@olly-buckle.bsky.social

80 year old, dad, gardener, story writer, hear some of my stories (and some traditional ones) on my YouTube Channel, The Story Shack. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIfrjavewvS-nVvpdMc4NeA/featured

"The public will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said." You sick bastard, Hegseth. I hope everyone switches off.

They are not digging up Mount Pleasant, for now. Please fight to keep it this way. We could dig all the coal in the world until we choke and run out, or we can explore other ways of getting energy, and Australia is already doing well with solar, a much better export.

"Christa Pike is in "critical condition after surviving two lethal injections" No, she survived, therefore they were two nonlethal injections. Doh.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham says of Carney "... he’s a Nobel contender because he picked a fight with Trump. Astounding.” I thought it was the other way round, though making the USA part of canada mght not be so bad.😊

So the Australian Govt. reckons the economic benefits from the Hunter Valley coal mine is worth more to Australians than the health and lives burning the coal will destroy. How the hell do they make that equation work? World wide effects not counted.

The govt. is telling a lot of people who live day to day to stock up, they can't, they don't have the means. The govt. is supposed to look after the population, they should be doing the warehousing. People who live in small flats don't even have anywhere to put it all.

"Security-Driven Relocation: Russia’s FSO moved the 2026 Valdai Conference from Sochi to the Moscow region after Ukrainian long-range strikes raised safety concerns." Oops, maybe Siberia would have been a better choice.

About 70 years ago I remember an Austrian friend of my parents telling us about the election after Hitler marched in. "If you were voting for the National Socialists you just put your ballot in the box, anyone else, walk to the booth at the far end with the soldier next to it to mark it."

"Israel rejects allegations of genocide. It says its troops conduct self-defence operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in accordance with international law." How, when the West Bank occupation is illegal under international law? And I have seen Gaza on TV, not self defence.

The very rich are only interested in getting richer, so if they give money away they are seeing it as an investment. Don't trust those they give it to, be it Reform or anyone else.

An aquatics site just told me ... "sticklebacks can effect insect and amphibian populations" No they can't, that would mean they can make them happen. They meant 'affect', things like making populatins larger or smaller

"if a base built to be untouchable can be hit twice in six weeks, how safe, really, is any of them." Keep seeing this error, proffessional jounalists should know to use "is" for singular, "are" for plural, it's pretty basic.

What sort of scum threatens RNLI members. They should be locked in a room with continuus episodes of "Saving lives at Sea" playing for 48 hours. RNLI don't make political destinctsions, they will save anyones life, if they get in trouble even the scum that threaten them.

Just thinking, were the initial time scales for the Russians to take Kiev and the Americns to win the gulf war about the same? Numbered in days as I remember, but I may be mistaken there.

Farage wants to stop people voting if they don't speak English. Who decides? How intelligable do they have to be? Will Glasweigans get a vote? The Welsh? Why not say what he really wants, "No votes for brown poeple!" Arsehole.

They are saying Kennedy "didn't lie under oath", not that he didn't lie, but that he wasn't under oath. It would be hard to say any of them 'didn't lie' with any real truth to it.

Of course it is Lake Ontario, just like it is the Gulf of Mexico. A person wanting to call either something else in contradiction to all the maps is a clear sign they are off their nut. like calling the US something like, The Disunited North America, DNA for short.

Discovered that 90% of black adults and 80% of black children can't swim. This means black child drowning rates are three times higher than white children !! That is terrible, we should be pushing to teach them, as we did for working class kids in my youth.

“a draft-dodging, crook president who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win.” Yes, I'll go along with that, Senator.