Tom McEnroe

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Bikes are nice.

Cycling commuter, gardener, photographer, amateur mixologist

Rants about the state of the world, and the UK in particular, by appointment.

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Art, innit?

An enormous Allium Christophii seed head 🌱

A wonderful selection of Hollyhocks 🌱

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It took 14 years to destroy Britain. It won’t be repaired in five minutes. It will take years of economic stability to afford the infrastructure repairs needed across a range of public services. While we’re waiting, we need to fight off the right wing. So roll your sleeves up.

My Mum's wonderful lavender hedge 🌱

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Can’t even have a Tory government anymore because of woke

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This is where I have a small, boring bit of advice, from my time managing a customer contact centre for a central government department: write letters to your MP asking them to raise issues with secretaries of state; make the letters unique, not copy-and-paste campaigns; be direct, not cranky.

So how do we stand up and make a government take notice? Writing to your MP? I mean… It’s nice when they reply but it feels ineffectual. Mass mobilisation? Cool story bro, but unlikely. No revolts please, we’re British. How do we become the prick it’s hard to kick against? I’ve no idea. -11

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Anyway, I’ve voted and now I’m off to take a bunch of stuff to the baby bank. That’s like a food bank, but for necessities for infants. We didn’t really have them in this country 14 years ago.

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Government should function effectively in the background like white goods. But for the past years it's been like your fridge-freezer noisily demanding attention every 5 mins, switching off for hours at a time, fiddling its definition of 'cold', and eating your food then blaming the washing machine.

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Local Food Bank is closed today for the General Election. A strong reflection of the last 14 years of Tory rule.

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Never forget. #GTTO

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good news, everyone

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It’s time

Well, there you go, that odd British experience of exercising a democratic right surrounded by very small chairs. #GTTO #EarlyAndOften

Wooooooo!!! Mark Cavendish, what a fucking legend! #TdF #Cavendish #cycling

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We have a romantic Finnish 🇫🇮 lesbian love story for you tonight about Artist and Moomin creator Tove Jansson and her life partner and graphic designer Tuulikki Pietilä.

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Let Woody Guthrie speak to our moment. open.spotify.com/track/649Zk1...

Tear The Facists Downopen.spotify.com Woody Guthrie · Song · 2009

I've changed my mind, this is my favourite rose* * This may change #rose 🌱

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People are *still* sharing this 🫨 I guess it’s what put me on the Bluesky map? Good morning btw

I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

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Since tourist season is upon us I've been asked a lot for my medieval London tips. Turns out I have 3 days worth, so I wrote them up for Patrons. You can check it out from just £1 per month, and it supports the blog. You get churches! Museums! Graveyards! AND pubs. www.patreon.com/posts/guide-...

A guide to Medieval London | Dr Eleanor Janegawww.patreon.com Get more from Dr Eleanor Janega on Patreon

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Nigel Farage claiming to have single-handedly destroyed the BNP is some breathtaking gall. Especially after one of his candidates has just been revealed as an ex-BNP member. He didn‘t destroy them, he recruited them. I remember back when the BNP suddenly started wearing suits & campaigning for UKIP.

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There's nothing normal about a 'business' that says its only asset, that it's been looking after for 30 years, is in decline & risk to public safety Privatisation has failed. Ownership in public interest may have its issues - shouldn't be as bad as this www.ft.com/content/a3a6...

Thames Water warns ageing assets pose ‘risk to public safety’www.ft.com Supplier to London and much of southern England says £19bn of assets are failing as Ofwat weighs approving hike in bills

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"The cloud" was such an incredible marketing move. Just fully leaning into the rhetoric that cloud computing is this magical thing that happens up in the sky and doesn't have impact on our environment or the sustainability of our labor. It's depressing how well that rhetoric worked.

For You Eyes Only, Sheena Easton would approve # rose # Bond 🌱

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The state of British politics, when this happens with barely a murmur... 👇👇

The Conservative party, which is led by a man pledging to restore "integrity" and "accountability" to public life, is currently pushing hundreds of adverts lying about Labour's plans, while rebranding as independent fact-checkers in order to mislead voters bylinetimes.com/2024/06/27/c...

Conservative Party Blitzes Facebook with Hundreds of ‘Desperate’ Campaign Adverts Falsely Claiming Labour Plans to Hit Drivers With a ‘National ULEZ'bylinetimes.com Conservative Party Facebook adverts falsely claim Labour is planning national road charging as CCHQ rebrand as independent fact-checkers

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Upsetting football people by referring to the ongoing England matches as "the Lionesses men's team". Try it. It works.