BarryP

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#ToriesOut Indie music, veggie, railways, diy, walking. #FBPE #FBR
@vandyke4ad on the x-bird site, barryp4ad @ threads.net 🚫crypto 🚫DMs are off
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Forest of Dean, Glos, UK.

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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 06:23 UTC

MP's mountain rescue call-out after election win

Labour's Josh MacAlister responded to a call from the mountain rescue team he volunteers with, less than 24 hours after being elected as an MP
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ursulala @ursulala.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:08 UTC

Trojanischer Hund

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:09 UTC

"We've done a shitty (pun intended) job. Now you have to pay for it."

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:54 UTC

Domestic 13A two-gang sockets are starting to appear, but have one of A and one of B. I don’t possess any double-ended USB-C cables, but presumably some/a lot of people do.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:28 UTC

Have Spads been replaced by Spuds?

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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

Imagine a Trump administration with Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel, Roger Stone, Laura Loomer, and Mike Flynn. If that doesn't scare the fuck out of you, seek psychiatric care immediately.

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

russian military target 2024

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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:51 UTC

The Secret Service fucking better be paying Alex Jones a visit for hosting a Twitter Space titled: “Assassinate Biden”.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

It’s one thing to have to step on squares of chipboard to get along the landing while replacing the flooring*, in your own house. Subjecting a tenant to disruption isn’t acceptable. * also had to add packing to joists - 70mm slope caused by mining subsidence.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

You peeped. It started because previous supplier, Peoples’ Energy, wanted monthly readings. The loft room here could do with more insulation, but would be a lot of work.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

There’s nothing better than living in a house for a while before deciding what needs doing. And any chaos is our (mostly my) own fault.

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Tonnielle @tonnielles.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

There’s a thing where if you piss off someone on Bluesky, they report you as a bot. I’ve been targeted by a sleaze who slid into my DM’s with ill intent & when I shut him down, suddenly he’s spreading rumors that I am a bot. Ask yourself—Would a bot post this kind of morning hair about itself?

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 09:06 UTC

“Retrofitting” our 1860/1970 stone/brick house has halved our gas bill* over the five years it’s taken to do. Trade: New windows/cavity ins. DIY: more loft ins/internal outside wall ins/part new floor/new radiators+re-routing most pipes. * 17K kW down to 8.5K kW a year.

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MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:53 UTC

✅🇬🇧🚀 Keir Starmer signaled Ukraine can use Britain’s Storm Shadow missiles to strike military targets inside Russia, - Bloomberg 🇺🇦 Starmer agreed that it was up to Ukraine how it used the Storm Shadow missiles.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

Interesting analysis which shows Labour’s vote is far from as fragile as some have suggested. There’s evidence the certainty of the Labour victory meant would-be Labour voters didn't turn out as forecast, or went elsewhere. Bodes well.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹 @cornishskipper.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 06:34 UTC

“Labour has appointed one of the country’s foremost climate experts to lead on clean energy.
Stark said: “Tackling the climate crisis and accelerating the transition to clean power is the country’s biggest challenge, and its greatest opportunity” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:47 UTC

Morning Neil and Kaci. Our neighbours’ younger dog has to make do with watching sparrows in their garden. Then she makes ineffectual efforts to catch them as they wiz away.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

Been wearing them for years.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

Doesn’t seem (*squints*) to say anything about going blind. So not all bad. Apart from the putting to death part, obvs.

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Hayward @hgwood.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

We HAVE to find a way to have this information be able to penetrate a red hat.

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Michele C. Hollow @michelechollow.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

Putin is scum. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/w...

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ElonJet @elonjet.net
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:46 UTC

~ 110 gallons (415 liters). ~ 735 lbs (334 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $614 cost of fuel. ~ 1 tons of CO2 emissions.

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Paul Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @paulcolam.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

😆 🤣 😂

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Lorenzo805 @loman805.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:57 UTC

This is NOT spam. How is a picture of a kitten running in the grass spam. Get a grip BlueSky!

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:11 UTC

Is there one for Onanists?

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:14 UTC

* jobs, not cooking appliances

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

My mother worked in the local Post Office, so being there at the right time was a thing. She had to stay in Dorset after her family moved back to Sussex, towards the end of the war. Post Office hobs were “protected”, meaning you couldn’t leave, under wartime legislation.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

My mother lodged with a farming family in Dorset towards the end of WWII. There was double Summertime then, but they kept to GMT. This made knowing when shops were open, a self-inflicted pain.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:54 UTC

One objector claimed that the blades would cause flicker in her house. If the sun ever shone from the direction (north) that would have done that, flicker would likely have been the least of her problems. And everyone else’s.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

There’s stuff about it here: x.com/michaeldweis...

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 09:05 UTC

We had a wind farm behind our last house. Flocks of birds seemed to work round them (e.g. Bewicks swans). As for wind, if it was windy enough for the turbines to make noise, actual wind noise was be louder. Really windy: turbine blades were feathered. Grange WF being built, 2013:

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 08:57 UTC

Can’t read your reply because your post’s Security Certificate has expired. 😉

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 08:52 UTC

We used to have a trade stand at the model railway exhibition in Gateshead. Saturday morning was getting used to the Geordie accent, then later in the day, adventurous modellers from north of the border turned up.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 08:48 UTC

Been going on for decades in my case.🙋‍♂️

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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:10 UTC

..and a crawler. Starmer should reply simply: ‘We’ve opened and investigation on you and Gove.’

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:03 UTC

For oxymorons.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

Anything by Coldplay. Narrowly prevented from rhe top spot by something else by Coldplay.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

Just last week, Biden signed H.R. 2365, the “Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act,” which would be a part of stories like this if the journalists writing the stories were ethical. That they conceal this context speaks to their abject malice.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

Being preoccupied with sorting your CDs into alphabetical order, but putting doing it on the Action this Tomorrow list.

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Max B #FBPE #FBPR #GTTO 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

Hmmmm!

#SCOTUS
#VoteBlue
#DesperateDon

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:04 UTC

The UK rejected the far right. France just did the same. It’s now the USA’s turn.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:33 UTC

I like voting in two rounds. Imagine what might have happened in 2016 if people voted leave then were given a week to reflect. And those who didn't vote realised their vote was needed after all.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 09:01 UTC

They left quite a lot on the moon. And a plaque, in 1969, saying “We came in peace for mankind.” With the three astronauts’ names, and Richard Millhouse Nixon. The latter rather bigging up his part, as he hadn’t come at all.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

We stayed near Gare de Lyon in 2017, on the way to Venice, but the hotels in that area have got more expensive since then. GdL seems to have less odd people than GdN. You can also carry on through the lower concourse to somewhere you can sit outside (above Rue de Bercy).

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

That’s lovely. I’m assuming that it’s one of your paintings.

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BarryP @vandyke4ad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

We stayed near Lille station in 2022: such areas are often not the nicest part of a city. Gare du Nord being a good (bad) example. Gare de Lyon is better, hence hotels €€. If October’s train trip to Portugal happens, we’re going o/n from Newhaven-Dieppe - thus Paris in daytime.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:13 UTC

I mean look at the state of this language on BBC News; the Nazis "may have to wait" for their "historic moment". As if it's an inevitability that fash should get a shot at power. Absolute cuntery.

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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

Tories questioning Labour's 172 seat majority, won under the UK's FPTP electoral system, should remember:

Brexit was advisory & happened on a 52-48 majority.

Only 81, 326 Tory members, about 0.3% of all voters, picked Truss as PM.

Sunak was appointed: There was no vote at all.
#NeverTrustATory

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