Steve Griffin 〓〓
@newquaygriff.bsky.social
Retired engineer, marketeer and business owner. Cornishman & Green Socialist into #music, #science, #tech, #festivals, #photography, #sci-fi, #astronomy, #puns, #dadjokes, #crypto and most of all #life.
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Is there anything they won’t do to protect Israel?
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Is there anything they won’t do to protect Israel?
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Good night 💤
The sixties were a time of change. 2025 is the new time of change. We did it then we can do it again.
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche’ that must be left behind us in the sixties, that his problem.
Love and peace are eternal.”
John Lennon
The sixties were a time of change. 2025 is the new time of change. We did it then we can do it again.
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche’ that must be left behind us in the sixties, that his problem.
Love and peace are eternal.”
John Lennon
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Good night 💤
The sixties were a time of change. 2025 is the new time of change. We did it then we can do it again.
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche’ that must be left behind us in the sixties, that his problem.
Love and peace are eternal.”
John Lennon
The sixties were a time of change. 2025 is the new time of change. We did it then we can do it again.
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche’ that must be left behind us in the sixties, that his problem.
Love and peace are eternal.”
John Lennon
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This isn’t law enforcement doing its job. It’s the escalation of a culture of fear that punishes anyone who dares to document it.
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This isn’t law enforcement doing its job. It’s the escalation of a culture of fear that punishes anyone who dares to document it.
I'm not sure the developers know what they're talking about.
This has to stop.
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This has to stop.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I'm not sure the developers know what they're talking about.
This has to stop.
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This has to stop.
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Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine
Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine
Fishers from the Brittany coast are sending horse-hair nets to catch weapons and shield civilians and soldiers
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine
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European firms unite in bid to rival SpaceX. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
European firms unite in bid to rival SpaceX
Sources from Airbus said
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
European firms unite in bid to rival SpaceX. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More outrage over a ban on Israeli football hooligans than there is over Israel wiping Gaza from the face of the earth.
The world turned on its head.
The world turned on its head.
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
More outrage over a ban on Israeli football hooligans than there is over Israel wiping Gaza from the face of the earth.
The world turned on its head.
The world turned on its head.
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
Deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after end of UK mandate in Palestine and formation of state of Israel
The UK has formally recognised Palestine as an independent state, Keir Starmer has announced.
The deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after the end of the UK mandate in Palestine and the formation of the state of Israel. It comes in concert with Canada and Australia, who also made their own formal declarations on Sunday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
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Pretty simple. Not complicated.
September 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Pretty simple. Not complicated.
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v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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‘Never think you’re too old’: Meet the world’s fastest 75-year-old woman
‘Never think you’re too old’: Meet the world’s fastest 75-year-old woman
Sarah Roberts is a grandmother and global record holder but only took up the sport after a parkrun eight years ago
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
‘Never think you’re too old’: Meet the world’s fastest 75-year-old woman
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#SocialistSunday 🌹 #Solidarity ✊
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
May 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#SocialistSunday 🌹 #Solidarity ✊
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
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Really worrying that Keir Starmer wouldn't commit to a vote in Parliament on a Trump trade deal when I asked him just now.
If the government really thinks it's a good deal for Britain, what are they so afraid of?
If the government really thinks it's a good deal for Britain, what are they so afraid of?
April 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Really worrying that Keir Starmer wouldn't commit to a vote in Parliament on a Trump trade deal when I asked him just now.
If the government really thinks it's a good deal for Britain, what are they so afraid of?
If the government really thinks it's a good deal for Britain, what are they so afraid of?
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Former Tory MP among 15 charged over bets on timing of 2024 UK election
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Former Tory MP among 15 charged over bets on timing of 2024 UK election
Charges follow investigation into alleged cheating related to bets placed on when general election would be held
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Former Tory MP among 15 charged over bets on timing of 2024 UK election
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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What Keir Starmer said and ...
“I’m a socialist”
“Broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”
"Don't care if I sound like a conservative"
We got: Two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, Frozen tax thresholds, disability benefit cuts.
Labour needs to be party of the working class.
“I’m a socialist”
“Broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”
"Don't care if I sound like a conservative"
We got: Two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, Frozen tax thresholds, disability benefit cuts.
Labour needs to be party of the working class.
Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...
leftfootforward.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
What Keir Starmer said and ...
“I’m a socialist”
“Broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”
"Don't care if I sound like a conservative"
We got: Two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, Frozen tax thresholds, disability benefit cuts.
Labour needs to be party of the working class.
“I’m a socialist”
“Broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”
"Don't care if I sound like a conservative"
We got: Two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, Frozen tax thresholds, disability benefit cuts.
Labour needs to be party of the working class.
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.