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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 54m

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...

Welsh town to retell tale of how it built Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon

Ship was referred to as ‘Magic Roundabout’ during secret project at an old hangar in Pembroke Dock

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 56m

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A tiny rhino foetus developed by IVF: Jon A Juárez’s best photograph

Only two female northern white rhinos are left – but neither can carry a pregnancy. So a surrogate was used. Tragically, the foetus didn’t reach full term

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 1h

Labour’s great housing betrayal.
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A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 1h

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

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 1h

🔴 NEW - At the same time that Nathan Gill was taking Russian bribes, the British far-right was travelling regularly to Moscow.

Paul Golding even met “Vladimir Putin”…

The time when Britain First met Vladimir Putin*

The far-right has long flirted with Russia

writesbright.substack.com

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 1h

This article doesn't mention that the "old Fossil Shop" was a Creationist Propaganda trap!
www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

Plans to transform empty old Fossil Shop at The Hard have been unveiled

Plans to transform the old Fossil Shop at The Hard have been unveiled which would see changes to accommodate new flats.

www.portsmouth.co.uk

Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 1h

Every pub in Portsmouth will be converted to flats.
www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

Planners back conversion of Old Portsmouth hotel into apartments

Plans to convert a long-standing Old Portsmouth hotel and former pizzeria into eight apartments will go to Portsmouth City Council’s planning committee next week.

www.portsmouth.co.uk

Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 1h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinian food brand says UK sales up 50% as shoppers show solidarity

Zaytoun’s olive oil and dates provide a tangible way to help Palestinians, says the business’s managing director

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 2h

Zelda seems pretty cool.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 5h

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 2h

Pensioner escapes with caution after crashing car into teenage girl and speeding off in Portsmouth.
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Teenage girl injured after car smashes into her before speeding off in Portsmouth

A pensioner escaped with just a caution after crashing his car into a teenage girl before speeding off.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 10h

Headbutting the wall to break out of my bruised-forehead loop

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13h

Politics latest: Reeves hints at tax rises and spending cuts to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’

Reeves hints at tax rises to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’: Latest

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Will is too honest to ever be an MP 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.bsky.social · 10h

Cognitive dissonance in action:
Colleague has a cold, and is moaning about "lots of people" with coughs and sneezes in work last week, who they (rightly) say should've worked from home.
Yet here they are, at work, with a cold.

If you are coughing, sneezing, or have a cold, stay home!!!

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 10h

Blocking that knob now!

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 10h

I can't believe this guy's for real!

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 11h

📣URGENT more than 14,000 people have signed our petition calling on Ofwat to REJECT Thames Water's latest ridiculous proposal.

🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years.

✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

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Steve Griffiths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cymry.bsky.social · 11h

Private Eye

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 11h

This applies to people on both sides of the fence.

Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 11h

We would be in a much better place if the people talking about immigration in the UK knew anything about it, including the press and the politicians legislating on it.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely epic thread. He was a former head teacher of the secondary school I went to. Just an old picture on a wall with the other former heads. No post-nominals. No fuss made. I expect now all this is known the school would make a bigger deal of him. It's the kind of school that would.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 1d

A quarter of the average UK energy bill last year was profit for the big energy companies.

Meanwhile, almost three million households in England suffer fuel poverty.

No one should be choosing between heating and eating while energy companies rake in billions.

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danjac.bsky.social @danjac.bsky.social · 12h

1992 feels more and more like one of the great missed opportunities of British politics.

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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 2d

"For too long, the story of the Labour movement’s organisational, intellectual and ethical origins has over-emphasised the religious contribution, sidelining a powerful and persistent current of secular, rationalist and humanist thought"

The secular soul of the Labour Party

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock is calling on the party to reclaim its humanist principles

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David Pisaro @davidpisaro.bsky.social · 12h

The same crowd who say such things about aspiration are particularly aggrieved at the mere thought of any upstart who wasn't born into privilege having so much as a sip of fizzy wine so they can cry: Champagne Socialist!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13h

Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 13h

In 2010, an interviewer told Neil Kinnock that the Labour Party "never used to understand aspiration".

Kinnock gave an absolutely brilliant answer that should be learned by heart by every Labour MP. (0.42 to 1.22)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhP...

Neil Kinnock goes berserk

YouTube video by Vadrigar

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