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Dog walker, jogger, hiker, traveller, weaver, spinner, organiser, so much to do...

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The quote fits the other photo, with the green outfit, perfectly

14.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

09.03.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 703 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 35
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A Better World Isn’t a Dream. It’s a Choice.
And we’re currently choosing poorly.

09.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 684 πŸ” 373 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 25
A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

03.03.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 446 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 13
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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about aΒ β€œGreen Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

β€œIn a battle between hope and hate, hope has won.”
Congratulations to new MP Hannah Spencer!
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

27.02.2026 07:42 πŸ‘ 1759 πŸ” 259 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 17
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Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

Yusuf: β€œWe will secure our borders, leave the ECHR, and deport those here illegally. My message to the British people is simple: I will secure our borders and make you feel safe.”

There is nothing safe about these vicious inadequates turning racism into policy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

23.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 1377 πŸ” 453 πŸ’¬ 178 πŸ“Œ 47

Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, cafΓ©, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them.

Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

19.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 755 πŸ” 194 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 8
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The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, declared that the UK and Europe should come "closer together - on security, on economy or on defending our democracies". Now that it is clear that Europe is willing to work constructively with us, the UK must take action soon.

17.02.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Read and share all over..he nails it

16.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 20168 πŸ” 8466 πŸ’¬ 430 πŸ“Œ 404
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Cats secretly rule the world.. πŸ˜…

09.02.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 1225 πŸ” 224 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 26

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

08.02.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 1437 πŸ” 643 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 17
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I always believed the purpose of Brexit was to destroy the ability of nation states to take on spiv capitalism. I never expected to see actual evidence of it.

07.02.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 381 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 7
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"And what does the money machine eat?
It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity."

- William S. Burroughs

20.01.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

When you think of health and safety laws and human rights laws as β€œobstructive bureaucracy”, stopping you being as vicious and damaging as you want to be to immigrants - who you encourage voters to blame for your own abject failures - you’ve become a monster. Let’s hope it ends up devouring itself.

26.01.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 507 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

22.01.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. πŸ€—πŸ’œ

03.01.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 1816 πŸ” 729 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 164
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The first episode of Camberwick Green was originally broadcast on this day in 1966.

03.01.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4

Weird night in the pub.
There was a Chinese girl in.
I canna speak Mandarin, she didn't speak great English, but we managed to get by in bad Spanish.
This is how the world should be.
We're all just people on this planet for a wee while....

01.01.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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From Slavery in Virginia to Freedom in the North East of England How an enslaved woman fled America and found safety in the North East of England

A longer read about escaped slave Mary Ann Macham and her journey to North Shields in 1830, and just how remarkable it was:

β€œI am not sure I have ever come across a narrative where a woman made it to the United Kingdom.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...

23.12.2025 08:15 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Done. Gladly. Thank you for the advice.

06.12.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

how do I convince you that buying music directly from the artist is a very cool thing to do? how do I get you to understand that the most important part or the music industry is the musicians and that you should directly give them money in exchange for their music?

06.12.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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By Peter Ettedgui
I was targeted by Farage at school - this is why he should be exposed.

More than 20 former classmates of Farage have now come forward to accuse him of schoolboy
racism

3rd December 2025 11:37 am

'Farage's denials of racism is as offensive as the original verbal abuse,
,' writes Peter Ettedgui (Photo: James
Manning/PA)

OPINION By Peter Ettedgui I was targeted by Farage at school - this is why he should be exposed. More than 20 former classmates of Farage have now come forward to accuse him of schoolboy racism 3rd December 2025 11:37 am 'Farage's denials of racism is as offensive as the original verbal abuse, ,' writes Peter Ettedgui (Photo: James Manning/PA)

By evading the issue of his teenage racism, by denying the memories of so many people, Farage appears to be trying to whitewash his past. I think the British public should know what exactly he is hiding with his denials, and why. That he held racist and fascist beliefs up to the age of 18 can surely no longer be in doubt following the recent reports. Does he still hold the repellent views he expressed during his teenage years in some dark recess of his being? Or did he have a Damascene conversion at some point, after which he stopped uttering the racist slurs and chants that characterised his behaviour at school?
I strongly believe these are questions worth asking of Farage, and worth his while answering, preferably with an honesty that has so far been lamentably absent.

By evading the issue of his teenage racism, by denying the memories of so many people, Farage appears to be trying to whitewash his past. I think the British public should know what exactly he is hiding with his denials, and why. That he held racist and fascist beliefs up to the age of 18 can surely no longer be in doubt following the recent reports. Does he still hold the repellent views he expressed during his teenage years in some dark recess of his being? Or did he have a Damascene conversion at some point, after which he stopped uttering the racist slurs and chants that characterised his behaviour at school? I strongly believe these are questions worth asking of Farage, and worth his while answering, preferably with an honesty that has so far been lamentably absent.

I absolutely do not care about Rachel Reeves’s junior chess competition.

I absolutely do care about whether Farage is racist or not.

And, given the deranged but distinct possibility that he may become PM, we all should.

Ps… Narrator: there was no Damascene conversion.

inews.co.uk/opinion/expo...

03.12.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 375 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

29.11.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 482 πŸ” 334 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 32

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as β€˜Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on Β£2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

27.11.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 3413 πŸ” 988 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 44
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How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousandsΒ of companies across the world.

UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea.

UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.

Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.

Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.

UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.

18.11.2025 09:38 πŸ‘ 768 πŸ” 356 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 19

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed β€˜patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

15.11.2025 19:57 πŸ‘ 2472 πŸ” 662 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 19
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Bubbles #weaving #8shaftweaving

06.11.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Variations on a theme, same warp different pickup #weaving #8shaftloom

05.11.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For those interested here’s a recording

β€˜The contributor is 92 [in 1956]. He began droving aged 15 & part in the clearing of the sheep from Loch Broom, to make way for deer to the Falkirk Tryst, a journey that took a month.’

www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/4492?l...

03.11.2025 08:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful

02.11.2025 21:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0