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@afturain.bsky.social
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Left leaning, can't stand Trumpelon and Tories. Politics, art , books, music, cinema, sea, mountains, landscape, architecture, UK, USA, Spain. Give us back freedom of movement. No time for Royalty.

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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What has Dido Harding done with our £85m? Is it still under the carpet? Why was it never investigated?
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This Onion article was only written in April.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apparently losing a few litres of diesel is now so terrifying to America, thanks to Hormuz, that they have to wholesale run away from a single sighting of some rural ne’er-do-wells sneaking about with a jerrycan.
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 04/10/2026
So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations
A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You're forgetting who is in charge and the little voices in his tiny coked mind.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a corpse dressed for his own funeral.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He only gets away with that with his base which has a cumulative IQ of 40.
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Halle-bloody-lujah!
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's NOT ONLY MEASLES. Mumps and Rubella are so dangerous, especially if you are or could become pregnant. JFDI!
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t understand this “very British/very English” framing. According to the Today programme it was “very English” that a member of the public called the police on seeing something dodgy. I’d no idea this is a specifically English thing. Perhaps we can encourage other countries to adopt this idea?
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Mike @mike-0568.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.' The US president is a lying tosspot. The plot was foiled by an insomniac farmer, who spotted the men and reported them to Gloucestershire police.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't forget he has always had Fartage on, allowing him to spout racism, Trumyism and Ruskyism ad infinitum.
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Arlindars @arlindars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎨 Gustav Klimt.
Obra de Gustav Klimt. 
Roseiras Sob as Árvores. 
1905.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And then they clapped at the end. What were they clapping? He should have been booed off the podium.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Aye. Right.
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Elm Jee ☘️ @lizmgreene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The story seems to be that masked, military age men are disrupting the lifesaving work of a charity (and renowned institution) and threatening its volunteers. That sounds like domestic #terrorism?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Russian drones hit a Kyiv–Warsaw passenger train overnight and fell about a kilometer from the Polish border. Poland, a NATO ally, scrambled jets. Poland's FM Radosław Sikorski in Kyiv today: Russian terrorism "has already walked through" Europe's door. His reaction, on video
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sending Sunday coloured peacefulness to whomsoever needs it.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She looks like him.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stroke
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She took along a photo of him and said 'that's the look I want '.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I love that she's beginning to look more and more like him.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/12 The blue sky, the perfect day in the park, people gathered to picnic and play frisbee. But you turned 180 and saw downtown billowing with black smoke and gradually, the acrid smell reached you and never left. You swept the terrace every day and still the grey ash gathered.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remember the tables with paper and crayons beside the band shell in Central Park where children could go to draw. So many just scribbled clouds of smoke because that's what they could see on 9/11.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stroke?
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stroke?
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stroke?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ICYMI — Fred Trump 🔥 calls out his Uncle’s 9/11 lies: “His claim he brought a crew of workers to the 9/11 site so offends me I need to speak out. He was not building ‘a big building’ at the time… the U.S. Steel building was not creaking and ready to fall.”
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social North Sea drilling makes no economic or energy security sense - but “the policy could scarcely be better designed to give the final push to voters who are minded – after so many disappointments since 2024 – to abandon Labour for a progressive alternative”
theguardian.com
Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.
thetimes.com
We must fight back against troll army’s lies about London
There is a dark blizzard of disinformation online, where our capital is described as a lawless dystopia in decline — this couldn’t be further from the truth
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/09/2026
Handing NHS data to Palantir was always going to be a disaster for public trust. Now, tens of thousands are opting out and medical research is taking the hit. It’s time to scrap the deal. www.theguardian.com/society/2026/se…
theguardian.com
‘Mistrust’ of Palantir may affect NHS research, says health minister
James Frith says patients may be less willing to share data as new figures show a rise in opt-outs
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/09/2026
I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anyone would think the British government is acting alone in its condemnation and sanctions against Israel? No, they are joined by France, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Spain Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Poland, and Sweden.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RNLI staff have faced "unacceptable" online & physical abuse since anti-migrant protests. "Deliberate misinformation and a misunderstanding" by thugs hiding behind "balaclava or a keyboard". Solidarity with RNLI volunteers. They do a great job in saving lives, must be respected.
bbc.co.uk
Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Essential thread.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Couldn't agree more! Where is the outrage at being gaslit by foreign media moguls? And our own BBC? They should have been calling out the politicians all these years. They could have held the moral ground and fostered worthwhile values. Instead, they took the lazy, cheap, nasty route.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Keep your horses safe.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not enough for having to smell him for years.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They would have left him there. Surely.
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afturain.bsky.social @afturain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No. It's not true, because they'd have left him there.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.
Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Yes, yes, I hear the carbon monoxide alarm going off, but I still need to stay here because this is where my knitting community is, you see. Also, the only place I can get news about the Premier League. I have no choice. I'll be OK."
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Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Masked thugs in Dover and Portsmouth are not debating legitimate politics - they just like violence and intimidation and can't be tolerated.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Norway's Prime Minister ripped apart trumps stupid letter. Love this! Every leader receiving a letter like this from TACO, should do the same. Thanks for your attention to this matter! ============================
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 04/09/2026
🚨 UPDATE: West Midlands Police have denied Nigel Farage's claim that they refused to let him on stage due to a security threat
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