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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

If you get fined £150 for pouring half a cup of coffee into the Thames, how much do you get fined for dumping two million tons of sh*t?

The answer of course is you have to pay Thames Water another £3bn a year.

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Dave Pettit @davepettit.bsky.social · 1d

Animals

▼ ALT-31 @alt31.bsky.social · 1d

⭕En #Cisjordanie, les soldats #Israéliens utilisent une nouvelle arme : les eaux d’égout.

Les maisons #Palestiniennes sont aspergées de liquide fétide — une punition collective déguisée en “Opération de sécurité”.

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Dave Pettit @davepettit.bsky.social · 1d

Fuming.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 2d

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Dave Pettit @davepettit.bsky.social · 1d

Christ.

Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute losers. Losing so unbelievably hard and totally failing to realise it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3d

He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.

He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.

He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.

But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.

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Dave Pettit @davepettit.bsky.social · 3d

Bloody hell.

Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 3d

I have genuinely never read any recruitment advertisment as avidly as I read this. And that includes jobs I was actually applying for. It's spellbinding.
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

Private Tutor - London, England, Oxfordshire - Tes Jobs

Tutors International, United Kingdom

www.tes.com

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▼ ALT-31 @alt31.bsky.social · 3d

⭕Pour l'élite, nous ne sommes que des animaux ou du simple bétail.

Quand je vous dis que ces personnes vivent dans un autre univers.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3d

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid.

It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine.

And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 3d

BREAKING: Maccabi Tel Aviv says it will not accept any away ticket allocation for its fans because the UK is so antisemitic that Israelis can't even chant "death to Arabs" and trash cities without the woke mob kicking up a fuss x

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Benefits @benefitstheband.bsky.social · 3d

All these tatty flags gonna just stay there are they? Council just gonna leave them and act like it’s totally normal?

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 3d

column on robbie keane www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d

Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee are responsible for much of the UK’s food inflation, with climate change the key driver of rising grocery bills

#climatecrisis
@eciu.net
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/ced8...

Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds

Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs

www.ft.com

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 9d

This report is disingenuous and dangerously misleading

Astonishingly, it even suggests that adapting to 4C 'will not be costly' 😮

The reality is organised adaption to 4C is impossible

The world will 'adapt' to 4C via economic and societal collapse

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told

Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 10d

Just nightmarish. Fuck me, the 70s were weird. It's no wonder all us 70s kids are a bit odd.

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 10d

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 11d

The USA
Gets more evil
By the day

WOMEN TO BE EXECUTED FOR THE CRIME OF HAVING AN ABORTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA

An all male committee of South Carolina lawmakers will decide this week if the state’s women will face the death penalty for getting an abortion & doctors will risk 30 years in jail for performing one

bonniefuller.substack.com

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 13d

I really want to see a photo of this 79-year-old male visitor looking shocked. Ideally, while holding a vegan tampon.

Iain Simpson @iainsimpson.bsky.social · 13d

It does seem to be a thing that dickheads are getting worked up about.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 13d

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Pettit @davepettit.bsky.social · 14d

And Netanyahu. And Milei. Big supporter of 'western values' too. And she supports foreign military intervention in her country.

Dave Pettit @davepettit.bsky.social · 14d

Well, she's a Trump and Netanyahu supporter who has suggested she would welcome foreign armed intervention in her country. She's also a neoliberal who campaigns for 'western values'. Not sure she's the hero everyone thinks. (And I'm no fan of Maduro either).

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 14d

Labour are heading for a spanking in May.

Net leader approval:

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Polanski +2
Davey +1
Farage -20
Badenoch -37
Reeves -37
Starmer -39

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Polanski +6
Davey -4
Farage -19
Badenoch -29
Reeves -44
Starmer-49

(Opinium/The Observer; 1-3 October)

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cleanearth.bsky.social @cleanearth.bsky.social · 14d

Even I was surprised when Zia Yusuf (Reform) started throwing his toys out of his pram in response to Zack Polanski turning his personal attacks back him instead.

Zia might be a divisive, hateful, privately educated multi-millionaire - but he can’t handle the heat.

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 15d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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