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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 18h

The Man in the Moon, Rumplestiltskin and Kraft Cheese Slices.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think he was supposed to say that bit out loud.

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 18h

www.newsweek.com/trump-asks-i...
NETANYAHU IS A WAR CRIMINAL

Trump asked Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu during an address to the Knesset on Monday.

Trump asks Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu

Trump asked Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu during an address to the Knesset on Monday.

www.newsweek.com

Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you for listening so the rest of us don't have to.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 20h

Netanyahu, having finally been forced by Trump to make a deal for the hostages' release, is addressing the Knesset as if he fought for them this entire time

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 20h

It's unbearable. Netanyahu is playing on Trump's ignorance to get him fully on board with a version of events that will allow Israel to explode the ceasefire the moment that's what they want to do. Trump is far too fond of flattery to offer any resistance to this transparent nonsense..

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 20h

Linked-In keeps sending me job notice after job notice as a "Creative Writer" these days. All from AI firms asking me to teach a robot how not to sound like one. Cutting-Your-Own-Throat (and everyone elses') is the only paid work currently avaliable.

kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .

ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .

media.tenor.com

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 20h

Linked-In keeps sending me job notice after job notice as a "Creative Writer" these days. All from AI firms asking me to teach a robot how not to sound like one. Cutting-Your-Own-Throat (and everyone elses') is the only paid work currently avaliable.

kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .

ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .

media.tenor.com

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

Is this real? Did he really spell "beginning" without an "e"?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22h

Good morning, Excellent People. @sturdyalex.bsky.social here with your weekly news round-up.

Stay tuned for breaking stories, analysis, and video from all the (pretty historic) current developments. ~AA

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

Nice idea!

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 22h

Greenpeace threatens to sue the Crown Estate for pushing up energy costs by abusing its monopoly ownership of the seabed.

Greenpeace threatens to sue Crown Estate for pushing up UK energy prices

Cost of offshore wind increased by monopoly ownership of seabed, alleges campaign group

www.ft.com

Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

So...what happens now? Will the Israelis seek and find a pretext to explode the ceasefire, or will the Gulf states promise Trump enough money to maintain his concentration?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22h

Breaking news: Hamas freed the 20 remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza as US President Donald Trump prepared to address the Knesset after achieving a milestone in his push to end the two-year war in the enclave.

Read more in our live blog here: on.ft.com/4ncNNWw

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 22h

Completely, talk to any credible expert on climate and they will tell you it’s going to be much worse than we think. There’s a collective denial building and few are discussing how its effects will cause geo-political mayhem. We’ve forgotten how the Nazis weaponised food shortages for Lebensraum.

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 22h

5. Global climate collapse OUGHT to be a force as potent as potential nuclear war in keeping public discourse honest.

6. For a while in the 1990s it looked like it might be.

7. But then it was swallowed up in the bundle of things it was permitted to preach ideological lies & garbage about...

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22h

"There's talk of disarming Hamas... not much talk of who guarantees the security of the Palestinians from Israel"🎯

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Government with a plan to improve things.
Rather than just chasing opinion polls.
Which always leads to running around in circles.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

Contact with reality comes to us all.

The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 22h

When Reform promise you savings on your council tax bill, what else could you expect

Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

Commie bastard.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

Meanwhile...

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 22h

The Sooty Show.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 22h

It's the Sooty Show.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 22h

She's the expert. He's the Celeb glove puppet on a "journey to discover." So guess who's "fronting" it. Yes, it's the glove puppet.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 22h

Watch the polls. (Christ, if ONLY Starmer didn't have QUITE so developed a suicidal instinct!)

Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 1d

For 3 years he watched politicians wrestle with it’s impossibility and connived to install Johnson as PM in order to just get it done, he is a disastrous populist who continually profits from his mistakes.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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