Didactylos47
@didactylos47.bsky.social
Bookworm, amateur artist, retired. Ex National Trust Guide, Ex English Heritage Guide, Ex Feral Cat trapper, Ex Wildlife Trust Volunteer, Ex Teacher, Ex Traveller. Wow that’s a shed load of Xs. Political views, mix of Stoic and Buddhist philosophy.
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Didactylos47
@didactylos47.bsky.social
· Nov 16
I ran out of words, live in Northumberland - a very old and interesting kingdom of the past. Steeped in history and glorious scenery, though pre Covid we explored all manner of places including Amtrak across the USA, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Bali, Singapore and loads of Europe by train.
I declared that at 70 I no longer ever got presents. Much much simpler all round.
I've reached the age when the most exciting Christmas present is a new nasal and ear hair trimmer.
December 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I declared that at 70 I no longer ever got presents. Much much simpler all round.
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It seems surprising that the Shadow Attorney-General Lord Wolfson is able to combine being on Roman Abramovich's legal team in such a high profile case about the frozen assets of a key Putin ally, while also attending the Shadow Cabinet (The Times)
December 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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You claim to possess moral agency, to be able to differentiate between right & wrong, yet you force breed 100s of billions of us into a life of torturous suffering & slaughter us for your sustenance, convenience & self-gratification, even when alternatives exist.
We are #OneBillionScreams
We are #OneBillionScreams
December 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
You claim to possess moral agency, to be able to differentiate between right & wrong, yet you force breed 100s of billions of us into a life of torturous suffering & slaughter us for your sustenance, convenience & self-gratification, even when alternatives exist.
We are #OneBillionScreams
We are #OneBillionScreams
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📖 Teachings of Epictetus:
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
📖 Teachings of Epictetus:
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
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To celebrate the birth of a saviour by dining down on the flesh of cruelly massacred individuals; to wish for peace on earth whilst waging eternal violence upon sentient fellow beings, exemplifies an exceptional level of hypocrisy & gross sanctimonious ignorance.
We are #OneBillionScreams
We are #OneBillionScreams
December 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
To celebrate the birth of a saviour by dining down on the flesh of cruelly massacred individuals; to wish for peace on earth whilst waging eternal violence upon sentient fellow beings, exemplifies an exceptional level of hypocrisy & gross sanctimonious ignorance.
We are #OneBillionScreams
We are #OneBillionScreams
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Ukraine has successfully struck a Russian petrochemical plant and a rubber factor supplying the Russian military. More details have been released about Ukraine's strikes on Taman and Russia's naval port. JD Vance has declared France and the UK's nuclear weapons as a security threat to the US.
Critical Russian Petrochemical Plant Destroyed by Ukraine
YouTube video by Jake Broe
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Ukraine has successfully struck a Russian petrochemical plant and a rubber factor supplying the Russian military. More details have been released about Ukraine's strikes on Taman and Russia's naval port. JD Vance has declared France and the UK's nuclear weapons as a security threat to the US.
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
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Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
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The new collective noun for rich farmers is an ‘avoidance’. An avoidance of rich farmers.
December 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The new collective noun for rich farmers is an ‘avoidance’. An avoidance of rich farmers.
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![Here's the lineup in chronological order (approx. late 1970s to present):
1. Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
2. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
3. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
4. George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)
5. Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
6. George W. Bush 2001-2009)
7. Barack Obama (2009-2017)
8. [REDACTED]
(2017-2021)
9. Joe Biden (2021-2025)
10. [REDACTED]
(2025-Present) ®](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fk7ijlcuof2grwloqd2a7leu/bafkreihjaqnckgparnz3vszytffrcj6ojuteqapnyxu3u7z4i5o5nt2hl4@jpeg)
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Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
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🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
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Wonder if Semi GoodEnough still stands by her assertion that sex crimes caused by second-rate cultures that lack basic decency.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Former Tory councillor in court accused of drugging and raping ex-wife
Philip Young appears at Swindon magistrates court charged with 56 offences relating to 13-year period
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Wonder if Semi GoodEnough still stands by her assertion that sex crimes caused by second-rate cultures that lack basic decency.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Sending love to everyone who finds the Christmas period an uphill climb. There are a hundred very valid and totally understandable reasons for this. Whether you reach out for help, or hunker down in your cave, good luck. We’ll get through this.
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Sending love to everyone who finds the Christmas period an uphill climb. There are a hundred very valid and totally understandable reasons for this. Whether you reach out for help, or hunker down in your cave, good luck. We’ll get through this.
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As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.
December 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.
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Brian & Ed Krassenstein: #epstein #pedoführer
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Brian & Ed Krassenstein: #epstein #pedoführer
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If you think the UK, its blood-soaked flag, its utterly corrupt ruling class and it's filthy royal family is as good as it gets for these islands, consider the possibility that you've got British Imperial Stockholm Syndrome. They've lied to you all your life. Open your eyes.
#Cymru
#EndTheUnion
#Cymru
#EndTheUnion
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
If you think the UK, its blood-soaked flag, its utterly corrupt ruling class and it's filthy royal family is as good as it gets for these islands, consider the possibility that you've got British Imperial Stockholm Syndrome. They've lied to you all your life. Open your eyes.
#Cymru
#EndTheUnion
#Cymru
#EndTheUnion
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Absolutely though I did once turn up to a meeting a week early which perhaps was taking things too far.
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
It's Shakepeare (Merry Wives Of Windsor) and it's wisdom.
It's Shakepeare (Merry Wives Of Windsor) and it's wisdom.
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Absolutely though I did once turn up to a meeting a week early which perhaps was taking things too far.
Sooner the better
EXC: The Government will move to ban trail hunting in the new year. It forms part of its animal welfare strategy, set to be published on Monday
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned
Trail hunting sees a scent laid out for the hunt to follow rather than a real animal, and was introduced as a replacement for fox hunting, which was banned by Labour in 2004
www.mirror.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Sooner the better
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Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Jim Ratcliffe chemical firms received up to £70m of UK state aid in last four years
The government is preparing a £50m bailout for Ineos’s Grangemouth plant, after Jim Ratcliffe asked for help in October
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
My day always starts between 3 and 4 in the morning… has done for the last 5 years
Isn’t that the truth!
December 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
My day always starts between 3 and 4 in the morning… has done for the last 5 years
There are certain people to always act as a signpost for me - whichever way they point I know the correct direction is the total opposite.
Since David Frost has NEVER been right about anything at any point when it comes to Brexit, this feels like a strong endorsement for our participation in Erasmus.
December 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
There are certain people to always act as a signpost for me - whichever way they point I know the correct direction is the total opposite.