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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.

This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 8d

Wonderful!!

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 14d

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Bamburgh Research Project @brparchaeology.bsky.social · 20d

Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne.

Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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Groups stood in front of large stone features in an archaeological trench. Lindisfarne castle visible in the background

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 20d

Nice surprise - fragment of Roman terra sigillata from our excavations at Lindisfarne- that's our fourth bit!

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 26d

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉

Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 27d

Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne

Early medieval namestone.- 8th century AD - from Lindisfarne

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thanks for such a succinct overview of your recent project (and I'm always here for pictures of Breton evangelist miniatures)

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm doing oral history with fishermen on Holy Island - another place that saw a catastrophic loss of a fish stock (herring and salmon) - trying to capture the taskscapes they left behind

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Sep 11

For over a millennium Holy Island has been known as the site of the creation of one of the masterpieces of world art, the Lindisfarne Gospels - but today, it has been witness to one of my students doing a karaoke version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels. O tempora, O mores!

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Sep 11

aw shucks! good company there!

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Sep 4

You obviously don't though

David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Sep 2

Skosh (if you fancy something pricey and foody) - Partisan is also really good.

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · Sep 1

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Aug 29

I mainly remember that night because my girlfriend (now wife) got very very pissed and slowly slid down the window of a kebab shop on Cowley Road #truelove

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Aug 27

loads of people do it

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · Aug 27

Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all

www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

Reform leader bans engagement with Notts Live in unprecedented step

All of Reform UK's Nottinghamshire county councillors will now refuse to speak to any of our journalists

www.nottinghampost.com

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Aug 26

My problems with "King and Conqueror" are not born out of pedantry, but the fact that the whole thing is a total fucking car crash - and so so so lazy... Would far rather watch Asterix and the Normans

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Matt Round @mattround.com · Aug 26

This is going to get a lot worse if media & politicians don’t start portraying it as vandalism & intimidation rather than patriotism

🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fash in Clevedon doing the vital work of *checks notes* defacing public information boards in parks.

Public info sign at Alexandra Park in Clevedon describing the pollinator scheme

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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · Aug 19

"More than two thirds of the people arrested for disorder when an anti-immigration demonstration in Bristol turned violent last summer had previous contact with police over reports of domestic abuse."

#FarageRiots #ReformUK

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Two thirds arrested at protest involved in domestic abuse reports

Avon and Somerset Police confirmed the statistics following an FOI request

www.bristolpost.co.uk

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Aug 24

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂

But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

www.theguardian.com

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thames barges - Ipswich - my grandpa remembered going up to London from Essex on these as a boy as his uncles were Thames bargemen running bricks up from the brickfields of Essex

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