Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
@rmbflk.bsky.social
Clyde built/Falklands anchored: freelance journalist/broadcaster, lawyer, legislative drafter, public policy consultant and tour guide - we multitask here!
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According to an AI analysis of my posts on Another Site, I am "like a Swiss Army knife that's been left out in the Falklands' harsh weather - rusty, a bit dull, but still trying to be useful"
Not entirely unfair, but it's not just the Falklands weather that's harsh!
I will try to be useful here too
Not entirely unfair, but it's not just the Falklands weather that's harsh!
I will try to be useful here too
And pray to God there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, ‘cos there’s bugger all down here on earth
Consider: In that one little red dot, there are 200-400 billion stars. 🤯
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
And pray to God there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, ‘cos there’s bugger all down here on earth
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Americans- still struggling with the metric system? Here's some help!
December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Americans- still struggling with the metric system? Here's some help!
Hey Duggie does the first half of that scene from Silkwood
December 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hey Duggie does the first half of that scene from Silkwood
Once again, it’s one of the four days of the year designated for displays of Borealcentrism and Australcentrism
In a spirt of passive aggressive Australcentrism identifying as inclusion, may I wish you all a Happy December Solstice!
In a spirt of passive aggressive Australcentrism identifying as inclusion, may I wish you all a Happy December Solstice!
December 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Once again, it’s one of the four days of the year designated for displays of Borealcentrism and Australcentrism
In a spirt of passive aggressive Australcentrism identifying as inclusion, may I wish you all a Happy December Solstice!
In a spirt of passive aggressive Australcentrism identifying as inclusion, may I wish you all a Happy December Solstice!
It was sufficiently predictable that I am not claiming great powers of clairvoyance … but, when I prepped Monday’s breakfast show this morning, I put Kylie’s XMAS in as the placeholder for the Christmas No1
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Christmas Number 1 2025: Kylie Minogue's XMAS breaks Official Chart records!
Who is the UK's Official Christmas Number 1 single 2025? 37 years after making her Official Chart debut with I Should Be So Lucky, pop icon Kylie Minogue lands her first-ever UK Christmas Number 1 wit...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It was sufficiently predictable that I am not claiming great powers of clairvoyance … but, when I prepped Monday’s breakfast show this morning, I put Kylie’s XMAS in as the placeholder for the Christmas No1
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www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...
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The Lovable Victorian Urchin's Guide to a Merry Christmas
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
To paraphrase Mr Banks in Mary Poppins:
“A party entered the Capitol and behaved rather rudely”
“A party entered the Capitol and behaved rather rudely”
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
To paraphrase Mr Banks in Mary Poppins:
“A party entered the Capitol and behaved rather rudely”
“A party entered the Capitol and behaved rather rudely”
I haven’t been able to find it online but I remember a feature on Tomorrow’s World that showed a clip from a 1930s French film about the Universal Leisure that would result from the spread of technology and one of the presenters pointing out that Universal Leisure was later called Mass Unemployment
Well I haven't found an answer to this but I have found a fantastic magazine cover from the 1930s that's still relevant NOW. (Via this rabbit hole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoc...)
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I haven’t been able to find it online but I remember a feature on Tomorrow’s World that showed a clip from a 1930s French film about the Universal Leisure that would result from the spread of technology and one of the presenters pointing out that Universal Leisure was later called Mass Unemployment
"You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." "You know, you do, too."
Game, Set and Match
Game, Set and Match
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
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Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." "You know, you do, too."
Game, Set and Match
Game, Set and Match
End Of Part One
Denise Coffey tries to get Eric the dog to Be Normal for Fred Harris
Denise Coffey tries to get Eric the dog to Be Normal for Fred Harris
Here is the sketch of a dog ignoring the command to Be Normal
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
End Of Part One
Denise Coffey tries to get Eric the dog to Be Normal for Fred Harris
Denise Coffey tries to get Eric the dog to Be Normal for Fred Harris
Reminded that one of Falklands Radio’s promos describes us as “Your Local National Station”
The basis for a modern day Radio Active episode!
December 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reminded that one of Falklands Radio’s promos describes us as “Your Local National Station”
“I fought so little they rewarded me/By making me the ruler of the Tsar’s navee”
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“I fought so little they rewarded me/By making me the ruler of the Tsar’s navee”
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Lines on the Spey Railway Bridge (partly) falling into the river. In the manner of William McGonagall
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Lines on the Fall of the Spey Viaduct with thanks to William McGonagall
'Twas in the year two thousand and twenty five When some people in Scotland were lucky to be alive For part of a former railway bridge fell...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Lines on the Spey Railway Bridge (partly) falling into the river. In the manner of William McGonagall
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FFS? FFS!
Apparently, in this context, it stands for Falklands First Strategy, as just announced in the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly by last week’s poll topper and new Executive Council member Lewis Clifton
#Falklands #FalklandIslands
Apparently, in this context, it stands for Falklands First Strategy, as just announced in the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly by last week’s poll topper and new Executive Council member Lewis Clifton
#Falklands #FalklandIslands
December 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
FFS? FFS!
Apparently, in this context, it stands for Falklands First Strategy, as just announced in the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly by last week’s poll topper and new Executive Council member Lewis Clifton
#Falklands #FalklandIslands
Apparently, in this context, it stands for Falklands First Strategy, as just announced in the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly by last week’s poll topper and new Executive Council member Lewis Clifton
#Falklands #FalklandIslands
First meeting of the new #FalklandIslands Legislative Assembly and Keith Biles has been re-elected for a 5th full term - he took over in 2009 when Lewis Clifton had to resign
Lewis Clifton topped the poll last week and has just been elected to ExCo, joined by Jack Ford and Cheryl Roberts
Lewis Clifton topped the poll last week and has just been elected to ExCo, joined by Jack Ford and Cheryl Roberts
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
First meeting of the new #FalklandIslands Legislative Assembly and Keith Biles has been re-elected for a 5th full term - he took over in 2009 when Lewis Clifton had to resign
Lewis Clifton topped the poll last week and has just been elected to ExCo, joined by Jack Ford and Cheryl Roberts
Lewis Clifton topped the poll last week and has just been elected to ExCo, joined by Jack Ford and Cheryl Roberts
But were they red and how many of them were there?
#BBCNews - Balloons from Belarus are causing chaos in Lithuania. Is it smugglers or a hybrid attack?
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Balloons from Belarus are causing chaos in Lithuania. Is it smugglers, or a hybrid attack?
Lithuania has declared an emergency after the balloons started to cross the border.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
But were they red and how many of them were there?
If you have muted me during my period of being a one note drum, it’s safe again (for now, at least)
(Though, if you muted me and not just the hashtag, you won’t see this to know!)
(Though, if you muted me and not just the hashtag, you won’t see this to know!)
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If you have muted me during my period of being a one note drum, it’s safe again (for now, at least)
(Though, if you muted me and not just the hashtag, you won’t see this to know!)
(Though, if you muted me and not just the hashtag, you won’t see this to know!)
Anyone interested in what my playlist turned out to be for the Morning After Electiion Special on Falklands Radio might like to see this
#FalklandsElection25
#FalklandsElection25
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Anyone interested in what my playlist turned out to be for the Morning After Electiion Special on Falklands Radio might like to see this
#FalklandsElection25
#FalklandsElection25
#FalklandsElection25
The Gazette notices with the official results of the #FalklandIslands general election have been published:
www.falklands.gov.fk/legalservice...
The Gazette notices with the official results of the #FalklandIslands general election have been published:
www.falklands.gov.fk/legalservice...
www.falklands.gov.fk
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#FalklandsElection25
The Gazette notices with the official results of the #FalklandIslands general election have been published:
www.falklands.gov.fk/legalservice...
The Gazette notices with the official results of the #FalklandIslands general election have been published:
www.falklands.gov.fk/legalservice...
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#FalklandsElection25 #hottake
Not a 2009-style clean sweep, but it might as well as have been
In so far as left right politics apply in the #Falklands, it’s definitely a quite a shift to the right
I think a fair summary is that the new Assembly will be “business friendly” and fiscally conservative
Not a 2009-style clean sweep, but it might as well as have been
In so far as left right politics apply in the #Falklands, it’s definitely a quite a shift to the right
I think a fair summary is that the new Assembly will be “business friendly” and fiscally conservative
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
#FalklandsElection25 #hottake
Not a 2009-style clean sweep, but it might as well as have been
In so far as left right politics apply in the #Falklands, it’s definitely a quite a shift to the right
I think a fair summary is that the new Assembly will be “business friendly” and fiscally conservative
Not a 2009-style clean sweep, but it might as well as have been
In so far as left right politics apply in the #Falklands, it’s definitely a quite a shift to the right
I think a fair summary is that the new Assembly will be “business friendly” and fiscally conservative
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STANLEY RESULT #FalklandsElection25 #result
Lewis Clifton and Cheryl Roberts top the poll
Stacy Bragger, Dean Dent and Roger Spink make up the rest of the 5
Pete Biggs loses both his seat and his deposit
Mark Pollard, Gavin Short and Leona Vidal lose their seats
#liveskeet #corrected
Lewis Clifton and Cheryl Roberts top the poll
Stacy Bragger, Dean Dent and Roger Spink make up the rest of the 5
Pete Biggs loses both his seat and his deposit
Mark Pollard, Gavin Short and Leona Vidal lose their seats
#liveskeet #corrected
December 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
STANLEY RESULT #FalklandsElection25 #result
Lewis Clifton and Cheryl Roberts top the poll
Stacy Bragger, Dean Dent and Roger Spink make up the rest of the 5
Pete Biggs loses both his seat and his deposit
Mark Pollard, Gavin Short and Leona Vidal lose their seats
#liveskeet #corrected
Lewis Clifton and Cheryl Roberts top the poll
Stacy Bragger, Dean Dent and Roger Spink make up the rest of the 5
Pete Biggs loses both his seat and his deposit
Mark Pollard, Gavin Short and Leona Vidal lose their seats
#liveskeet #corrected
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CAMP RESULT #FalkllandsElection25
Jack Ford re-elected
Dot Gould and Michael Goss elected
Andy Watson misses out by about 15 votes
No rejected papers and all candidates save their deposits
Two outgoing MLAs didn’t stand again
#liveskeet #result
PS A 2009 style clean sweep is now ruled out
Jack Ford re-elected
Dot Gould and Michael Goss elected
Andy Watson misses out by about 15 votes
No rejected papers and all candidates save their deposits
Two outgoing MLAs didn’t stand again
#liveskeet #result
PS A 2009 style clean sweep is now ruled out
December 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
CAMP RESULT #FalkllandsElection25
Jack Ford re-elected
Dot Gould and Michael Goss elected
Andy Watson misses out by about 15 votes
No rejected papers and all candidates save their deposits
Two outgoing MLAs didn’t stand again
#liveskeet #result
PS A 2009 style clean sweep is now ruled out
Jack Ford re-elected
Dot Gould and Michael Goss elected
Andy Watson misses out by about 15 votes
No rejected papers and all candidates save their deposits
Two outgoing MLAs didn’t stand again
#liveskeet #result
PS A 2009 style clean sweep is now ruled out