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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · Jan 19

Hey America. Just saying.

Superman poster from 1950s. He is talking to school kids saying

...AND REMEMBER, BOYS
AND GIRLS, YOUR SCHOOL - LIKE OUR COUNTRY-IS MADE UP OF AMERICANS OF MANY DIFFERENT RACES. RELIGIONS AND NATIONAL ORIGINS. 50...
..if YOU hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin-don't wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.

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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning skylings 🐭

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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes liked Hague as being alright for a Tory in interviews.

Thanks for reminding me about the Tory part. So so Tory. Much Tory. Very lie much Tory intolerance.

Ugh.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 1d

I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning skylings 🐭

Rat peeking out of hole in cardboard box

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 3d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning skylings 🐭

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Sir Jack Caramac @jackcaramac.bsky.social · 2d

"Don't worry, they'll never notice..."

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Patti Smith. You are still awesome.

Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning skylings 🐭

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 4d

Political journalists didn’t set out to become clients of power – they just slipped into it. Half-truths, soft questions and silence bought with access. Read this analysis on how deference has turned to complicity ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 4d

If you want to support Podessey @sturdyalex.bsky.social is looking for Bacchus

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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 4d

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Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 4d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Manually typed in numbers

Colloween @colken.bsky.social · 4d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The Late Walk-Ins

Detritus @detritus.bsky.social · 4d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The SES are there.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 6d

I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.