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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 4h

At a Horror Con with my daughter

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 15h

Love that Woltemade goal today. Or Walter Matthau, as I call him. Both artists tbf

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 3d

Walt Jr & Jesse Argue #breakingbad

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Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social · 7d

"I don’t see someone calling me up and saying, ‘Hey, how about dinner?’"
The day I missed my chance with the one-and-only Diane Keaton.
www.thetimes.com/article/83d9...

Diane Keaton: ‘Life is magical, but I don’t see happy as part of the deal’

Well, la-dee-da, Annie Hall has made it to Hampstead at last. It’s been a long wait and in the time since Diane Keaton, as goofy, wonderful Annie, wooed Woody A

www.thetimes.com

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 8d

ICE Agent’s Video Diary

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 10d

Joey Barton & Matt Le Tissier’s BitterBantz Football Podcast just landed

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11d

I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 12d

Nigel Farage Superstar! (Tickets still available)

Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 12d

Reform: The Opera!

Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 12d

A packet of Crumpets with Butter and Parmesan and tomato garlic sauce. The supper of Morrison gods.

Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 20d

Gabriel Punishes Pope #Vatican #football #Arsenal #FPL

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 23d

Tiktok. Another one bites the dust. For fuck’s sake.

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Der Wäller @der-waeller.bsky.social · 23d

«EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter #Thiel behind #Trump is now exporting the #MAGA playbook to #Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers.»

@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23d

With TikTok’s potential sale to a group of Donald Trump allies, “we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it,” David Karpf argues.

The MAGA Media Takeover

Trump and his powerful friends are creating a dangerous moment for free speech.

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 23d

Don n Nige Get Serious x

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 24d

He’s like a neurodivergent David Brent.

Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · 24d

MAFS UK season 10. Dean and Sarah

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 25d

still my absolute fave is this in a bird hide in Cumbria

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · Sep 17

@iandunt.bsky.social Dear Ian 👍

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · Jul 14

Robert Kennedy’s assassination certainly makes Jim Garrison horny. Odd reaction.

Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · Jul 14

“Why are you and mommy fightiiiiiiing?” Urgh

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Paul Luke @batteredsausage.bsky.social · Jul 14

Sissy Spacek’s role in JFK as Jim Garrison’s wife is about a very unsympathetic character that must have been almost impossible to play with any nuance.
Her man risks death to take on the US government, yet she complains he isn’t home for dinner more regularly.
All Garrison family scenes are cringey

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · Jul 13

What's up, pet? You've barely touched your Rotten Old Bastard Flakes.

Quaker oats with Sir Jimmy The Beast on the front cover.

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