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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

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Retired journalist from Liverpool, married for 57 years to Janet, now living in Surrey. Left-wing jazz fan who despises fascists and ignores god botherers. Blocks anti-LGBTQ. No DMs. I won’t reply and may block. No requests for cash. Supports 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧️

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · Aug 10

#InsectsOfBluesky
If you build it they will come. OK, I didn’t so much build this bee hotel as buy it from John Lewis and stuck it up on a post near our Sunflowers, Cosmos and other insect-friendly flowers and waited … Today my patience was rewarded.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 5h

#31DaysOfHalloween
#Spooktober
Just been out to say goodnight to the Moon, as you do, but she was hiding. I guess she was spooked by something going on down here on Earth. Know the feeling.
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
#NightSkyPhotography

A night sky with clear patches of dark heavenly blue, the cloudscape backlit by the waning Moon, which peeps out mysteriously behind one dark formation. Below, the trees and shrubs in our garden take on a sinister feeling as they are left in silhouetted shadows.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 5h

Answer to your question is that all the news stations and most of the Press are now in the hands of the same lovely folk who brought you Project 2025 and their Pedo Puppet Prez. Those great news researchers and outstanding commentators have all been fired or gagged.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 6h

He’s right about the Nazis starting slow but Trump has packed more into his first 9 months than they did in the first years. Maybe because he knows that he isn’t going to be around for that much longer. Hopefully. Mind you a Trump family succession or a JDV dictatorship is perhaps worse. Anyway …

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 6h

The rudeness that this harridan displays when refusing to answer questions from elected representatives is yet another nail in the coffin of US democracy. The pedo sends out his hired bimbo lawyer to do his dirty work and ‘tis indeed dirty. Just release the goddam Epstein Files and jail the pervert.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure he’d say that if it was Russia, China or the US. What a piece of hypocritical filth we now have as our PM.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 7h

Why, then did Lisa Nandy say on national TV that all citizens will be required to have a Britcard “to prove the right to work and access services”? She said ALL not just the so-called illegal immigrants they are ostensibly targeting but who work in the cash economy, so don’t need it, anyway.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 7h

Same thing about to happen in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Again, the richest on the planet are taking from the neediest and the governments that are supposed to care for ordinary citizens are not only standing aside but actively helping these vultures.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 7h

This kind of reporting by the station controlled by a skeletal Devil incarnate who has spent his life sowing lies and division via his media empire makes my stomach heave. These creatures who purport to be journalists are merely propagandists for a Nazi pedophile.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 7h

A distraction he says. Yup, they have been desperately been playing the distraction card instead of releasing the Epstein Files. What a sickening bunch of cowards and liars the Republican Party has turned into.

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 12h

If you haven't been paying attention to the Palestine Action protest arrests in the UK, you may not realize how truly absurd things have become.

Here's a good example: You can be arrested for holding up a magazine because its cover shows the sign, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Pro-Palestine protester arrested for holding up magazine at train station

A man has been arrested for holding up a magazine cover amid pro-Palestine protests in London.

www.thenational.scot

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 8h

Made me guffaw but then I thought, you need to be of a certain age to understand it … and I don’t mean 1,000 years old, although that’s how I feel most days.

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Jeff @themadjeff.bsky.social · 17h

Some tyres I saw…
#photography

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Jeff @themadjeff.bsky.social · 11h

Something I saw today…
#photography

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Mr Garden @mygardenuk.bsky.social · 9h

Who's a pretty Pigeon?! 😍😆

A Wood Pigeon amongst Pink Hibiscus flowers. 🤩

#Nature #BeautifulBirds #BlueSky #OldPhotos #PigeonSky #Pigeons

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 17h

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 9h

*really mean not really ran.
I was so angry I missed the auto-miscorrect.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 9h

“Done right”? Do they really ran done Right? Because this seems like a move nobody other than the technocrat billionaires and their puppet politicians want. Why do they want it? To control. They can take their little card and shove it up their fascist bums.

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Stephen 🔶🌹💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @thestephenralph.bsky.social · 9h

Indeed it is...

The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 4d

This.
Is.
Brilliant.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 10h

The rhetoric of the far right is escalating.
Look at ICE in the US. Armed militias kidnapping people off the streets.

We’ve seen this before.
It’s fascism. Imported from the US to British shores by the likes of Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Will you help us fight it?

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 10h

So, first they came for Comey and quite a few people said: Well, hey, he was Trump’s man and could have stopped him. So, they did nothing. Then they came for Pritzker and Newsome and the MAGAS did nothing because those guys were Commies, right? Then they came for their guns.
Nah, just joking.

him.so

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 10h

Been to a garden centre, so almost forgot it’s
#RoseWednesday and I promised Sabine @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social that I would post another shot of her favourite rose from our garden - Scarborough Fair by David Austin. So here it is … blowsy and almost done. #PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin

Two white/pink-tinged and very blowsy Scarborough Fair roses from the David Austin nursery in the shade of a garden border among the green leaves of the plant and with some sun shining through the back onto other plants.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is just itching to implement the Insurrection Act, so he can declare himself Supreme Leader, at which point the Epstein Files go away and so does Congress, the Constitution, free speech and fair trials (already pretty much vanished illegally). Let’s just hope that he kicks the bucket soon.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 11h

Is he shrinking? Let’s hope so. Maybe he’ll just disappear in a puff of sulphurous smoke.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 12h

His day to day consists of lying and thinking how to protect his pedo boss by keeping those pesky Epstein files locked away.

Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 12h

What a joker this twerp is. He wouldn’t have the faintest idea of what a Marxist is. The Democrats would be considered a Right-wing party in the UK and we don’t have anything approaching a socialist government or any party that looks like it is a communist group ready for power.