"The game's afoot. Follow your spirit, & upon this charge Cry, 'God for Harry, England & St George'" is a rallying cry from Shakespeare's play "Henry V" symbolising patriotism & call to arms for the English troops www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56972/...
Happy St Georgeโs Day x
youtu.be/nCGSXMiQrFQ
Cartoon shows Potus DJT playing golf during current Israeli-US war on Iran unlawfully started by Israel+US 28 Feb 2026 when US-Iran talks were going well; Israel feared talks would end well so urged US to join in deadly strike on Iran's regime, killing its leader+close family & 100+ school children.
King Charles III & Queen Camilla have accepted an invite for a state visit to the US from April 27 to 30. They'll attend a state dinner at the WH and a celebration of our cousins' 250th bday. If Potus DJT behaves impeccably and doesn't embarrass our King, Queen and country, it will prove he is sane.
Thanks Nancy, unfortunately your Forster vid isn't working here in England UK. Same with vid in your pinned post about Ukraine.
Bsky was unusable for me for 1hr 9-10pm BST Tue 21 Apr 2026. It's working OK since 10pm. I'd be interested to see what you mean about K. Forster. I'll search for the clip.
Screen shot of an a/c on Bsky in England, UK at 9pm BST Tue 21 April. Bsky was sporadically accessible but impossible to read content or post for a whole hour 9-10. Message says: "Hmm, some kind of issue occurred when contacting the feed server. Please let the feed owner know about this issue. Message from server. Failed to perform upstream request. View profile"
England UK here. Five hours ago I had a 1-hour long problem accessing Bsky: it was unstable, no login, then login, it was all over the place. I took this screenshot of a error page around 9pm BST Tue 21 Apr. At 10pm it started working OK again.
Dear @plaintanjane.bsky.social Thanks for these clips. I followed them closely at the time and can recall PMandelson being approved by POTUS DJT after what seemed a long silence. Enemies of UK are trying to destabilise its govt. Note that Brits not Yanks are grilled/arrested/losing jobs over JE+DJT.
Dear @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social would like your thoughts on this๐+Sir Keir being unfairly encircled by sharks from all quarters incl corrupt actors in msm/US/tech/reform +self serving AB/WS/AR +nasty tories in shadows using KB to do personal attacks, diminish UK, be patsy during 3 wars+US fall.
Aliens.
Fixed it. The most fundamental disconnect between us in USA and everyone else is that everything we do is about promoting, enriching and empowering ourselves because we're greedy and believe we actually care about other people and are primarily motivated by that. In God We Trust. God bless America!
Screenshot of a MacBookPro keyboard showing track pad in middle of flat part. Wrists can lean on each side of trackpad and finger used to gently touch swipe using one finger to move cursor, much easier to use than a mouse that requires extra space and arm/hand/finger movements. Image source: 3D News online
Had no idea people still use mouse. Since 2003 I've used MacBookPros: trackpad's built into flat part of keyboard. Can rest wrists on each side, gently swipe trackpad w 1 finger, type w 1 finger, no need to lift/use arms esp when laptop's on lap in comfy position. Mouse needs arm/hand/finger lifts.
Greetings from England, UK. Couldn't pass by without wishing you a Happy 89th Birthday dear George!
Read The Fraud's Prayer at Larry's.
btw Saw this FB post about Larry w no credit to photographer Phil Robinson @pjrfoto.bsky.social whose name's on bottom left.
It's my favourite photo of Larry. He's slightly leaning forward staring so deep into the camera you can see his soul. #Cats have souls.
Dear Lf.Egalitarian, thank you for your kind comment and cheery pic, much appreciated. I enjoyed browsing your interesting posts. Looking forward to reading more. Best, Ingrid.
Dear Ciudad, Just to say a big warm thank you for this. I watched the doc and two short clips below. Fascinating people, salt of the earth, kind, decent, hard working.
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Sam Chatmon: Make Me A Pallet On the Floor (1978)
youtu.be/AkEhtfPN084
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Sam Chatmon Interview
youtu.be/96NwV6g-3PE
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As soon as I posted below note to @bsky.app, I returned here and noticed my two other a/cs are now live. This is exhausting. I daren't leave here incase something goes awry. I'm off to make a mug of hot chocolate and a bowl of cake w berries & creamy topping drizzled w organic Canadian maple syrup.
What is @bsky.app talking about? Here in England, UK on Mon April 20 at 21:00 BST I can't access 2 of my 3 Bluesky a/c's. It has taken 1 hr to login to this a/c to access Bluesky and post.
Colour photo filled with bright orange striped tulips and yellow daffodils growing together with lots of lovely green stems and leaves.
My bio here shows links to my 2 #Bluesky a/c's #CATWATCHING & #INGRIDNETWORK aren't live 20/4 8pm BST. After much ado, login to this a/c worked. Don't know why can't access other 2. So I'm posting this to self because it's my #birthday & I feel like #BillyNoMates w no greetings from my #cat friends.
England UK here @ 8pm BST Mon 20/4: @bsky.app going haywire again. Was logged in, made tea, returned & had to login again. Took ages, tried twice. Accessed this a/c, tried reposting MrMirth's @mrmirth.bsky.social good news about UK in 5th place top global economies - or such like, can't look it up.
IrishStar 20 Apr: "Donald Trump setback as protesters target his golf course over 'illegal war' Activists staged a mock wind farm on Donald Trump's Scottish golf course to protest his stance against wind energy, with model turbines placed on the 4th green at Trump Turnberry" bsky.app/profile/iris...
Vid clip from C-SPAN LIVE Capitol Hill shows RFK Jr testifying on US govt health policy & displaying loyalty to Potus not the Constitution.
Greetings from England Francesco! I did same when Bluesky went haywire last Thur: set up 3 backup a/c's but didn't switch over as had no time to check how it works. Do you login at eurosky.social & post there & they automatically appear here? Updates from users on how it works would be appreciated.
Here in England UK there are many local community initiatives run by volunteers involving food banks/community stores; locals donate food/essential supplies/pet foods to local church/foodbank/big box inside door of supermarkets for food banks. Gardeners/allotments, cafes etc donate fresh produce.
Can this be done with a vintage MacBookPro?
Found this after one hour of scrolling for posts to smile at.
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Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said the funding would address urgent needs in Ukraine's security and defense sector.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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"Ukraine has received the latest tranche from the United Kingdom in the amount of 752 million pounds sterling (about 1 billion U.S. dollars) as part of the G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine (ERA) initiative," the ministry said in a statement.
Who dreams up/creates these Lego masterpieces from Iran? The latest is (w Irish accent) a traditional sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" aka "What Will/Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?" or "Up She Rises". It was sung aboard sailing ships at least as early as the 1830s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken...
Commented at this Dave Winer post. Dave "pioneered development of weblogs, syndication (RSS) podcasting, outlining & web content management software; former contributing ed at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur & investor in web media en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Wi...
Clever image posted 18 hrs ago during Bluesky chaos.
It shows 3 red notes I saw while stumbling around.
And I saw news saying DT doesn't like memes about him.
And Israeli PM warned us not to mock his country.
And EM is like them: thin skinned & spiteful.
DT & BN & EM are bullies, nah nah nah
Screenshot of Bluesky update page Thu 16 Apr 2026 showing times and duration of intermittent tech issues - possibly from GB regional page.
Screenshot from my Bluesky a/c (here in GB) during tech issues Thu 16 Apr 2026. Error message on blank white page says: ! Not Found Forbidden Try again
I took this screenshot from post at Bluesky presumably dated Thur 16 Apr 2026 saying: "It's not just you - Bluesky is (sorta) down Bluesky's website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack. According to the social network's status page, the issues began around 2:42 a.m. ET time on Thursday and have continued since."
I took this screenshot from inside my a/c at Bluesky Thu 16 Apr 2026 while trying to publish a post or view someone else's post. When I pressed Retry, twice it'd work sometimes. Black text on white background says: "Error loading post Something went wrong. Please try again in a moment Retry"
A big warm hello from England Dave! I first followed your blog in 2003 & know u know tech. Do u think it was DDoS? I saw it live for hrs yesterday inc 12+ odd messages, jittery pages, text jumpy. If it's DDoS how did attackers post messages "Forbidden!" on a red banner, if it's not a hacking? Bestx