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Giles Wright

@gilesw.bsky.social

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Techie Dad in the North East of England. Cybersecurity/InfoSec, Northumberland, Dogs and stuff.

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Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · Nov 11

First post here and it’s got to be a pic of Chewie.

A pic of Chewie the yellow Labrador looking cool.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23h

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Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · 7d

It’s always DNS.

Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · 11d

And a hotplate….

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 11d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · 13d

Cornwall’s Most Painful Tourist Attraction.

Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent! I’m using indi allsky on a pi for my setup. The Pi is outside (on the roof of a caravan in north Northumberland). It’s sending images to a remote web server here:
allsky.gileswright.com/indi-allsky/
It’s a bit grey at the moment. Was clear last night allsky.gileswright.com/indi-allsky/...

indi-allsky: Latest

allsky.gileswright.com

Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · 14d

Excellent - thanks for the info. I’ve got an allsky camera running on a Pi4 in weatherproof housing. I used a PoE/M.2 hat for that for storage/power. I assume I’ll do something similar for this. Just looking at mics. If I can use an existing mic then that’ll save me a bit.

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Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · 14d

Been looking at setting up a BirdNetPi. Used the Merlin app a fair bit but want something continuously recording.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20d

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 23d

*Stormtrooper on death bed*

Hang on, those were the droids I was looking for! Shit! Ugh….

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 26d

The lack of urgency shown by the Paw Patrol when alerted to a situation will lead to loss of life. I hate to say it but Ryder is not right for the leadership role and should be stripped of his duties

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Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yeah, came here to say this.

Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · Sep 4

Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 29

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · Aug 19

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz348bs

TYPE 'falconry' into Google and then click the 'images tab. Unless of course you're not interested in pictures of falconry, in which case don't bother.
Gus, London

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · Jul 16

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · Jul 16

Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · Jul 13

Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!

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Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · Jul 12

It’s a great paw alright.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · Jul 6

Peter Benchley's Jaws (Eric Carle version) for @mitchbenn.bsky.social

Front cover of Jaws in the style of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · Jul 3

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CANT find a torch and need to
see in the attic? Simply put an
extension lead onto your fridge,
then manoeuvre it into the attic
and open the door.
Chris Heel, Newbridge

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Jul 1

This chimp helping a guy up is still one of my favorite videos ever... #bluesky #animalday

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm so sick of Goodwin and Goodheart and their stupid immigration hot takes that I've resorted to old fashioned mockery.

Meet Professor Ivor Oddgrin ...

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'

Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes

bylinetimes.com

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Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · Jun 23

STOP MAKING CHIPS TASTE WRONG!

Giles Wright @gilesw.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy Solstice! Sunrise over Newcastle.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Jun 21

Venn diagram

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