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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 5h

I get my lead the way god intended (vaping)

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 5h

I've a lot of grievances against Darren Grimes, and this is a teeny tiny one, but why did he use AI on this 😭

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 5h

Low key tempted by the concept of a reclaimed bus seat sofa, but I just refuse to pay that much money for it

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 6h

😂😂

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 6h

I got it on sale so I'm not all that aggrieved, it still functions

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Joshua WY @noshayminthat.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the two-tier system they bleat about 24/7?

A social media post from Metro featuring a headline about Tommy Robinson. The post includes a photo of a man with short hair and a trimmed beard speaking, with people blurred in the background. The text reads:
“The judge said he would ‘accommodate’ his ‘current travel arrangements’”
and below the photo:
“Tommy Robinson terror verdict delayed because he is ‘flying to Israel as guest’.”

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 9h

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 13h

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 8h

I expect no sympathy for this, but my dark soy sauce bottle fell off my shelf and chipped the handle of my le creuset salt pig 😢

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 10h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Dulse Yeen @yeen.paw.bs · 21h

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 11h

That 2% should be made to fight professional Sumo wrestlers on live telly

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 13h

Omg he's switched up to Ridin Solo by Jason Derulo 😭😭😭

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 16h

Being asked on question time if you would nationalise large breasts

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 13h

My neighbour is having a right emo singalong to himself bless

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 13h

I immediately selected "types of bean" and then almost had a fit

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 15h

I don't like this quiz Robert.

It's pissing me off.

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

The job of the ECHR is to comment on concerns about domestic policies of member states, she just doesn’t like trans people

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Pea is stored in the bowls

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to go with no

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to meet a true believer in global heating, talk to an insurance actuary...

You can't fight the facts. Time for Keir Starmer to step up on the climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/millions-more-homes-in-great-britain-at-risk-of-flooding-investigation-finds

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Batt 🦇 @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 1d

Shabana Mahmood said "just because you have a freedom doesn't mean to have to use it at every moment of every day".

If the Govt places restrictions on who can exercise freedoms, and when, then it isn't freedom at all. Freedom to protest, to be loud and inconvenient, is the cornerstone of democracy.

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