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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 4h

I’m specifically thinking of all those blue-ticked “I’m afraid to go out of my house now” alleged English people. Please. THEY ARE NOT REAL. They are certainly not tweeting about it in good faith.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 4h

We can achieve a fairer result if, instead of a multiplier, we apply a "mansion tax" to all the properties in Band H - i.e. a % of property value within the bands.

That has a much reduced impact in those at the bottom of the band and a much higher impact at the top end.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

"Polanski has blended anger with hope.

“Hope is much more difficult to sell than outrage, but he’s finding a way to do it that connects with people.”

Let's make hope normal again!

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Green party surging as Polanski’s social media strategy w...

Green Party membership has more than doubled, driven in part by its platform messaging on apps like TikTok

observer.co.uk

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 6h

How every history and science textbook should start

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 6h

We cannot go the way of the UK or the US with this nonsense

Email your TDs, don't engage with the fash, be kinder to immigrants (and reminder that immigrants owe you NOTHING, no good deeds or acts, no politeness/manners. No matter their 'pleasantness' or indifference, immigrants are human beings).

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 9h

Twenty-day-old baby among asylum seekers rescued during attempted Drogheda arson attack

Gardaí continue to investigate incident in town on Friday night

www.irishtimes.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18h

Nigel Farage is filthy fascist according to Heseltine, and he thought Thatcher was good enough to serve in her cabinet.

So Nigel Farage must be Far, far, far Right.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23h

Would be far more accurate to call them people who buy Newspapers polls.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23h

Almost all the UK's polls are biased towards Reform because they pick their 'random' selection from people who buy print/online Media, they are overwhelmingly older and Right Wing.

So Reform's polls and what they will actually get is much lower.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

The ones in the hats
were the fattest of cats,
and their honks and their hoots
Would grow in cahoots
In a place they all called Maralago!

Till the orange skinned fellow
Or it could have been yellow
Would bend at the knees
And release his foul breeze
In a curse he had cursed at Chicago

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Mega-rich Nigel Farage's constituency has England's most deprived neighbourhood

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Mega-rich Nigel Farage's constituency has England's most deprived neighbourhood

A neighbourhood in Jaywick, Clacton-on-Sea, has been ranked with the highest deprivation score out of more than 33,750 small local areas nationwide, official statistics reveal

www.mirror.co.uk

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

This man’s constituents are being left behind.

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

I couldn’t tell that was ai at all

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

This stuff is dystopian

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

This guy's video explains what's happening.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 2d

BAFTA winner from Basildon here. Couldn't have done it without TIE/YPT provision in schools, without full (non-loaned) grant for university, without some basic state provision without hassle when I was finding my feet...all of which has gone. Invest in creativity.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty much every Culture Secretary we've had since the post was created has reinforced my impression that our frontline politicians simply do not know or care about culture.

James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d

Arguably the best photo I’ve ever taken of an ominous stranger on horseback approaching lazy cattle on a chalk hilltop beneath an irascible sky.

I took this photo of this mysterious rider on Hod Hill in north Dorset, the July before last. I'd been to a party the night before, sustained what is still only my second proper hangover this decade, and climbing big mystic hills proved to be the best of all cures. However the specifics of my mental state did make the approach of this dark figure seem particularly ominous, until she greeted me with a cheery hello and moved on her way towards the village of Fifehead Magdalen.

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 3d

‘A Georgian space in Perpendicular form, long, uniform, well-lit – it might be a schoolroom.’ This is how Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the famous architectural historian, described St Mary’s, Long Crichel in Dorset.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry... is this a thing? Having one party to a ceasefire turn it off and on like a f*cking light switch?

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 3d

Israel's military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 66 women and children, according to local health officials.

Israel’s military says ceasefire is back on as death toll from Gaza strikes reaches 104

www.stripes.com

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

Sudanese Joint Forces, an alliance of the regular army and armed groups, accused the UAE-backed RSF of killing “more than 2,000 unarmed civilians”, mostly women and children, between Sunday and Monday (26 and 27 October). #Sudan #BDStheUAE

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

Sudan Doctors Network: "In a heinous crime that violates all humanitarian laws and divine principles, RSF executed patients and wounded inside hospitals. They cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found. Hospitals transformed into human slaughterhouses at the hands of the RSF." #Sudan #BDStheUAE

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

The World Health Organization (WHO) denounced on Wednesday, October 29, the killing of more than 460 people in an attack by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) against the MATERNAL and CHILD hospital in Al-Fasher, capital of North Darfur, in Sudan. #Sudan #BDStheUAE

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 4d

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

There are signs that Morgan is becoming a cause célèbre for neo-Nazis in the United States. The white supremacist Paul Miller, who gained notoriety for making hate-filled videos while wearing Nazi garb, said on social media that he was working to secure Morgan’s release and directed followers to a crowdfunding campaign that he said was from Morgan directly.

“I am in contact with @GasChambers_,” Miller tweeted on Sunday, referring to an X account that says it has raised money for Morgan. “We are going to pay the bail for Kenneth in the next few days he will be free. Gaschamber was very kind and gracious. We just spoke on the phone. We are going to get kenneth out very soon.”

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Steve Berry @unloveablesteve.bsky.social · 4d

Show this to anyone who swears, "We didn't celebrate Halloween in the UK in the 1970s and we definitely didn't have pumpkins! It's all American stuff nowadays..."

Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 4d

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: a Words And Pictures Halloween special, with a scary pumpkin and an equally scary Henry Woolf.

Words and Pictures Halloween Edition 1975

From 1975 BBC2 Words and Pictures Halloween Edition..

www.youtube.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

The Doctors are striking again because they refuse to go back to pay freezes, they refuse to let 80,000 Doctors who want to work be unemployed while Wes Streeting hires unskilled PA's

If you supported them when the Tories were in power, but not now

Why?

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