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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ

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Not a cyclist, but gets around on a bike. Now reluctantly involved in the Building Safety Crisis

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 1h
If you're a member of RIBA, you should be calling for Moylan's honorary fellowship to be withdrawn. While I wouldn't expect an honorary to be subject to an institution's code of conduct, Moylan is taking a dump on RIBA's bsky.app/profile/pete...
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 2h
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Labour Walks & Cycles @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social · 22m
It’s quite simple. The Conservatives are not fit to be a potential party of Government. You can’t fit the number of ways this is deeply damaging, unfair and stupid into a single social media post.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 3h
A man had to be rescued by firefighters from a house that partially collapsed after a driver crashed their car into it. Happens so frequently that hardly anyone takes any notice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man rescued after car crashes into house in Waltham Abbey
A man is arrested at the scene on suspicion of being unfit through drink or drugs.
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 6h
The obsession with cutting 'red tape' paved the path to Grenfell and the horrors that followed. If 72 rich people had perished in such a fire the Tories wouldn't be going down the same path again. But those people don't count do they? #r4today
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Ken Wake @blackcat9lincs.bsky.social · 7h
It is interesting that the Tories are planning at least £47bn of public spending cuts to tempt people yo vote for them. So having wrecked all public services in their last administration leaving nothing working.. their main offer is more of the same Anybody tempted?
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6h
A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today
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Polish man who provided Famine relief to be honoured
A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 17h
Two men got into an argument over a parking space, both drew guns and shot at each other, they hit everyone but themselves. Girl killed and various others wounded. The two men escaped. You need guns to protect yourself from criminals 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Girl, 12, fatally shot in US during 'dispute over parking space'
Police in Baltimore have said the young girl was not a target of the shooting but was caught in the crossfire.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 22h
In particular, where one big reason rents are rising is a housing shortage, rent controls do nothing to address that and may worsen it. Here’s my full article on the right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis www.ft.com/content/437c...
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The right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis
Evictions and spiralling rents are the symptom, not the underlying disease
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 20h
Left-wing Party: couldn’t we just have a pointless and catastrophic internal schism on a minor point of ideology that nobody outside the party understands, like in the old days?
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 22h
Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22h
WTAF?
A detail from the bonkers Tory ‘Bayeux’ tapestry featuring a bloke who (I think) looks like me!
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hear they're calling Bryson "Eddie The Legal" now in NI. The idea there should be "talks" about a sectarian, triumphalist Orange Order parade is like entertaining the idea of Germans goosestepping up the Champs-Élysées every June 14th waving their colonial banners & flags "coz are culture innit".
Talks on Drumcree parade dispute end at Hillsborough Castle without agreement
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
truly the worst of the worst....
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TeatimeandBiscuit @teatimeandbiscuit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A point worth noting is that 1% of the population account for 50% of Aviation CO2 emissions, surely step one should be restrictions on private jets and an end to frequent flyer programs and the like. Ask the people of Bangkok and Nepal what they think.
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Car Into Building @carintobuilding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Car into home Waltham Abbey, England, UK #CarIntoBuilding #CarIntoBuildingUK 🇬🇧
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Man rescued after car crashes into house in Waltham Abbey
A man is arrested at the scene on suspicion of being unfit through drink or drugs.
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"A man riding a bicycle was struck by a Waymo on 4th & Market in San Francisco today. First responders arrived and treated him at the scene before he was taken to the hospital with injuries." OP: tiktok.tl2active Waymo has reported 39 crashes w cyclists to NHTSA, inc at least 12 w injuries.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also from Essex... It must be "drive pissed in Essex" weekend or something. But ebikes... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Motorist caught driving car with missing tyre in Chelmsford
Police say the driver's actions were "extraordinarily dangerous".
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This aerial shot tells you all you need to know about the support the Garvaghy Road has. The residents and their supporters, which include Catholics, Republicans, real Nationalists (not far-right plastic 'patriots') and others all stood shoulder to shoulder today against orange order loyalists.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧 Reasons to ’rejoin’ the EU: 1. Filling the 55k NHS vacancies 2. Young people going Interrailing 3. Ditto applying to Maastricht uni etc ( cheaper) 4. No airport queues 5.Jobs in Europe for unemployed 6. Dublin Convention reinstated, stopping small boats And 6. Nigel Farage’s face.
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/10/2026
Tens of thousands of protesters have marched in Madrid and other cities in Spain to demand affordable housing, a day after MPs rejected relief measures for tenants.
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Huge protests in Spain after housing measures defeated
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Madrid and other cities in Spain to demand affordable housing, a day after MPs rejected relief measures for tenants.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since Suella Braverman is trying to exclude many of us from England, here’s my family story from seven years ago to push back against this ethnonationalism This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness bylinetimes.com/2019/12/18/t...
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This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness
Now that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England's buried civic tolerance and historic diversity.
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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We arrested the man who owned rape island. We arrested the woman who brought victims to rape island. But somehow, we still haven’t arrested the men who paid to rape those victims on rape island. Justice made it all the way to the island, then stopped at the disturbingly wealthy guest list.
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MKC @mkc44.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
William I - French Henry II - French Edward II - Welsh Henry V - Welsh Henry VII - Welsh James I - Scottish Charles I - Scottish William III - Dutch George I - German George II - German
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are people calling this conviction "two tier policing." Er - no. If you set off a politically motivated bomb in a public area and if shrapnel flies about that is terrorism. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Best thing a Pope has done since the Cadaver Synod
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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I see the problem: no driver.
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Woman in hospital after car crashes into Mossley house
The woman's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing, police said.
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Car Into Building @carintobuilding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Car into house Mossley/Greater Manchester, England, UK #CarIntoBuilding #CarIntoBuildingUK 🇬🇧
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Woman in hospital after car crashes into Mossley house
The woman's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing, police said.
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Rob Jacobs @robjake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think she's advocating a British equivalent to the 'German Blood Certificate' issued under you know who you know when.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean i love capeshit as much as the next emotionally stunted man in his 50s but “one of the darkest movies ever made”? it’s hardly Come and See, is it?
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showusyourspine.bsky.social @showusyourspine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Because Ealing Council don't enforce parking restrictions on the Uxbridge Road, two buses full of passengers were held up here for more than a minute while the guy in the lorry browsed his phone. But remember, it's bike lanes that cause bus delays. @willnorman.co.uk @carolinerussell.bsky.social
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bad news for King Charles.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You often hear "yeah but PR will allow [party name] candidates to be elected", when that's precisely what it is supposed to do, by design. the idea behind Consensus politics is to come up with governments that doesn't just satisfy the 50+1% and forgets the 49% 2/2
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was teamwork with 5 of us. Others will pick it up tomorrow. We’re up to 400 names now and still going strong. Thanks to every single one of you who have supported 🙌
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 02/10/2026
“Joey, do you like gladiator movies?”
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Given that Irish government TDs have cited Sweden's decision to introduce a language test for citizenship as justification for Ireland introducing one, it seems relevant that Sweden is finding it difficult to actually do it
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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RBKC and MHCLG among those to be looked at by CPS over possible Grenfell charges
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have revealed that police files on them have been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm half-British and half-Thai. A random right-winger verbally racially abused me in the street for no reason at all. That same man was in my A&E ward a couple of days later due to a cardiac arrest. I was the doctor who saved him. There's a moral in that story somewhere.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Clarion article just dropped! More here. bsky.app/profile/oxfo...
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