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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 5h

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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 5h

"But the fundamental innumeracy will become clearer as Reform no longer enjoys an easy ride. Winning council contests last May might be part of Reform’s undoing now banning Rainbow flags ceases to be cover for councillors finding that armies of diversity officers never existed so cannot be sacked."

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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 5h

"Multiculturalism itself is the wider Reform target, the vibrancy and diversity of Britain disliked by a grey, miserable party selling nostalgia in lionising a bygone monochrome era when life really wasn’t better."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 5h

The DLR just got better.

54 brand new, state-of-the-art trains are rolling out over the next year - with more space, air con, phone charging points and improved accessibility.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11h

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 6h

who they were or where they were from even as everyone knew they were Russian. It’s yet another attempt at intimidating the Baltic nations and forms part of what the Russians term ‘Phase Zero’ of an attempt to attack NATO.
I don’t believe for a minute that their plan - they simply don’t have the

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 6h

RUSSIA JUST KEEPS INTIMIDATING ESTONIA

The ‘little green men’ are back. Estonia closed a road near the Russian border after armed men in green uniforms but without any identifying insignia, appeared on the Russian side.
These infiltration troops were famously used in Crimea in 2014, refusing to say

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 5h

The return of the Israeli hostages is a moment of pure joy for those families.

And a moment of relief for the entire world.

It means that a page can be turned. A new chapter can begin.

Europe fully supports the peace plan brokered by the United States, Qatar, Egypt, and Türkiye.

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Lander @landerk.bsky.social · 14h

They must be among us in those queues.
I wonder why they're so quiet?

Did enjoy a mother in front me educating her children (VERY LOUDLY) just how stupid these people had been!

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 14h

I'm flying out in November and bracing myself. I can handle delays but the worst thing, as I experienced last time I was stuck in a non-EU queue, was a laughing Spaniard cruising past and sniggering "Haha, Brexit."
This is how everyone sees us now.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

"They need us more than we need them"

EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 23h

Today, the entry/exit system gets underway.

This new digital border system will streamline travel, enhance security, and improve the efficiency of border controls for non-EU nationals entering or exiting the EU.

Full implementation is planned for 10 April 2026.

More info → link.europa.eu/mnYbcy

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 16h

Ladybird book endpapers design.
From the 2007 book published by Penguin called ‘Boys and Girls’

The endpapers design is made up of a series of different ladybird book covers laid out neatly in an 8 x 7 grid

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

“Farm workers follow where the spinner has passed and collect the potatoes in shallow baskets.
Picking up potatoes is back-aching work”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

On a misty day in autumn, a group of mainly women follow a tractor to gather potatoes. The figures are hunched over and you can almost feel the back pain.

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 6h

A great appreciation of a great actor www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

From Annie Hall to Something’s Gotta Give: Diane Keaton was the quintessential comedy queen

The late actor won an Oscar for leading a romantic comedy in the 1970s and set the blueprint for many of the women who followed her in the genre

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 6h

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Play the Guardian's new daily word game, and share your score with your friends. You have five goes to get the longest word including today's starter word.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

There's controversy over how to pronounce Turandot because while Puccini himself did not pronounce the t at the end, no part of the name or opera is french and Italians don't do the french silent consonant thing

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Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 10h

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Kirk (Antifa Social Secretary™️) Murphy 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❌👑 @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

Ugh. Thank you both for being out there - and for bringing joy & humor!
At almost *every* protest I've been to -from Horse Byars arrests on dusty forest roads to open access to logging protests, to Headwaters, to IMF/WB, to LA DNC, to Seattle WTO- whimsy won the imaging/media.
So we won.
Keep it up!

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 6h

I think there is a lot of truth to this

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 6h

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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 6h

5 events that defined your childhood

When we moved from the dingy suburb
The release of role-playing game Drakar & Demoner
When Fanny in the parallel class kissed me
When Ulrika in my class asked if I wanted to be her boyfriend
When that did in the parallel class died in the car accident

Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 14h

5 events that defined your childhood
The winter of ‘63
JFK at the book depository
West Ham and Alan Ball Winning the Men’s World Cup of Football
Mexico Olympics Black Power Salute
The Apollo Soyuz missions

Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 14h

5 events that defined your childhood:

The end of home coal delivery & switch to gas
Pope John Paul II
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes soviet leader
Live Aid
Launch of the space shuttle (then Challenger)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Brian Robson @brianrobson.bsky.social · 13h

5 events that defined your childhood
The Thatcher Government.

(more specific than that?!)

Miners Strike (remember the aftermath more than the strike)
End of shipbuilding on the Wear
Berlin Wall coming down
Sunderland becoming a city (92)

Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 14h

5 events that defined your childhood
The winter of ‘63
JFK at the book depository
West Ham and Alan Ball Winning the Men’s World Cup of Football
Mexico Olympics Black Power Salute
The Apollo Soyuz missions

Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 14h

5 events that defined your childhood:

The end of home coal delivery & switch to gas
Pope John Paul II
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes soviet leader
Live Aid
Launch of the space shuttle (then Challenger)

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 14h

20 people missing in the Alaska village of Kwigillingok. (If you know western AK, you know Kwig.)

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 14h

updates for kipnuk, kwig, and kong

20 ppl are missing in kwig 🥺

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