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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 23m

I know you know this, but just putting it it out there; an increase may be limitless, but a reduction may be no more than 100%

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 39m

As the saying goes, "a bad apple spoils the bunch", so maybe Farage has let something slip with this comment. 🤷🏼‍♀️

tommywheatear.bsky.social @tommywheatear.bsky.social · 3h

Sure are a lot of 'bad apples' in that Reform Party 🤔
#ReformBadApples
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 38m

#IDontLikeComplainingBut

my call is important to me.

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 1h

Perfect!

The genius of Roy Clarke.

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 1h

#ICantDanceExceptWhen

it’s the hokey cokey.

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 1h

Lenny in Ashford is all too real.

Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 2h

Mien Kunt.

Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 3h

Football eh? Bloody hell!

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 3h

The past few weeks have been like watching Yeovil Town get to the Cup Final.

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 3h

NOT until something of a, similar nature happens to other people that could be, totally, unrelated to just such a matter will they then, and only then sit up, pay attention, then create a song and dance about it! All too late will they realise the tyranny unfolding in our midst.

(Credit to author)

"By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain.
The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."
Aldous Huxley

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 4h

Worth waiting for.

Reefgirl ⭐🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @reefgirl.bsky.social · 4h

#DessertsVarietyInASongOrMovie

Ice Cream In Alex

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5h

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 6h

Not being circumcised also has its drawbacks.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 6h

The body of a Comet aircraft from the nearby de Havilland factory turns into Bridge Street, Chester, 1950s.

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 6h

Deep Throat

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14h

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LBC Watch @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social · 21h

Gaza is back to where it was on October 6th, minus every building and possibly 80,000+ citizens.

Hamas are still running riot in the streets.

Other than detainees on both sides being released, what, exactly, is to be celebrated?