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Lee Kelly@leepkelly.bsky.social |
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Recently moved from Potions Master to Defence Against The Dark Arts. No, really.
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Lee Kelly
@leepkelly.bsky.social
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It’s certainly arguably true, if you charitably view the Reform vote share as mostly comprising people rejecting political orthodoxy… … Or maybe they are all just racists!
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badly-drawn bee 🐝
@soapachu.bsky.social
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James Timpson as Prisons Minister, an actual KC as AG. First female chancellor. 1st housing sec who's actually lived in social housing. 1st education sec who was on free school meals. Energy sec who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. I hate him, but this is already better.
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Lee Kelly
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Thank you! We’re very much into “Scandi” or -adjacent destinations RN. Initially inspired by my wife’s desire to see the northern lights (still haven’t, not even here a few months back) but now just because. Not sure what our next one will be but this could work. A lot depends on where flights from.
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Lee Kelly
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Lee Kelly
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Noted, thanks! That sounds maybe more like a week-trip thing? Right now we’re still very much in long-weekend mode, but who knows? With one daughter an adult and the other in her mid-teens, the shackles are loosening… 🤞
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Lee Kelly
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HER: I am NOT going to Estonia just to visit the Maritime Museum… ME: *shows her picture* HER: … oh! Wow! 👍
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Lee Kelly
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Between this and several locations I want to visit that are mentioned in @hutchinsondave.bsky.social’s books, it’s going to be an… interesting… process pitching Estonia as our next city break destination to my wife…
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John Bull
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LOOK AT HER. LOOK AT HER BLUESKY! Clearly based on the U Class, but adapted for Baltic ops. That's an icebreaker bow (which makes her lines filth af) and she's rigged for minelaying above and below, hence the sidepods. Her tail is pure U though. I would marry this boat. She is utterly gorgeous.
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Lee Kelly
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When we had our bedroom extension built on top of our original extension, we went for a vaulted ceiling. It can get noisy when it rains! And last night was the noisiest; thunder & lightning too. Plus side though, despite torrential rain another part of the roof didn’t leak at all, so, it’s fixed!
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John Bull
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I CANNOT believe we didn't know this was here until the Finnish Defence Ministry tipped us off.
The Estonian Maritime Museum has an INTERWAR VICKERS-ARMSTRONG SUBMARINE!
To Dr Clarke's and my knowledge, this makes it the only surviving Brit-made period sub in the world youtube.com/shorts/cwNF5...
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Lee Kelly
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- The exact circumstances of this are murky - couple of possible events - but hitting my head so hard that sometime after, aged 11, I lost all hearing in one ear and have been half deaf ever since. Again, hard to know for sure, it’s the best explanation the doctors have come up with.
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Lee Kelly
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- Back of my hand, friend scratched with a compass when we were fooling around in a Physics lesson. - From cadet force, shell casing ejected from a SA-80 bounced off the floor then burnt a tiny but still visible scar (37 years later!) into my middle finger
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Lee Kelly
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All boring I’m afraid. Small scars mostly. - On my feet, from when I went out to the garage to get glass bottles of Coke & Sprite to take to the beach the next day (this was in West Africa, we had a beach house - more hut, really) and dropped one.
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LillianOrlando
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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
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Lee Kelly
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There IS a lot to take in and do when you first arrive in No. 10, it must be easy to get confused. Learn where the loos are, appoint a Cabinet, end a ruinously expensive and functionally useless exercise in performative cruelty designed only to pander to the most hateful elements of society…
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Simon Threadgold
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‘Starmer scraps Rwanda policy’ But I was told Starmer’s Labour and the Tories are the same. It’s almost as if anyone saying that is some kind of cretinous buffoon, so emotionally hung up on not getting their precisely exact perfect version of Labour, they dismiss anything else as being Tory. Huh.
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Mags
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Lee Kelly
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Aw but that means the sad bit’s coming up. He can’t go talk to NATO if he’s feeling sad! [And now I want to re-read the whole thing - again! - plus Cold Water, damn you]
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Lee Kelly
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… wait, you’re saying there aren’t?!
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Rage Against The Miami Sound Machine
@randymiller.bsky.social
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Every marginal win by the right is a mandate, every landslide by the left is a fluke. Every time.
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Lee Kelly
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FaBS (the current incarnation of this area’s constituency) has been Tory since 2010 and that’s felt like bloody long enough! My wife knew the outgoing MP long ago, he’s a tosspot. She’s also met Claire Hazelgrove, our new Labour MP, and she’s apparently lovely.
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Jamie McKelvie
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For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!
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Tracey No™️
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Lee Kelly
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… to this day I’m funny about money. Exist in a state of denial about it: so much so that at one point a couple years back, I learned my salary was about £5k higher than I thought which I fully admit is an absurd way to operate. But, TL;DR wish we could do it over: LAB-LIB coalition instead please!
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Lee Kelly
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And really I don’t know where that next decade went! Things got better: she grew up, slowly; I had the career change that’s brought me to the success I enjoy now… but we struggled financially. Austerity, the loss of child tax credits, our childcare bill hitting £700pcm - a lot even back then…
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Lee Kelly
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In May ‘10 I was 39. I’d been at my still-current workplace for less than a year, though doing a very different job. And we were still reeling from the birth of our second child, nine months old at this point, and a huge shock to the system given how comparatively easy our eldest had been as a baby!
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Lee Kelly
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Ronaldo is the Gul Dukat of football: very wide neck, and they just can’t seem to get rid of him.
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Lee Kelly
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They’ve put a lot of thought into the design: Sovereign-adjacent, so period appropriate; some advanced elements reminiscent of future designs like the Odyssey; and, Intrepid notes as a call-back. Just a shame there’s a lack of consistency in sizing: 800m? REALLY? 29 or 32 decks - both excessive IMO.
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Lee Kelly
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I mean, damn skippy they’re not wrong, you are killing it right now. 👍
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Stephen Bush
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A strange thing about doing this job for a long time is you spend most of election night in a state of extreme tension going “god, Jim has lost his seat, how sad”. Then the next evening the new government makes a great and humane appointment to prisons minister you go “oh! I’m happy Jim lost”.
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Coach Finstock
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Between Trump trying to distance himself from Project 2025, the Tories getting wiped out, and this shit, maybe the world isn't as ready and comfortable for authoritarianism to take over as the media would like you to believe
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John Bull
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Renaissance art.
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Lee Kelly
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With a 412 majority and sufficient support (Lib Dems, Greens?) they could easily get the two-thirds HoC vote to start the Levenson 2 process, which would reign in the press admirably. But there are more immediate concerns right now, and remains to be seen how bold the Starmer govt. will actually be…
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Lee Kelly
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Probably get the reply “It’s Caturday somewhere” (and at 1932z on a Friday, he wouldn’t be wrong!). 😉
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Lee Kelly
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I mean, they could at least try to style it out…
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Gail Simone
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I know nothing about PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. I don't know the murderous aliens behind it, particularly Xarzon, who is a good friend. Anything they do, including raising the dead to destroy humanity, I wish them luck. But it has nothing to do with me. Hail Xarzon.
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Lee Kelly
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That’s OK, I’m often over-defensive! 😉 Yeah, it’s all a nightmare. I just can’t even bring myself to consider how it all might go in November. It’s a cosmic irony that after nearly a decade, we might be regaining some semblance of sanity in the UK - just as the rest of the world goes to pot… 🤦♂️
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Paul J Davies
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Easy to see from this chart that the combined right vote (con+Rfm/Brx/UKIP) collapsed to its worst performance by far in recent elections. 6pts lower than the next worst outing in 2017. Zero enthusiasm for this stuff.
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James Barišić
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@chadbourn.bsky.social a sweet little story that you may enjoy that is made more enjoyable (for me) following today's events!
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Amy A
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it’s so funny how in America you call it an elevator but in the UK it’s a lift and also when a candidate loses they concede
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Mark Chadbourn
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Liz Truss’ record breaking: - Shortest reigning PM - First PM in 100 years to lose their seat - Tory MP with largest ever swing to Labour
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Philip the Italic
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My favourite factoid for how crazy things have been since 2016: Larry has now seen 6 prime ministers, which is over ⅓ of Elizabeth II's 15. Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in British history. Larry is a cat.
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Lee Kelly
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Ooh please can the quiet man turn up the volume again, it’ll be hilarious.
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Lee Kelly
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The beauty, simplicity and elegance of that Tweet will live long in the memory.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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10/10 no notes
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Stephen Gallagher
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Sorry, good people of Clacton
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Tom Ewing
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The BBC’s “Seats Changed” map is wild. You can now walk from the coast of North Devon up to Bicester and then down to Eastbourne without ever leaving newly Lib Dem seats. Tired: The Blue Wall Wired: The YELLOW SNAKE
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Orcspiration
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DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.
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John Bull
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Worth remembering, for the next five years, that the Tory party rules ASSUME they'll have a large number of sitting MPs. e.g. to automatically start a leadership context only 15% of tory MPs have to put in letters. 15% of 130ish seats is... not a lot.
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