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No DMs, but if you feel you have to send me abuse, go ahead. It makes it much easier to identify and block the idiots. #b3ta #scifi #startrek #starwars #house #b5 #RejoinEU

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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 14h
My sunset swordtails eating newly hatched brine shrimp
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Illustration by Badiucao
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Time for the USA to get a new president instead of this traitor.
bbc.co.uk
'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
Ukraine's leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I thought the idea that Trump is a Russian asset was a bit fanciful. I've changed my mind.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This 👇
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just how low can America go? Pay-per-view perhaps?
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 09/10/2026
The layout for the execution in the US has been released by the state department
A plan showing the positions of cameras, marksmen and Pete Hegseth's personal wanking shed
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump causes an oil crisis and expects everyone else to sacrifice their diesel reserves to help him out? I hope the American electorate can see through this idiot, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Starship has landed" KA-BOOM!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This applies equally to Reform in the UK
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What Israel is doing is illegal. It's time to stop pussyfooting around them. The only mistake would be to allow their outrageous behaviour to continue.
bbc.co.uk
Israel warns it will retaliate if UK imposes sanctions
The UK's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband pledged on Tuesday to introduce a "comprehensive reset" of policy on Israel.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thanks Donald, you senile cockwomble
theguardian.com
UK households will take £2,400 financial hit from Iran war, analysis shows
Centre for Economics and Business Research calculates effect of inflation and wage stagnation to end of 2027
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My new drinking toast #startrek www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdW...
youtube.com
Yesterday's Enterprise - penguins ears
YouTube video by Ikaftl
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He's as pathetic as he is stupid.
bbc.co.uk
Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America
Trump's order comes after the trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed late last week.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just when you thought he couldn’t sound any more stupid…
Trump claims US could rename Lake Ontario as Lake America amid Canada trade war
Donald Trump has claimed he is considering renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” as the trade war with Canada escalates.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that the UK is "participating in this war" on Ukraine's side. War? Doesn't he know that you can go to jail for calling it a war?
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's not controversial. It's fucking illegal.
bbc.co.uk
Israel opens up tenders for controversial West Bank settlement project
Plans to build on the so-called E1 area - east of Jerusalem - have long been internationally condemned and would in effect divide the occupied West Bank in two.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For those of you that ever wondered what scares the shit out of him: #FabFord
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I find it difficult to believe that citizens of the USA can support this horror. Sadly, it seems so.
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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is doing the rounds of Facebook again. Pages getting 100s of shares & using it to boost their following with their own watermark and no acknowledge of the source. Fuck all you can really do about it. It's not by "Unknown". It's from my book Ring The Hill: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
"I admire those with hairstyles. I have hair. Most days, it has zero caterpillars in it. That's as good as it gets."
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Maria @maria1962.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is bad
Post by Zeke Hausfather on X:
The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science.
We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:
Chart showing global mean temperature vs 1800-1900 in degrees Celsius going from 0 to 1.50
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I thought that the USA was built on immigration. Did I get that wrong?
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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1 We've had constant glitches with Harlan Ellison's new books on Amazon, like the standalone paperback special edition of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream listed as an OPTION UNDER his prior audio book. Without a direct link you can't find it with a hunting dog and a Ouija board.
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Dayton Ward @daytonward.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
He's a role model, you know. #Startrek #CaptainPicardDay
daytonward.wordpress.com
Hey! It’s Captain Picard Day, everybody!
What, you didn’t know this? Shame on you. It’s June 16th, which means….. That’s right, today we pause to recognize the life and accomplishments of Jean-Luc Picard: captain e…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Sort of Damocles @sortofdamocles.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One million seconds is 11 and a half days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years. One trillion seconds is 31,700 years. Why do we allow our tax and fiscal policies cut our food aid, retirement, infrastructure, and medical care so billionaires can have more money?
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 26/05/2026
Trump spent three hours at hospital today doing ‘tests’. It should only have been 20 minutes, but the first test was really hard.
The Far Side Midvale school for the gifted cartoon, but with Trump pushing on the door
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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We need to educate those that are thinking about voting for the fraudulent liars & thieving millionaires in the Reform party. Repost please.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"Truth that Farage hates" via We Demand UK
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
💥 97,500!💥 This Rejoin petition is so close to completion. Let’s tip it over the 100,000 mark to force the government to respond. Given the party in power now realises they need the pro-EU base - are they really going to refuse a debate in parliament on this? Let’s find out! Sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
theguardian.com
The backlash to revelations of sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners aims to raise the cost of speaking out | Yuli Novak
Israel’s response to recent New York Times reporting detailing the horrific sexual violence inflicted on detainees seeks to silence those who assert the basic fact of Palestinian humanity
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'm no fan of Starmer, but there is zero chance I would ever vote for a party led by that backstabbing weasel Streeting.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
2017: Nigel Farage in the European Parliament complaining about perceived foreign interference in Brexit 2026: Nigel Farage saying that foreign based crypto billionaire gave him £5,000,000 as a reward for campaigning for Brexit
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When children are shot in their classrooms, all politicians can offer are thoughts and prayers. When a shooting happens near them, they demand a $350 million golden ballroom to protect themselves.
Don't normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children.
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Reform leaflet from Chelmsford. Not only are there no polls to be found with these numbers on, but the proportions shown (on left below) are completely misleading, i.e. lies. Picture below showing corrected proportions on right (though the numbers seem to be plucked out of thin air).
Comparison of Reform leaflet showing misleading chart and corrected chart
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ludicrous if true. Torygraph claim: “BBC & ITV have ordered Labour to tone down a party political which contains remarks from Ref UK figures, as deemed too offensive. It includes comments from a former Reform council leader who called London a "third world s***hole run by a narcissistic Pakistani"
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I think some people are missing the point. WHY did Mandelson fail security vetting?
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is worth repeating...
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do” Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t he elected on a platform of no more foreign wars?
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump said the US is going to start “BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz”. Wait a minute, wasn't it only last week that he was demanding the opening of the strait?
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Finnbar Saunders 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🖖 @blueskybar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trump clearly has no idea what NATO is
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
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