RickBean
@fenmonkey.bsky.social
Polite (Yet Awkward) Engineer with a silly sense of humour. Will only argue about politics.
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As it'll be December tomorrow, your annual reminder that Klaus on Netflix is the best Christmas film of the last couple of decades & should be as much of a standard in your house as the Muppets or George Bailey. Looks great, really funny & will make you do a lovely big old sob.
a cartoon character on a boat with netflix written on the bottom right
Alt: This kid right here, though.
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As it'll be December tomorrow, your annual reminder that Klaus on Netflix is the best Christmas film of the last couple of decades & should be as much of a standard in your house as the Muppets or George Bailey. Looks great, really funny & will make you do a lovely big old sob.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Happy #Thanksgiving to all of my American friends, though it may seem that you have less to give thanks for than previous years, one day he will die.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy #Thanksgiving to all of my American friends, though it may seem that you have less to give thanks for than previous years, one day he will die.
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
This is how you deal with this shitebag.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is how you deal with this shitebag.
Is it not time just to tell these people to fuck off?
BBC News - New US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - New US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights
www.bbc.com/news/article...
US says countries with DEI policies as infringing human rights
US officials say the rules will stop "destructive ideologies" but others argue it is redefining human rights principles for Trump's goals.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Is it not time just to tell these people to fuck off?
BBC News - New US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - New US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Omid Djalili Is on The Wheel tonight. I guess his expert subject will be blood money.
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Omid Djalili Is on The Wheel tonight. I guess his expert subject will be blood money.
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🌏 "The geopolitical situation bolsters the case for closer co-operation with the EU."
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
Global forces are pushing Britain and Europe closer together
2026 will mark ten years since the Brexit referendum. The geopolitical landscape supports closer co-operation between Britain and the EU
econ.st
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🌏 "The geopolitical situation bolsters the case for closer co-operation with the EU."
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent."
https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w
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The President of the United States Of America was a close confidante of one of these most powerful & prolific paedophiles in US history, had close contact with many of his victims & has legally sought to hide this fact.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The President of the United States Of America was a close confidante of one of these most powerful & prolific paedophiles in US history, had close contact with many of his victims & has legally sought to hide this fact.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
Sometimes it's good to restate these facts because they're insane.
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Apropos of nothing in particular: SHOES
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular: SHOES
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.
Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.
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Fresh lemons can deter cats from urinating on your lawn but it largely depends on how good your aim is.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Fresh lemons can deter cats from urinating on your lawn but it largely depends on how good your aim is.
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
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There is literally a storyline in The Wire where a drug gang withholds wages from their street dealers to smoke out disloyal employees by seeing who starts complaining. This is organised crime thinking.
Trump: "'We can't make it. We can't.' You know, a lot of people who showed up also had a second job. They took a second job temporarily. But they all know the money's coming, and the money was coming. So I want to reward the people who showed up without a lot of nonsense, without a lot of talk."
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
There is literally a storyline in The Wire where a drug gang withholds wages from their street dealers to smoke out disloyal employees by seeing who starts complaining. This is organised crime thinking.
Dear BBC. If you want previously unheard levels of public support, tell the British public that appeasing trump will mean no strictly, no traitors, no children in need and no EastEnders in 2026 and let's see what the outcome will be. Oh and sack Robbie Gibb.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Dear BBC. If you want previously unheard levels of public support, tell the British public that appeasing trump will mean no strictly, no traitors, no children in need and no EastEnders in 2026 and let's see what the outcome will be. Oh and sack Robbie Gibb.
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Gary Lineker for DG
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Gary Lineker for DG
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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
It's time we called out racists for being racists and calling out those living off the politics of division, the scumbags they are.
Goodwin says "it takes more than a piece of paper" or birthplace to make somebody British.
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
November 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's time we called out racists for being racists and calling out those living off the politics of division, the scumbags they are.
I can't stress how important this statement is. It's proper Cassandra territory.
The racists are now saying that the mere presence of immigrants and/or Muslims in the UK is the reason for any violent crimes committed in the UK. It doesn't matter if they committed the crimes or not. It's the type of country these people have somehow turned the UK into that's the problem.
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I can't stress how important this statement is. It's proper Cassandra territory.
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Think they might want to rephrase this
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Think they might want to rephrase this
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🔥 Excellent from Lisa Nandy!
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🔥 Excellent from Lisa Nandy!
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."
"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."
Your reminder that this is not about what we know. It's about what they know, that we don't.
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
Stripping Andrew of the title 'prince' is colossal, says the BBC's royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Your reminder that this is not about what we know. It's about what they know, that we don't.
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🎶My name's not Prince
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🎶My name's not Prince
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶
I've lost my flunkies
You'd be less shocked
If I fucked monkeys🎶