Steve Barraud
@stevebarraud.bsky.social
Cycling, opera, gardening, coding
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You can only pick one.
Which one?
Which one?
July 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
You can only pick one.
Which one?
Which one?
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NEW
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
emptycity.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
NEW
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...
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Our #BookyMcBookface Mobile Library timetables for 2025 are available now on our website at:
orkneylibrary.org.uk/mobile-libra...
Timetables are also available in the library or from the Mobile Library.
orkneylibrary.org.uk/mobile-libra...
Timetables are also available in the library or from the Mobile Library.
December 11, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Our #BookyMcBookface Mobile Library timetables for 2025 are available now on our website at:
orkneylibrary.org.uk/mobile-libra...
Timetables are also available in the library or from the Mobile Library.
orkneylibrary.org.uk/mobile-libra...
Timetables are also available in the library or from the Mobile Library.
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A huge step forward in finally giving a voice to those who actually have to do the dying
November 29, 2024 at 4:28 PM
A huge step forward in finally giving a voice to those who actually have to do the dying
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It would be far better if they moved out of that absurd, archaic building which is costing upward of a billion to make even vaguely suitable for a parliament, let it become a wonderful museum and built a new parliament, perhaps in the Midlands
A group of Labour MPs wants to make Parliament a "healthier" workplace by:
🍷 Curbing alcohol provision
🖼️ Diversifying the paintings
💡 Improving the lighting
🍷 Curbing alcohol provision
🖼️ Diversifying the paintings
💡 Improving the lighting
Labour MPs Push For 'Healthier' Parliament By Tightening Alcohol Sales And Creating More Natural Light
A group of MPs want to look into the provision of alcohol in Parliament during working hours, increase the number of paintings of women and ethnic ...
www.politicshome.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:36 PM
It would be far better if they moved out of that absurd, archaic building which is costing upward of a billion to make even vaguely suitable for a parliament, let it become a wonderful museum and built a new parliament, perhaps in the Midlands
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Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.
Alice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83
Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.
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Post-Brexit Britain’s Trump problem goes much deeper than trade tariffs. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The discussion of how the UK might respond to Trump's tariffs is already confused, and anyway misses the bigger challenge they betoken:
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...
November 22, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Post-Brexit Britain’s Trump problem goes much deeper than trade tariffs. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The discussion of how the UK might respond to Trump's tariffs is already confused, and anyway misses the bigger challenge they betoken:
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...
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Disappointing from LDs on farms. I get that they see opportunity in rural seats, but to say NO landowners, of any size, should pay inheritance tax, attack gov’t for NICs, and not even mention Brexit, duff deals, etc. is pretty poor. We need more heft on the left & they’re going Cleggy again. #BBCQT
November 21, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Disappointing from LDs on farms. I get that they see opportunity in rural seats, but to say NO landowners, of any size, should pay inheritance tax, attack gov’t for NICs, and not even mention Brexit, duff deals, etc. is pretty poor. We need more heft on the left & they’re going Cleggy again. #BBCQT
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bro the Vatican is literally a 15-minute country
February 6, 2024 at 3:24 PM
bro the Vatican is literally a 15-minute country
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I 100% agree! It was a feisty, persuasive, brilliant, succinct summary of everything that is wrong with the House of Lords. Bravo, @pimlicat.bsky.social.
November 15, 2024 at 4:26 PM
I 100% agree! It was a feisty, persuasive, brilliant, succinct summary of everything that is wrong with the House of Lords. Bravo, @pimlicat.bsky.social.
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Hi Matt, i had a similar idea. Great if you could share. Lots of overlap
go.bsky.app/KPzKog1
go.bsky.app/KPzKog1
November 15, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Hi Matt, i had a similar idea. Great if you could share. Lots of overlap
go.bsky.app/KPzKog1
go.bsky.app/KPzKog1
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We’ll add this to our Liszt of terrible jokes.
November 14, 2024 at 9:44 PM
We’ll add this to our Liszt of terrible jokes.
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He ran the most extreme campaign in American history, using language that no presidential candidate has ever used. Why would anyone be surprised that he wants to run an extreme presidency?
November 15, 2024 at 6:25 AM
He ran the most extreme campaign in American history, using language that no presidential candidate has ever used. Why would anyone be surprised that he wants to run an extreme presidency?
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With the latest expansion of Bluesky more and more people are looking for reliable news - here is a starter pack of #BBCjournos - journalists and freelancers who make excellent #BBC content and worth checking out
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
September 7, 2024 at 2:15 PM
With the latest expansion of Bluesky more and more people are looking for reliable news - here is a starter pack of #BBCjournos - journalists and freelancers who make excellent #BBC content and worth checking out
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
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Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs
November 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs
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"I am genuinely embarrassed by our second chamber. Too old, too rich, too Southern, too bloated in number, too male, too white, and far too many there through patronage. And don't start me on the Lords Spiritual."
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🎧 New Quiet Riot: PEER PRESSURE 🎧
@sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social, and @luketryl.bsky.social discuss:
👉🏽 Lords Reform;
👉🏽 Kemi Badenoch;
👉🏽 COP29; and
👉🏽 Rise of The Long-form Misinformation Bro-cast
APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/3LXK...
@sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social, and @luketryl.bsky.social discuss:
👉🏽 Lords Reform;
👉🏽 Kemi Badenoch;
👉🏽 COP29; and
👉🏽 Rise of The Long-form Misinformation Bro-cast
APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/3LXK...
PEER PRESSURE
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 14/11/2024 · 1h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
"I am genuinely embarrassed by our second chamber. Too old, too rich, too Southern, too bloated in number, too male, too white, and far too many there through patronage. And don't start me on the Lords Spiritual."
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Sen. Susan Collins is “shocked” by the pick of Matt Gaetz as AG.
Lucy is asking us to try and kick the football again.
Lucy is asking us to try and kick the football again.
November 14, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Sen. Susan Collins is “shocked” by the pick of Matt Gaetz as AG.
Lucy is asking us to try and kick the football again.
Lucy is asking us to try and kick the football again.
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If Rodin designed a sports centre. Rue Neuve St-Pierre. (/end)
November 14, 2024 at 4:22 PM
If Rodin designed a sports centre. Rue Neuve St-Pierre. (/end)
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Here’s an idea from the old days of Twitter. When you see a post you like, repost it as well as (or instead of) “liking” it.
November 13, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Here’s an idea from the old days of Twitter. When you see a post you like, repost it as well as (or instead of) “liking” it.
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New series of Wolf Hall starts this Sunday.
November 7, 2024 at 1:46 PM
New series of Wolf Hall starts this Sunday.