✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
Michael Gallagher
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Formerly @seventh7rainbow in another life. Creator of The Mystery Jukebox and friend of Kitty. Scribbler of beloved whodunnits which I give away for free to stop them being pirated. Website: https://michaelgallagherwrites.com/
#Meerkats I have an aversion to the expression "cuteness overload" but I do think it applies here. #photography #wildlife #Makgadikgadi #Botswana
Got a boring task to tackle? Turn it into a hands-free escape with audiobooks! 🎧 This exciting 3-part sequel to The War Of The Worlds has original music and sound effects that make you feel right there.👽 Info, samples & buy links at website (in bio) #SciFiBooks #Audiobooks #BookSky #ReaderSky
An 'almost blood moon' is coming on Aug. 27 and it'll be the best lunar eclipse until NYE 2028 buff.ly/nAftR1i Following the solar eclipse on August 12th, this partial lunar eclipse will be completely safe to observe with the naked eye and requires no special equipment. #Eclipse #Moon
An 'almost blood moon' is coming on Aug. 27 and it'll be the best lunar eclipse until NYE 2028
The countdown is on! Millions of skywatchers will have front-row seats to a dramatic 96% 'blood moon' lunar eclipse. Here's what you need to know.
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Meet Bear 677's cub! One of the most unusual cubs we have ever seen! Any Nicknames come to mind?
Our cute little cub friend 806 Jr. practices snorkeling for fish!
'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonder
'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonder
In 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.
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I think an intervention like the one that befell a similarly insane head of state could happen at some point. "there's a group of gorgeous teen cheerleaders that want to meet you in the gold ballroom, sir..."
This is the only video I could find where Trump calls parameters "perimeters". OMG. No wonder no one takes him seriously. Who would? He's heard someone use the word and has adopted a facsimile without investigating what it means. Frankly I've believed Iran's statements over Trump's for months now.
Trump threatens 'decapitation' and accuses Iran of duplicity | ABC NEWS
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Deborah Sandidge "Great chicks in the nest are getting very sleepy after a busy day at the wetlands. The late afternoon sun and sounds of the wetlands eventually lulls them to sleep as the parent stands close. Big yawn for a little baby bird looking like a roar from a little green dinosaur"
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
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I cannot clap hard enough for this. Bloody well done, Stuart. I tip my hat 🎩
Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d agoBrilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
The Voyager photo of Earth and Carl Sagan's pale blue dot speech should be rammed down the throat of every single person on this planet until we, as a species, finally understand our place in the universe.
We’re averaging two of these a day now and I’m running out of things to use them in - and frankly getting tired of courgette (zucchini for non British English speakers) in almost every meal. I think courgette bread or a courgette and lime cake may be in the near future.
Another of his granddaughters was Georgie Born, the 'cellist for Henry Cow and National Health. So they are first cousins.
𝖢𝖠𝖳 𝖡𝖴𝖳𝖫𝖤𝖱 𝖲𝗋.@catbutlersr.bsky.social · 3d ago#ScienceSundays Max Born (1882–1970), the renowned German theoretical physicist who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his foundational contributions to quantum mechanics was the maternal grandfather of Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022), the four-time Grammy-winning singer and actress.
Thank you to Green Gathering - such a wonderful weekend! I'll be at lots of other festivals this summer - we're building our movement and creating an alternative to the old party politics. Join.greenparty.org.uk
A NZ music icon (think royalty) from the old days contacted me yesterday after 40+ years. Last time I saw him, he turned up unannounced on my doorstep in Holloway. He's used one of my old pics of him as the cover of a recent release. How on earth to tell him what I've been up to in a tiny message?
Send for Octavius Guy
YouTube video by Michael Gallagher
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This bug noir adventure deals with some of the most bizarre and unthinkable things that have been continuously emerging from the technological Pandora’s box that governments and multinational companies use to reshape human civilization for the past decades. medium.com/@MisterPabou...
What is the "Center of Excellence"?
It’s a fantasy science fiction bug noir series that arose out of an incredible personal adventure I lived years ago that marked me for…
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BBC News - Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more
The list of 34 candidates standing in the Clacton by-election is nearly a metre long.
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Forbidden Planet hit cinemas in 1956. Its warnings about AI should terrify us buff.ly/oG0Akj7 An interesting and thought-provoking post by Cameron Shackell Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland. #AI #Future #Technology #ScienceFiction
Forbidden Planet hit cinemas in 1956. Its warnings about AI should terrify us
Technology may give us extraordinary new power. But it may also give our deepest, least understood desires a power of their own.
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🚨Two Polish citizens, who have lived in the UK for 80yrs after their parents fled the second world war, were told they didn't have post-Brexit rights to return to UK & refused boarding by Ryanair https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/30/how-couple-lived-in-uk-80-years-got-stuck-in-krakow
‘Ryanair refused to let us on’: how a couple who’ve lived in UK for 80 years got stuck in Krakow
Maria and Czeslaw Krupa, who arrived in 1947 and 1948 as dependents of displaced Polish service members, were told they
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