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Likes: 228.6mm nails, collective bargaining, and the abolition of Oligarchy. Pro Science. Anti Authoritarianism. All comments before noon poorly proofread. Worse later. Support actual intelligence, not artificial.

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · Jan 13

Your enemy is not immigrants.

Your enemy is not refugees.

It isn’t people living on welfare.

Your enemies are the oligarchs; whose wage theft and greed has made this world the mess it is.

Until the Billionaires have been defeated. None of us are safe.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1h

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said he is ‘talking to Labour MPs about defections’ as his party enjoys a membership surge

Greens leader Zack Polanski says he is talking to Labour MPs about defecting

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said he is “talking to Labour MPs about defections” as his party enjoys a membership surge. When the self-described “eco-populist” took the reins of the party at t...

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 1h

Whilst these claims are over inflated; it does still make it clear how abjectly stupid, and useless, Starmer is at facing up to Farage’s Fascists.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 1h

It’s been claimed a poll shows Reform UK is on course to win the “biggest landslide in modern history”.

Some context here:

Is Reform UK on course for the ‘biggest landslide’ in history? – Full Fact

Various newspapers have claimed a poll found Reform UK is set for a ‘record’ election win. But this could do with some context.

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 2h

Labour fraudsters selling out Wales again.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 2h

A UK Government minister who said ‘something is amiss’ with Wales missing out on HS2 funding has confirmed the nation will not receive a multi-billion-pound windfall

UK minister derails hopes of Wales receiving £4.6bn ‘owed’ from HS2

Chris Haines, ICNN Senedd reporter A UK Government minister who said “something is amiss” with Wales missing out on HS2 funding has confirmed the nation will not receive a multi-billion-pound windfall...

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 2h

Trolling Trump on Neo Nazi Musk’s website.

Giving free content to one Fascist as if it’s going to hurt another Fascist.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 2h

Cardiff council has become the first local authority in the UK to approve plans to impose higher parking charges on drivers of large vehicles

Welsh council approves plans to make SUV drivers pay more for parking

Cardiff council has become the first local authority in the UK to approve plans to impose higher parking charges on drivers of large vehicles. The move will increase the cost of parking permits for ow...

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Oversight Board @oversightboard.bsky.social · 7h

How should Meta address evolving forms of hate speech used to avoid detection by its automated systems? The Oversight Board is reviewing two new cases on the use of monkey emojis to target Black people on Facebook and Instagram.

Find out more: www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 3h

BACK IN PARLIAMENT TODAY: The Crime and Policing Bill.

The Lords will soon be voting on plans to ban face coverings at protests.

If passed, police will have the power to create ‘no mask zones’ at designated demos and arrest those who don’t comply.

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/the-uk...

The UK Government’s plan to ban face coverings at protests - Liberty

The Government wants to give the police powers to ban face coverings at designated demonstrations and arrest protesters for not complying.

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 2h

⚠Reform aren't offering real solutions - they're exaggerating and exploiting immigration to divide us.

Their rhetoric is making families feel unwelcome in their own communities.

🗳On 23 October, vote Plaid Cymru to stop Reform's hate-fuelled politics in its tracks.

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s be blunt; the idiots who voted for Farage and Johnson’s Brexit are upset that they didn’t realise Europeans were overwhelmingly White.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 6h

🚨🚨Major irony alert: Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system.

The idea was that #brexit would give the UK back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system.

But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.🧵
www.politico.eu/article/labo...

Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system

The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.

www.politico.eu

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 3h

People who hate Drag hate Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare In Drag

YouTube video by J. Draper

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 3h

Although in the upcoming Caerphilly by-election it’s Plaid that will defeat Reform if anyone does.

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 4h

As something of a basic prepper I am genuinely amused by idiots who think an EV will be of use in a SHTF situation.

A bicycle would be more valuable.

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 4h

Data Centres should be self powering with renewables.

Minimise their impact on infrastructure and avoid consumers subsidising corporations who aren’t paying for their impact on the grid.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 4h

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rose by a record amount to new highs in 2024, locking in yet more long-term global warming, UN experts have warned

Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere climb at record rate

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rose by a record amount to new highs in 2024, locking in yet more long-term global warming, UN experts have warned. The annual update by the World Meteorologica...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID?

And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina.

Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 5h

From @labourlist.bsky.social & @survation.bsky.social

Welsh Labour heading for a humiliating result thanks to their association with useless idiot Starmer.

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Labour on course for distant third place in Caerphilly by-election, poll shows - LabourList

Labour is facing a crushing defeat in the upcoming Caerphilly by-election, with a new poll showing the party landing in a distant third place.

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 5h

Especially now both parties are Far Right immigrant haters.

Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 5h

Not only has the War on Drugs failed but (to steal from Bill Hicks) the people on drugs are winning.

Which tells you how utterly stupid @ukparliament.parliament.uk and British Police are on drug legislation.

Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 5h

You’re suggesting it would become like the illegal tobacco trade.

Think about who is targeted by the law on that.

It isn’t the addicts.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5h

“The War on Drugs has failed… more people can get drugs more easily than they can order a pizza”

Caroline Lucas, former Green Party Leader, defends the party's policy to legalise all drugs, adding that regulation takes them “out of the hands of the criminal gangs”.

#Newsnight

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 5h

Of course she wouldn’t question it.

She’s a delusional cultist.

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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 5h

Ten council by-elections today

4 Lib Dem defences
2 Labour
1 Residents'
1 Conservative
1 Green
1 SNP

Andrew's Previews:
andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

Previewing the ten local by-elections of 16th October 2025

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order"

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