Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialdarren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/10/2026 24098712931
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialHendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?" ~ Hannah Ahrendt 03318
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fake intelligence is my new saying for it... 010
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30 18274132
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialCold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼 891957544
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialEast Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 02/10/2026Is Andy Burnham really “abolishing” the triple lock on the state pension? No. He has promised to keep it for the current Parliament. From 2030, he proposes a different formula – designed to keep pensions rising, while lifting the fear of social care costs. Here are seven facts you need.eastangliabylines.co.ukThe triple lock: seven things you need to know about Burnham’s plan for pensionersAndy Burnham has radical plans. But he is not ‘abolishing’ the triple lock on state pensions. What are the facts? 14917
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialCentral Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026So this just came up in conversation. So we thought why not share it again! Hanged, buried, and back from the dead – Half-Hangit Maggie lived to tell the tale that baffled a nation and changed the lawcentralbylines.co.ukCrime Chronicles part 3: The Tale of Half-Hangit Maggie – the woman they couldn’t hangHanged, buried, and back from the dead – Half-Hangit Maggie lived to tell the tale that baffled a nation and changed the law 2136
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...iandunt.substack.comBurnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitmentIt’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here. 54906252
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sounds like the media are pushing the narrative again...just stop...this country is not a bloody sitcom 030
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialThis Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/202664 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️ 7733541272
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33 321010544
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialSlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"I don't fucking think so" 0859196
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Saw Miriam Margolyes in Australia a few years ago...she was around the Python lot in their prime...Cleese absolutely refused to pronounce her name right...she despised him 000
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The exact same words were said to describe Malcolm Vine coming last and wetting himself in the egg and spoon race at our Primary School Sports Day in 1963. 2367
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That's me...tastes like soap and overpowers any other ingredient. 140
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Went to a wedding a few years ago...asked for some more gravy...was told by the agitated server...it's sauce...lolz 030
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Bought it today...thanks for sorting the Amazon thing... 010
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026static.klipy.comThe Wicker Man: Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ!ALT: The Wicker Man: Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ! 3634344
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 1031371463
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tell them to take the black pepper out..Ginster's and Pukka...you know who you are... 020
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea. 10830433
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialNiall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Week after week she just keeps putting the work in to lose the weight. Her thyroid meds are also helping but despite bad weather this week Bella was still out there getting her steps in! It's the weekly weigh in... 1213471341
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As far as I can discover (please correct me if I’m wrong), no government minister in either this or the previous administration has used the phrase when discussing people’s protests about the genocide in Gaza. Or about climate breakdown. Or about any other protest that challenges established power. 665391
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialpaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Lest we forget... 'Accounts based in Russia posted lies about the motive for the arson attacks targeting Starmer, which were spread by figures such as far-right anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRussia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC revealsEvidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups. 11810
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made. 28644235
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialGhouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season: 511403469
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1052353687
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialNiall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I think a lot of people would have started following me when we rescued Rodney in Thailand. How he lived through those first days I’ll never know. To see him and run a couple of laps with him in London this weekend was magical ❤️ 2296022829
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialTrades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 15/09/2026There is a direct political thread, a nasty politics, that links Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, and Tommy Robinson, with Donald Trump, MAGA and the US white supremacist movement. We are better than that. Britain is better than that. 26123
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialPeter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Macklemore hasn't played Glastonbury yet? Seems time to me. #Glasto27 0285
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Did you do it or did the barber visit 020
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Publication day has turned weird. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ across the board, and reviewers compare it to Douglas Adams and Bill Bryson. I'm going to have that embroidered onto my planetary escape towel. The Wolf That Chews Rocks Ebook and hardback, Amazon and good bookshops. www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-That-Ch... 1012013
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059822392
barnestormer.bsky.social @barnestormer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Walked from Seahouses to the castle..beautiful place 010
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialWulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If your idea of patriotism is calling any member of the RNLI, an entirely voluntary organisation whose crews daily risk their lives to save others, a traitor, then you are beyond hope of redemption. 40728136
Reposted by @barnestormer.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of? 271296341
