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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 22h

Such great interviewers! Brutal but absolutely fair.

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Lucinda Hawksley @lucindahawksley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Please read and share this. I have a personal connection, as this is a dear friend's grandfather and this story is so personal to Cornish (& WW2) history. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/beattie-vi...

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We need to purchase a new highly secure case so we can display the medals of Captain Stephen Beattie, including his Victoria Cross.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think she has a 'cuckoo for cocoa puffs' YouTube channel which is both deranged and deeply boring. I still remember listening in disbelief to the disastrous and award winning (for the journalists) interviews she did with BBC local radio stations as it became clear how bad the mini budget was.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Please please please dress the lettuce up and include props - like the Daily Star did with the Liz Truss lettuce. Seen here with a Greggs sausage roll and with a cup of tea.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Porridge with banana is my staple breakfast all year round!

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word. Serena Joy in the Morning.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

❤️ Waitrose no. 1 vanilla ice cream - I could eat an entire tub in a single sitting. ❤️🍧

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I loathe Lumo. Shouty staff, bossy signs in the carriages about luggage, over air conditioned, hardly any toilets working, and - every time - failure to reserve a forward facing seat despite them being available. It's also usually only slightly cheaper than LNER which is SO much better.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

💯 - this was also Dennis Healey's point when Labour was basically a protest movement and people thought it was enough to 'make a statement'. V odd thinking - parties should want to win elections so they can form a government and enact their policies. Anything less than that is just performance art.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says.

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Donald Trump wants you to believe that Chicago is facing “unprecedented” crime. But his own website says the exactly the opposite. Trump’s own staff can’t keep his lies straight.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Definitely The Demon Headmaster! Absolutely terrifying. I also found The Box of Delights pretty creepy but not in the same league as TDH.

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Random Observer @randomobserver51.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The principal outcome of the Green Party conference is that despite the longest and hottest summer on record, no-one is talking about climate change right now. Well done everybody.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I presume that by 'internal democracy' you mean members having the opportunity to elect people to positions within the party? Labour has elections that members can vote in at least every year and more frequently if the leader or deputy leader is being replaced and there is more than one candidate.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I spend most of my work days touch typing and have found the Lenovo think pad keyboards to be good. The keys feel heavy enough and depress properly. Also enough of a click when pressed. Or you could buy a proper keyboard with spacious, deep keys and plug it in - think PC World does them.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Dispiriting' is the right word. And it's not like the Greens don't have a very recent example of the damage antisemitism does to a political party. It should always be rejected because it's evil. But it's also the electoral equivalent of repeatedly punching yourself in the face.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Denis Healey on David Owen

Healey kept a shelf of Spitting Image puppets as latex mementoes of his turbulent political life - among them Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and David Owen. As he picked up the Owen puppet and squeezed it to make it squeak, I quoted Owen's view that when Healey stood for the Labour leadership in 1980 he “didn't have the guts to take on the left wing of the party”. “That's absolute bollocks," snorted Healey. “David Owen was a very self-centred person. He was good-looking, he was intelligent, he had immense charm and all these presents were given to him by the good fairy and then the bad fairy came along and tapped him on the shoulder and said, '... but you'll be a shit.”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just an awful lot of words for what should be a simple statement: these are a bunch of anti-semites and we'll have nothing to do with them

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Argh! Southeastern really is the train company that keeps on giving (bedbugs).

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper

Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ignore the sceptics and haters. Today is the day the red lines have been scrapped and new future in Europe is possible. Don’t sit this one out and let those people take away our hope by being silent - share and join @labour4europe.bsky.social today building a new Europe with us and with Labour.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hooray for competence in government! Great to see it back.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's absolutely disgraceful that the SNP is using these tactics.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that people born in England today could only be descended from Normans, Anglo Saxons or Romans. My point is that it has no bearing on the value of a person. The obsession with bloodlines/where people are from is a Nazi thing.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely. I think England in particular is a nation of immigrants - even those who were born in England will be descended from Normans, Anglo Saxons, Romans, or further back. There is no such thing as a 'pure' English person. And that's usually seen as a strong point (except by fascists).

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Cllr Jack Caldwell 🇺🇦 @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Farcical for peds & cyclists to learn, in response to my Cllr Q, that no conflict monitoring took place on Leith Walk (esp bus stops), despite a statement implying there was. How can anyone have confidence CEC is taking Leith Walk #ActiveTravel seriously?

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Blind Edinburgh man warns new road layout makes daily walks 'stressful and worrying'

'You’ve got no control over what cars are doing, and I can’t see whether people are going to stop, so I’ve really got to trust them.'

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From the photo it also looks like the tactile paving has been removed, making this crossing even more dangerous for blind and partially sighted people.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Daily Express story (archive.is/SGo0K) about Sandie Peggie's upcoming action against the RCN, in which she continues to hound Dr Beth Upton who literally moved to the other side of the world to get away from Peggie's harassment, and which includes this frankly baffling paragraph:

Her fight for women's rights has come at significant personal cost. Her father passed away shortly before the first set of tribunal hearings, and in May this year her family dog, a seven-year-old Rottweiler called Broxi, had to be put down.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I loathe chargrilled vegetables (often the veggie option at a barbeque). There is nothing appealing about burnt peppers.

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And when you comment that you listened to 90s music when it first came out they act like you've just said something embarrassing. No, Kurt Cobain was from MY generation!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, agree. It looks more studenty and less residential than 30 years ago - Crawford on Newington Road was a sad loss. I then moved to Salisbury Place above a chippy which by default deep fried pizzas straight from the freezer!

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Beans on Toast @beansontoast1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

34 years ago for me - the student flats on Blackett Avenue in Newington. Squat modern buildings but a nice setting. 30 years this year since I graduated - can't believe it's that long ago.

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EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 20/09/2026

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Tracy Griffen @tracygriffen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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