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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 50m

Isn't she pretty?
#Cannabis
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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 3h

Medical cannabis is available in Germany, that's true. You need a prescription from a doctor, but some offer this online with hardly any oversight.
I bought 20 grams of OG Kush online this way at a cost of €5.99 a gram. It was imported from Canada and was radiated. I prefer my own weed TBH.

Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 4h

Please don't SHOUT in the library!

Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, but we need to learn the lessons from legalising cannabis in the USA and elsewhere. Too much bureaucracy and high taxes kill the legal trade. Social clubs are a good idea, but again, making it complicated for them ruins the deal.

Growing weed at home is free and easy. It's the very best way.

A macro image of a female cannabis bud. Cultivar: Wappa

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 5h

It's not so much the tax revenue that counts IMO.
I grow weed legally in Germany for myself and my partner who has MS. We have no other legal access to cannabis.
I pay no tax on my weed-it only costs us the price of growing it (which is almost nothing as we have a PV system on the roof).

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Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 9h

Fascinating thing about the Dutch obsession with asylum is that the Netherlands is running a unique experiment with two groups: non-European refugees, who are cooped up in abysmal conditions, excluded from everything and blamed for social disruption, petty crime and inciting far-right hooliganism …

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 5h

Yes we should legalise all drugs.
Start with #cannabis

Mature female cannabis growing under a light indoors.

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 5h

No use to me as I'm self-employed.

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German retirees who continue working set to earn €2,000 a month tax-free

Active pension scheme expected to start in January is part of chancellor’s ‘autumn of reforms’ to tackle economic stagnation

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 8h

Hate monger hates justice.

Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

Lawyers for conspiracy theorist loser warned his website and assets will end up in the hands of his ‘nemesis’ and be ‘destroyed’ unless the justices get involved

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 21h

He's really no trouble at all, but sometimes he looks a bit mean.
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Trubble Brewing

He's trying to get me into the boat so we can play "Log overboard".

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Good Trouble ✊

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

A tweet by Robert Reich reads:
“The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.”

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 1d

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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 1d

That's a huge box!
Trubble is used to travelling. He is crazy about boats and bikes.
Trains are a problem as he has to wear a muzzle on German trains so we don't travel by train.
Enjoy your trip!
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Trubble in a boat

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!
As a water protector at Standing Rock in 2016, her experience protesting against DAPL led to her wanting to do something more. In 2018, at age 29, AOC became the youngest woman to be elected to Congress. She serves the New York 14th congressional district.

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 1d

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IMG_2427

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 1d

Trubble nose.
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Trubble

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 1d

Cunts Army.

Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely awful. Just the latest example of rising Christian Nationalism in the UK, much of which can be attributed to American influence and financing.

Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district

A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 1d

And so it begins.
As the Arctic melts, we are finding new routes to deliver the sex toys no one needs.
#ClimateBreakdown

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Chinese freighter halves EU delivery time on maiden Arctic voyage to UK

A Chinese container ship has completed a pioneering journey through the Arctic to a UK port, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, cutting in half the usual transit time for the electric vehicles and solar panels aboard destined for Europe.

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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · 4d

Natürlich ist ein so guter, kluger und kämpferischer Verlag wie der @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social Rechtsextremisten ein Dorn im
Auge, natürlich versuchen sie auf alles, was Kultur ist, was Denken ist und Progression Angriffe zu starten. Das sind Angriffe auf uns alle und deswegen sollten 1/2

Ich mit dem Buch von Milo Rau: ,Widerstand hat keine Form Widerstand ist die Form‘, das im Verbrecherverlag erschienen ist.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 1d

Can we still write by hand?

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 1d

And it's just over a year since I wrote this.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

How pen and paper comes to the rescue in an IT crisis

Firms are advised to practise operating with pens and paper in case of a computer meltdown.

www.bbc.com

Gary Evans @bluecloudacademy.bsky.social · 1d

#War looks like this.
I dread the thought of this spreading outside of conflict zones, but this would be our fate if we cannot stop Putin.
#Drones

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 1d

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the SIGNUM battalion attack 🇷🇺Russian soldiers on a motorcycle and destroy Bukhanka in the Lymansk direction