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@richardofshoes.bsky.social

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Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! But we do need cupboards, bookcases and display cabinets. Because we collects, we does, my preciouses. Shells and stones, twigs and bones, 17th century shiny things and .. running shoes! 🇬🇧🌈🇪🇺 He/ Him

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 50m

I shall be amazed if this doesn't get thrown out for wasting the court's time .. the whole thing just gets more ridiculous each time they give more details of what happened.

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 12h

Zohran Mamdani aims merely to reduce somewhat the extreme inequality that blights US society today, particularly in places like New York. The right-wing hysteria about him shows how coddled the US ruling class has become in a system rigged to benefit them at every turn. 🧵

a photo of New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani giving a speech at a podium with 'A city we can afford' written on the front

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

‘I don't know who he is’: Trump struggles to defend one of his most scandalous pardons

The president said that he pardoned Changpeng Zhao despite not knowing who he is. If he’s lying, that’s a problem. If he wasn’t, it’s worse.

www.msnbc.com

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed. He, and a handful of US politicians, give me hope. Good communicators, with sensible left-of-centre policies, who answer questions without bluster.

Clearly a lot of people find this approach refreshing. Mystery why there's little interest from mainstream parties to capitalise on this.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen on the media how pundits amusingly refer to Zack Polanski as if entirely propped up by social media & youngsters’ ‘vibes’ but to this middle aged women (who has no TikTok account) he seems the most serious political leader in sight talking about real issues with conviction and directness 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 23h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 1d

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 1d

Food banks provide help when people need it most. But real change means ending the need for them altogether.

Repost if you agree 💚

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

Post the good news when you see it…

Nature @nature.com · 1d

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections

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Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria

Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

go.nature.com

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why this isn't front page news everywhere:

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

Shame on Sheffield Hallam www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3d

A Brexiter writes...

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2d

All the ghouls who don't care about the victims but were hoping it was a terrorist attack are entirely beyond shame and redemption. They are, by far, the worst demographic in our country.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

Ok! Educate those young men abt affirmative consent & safer sex. Make abortion & contraception free & available everywhere. Enforce sexual assault laws actually. Create media that cultivates sex positive respect & care for everyone. Get ppl who don’t suck in office.

Culture change is possible!!

Simon Acerton @simonace.bsky.social · 3d

I am not in any way disagreeing with you Rabbi. However with the huge number of sexless young men 18-30 is creating a social hazard.

We need to get gender relationships fixed or we'll suffer from a lot of troubles later on.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

And this morning the Shed is a sunken hall, fathoms-deep under a lake of carp that swim serenely through the battlements...

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worm adderall (feral) @wormmo.de · 3d

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 3d

And this morning the Shed is a spiral path at the foot of a standing stone; ancient; labyrinthine; leading nowhere but within.

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Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social · 3d

"when history judges us, it won’t ask how 'agile' we were. It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
...a republic is measured...in who it chooses to help, and who it casually hurts".

👏 👏 👏

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Colin Sheridan: Ireland is moving so fast, it's forgotten its people

We are a rich country masquerading as a poor one, run by people terrified of annoying people even richer

www.irishexaminer.com

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 3d

Come onn somebody gotta get the one thats doing the dr evil

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 3d

After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

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Tim Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 3d

#chemsky 🧪

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I'm useless at taking selfies.
Yes, I got out for a run.
Yes, I do look a bit like one of those #runningpunks

Richard, about to go on a run along a very autumnal looking path.
The sun is shining, which either enhances or spoils the selfie, depending on your view.

Metrics for the run. 9.37 km covered at an average pace of 6 min 15sec / km at an average heart rate of 118 beats per minute.

Yes, yes. This is the sort of thing we running geeks talk about, I'm afraid. Just don't ask me about my VO2 max, ok?

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 5d

I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season

Carved turnip with eye sockets and a red mouth with teeth

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....

Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.

It's time for Proportional Representation.

www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll

ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.

www.thenational.scot

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 5d

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 5d

Sunrise, Lymington Marina, Hampshire, 2025

#photography #sunrise #lymington #sailing #yacht

A photograph across a marina with yacht masts and rigging silhouetted against the sunrise.

Orange light spills from under a dark distant cloud while other falls clouds mark a lightening sky with patches of white and blue appearing though the shadows.

Three water of the marina is mainly dark as are the hills of the yachts with occasional splashes of light from the reflected light patches in the sky.

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