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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 6h

A US measuring cup is 236.588 ml because it just is.

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Richard Bentall #FPBE @richardbentall.bsky.social · 12h

I agree. X is now a cesspit flooded with accounts provoking ethnic hatred, fear of vaccination and opposition to green policies. It looks highly orchestrated, most likely be enemies of democracy and peace in the west.

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 13h

The UK and the EU need to ban X, and ban it yesterday.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h

Once again Elon Musk has stoked far right violence in Ireland or England.

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 12h

The naffness is the appeal. It makes naff people feel better about themselves.

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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social · 15h

Schon reingehört?

Im neuen »Blätter«-Podcast beleuchtet @annettedittert.bsky.social, wie Musk, Farage und Co. versuchen, die britische Demokratie auszuhebeln.

Jetzt reinhören 👉 www.blaetter.de/podcast – und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.

»Wenn die MAGA-Bewegung für Geld und Personal sorgt, ist das eine ernstzunehmende Gefahr für die britische Demokratie«, Annette Dittert, »Blätter«-Podcast, November 2025

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DAK62 @dak62.bsky.social · 16h

Dem, was Frau Türk-Neubaur hier sagt, ist nichts hinzuzufügen.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 15h

People without a racist obsession are hardly going to notice either way.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US.

And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 15h

Absent a deal, Brits in EU would have become 3rd country nationals subject to the existing rules in each member. EU in UK would have been subject to whatever the UK govt decided to please the Daily Mail.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 16h

That’s the thing. The UK hadn’t registered EU citizens. FoM was their whole status. And it wanted to use the fate of EU citizens as leverage in parts of the negotiations relating to completely different things.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 18h

Also residents in the EU had acquired rights under national law through length of residency. The WA is an improvement over that but does not retain full pre-Brexit rights. It is much more important for EU citizens in the UK.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 19h

Once had a black cocker with a suspected admixture of poodle. No expert on chemistry, but there is no way dog food contains that much energy.

Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 19h

What the USA lacks is even more bad taste. I feel they have not realised their full potential and there are still pockets of good taste.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 20h

Presenting mass expulsions and ethnic cleansing as just a policy in the same way as putting a penny on income tax is in itself abhorrent. As the bill is worded, we are talking about capturing and exiling hundreds of thousands of innocent people, many ripped out of families that stay behind.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 21h

75 effing quid when you can get xenophobic rants free down the pub.

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