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John Slobodian🇺🇦🌻

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Just looking out for Planet Earth while consuming fine ales and the best of Prog & Rock. Bring me more Varenyky. 🇺🇦Слава Україні (Glory to Ukraine)🇺🇦 📍Reading UK

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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pioneering community membership scheme that saved a Berkshire village pub could be a biz model to save other pubs
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Upper Basildon residents raise £450,000 to bring back village pub
The Red Lion in Upper Basildon, Berkshire, is now due to open its doors for a community clean-up.
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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire. The geoglyph has migrated uphill over millenia due to soil creep.
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Jenny's House @uncleshady777.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My head hurts.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 29/08/2026
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ The cross was created to murder humans and torture them. So yes, that’s the reason the human body is shaped like a cross. And wearing a cross is to remind you what happens to people if you go against the empire.
Has anyone noticed that our body is shaped as a Cross !!
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Full marks for the typo. Chef’s kiss for the reply.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I found this post box at Knockrome on Jura in 2013. Never seen anything better.
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There is something so irrepressibly human about making this happen.
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So this was a right wing misinformation campaign. He says Facebook and instagram. Who bought those ads and where does the money go back to? This boy’s face, it’s heartbreaking 💔
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/07/2026
Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me
France and Spain are on fire due to climate change, but never mind that, driving is a nightmare for tall people like me – so which cars are best to help back pain?
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Plot twist: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b8a5ecd...
telegraph.co.uk
Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it
The evidence is stacking up – we only have to look out of our windows
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Al-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk. “The idea that we could maybe use those [Facebook] photos to help us understand where species are in space and time is very difficult”, said @alexanderlees.bsky.social in the science journal Nature.
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Al-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just me walking up the road so I can turn round and march back down again like a tit for the camera.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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South Oxfordshire CAMRA @soxoncamra.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Crooked Billet in Stoke Row www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2627316...
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Blaze rips through roof of Oxfordshire pub as emergency services battle flames
A fire broke out inside an Oxfordshire village pub last night, severely damaging the roof of the building.
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/06/2026
Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047
Sam Neill in the movie Event Horizon.
Wearing a flag patch that has the Australian flag but thr union jack is removed to have the Aboriginal flag in its place
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Full video demonstration of the "Vanka360" all-around air defense system, which has no analogues in the world.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
'Algorithmic politics' signals a strong connection to social media and one's own bubble, and suggests the algorithmic politician is driven by all of this in an algorithmic (i.e. unthinking) way. Yep, it's spot on.
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A true patriot getting his direction from Moscow Those who think the likes of him and Farage have the interests of Britain at heart are sadly mistaken They are instead Russian apologists devoid of any morality www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow
Activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared video of his meeting with Errol Musk
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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Paul Singer - the US billionaire, Trump donor, and owner of Waterstones, Foyles, Blackwell’s, Hatchards, Barnes & Noble, and Hodges Figgis - is poised to become even richer if he succeeds in taking over Thames Water. Yet another reason to support indie bookshops! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid
Paul Singer is founder of a leading creditor in the hedge fund consortium locked in talks with the UK government
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil
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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
good morning welcome to hell here is your addictive game 100jumps.org
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100 Jumps
Hold to charge, release to jump. Land on 100 platforms to win — but one miss and it's over. How many attempts will it take you?
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 03/03/2026
Refusing to trust AI since 1968. Get your new T-shirt with FREE UK delivery here >>> buff.ly/eya1omh
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation
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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Reform is threatening Bangor University over a student society’s decision. The society isn’t Bangor University—but this is a neat preview of how a Reform government would work: public money for supporters only. Trump-style politics, UK edition. Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
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Elusive Brewing @elusivebrewing.com · 10/02/2026
#10 👀
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Nick Jenkins @nickjhistorian.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Always an exciting moment when we see les grues (the cranes) flying north over our part of France… a sign that spring is on the way.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/02/2026
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The short gentleman in the trenchcoat and the oddly familiar hair stylings is 'party leader' Alek Yerbury, and yes he does like to wear double-breasted pinstripe suits when giving speeches, why do you ask?
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We need this stopped. Plans for far right people to descend on Oxford this weekend to smother us with their flags. We do not want them here. @bradtbaines.bsky.social @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social @oxfordclarion.bsky.social @thamesvalleypolice.bsky.social
Text from a Facebook page from Ben Cullen, one of the main culprits for Raise The Colours flag polluting, saying that Raise the Colours groups from Brownhills, Kingstanding, Sheffield and Cannock  will be coming to put flags all over Oxford.
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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Really pleased by this! Thanks to @garethepps.bsky.social for helping me raise it and @neilmfawcett.bsky.social for making it happen. It's a shame because old twitter was great but it's not coming back, and we couldn't stay complicit in the industrial-scale abuse of women and girls it now pumps out.
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Oxfordshire County Council withdraws from X
Oxfordshire County Council is joining other councils, including district councils in Oxfordshire, in being deeply concerned about the rise in online hate speech and abuse targeting women and girls on ...
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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We are no longer posting on X. You can still keep in touch with us on many other social media platforms. Thank you for being part of our community here on Bluesky! 💙 Sign up to our newsletter & be the first to know about our campaigns and news: mailchi.mp/iwt/newslett...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I'm very pleased to announce that my debut feature documentary, The Battle For Kyiv, will be released on Apple TV, Amazon Prime & Google Play on June 6th 2025 in association with BylineTV. Available in all territories and countries these platforms operate in except for Russia.
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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Holy shit Ukraine's SBU security service now says it has attacked the Kerch bridge in occupied Crimea in a months-long operation. It says SBU agents "mined the supports" of the bridge with 1,100kg of TNT under the water line and detonated it this morning.
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Boooooommm 💥💥💥💥💥💥 For the third time, Ukraine’s Security Service blew up the Crimean Bridge—this time underwater. -United24
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
💥 russian media are reporting a renewed attack on the Crimean Bridge.
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨 BREAKING: UKRAINE DETONATES 1ST EXPLOSIVE TO DAMAGE THE KERCH BRIDGE PILLAR SUPPORTS SBU's statement makes it clear that detonations at more pillar supports of the Crimean Bridge are pending. igorsushko.substack.com/p/breaking-u...
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🚨 BREAKING: UKRAINE DETONATES 1ST EXPLOSIVE TO DAMAGE THE KERCH BRIDGE PILLAR SUPPORTS
SBU's statement makes it clear that detonations at more pillar supports of the Crimean Bridge are pending
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🧵 💥 Russia: Over 40 parked Russian strategic bombers struck by Ukrainian short range attack drones across 4 bases spanning 4,000km, from Murmansk to Irkutsk. 150 drones secretly transported to the bases. Activated via Russian cellular networks. SBU operation Spiderweb.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Breaking: Russian strategic bombers ablaze en masse under SBU drone attack (video) Sources report over 40 aircraft targeted, including A-50, Tu-95, Tu-22M3 bombers at two major bases, 2,000 and 4,000 km from Ukraine. euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/01/b...
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Breaking: Russian strategic bombers ablaze en masse under SBU drone attack (video)
Sources report over 40 aircraft targeted, including A-50, Tu-95, Tu-22M3 bombers at two major bases, 2,000 and 4,000 km from Ukraine.
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BrutalEcho @brutalecho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Kemi Badenoch & Nigel Farage oppose Starmer’s EU deal not because it’s bad for Britain, but because it exposes their lies. Their outrage is about protecting those lies, not the country. Britain’s ready to move on to real world, they’re still stuck in a fantasy. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #GMB #Skynews
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I was deeply honored to meet President Zelensky via Zoom when he asked me to become an ambassador for UNITED24 to raise funds for surveillance drones. I'm proud to have walked this road with @u24.gov.ua to support the sovereign nation of 🇺🇦 & so grateful to all who have donated! 🙏❤️👍 #SlavaUkraine
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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