Si Pick
@sipick.bsky.social
Film/TV snob, firefighter, LFC sth, dream analyst to the stars & friends with the late Carlos Alberto!
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Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister
Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister
With his government mired in scandal, an operation to dethrone Starmer is now under way
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister
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This is mealy-mouthed and refuses to call it what it is: racism.
It doesn’t even have the decency to name me, let alone offer a direct apology.
Supine journalism from The Observer, but sadly that’s what we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media.
It doesn’t even have the decency to name me, let alone offer a direct apology.
Supine journalism from The Observer, but sadly that’s what we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media.
July 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is mealy-mouthed and refuses to call it what it is: racism.
It doesn’t even have the decency to name me, let alone offer a direct apology.
Supine journalism from The Observer, but sadly that’s what we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media.
It doesn’t even have the decency to name me, let alone offer a direct apology.
Supine journalism from The Observer, but sadly that’s what we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media.
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a short walk to the pub
A Short Walk to the Pub
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
a short walk to the pub
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Christ these are daily war crimes and the EU won’t do a thing about it.
BREAKING: At least 29 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks while waiting to receive food aid in southern Gaza's Rafah.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/img1q1
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July 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Christ these are daily war crimes and the EU won’t do a thing about it.
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Thanks to the Daily Fail.
Always appreciate the love. 😘
Always appreciate the love. 😘
July 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Thanks to the Daily Fail.
Always appreciate the love. 😘
Always appreciate the love. 😘
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More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza
More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza
Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties
More than 400 stars and media figures including Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle, Juliet Stevenson and Mike Leigh have signed a letter to BBC management calling for the removal of a board member, Robbie Gibb, over claims of conflict of interest regarding the Middle East.
The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists and Zawe Ashton, Khalid Abdalla, Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and the historian William Dalrymple, who express “concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza
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With Vance breaking tie, #Senate passes #budget bill. If House approves, #Medicaid & food stamps would be gutted to unprecedented degrees. ACA subsidies would also be slashed. 17 million would lose health insurance across next decade. $3.3 trillion would be added to debt to benefit billionaires. 1/2
July 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
With Vance breaking tie, #Senate passes #budget bill. If House approves, #Medicaid & food stamps would be gutted to unprecedented degrees. ACA subsidies would also be slashed. 17 million would lose health insurance across next decade. $3.3 trillion would be added to debt to benefit billionaires. 1/2
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Don't mind me. Just addin' another slide to my cyberfascism talk.
With Budapest Pride just two days away, Hungary has criminalized Pride marches and is planning to deploy real-time facial recognition technology to identify those participating in the event. The EU must defend fundamental human rights.
Ahead of Budapest Pride, EFF and 46 Organizations Call on European Commission to Defend Fundamental Rights in Hungary
This week, EFF joined EDRi and nearly 50 civil society organizations urging the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice President Henna Virkunnen, and Commissioners Michae...
www.eff.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Don't mind me. Just addin' another slide to my cyberfascism talk.
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If Israel kicks off World War III, they should be banned from Eurovision for at least a year. Maybe two, if the war goes on for over a week.
June 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
If Israel kicks off World War III, they should be banned from Eurovision for at least a year. Maybe two, if the war goes on for over a week.
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Israel is out of control.
And it has been for a long time.
For Starmer to talk about de-escalation whilst continuing to support a genocide is increasingly absurd - and dangerous.
And it has been for a long time.
For Starmer to talk about de-escalation whilst continuing to support a genocide is increasingly absurd - and dangerous.
June 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Israel is out of control.
And it has been for a long time.
For Starmer to talk about de-escalation whilst continuing to support a genocide is increasingly absurd - and dangerous.
And it has been for a long time.
For Starmer to talk about de-escalation whilst continuing to support a genocide is increasingly absurd - and dangerous.
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NEWS! Israel launches wave of missile strikes against man who looked at it funny in pub
Israel launches wave of missile strikes against man who looked at it funny in pub
Israel has launched a huge wave of missile strikes against a man who looked at it funny in the pub.
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June 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
NEWS! Israel launches wave of missile strikes against man who looked at it funny in pub
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James Elder from UNICEF: "We see children being brutalised, burnt.. because its a war on children"
Retal is 6 years old and is immense pain. She's just one of these children.
Retal is 6 years old and is immense pain. She's just one of these children.
June 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
James Elder from UNICEF: "We see children being brutalised, burnt.. because its a war on children"
Retal is 6 years old and is immense pain. She's just one of these children.
Retal is 6 years old and is immense pain. She's just one of these children.
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Trump regime ICE forces assaulted and kidnapped a mother on her way to pick up her children from school, this is what they are doing all over the country. #StopICE
June 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump regime ICE forces assaulted and kidnapped a mother on her way to pick up her children from school, this is what they are doing all over the country. #StopICE
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The scale of the disaster is hard to grasp, but this photo of the Cambrian Mountains, viewed from Drygarn Fawr (taken by Velella), gives you a sense of it. It's just one of our terrestrial dead zones, but it covers roughly 300km2.
June 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The scale of the disaster is hard to grasp, but this photo of the Cambrian Mountains, viewed from Drygarn Fawr (taken by Velella), gives you a sense of it. It's just one of our terrestrial dead zones, but it covers roughly 300km2.
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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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While I'm not involved in any political party, I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social's analysis is correct. Thanks to Labour's multiple, infuriating failures, the Greens could become huge here, but only if they are bolder, more assertive and, yes, "eco-populist". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Green deputy launches leadership bid with UK ‘eco-populism’ vision
Exclusive: Surprise challenger Zack Polanski says party can learn from success of Nigel Farage and Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
While I'm not involved in any political party, I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social's analysis is correct. Thanks to Labour's multiple, infuriating failures, the Greens could become huge here, but only if they are bolder, more assertive and, yes, "eco-populist". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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but also, he's a nazi. his family moved to south africa in support of apartheid. he's literally named after a character in a wernher von braun novel. he openly advocates for eugenics. he's complained that poor black and brown countries are 'outbreeding' us. he's a trans eliminationist. he's a nazi.
Much fairer to say he's the greatest American popularizer of Nazism since Henry Ford and the greatest ever since Adolf Hitler.
Elon Musk: It Is 'Outrageous' to 'Claim That I'm a Nazi'
Elon Musk called claims that he's a Nazi 'outrageous' during an interview with Lara Trump on Fox News.
www.rollingstone.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
but also, he's a nazi. his family moved to south africa in support of apartheid. he's literally named after a character in a wernher von braun novel. he openly advocates for eugenics. he's complained that poor black and brown countries are 'outbreeding' us. he's a trans eliminationist. he's a nazi.
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Coming soon: Labour responds to the failure of its Nigel Farage tribute act by trying even harder to be a Nigel Farage tribute act whilst closing its eyes to the evidence of where that path led the Tories.
May 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Coming soon: Labour responds to the failure of its Nigel Farage tribute act by trying even harder to be a Nigel Farage tribute act whilst closing its eyes to the evidence of where that path led the Tories.
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Labour today:
*refuses to remove the two child benefit cap despite it leading to the highest levels of child poverty since records began
*congratulated by a billionaire, who describes the last Government, as the "most left-leaning Conservative party in history," for its Thatcherite fiscal policy.
*refuses to remove the two child benefit cap despite it leading to the highest levels of child poverty since records began
*congratulated by a billionaire, who describes the last Government, as the "most left-leaning Conservative party in history," for its Thatcherite fiscal policy.
April 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Labour today:
*refuses to remove the two child benefit cap despite it leading to the highest levels of child poverty since records began
*congratulated by a billionaire, who describes the last Government, as the "most left-leaning Conservative party in history," for its Thatcherite fiscal policy.
*refuses to remove the two child benefit cap despite it leading to the highest levels of child poverty since records began
*congratulated by a billionaire, who describes the last Government, as the "most left-leaning Conservative party in history," for its Thatcherite fiscal policy.
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Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
* ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
* The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more
A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.
Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
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The American tourism industry is going to get absolutely smoked
Two young German travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be a highlight. Instead, their visit ended in handcuffs, jail time, and deportation — a stark reminder of the risks some international visitors face at US borders.
https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/
https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/
Why These Hawaii Travelers Were Jailed And Deported
Two young travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be the highlight of a long awaited world adventure. Instead, their arrival in Honolulu ended in handcuffs, jail, and deportation.
beatofhawaii.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The American tourism industry is going to get absolutely smoked
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Two young German travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be a highlight. Instead, their visit ended in handcuffs, jail time, and deportation — a stark reminder of the risks some international visitors face at US borders.
https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/
https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/
Why These Hawaii Travelers Were Jailed And Deported
Two young travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be the highlight of a long awaited world adventure. Instead, their arrival in Honolulu ended in handcuffs, jail, and deportation.
beatofhawaii.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Two young German travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be a highlight. Instead, their visit ended in handcuffs, jail time, and deportation — a stark reminder of the risks some international visitors face at US borders.
https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/
https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/