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@brettuu.bsky.social
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Retired, Lapsed Chartered Engineer Socialist Woke Atheist The following will result in an instant block : Unsolicited DMs Resorting to insult instead of reasoned, logical, fact based debate Any posting on my account of Japanese style cartoons.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14/10/2026
Can someone help us get this message to Andy Burnham? Labour voters want public ownership, not public control - it is time to deliver it
Graphic that says "Andy Burnham, Labour voters want you to deliver public ownership" and shows that 77% to 91% support public ownership of different public services
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 18h
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Right now Israel is invading Gaza and breaking the Ceasefire to blow up the last few habitable buildings and complete their Ethnic Cleansing so they can move onto completing their Genocide. And there is silence, TOTAL SILENCE. The West are as guilty of Genocide as Israel.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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Malcolm D. @mdpb53.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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brettuu.bsky.social @brettuu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If anyone imagines Donald Trump has the slightest clue about what AI actually is, I have a bridge to sell them. It has towers.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s really not a good look.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Politicians ‘talking’ about closer relationships or even rejoining the SM and CU do not automatically get my vote. Talk is cheap. I want to see cast iron promises and timelines. Then I’ll think about voting for you. @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @labouruk.bsky.social
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Waving European Union Flag
ALT: Waving European Union Flag
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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 21/09/2026
There are plenty of people here wanting us all to give Burnham, and Labour under him, a fair crack of the whip. Get rid of Mahmood and her vile racist xeno 'policies', and I might be willing to consider doing that. Otherwise…
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
They don't need to be proscribed to be banned and have injuctions placed on them to stop them going anywhere near her or her family. Her fellow villagers need to step up and condemn this loudly and clearly or be shown to be the racist bigots their silly little declaration of Independence was about.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl
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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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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how the BBC journalist doesn't mention that the people of Piddington are "worried" because their brains have been rotted by racist propaganda. "They are not far-right." Sure. They are NIMBYs who are patsies for the far-right. Your job is to explain it, not make excuses for it.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Alternatively, no it doesn’t. The main harms of AI aren’t the spurious ‘going rogue’ or ‘being abused’. They’re based on what it does *by design*.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Quite. Today’s Inside Politics newsletter by @stephenkb.bsky.social
As of this year, it is illegal to use a mask to hide your identity at a protest. It has been illegal for a lot longer than that to blockade critical infrastructure - like a port, say. — and it is corrosive to the foundations of liberal democracy to turn up in masks outside a newspaper's HQ because of a legitimate story you don't like.
Tackling this stuff is the bare minimum of what we should expect of any government. An administration that appears incapable of arresting the ringleaders or the attendees of such a protest is one that is visibly failing to do the basics of being a government. It feeds into a general narrative of malaise - that whether it is bike theft or responding to tricky geopolitical issues, Labour cannot govern. Taken together with Reform's difficulties, it is a gift for the Conservatives - if Kemi Badenoch can seize it.
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Dan @nouttosell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'd say it was the USA that destroyed Cuba.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Exactly 😡
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026
If Miliband's comparatively mild, caveated, and strictly targeted criticism of Israeli settler actions are enough to endanger the UK Jewish community & unleash pogroms then: a) We've passed some point of no return. b) Successive UK governments have utterly failed in addressing antisemitism.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
‘Footage of party officials talking about concealing payments and taking money from foreign donors is all too familiar to me: I am an expert on state capture.’ Terrific piece from anti corruption professor @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social on D4S democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-un...
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Reform’s undercover donations pave road to state capture
By making rule-breaking a selling point, Reform is signalling it's open for influence trading, says anti-corruption expert Liz David-Barrett.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Police launch investigation into five assaults at Reform conference after clips shared online www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/09/2026
If you can look at this photo without your heart breaking, then you don’t have a soul.
Palestinian children watching Lion King in Gaza
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NHS backlog fuelled a private equity gold rush in UK healthcare. All part of Tory plan to hike waiting list, under investment and privatisation of healthcare. Profiteering means less available for frontline services. Higher taxes for lower public value. Ban private equity from all public services
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How the NHS backlog fuelled a private equity gold rush in UK health market
The latest Spire Healthcare deal showed that private equity interest in the private healthcare market has continued.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'll add that the failure to take down those tatty flags last year has just added to the air of intimidation and the sense among these racists that they can do what the fuck they like without consequences
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
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brettuu.bsky.social @brettuu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Essential reading.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/09/2026
The lies about the RNLI aren’t new. Publishing and circulating images of individual volunteers to an already-radicalised audience is. That is where online hatred starts becoming a real-world safety issue. In today's post I address four of the most pervasive myths surrounding the RNLI.
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The Far Right Has Put RNLI Volunteers In The Crosshairs
Online misinformation about Channel rescues is no longer just poisonous rhetoric, it’s putting real people at risk.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
West Midlands Police: “We’re aware of a video circulating from the Reform UK Conference showing an incident with a protester. We haven’t received a complaint but would ask the woman to come forward. Anyone with any information should contact us on 101 quoting log number 924-050926”
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha. Last year, I made several videos reminding US service members to disobey unlawful orders. The military suspended my security clearance and launched a full investigation. Nearly a year later, I now know the outcome.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Electricity in the UK isn't expensive because of net zero. Electricity in the UK is expensive because privatised energy companies are ripping us off.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
There are ninety-one free zones across the UK. The same secondary legislation. The same governance architecture. The same absence of mandatory audit. Teesworks is not the outlier. It is the instruction manual.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Terrorism law is that special body of law which provides for rights and obligations over and above the general law of the land. Terrorism law should be credible and taken seriously. The ever-expanding nature of ‘terrorism’ offences is not taking it seriously. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After reading reports of pollution and the effects of the drought, I've written to UK Prime Minister Burnham to suggest that as Windermere is shallow and full of shit it should be renamed Lake Trump.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The brilliant Paul Whitehouse promoting the water referendum petition - this one - please sign and share petition - this is the correct link petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If we're under threat of cultural colonisation by anyone, it's the USA.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bible basher gets bashed with bible.
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Can we please put to bed the view that Cofnas was suspended just for criticising Jason Arday There are several issues in the suspension letter Don't believe the 'Letter to Ghent' academics who frankly have been led by the nose of those paid by Thiel. They should have used some critical reasoning!
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ofcom, Nandy - is there anybody paying attention? The BBC is for all the voters, not just Reform.
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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