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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 23m

The fabulous Andrea Riseborough is the latest to play (a young) Margaret Thatcher (on Netflix).

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📚Melissa Amateis 🦊 @ww2historygal.bsky.social · 18h

Watching Cary Grant do a reel is just perfection. #TCMParty #Indiscreet

a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a gold dress are dancing

ALT: a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a gold dress are dancing

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 41m

Watch while ‘everything they’ve got’ brings in absolutely nothing.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3h

PPE Medpro will be pursued
'with everything we've got'
Wes Streeting says

news.sky.com/story/steeti...

PPE Medpro will be pursued 'with everything we've got' Wes Streeting says

PPE Medpro says it is yet to hear from the government on its offer of settlement talks but ministers signal they are not interested in a deal, only full repayment.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 42m

Not now, not ever 😂

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feckfascists.bsky.social @feckfascists.bsky.social · 4h

Yes.

All of the above I would imagine.

The working class and government have no money now. We're into the end game of Monopoly where the one person who owns almost everything finishes off the last couple of players who have a little left.

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 5h

Full conversation with @zackpolanski.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRVf...

How Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

www.youtube.com

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 4h

Do you think that somewhere deep down he actually knows what they really call him, or has he repressed that realisation so totally that he now lives entirely in a world of delusion? (Yeah, I know, he’s lost all touch with reality).

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 4h

I’d like to say that was hard to do…

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Understand gaslighting.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 9h

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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Grumpy @grumpybb.bsky.social · 5h

Look and learn UK!!!

LiberalLens @annieburns.bsky.social · 1d

Australia has passed a Bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $50,000

This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Enjoy the little things in life.

There IS a Doctor in the House, MD🩺 @allgoodthingsmd.bsky.social · 21h

One of my favorite parts of autumn is jacket weather

One of my favorite parts of jacket weather is finding random things in my pockets from jackets I last wore a year ago

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 8h

😷🙄🇬🇧😷🙄🇬🇧😷🙄🇬🇧
Just back from chemo unit - first denosumab injection.

Most of the staff were ‘non white’ ~ they might not even have had A level English! Shock, horror!
But they did a superb job.

#nhs

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 1d

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Nigel Farage makes false claim distancing Reform from Russian asset

'I'm the only person in the senior management team of Reform who's ever even met him,' the Reform UK leader falsely claimed when asked about Nathan Gill

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 11h

Look what happened with Brexit- the Media had a special ‘dinner’ so they could all plot how to deceive the people together.

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Pete @countzerorepeat.bsky.social · 13h

UK media. Ask Labour about the Chinese, don't ask Farage about Russian bribes, or mysterious bankrolling of Leave. If you do minimise it, laugh it off. Repeat the process for Russian money swilling through the Tory party.
The majority of the British media stinks.
It's as bent as a corkscrew.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 11h

“Signs and wonders, signs and wonders”

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 19h

This is the sort of nonsense advice the government is following on COVID. No wonder we are in such a mess.

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Mike Wilson @whisperingwind.co.uk · 13h

This is very good -- Cory Doctorow explains why people are locked into sites like Facebook that just get worse & worse. And he has some ideas on how to evacuate those shitty sites.

youtu.be/3uLpICsNTV4

"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 12h

That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.

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Phil Norris @philnorris.bsky.social · 12h

If other countries told Brits they had to learn the language of the country they'd moved to there would be uproar. The Daily Heil would have a meltdown, Farage would be spitting phlem everywhere as he ranted.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 12h

Heartwarming to hear 😁

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d

In which @stephenkb.bsky.social absolutely nails the way the Tories are performing a "never-ending lobotomy" on themselves by requiring everyone to believe (or at least pretend) Brexit was a good idea. www.ft.com/content/a65f...

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