Padrock
@padrock70.bsky.social
Dad, Socialist, Celtic and Hull FC supporter, Hullensian, cyclist and walker. Book and music lover. Always get your round in, never cross a picket line, never vote Tory.
BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
My eldest who lives and works in Belfast just sent me this....
Netanyahu gave Hamas ( leadership in Qatar) $15 million to $30 million per month. From 2018 - 2023, Qatar then transferred well over $1 billion into Gaza with Israeli consent. Israeli intell officials acknowledge the cash enabled Hamas to build military infrastructure, rockets, tunnels.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"
Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸
We need to return to traditional masculinity, to the time when real men took their kitties for walkies so they could smell smells.
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
"A real football gangster. The whole world is turning its back on you. F*** you, Infantino!" 🇨🇭 During yesterday's Swiss league match against Basel, Lausanne-Sport fans directed a message against FIFA president (and Swiss citizen) Gianni #Infantino. 👇
ON THIS DAY 2nd AUGUST 1973 Celtic 3-1 Penarol, Friendly Bill Shankly is Celtic's guest for the occasion and receives a presentation from the club for Shanks' 15th anniversary as Liverpool manager. Ground entry for the season is now 40 pence. Goals - Lennox (pen 30), Dalglish (52), Deans (59).☘️☘️
Just got in from work and seen the Aberdeen v Hearts score. Lovely stuff.
Off the Beaten Path, painting by Padraig McCaul, Irish artist.
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.
31.07.75 Buskhill, Co Down. Remembering the Miami Showband, those who died, survived, and all affected by the massacre and the long crusade for justice. Thoughts and prayers to all, and especially Stephen Travers for his love and tireless work for his band mates. 🙏❤️
Janet Golder Kngwarreye, Anmatyere, Indigenous Australian (1973- ), Bush Yam Dreaming, acrylic on canvas, 145 x 94 cm, private collection
I hope this piece of shit rots in jail. Hull is a smallish city and I have friends and a cousin affected by this and it's bloody awful for them. I hope the people affected find some peace now.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d agoHull funeral director who left bodies to rot in mortuary jailed for 20 years
The party of the people
The people that pick the crops, feed us, keep our streets clean, look after us when we are ill, the unseen people who keep the world ticking over are heroes.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 6d agoThe recent summer heat wave has been souring temps up to the mid 90’s in Ventura county. But farm workers keep on working. "Sonia" is part of a cleaning crew that is picking up the radishes that did not meet the market specifications. #WeFeedYou
Dreadful. This is so wrong. I first began to support the values of the Green Party when they were known as The Ecology Party, led by Jonathon Porritt in the early '80s. I still support their values today - and his. @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 7d agoNEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org