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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2h

Proud to join over 300 anti-racists in Tower Hamlets to organise for this Saturday’s counter-demo against UKIP.

From fighting Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts to the National Front, this community has always resisted hate.

Let’s fill Whitechapel on 25 October to say the far right are not welcome here!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc.

*And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...

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the slyning 🪓 @hugehammers.bsky.social · 2h

This reads like an interview with a head banging conservative backbencher in their 80s.

Tapp is a Labour MP.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h

Nobody is more surprised than me that the wildly exaggerated criticisms I make of them *as a silly joke*, for fun, turn out to have been insufficiently stupid and cartoonish

Emily Lawford @emilylawford
X.com
For the @NewStatesman's latest issue I went on a Border Force patrol with immigration minister
Mike Tapp
met Tapp again a few days later at the Home Office with his dog, Scooby,
a huge ten-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, who is allowed in the department on weekends. I wanted to know if, behind Tapp's jokes and bombast, there was a serious politician.
"Do you like the flags?" Tapp asked me as we entered his office. There were four Union Jacks in the room: a large one next to a portrait of Queen Elizabeth Il, a smaller one on a stick on his desk and two velcroed to Scooby's harness. Tapp owns about ten Union Jacks in total - socks, ties, clips, "everything really. Lots of flags." Recently, on holiday in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, he spent £8o on a big vintage flag for his living-room wall. "It was stupid," he said. "My dad was, like, 'Why are you spending that much on a flag?''

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2d

right wing bigots have admitted

- the “trans women in bathrooms” issue

- the “trans women in sports” issue and

- the “trans kids getting surgery” issue

were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

are you paying attention?

Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up
Dec 07 2018 • Written by Sofia Lotto Persio

Swimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights
"Crumble"

Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate
"trans" in public life by Mallory Moore
& transsafety.network

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3h

Huh, weird that they didn't include "she's a member of the fascist Nippon Kaigi faction". I'm sure that's just an honest mistake.

NPR @npr.org · 21h

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who cites Margaret Thatcher as a role model. She also loves heavy metal. n.pr/4hlukkV

5 things to know about Sanae Takaichi, Japan's first female prime minister

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who cites Margaret Thatcher as a role model. She also loves heavy metal.

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the slyning 🪓 @hugehammers.bsky.social · 4h

She'll pay more in fines than water companies who are pumping actual shit into our rivers and coastlines.

England must be destroyed

Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 4h

She should offer to remove her titles. In fact this is how I'm going to respond to any fine from now on.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond

Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is

www.bbc.co.uk

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 5h

Of those 3 things, Labour introducing PR is the most likely to happen & actually benefit the Tories.

Farage is a creation of the media, & while the Lord giveth and also taketh away, he's a very useful tool at the moment.

Meanwhile, PR is the only possible chance Labour have to stay relevant now.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 4h

The government and the media have been lying to you over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban.

We will not let these lies and smears go unchallenged.

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3h

He says this as though the current government didn't win 30% of the vote last year.

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3h

You can hear the knives sharpening from up in Carlisle

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3h

This is a huge mistake. I just don't see it going well for him, even if the actual recording goes well he'll get fucked in the edit.

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 5h

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, is to be a guest on "Have I Got News For You" on Friday November 6th.

Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, McFadden who is planning on cutting disability and limited capability for work benefits for millions next month, presumably because he needs the souls to break the curse that turned him into a lich.

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 18h

Nandy keeps wanting the police to assault protesters. Philipson wants to leave the ECHR and scrap the EHRC. Starmer wants all the above.

Who else am I missing?

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 18h

You said nobody in the current cabinet would, now you're moving the goalposts. Even still, Streeting shares the same healthcare position as Reform to increase privatisation. Kyle loves AI and tried to get everyone in the UK a subscription to ChatGPT. Reeves wants to cut harder than the Tories.

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 23h

They absolutely would. Cooper and Mahmood have both copied Farage's homework.

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Blood Seagull @redtim.bsky.social · 1d

This Maccabi Tel Aviv story continues to be an exercise in gaslighting on a massive scale by the British government. Unfortunatelyfor them, they aren't very good at it, embarrassingly so.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Maccabi Tel Aviv will not accept Aston Villa Europa League tickets

Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv say they will not accept any ticket allocation from Aston Villa should the decision to ban their supporters from next month's Europa League match be overturned.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 1d

As though Labour wouldn't jump in bed with Reform before touching the Greens.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 1d

This monstrous abuse of Brianna Ghey and her grieving mother; to turn an absolutely transphobic hate crime into "kids on they phones" is something you can only do if you're genuinely too stupid or too evil to know better.

Is this the change that needs changing then?

Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 1d

Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 2d

Hope not. Hate!

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Starmer, you played another political blinder.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 3d

It's like the nursery rhyme says:

Oh, the former Duke of York,
He had 12 million quid,
He gave it to victims he "never met,"
For things he "never did."

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

Given the chance they'll all be Friedrich Ebert

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

Pas de consuls! À bas Bernadotte!

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

Ralph Miliband really needs to come back from the grave to sort out his two dipshit sons.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

Miliband suggests banning people because they support an Israeli team is prejudice & hatred

We should ban all Israeli teams from all sporting competitions & it has nothing to do with prejudice or hatred. Its about supporting a boycott of a genocidal apartheid state.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 3d

Labour can leave the ECHR, use tactical nuclear missiles on small boats, make Starmer flog and behead a shoplifter every Saturday to a live audience, and still the goalposts would move further out.

But sure, this time playing their game will work out!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Lam has heard the charge that retrospective breaches of past promises to deport those who played by the rules are unfair.

She accepts it is unfair & has "great personal sympathy" for those she will unfairly deport.

She says she believes that fairness should apply to British citizens "alone"

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