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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving? This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...
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ben @benrs.uk · 22/09/2026
good morning
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The public are now more likely to think boat crossings are falling this year than rising. [Numbers were down 40% with lowest 3rd quarter for 6 years] Down 40% About same 16% Up 29% Dont know 16% Labour down 61-12 LibDem down 61-18 Green down 47-13 Cons down 41-34 Reform up (28-46 down v up
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Matthew 🇪🇺🚇🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally @i-fib.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now THIS is two tier policing. Remember the #JustStopOil protesters got YEARS in jail.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reform UK at 100 Days Their Kent flagship council has lost a councillor every 10 days since May 2026.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rebecca Stenn (American Artist, born 1968) "Odell Valley", 2026. Acrylic on Canvas,
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)
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Kevmarmol @kevmarmol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I say this every time but Jacob Rees Mogg is younger than Kylie. Being a bigot definitely ages you
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lots of people voted Trump because they thought he'd give them cheap gas. Meanwhile... groceries want a word. The same shop would cost about £8.50 tops in a mid range UK supermarket. That's $11.57.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just knew we'd get this bollocks. Farage - like the Telegraph- doesn't want progress or anything to improve he just wants Britain to sit in a miserable slump in which he can holler constantly about "migrants" and drink pints in slow motion videos with people who pine for WW2.
Farage: Burnham's pledge
to house homeless will
attract more migrants
Reform leader says rough sleeping plan
sends message that you get 'everything for
free if you come by boat
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scubapopeye.bsky.social @scubapopeye.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’m a nurse and a paramedic and for all intents and purposes a scientist Vaccinated against everything you can imagine Vaccines SAVE lives Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool Science doesn’t care what you think, only what you can prove. Fuck RFKjr Asshat. 🖕
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
When we march at LGBT+ Pride events we are echoing the Stonewall rioters' demand for human rights, safety and dignity. When someone attacks a Pride event, as we saw so horrifically in Berlin this weekend, they mean to silence the rest of us. We must only shout louder. We are love, and we will win.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The thing that pisses me off most about ponies is when they drag you all the way up to one of the highest points on a vast patch of British moorland just so you can do the unpaid photo shoot for the cover of their debut solo LP.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
7th grade me in the middle of math class for absolutely no reason:
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's fascinating to watch commentators who sat completely silently for a decade as the Conservative Government changed its leader four times in a row mid-term, now suddenly discover such a keen interest in the concepts of 'mandates' and 'legitimacy'
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Patricia Routledge is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Victoria Wood isn't." "I don't want to be, you can't park in Stratford."
The title card for As Seen On Tv, written by and starring Victoria Wood.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"It's a melting pot, Stan. We're just going to toss ideas into the pot." "It's a tosspot."
Twink is unamused.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sex... sex... more sex. You'd all be much better off with an 800 piece jigsaw.
Kitty is disgusted by these letters.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This programme is unusual in that it's not adapted from a well-known Victorian novel. It is actually based on some wigs left over from another production.
Suzie Blake announcing the next tv show.
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ben @benrs.uk · 18/07/2026
you hate to see other people living your dreams www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Family gets Vimto on tap
HOT and cold running water is good enough for most families - but the Birds have their favourite soft drink on tap. They are so hooked on Vimto, they have a tank full of the cordial buried in their ga...
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Howard Goodall @howardgoodall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In an angry, divided world, this is a great image from last night's France-England game 👏
England and France players embracing at the end of a 10-goal World Cup football game for 3rd place
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Interstellar @interstel1ar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In a rare moment of good news Andrew Tate and his brother have been arrested. HahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahaha!
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not every immigrant to Europe is a Kylian Mbappe or Bukayo Saka but the vast majority contribute to society - doctors, cleaners, carers, nurses, teachers etc. A truth that I wish more politicians would acknowledge.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
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Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Nigel Farage will soon be the least popular political party leader in the UK by some margin. The confidence trick isn't working any more www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-nigel-...
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Andy @ansonscorner.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What’s a song lyric that fucks you up every time?
He sang as if he knew me In all my dark despair And then he looked right through me as if I wasn't there - from Killing Me Softly - gets me every time
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’ve had the iciest of martinis and a couple of packets of salt and vinegar hula hoops to bolster me for the second half. I just hope it’s enough.
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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 11/07/2026
This is surfacing again … Deservedly
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oliver levy @helicule.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You think you know a channel.
Google news alert: 

Google • 34m
BBC Four arrested and officer hurt in violent disorder
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ben @benrs.uk · 11/07/2026
morning
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Heather Mac @trvlinjunkie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
An incredible cover by Norwegian Jørgen Dahl Moe. Right down to the very last beautiful note. I think Bruce Springsteen would approve 100%. Hope he has heard this. I keep playing over and over. Enjoy!
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10/07/2026
When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.
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The True American @thetrueamerican.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup. I have loved cheering for the US team. Then that fucker intervened. Yes, the red card was excessive, but I would rather lose because of it than win because Imbecile called FIFA. The joy is gone. Now we’re the bad guys. He destroys everything.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
England red card.. So does the king call fifa now? Is that how this works?
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet. @Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #music #jazz
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 02/07/2026
When you Google Madonna and click on her name
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is such an important point.
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Rebecca Gellman 🩷💛💙 - Dignity & Respect stolen by UK Government. @starfleet-net.co.uk · 01/07/2026
This is child abuse.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I swear Kemi Badenoch's only consistent position is that any policies put forward by parties to the left of her must be wrong by definition, regardless of what they are Labour wants more devolution. More devolution must therefore be wrong, despite the Conservatives spending years pushing for it
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“Ed Miliband is like a military dictator” is the kind of sentence that should get your phone immediately taken away from you for being Terminally Too Online
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Andy @ansonscorner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Good to know President is tackling the real issues…
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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
And den hi go take dem to di bowling alley
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nigel Farage says his £5m gift from a crypto billionaire is “not any of your business” as it was given unconditionally to be spent on anything from Ferraris to gambling on horses How on earth did so many fall for this individuals bull**** www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage: I can spend £5m gift on Ferraris or betting on horses if I want
Reform leader says it is ‘purely private matter’ and it is not hypocritical to criticise Keir Starmer for receiving glasses
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
oh my god

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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

By Ken Harbaugh
An illustration of a rocket headed from a shadowy female figure toward a soldier whose face is illuminated by the glow of his phone
Illustration by Ann Kiernan
June 21, 2026

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For several months last year, a Ukrainian housewife, 35 and lonely in a marriage that had gone cold, traded WhatsApp messages with a Chechen commander, Achmad, stationed somewhere in Ukraine’s occupied south. They wrote about their days, their disappointments, what they hoped to do when the war ended. She asked about the front. He told her.

“Send me a picture,” she said. “I want to see your life.”

One afternoon, he obliged—a photograph taken inside the barracks, of himself and another soldier grinning for the camera. Behind them, pinned to the wall, was a map of the compound showing the unit’s position.

The housewife did not exist. “She” was a middle-aged officer named Serhiy working for Ukraine’s military-intelligence directorate, part of a concerted effort to draw secrets from the men sent to occupy his country.

“Serhiy was great at flirting,” his commander told me. “Guys in our team started asking him for dating advice.” Shortly after Achmad sent that photograph, the coordinates it revealed were struck by a Ukrainian drone.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nigel Farage tried to convince BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent that ‘no-one cares at all’ about his £5 million crypto ‘gift’, and she pushed back until he squirmed www.thepoke.com/2026/06/23/f...
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Nigel Farage tried to convince BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent that ‘no-one cares at all’ about his £5 million crypto ‘gift’, and she pushed back until he squirmed
You’re going to want to sit down to watch this, because it’s a journalist – BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent – holding Farage’s feet to the fire on things he’s said and done. No, really! She accused him…
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