Rich Pemberton
@rikofold.bsky.social
IT Service Consultant by day, irritant by night. Politically unwedded but leans to the centre. Pro EU, pro balanced immigration, pro nuanced debate. Semi bilingual.
Reviews (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐):
"A confounding and elusive fellow"
"A difficult bastard to argue with"
Reviews (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐):
"A confounding and elusive fellow"
"A difficult bastard to argue with"
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The quiet* of walking on #Dartmoor is one of the main things I love
The cessation of other people talking, screen chatter, & once I’ve bimbled enough, the cessation of mindchatter
*Dartmoor isn’t silent - wind, grasses, animals, birds, feet in mud or on ice…
The cessation of other people talking, screen chatter, & once I’ve bimbled enough, the cessation of mindchatter
*Dartmoor isn’t silent - wind, grasses, animals, birds, feet in mud or on ice…
January 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The quiet* of walking on #Dartmoor is one of the main things I love
The cessation of other people talking, screen chatter, & once I’ve bimbled enough, the cessation of mindchatter
*Dartmoor isn’t silent - wind, grasses, animals, birds, feet in mud or on ice…
The cessation of other people talking, screen chatter, & once I’ve bimbled enough, the cessation of mindchatter
*Dartmoor isn’t silent - wind, grasses, animals, birds, feet in mud or on ice…
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Hero.
Hero.
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Hero.
Hero.
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The other history.
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The other history.
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Immigrants are taking all the best jobs.
January 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Immigrants are taking all the best jobs.
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Atmospheric in the fog this morning in Glastonbury. Taken on Wick Hollow.
January 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Atmospheric in the fog this morning in Glastonbury. Taken on Wick Hollow.
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Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
January 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
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Vaccines are among the best of inventions. There's a high chance that without them, and the herd immunity they can deliver, you'd either not be here or would face a lifelong disability: *whether or not you had them yourself*. It seems crazy to have to point this out, but we forget it at our peril.
January 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Vaccines are among the best of inventions. There's a high chance that without them, and the herd immunity they can deliver, you'd either not be here or would face a lifelong disability: *whether or not you had them yourself*. It seems crazy to have to point this out, but we forget it at our peril.
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January 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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"No longer will we be subjected to woke ideas like manners or bedtime or please try for a just a moment to understand that other people matter. If you’re rich enough, you probably don’t even have to potty-train anymore."
lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-ballis...
lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-ballis...
The Ballistic Ignorance of Elon Musk
We're in for another few years of stupid opinions about sexual violence from overpromoted failsons demanding we take them seriously. None of these men actually care about protecting women.
lauriepenny.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"No longer will we be subjected to woke ideas like manners or bedtime or please try for a just a moment to understand that other people matter. If you’re rich enough, you probably don’t even have to potty-train anymore."
lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-ballis...
lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-ballis...
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X is a completely lawless platform and nobody in British politics is willing to do anything about it.
Here's another 50 antisemitic replies I've received on X in the last six days - a tiny subset of the hundreds of abusive messages I've received during that time.
X's reporting/moderation system is deliberately useless and breaches UK & EU online safety laws.
Elon Musk's X should face consequences.
X's reporting/moderation system is deliberately useless and breaches UK & EU online safety laws.
Elon Musk's X should face consequences.
January 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
X is a completely lawless platform and nobody in British politics is willing to do anything about it.
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So Channel 4 (UK) drove this flatbed truck to Meta headquarters in response to their axing fact checkers. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant
January 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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To whom are you beholden?
January 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
To whom are you beholden?
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This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?
January 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?
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"I want to put the record straight on this," Norfolk said. "It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible. That happened and there was a huge increase in convictions."
www.thetimes.com/article/3a2b...
www.thetimes.com/article/3a2b...
We still don’t know cause of grooming gangs, says scandal reporter
Andrew Norfolk, The Times journalist who first revealed the abuse in 2011, says there needs to be proper research into the issues that let criminals flourish
www.thetimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"I want to put the record straight on this," Norfolk said. "It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible. That happened and there was a huge increase in convictions."
www.thetimes.com/article/3a2b...
www.thetimes.com/article/3a2b...
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Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tory bid to force national grooming gangs inquiry voted down by MPs
MPs rejected a Tory amendment calling for a grooming gang's inquiry by 253 votes.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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brilliant episode
(hope Naomi’s starting to feel better now- Xmas lurgy is so horrible)
Heard this earlier and thought I would quote it in a post -beat me to it -
but I also love the genuine positivity
juxtaposition of @iandunt.bsky.social
(I know!!) on policy areas (listen to find out which)
(hope Naomi’s starting to feel better now- Xmas lurgy is so horrible)
Heard this earlier and thought I would quote it in a post -beat me to it -
but I also love the genuine positivity
juxtaposition of @iandunt.bsky.social
(I know!!) on policy areas (listen to find out which)
December 23, 2024 at 10:56 AM
brilliant episode
(hope Naomi’s starting to feel better now- Xmas lurgy is so horrible)
Heard this earlier and thought I would quote it in a post -beat me to it -
but I also love the genuine positivity
juxtaposition of @iandunt.bsky.social
(I know!!) on policy areas (listen to find out which)
(hope Naomi’s starting to feel better now- Xmas lurgy is so horrible)
Heard this earlier and thought I would quote it in a post -beat me to it -
but I also love the genuine positivity
juxtaposition of @iandunt.bsky.social
(I know!!) on policy areas (listen to find out which)
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In the real world, if you leave a pub because everybody is screaming abuse, there are constant fights, and you get no service because the spoiled brat of a landlord too busy sucking up to Nazis... nobody accuses you of vanishing into an elitist echo chamber.
Same applies online.
Same applies online.
November 21, 2024 at 8:09 AM
In the real world, if you leave a pub because everybody is screaming abuse, there are constant fights, and you get no service because the spoiled brat of a landlord too busy sucking up to Nazis... nobody accuses you of vanishing into an elitist echo chamber.
Same applies online.
Same applies online.
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I'd submit that the possible next president of the united states being like "I need to be more like Hitler" might be a bigger anti-semitism issue than college sophomores chanting "from the river to the sea palestine will be free" at a campus protest?
Trump praised Hitler for, among other things, "rebuilding the economy," something the Nazis accomplished through seizing and nationalizing every business owned by a Jewish person https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’ - The Atlantic
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2024 at 8:43 PM
I'd submit that the possible next president of the united states being like "I need to be more like Hitler" might be a bigger anti-semitism issue than college sophomores chanting "from the river to the sea palestine will be free" at a campus protest?
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We are just shy of 1,000 Bylines followers so please spread the word that the UK's leading Citizen Journalism publication is now live on BlueSky
November 1, 2023 at 12:30 AM
We are just shy of 1,000 Bylines followers so please spread the word that the UK's leading Citizen Journalism publication is now live on BlueSky
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