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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 2d

New figures show England’s farmers have faced the second worst harvest on record. Drought, heat and floods have hit yields hard: and it’s another reminder that climate and food security must be tackled together, not traded off. 🌾

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Provisional cereal and oilseed production estimates for England 2025

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 3d

She's an international treasure for her reading initiatives ... I'm not keen on country music but I do like Dolly.

Carrie Armstrong @carriea.bsky.social · 3d

Love her.
She's a national treasure.

dolly parton is wearing a red dress and has a wig on .

ALT: dolly parton is wearing a red dress and has a wig on .

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

You can be the safest, most attentive driver in the world and still pose a massive risk to other road users. That’s because cars and car dependency are inherently dangerous.

This doesn’t mean you’re a bad person if you drive, but I do think that drivers should acknowledge their role in this system.

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 4d

Have you tried the neighbouring health trusts? Sometimes there are big differences in waiting times.

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 5d

English English v US English: “When that ground differs, even subtly, the whole picture can shift.”

This was the last par of a story about Ghislaine Maxwell I deleted tonight:

“The president has acknowledged his pardoning power but has not committed himself to giving her one.”

📚 🍫 Kate Macdonald 🧶 🐸 @kateem.bsky.social · 5d

They are astonishingly self-regarding. Philippa Perry pointed out some useful cultural tips that I keep forgetting, on what Americans and Brits (and possibly also the Irish) could remember about each others' responses. www.thenerve.news/p/philippa-p...

AMERICANS, WELCOME TO BRITAIN AND YOUR STRANGE NEW WORLD

In the first of her monthly columns, our ‘cultural agony aunt’, psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry, on the challenges facing the growing numbers of US citizens moving to the UK

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 5d

Oh dear. How sad. #ReformUK find that Kent county council are so well run that they can't make cuts and will have to put council tax up by 5%. That's a surprise to no one except Farage's crowd.

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 7d

Tks anyway.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 8d

Whoever you are...

If your response to hate is more hate.

If you try to sow more division in reaction to divisive actions.

If your turn your anger into a destructive force rather than try to build a better world.

Then you are as much a problem as that which you claim to stand up against.

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 8d

Sadly we won't go back in while Farage is waiting in the wings. It wouldn't make political sense and Europe would be daft to have us. Keep our star safe though, please.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

In shocking: "most people want to eat competitively priced, good quality fresh food and don't care where it comes from or what Nigel Farage thinks" news.

David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social · 8d

‘Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows the government’s agri-food deal agreed in principle with Brussels is popular with Remainers and Leavers alike — even when they're told it means following EU rules.

‘Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of voters back the deal…

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: [email protected] @gazza-d.bsky.social · 8d

A one year driving ban is insulting.
If someone is convicted of killing whilst driving then it should be a lifetime ban.

road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 8d

Norwich Cycling Campaign claimed the sentence was evidence that "...killing a cyclist through distraction does not carry meaningful consequences."

"Distracted driving is deadly, and sentencing must reflect that reality": Driver who killed cyclist on dual carriageway after "flurry" of phone activity avoids jail

Shayne Hill was given a 12-month suspended jail term and a 12-month driving ban by Judge Anthony Bate after admitted death by careless driving in the 2022 incident that took Cheryl Tye's life

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 8d

God, Trump is absolutely desperate for that Nobel peace prize. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump sets Sunday deadline for Hamas to agree to a deal for ending the war in Gaza

President Donald Trump says Hamas must agree to a proposed peace deal for Gaza by Sunday evening Eastern time and threatens the group will face more attacks if it doesn't.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 9d

A fascinating example of #vaccine resistance from 1778 in Whitehaven, UK.
www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

During my stay which was about nine days many children died of the smallpox. I once saw five corps together in the old church. Inoculation as formerly much practised in this quarter, will a few years ago when there of four dying in that fatal disorder after they had been inoculated, it was entirely laid aside and the people now choose to submit to providence rather then the "operation"

Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 10d

No, I cycle past rather than through. The farmers would make sure that any ramifications would be of Biblical proportions!

Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 10d

I was messaged to ask if I really do cycle through Sodom and Gomorrah (my profile page pic).

The answer is yes, I do.

Map showing location of Sodom and Gomorrah southeast of the village of Shelley, Suffolk, UK

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 10d

Wait till the presidential election. The danger is that people will be used to the National Guard patrolling polling stations.

Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 10d

The list of original items.

List of items and prices for the shopping clock

Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 10d

There's also this study looking at how it affected women's lives in particular: womenshistorynetwork.org/going-round-...

Going Round the Daily Mirror Shopping Clock – Mary Feerick

Towards the end of my teaching career I knew I had become part of History. Not surprisingly I had to halt videos of the Poll Tax Demonstrations to give an eyewitness account that varied from Andrew…

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 10d

Higher prices in my supermarket shop put me in mind of the 1970s Daily Mirror "shopping clock", which charted the effect of #inflation on a basket of groceries

A web search brought me to this marvellous DPhil dissertation by Mary Feerick of Sheffield tinyurl.com/f3kka67r inflation #priceoffood

The Daily Mirror shopping clock showing that a £5 basket of groceries has increased by £5 19 1/2p

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 11d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 11d

Recall warning issued for bicycle lights which are a fire risk

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in the Republic and Local Authority Trading Standards in Northern Ireland have issued a recall warning for users of Knog Selected Blinder 900 & 1300 Bike Lights, advising…

Recall warning issued for bicycle lights which are a fire risk

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in the Republic and Local Authority Trading Standards in Northern Ireland have issued a recall warning for users of Knog Selected Blinder 900 & 1300 Bike Lights, advising customers to stop using the product immediately. The manufacturer, Knog Pty Ltd, has issued a recall due to "a fault with the battery cells, the product may suddenly catch fire or combust which can cause burns, serious injuries or damage to property."

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 11d

He was addressing the conference to be fair.

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Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda.bsky.social · 12d

I did it. I added some Keystone Cops music to this:

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