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Bicerin

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹🇪🇺🇲🇿🍉 Current affairs, environment, arts, history & culture. Rugby too.🤷🏻‍♂️ Hope to be back in the EU before too long! #FBPE Inequality drives poverty. End it: #FairTaxSystem. #UBI Alba shaor! A luta continua! ✊ Turkish protest pic: Erdem Sahin/EPA-EFE

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 22h
Love these two
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 17h
#UCU Our universities are attacking the Arts. In this instance, Edinburgh University is cutting courses & staff because Management are claiming the university is in financial crisis. It isn’t, but it is mismanaged. By THEM. But students & staff suffer. Please sign this petition. c.org/yjzn4Dc9Gg
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Save the Craft and Design Courses at Edinburgh College of Art
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21h
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks to Lowkey and the Independent journalists for keeping those who want to know, informed. Succeeding where @theguardian.com @thetimes.com and all the rest of the poor excuse for media, fails. youtube.com/watch?v=NBO7...
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The RAF Fairford Video They Want To Ban — THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Israel #FlyDubai Don’t know about you guys’ views. Clearly there’s been an incident but Israeli Media reporting? LOLZ. Experience suggests you snort a hefty handful of salt. These people are habitual liars. I’ll be color shocked if we discover later it was a false flag op or something else.
Passengers tell Israeli media pilot was stabbed on flight diverted to Saudi Arabia
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Israel #FlyDubai Don’t know about you guys’ views. Clearly there’s been an incident but Israeli Media reporting? LOLZ. Experience suggests you snort a hefty handful of salt. These people are habitual liars. I’ll be color shocked if we discover later it was a false flag op or something else.
Passengers tell Israeli media pilot was stabbed on flight diverted to Saudi Arabia
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mustafa Barghouti: we are seeing the growth of fascism in Israel, and the only way to stop it is for the world to impose a boycott, divestment and sanctions.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Each one of us could be attacked by Israeli settler terrorists, who are attacking Palestinian communities at the rate of 30 places a day.. your house could be burned, you could be shot & killed.." Mustafa Barghouti on conditions facing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 30/09/2026
❗“The ECHR is not a constraint on British security. It is one of its foundations,” write 3 former Independent Reviewers of Terrorism Legislation👇 🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social “Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.”
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The ECHR is not a constraint on British security. It is one of its foundations
Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest post-war achievements.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The hilarious truth from Denmark about the new Greenland deal with Trump! 😂 🇩🇰 🇬🇱
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jthrankson.bsky.social @jthrankson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THIS IS SO WRONG! Abbas is NOT Hamas! To allow Iran, Israel & Russia in for U.N. talks but deny Palestine’s leader shows the outrageous level of hypocrisy that the United Nations is subject to because it resides within USA❗️
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interesting instance of someone (Jesse replying to Floff) forming their opinion on a failure to understand the difference between facts & statistics, asserting that a bunch of statistics (by definition based on a selected set of data) amount to facts. Jesse passionate (re. the topic) but a bit dim.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Addressing yesterdays Hague Group meeting on defending international law, Norways foreign minister explained how he was active in the anti apartheid movement & when it comes to some issues there aren't two sides to the story.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Originally recorded in archives in 1595, the Kirbister Farmhouse, located in Birsay, Orkney is the last un-restored traditional 'firehoose' (firehouse) in Northern Europe. #medieval #scotland #history IG: @graenwulf www.instagram.com/graenwulf?st...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Note that arrested far right rioters have been found to have a much greater than average number of convictions for violent offences, including domestic violence meme via We Demand UK
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The only “moral cowards”, as this wanted war criminal describes them, are those who stayed in their seats. #Israel crossed a rubicon, and embarked on a downward spiral. Even in that bastion of support, #USA, demographics are changing: Israel is haemorrhaging support. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Watch: UN delegates walk out of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech
The Israeli delegation could be be seen cheering in support during Netanyahu's speech.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage.”🙄
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Israel facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plants
Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The BBC covers up Israeli war-crimes in the Gaza killing fields every single day, but somehow finds the time to report Israeli war-criminal, Bibi Netanyahu's condemnation, of a speech by the French President. This isn't news. This is propaganda on behalf of a genocidal, rogue state. #r4today
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many would agree the biggest obstacle to negotiating anything (with both #Iran & Ukraine/Russia) besides #Trump is the absolute numpties US appointed as representatives. Proper experienced diplomatic negotiators would make much more progress than #Witkoff & #Kushner www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Iran's president tells Trump it will never 'bend the knee'
Masoud Pezeshkian's defiant speech to the UN comes after the US president threatened to "annihilate" Iran if a peace deal is not agreed soon.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“His time is up. He had his chance and he blew it with his own crippling incompetence. For the next two years the world can watch him wither away, still causing chaos, still failing, but everyone will be looking to what comes next.”
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Last Days Of Trump
The decline and fall is now underway
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you missed it ... Here's a great German anti-Nazi song from Paul Sies called "Auch in der Nazizeit war Spargelzeit" (Even under the Nazis, there was an asparagus season). There's an English translation for it in the second post. #FCKAFD
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese compared Israel’s killing of Palestinian children in Gaza to arguments used by Nazi officials during the Holocaust. She made the remarks in response to comments by Israeli model Saray Givati, who claimed that children could grow up to become “terrorists.”
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Tristan Bouchard @tristanbouchard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The other night I played a piece outside the greenhouse, tonight I'll play one inside! We're near the end of the growing season for much of what we have going on, though there are still a ton of peppers to process. Have a good evening my friends! Comptine d'un Autre été: L'Après-Midi - Yann Tiersen
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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another history lesson on how the Palestinians have been prosecuted for years
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Another shining example of the actions of ‘the most moral army in the world’. I’m afraid there are no boundaries for these monsters. And they do it all with absolute impunity, because Palestinian lives have no value to the IDF. Chris Sidoti of the UN Independent International Commission of
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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Israeli government has no shame. 😢😡
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Israeli president pardons combat medic who shot dead wounded Palestinian attacker
Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter of man who stabbed soldier continues to divide country
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No. No more US tax funding for ISRAEL PERIOD! This is a societal problem in Israel, not merely a Netanyahu problem. Wake up @sanders.senate.gov
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another #shark attack in #Australia, only THIS time an order has gone out to kill the shark involved. Why? This is a tragic incident, but it’s humans who are entering the sharks’ environment, not the other way round. We enter THEIR realm at OUR risk. But they pay. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Perth shark attack: Rare kill order issued as victim identified as Greg O'Neill
Greg O'Neill "loved the ocean", his family say, as police boats and helicopters patrol Perth's beaches in search of his body and the shark that attacked him.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports. * Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors. No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends. USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors. UK could do the same, generate billions. Why are super-rich privileged?
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember the old action men figures you could get? Even as a kid I did know they were just toys and weren’t real …
Original action man toy figure
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Bicerin @bicerin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seriously! The lot of you including the BBC! Just kindly fuck off! 'I'm telling the truth': Earl Spencer defends #Diana book claims about #Charles in #BBC interview www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Earl Spencer defends Diana book claims about King Charles
Exclusive: Princess Diana's brother tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that "we'll forget her soon enough" were "exactly" the words used by the then-Prince of Wales.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social Why is Canada still trading with genocidal Israel?
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Tenchi Ohki🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦#FBPE #REJOIN @tenchiohki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What a cunt.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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ThatKaren @wokekaren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The power and control Israel has over Palestinian lives and deaths. It's an incredible stance to take. Palestinians need saving from Israel, and nothing else matters in the meantime. They have the right to resist the apartheid and genocide.
A quote from Gabor Mate 'Nobody ever asks how should Palestinians respond to Israel’s daily brutal treatment for 75 years.'
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 17/09/2026
Let me correct that headline: 'Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station off service after violent gang attacks'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station off service after anti-migrant protest
The RNLI says it hopes to have the lifeboat station operational again as soon as possible.
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