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Richard P

@addledone.bsky.social
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Live in West Dorset, UK. Green/Left/Woke and proud! My views are my own, not representing any particular group.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 5h
So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 5h
Trump is a Russian asset. For shame America! He’s helping Russia’s murder of Ukrainians.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h
We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 5h
If the @greenparty.org.uk can run Labour this close, under their new and currently popular Prime Minister, enjoying his temporary 'bounce', what will they be able to do once the novelty wears off? 👍
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
Traitor.
Donald J. Trump I @reaDonald Trump
I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Richard P @addledone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
According to their website "OneFamily is a trading name of Family Assurance Friendly Society Limited (the Society) and is a mutual organisation." Although both are mutuals, a friendly society is quite different to a building society.
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Old School Liberal 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 Its time to obliterate the Epstein Class. @vanlighet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love how they like to call it “dynamic” pricing because it rolls off the tongue and some may say it even sounds cool. It does sound better than “fuck over the customer to the greatest extent possible” which is in fact the reality of the practice.
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iplayguitarbad.bsky.social @iplayguitarbad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"No, you people can't share info about our historic prices to inform consumers, but we can buy data about every aspect of your life to set prices" is something that should get execs thrown in jail for.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
This situation is only exacerbated by the airlines' extreme and aggressive secrecy over their pricing strategies, which includes lawsuits against websites that use historical pricing data to predict when a plane ticket will be the cheapest to buy: www.eff.org/document/pre...
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Preliminary injunction in American Airlines v. Farechase Inc.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Richard P @addledone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow, this is incredible!
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The Other David Harper @theotherdavidh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Four billion smartphones, both Android and iPhone, depend on a timezone database file maintained by one man, a computer scientist at UCLA. Large parts of the infrastructure of the Internet rely on other pieces of software maintained by individuals. Terrifying, but true. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 08/10/2026
The Greens aren't waiting for Labour to deliver change. We're setting the agenda, holding the government to account and showing why getting more Green MPs makes a difference.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is by no means a nothingburger, it's worth watching, but for context: there are about 100,000 polling places in the US. One real constraint on direct election interference of this sort is that our elections are monumentally massive undertakings on a scale that vastly outstrips federal manpower.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My point is not don't worry, but also don't panic and give them what they want, which is deliberate fearmongering to make people think feds at the polls will be a much bigger and scarier thing than they actually have the capacity to do. Don't give them the doomerism they want you to spread.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Newly elected Greens doing great stuff on housing 👏 Lewisham Council's new strategy includes: 🤝 Zero-cost land to community-led orgs on condition they build social housing 🔐 Putting that land into community land trusts, locking in affordability. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Free land for those who will build social homes on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK’s housing problem? | Phineas Harper
A bold south London initiative to give land to community groups rather than private developers could transform the system, says writer Phineas Harper
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio’s world view - hailing the alleged greatness of men (all men!) such as Alexander, Caesar, the Conquistador Hernan Cortes - glossing over the millions who died in their wake, the civilizations destroyed, the people enslaved in their pursuit of glory 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach
In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Because judges are employed by the State, and the State doesn’t want people of conscience who dissent against unjust laws to be acquitted. Blocking this principle from jurors, often with threat of prosecution, is corrupt and undemocratic. The jury decides, not the judge. 2/2
Traffic passes by the signholders in the first image described in this post.A second image of row of peaceful sign-holders sitting in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. Their signs display the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience” - words that replicate a 1670AD stone plaque inside the Old Bailey referencing the legal rights of jurors following the trial of two Quakers and subsequent implementation of the legal principle known as “jury equity”.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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christhecatsmum.bsky.social @christhecatsmum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Despite her saying her childhood was hard, I know the vast majority of ordinary people could not afford to fly to UK from Nigeria to London to have a child in a private hospital. She's had a privileged life, as her attitude to anyone questioning her shows.
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Dougie G @craggered.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paddington awaiting deportation by Tory government
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was the "major news story" from October 2025👇 A blog post from the right-wing site Guido Fawkes, desperate for you to "think condoms in shop windows". A blog post based on "research" done by none other than the opaquely funded RW think tank - TaxPayers' Alliance. 2/
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Millions spaffed promoting Pakistani contraception

TAXPAYERS ON HOOK FOR £88 MILLION SPLURGE ON CONTRACEPTION IN PAKISTAN

UK taxpayers are on the hook for millions of pounds to promote contraception in Pakistan. A staggering £74.33 million is being splashed on a project to “promote the sale of branded contraceptives through shops and pharmacies.” Think condoms in shop windows…

Another £13.44 million is going towards “identifying cultural barriers to modern contraceptives.” This is all part of the Foreign Office’s £111 million “Accelerating Family Planning in Pakistan” programme, according to research by the TaxPayers’ Alliance. The scheme began in 2017, runs until 2028, and was most recently reviewed under Labour last November. Something about cutting “waste” from the foreign aid budget comes to mind…
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30
Screenshot of LBC tweet:

How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan? 

Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026
oh look paid protesters
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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The Chinook Justice Campaign @chinookjustice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And this is why any non-independent report by the MoD which claims the Chinook Mk 2 was airworthy, will be a cover-up on top of a cover-up. It's why the Prime Minister must meet us. 20 days left to do so in your first 100 days @primeministeruk.bsky.social #chinookjustice
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 8 years ago on October 6, 2018. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
October 6, 2026
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Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.
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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
92 year old amputee & wheelchair user Donald Burgess was in his room in the care home holding a butter knife. The 2 police officers knew he had dementia but didn't know he had delirium from an infection. They pepper sprayed him, hit him with a baton & tasered him
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Colette @purplecolette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m a member & I only found out I could vote remotely when it was too late. How often can things be voted on? Once a year at conference or more often? Perhaps members can propose a motion to remove that at the next opportunity.
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Wookie @wookie909.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If they have sparked a debate about the definition of Zionism, that will be a start. Is it for a country where Jewish people can live free of opression alongside other ethnicities/religions, or is it for a colonial state based on ethnic/religious privilege and supremacy? That's the first question
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks again, to @monkemma.bsky.social: "You have to ask why the Guido Fawkes headline, the City AM headline and Matt Goodwin wanted you to focus on condoms for Pakistani men rather than the family planning and maternal health services for the rural women" monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-we-dont...
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No, we don't spend £74 million a year on branded condoms for Pakistan
Tracing the City AM headline, from Matt Goodwin's LBC claim and back through Guido Fawkes to a UK aid programme for women in rural Pakistan
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨-Reminder! Do not use this votesafe website backed by Elon. It is indeed NOT safe. 2 of the best websites to use for voting information are: -The bipartisan nonprofit website: www.vote.org -The DNC website: iwillvote.com
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump has such contempt for the voters of South Carolina that he elevated someone utterly unqualified for senate who knows absolutely nothing about anything connected to the job who reads scripts given to her by MAGA handlers while calling the qualified Democrat names and slurs.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026
Since the mid-1950s, we have changed the thing that "AI" refers to every 5-10 years. The current thing we're calling "AI" is about a decade old, and all this label-switching leads to a lack of clarity as to what (this) "AI" is.
The First Bank of Chicago, a Grecian temple to money. It is surrounded by flames. A skeleton in academic robes and mortarboards has been lynched from its roof. In the foreground are banded packages of US $100 bills.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp sits next to her man in Marine One as they return to the White House last night, then reenters the building after another day of traveling together #TravelWithNatalie (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)
pic of Harp and Trump on the chopperpic of Harp walking back to the White House
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He'd quoted Gladstone as saying "whenever the Irish question looks like it's going to be solved... the Irish change the question." A boy called Slater raised his hand and politely pointed out that it wasn't Gladstone but a line from 1066 and All That and Archer completely and embarrassingly lost it
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jeffrey Archer obituary
Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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