David Cottam
@davidcottam6.bsky.social
Inquisitive person. Writer and player of music. Ecology, arts and science enthusiast.
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The USSR and NAZI Germany had executive, legislative, and judicial branches but not "balance of powers." The legislative and judicial branches were not a "check" on the dictator. Like Communism and Nazism, Putinism and Trumpism conduct purges to steal people's money, businesses, freedom, and lives.
Dekulakization - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The USSR and NAZI Germany had executive, legislative, and judicial branches but not "balance of powers." The legislative and judicial branches were not a "check" on the dictator. Like Communism and Nazism, Putinism and Trumpism conduct purges to steal people's money, businesses, freedom, and lives.
A little dose of exquisite musicality before I go to sleep.
Sabine Devieilhe.
Has anyone ever been born with a more perfectly pitched, agile and seductive voice.
Sabine Devieilhe.
Has anyone ever been born with a more perfectly pitched, agile and seductive voice.
December 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A little dose of exquisite musicality before I go to sleep.
Sabine Devieilhe.
Has anyone ever been born with a more perfectly pitched, agile and seductive voice.
Sabine Devieilhe.
Has anyone ever been born with a more perfectly pitched, agile and seductive voice.
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HAVE YOURSELF A HEALTHY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
HAVE YOURSELF A HEALTHY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
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People missing the point ENTIRELY. This is nothing to do with the authenticity/credibility of the document. The attempt to suppress it is prima facie unlawful, explicit under s.(b)(1) of the act Congress passed last month, signed into law by Trump himself. "Turned out to be fake" is *not* a defence.
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
People missing the point ENTIRELY. This is nothing to do with the authenticity/credibility of the document. The attempt to suppress it is prima facie unlawful, explicit under s.(b)(1) of the act Congress passed last month, signed into law by Trump himself. "Turned out to be fake" is *not* a defence.
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"Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls."
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls."
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
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A real Brexit benefit, tbh. Let’s hope the UK leads the EU on this but, so sadly, it’s unlikely. Humane farming is absolutely vital to animals but also to human decency. Let’s hope ritual slaughter by Muslims & Jews is also banned.
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A real Brexit benefit, tbh. Let’s hope the UK leads the EU on this but, so sadly, it’s unlikely. Humane farming is absolutely vital to animals but also to human decency. Let’s hope ritual slaughter by Muslims & Jews is also banned.
Trump needs a massive black sharpie for Christmas so that he can sign his name exactly as it appears in the redacted files.
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Trump needs a massive black sharpie for Christmas so that he can sign his name exactly as it appears in the redacted files.
Can we assume that behind every black square there’s a picture of Trump?
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Can we assume that behind every black square there’s a picture of Trump?
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@ledbydonkeys.org are everything Farage isn’t.. honest, fact driven, talented, and focused on protecting our interests by exposing malign forces and bad actors.. not being one of them❗️
No one talks UK down like Farage.. 🤷🏼♂️
No one talks UK down like Farage.. 🤷🏼♂️
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@ledbydonkeys.org are everything Farage isn’t.. honest, fact driven, talented, and focused on protecting our interests by exposing malign forces and bad actors.. not being one of them❗️
No one talks UK down like Farage.. 🤷🏼♂️
No one talks UK down like Farage.. 🤷🏼♂️
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~ Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? – Byline Times ~
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/russian-interference-brexit-investigate-inquiry-eu/
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/russian-interference-brexit-investigate-inquiry-eu/
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? – Byline Times
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
~ Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? – Byline Times ~
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/russian-interference-brexit-investigate-inquiry-eu/
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/russian-interference-brexit-investigate-inquiry-eu/
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If he wants them back, he can stop invading Ukraine at any time
Putin blasts attempted EU ‘robbery’ of Russian assets
Putin blasts attempted EU ‘robbery’ of Russian assets
EU leaders opted for joint debt to fill Ukraine’s war chest, holding Moscow’s frozen assets as collateral.
www.politico.eu
December 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If he wants them back, he can stop invading Ukraine at any time
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“If they can't even agree on a loan to support Ukraine, they may as well go home... You can't be going all over the place announcing that "we're at war", and then acting in the same way you were when you were talking about fishing quotas.”
NEW EPISODE: The space between peace and war
☠️ Europe's choice on Ukraine: be galvanised or paralysed
😎 How spies are waging their own war on us
🧞 Inevitable pantomime references
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@annettedittert.bsky.social
☠️ Europe's choice on Ukraine: be galvanised or paralysed
😎 How spies are waging their own war on us
🧞 Inevitable pantomime references
🎧 SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/episode/1Qn9...
🍏 APPLE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@annettedittert.bsky.social
The Space Between Peace And War
open.spotify.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“If they can't even agree on a loan to support Ukraine, they may as well go home... You can't be going all over the place announcing that "we're at war", and then acting in the same way you were when you were talking about fishing quotas.”
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Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake".
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
Yorkshire Water boss 'mistaken' to keep £1.3m payment secret
Nicola Shaw says she was wrong in
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake".
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
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In this video, Christopher Steele, the former head of the MI6 Russia Desk says that the Russians probably have Epstein files. Go to about 26 min. and keep listening. Will Trump help Ukraine if he fears that his involvement with Epstein will be exposed?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtZ0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtZ0...
Ex-MI6 Spy: Kremlin Has Dirt on Trump from the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Byline TV
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Origin Story podcast with Ian Dunt & Dorian Lynskey is a brilliant and ambitious project. It’s unusual to be this scholarly and smart without becoming conceited, pompous or obscure. They dig deep & are darkly humorous. This is really exceptional work. A series to relish and revisit. Give it a try.
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Origin Story podcast with Ian Dunt & Dorian Lynskey is a brilliant and ambitious project. It’s unusual to be this scholarly and smart without becoming conceited, pompous or obscure. They dig deep & are darkly humorous. This is really exceptional work. A series to relish and revisit. Give it a try.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
The Origin Story summing up of the series on socialism is a wonderful conversation. I marvel that you can find so much humour in the history of hubris and failed grand designs. I feel
enlightened, entertained and a better sense of perspective.
The Origin Story summing up of the series on socialism is a wonderful conversation. I marvel that you can find so much humour in the history of hubris and failed grand designs. I feel
enlightened, entertained and a better sense of perspective.
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
The Origin Story summing up of the series on socialism is a wonderful conversation. I marvel that you can find so much humour in the history of hubris and failed grand designs. I feel
enlightened, entertained and a better sense of perspective.
The Origin Story summing up of the series on socialism is a wonderful conversation. I marvel that you can find so much humour in the history of hubris and failed grand designs. I feel
enlightened, entertained and a better sense of perspective.
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
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HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.
UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics
Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.
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Most plastic + chemicals added to plastic are made from gas + oil. In 2018, writes @bethgardiner.bsky.social , Saudi Aramco announced plans to drive growth in demand for oil by increasing plastic production.
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Most plastic + chemicals added to plastic are made from gas + oil. In 2018, writes @bethgardiner.bsky.social , Saudi Aramco announced plans to drive growth in demand for oil by increasing plastic production.
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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The facts are clear. A British politician took bribes to further the interests of the Russian regime and If there there was one then there will be others. Both Farage and Tice need to go under the microscope.
Minister orders probe into foreign financial interference in UK politics
Communities secretary says the country must learn lessons from the Nathan Gill bribery case.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The facts are clear. A British politician took bribes to further the interests of the Russian regime and If there there was one then there will be others. Both Farage and Tice need to go under the microscope.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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"It was now certain that Moscow had attempted to 'influence and destabilise both the last federal election and the ongoing internal affairs of Germany' through a disinformation campaign called Storm 1516." ~AA
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Germany accuses Russia of 2024 cyber attack and election disinformation campaign
The Russian ambassador is summoned over a cyber-attack on air traffic control and attempted electoral interference.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"It was now certain that Moscow had attempted to 'influence and destabilise both the last federal election and the ongoing internal affairs of Germany' through a disinformation campaign called Storm 1516." ~AA
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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2 heroes half a world apart with this in common
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2 heroes half a world apart with this in common
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
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Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
A tame Robin singing to me at Rosemoor in Devon.
December 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A tame Robin singing to me at Rosemoor in Devon.