Mark
@westernexplorer.bsky.social
Into books, language, Spain, football, pubs of London, and helping others where possible.
just an opinion, could be wrong. It's a work.
June 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
just an opinion, could be wrong. It's a work.
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I wish they gave a quick answer option on all these customer feedback surveys "yes/no I received a great/good/poor service, but I cannot spare time to go through your form."
March 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I wish they gave a quick answer option on all these customer feedback surveys "yes/no I received a great/good/poor service, but I cannot spare time to go through your form."
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I'm a UK graduate. I did all my schooling in the UK, undergraduate & postgraduate.
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
Not only does this sound like yet another "migrants taking our jobs" rant, not only does it show a complete lack of engagement with the reality of the situation, it also shows that Streeting has no idea what "remittances" are. The anti-immigration "brain drain" myth has been debunked for years.
February 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm a UK graduate. I did all my schooling in the UK, undergraduate & postgraduate.
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
Can we exile into outer space, those people who introduced the current “identity checks”?
January 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Can we exile into outer space, those people who introduced the current “identity checks”?
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🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
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when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
January 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
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the people who want to forcibly take over Canada are moving an event indoors because it is -6C outside. lol. lmao, even.
January 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
the people who want to forcibly take over Canada are moving an event indoors because it is -6C outside. lol. lmao, even.
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fear there is deep truth here.
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OK that’s quite funny.
January 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
OK that’s quite funny.
Worrying developments in the US?
January 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Worrying developments in the US?
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We DO NOT throw perfectly good food away in this house.
We put leftovers in a Tupperware & let it go bad, THEN throw it out!
We put leftovers in a Tupperware & let it go bad, THEN throw it out!
December 13, 2024 at 9:47 PM
We DO NOT throw perfectly good food away in this house.
We put leftovers in a Tupperware & let it go bad, THEN throw it out!
We put leftovers in a Tupperware & let it go bad, THEN throw it out!
It’s strange how we’re meant to judge how authentic a UK politician is, by their eating habits or how they eat a bacon roll (Milliband).
December 13, 2024 at 12:38 PM
It’s strange how we’re meant to judge how authentic a UK politician is, by their eating habits or how they eat a bacon roll (Milliband).
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I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations
Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
December 11, 2024 at 8:29 AM
I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations
Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
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Think it’s evident now that Syrians looking for asylum were genuine. Only hate mongers like Farage, Reform, and the media liars from right wing papers talked of “economic migrants” BS at the time, BS now, and will be BS in the future. Populists are always the same www.bbc.com/news/article...
Saydnaya Prison: Mapping the Assads' 'human slaughterhouse'
Thousands of people have been executed and tortured in the secretive prison since the 1980s.
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Think it’s evident now that Syrians looking for asylum were genuine. Only hate mongers like Farage, Reform, and the media liars from right wing papers talked of “economic migrants” BS at the time, BS now, and will be BS in the future. Populists are always the same www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I don’t know how to stress this enough to the culprits, but when you look at an item on a supermarket shelf, your trolley does not need to turn out sideways across the whole aisle at the same time.
December 9, 2024 at 12:49 PM
I don’t know how to stress this enough to the culprits, but when you look at an item on a supermarket shelf, your trolley does not need to turn out sideways across the whole aisle at the same time.
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do wonder what it must feel like to be Assad and be watching this from afar; presumably being a dictator involves a level of lying to yourself about doing horrible things "for the right reasons", and about most of your people being okay with it - how odd it must be for him to watch Syria rejoice
Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition.
December 9, 2024 at 9:27 AM
do wonder what it must feel like to be Assad and be watching this from afar; presumably being a dictator involves a level of lying to yourself about doing horrible things "for the right reasons", and about most of your people being okay with it - how odd it must be for him to watch Syria rejoice
Watch out Starbucks, Zara/Inditex are after your market! spainnews.wpenginepowered.com/zara-group-i...
Zara group Inditex to take on cafe market with Zacaffé brand
The textile giant that runs Zara, Inditex, is to launch a cafe area in its new menswear shop in Hermosilla (Madrid). The intention is to develop a type of cafeteria chain with the brand name Zacaffé a...
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December 9, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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A list of the five best phrases I've come across for strong winds:
5. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
4. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
2. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
1. It’s only wind when the sheep no longer have curls (German)
5. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
4. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
2. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
1. It’s only wind when the sheep no longer have curls (German)
December 7, 2024 at 10:20 AM
A list of the five best phrases I've come across for strong winds:
5. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
4. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
2. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
1. It’s only wind when the sheep no longer have curls (German)
5. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
4. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
2. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
1. It’s only wind when the sheep no longer have curls (German)
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The super rich don't want to pay tax.
So they identify economic costs & look for "expensive" groups to demonise through their media empires.
In the 80's it was single mothers.
For the last 15 years it's been immigrants.
Now it's the sick/disabled.
And far too many fall for those lies.
So they identify economic costs & look for "expensive" groups to demonise through their media empires.
In the 80's it was single mothers.
For the last 15 years it's been immigrants.
Now it's the sick/disabled.
And far too many fall for those lies.
November 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
The super rich don't want to pay tax.
So they identify economic costs & look for "expensive" groups to demonise through their media empires.
In the 80's it was single mothers.
For the last 15 years it's been immigrants.
Now it's the sick/disabled.
And far too many fall for those lies.
So they identify economic costs & look for "expensive" groups to demonise through their media empires.
In the 80's it was single mothers.
For the last 15 years it's been immigrants.
Now it's the sick/disabled.
And far too many fall for those lies.
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Jacqui Smith, "I'm proud to live in a country that provides shelter to people who have come from horrific circumstances, it's part of what it means to be British" #BBCQT
December 6, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Jacqui Smith, "I'm proud to live in a country that provides shelter to people who have come from horrific circumstances, it's part of what it means to be British" #BBCQT
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Whenever the "immigration crisis" is mentioned it NEVER applies to me. I'm Australian. No one has ever accused me of taking jobs while "stealing" benefits, doing crime, threatening the fabric of society, the British way of life, creating a no-go zone by simply living somewhere. Wonder why that is?
Long thread: You can predict that the usual suspects will latch onto this as another way to hit out at immigration. Here's the thing though, there is a big difference between "causation" and "correlation", and even the "correlation" argument is weak. 1/ #r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
UK towns that saw rioting last summer have ‘torn social fabric’, report claims
Majority of areas where violence broke out have below-median scores on index of community cohesion and resilience
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Whenever the "immigration crisis" is mentioned it NEVER applies to me. I'm Australian. No one has ever accused me of taking jobs while "stealing" benefits, doing crime, threatening the fabric of society, the British way of life, creating a no-go zone by simply living somewhere. Wonder why that is?
Send them back!!! (the marbles...)
This is how you take the first steps to repair Britain's appalling reputation in Europe.
Important move.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Important move.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Talks over return of Parthenon marbles to Athens are ‘well advanced’
Exclusive: Keir Starmer reiterates support for British Museum reaching deal with Greek PM, who visits UK on Tuesday
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Send them back!!! (the marbles...)
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What a genuinely uplifting & magnficent story. The astounding achievements of medical science - saving lives globally 💉🧬🦠🦟
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Malaria in Nigeria: New vaccine rolls out in world's worst-affected country
It could save the lives of thousands of children in Nigeria, where 180,000 died from malaria in 2022.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:20 AM
What a genuinely uplifting & magnficent story. The astounding achievements of medical science - saving lives globally 💉🧬🦠🦟
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ah, it's the first of December and the beginning of Advent. I really need to get around to not bothering to put up any decorations.
December 1, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Ah, it's the first of December and the beginning of Advent. I really need to get around to not bothering to put up any decorations.