Heppy 🐟 💚 🇬🇧/🇨🇭 #SlavaUkraini #FuckPutin #FuckTrump #FuckFarage
@heppy111.bsky.social
You don't debate fascism.
You crush it.
Fairness above all🔹️Fiercely European🔹️Tyke down South🔹️🏳️🌈 & 👬🔹️Sober atheist🔹️Linguist, polyglot, medievalist, teacher🔹️Crocheter, sweary politics-er, avid typo-er
Li kien kien, li kieku kieku (🇲🇹 proverb)
Facts matter ✌️
You crush it.
Fairness above all🔹️Fiercely European🔹️Tyke down South🔹️🏳️🌈 & 👬🔹️Sober atheist🔹️Linguist, polyglot, medievalist, teacher🔹️Crocheter, sweary politics-er, avid typo-er
Li kien kien, li kieku kieku (🇲🇹 proverb)
Facts matter ✌️
Pinned
Apologies to the people I'm unfollowing.
It's really not you. It's me.
My TL is 99.9% American now, which is not what I want. I need a better balance.
My own fault for following so many starter packs.
So, my apologies again.
I will still be supporting all efforts to resist trump, where I can.
It's really not you. It's me.
My TL is 99.9% American now, which is not what I want. I need a better balance.
My own fault for following so many starter packs.
So, my apologies again.
I will still be supporting all efforts to resist trump, where I can.
Going to make this my pinned skeet until my TL is back under control.
My original pinned tweet is in the next post (mainly to save me typing it out again when I reinstate it!)
And, to my US friends, I'm not turning away, just turning down the volume.
✌️
My original pinned tweet is in the next post (mainly to save me typing it out again when I reinstate it!)
And, to my US friends, I'm not turning away, just turning down the volume.
✌️
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What a waste of vote! A very disappointed Labour supporter. ❤️🇪🇺
Home Secretary to quadruple qualification period for settlement to 20 years for asylum seekers arriving illegally
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
What a waste of vote! A very disappointed Labour supporter. ❤️🇪🇺
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Channel 4 news: will a tougher stance fix the UK's asylum system? I think the question is what would work to gain control, maintain compassion & rebuild public confidence
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
Debate: will a tougher stance fix the UK’s asylum system?
We're joined by Jo White, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw and the chair of the Red Wall Caucus of Labour MPs, who's also on the Home Affairs Select Committee - and also Sunder Katwala, the head of British...
www.channel4.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Channel 4 news: will a tougher stance fix the UK's asylum system? I think the question is what would work to gain control, maintain compassion & rebuild public confidence
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
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I feel that over the last two years I have personally experienced the way social pressures to make conditions better for minorities in STEM have evaporated and while it’s understandable that people are distracted, it’s not acceptable that people are using that as an excuse
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I feel that over the last two years I have personally experienced the way social pressures to make conditions better for minorities in STEM have evaporated and while it’s understandable that people are distracted, it’s not acceptable that people are using that as an excuse
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As a beekeeper, I've been thinking a lot about the terrifying collective power of honeybees. When you are in the colony and you piss off 40k or 100k divas who will move AS ONE against you...one cannot help but think of how we could look to the bee for wisdom on collective resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
As a beekeeper, I've been thinking a lot about the terrifying collective power of honeybees. When you are in the colony and you piss off 40k or 100k divas who will move AS ONE against you...one cannot help but think of how we could look to the bee for wisdom on collective resistance.
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I often get caned on social media for stating my beliefs, especially when they don’t align with the more traditional/conservative/bigoted amongst us.
I refuse to be intimidated by those who are intent on curtailing the freedoms of folk who are anything other than the perceived norm.
I refuse to be intimidated by those who are intent on curtailing the freedoms of folk who are anything other than the perceived norm.
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I often get caned on social media for stating my beliefs, especially when they don’t align with the more traditional/conservative/bigoted amongst us.
I refuse to be intimidated by those who are intent on curtailing the freedoms of folk who are anything other than the perceived norm.
I refuse to be intimidated by those who are intent on curtailing the freedoms of folk who are anything other than the perceived norm.
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I'm sorry to break every wonk's heart, but parties do not win elections on the basis of their policy platforms. It's a little more complex, but basically boils down to voters trusting them to pursue the *objectives* that matter to them.
It's the outputs - and trust - that count, not the inputs.
It's the outputs - and trust - that count, not the inputs.
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm sorry to break every wonk's heart, but parties do not win elections on the basis of their policy platforms. It's a little more complex, but basically boils down to voters trusting them to pursue the *objectives* that matter to them.
It's the outputs - and trust - that count, not the inputs.
It's the outputs - and trust - that count, not the inputs.
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Pardon my French here, but anybody who thinks that a pick 'n mix bag of policies that do well in support/oppose polling in isolation is a key to electoral success fundamentally doesn't know shit about electoral behaviour.
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Pardon my French here, but anybody who thinks that a pick 'n mix bag of policies that do well in support/oppose polling in isolation is a key to electoral success fundamentally doesn't know shit about electoral behaviour.
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Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.
Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe".
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.
Drop some ANIMATION
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Drop some ANIMATION
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Also, frankly, you need to stop rewarding this shrillness. I see plenty of people with whom I interact make similarly ludicrous grandiose statements, knowing they will get them the validation of "likes". That is the way to take a calm, friendly online space and make it a left mirror-image of X.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Also, frankly, you need to stop rewarding this shrillness. I see plenty of people with whom I interact make similarly ludicrous grandiose statements, knowing they will get them the validation of "likes". That is the way to take a calm, friendly online space and make it a left mirror-image of X.
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I feel similarly uneasy, but I also have a sense that my unease is being preyed on by RW media. The two things are not mutually exclusive. The "island of strangers" quote is a good example. I was swept along by headlines. It was two months after the uproar, that I happened to read the full passage.
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I feel similarly uneasy, but I also have a sense that my unease is being preyed on by RW media. The two things are not mutually exclusive. The "island of strangers" quote is a good example. I was swept along by headlines. It was two months after the uproar, that I happened to read the full passage.
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I feel deeply uneasy with the direction of travel of this government. I wouldn't have expected it to come out with policies that have been announced by the Home Sec. I wouldn't have expected to hear Starmer talk of island of strangers.
I want to see a much wider gap between Labour and Tories/Reform
I want to see a much wider gap between Labour and Tories/Reform
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I feel deeply uneasy with the direction of travel of this government. I wouldn't have expected it to come out with policies that have been announced by the Home Sec. I wouldn't have expected to hear Starmer talk of island of strangers.
I want to see a much wider gap between Labour and Tories/Reform
I want to see a much wider gap between Labour and Tories/Reform
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You have to treat the posts of someone as toxic as Yaxley-Lennon with the same cynicism whether they fit into your preferred narrative or not. The reason for his most recent post is plainly not praise. It is to exploit the cracks among progressives and divide us further. Why are you boosting him?
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You have to treat the posts of someone as toxic as Yaxley-Lennon with the same cynicism whether they fit into your preferred narrative or not. The reason for his most recent post is plainly not praise. It is to exploit the cracks among progressives and divide us further. Why are you boosting him?
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The palpable sense of nostalgia and longing the headline conveys is a choice.
If unintentional, it's incompetent. If intentional, it's unconscionable.
Either way, it's grounds for dismissal for any editor.
As my partner just put it, tone matters.
If unintentional, it's incompetent. If intentional, it's unconscionable.
Either way, it's grounds for dismissal for any editor.
As my partner just put it, tone matters.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The palpable sense of nostalgia and longing the headline conveys is a choice.
If unintentional, it's incompetent. If intentional, it's unconscionable.
Either way, it's grounds for dismissal for any editor.
As my partner just put it, tone matters.
If unintentional, it's incompetent. If intentional, it's unconscionable.
Either way, it's grounds for dismissal for any editor.
As my partner just put it, tone matters.
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When Farage kills the NHS and sells the carcass to US corporations, even wealthy British people will be at risk of bankruptcy if they get ill:
You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey
James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.
www.eonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
When Farage kills the NHS and sells the carcass to US corporations, even wealthy British people will be at risk of bankruptcy if they get ill:
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Yes. We obviously have a massive struggle against tyranny to contend with.
But there's a more subtle and insidious threat that we can't ignore:
The struggle for our very mental autonomy.
Please read & share my latest post in Re-Founding America:
But there's a more subtle and insidious threat that we can't ignore:
The struggle for our very mental autonomy.
Please read & share my latest post in Re-Founding America:
The Oligarchic Capture of the American Mind
There is a great struggle ahead of us: a fight for freedom from manipulation. For sovereignty over our own attention.
substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Yes. We obviously have a massive struggle against tyranny to contend with.
But there's a more subtle and insidious threat that we can't ignore:
The struggle for our very mental autonomy.
Please read & share my latest post in Re-Founding America:
But there's a more subtle and insidious threat that we can't ignore:
The struggle for our very mental autonomy.
Please read & share my latest post in Re-Founding America:
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You are not going to be able to pull together the anti-Reform coalition if voters don't see you are meaningfully different to Reform.
Mad reaction from the government given an increasing threat on the left.
Mad reaction from the government given an increasing threat on the left.
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
You are not going to be able to pull together the anti-Reform coalition if voters don't see you are meaningfully different to Reform.
Mad reaction from the government given an increasing threat on the left.
Mad reaction from the government given an increasing threat on the left.
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Won't happen. But at some point a UK government is going to have to make a big decision to scrap the triple lock, and I suspect when they do it will prove to be far more popular than expected. Leadership rather than government by polling.
Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Reeves in Zugzwang
Incremental politics no longer works
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Won't happen. But at some point a UK government is going to have to make a big decision to scrap the triple lock, and I suspect when they do it will prove to be far more popular than expected. Leadership rather than government by polling.
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There's a far more important number. It's missing because the Government refuses to record it.
How many people have died in the Channel trying to reach safety since this failed policy was launched.
1-in-1-out will never stop dangerous journeys, because it doesn't create a real, safe alternative.
How many people have died in the Channel trying to reach safety since this failed policy was launched.
1-in-1-out will never stop dangerous journeys, because it doesn't create a real, safe alternative.
The numbers that prove the one-in, one-out migrant policy isn't working
Limiting asylum seekers arriving in the UK on small boats is a key issue for the Government
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
There's a far more important number. It's missing because the Government refuses to record it.
How many people have died in the Channel trying to reach safety since this failed policy was launched.
1-in-1-out will never stop dangerous journeys, because it doesn't create a real, safe alternative.
How many people have died in the Channel trying to reach safety since this failed policy was launched.
1-in-1-out will never stop dangerous journeys, because it doesn't create a real, safe alternative.
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Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name.
Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
Ten years of naming storms and saving lives
The Met Office’s storm-naming scheme marks its tenth year, transforming how Britain prepares for extreme weather
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name.
Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
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Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.
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A US official tells Fox the "table is being set" for possible military action against Venezuela.
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A US official tells Fox the "table is being set" for possible military action against Venezuela.
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The Pentagon is pulling some National Guard troops out of Chicago and Portland, Reuters reports.
Mission accomplished, I guess? Whatever that mission was.
Mission accomplished, I guess? Whatever that mission was.
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Pentagon is pulling some National Guard troops out of Chicago and Portland, Reuters reports.
Mission accomplished, I guess? Whatever that mission was.
Mission accomplished, I guess? Whatever that mission was.
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Trump has executed another three civilians in a small boat off Venezuela. Death toll now stands at 83.
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump has executed another three civilians in a small boat off Venezuela. Death toll now stands at 83.
Einstein gave us e=mc² to explain how the universe works.
After much reflection, I think I can explain how Labour party policy works with a similarly simple formula:
g+ms=ai
Glasman + McSweeney = Absolute Insanity
After much reflection, I think I can explain how Labour party policy works with a similarly simple formula:
g+ms=ai
Glasman + McSweeney = Absolute Insanity
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Einstein gave us e=mc² to explain how the universe works.
After much reflection, I think I can explain how Labour party policy works with a similarly simple formula:
g+ms=ai
Glasman + McSweeney = Absolute Insanity
After much reflection, I think I can explain how Labour party policy works with a similarly simple formula:
g+ms=ai
Glasman + McSweeney = Absolute Insanity