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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 11m

I don't think anyone did any necromancer jokes.

Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 30m

It was the worst thing I could think of. The French are savages.

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 33m

Always, but they don't like being outnumbered & have a false sense of their own popularity atm. They need to be reality checked like this 24/7. The flags need to come down too. I hate going to work, the ragged limp flags are still lowering the tone of the whole area for the sake of absolute morons.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 3h

This is so sad and so enraging. We have to stop these people.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 4h

Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025

the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data

www.ft.com/content/5392...

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 41m

Horses make great sausages.

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 48m

Man I divorced my husband and everything.

Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 1h

Yes indeed when it's the sight of blood they are avoiding, the total wusses. I loved steak in Spain cooked al punto, meaning cooked just right for whatever type of steak it is, but really always means blue, or rare as possible. Medium rare is well done in Spain.

Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 7h

He's keeping her sweet for a quick sale. Even if the cows are average yield that's 12.5k litres a week.

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 8h

They are all weirdo flag botherers. The England men's team deserve better fans than racist bigots who are never happy or really support the team but here we are.

Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 8h

What Tory austerity did to children and young people is unforgivable. People who went to elite private schools and had free university education, shut everything down for our kids.

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 20h

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 8h

Cracking up at this one.

Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 9h

You need to find some Tories that agree with you. They do exist.

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 9h

Nice factory you have there, Mr. Peugeot.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

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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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

www.theguardian.com

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 18h

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Dominic Michael Tripi &
@DMichaelTripi
X.com
NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does
"more harm than good."
10:27 AM • 10/15/25

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 10h

When an animal with brain capacity like us human beings gives up free will and thought, we are finished as species. Also London doesn't know this hideous car.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h

This is really disgusting and horrifying to read. Giuffre writes so well and seems in this telling to feel so much guilt about participating in Epstein’s and Maxwell’s trafficking schemes. I want to tell her: you were a child

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 10h

The Speaker of the House of Reps is not swearing in Congresswoman elect Adelita Grijalva for one reason only, to protect the men and women in Epstein's life from exposure. It's a lot of effort to go to, must be very lucrative for all involved in keeping the Epstein files under wraps.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20h

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 10h

God forbid anyone reports on the proposed Qatari airbase in Idaho or US warships being sent to Venezuela to help the Peace lady.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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