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Barrington Womble.

@barrydowney.bsky.social
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Socialist, former firefighter and trade unionist. Not giving up on believing in people. Irish via both parents' English by birth.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Choosing to read this one post in isolation and marvelling at Ice Cube's previously unknown talent for physics alongside the rapping and acting.
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Rob Miller @robm50.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nothing to see here. Just 2 Israelis discussing final solutions to the Gaza problem!
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I did a podcast on my book Serving The Reich yesterday, & in looking back through the book I came across this quote from Paul Rosbaud (an extraordinary man) on the response of the German professors to the 1933 Civil Service Laws. Ring any bells in relation to alleged "wokeism in academia" in the US?
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Suad is just a mother trying her best to save her son's life and health in dangerous circumstances. Please do what you can. Her link is tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx
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An urgent humanitarian appeal to save Suad and her child Omar after the war destroyed their lives.
My name is Liz and I reside in the US; Suad has asked me to manage this campaign on her behalf and all funds raised will go directly to her.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Om Jameel has heart issues and needs help looking after her children. Please help her out with her medical expenses. her link is chuffed.org/project/183996
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Help us Survive the War(om jameel)
northern Gaza, in the yellow zone under occupation.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bara'a has already lost two children, and her son Ibrahim is suffering from severe pneumonia and dehydration. Her medical expenses run to $70 a day. her link is chuffed.org/project/191450
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I Lost My Daughters to War and Hunger. Please Help Me Save Ibrahim, My Last Living Child"
My name is Bara'a, and I am writing to you from the depths of an unimaginable nightmare. I am a mother whose heart has been shattered into pieces, and today, I am reaching out to the world in a…
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hammam is a nurse who also looks after his disabled brother Abood. His link is chuffed.org/project/1844...
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Support for the Nurse and My Brother Abood
Hi! My name is Hammam Al-Shanti.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Khalil's family has gone from happy to homeless. Their medical expenses leave them short on rent every month and they have been evicted from their tent multiple times this year. Their link is spot.fund/drb68q8sc
The Farwana family's belongings on the street outside their tentMuhammed and Yassin sat outside their tentYassin asleep with all their belongings around himGhaith Farwana with spiderman face paint on
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Amir needs help with his family's medical expenses. His mother has serious retinal damage and her medicine costs $35 a day. He's the only breadwinner for his family. Their link is chuffed.org/project/help...
Amir with his mother in their tent. Her eye is covered with a patch.Amir's mother and his younger brother Sanad.Mayar and Sanad in their tentAmir and his mother. You can see her infected eye.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sharing the links of Palestinian families in need of personal support. Thread below.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thinking about the UK gov report "National Security Assessment on Global Ecosystems", Feb 2026. The language is incredibly stark. And it's *national security*, not exactly from tree-huggers: "Global ecosystem degradation & collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity... (high confidence)"
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National security assessment on global ecosystems (accessible version)
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
what a wonderful man. don’t know if he ever saw this but i sure hope so
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The Splendid Wholesomeness of Sam Neill
When you live in Los Angeles, you know to leave celebrities alone. Even the famous need to pick up some things at Target now and...
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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Drill baby Drill! Capitalism has killed us all.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If this El Niño hits 4.5 Celsius warming (or 8 degrees Fahrenheit) we could be looking at a mini extinction level event. And 99% of the people I know have zero idea it’s coming thanks to the horrendous U.S. news media.
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I scored 8/8 on CAMRA's 'Spot the fake craft' quiz. Can you spot which 'craft beers' are actually owned by global corps? camra.org.uk/beer-report?...
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CAMRA | I scored 8/8 on CAMRA's quiz
You've got a nose for a corporate takeover. Take the Spot the fake craft quiz on CAMRA's Beer in the UK report.
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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
tell me again how I should be worried about Russia invading tell me again about how it's immigration that degrades public services tell me again about how the government doesn't have any money and can't do anything say "bond markets" to me again, you motherfucker, I dare you
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It is going to be the Green Party, in alliance with working class movements, environmental and social justice movements, that can stand up to Reform to prevent the disaster of Nigel Farage in Downing Street. (5/5)
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
You absolutely do not got to hand it to Giorgia Meloni! Fascists arguing amongst themselves is none of my business.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026
I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A government factory?!? Making cheap versions of generic drugs for the NHS?I?!!! Rather than giving American pharmaceutical companies a dodecajillion pounds annually!!?!!? Insane, intolerable, destroy it with fire
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is the same thing as “Britain has become ungovernable”, by the way: things have come to a pretty pass when a new government can’t secretly agree to scythe benefits without facing a huge public backlash that tanks its popularity into the sewers. We must elect a new public, immediately.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We get this stuff is just insulting, right? It could not more obviously be vexatious if it was a bunch of MPs and Times journalists sneaking around in the night wearing eye masks and striped jumpers, telling everyone they meet that nothing suspicious is going on and there’s nothing to worry about.
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David J Court @davidjcourt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Inherited a trouser factory that only makes oversized items. Early days, but we're making huge strides.
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Lee Healey ✍🏻 @leehealey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” - Albert Camus ‘Carry on Camping’ released this day in 1969. Signed prints available here: shorturl.at/WuJGr @barneyfarmer.bsky.social
Carry on Camping comic strip spoof starring philosopher Albert Camus. As published in Viz magazine.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/05/2026
I don't care who you are, there will always be times when hell is other people. Not because other people are horrible - quite the opposite! Other people are *wonderful*, but boy are they ever *stubborn*. 1/
A hand-tinted image of elderly people in the lounge of a nursing home. Three killer robots have been inserted into the scene.
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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Just gonna leave the page here that shows Dan Neidle gave Luke Akehurst a £2,500 donation in 2024, as it may be relevant! publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregm...
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House of Commons - The Register of Members' Financial Interests (11 November 2024: Akehurst, Luke )
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I don't know enough about this politician, but this is giving David Cameron "call me Dave" vibes.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
50% of my life has been under one austerity regime or another at this point, either that has to turn around really quickly or you're going to end up with a bigger problem than trite lines being trotted out by vaguely left-of-centre types.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My entire adult life has been one "oops there's another once in a lifetime crisis, time to tighten your belt" after another and you don't need to be a genius to see whose wormed their way out of tightening their belt and for whom that's been mandatory at every turn.
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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 29/03/2026
This has always been there. (See Holy Trinity Brompton, historically — and where Marshall is said to worship.) But now it's in the open, and a driver for (grim) change. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bill…
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The Billionaire, the Bible, and the Battle for Britain: Sir Paul Marshall and the Rise of Elite Evangelical Nationalism
He funds newsrooms, churches, and schools – but what is driving ‘Britain’s newest media mogul’? James Bloodworth reports
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
There we are, on the TL. Do you want a world in which you have to admit the Dirty Hippies were right all along, or one where your children are in a frontline trench while you simultaneously queue for bread and try to hide from marauding killer drones?
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Proposal: when someone says “I got Chat GPT to do this” we should look at them the same way we would if they’d said “Look! Everybody! Look! I just shat my pants!” Think this would be effective as a social sanction and beneficial in the long term.
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Some of the replies here! Basic comprehension escapes so many but they feel the need to weigh in anyway.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
PEOPLE ARE JOBLESS AND HOMELESS BECAUSE THEY HAD THE MORAL RESOLVE TO CALL THIS A GENOCIDE UNDER BIDEN. But not you. You brave pundit. You were silent. While Hind was slaughtered in her family’s car. While Refaat was buried under his apartment building. You were no where.
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Anyone chin stroking about "how force can be used against children" is fucking monster
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it” lmaooo GET EM
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Inquiry for New York Times

Good afternoon,
My name is [REDACTED]
and l am a reporter for the
New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it.
With gratitude,
[REDACTED] 
Palestine Diaspora Movement 

Hello [REDACTED]
We do not collaborate with The New York Times.
Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours.
The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable.
So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it.
Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The right outcome for the Iranian people, and consequently the rest of us, is for farage to do the honourable thing. Unfortunately we know he has no honour.
Screenshot of  Farage tweet praying for the right outcome for the Persian people. The cunt.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If you're heading to church today please consider sending £5 towards this family. Khalil has been getting into debt as he tries to get food and medicine for his family. The situation is impossible to imagine over there. chuffed.org/project/khal...
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Khalil and Noreen Suffering in Gaza
Please join us in defending Khalil and Noreen's kids from the brutality of war, winter, hunger and illness. Noreen suffers from damaged cartilege. She can't move easily. She also needs a corneal trans...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Let me be more explicit about this: Gabriel Pogrund is scum who should be hounded and pelted with rotting fruit through the streets like Cersei Lannister for reading out the shite he was sent by Morgan McSweeney as a national emergency. He knew exactly what he was doing then.
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Meanwhile, over on social media, the price of freedom is eternal vigilantes – particularly those posting video doorbell footage on neighbourhood group chats, flagging anyone who walks past their house, often on suspicion of being foreign in a built-up area." www.perspectivemedia.com/youre-on-cam...
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You’re on camera | Perspective Media
There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes from the opening of his pamphlet, On Tyranny, and i ...
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/02/2026
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Barrington Womble. @barrydowney.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New British insult for Donald Trump just Dropped. Oi! Mango Fingers!
Picture of some M&S mango slices.
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