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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/08/2026
Oh well! Thanks Meta. Link to ad: www.facebook.com/share/v/19TT...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/08/2026
Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
To anyone who follows me, or doesn’t, please contribute to @richardkadrey.bsky.social ‘s extremely urgent new Go FundMe. His cat’s depending on you too. I don’t know a harder-working writer, and what he produces is always wonderful. Please re-skeet!
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Please give our capital city its full name: you plan to return to Khan’s London for your safety
NADINE DORRIES: I'm so afraid I plan to lock up my cottage, return to London - and stay there until Ann Widdecombe's killer is behind bars
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
6 July 1939 | French Jewish girl, Huguette Gutmajnster, was born in Paris. In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
Vintage black and white photograph of a young child with curly hair.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is unambiguously unlawful abuse. Ofcom accepted voluntary targets from X solely about pace of decisions, not the content or quality X has met its voluntary target: it *quickly* decided to protect unlawful abuse it has a legal duty to remove! The voluntary targets dont measure what matters
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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 07/06/2026
UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I know we shouldn't respond to the trolling, but Vance implying that Sikhs are part of a "mass invasion of migrants", when they fought in tens of thousands for the British in two world wars and even THE INDIAN MUTINY is 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
While CDU and EPP were fighting against the supposed ‘combustion engine ban’ that never was a ban, and now want to double down on new gas power plants. Rearview mirror politics.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...
"In his role as a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Guillou had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza. Months earlier, some of his colleagues in the court had been similarly targeted by the US.

The shock was the reach of the sanctions. “It was not clear to us at that time the extent of disruption that it creates in our daily life,” Guillou says.

Within days, he was cut off from all the services that rely on US companies. He could not have an American credit card and instead had to rely on cash and national payment systems such as iDEAL in the Netherlands for online transactions.

Wire transfers bounced back. His hotel reservations on Booking.com and Expedia were cancelled. He could not rent a bike from the City of Paris’s public Vélib’ Métropole scheme, which requires a credit card guarantee. Packages delivered by UPS were returned to the sender. His health insurer tried to cut him off.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The number of ‘bells’ an English Bluebell has reflects its age It is dependent on the increasing size of the bulb, root system & leaves capable of managing the weight, nutrients & water Individuals plants can live over 15 years. Established colonies can be a thousand years old
An English Bluebell with multiple flowers
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person
Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses.

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**GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT**

Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell

leaflet text:

**ATKINSON, John**
Reform UK

John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services.

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**HENDERSON, Iain**
Reform UK

Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them.

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**MURRAY, Arthur**
Reform UK

Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 07/04/2025
I just need everyone to watch this and understand I have been laughing about it for 24 hours
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
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jhuftonjr.bsky.social @jhuftonjr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete Under future rules Renew status? 1995, 98 x6 Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012) Citizenship 2013 news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
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Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
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Made of Stone @madeofstone1.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/11/2025
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out
Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’
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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
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Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor
EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/08/2025
‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain
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‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain
The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the Roman Empire. 

The Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles.

Do you think individual Romans understood that their civilization was collapsing? Or did it happen so gradually that they were able to ignore the warning signs—international trade breaking down, the senate becoming a rubber stamp for the supreme leader, and political violence becoming expected during transfers of power?

It’s hard to say, because it’s impossible to imagine being in that kind of situation. In any event—hope you enjoy the candle!
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 11/07/2025
a tumblr classic by darjeelingandcoke-deactivated20:
"An ancient Greek walks into his tailor's shop
with a pair of torn pants.
"Euripides?" says the tailor.
"Yeah, Eumenides?" replies the man."
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
8 August 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Hirschl, was born in Budapest. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
A vintage black-and-white photo of a young girl with a focused expression, wearing a light sleeveless top. The child's hair is neatly combed, and one hand is slightly raised.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Ozzy Osbourne was so proud of where he came from, and in return we were proud of him. Having met him and all of Black Sabbath it was always like talking to your Brummie uncle, kind, sarcastic, warm.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/07/2025
This is a beautiful and beautifully written essay, and I'd love to see tons of people reading it.
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Aman
For a few months when I was 21, I stood in the doorway of a Times Square movie theater every night and chatted with a man named Aman, who’d emigrated to the United States from Afghanistan the year bef...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This new strain of “I went to London. I saw some social problems that were the predictable cause of not spending enough on the safety net and on infrastructure. I decided it was the fault of immigrants. Also, London is finished but also too expensive” talk, among other things, is just loser talk.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
here's a new low: my spotify payouts include line items with five zeroes after the decimal, meaning that i get paid 4 parts per million of a dollar for some streams. the 74-cent line item is for a song with hundreds of streams. buy your music on bandcamp
my royalty payouts:
$0.293875855281

$0.000003999998

$0.367680818936

$0.000003999998

$0.741100635045
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Kade Peregrine @kadeperegrine.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"curious to hear what you'd want it to do" Spontaneously combust so we can identify the absolute fucking hazards by their flaming pants.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
ITS OK - dashare.zone ADMIN
ITS OK TO DO NOTHING
YOU DONT NEED A EXCUSE , FUCK IT, YOUR SUPPOSE TO BE CHILLIN IN THE WOOD'S RIGHT NOW, BENG BUSY IS THE WORST HOBBY, DOING SHIT ISNT EVEN FUNNY HALF THE TIME, DOING NOTHING COST'S NOTHING, "DA PLEASURE OF THE MIND" FUCK IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN ,,,,, IF THEY EVER FIND OUT THAT SITTEN ON YOUR COUCH LOOKEN OUT THE WINDOW IS FREE THERE GONNA START CHARGING FOR IT -DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"AI" - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLEATON RISIN UP OUT OF DA GRAVE 2 REMIND YOU THAT DA A.I SHIT THATS GOING AROUND NOW IS DA SAME AS EVERY OTHER COMPUTER SCAM , AND THE BEST ITS GOT AFTER TRILLION'S OF DOLLARS OF MONEY AND SO MANY COMPUTERS  THAT WE HAD TO OPEN NEW POWER PLANTS TO RUN THEM , IS : 1. VIDEO'S OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MOVING AROUND SLOWLY IN A WEIRD WAY, 2. PHOTO'S OF JESUS WHERE HES IN A SHOPPING MALL WITH THE PRESEDENT, 3. CODE THAT DOSENT WORK, 4. INCORRECT SUMMARY OF INFOMATION THAT YOU PASTE INTO IT, 5. NOW DUMB GUYS THINK THAT THE COMPUTER IS SAD OR SMART!!! THERE ALL BAD BUT THE WORST PART IS THAT THE WORST GUYS IN THE WORLD ARE MAKEN A SHIT LOAD OF MONEY OFF OFF IT AND IT DOESNT EVEN WORK, ANYWAY THE TEXT SAYS " REMEMEBER NFT'S? SORT OF? NOT REALLY? THE SAME GUYS WHO MADE THAT BULLSHIT ARE NOW TELLIN US AUTO COMPLETE IS INTELEGENT AND IT HAS FEELINGS" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Depravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
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Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT NOW!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com · 09/05/2025
To celebrate Malys, our unholy roguelite deckbuilder currently on Kickstarter, we're doing a giveaway! 🕯️ Play as an exorcist and exact vengeance on a demonic city. To win, repost this post to go into the draw & check out Malys below 👀 bit.ly/winwithmalys
Graphic featuring the key art for Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, Stray Gods: Orpheus, and Malys. The Kickstarter logo is in the corner. Text reads: Win a Stray Gods Steam key bundle to celebrate Malys: our unholy roguelite deckbuilder.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/05/2025
This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.
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