Greg Pearson
@springtimewanderer.bsky.social
Edinburgh based wanderer
This is why I come back to Bluesky - a completely different flavour of insanity to Twitter.
May 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is why I come back to Bluesky - a completely different flavour of insanity to Twitter.
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Just saying, feminist campaigners don't tend to show up at "trans rights" rallies dressed in black, wearing masks and advocating lynching women who dare to question their belief system.
April 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Just saying, feminist campaigners don't tend to show up at "trans rights" rallies dressed in black, wearing masks and advocating lynching women who dare to question their belief system.
Mr Gorbachev, please - if it's not too much trouble - could you see your way to tearing down this wall? Totally fine if not. So sorry to bother you.
Vladimir, stop?
Has the U.S. ever looked weaker?
Has the U.S. ever looked weaker?
April 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Mr Gorbachev, please - if it's not too much trouble - could you see your way to tearing down this wall? Totally fine if not. So sorry to bother you.
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I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
April 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
Reading this, it occurs to me that those most vocally concerned with being on "the right side of history" like @owenjones.bsky.social @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social et al, have ironically found themselves firmly on the wrong side of it.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Kathleen Stock: I’d love to know what those protesting against me think now
The philosopher was hounded out of her job for her views on gender. Now that Sussex University has been punished, she wants a public conversation with her critics, not a public shaming
www.thetimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Reading this, it occurs to me that those most vocally concerned with being on "the right side of history" like @owenjones.bsky.social @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social et al, have ironically found themselves firmly on the wrong side of it.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Protestors skiing with signs to humiliate JD Vance is fantastic
March 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Protestors skiing with signs to humiliate JD Vance is fantastic
ok new friends, it's been stimulating, but I have to go and make dinner now and kick off the weekend - peace out.
February 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ok new friends, it's been stimulating, but I have to go and make dinner now and kick off the weekend - peace out.
Whoever said February is the cruellest month clearly hadn't met February.
February 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Whoever said February is the cruellest month clearly hadn't met February.
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This sort of stuff from MPs really does look corrupt.
Via Private Eye:
Via Private Eye:
![RACING HANDICAP
"THE racing industry generates more than £4bn per year and employs more than 85,000 people," announced Jack Rankin, Tory MP for Windsor, in a Commons debate on 24 October last year. He warned the government "to tread carefully and acknowledge the unintended consequences of further regulation" of the gambling industry, especially given its potential financial impact on horseracing.
Rankin declared that "an increase in financial checks on customers" – commonly known as affordability checks, which are being introduced to help ensure punters are making bets they can afford – "risks pushing a lot of gambling underground", meaning "less money would be reinvested in the sport".
Coincidentally, the most recent register of MPs' interests reveals that just a couple of months later, in January, Rankin was generously gifted two tickets with hospitality to attend the Berkshire Winter Million horseracing event at the Royal Windsor Racecourse, worth £312. The MP received this freebie from the Arena Racing Corporation, a horseracing firm which has expressed "major concerns" over government plans for affordability checks, declaring them a "potentially disastrous" measure which "will deter punters from betting on British horse and greyhound racing". What are the odds?
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February 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This sort of stuff from MPs really does look corrupt.
Via Private Eye:
Via Private Eye:
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This is the best book I've ever read about trade
There's even an entire chapter dedicated to tariffs (hint: not great)
amzn.to/4hXzW49
There's even an entire chapter dedicated to tariffs (hint: not great)
amzn.to/4hXzW49
February 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is the best book I've ever read about trade
There's even an entire chapter dedicated to tariffs (hint: not great)
amzn.to/4hXzW49
There's even an entire chapter dedicated to tariffs (hint: not great)
amzn.to/4hXzW49
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Bellingcat is coming to New York March 24th-28th to host a five-day in-person workshop. Want to learn Bellingcat's digital investigation skills with hands-on experience? Sign up below! www.bellingcat.com/workshops/ma...
March 24-28, 2025: Five-Day In-Person Workshop in New York, NY, US - bellingcat
Register for this workshop here. This workshop is a five-day in-person training that will teach digital investigation techniques and provide extensive guided, hands-on practice. The workshop will run ...
www.bellingcat.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Bellingcat is coming to New York March 24th-28th to host a five-day in-person workshop. Want to learn Bellingcat's digital investigation skills with hands-on experience? Sign up below! www.bellingcat.com/workshops/ma...
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