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Richard Pierce

@tettig.bsky.social

630 followers 730 following 530 posts

He/him. Novelist, poet, Spoken Word artist, painter, champion of new music. Debut novel DEAD MEN nominated for Guardian First Book Award. #StandUpToRacism. European. #RejoinEU. www.tettig.com. Don't DM me unless you know me.

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 20d

This stays pinned until we have overcome racism. #StandUpToRacism

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 6h

🇺🇸 🔥 That. Was. Impressive.

We are watching America reassert itself and its values from the grassroots up. The world saw you and we have huge hope invested in you.

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Marina Florance @marinaflo.bsky.social · 11h

Listen to Courage by Marina Florance on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/Ia5GwLupLv17...

Courage has lyrics written by @tettig.bsky.social

All I did was write the tune and sing them...

Courage

A track written out of anger really, although being angry never really helps. The lyrics are written by Richard Pierce after one of our infrequent coffee meetings where we put the world to rights, the

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly this.

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Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? www.theguardian.com/technology/2... A long read, and definitely worth spending that time reading it.

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 1d

#RunningOrder #PlayList for #NewMusicFriday of 17 October 2025 tettig.com/newmusicfrid...

#NewMusicFriday – 17/10/2025 – Richard Pierce

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

For two years, Pecksniff has been claiming Labour’s position on Brexit would have to change before 2029.

Now at last, it has.

Pecksniff – Brexit: the government blinks

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

This.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

This.

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Axel Fjeld @fjeld.bsky.social · 1d

Ikke piss meg i øret med noe jævla snakk om kommunenes lokale tilpasninger og tilskuddsordninger i en annen situasjon med mer stabilt ditt og datt. Dette er mennesker vi snakker om. Fuck off med den jævla kalkulatorpolitikken.

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Kutter tilskudd til akuttovernatting: – Det er hjemmet vårt

Kirkens Bymisjon kaller det «brutal politikk» fra regjeringen. Flere hjemløse mister trolig tilbudet.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 1d

Happy No Kings Day, America. It couldn't happen at a better time.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 2d

A feel good story. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

The beautiful stroll: England’s seniors take walking football to world stage

As England’s teams head to the World Nations Cup in Spain, walking football is proving to be one of the UK’s fastest-growing sports

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 3d

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 2d

#NewMusicFriday on www.radiostradbroke.co.uk on 17Oct25 at 10-13 UK time. 38 cracking new tunes and a classic #ClassicalMusicInterlude. You'd be a fool to miss it. #NewMusic #InternetRadio

Radio Stradbroke

The Website of Stradbroke Village Radio Station.

www.radiostradbroke.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · 2d

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2d

Former MEP Andrew Duff argues it’s time to face Brexit’s failures head-on -

– with a Royal Commission to rebuild Britain’s relationship with Europe.

The case for a Royal Commission on Britain and Europe

Britain’s post-Brexit paralysis demands independent scrutiny. A Royal Commission could finally confront the evidence politicians avoid

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

Boris Johnson has been called to give evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday 21st Oct, from 10am

It's the first time the former PM has been called to give evidence at the Inquiry since 2023, for Module 2. The Inquiry has also called Prof Chris Whitty to give evidence on Monday from 10.30am

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone attended the Margaret Thatcher festival?

I was hoping to hear news from the front line so to speak but so far...

a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

ALT: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

ALSO. Badenoch claims China was unequivocally classed as a threat in 2021 review and by MI5 in 2022. So can she please explain why the Chinese Nuclear Group was still involved with the Hinkley nuclear power plant project a full two years later - nine months even after Cash and Berry were arrested? 🤨

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 4d

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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