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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 8h

This is a masterclass in how to answer this question badly and appear really, really insincere

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 8h

Bluesky, show me what exponential growth looks like

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 11h

When you're so concerned with protecting women and girls that the pedophile Prince Andrew is allowed to visit the Harry Potter TV show set that's full of children.

Princess Kate Barely Avoided Running Into Prince Andrew and His Grandkids During His "Strange" Visit to Harry Potter TV Set

A source said that "staff working on the set were stunned to see him there."

www.marieclaire.com

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 9h

This is really good - looking forward to this episode

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 11h

Zack Polanski and Chlöe Swarbrick, co-leader of Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, discuss the similarities and differences of striving for fairer societies on opposite sides of the planet. Tonight on this week's episode of Bold Politics.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 13h

"Ceasefire"

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Night of the Libby Dead ☠️ @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 14h

They're so morally bankrupt that they reduce a genocide *in which they have been complicit* to an electoral calculation. I hope they never get anywhere near power again.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 14h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

www.politico.eu

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 14h

I've got a degree and I certainly couldn't pass A-level English.
As anyone who reads my misspelled unproofread posts already knows

The Independent @the-independent.com · 19h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 17h

Bezos doesn't need it to make money - he needs it to get access to power.

See also Elon Musk and twitter

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 18h

I've been really impressed with this since I joined in May.
Lots and lots of emails about the local party, welcome meetings, things to take part in.
At least several a week. Enough to make me want to get involved (but not so many it feels like spam - it's a difficult balance)

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 19h

And this is how I found out it had finally been released

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 19h

I'd never noticed that Danny Lane chair before - perfect for an ice room (though completely impractical in every other respect)

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 19h

Came here to post the "we're all trying to find the guys who did this" hotdog gif.
But several people got here before me so I'll post this instead

Placard reading
Fuck the Guardian you transphobic frauds

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 19h

Isn't this because Labour are authoritarian and want digital ID as 'papers please' approach.

It's fundamentally why I oppose it - as the main parties in the UK would want to use it in a draconian way

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 20h

Just donated to Film is Fabulous.
Really excited by possibility of missing episode news in the future.
You can donate here
filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-...

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 22h

Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 20h

Gareth Roberts!
Once had a promising career as a TV writer but his racism and transphobia stopped all that.

A Poundshop Graham Lineham

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 20h

I've seen recent pictures of him - that's actually very flattering

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 20h

I've seen recent pictures of him - that's actually very flattering

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 21h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god I've just read that article.
"...when Labour voted down Theresa May’s bid to negotiate a soft Brexit deal..."
There was never a "soft Brexit deal" on the table - Theresa May was hard Brexit all the way.
The way he rewrites recent history thinking no-one will notice

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 1d

The only phone numbers I know by heart now are those early childhood ones.
My own, my grandmother's and my sister's when she left home.

And the phone number for Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 1d

Robert's writing about the US - but it's true of the UK too

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 1d

We are appalled by the Israeli government’s attempt to ban Palestinians from publicly celebrating the return of their relatives and friends - a reminder of the daily cruelty of apartheid and of the fact that our struggle is not over. (4/4)

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

One of the released hostages pays tribute to the Palestinian resistance & he describes how the imprisoned Palestinians were tortured on a daily basis by their Israeli captors

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d

“Israel forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison.”

Some Palestinians have been held prisoner with little food for decades but it was this detail that really got me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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