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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A confected fear for his “personal security” is going to be the excuse Farage gives for withdrawing from the by-election isn’t it.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Morning… Take A Breath, photo by Sean O’Riordan, Irish photographer.
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
It’s a truly Trumpian tragedy: he’s made billions of dollars but can’t buy love or respect | Emma Brockes
Potus pocketed over $2.2bn last year – but with an algae-filled reflecting pool and his State Fair a fiasco, what price happiness? asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
After decades of decline, why Welsh male voice choirs are back. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Welsh male voice choirs make a comeback, after decades of decline
The male voice choir, or Côr Meibion, is a world-famous emblem of Welsh identity.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In every way that counts, America is almost certain to lose the Second Iran War We have no endgame, the public does not support this, our weapons stockpiles are depleting fast, we are not set up for a long war and we have virtually no understanding of our adversary or the region
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tommy69gg.bsky.social @tommy69gg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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av62.bsky.social @av62.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Beautiful Whitby!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I'll be talking about 'Made in Manchester' at Alderley History Group on Monday October 27th, 7 for 7.30pm, Alderley Edge Union Club, Stevens Street. Visitors welcome, £5.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Thinking of the size of the oven in which this baguette was baked. French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).
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av62.bsky.social @av62.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
How did that get past planning?
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Does Trump truly believe Americans are going to accept his manufactured *interview* with Maxwell, and a squeaky clean whitewashed DOJ report, in lieu of the actual Epstein Files? MAGA isn't even that stupid.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Going home in the rain, Manchester, painting by Lita Narayan. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
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Peggy Shinners @pshinkicker61.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
More trolling from @gavinnewsom.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #WTFAmerica #ETTD
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I wish But they lead the polls And half the media share their stance and agenda
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
houstonchronicle.com
Paxton tells Texas schools to follow Ten Commandments law despite court ruling
Attorney General Ken Paxton's guidance comes days after U.S. District Judge Fred Biery sided with 16 families who sued their school districts to stop the law from going into effect.
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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Leeds, 1954, photo by Marc Riboud. Young French photographer on his first assignment for Picture Post.
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I wish they would stop reporting "Reform UK *plans*" Farage speech today contained no "plans" Just bluster and rhetoric which would not withstand any scrutiny
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The UK government’s senior law officer has said that recognition of Palestine, in the circumstances outlined by the prime minister last month, “would be entirely in accordance with international law”. rozenberg.substack.com/p/recognisin...
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Recognising Palestine
UK will comply with international law, attorney general says
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
President Zelenskyy taking out Marjorie Taylor Greene’s reporter boyfriend with a single line.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Forty staff members at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield plan to strike over pay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Wakefield museum tour guides' pay demands 'unaffordable'
Around 40 members of staff at coal mining museum to go on strike after pay talks broke down.
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av62.bsky.social @av62.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
It’s extraordinary isn’t it!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Durham from Observatory Hill, 1847, painting by John Wilson Carmichael, 1799-1868 (Durham University). #NorthernArt
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Now that I know Trump doesn’t want people talking about his involvement with Jeffery Epstein — I’m going to be talking about it forever and ever and ever.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If America is now at war with science (& mRNA isn't just about vaccines, it's potentially a platform for all sorts of drugs) then I bloody hope Europe (ideally the UK! but frankly anyone) scoops up the scientists losing grants & gives the work a home www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
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av62.bsky.social @av62.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The misuse of statistics particularly when there are small cohorts is endemic in politics!
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av62.bsky.social @av62.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Beautiful!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Not a single person died on Helsinki’s roads in the last year. An impressive achievement which shows cities across the world that road traffic deaths are not inevitable. www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl... Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year - Helsinki Times
helsinkitimes.fi
Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
Helsinki has completed 12 months without a single traffic fatality, a milestone credited to lower speed limits, safer infrastructure, and years of consistent planning, officials say.
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
Nine out of 10 nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland reject pay award
Royal College of Nursing urges ministers to improve 3.6% offer to avoid industrial action ballot later this year
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Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Tainted Love
The judicial review to challenge the registration of Gender Plus to provide cross sex hormones to 16-17 has failed. Why do the courts continue to ignore the lack of evidence for this intervention?
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av62.bsky.social @av62.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
So beautiful!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, was born at Oldham General Hospital #onthisday 1978 after pioneering work by Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe at Oldham’s Centre for Human Reproduction.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject. Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It's clear that quite large sections of the right - including some well-known politicians and newspaper columnists - actively want an explosion of violence this summer. And if it comes, they'll stand there clutching their matches, petrol cans and aerosols saying "we told you so".
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A Flight of Swallows II, by Hester Cox, printmaker based in north Yorkshire. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
An extraordinary artist. An amazing life. And a lovely person to boot. Farewell to the great Cleo Laine. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
theguardian.com
Cleo Laine, Britain's most successful jazz singer, dies aged 97
Versatile singer straddled jazz, classical, pop and musical theatre with four-octave range, and collaborated for decades with husband, John Dankworth
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Honestly never thought this day would come. But my pinned report about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, which is over 36,500 words and is the most comprehensive, sourced, and terrifying report on this subject available in the U.S., is now far and away the most read report PROOF has ever published.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
L.S. Lowry looking across to Stockport Viaduct, by Chris Cyprus. #NorthernArt
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A Golden Truth
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springmeisterblu.bsky.social @springmeisterblu.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
She knows exactly where she is going…
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Like so many people here recently, I 'have been verified as an adult'. I regard that as a good start to the day, though I would like to see the evidence for myself.
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