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@brianw1958.bsky.social
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Retired Scot currently living in England. Husband, dad and grandad. Pro European and in favour of an independent Scotland as a member of the EU. Keen (but not very good) golfer. Love rock music. No DM's please. 🙏

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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big Chicken. I've signed the petition to stop it 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers
Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big ...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.
We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high student loan interest rates. It's time for Andy Burnham to fix this unfair system in the upcoming Budget so balances stop growing faster than they're paid off. Add your name if you agree: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
substack.com/@mikegalswor... Email your MP.
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Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy)
💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders say...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? 38d.gs/jpcf
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.facebook.com/share/1T3Rk8... Elbows up, Canada.
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire prevention plan. Join me and sign the petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Protect nature for the future: make wildfire prevention a national priority
Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire ...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
substack.com/@martindavie...
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Martin Davies (@martindavies631844)
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The explosion of 'Asylum Seekers coincided with... Brexit. It wasn't a coincidence, Nigel CAUSED it. Are some people still this unenlightened and bereft of Critical Thinking?
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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're asking the government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform. It should be an independent review to build consensus for changing the electoral system for the Westminster Parliament. Add your name today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I just signed the petition backing the UK’s football associations’ decision to boycott the World Cup if FIFA’s plans to sell it off to private investors goes ahead. Add your name too and tell them to stand firm under pressure! 38d.gs/t2e-
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WE BACK THE BOYCOTT: STOP THE WORLD CUP SELL OFF!
I just signed the petition backing the UK’s football associations’ decision to boycott the World Cup if FIFA’s plans to sell it off to private investors goes ahead. Add your name too and tell them to ...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07... Even the torygraph is beginning to see through this charlatan!
telegraph.co.uk
The Clacton by-election farce suggests Farage lacks the judgment to be PM
No one can explain why the Reform leader triggered an unnecessary contest that his rivals refuse to dignify with their presence
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Obviously, there are other big stories around today. But, as far as I can make out, the Indy is the only paper that splashes this morning on the Covid Inquiry's tale of billions wasted. Can only imagine the field-day the right-wing press would have had had it happened under a different government.
Front page of the Indy.
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Vote Binface and Put Clacton on the Map
A wee little ditty from Willy & Bill at Satirical Planet News
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
13 MILLION adults in England are locked out of an NHS dentist, and preventable tooth decay is the #1 reason kids end up in hospital. No more dental deserts. No more DIY dentistry. Sign the petition now to tell our new PM to fix NHS dentistry for good: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Fix and fund NHS Dentistry NOW!
Thirteen MILLION of us are still locked out of dental care. After two years of ministers promising to finally fix NHS dentistry, shocking new data just revealed that almost nothing has changed. That ...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
mediasovereignty.org/petition/
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Petition
Parliamentary Petition Do YOU want Britain to take back control of our media and democracy from the international billionaires who have hijacked it?They use it to force our politicians to act again…
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
💧Water is a basic service, not a cash machine 🤑 While bills rise and sewage pours into our rivers and seas, water companies keep rewarding shareholders. Enough is enough. It's time to bring water back into public ownership. Add your name: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/big-publ...
act.38degrees.org.uk
Bring our water back into public ownership
💧Water is a basic service, not a cash machine 🤑 While bills rise and sewage pours into our rivers and seas, water companies keep rewarding shareholders. Enough is enough. It's time to bring water ba...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Tech billionaires are getting richer while we pay the price for the real-world harm their platforms cause. The "neutral host" loophole lets them off the hook for pushing dangerous content. MPs are demanding emergency laws to make them pay. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Sign the urgent petition
Tech billionaires shouldn't get to hide behind a legal loophole while their algorithms push dangerous content for profit. MPs are demanding emergency laws to finally make them liable for the harm they...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Amazon made £62 BILLION last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. We must stop this! 38d.gs/mexd
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We pay our dues. They should too.
Amazon made £62 BILLION last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. We must stop this!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
10 years after the Brexit vote. UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been. Trade has suffered. Business investment and productivity growth have stalled. Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.
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How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"Nigel Farage has sunk to a new low. Nobody who has made such disgusting comments is fit to serve the public - shamefully Nigel Farage clearly thinks that's not the case."
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today’s independent front page Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Marina Hyde on top form this morning.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thread (1/4) He should be ashamed of this. One of the greatest hypocrisies of modern politics is the claim that the triple lock is unfair on the young... www.ft.com/content/2152...
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Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar
Iceland chair Lord Richard Walker, appointed by Starmer in February, calls system ‘mathematically unsustainable’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
UK cost-of living tsar, multi-millionaire Iceland boss wants to axe pension triple lock. Full UK state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage. Millions can't save for private pension 2m pensioners live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in poverty. archive.ph/OIdCF
ft.com
Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar
Iceland chair Lord Richard Walker, appointed by Starmer in February, calls system ‘mathematically unsustainable’
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
substack.com/@anotherangr... Perfectly summed up!
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Another Angry Voice (@anotherangryvoice)
You wanna talk about two-tier justice? Nigel Farage was caught red-handed taking an undeclared £5 million bung from the dodgy overseas crypto billionaire he's been helping to buy control of British p...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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Nigel Farage is a threat to national security
This is what he does. It's who he is
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#GetFarageOut
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Well said. The person who commented on the Guardian article under the pseudonym AverageObserver deserves a massive round of applause!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Signed and shared.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Working hard? Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament. UK MP basic salary is £98,599 plus expenses, including second home. Since becoming MP Farage has collected £2m from other jobs. There are questions about his undeclared gifts.
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Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The next 48 hours are crucial. The government has just launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
megaphone.org.uk
Stamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitation
The next 48 hours are crucial. The government has just launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploi...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=v9D4... Sobering thoughts from professor Richard Murphy. Do we really want the likes of Farage in charge when this shit show gets properly underway??
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The UK economy will crash this year. That's certain. So, what do we need to do now?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe... I'd say that it's poor use of the English language to use the phrase "working hard" and Nigel Farage in the same sentence...
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Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Free-range" labels changed how we buy eggs. Now we need the same honesty for dairy. Don't let US-style mega-dairies hide on our supermarket shelves. Sign the petition to demand mandatory dairy welfare labels from the Environment Secretary 👇 act.38degrees.org.uk/act/battery-...
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The Great British dairy scandal: Crack down on “battery” dairy farms
"Free-range" labels changed how we buy eggs. Now we need the same honesty for dairy. Don't let US-style mega-dairies hide on our supermarket shelves. Sign the petition to demand mandatory dairy welfar...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Enough said!
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Superb.
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
GB News is trying to gut the BBC. Their radical plan would force shows like Strictly and The Traitors to be axed or hidden behind a Netflix-style paywall. Sign the petition to say NO to a BBC subscription model: 38d.gs/5bgx
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No subscription model for the BBC
GB News is trying to gut the BBC. Their radical plan would force shows like Strictly and The Traitors to be axed or hidden behind a Netflix-style paywall. Sign the petition to say NO to a BBC subscrip...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Ofcom is investigating GB News for its outrageous Trump interview. Ofcom must enforce its own rules and hold them to account! Add your name to the open letter now. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ofcom-st...
act.38degrees.org.uk
Ofcom: Stop GB News flouting the rules
I just signed the campaign calling on Ofcom to stop GB News from flouting the rules
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The BBC has got a new boss: a big moment for us to get our voices heard. With Trump’s lawsuit on the horizon and politicians like Farage wanting to see its downfall, we’ve got to speak up now to protect it. Sign & share: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bbc-new-...
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Our BBC, our say: support the People’s Charter
The BBC has got a new boss: a big moment for us to get our voices heard. With Trump’s lawsuit on the horizon and politicians like Farage wanting to see its downfall, we’ve got to speak up now to prote...
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Signed and shared.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government. Nigel Farage wants us to leave it. Please think about that youtu.be/Fhrb5Z7ScME?...
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THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS US ALL - WE MUST DEFEND IT!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Me when I get home from the grocery store
Still from the movie Men in Black showing Agents K and J(in his pre MiB attire) sitting on a bench with skyscrapers behind them. Text reads "a person is smart. People are dumb, panicky danger animals and you know it."
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So true...
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is not going away. And nor should it.
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BrianW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏌️🤟 @brianw1958.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Absolutely.
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