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Alan Douglas Hinsley

@adh80.bsky.social
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Retired Biology Teacher living in Liverpool 😎

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You are *not* getting any happy smiling pics of me being about to misinform tourists today. At least I got here in one piece.
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Ralph Ruthe @ruthe.de · 10/10/2026
BUH!!!
Es ist Halloween. Ein Vater, verkleidet als Freddy Krueger, steht mit seinen ebenfalls gruselig verkleideten Kindern vor einer geöffneten Tür, geöffnet vom irritiert guckenden Kanzler Merz. Vater (empört, tröstet seine weinenden Kinder): "Auch bei Kostümen gibt`s Grenzen, Sie Freak!"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/10/2026
Winning the Nobel prize in literature only underlines Anne Carson’s infinite genius | Yiyun Li
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Winning the Nobel prize in literature only underlines Anne Carson’s infinite genius | Yiyun Li
When her sons died, the Book of Goose author turned to Grief Lessons, Carson’s translation of four plays by Euripides. She reflects on the ‘life sustaining’ work of an extraordinary writer
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here, have a lovely #TownNotAVillage Christmas card or a 2027 diary instead.
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Seriously the fucker that designed these has clearly never needed a crap!💩
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This supporter of the Britain First petition identifies as a supporter of Reform *and* Restore
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Restore Britain supporters are sharing Britain First's petition to deport Kemi Badenoch
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“ICE is operating outside the limits of its legal authority, and the people of Fresno are paying the price…” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Off-Duty ICE Agent Is Shot and Arrested After Sleeping on Lawn in California
A woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
👇😝😝😝😝😝
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
A few people have pointed out that the same would be true about Rocky Horror Picture Show, David Bowie and Queen. The levels of vitriol would be off the charts - as a more recent example, just look at how Sam Smith gets treated by the commentariat on the right.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 28/09/2026
FT exclusive | EU countries consider Nato-style joint responses to Russian hybrid attacks ft.trib.al/LVgHhxY #FTEdit
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EU countries consider Nato-style joint responses to Russian hybrid attacks
Campaign this year has included drone attacks, bombs and arson, leading to calls for a stronger response
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dan Thomas? Didn't know him, never even met him.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/09/2026
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston: "That's what the lifeboat does. It saves lives at sea. That's its job." "And this is an international duty. Everyone who goes to sea knows, in the event of someone being in difficulty, you go to their assistance." The abuse the RNLI have faced is a disgrace.
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K @toast2hawks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Watching Ted Cruz get booed by Texas fans on GAMEDAY is a thing of beauty.
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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thank you to the good people of Ireland, who today have again shown that Trump and his politics of hate are not welcome this side of the Atlantic. We stand in solidarity with you! 🇮🇪 www.rawstory.com/trump-irelan...
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Humiliation for Trump as Ireland flocks to the streets with enormous and lewd balloons
Enormous and crude balloons cast a dark shadow over President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland on Saturday.Trump landed in Ireland on Saturday to visit the International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg and...
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ted cruz getting booed on game day ESPN right now.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The spirit of our dear departed Janey Godley is in Doonbeg, Co Clare, Ireland today.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Free speech “absolutist” my ass. Denaturalize, deport this immigrant bitch for meddling in OUR elections.
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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026
Jesus Christ, Brazil, not you too
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good On You,Mayor Mamdani....👏🏻
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m really confused by the ‘we don’t know who asylum seekers ARE!’ argument. As though every other person you pass/encounter on a daily basis you know exactly who they are and the details of their history.
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A damp Saturday afternoon drinking murky beers @popnhops.bsky.social Pollys, Beak
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/08/2026
From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Devi Sridhar
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oops. 🥴 www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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Alan Douglas Hinsley @adh80.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Sign the petition: demand an inquiry into the culture of the press after Jason Arday's death!
Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why the fuck is Farage still being allowed to give press conferences? WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM? #BBCBreakfast
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Russia's MoD claims air defense shot down 1,158 Ukrainian drones in 24 hours. With what, Wildberries warehouses and oil refineries?🤣
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
AOC Makes A Great Point 👉.......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
How did inequality spiral out of control? If you’ve never watched a video of mine, please watch this one.
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How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control | Robert Reich
Here it is: The full story of wealth inequality in America.The top 1% holds 15x more wealth than the bottom 50% combined
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Mail on Sunday moaning about the cost of Andy Burnham's clothes. It's hardly extravagant for a bloke on a six figure salary. If only we had a Prime Minister who dresses from contents of a charity bag his neighbour has just put outside for collection.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Here we are in 2026 and this song is just as relevant now as it was when it was created. ‘Stop, Hey What's That Sound’ Buffalo Springfield Released December, 1966
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Laura Kuenssberg, "Do you rule out having a general election before 2029?" Andy Burnham, "There's no early general election" Anyone remember LK asking Boris Johnson about why he took power without a general election?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ana Navarro: Let’s remember that lCE has kiIIed before, just kiIIed again today. A lot of times has lied about it, has explained it in a way that does not fit the video that we see and, testimony from people on the ground. Over 52 people have died in lCE custody.
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What a shock that’s not.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/07/2026
Undercover in Laos: how Chinese tourism fuels animal trafficking – video
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Undercover in Laos: how Chinese tourism fuels animal trafficking – video
Chinese tourism is booming in Laos and the illegal wildlife trade is booming with it. Pangolin scales, rhino horn and elephant ivory are all being sold at secret shops and restaurants as a new high-speed rail line brings millions of visitors to the country. Working with Chinese activists, the Guardian goes undercover to investigate the criminal networks profiting from this trade and to reveal how wildlife trafficking is pushing the critically endangered pangolin ever closer to extinction
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Talk TV presenter Kevin O'Sullivan here, shortly after the police warn that media speculation about Ann Widdecombe's murder risks jeopardising their investigation
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