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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 3h

Outside Ireland so....

Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

Between her and her "Military Industrial Complex/European countries shouldn't have proper forces" opponent this election is not going well.

Five million people and these were the last two?

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · Apr 22

Marxism is a system where smart people read so many books that they become incredibly unpleasant to talk to

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 8h

Man it is just so weird how attempts to police the boundaries of womanhood end up hurting women. Over and over again.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 9h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

Provo Kitty goes to the Maze?

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

Anyway to bring everyone back dowm to earth my cat did a dirty protest on his return home and is now hiding under the sofa off his face on drugs.

So i best go clear that up.

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

Which is why they shipped the brand over here...

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

Australian for urine, surely?

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

Next stop: Reverse Dutch Steamboat.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 4h

The London Transport Museum isn’t just giving Londoners a glimpse into our past. It's giving many of them a better future too, through its learning and Route into Work programmes.

It was an honour to help raise crucial funds for the museum, beloved by generations of Londoners.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan gives a speech on the London Transport Dinner and Auction 2025 podium.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan smiling among guests at the London Transport Dinner and Auction 2025.

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 5h

I think too many people have been watching Border Security Australia. (Usually involves a ln Eastern Asian person getting their arses handed to them at quarantine or white Europeans getting deported because of criminal record/working on tourist visa).

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 7h

The national railway’s first new clock design in over 50 years has been unveiled, with the first one installed at London Bridge station.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new...

New national railway clock unveiled - the first redesign since British Rail's 1970s design manual

The national railway’s first new clock design in over 50 years has been unveiled, with the first one installed at London Bridge station.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

⚠️ Higher prices, fewer opportunities, greater barriers, and an economy paying the price. A price that is ultimately paid by you.

Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...

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www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact

The Cost of Brexit

Change Minds → Change Politics

www.bestforbritain.org

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Astrid @astrid.place · 1d

The sugar daddies are out on Bluesky right now

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, maybe?

a woman in thigh high boots holds a whip in her hand

ALT: a woman in thigh high boots holds a whip in her hand

media.tenor.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

‘Intersected’. The torturous language to avoid calling corruption, corruption

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

President Trump's personal business and his government role intersected when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.

‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President

A hot-mic moment suggested a blurry line between the U.S. president’s roles as political leader and businessman.

on.wsj.com

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

a priest is sitting in a chair with a cane and says what ?

ALT: a priest is sitting in a chair with a cane and says what ?

media.tenor.com

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you've never met an Irish person....

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Chaz Ebert, the widow of Roger Ebert, said "nominations are officially open for the inaugural FECK Awards -- a groundbreaking new initiative celebrating individuals and organizations who elevate humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness."

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, John Milton was a man.

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

"The headmistress then saw that I posted about problems we have in the country (on social media) such as young girls getting raped. The post was all about children - as that is who I am trying to protect."

Err...

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

The stories get clicks.

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

"The headmistress then saw that I posted about problems we have in the country (on social media) such as young girls getting raped. The post was all about children - as that is who I am trying to protect."

I don't think we are getting the full story...

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

I see he puts up the old Northern Ireland flag.

He's a right charmer.

Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 1d

Today's heart-warming FAFO news story
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

'I was snitched on for putting up 150 British flags and lost my teaching job'

Shaun Remmer, 49, says he has been left 'devastated'

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 1d

I am sure one of the Irish presidential candidates will be delighted...

Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social · 1d

In a remarkable first, Syria's new leader Al-Shara is in Moscow today to meet Putin

Though Russia had to postpone its Russia-Arab summit due to the Gaza ceasefire, Al-Shara still went to Moscow

In a recent @foreignaffairs.com essay I discuss how & why Russia retained influence in post-Assad Syria

Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social · 13d

10 years ago this week, Russia intervened in Syria to save Assad.

His ouster last December dealt a serious blow to Putin.

But Russia is not done in Syria. It's turning adversity into opportunity.

My essay in @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russi...

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Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 1d

Winter 1936 London Transport Green Line coach map; one of a generic design, this example as well as using the company's Johnston #typeface also makes extensive use of Koch's Kabel. The late 1930s was a time of some experimentation with LT's publicity material. #design #transport

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Green Line Coach Map : No. 2 : Winter 1936 - 37 : London Transport : 1936 : cover. One of the many, standard format folding maps and guides issued by London Transport over the decades; this is the Winter 1936/7 issue of the Green Line Coach map showing the routes of the limited stop services that linked the then 'country' areas served by London Transport to and across, in many cases, central London. The folder also includes route, fares and basic timetable information.

During the mid- to late-1930s much thought was being given to the design and layout of publicity information in London Transport. This was, I am sure, initiated by the Publicity Manager, Christian Barman, and involved working with various typographers, designers and printing companies, notably the Curwen Press on issues such as timetable and ticket layout. It was a time of experimentation involving consideration of typefaces, sizes and the 'balance' between titling, or headers, and text. This folder uses on the cover, for the 'generic information' the company's own Johnston typeface, and the roundel logotype, but also includes the issue number and date in Koch's Kabel/Cable typeface issued by Klingspor in 1927. The title "Green Line Coach Map" is in green outline/shadow typeface and there is a border formed of interlinked, repeating "LT" initial letters.

Green Line Coach Map : No. 2 : Winter 1936 - 37 : London Transport : 1936 : list of coach routes. One of the many, standard format folding maps and guides issued by London Transport over the decades; this is the Winter 1936/7 issue of the Green Line Coach map showing the routes of the limited stop services that linked the then 'country' areas served by London Transport to and across, in many cases, central London. The folder also includes route, fares and basic timetable information.

During the mid- to late-1930s much thought was being given to the design and layout of publicity information in London Transport. This was, I am sure, initiated by the Publicity Manager, Christian Barman, and involved working with various typographers, designers and printing companies, notably the Curwen Press on issues such as timetable and ticket layout. It was a time of experimentation involving consideration of typefaces, sizes and the 'balance' between titling, or headers, and text. This folder uses on the cover, for the 'generic information' the company's own Johnston typeface, and the roundel logotype, but also includes the issue number and date in Koch's Kabel/Cable typeface issued by Klingspor in 1927. This is continued on the inner folds of the map with the lists, route letters and main destinations also set in Kabel with a different serif face used to describe intermediate destinations.

The list of coach routes shows the extensive network that at the time used a mix of alphabetic and numeric route numbers. These span London and the surrounding counties including Essex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. Large areas of these areas, outside 'Greater London" were served by LT's green Country Area buses as well as Green Line coaches until 1969 when they were passed to the new National Bus Company. These run from A1 and A2 through to Z1 and Z2 along with a list of Central London boarding points in a separate panel.

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