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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 43m

For good or ill, Starmer is a poor at politics.
His decision to overrule West Midland police over the Villa game, however well intentioned, means he owns any trouble.

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Francis Sealey @globalnet21.bsky.social · 30m

Stopping Plastic Pollution

This short video looks at the problem of plastic pollution and what we can do to stop it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ZH...

Stopping Plastic Pollution

YouTube video by GlobalNet21

www.youtube.com

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pudseypaul.bsky.social @pudseypaul.bsky.social · 8m

Yes, it is far too much to ask if your Labour government will include Starmer and his gang of bought and paid for LFI nodding dogs. This country desperately needs a government that will put the people first, and look after our welfare instead of simply working at trickle up economics!

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 3h

Is it too much to ask that everyone just give Labour a chance? I know they've made mistakes in the past, I know we're desperate for them to do the right things, WE don't jump on Greens or TPM at the slightest twitch

If we're to have a govt it has to include Labour that's a fact. Can we chill a bit?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28m

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 14h

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.

THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!

So were the signs...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27m

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plod1.bsky.social @plod1.bsky.social · 13h

And we know Tice was being hosted by a Russian in the summer and did he declare it to parliament!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13h

Just remembered this post. And realised it has a very different resonance now.

We now know his close friend and ally Nathan Gill was accepting Russian bribes when he posted this

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

The Greens now have more members than the Tories as support surges

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-gr...

The Greens Now Have More Members Than The Tories As Support Surges

Another 1,000 signed up this morning alone.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 15h

Israel (& the west) keeps deploying this tactic: insist on a 'ceasefire' with Palestinians making huge concessions, then carry on the killing regardless.

This short thread shows the same thing happening today, 3 months ago, 7 months ago and 8 months ago... 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Israel strikes Gaza as IDF and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire - live updates

Israel says it struck Rafah after its troops came under fire. Hamas denies knowledge of clashes in the area and accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 15h

This 2022 YB article reported Prince Andrew’s US lawyer's shocking description of Epstein's victims as 'under-age slutty girls,' adding to the abuse. They have still not recieved any satisfactory answers, and other men involved have still not been publicly named. How to move forward from here?

Prince’s defence demonstrates that blaming rape victims is still socially acceptable

Prince Andrew's choice of defence - attack the victim's reputation - is only possible because it's still socially acceptable to think this way

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 1d

To all on #SocialistSunday...

Keep fighting inequality.
Keep fighting poverty.
Keep fighting injustice.

Keep fighting the billionaires and their propaganda press.
Keep fighting Farage.
Keep fighting fascism.

Keep fighting for each other.

#bbclaurak #skynews

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

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tudor lomas @tudorinjordan.bsky.social · 1d

the destructive impact of imposed tourist development, betraying the special places it pretends to preserve! monstrous --> www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the world's most sacred places Mount Sinai is being turned into a mega-resort

The biblical site of Mount Sinai in Egypt is at the heart of an unholy row over plans to build a huge new tourism project.

www.bbc.co.uk

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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 1d

Pileated gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) are native to Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Females are blonde with black fronts and "caps"; males are mostly black. They sing in harmonies, duets, and choruses. Threatened by hunting, habitat fragmentation and degradation. Endangered.

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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering the Actress Esma Cannon who passed away on this date in 1972 😇🙏

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 1d

imagine being such a shitty little turd man that millions of people line up to tell you how much you suck

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

2025: Claire Coutinho criticises net zero

2023: Claire Coutinho praises net zero

These are their values, and for the right price, they have other values too

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

HMRC to restart powers to take money directly from bank and building society accounts for tax owed.

How will it identify vulnerable people? What if money removed in error? Need safeguards.

The real culprits use offshore bank accounts or complex dodge schemes, and escape.

HMRC to begin taking money from bank accounts in bid to close £47bn tax gap

Tax authorities resume use of power after it was paused during pandemic

www.independent.co.uk

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