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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@muchechops.bsky.social

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LGBTQIA+ he/him/his: Green, socialist, actor, writer, modeller, Boo- & Stellar-servant 🐶 #HumanRights #TransRights #EUROPE4EVER🇪🇺

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · Jun 26

after #EMDR for #PTSD, I enjoyed a brilliant #mental-health #breakthrough & resumed #modelmaking by #modifying excisting #Character-Options #DoctorWho #figures into new, unavailable, #Second-Doctor figures
#JamieMcCrimmon #Victoria #ZoeHerriot
original heads on Etsy www.etsy.com/people/92x9s...

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Bristol24/7 @bristol247.bsky.social · 7m

Nearly 30 restaurants in Bristol have signed up to support StreetSmart in their annual initiative to raise funds for homelessness charities across the UK

Bristol restaurants pledge support for charity's initiative to tackle homelessness

The initiative by StreetSmart is launched ever year in the months of November and December

www.bristol247.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1h

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 7m

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Director-General of the BBC - Wikipedia

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 7m

less than 1M of us responded, will #Tim-Davie take any notice? unlikely. his right-wing hubris seems inexhaustible ... he's behaving hell-bent on undermining core #BBC tenets & values: removing the Board of Governors' protections was our greatest loss...

www.bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfut...

Our BBC, Our Future

www.bbc.co.uk

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 18m

#Best-For-Britain have some #Brexit info for #UK:
@bestforbritain.org 😳😭😡

www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impac...

The Cost of Brexit

Change Minds → Change Politics

www.bestforbritain.org

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 26m

we know he's a putin-puppet, so it wouldn't surprise anyone if that were the case... he's interfering in everything else this year...

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

ID cards would cost billions, be full of errors and won’t reduce irregular migration.

They haven’t worked in Europe or anywhere in the world, and they won’t work here

Take action and stop the ID card scheme 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-starmer-to-scrap-his-id-card-scheme

Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme

With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 33m

#POTUS is imposing #tariffs left-right-centre but gifting $$$Ms right-centre-left!!! 😡 it's wealth-transfer on a massive scale from his rivals to his buddies ... 🥴🤢🤬 #EU & #UK have got to see what he's doing & hold-out against him...

www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

EU should stand firm despite US pressure, ex-EU competition chief says

Brussels’s tech laws have come under pressure ever since the new US administration took office in January.

www.euronews.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 47m

WOT?!? oh, yeah, #POTUS no like #NATO, do he? no like #EU, do he? they just in his way, ain't they? 🤦‍♂️😭🤢😡

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

EU envoy calls on the US to rejoin the West on Russian sanctions

David O'Sullivan, the EU's sanctions envoy, told Euronews he hopes the US will return to a policy of applying new sanctions against Russia.

www.euronews.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 52m

#POTUS really is a cartoon-copy of an 80s movie Pres... "don't tell no-one, right, you know, we're sneaking, sneaky-sneak, around in a cuntry, NOT venezuela, right, not there, another cuntry, cos the Centre Intertainment Armee ... are great men. & wimmin!"😳🤦‍♂️😂

www.euronews.com/2025/10/16/t...

Trump confirms CIA conducting covert operations inside Venezuela

Trump said the administration “is looking at land” as it considers further strikes in the region but declined to say whether the CIA has the authority to take action against President Nicolás Maduro.

www.euronews.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

yeah, that rebuke'll do it 🤦‍♂️ #Orban #Russia #EU

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

EU rebukes Hungary's FM for attending Moscow energy conference

On his 13th visit to Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Szijjártó labelled the EU energy diversification plans as "crazy".

www.euronews.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

who the HELL in the #EU allowed single-state #veto ??? 🤦‍♂️ FFS!!! & since they did it's too late to change the laws as any one state can veto the proposed changes!!! 🤦‍♂️😭😡 #sanctions #russia

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Fico vetoes EU sanctions on Russia again and asks for new concessions

Slovakia and Austria have emerged as the remaining obstacles blocking a deal on a new round of EU sanctions against Russia.

www.euronews.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

$$$s in the coffers for #POTUS perpetuating his boss #putin's invasion... 😭🤢😡 almost as if they're working together to impoverish & eviscerate #Europe??? 🤔🤷‍♂️🤬

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

European NATO allies pledge to buy more US weapons for Ukraine

A further 10 allies have lined up to join NATO's newly established PURL initiative, created to purchase in-demand weapons systems from the US, amid a shortage in supplies.

www.euronews.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

is every state using #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine & #Zionist🇮🇱 invading #Gaza to cover their own forceful enlargement ??? #Pakistan & #India & #Afghanistan 😭😡

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

‘New Normal’: Is Pakistan trying to set new red lines with Afghan Taliban?

Amid growing clashes with the Taliban, Pakistan's moves ironically mirror an approach it has decried in the past.

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

good for her! #Epstein-Files #sex-trafficking #abuse-ring #complicity #enabling

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Bank of America, Bank of New York sued for alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein

A woman who claims she was abused by Epstein alleges the banks were used to send payments for sex-trafficking victims.

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

"we ain't bombing or shooting #Gaza 👍, but we ain't allowing them to heal or eat either... " 🤦‍♂️🤢😡 #zionist🇮🇱 continue to torture #palestine

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

UN calls for Israel to open more Gaza crossings for surge in aid deliveries

United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher calls for immediate 'unhindered access' for aid deliveries.

www.aljazeera.com

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

this is some global horror-tale, some fairy-nightmare where the world authorities just plugged their ears & blinkered their eyes until #POTUS declared " #Israel ever after"... ffs 😭🤢😡

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Denial and amnesia: Is the global community ready to welcome Israel back?

Analysts express concern over the rehabilitation of Israel, even as it says it has done no wrong.

www.aljazeera.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

& #POTUS doesn't want any questions longer than 3 monosyllabic words ... bless 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😡

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

US media return Pentagon passes, giving up access after new rules kick in

Reporters from more than 30 news outlets have vacated the Pentagon, refusing to comply with new reporting restrictions.

www.aljazeera.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

what the hell is this "ceasefire" anyway??? #zionist 🇮🇱is are just emboldened to invade The West Bank ... 🤦‍♂️😭😡

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Israeli arson, bulldozers and forced labour in the West Bank’s Tulkarem

Israeli violence continues in occupied West Bank where soldiers act with impunity, Palestinians made to work for free.

www.aljazeera.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

the vile inhumanity humans can mete out on one another behind thin veils of civilisation, all in the name of ethnicity, culture & religion... 🤢😡 #zionism #torture #palestine #gaza

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Gaza medics find signs of torture on Palestinian bodies returned by Israel

Health officials in Gaza say many of the 90 returned bodies bore marks of violence and possible executions.

www.aljazeera.com

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1h

#POTUS is meddling & interfering in every bloody pot he possibly he can... he's a cartoon-copy of some 80s action-movie President...

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...