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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 4h

In my teaching days I used to be involved with trips to 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪
I wouldn’t get involved if I were teaching these days, far too high risk from a safe guarding perspective.
I see school groups out and about these days and mentally 👏 the staff 😃

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 4h

👏 the winner 👏

Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 4h

Very occasionally (and there’s a recent example) this deeply unpleasant individual has said something I have agreed with; mostly I find him disagreeable and hypocritical, here’s a glimpse at why with 🙏 to @snig.bsky.social

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Nov 19

Jeremy Clarkson today has sought to argue he was only at the farmers' protest because he's angry for them. And he dismissed Victoria Derbyshire confronting him with his previous comments as "classic BBC". He challenges her on whether it's a fact he bought a farm to avoid Inheritance tax.
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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 4h

I’m open to suggestions for appropriate costumes for 🇬🇧 elected officials (that’s where I live as it happens)
Hmm… maybe characters from The Magic Roundabout? Fitting the spring for Zebedee 😱😂

a cartoon bird is standing on a stick in a field of flowers

ALT: a cartoon bird is standing on a stick in a field of flowers

media.tenor.com

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 6h

Compulsory inflatable frog costumes for ALL elected officials; to be worn at all times when performing any official function. (And buying the political influence to make it happen 😂)

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 16h

Victoria Drummond 1st UK woman #MarineEngineer. Colleague wrote "Most courageous woman I ever saw...without fear or nerves, is very good at her job & has an uncanny power over engines for which I once thanked God" Early @wes1919.bsky.social member b. #OTD 14 Oct 1894 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Victoria Drummond in apprenticeship uniform c. 1920

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 15h

Lotti, Weltmeisterin der Kraftgymnastik (World Champion of Strength Gymnastics), 1925.

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 6h

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 6h

a green cartoon character with a sad face and the words if the shoe fits around it

ALT: a green cartoon character with a sad face and the words if the shoe fits around it

media.tenor.com

Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 19h

That’s the one! But I expect it was all a misunderstanding? Or some sort of “journalism”? Pffft 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 19h

Am I right in remembering that TR names x 10 actually broke 🇺🇸 border control laws?

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Ten Names Robinson (a British national who travels on an Irish passport but rails against non-white UK migrants) is supported for his legal proceedings financially by Elon Musk (a South African born migrant to the USA), but that's all totally normal, right?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 19h

Fascinating period of upheaval!

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 1d

Local authorities in my area use it for traffic problems, so it has practical benefits to me. Plus a couple of art accounts. I’ve unfollowed anything even vaguely political over there.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists.

This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime.

Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 1d

Also needs a link to this fine cutting-up-a-book story.

Alison @finger-post.blog · 9d

My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.

"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next.

Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters.

On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 1d

“The Swing Riots”… colour me intrigued…

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

Are all these people who venerate the Book As Object in the room with us now? Because the vast majority of books sold are cheap supermarket paperbacks with stock image covers that are literally designed to fall apart. Who is winning this discourse in reality

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 2d

No it doesn't.

A picture saying 'Nursery rhymes with Justin Fletcher'.

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a grim poem; “America is a Gun”
This is a bleak illustration 💔

Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 15d

#endgunviolence

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