Peter Furtado
pedropetrushka.bsky.social
Peter Furtado
@pedropetrushka.bsky.social
Bloke. Interested in history. Meditation. Sport. Bikes. Shintaido. Most things really.
Things are in a pretty bad state when Michael #Gove, mate of #Rupert, can issue a far more forceful remediation of #Trumps threat to sue/destroy the #BBC that #Starmer or #Nandy. This is probably the most loved institution in Britain we're talking about. We MUST defend it, even while it must change.
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The #Telegraph, #Mail, #Express accusing the #BBC of institutional bias, shoddy standards and lack of balance and transparency? Takes one to know one.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#Farage quotes Trump on the #BBC: 'Is this how you treat your best ally?'. We could ask the same question of him about the organisation that has platformed him endlessly for years and brought him close to Downing St.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@alexpodyssey.bsky.social How's season 2 of the wonderful #Podyssey coming along? Any update on when it might launch? I keep checking hopefully but then my optimism is dashed... comms on this would surely be welcome to all your many fans...
October 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
@sturdyalex.bsky.social. How's season 2 of the wonderful #Podyssey coming along? Any update on when it might launch? I keep checking hopefully but then my optimism is dashed... comms on this would surely be welcome to all your many fans...
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This podcast is wonderfully crafted, can't recommend it highly enough. Delighted the new episode is up!
📜 New AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? 🏛️

Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 13/07/2025 · 44m
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July 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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We are waiting for Texas to file its response today explaining the discrepancy between what it told the court and what Gov. Abbott said publicly in justifying a special session about the use of race to draw the state's congressional map.

Once it is filed, Democracy Docket will it post here.
🚨 New Filing in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Read the latest filing in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott.
www.democracydocket.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Go on. You know you want to. Not much on the Internet is as good as this.
The first season - ten episodes - of Podyssey is a gift from me to you. But given the intense time commitment involved, if you want a 20-episode Season 2, it is up to you to commission it by supporting it. You can do so from as little as a fiver. I love you all, anyway. A x

ko-fi.com/podyssey
May 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Tell Rachel Reeves we need investment in the arts, for healthy communities and a stronger democracy.

www.campaignforthearts.org
Campaign for the Arts | The UK alliance for arts and culture
Together, we take action on the issues and champion the benefits of the arts in society.
www.campaignforthearts.org
May 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"1940...Bombs continued to fall in the country around Area 8, but the only casualties reported to Division 3 Control were two rabbits and an owl at Tetbury and a pony and a rabbit at Cirencester…"

How #WWII ravaged the #Stroud District of Gloucestershire.
May 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
#Greenlanders must know just how kind, considerate and just the Americans have shown themselves to the natives of the territories they take over...
March 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
An interim.governmentvfollowed by free elections supervised by the UN? Great idea - if applied equally in #Russia.
March 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Where is the live TV feed of #Putin saying #thankyou to #JDVance and #Trump? Has Trump demonstrated his friendship by cutting off intelligence sharing with the Kremlin?
March 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Javier Milei just deleted from his socials every trace and photo of this June 2024 visit, during which he awarded Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Order of Freedom medal. ~AA
March 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Forget Putin. #Trump's senior team are all amateurs and new at diplomacy and international affairs. Even if Trump were clear-sighted and honourable, #Lavrov and #Peskov would have them all of lunch. Game over.
February 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#Trump thinks he can simultaneously (a) create a historic settlement in the Middle East and (b) reshape European defence and East European borders. All in a few weeks and with a team of amateur diplomats, while destroying Washington's reservoir of profesisonal expertise. Good luck with all that.
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
So, a few short months ago we were all telling ourselves #Trump was senile, incoherent, has dementia. Now he has resurrected as the evil genius. What should I believe?
January 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
How do i get the latest posts on my #Bluesky #Discover feed? Everything seems to be 5 hours or more old. TIA!
December 9, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Magnificent ceremony from Notre Dame, with hugely moving ovation for the fire fighters, fabulous organ music and great speech from Macron, and many shots of Trump being bored. Found it on the #Guardian courtesy of #Eurovision. But why not on #BBC?
December 7, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Just arrived. It's great, but my feed is full of Americans and - to be honest - I've had enough of US politics recently to keep me going for a while yet. Not got anything against you, naturally, but are there any Brits here? Or cricket fans, anywhere in the world (including Americans, obvs)?
November 12, 2024 at 11:11 AM