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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

All going swimmingly for Reform.

‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council

Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 9h

Definitely, think the last one was the training garden had alot of fun and learnt alot. Now I can curate something properly for here.

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 9h

That's my main worry too the squirrels are all over the acorns in the front anyway. Hoping to get some planting done in spring when I can still see them.

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 9h

I've just shoved a bunch of tulips and daffs around the borders and prayed.

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 10h

Definitely not my climate! But im also just very old English cottage garden style as well

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 10h

I just think theyre horribly out of place and there's nothing pretty about them. Personal opinion I know but alot more space for things I like now.

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone who's ever spoken to me about gardening knows I hate palms, yuccas, etcetera and make no apologies for it. So you can imagine how satisfying this was for me.

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 14h

I never know any 🙃

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

Farage again blames “the endless eastward expansion of NATO” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Even when he’s playacting at being tough on Putin, he can’t resist repeating Kremlin talking points.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

I might be biased against the Doocy guy, but the compulsive need to frame Ukraine through the lens of American partisan squabbles is nauseating. We’re being bombed and killed, maybe let's resolve that before debating which president is better.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DOOCY: What do you see as the biggest difference in diplomacy between Trump and Biden?

ZELENSKYY: Trump has a big chance now to finish this war. President Biden now is not the president

TRUMP: I would say the biggest difference is one is extremely competence and the other is grossly incompetent

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1d

We won't shy from calling out racism.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

You heard it here first: Hungary will “respectfully welcome” a war criminal

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

⚡️Hungary says Putin has nothing to fear from the ICC warrant if he comes to Budapest for the summit with Trump.

FM Péter Szijjártó said Hungary will “respectfully welcome" Putin.

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's reassuring as essentially the same reason we're going with this guy! We've moved to a new area so I definitely feel your pain finding new trades for everything

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you think we've found someone local who can patch us up comprehensively! Just struck by how little people skills the others had when they're running a business.

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 2d

Had a few in now and all I've learnt is that three out of four trades just don't give a shit

Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 8d

Had a quote for a new roof and ladies it is not good

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DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 2d

This is dead important podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Glad to see major news outlets starting to cover this. It’s insidious and it’s been going on for a long time. Beware all those on the right bleating about free speech.

Are American billionaires trying to reshape British politics?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 15/10/2025 · 38m

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2d

"Behind the scenes the Alliance Defending Freedom set up that meeting with Farage and the Republicans."

NYT's UK investigative correspondent Jane Bradley reveals evidence of a growing concerted effort by American advocacy groups targeting the UK.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing the number of people who want to deny/dismiss the hypnoboobs thing without... just going back and reading the article.

It's not defensible. The direct quotes are clear. He wasn't misrepresented and it's not a hit job.

He genuinely did claim he could alter women's bodies with his mind

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3d

Ive read the article. That wasnt what he claimed.

These are his direct quotes. Note how he says he can *literally* affect physical charactistics with his mind.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday I had an emotional conversation on the phone with Arteja. She was trafficked into this country and terrible exploited by gangs before finding safety and community in Liverpool.

Now she’s been detained and is set to be deported back into the hands of those who caused her so much trauma.

They are saying they're sending me home, but Liverpool is my home

Arteja loves Liverpool, supports Everton and has become a key member of the community - but now faces being sent back into the hands of those who exploited her

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

👏 "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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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah findoutnow has fully lost it

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (=)
CON: 17% (=)
LAB: 15% (-2)
GRN: 15% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 15 Oct.
Changes w/ 8 Oct.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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Matthew Robinson 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 2d

Alan Carr is just the best thing to happen to television isn't he #Traitors

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