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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 22m

By the middle of the century:
• The number of homes at risk from flooding in England
could rise by 25% to 8 million properties.
• 1.4 million more properties could be at risk
of subsidence.
• Maximum summer temperatures could rise
significantly, increasing risk for health and properties.
AVIVA

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 25m

'Every year the effects of climate change
become ever more apparent in our daily
lives. 2025 has been no exception, with
the hottest, sunniest spring ever in
the UK, followed by a familiar pattern
of dangerously high temperatures,
wildfires, hosepipe bans and flash floods'
AVIVA INSURANCE 2025

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 27m

Climate reality hits:
Tenbury Wells, a market town in Worcestershire, has become the first in the country to find that its public buildings are uninsurable. The town has historically suffered damaging floods about once a decade, but in the past six years people there have been hit four times.

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 29m

Millions more homes in England, Scotland and Wales face devastating floods, and some towns may have to be abandoned as climate breakdown makes many areas uninsurable, a Guardian investigation has found.

Climate change denial will hit insurance reality.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 33m

FIFA SHOULD DUMP TRUMP.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 40m

Compare Donald Trump with Kissinger and you’ll be lost. But Taylor Swift? That’s more like it
Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Compare Donald Trump with Kissinger and you’ll be lost. But Taylor Swift? That’s more like it | Marina Hyde

As he conducts the symphony of applause for his peace deal, the key to understanding him is this: he’s not a politician, not even close – he’s a star, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 47m

Watchdog investigates vets.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Vets could be made to publish prices after UK watchdog investigation

Market ‘not fit’ for purpose and must be modernised, CMA says, with pet owners paying 16.6% more at large groups

www.theguardian.com

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 51m

What exactly is that?

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WILD BILL HICCUP @ydofoolsrule.bsky.social · 6h

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 54m

Christmas is coming.
Trump is failing.
Russia war continuing.
Jobs are going.
Prices rising.
Tariffs are grinding.
Borrowing growing.
Medicare shrinking.
Government stagnating.
Allies shrinking.
Putin shrugging.
Missiles flying.
People resisting.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 6h

Don't you DARE tell me both parties are the same.

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h

Kristin Noem is an intellectual gnome.
Trump is a disruptive crazy, who cares little for anyone who has neither $$$$$billions or a few nukes.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

Oleg Voleshyn - linked to Nathan Gill.

US sanction document.

UK
Reform
UKIP
BREXIT

Treasury Sanctions Russian-Backed Actors Responsible for Destabilization Activities in Ukraine | U.S. Department of the Treasury share.google/eA21JyHBgT13...

Treasury Sanctions Russian-Backed Actors Responsible for Destabilization Activities in Ukraine

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four individuals engaged in Russian government-directed influence activities to destabilize Ukra...

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

Nathan Gill:
'The politician took money from Oleg Voloshyn - a man once described by the US government as a "pawn" of Russian secret services'

But Voloshyn also worked with Konstantin Kilimnik who is sanctioned by the USA.

#Russia linked bribery charges

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

US 'Treasury officials say Voloshyn also worked with Konstantin Kilimnik a Russian national who was previously sanctioned for allegedly attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election and passing on information to Russian intelligence'

Nathan Gill

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U.S. sanctions Ukrainian officials alleged to help Russia

The U.S. Treasury Department says it's levying new sanctions against four Ukrainian officials, including two current members of parliament who administration officials say are part of a Russian influe...

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 13h

A virus does not care what you believe.
A virus, like measles is, VERY infectious.
Vaccines are extremely effective and very safe.
Much safer than getting measles.
Children can suffer badly from measles.
Some can die.
And some get complications.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 22h

The fire at the Feodosia oil depot has been burning for over a day and a half. Thick toxic smoke continues to spread over the city and is visible as far as Stary Krym. Residents report the smell of burning is noticeable even 10 km from the site.

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks a bunch, you anti-vaxxer dipshit fucks.

www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

www.npr.org

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 17h

Secretary of Defense picks a public battle which he loses straight away.

Somebody throw him a copy of Art of War.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

It looks like every media company in American that covers the Pentagon except OAN is refusing to sign Hegseth’s ultimatum.

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Politico @politico.com · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 13h

Europe needs to become a lot more dangerous. And a lot smarter. It needs to re-establish credible detetence. This requires:

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Loads of basic weapons & people.
Maybe like Finland.
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Huge amounts of ammunition.
Loads of cheap stuff but also missiles etc.
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A huge effort on Drones & counter drone.

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 14h

'the war in Ukraine has delivered a sobering verdict: mass still matters in its elemental productive and kinetic sense. Industrial capacity—measured not in slick procurement briefings but in shells, drones and spare parts—continues to decide wars'

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Smart Weapons, Dumb Assumptions: Western Strategic Delusions Meet Industrial Reality in Ukraine - Military Strategy Magazine

For all the vast commentary in the Western media on the Russia-Ukraine war, a persistent fact remains: beyond the immediate theatre of conflict, few observers possess a clear or consistent grasp of ev...

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 17h

If i were Taiwan i would have 10000s of air and sea drones ready for china. Make it a nightmare saturation attack on landing ships.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: “If China were to move against Taiwan, it's likely China would force its junior partner in that relationship, being Russia, under Vladimir Putin, to move against NATO to keep us busy.”

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