el milagro de Feijóo'

05.08.2025 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's the best July employment figure since 2007. Meanwhile, at the bottom of La Razón's front page...

05.08.2025 07:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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She's unapollogatic about it

04.08.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

On the one hand, far fewer people are being killed. On the other, some people get to work two minutes later. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not.

04.08.2025 08:40 — 👍 343    🔁 104    💬 21    📌 6
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M. azón.

04.08.2025 09:32 — 👍 245    🔁 82    💬 12    📌 3
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Animado por su valentía, otro camarero con cuatro años de experiencia ha abordado al jefe para preguntarle por el horario. 

Lee la noticia completa en la web:
https://f.mtr.cool/caywisswul

04.08.2025 10:02 — 👍 261    🔁 64    💬 2    📌 1

Huge queue for Doña Manolita as August heatwave gets underway. Do the math(s). I guess the teachers tried?

04.08.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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España alcanza un nuevo máximo de trabajadores en julio aunque apenas reduce el paro en 1.300 personas El nuevo récord se sitúa en los 21,86 millones de afiliados, por encima del máximo de junio tras sumar 4.400 personas más trabajando, en un mes en el que se destruye mucho empleo en la educación

España alcanza un nuevo máximo de trabajadores en julio aunque apenas reduce el paro en 1.300 personas

04.08.2025 10:17 — 👍 39    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3
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This trade deal is the EU’s Suez moment – its subservience to Trump is on show for all to see | Larry Elliott Critics have described the one-sided deal as an admission of weakness, and a dark day for Europe. They are absolutely right, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

“This does not even remotely resemble the type of agreements made by two equal sovereign powers. It rather looks like the type of unequal treaties that colonial powers used to impose in the 19th century"

01.08.2025 06:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ABC celebrating Ayuso pandering to racists and engaging in petty, vindictive summer politics.

01.08.2025 06:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

El juez Hurtado pregunta si es el jefe de estado....

31.07.2025 11:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Democrats never learn from their defeats

31.07.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Se fue en 4 o 5 viajes con un narco y luego dice esto...

31.07.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Minister dismisses peers’ claims that UK recognition of Palestine may break international law Gareth Thomas says move is ‘political judgment’ after challenge from 40 members of House of Lords

The irony of citing international law in defence of war criminals...

31.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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