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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 59m

Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 2h

They're all still orbiting the Sun, as they have for billions of years. Just a bit further every day on their elliptical orbits. Life is a bit dull out there

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10h

George Floyd should still be here to celebrate his 52nd birthday. His life sparked a movement, and our fight for justice, accountability, and humanity continues. We’ll never stop saying his name.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

When you ride in a Tesla, you ride with Yaxley-Lennon.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Today Israel is allowing fuel for cooking to enter Gaza.

Olga Cherevko from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs explains that for 7 months Israel has prevented any cooking fuel from entering Gaza.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📌 Yes • More of this please ‼️

Brava George • You rock ‼️🐥

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone here is still using X/Twitter, here's another good reason to stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

(Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)

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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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 8d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 2d

East coast of where? There are lots of east coasts around the world

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 4d

Very pleased to be published alongside Mary Berry’s Best Recipes!

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Donald Trump’s lesbian niece blasts media for dishonestly hiding his dementia - buff.ly/c0t1H6f

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

My former magazine (I retired 2½ years ago) has written about the UK government's decision to schedule the submarine cable winding gear at Enderby Wharf, Greenwich. Scheduling gives the highest possible protection to this treasure of global communications.

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UK grants national heritage protection to historic cable gear at Enderby Wharf - Capacity

The UK government has granted national heritage protection to the historic cable winding and loading gear at Enderby Wharf in Greenwich, London, a site central to the early development of global telec...

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

Go find a dictionary

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 6d

This is EXCELLENT. An EXCELLENT programme about an EXCELLENT man. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social — help yourself to a medal.

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Great Lives - Oliver Postgate - BBC Sounds

Andrew Davenport, creator of In the Night Garden, chooses Oliver Postgate.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

There were a lot of people in Italy from the 1920s, then Germany and Spain (plus the UK with Mosely) in the 1930s, and then Poland, France, Denmark, Norway, and the other occupied countries after 1939 who have a more realistic claim to be Antifa

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

And is virtually useless when you want to do a web search

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lumidingo.bsky.social @lumidingo.bsky.social · 5d

Her effect was so huge because she took all the achievements of the welfare state, all the benefits of nationalised assets, all the benefits of a unionised workforce and the standard of living it afforded people. 40 years of work just smashed to bits and sold off for pennies. Just devastating.

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 5d

Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?"

It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

.. Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern, the biggest steamship ever built when launched in 1858. It failed as a passenger ship but was adapted to lay the first two successful transatlantic cables in the mid-1860s

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

It means that there is now a cluster of structures in the Greenwich area associated with the development of international telecommunications.
On the Isle of Dogs, just across the River Thames from Greenwich, is the construction and launch site of ... 3/4

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

"Scheduling" means the equipment, once used to haul submarine cable directly on to cable-laying ships from the former factory on the riverbank, will have the same protection as other scheduled monuments -- which include Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles, Norman castles, and cathedrals 2/4

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 5d

GREAT NEWS ABOUT ENDERBY WHARF
The UK government's Department of Culture, Media and Sport is going to schedule the submarine telephone cable hauler and gantry at Enderby Wharf at Greenwich in south-east London. 1/4

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 6d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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