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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Farage’s ludicrous minions selling what’s left of their souls for coins, while either not knowing or caring that their boss secretly trousered five million for his ‘personal use’. He makes absolute twats of everyone who trusts him. And this James Orr character is supposed to be some sort of genius…
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And now the investigation into the £5 million secretly-gifted by an ‘economic migrant’ recommences. If nothing else has been achieved with this daft by-election, the idea that Farage is some sort of master strategist has been put to bed. It’s easy to look good when you’re getting free passes galore.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is so well done. 👌
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026
Come on then, and remove him.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 05/04/2026
Artemis II is 170K+ miles from Earth today. But yesterday, Pilot Victor Glover was asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter. His response is worth listening to. And his advice is worth internalizing in advance of a difficult year ahead.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling. You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I'm sorry I accidentally broke the law. Again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. It was an accident. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct
Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’
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Darth Tugmutton @sheeparecheaper.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holding the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him in 1964. At age 35, he was the youngest person to receive the honor at that time. MLK earned the prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance against racial prejudice and his leadership in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The decent Tories were culled in 2019. The indecent ones are defecting to Farage. I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
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Stranger Things
The 1980s Nostalgia of Trump's Foreign Policy is probably going to end up, like Stranger Things, as a horror show.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/01/2026
A scepter snatch’d with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d; And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 24/11/2025
If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥 @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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The truth behind Reform UK’s reckless budget
£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 19/10/2025
You can’t “efficiency” your way through child protection, cancer wards and collapsing classrooms. The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
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The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 23/09/2025
Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today, Parliament debated child sexual abuse. Not a single Reform UK MP turned up. The party that constantly rants about “Pakistani" and immigrant gangs - yet when it comes to an actual Commons statement on child rape, they couldn’t be bothered. Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/09/2025
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
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Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.
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a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
ALT: a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred. • Abu Hamza • Abdullah el-Faisal • Lucy Connolly Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1. Please Repost for a wide audience in the West. www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
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Job Vacancies - Recruitment - Ralph Allen School
Ralph Allen School in Combe Down, Bath, England, is a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school with academy status. Located on the south-eastern edge of Bath, the school educates 11 to 18-year-o...
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice Come and find out why this summer... MaryRose.org/Visit
A picture of the Mary Rose ship wreck, with the caption "TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice awards", and the TripAdvisor logo with the number 2025 underneath it. "Travellers'" is spelt the English way, not the US way.
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Voice 21 @voice21oracy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 Our special 10-year anniversary Impact Report has just launched! 🚨 What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education. View it here 👇 voice21.org/publications...
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Miss Havishambles @misshavishambles.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Kiefer Sutherland has a younger brother called Kief and an older brother called Kiefest.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 05/06/2025
Who do I have to pray to to get Trump to tarrif the fuck out of Elon, triggering all his debts to be called, before sending him back to South Africa and Musk to provide the workings of how they rigged the election and where all the money has gone.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Folk-Inspired hand painted eggs by Dinara Mirtalipova, self taught illustrator and designer, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan #WomensArt
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Evening.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Imagine spending hours defending Trump’s garbage tariff policy — including to me — only for your boss to reverse it an hour later. No strategy. Just vibes, sycophancy, and a thirst for power. These people will torch the country if it keeps them in charge.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Poor old Trump. Truss could have told him. Those markets so woke.
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 09/04/2025
"You boy! What tariff is it today?"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump tells his followers to buy stock in the morning, minutes after the market opens, then announces he is pausing tariffs 4 hours later. Nothing to see here.
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Day 132 of #GeorgiaProtests!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Dutch avant-garde painter Jacoba van Heemskerck, Twee bomen (two trees), 1910 #womensart
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