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created August 15, 2024

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Armed and litter picking ! x.com/i/status/196...

26/8/2025, 9:43:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it ever trully deleted?

23/8/2025, 10:26:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like dunking custard creams but it's an art and timing is everything.

23/8/2025, 10:16:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's guidance for the press and there are cases where public interest applies (not the public gawping) but also proceeds of crime can be recovered. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...

23/8/2025, 9:33:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or harder to get caught. Theft is still theft even if they don't catch you.

23/8/2025, 9:26:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would good to just sideline him, but if they ramp up sanctions etc they need to know that Trump won't just help Putin get round them

18/8/2025, 9:07:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So he couldn't read the words on the card in front of him.

18/8/2025, 9:03:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Big brother is watching you.

17/8/2025, 10:47:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

How about creating a new one for colouring in? Or is that above his skill level?

16/8/2025, 10:18:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So that would indicate a reasonably sized community of West Africans unless incest was the norm for a few generations. I doubt it though.

14/8/2025, 11:21:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I remember my history curriculum (UK early 1980s) - Causes of the First and Second World War. May want to do the rise of the Weimar Republic in some detail.

14/8/2025, 11:17:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If they're do keen to roll back to an earlier era, try Radium Crystal Salts. Yum!

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14/8/2025, 10:23:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A bit worried about Trome being in power until 2431.

14/8/2025, 9:14:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I heard Trump blame Ukraine for the war, yet again.

14/8/2025, 9:11:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Membury doesn't have the pond.

14/8/2025, 8:45:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I come here to escape the Twatter MAGAs.

8/8/2025, 10:47:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

The judge has sight of the pre-sentence report about the offender which is confidential. Therefore the judge has more information, than is made public.

7/8/2025, 10:59:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh no it doesn't, we're not that stupid.

7/8/2025, 10:57:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

And details are not made public. The judge has the sentencing guidelines and the specific information about the accused to inform the decision.

7/8/2025, 10:56:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a bit old as the golf tournament had passed by the time it was posted. However, the caddy had served 10 years of a 13 year sentence for drug dealing so easily exceeded the threshold for length of sentence. Is this caused by the US's very long sentences or the seriousness of his offence.

5/8/2025, 8:24:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But other countries will simply look for a different currency in a more stable country / economy.

3/8/2025, 6:55:32 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Further yo my pidt, my brother has said the day could be determined by the day of the week that the factory stopped workin so less smoke.

2/8/2025, 9:22:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh and my dad pressed his work trousers. He was RAF and didn't want to end up on a charge for not doing it right. She was allowed to iron his RAF shirts as he'd shown her the RAF way! The wooden airer doubled as a Wendy House / Pirate ship ... with addition of a blanket when not drying washing.

28/7/2025, 11:38:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🧵 day or reason for a day but I have a vague memory of someone saying it required all week to get everything dry hence starting on Monday. My maternal great grandparents generation, the washing went to a laundry with little red laundry marks On all the linen but they were fairly wealthy.

28/7/2025, 11:34:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

My mother did the washing and I was born 1967 so I'm talking about the latter period. I don't remember a particular day of the week. She had a twin tub so had some automation. Drying was weather dependant otherwise it was on a wooden airer indoors. So I don't have a specific 🧵

28/7/2025, 11:32:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I did a lens search and came with a lot of options

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23/7/2025, 8:06:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.whitecase.com/insight-aler... In Biden's last weeks in office, arranged a loan to Ukraine with frozen Russian assets servicing debt interest & capital repaid from reparations paid by Russia later. Other participants also joining but of course needed to get the USA done before Biden left office.

23/7/2025, 3:16:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will that be any better?

18/7/2025, 11:15:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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George HW Bush said "I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid. And my mother made me eat it. Now I'm president of the United States. And I'm not gonna eat any more broccoli!" Probably a better and more humorous use of presidential power.

18/7/2025, 11:14:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah that sounds familiar. Didn't the author also write about an authoritarian regime?

9/7/2025, 12:31:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think this was made known when the issue was first in the courts and the Trump regime / legal advisers were to respond about it. So yes they lied but known about.

8/7/2025, 9:09:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sure I've had it change after I've checked it.

5/7/2025, 10:21:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everyone!

5/7/2025, 7:51:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Be careful to check which county you're in before loading the jam and clotted cream on the scones. Got to make sure it's the right way up.

4/7/2025, 10:38:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Couldn't they just check his father's Wikipedia page. Hecwas part of the Ugandan Asian mass expulsion by Idi Amin in 1972 but returned later.

4/7/2025, 10:34:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Mamdani’s probably saying "oh no not again". Mamdani Sr studied in USA then returned to Uganda early 1972 then Idi Amin expels the Ugandan Asians Nov 1972 incl Mamdani Sr. So UK resettlement centre then Uni in Tanzania. Post Idi Amin back to Uganda. Obote revoked Mamdani's Ugandan citizenship.

30/6/2025, 10:52:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump was ordered to pay the Scottish government's legal costs after he lost the case about windmills and his golf course.

30/6/2025, 6:20:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Done

30/6/2025, 12:47:32 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His voice is grating! Trump should listen to himself?

25/6/2025, 9:13:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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21/6/2025, 9:12:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And now we're told he's being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ! 🤣

21/6/2025, 9:06:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A little dose of cholera. Oh and arsenic laced paint and wallpaper for a lovely shade of green.

19/6/2025, 6:35:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

I was thinking at least he wasn't being a cat.

19/6/2025, 5:45:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Carney had to stop Trump when he started rambling about the Democrats. It's not a political rally.

17/6/2025, 11:13:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Alternatively, a remote controlled electrode attached... hmm, well... with an app that family's can simply press a button during a week moment. Save on travel time.

17/6/2025, 10:50:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🧵when it was our side that wanted to honour the treaty with the native Americans.

14/6/2025, 11:43:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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USA are using the No Kings to imply dictator but most Kings are constitutional monarchies and it's elected government that's in charge hopefully sticking within the rule of law etc. Should be a bit more honest and say no dictator, especially 🧵

14/6/2025, 11:42:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Perhaps they did vote against Trump but....

14/6/2025, 11:34:05 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Elon Musk's DOGE but Reform UK style!

2/6/2025, 7:19:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Fortnightly bin collections will be the least of your problems. When they start making wild claims re funding based on brief text on a budget line, then you need to worry about what they'll try and cut. BTW my landfill bin is collected fortnightly but we still have weekly recycling which is fine.

2/6/2025, 7:18:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought it was musical chairs or is it eenie meanie miney mo....

29/5/2025, 6:32:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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True but Pam Bondi is meant to be a lawyer in the role of Attorney General. 🤦‍♀️ They should know better, but clearly don't.

29/5/2025, 6:27:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

I've found the 9 July 2025. It was the deferred tariff implementation date when Trump turned them on then off again. It's mentioned in the latest ruling. Not going well for Trump nor his legsl advisers who should know better. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

29/5/2025, 6:00:08 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

You beat me to it.

28/5/2025, 9:24:51 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump only thinks in terms of tangible things, e.g. made in a factory or a building. Or shiny gold things. He doesn't get that services are also part of the balance of payments. That's why his tariff stupidity takes no account of the bigger picture.

28/5/2025, 9:20:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes buses are wider. So are lorries (trucks). That's why they need to be given more room as they make a turn.

28/5/2025, 9:15:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Odeon Cinema Bristol

28/5/2025, 9:03:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or I'm the lord of the dance said he....🎶

28/5/2025, 9:01:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Copy and paste from an email.

28/5/2025, 8:58:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I read somewhere it was an original scheduled date. They've probably just reminded him of the agreed schedule. The date will probably be determined by we'll have a first draft in x months / weeks which happened to start on the 9th of something.

28/5/2025, 8:55:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you really need it? Cream suede is just asking for a coffee or jam from that doughnut to drip on it.

24/5/2025, 11:47:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They will have been planning sometime ahead and could not have predicted this happening mid course say two years ago. And yes, I suspect future students have already been thinking carefully about whether a US university was a good idea for those applying for next year's intake or the tear after.

24/5/2025, 11:40:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw a post the other day quoting the number of deaths from the covid vaccine that was actually more than the total number of deaths for ALL causes and not just one year. It would have taken several years to reach that number.

20/5/2025, 8:25:08 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was thinking that too.

20/5/2025, 8:10:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought it was 1913

12/5/2025, 8:50:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenB (@hpb37.bsky.social) reply parent

You beat me to it.

8/5/2025, 11:42:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Assume that's why he backtracked v quickly although not entirely. He'd been thinking about it for a week, sounds like a back of a fag packet calculation. And what led him to thinking the no 1 country for box office takings is in trouble. The no 2 (UK) is 1/10th of the US box office!

6/5/2025, 10:21:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Feathers McGraw is on the loose; be very afraid.

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5/5/2025, 8:07:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I won't be able to find the source now but I read something a while ago that the idea of a "conservative" judge is misinterpreted as being politically conservative when it's actually legally conservative.

3/5/2025, 10:35:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's going to have to learn about the equality act, disability act.....

3/5/2025, 10:27:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or he'll just ignored because they know their legal obligations.

3/5/2025, 10:26:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh so that's not the reason for staying away from Scotland when he's due to visit the UK.

29/4/2025, 11:14:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You've been tangoed.

19/4/2025, 8:21:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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x.com/i/status/191... Perhaps they are also afraid.

17/4/2025, 11:23:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Due process is what a civilised society provides. Don't forget the Rule of Law and all that.

17/4/2025, 11:52:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was a time not that long ago when e.g. Violets, Ediths and Elsies had gone out of fashion so maybe it just needs time for them to come around again.

17/4/2025, 11:49:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The UK Market Abuse Regulation (UK MAR) has closed periods during which Directors or others in control cannot trade. It's the last 30 calendar days. Therefore I don't see why this should be limited to 48 hours.

13/4/2025, 7:20:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/mh4vf9ewrUg Bye Bye Miss American Pie....

4/4/2025, 10:38:56 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/mh4vf9ewrUg.

4/4/2025, 10:36:05 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whilst that may be true, the number of shares in issue is needed to know the value of the total shares.

15/3/2025, 11:44:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it cut or diverted to Musk's projects??

7/3/2025, 10:06:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I looked at the democracy index which described the USA as a flawed democracy. (UK full democracy 😀) So I wondered makes a flawed democracy also what score in 2025. Hmm "hides its "nondemocratic practices behind formally democratic institutions and procedures" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiber...

7/3/2025, 6:43:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought that was about immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. It specifically said not for unofficial acts. I also would think it's implicit that the official acts have to be legitimate. Trouble is it needs some one with gumption to stand up to him.

7/3/2025, 6:32:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is he going to deforest the parks then mine and quarry the rest?

6/3/2025, 11:14:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oops sorry. He was also former leader of Reform UK Wales.

3/3/2025, 9:59:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of his fellow MPs is facing charges of accepting Russian linked bribes. Appeared in court last week.

3/3/2025, 5:59:17 PM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Already been done. www.whitecase.com/insight-aler...

2/3/2025, 3:00:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But will Canada's flu strains be the same? They need the info.

27/2/2025, 9:55:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've often driven past Bristol airport and there are planespotters filming.

25/2/2025, 7:48:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they are keeping their powder dry. Sadly, they probably need the predicted problems to materialise. Possibly after, the more sensible republicans, career / experienced politicians have started to speak up.

23/2/2025, 10:07:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, I went there in March 2024. Cnut had an earlier 8th century church demolished. There's also a tribute to TE Lawrence

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22/2/2025, 10:37:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And now Trump has supposedly issued an executive order saying on Trump and the Attorney Genersl decide what the law is. So that's no judicial review and does this mean that when a jury needs legal direction they get Trump off the golf course for the advice. So much for the Rule of Law then.

19/2/2025, 12:22:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah, homemade is always better than boughten.

17/2/2025, 12:01:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/2/2025, 11:36:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful solution to a structural problem, and done in late 14th century. Luke Jerram's Earth with the scissor arches in the background. Pink Floyd tribute band performing. Stairs to the chapter house and the undercroft of the neighbouring Bishops Palace (they do Sunday lunches).

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14/2/2025, 11:36:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So let me get this right: If the dictator gets to be a dictator, that's democracy. ??? But If the proper checks and balances are applied by one or more of the three branches to keep a check on abuses of power that is not a democracy. ??? Hmmm I think something's amiss.

14/2/2025, 11:25:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He said he'd not been there but the shows were terrible. No more woke.... blah blah blah....

14/2/2025, 9:42:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean” Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass.

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13/2/2025, 8:30:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like the Encyclopaedia Britannica's post: bsky.app/profile/brit...

12/2/2025, 10:53:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The BBC complained about being inaccurately summarised by AI. The AI said falsely that the BBC news had reported Mangione, the accused in the United Health insurance CEO killing, had shot himself. Not true and the BBC had not reported it either. How the AI came to that result I have no idea.

11/2/2025, 8:21:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view