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Chalkwitch Tiff

@chalkwitch.bsky.social
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Cake baker, book lover, pro democracy, mum and advocate to 2x amazing ASC ADHDers and no, vaccines didn't cause it. Love art, nature, pumpkins, fungi and the coast

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An excellent piece from Erika. Best wishes to her and her lovely family. Ramses, you sound amazing and a great role model.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bit up himself isn't he.
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Ben Williams @bpwilliams72.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good stuff here from Mark. There is only a very narrow window in which substantive action can be taken and it's narrowing quickly.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Yup. We were deepfaked. But it's all part of a much bigger story about Russia's interference in our 2026 midterms to help the GOP.
motherjones.com
How a Russian attack on the midterms deepfaked Mother Jones
Putin's trolls are again looking to help Donald Trump and the GOP.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tory leader Badenoch registers gift of £8,177 for Murdoch meeting in Greece. Travelling abroad to beg favours from Murdoch. What has she promised him? I wonder how far she has travelled specifically to meet victims of Tory austerity, real wage cuts and people queuing at hospitals and food banks.
bbc.co.uk
Badenoch registers gift of £8,177 for Murdoch meeting
The Murdochs' News Corp company paid for flights and accommodation for the Conservative leader and her husband to travel to Greece.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I didn't. But now I do. I love seaweed. But not when you step on it's slimness 🤣
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Nick Burdett @nickburdett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Buying flags to support the RNLI during WW1. How times have changed.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh. But Angela Rayner....
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fancy celebrating your colossal ignorance.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 20/09/2026
“I want people to get that we don’t know what the f&$k we are doing right now.” #AISafety
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Astonishing talent.
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SeaLevelOslo @sealeveloslo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Dammit Dave! You're out of sync again! ...keep it up and we're spending winter in Norway" Three forest doves practicing their migration run high above the fjord. #BirdOfTheDay Alt #Pigeons&Doves #FlyDay #fall
Three stock doves fly high in the evening sky. Two are at the bottom of their wing beat, while the third is on top of its wing beat.
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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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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interview with someone at reform conference who claimed the Establishment was charities and museums... This is who he meant, I assume with the National Trust who Reform et Al hate for their inclusion for history but more because they hold land. Vile
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All standard excuses prattled out on Traffic Cops. Next up - I just bought it from my cousin, but no I don't know his name.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nigel Farage is posting this morning “More small boats in the Channel this morning. They will keep coming. Open Borders Burnham won’t stop them” Lets remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - the BREXIT he championed youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
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It’s time UK media reminded Farage how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Two crypto billionaires give Reform £72million in one weekend… to create a “level playing field”… as a “philanthropic gift to the country” Or.. back in the real world… yet more brazen corruption and greed with a strong whiff of treasonous criminality. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage knew Putin was using crypto to evade sanctions - but invested in it anywayLate last year Mr Farage told a crypto conference "I am your champion". In October he told a blockchain conference that "people should hold crypto as part of their portfolio. At another event a month later he admitted
"I have got some crypto investments that are long-term".
Putin used crypto to evade sanctions (Reuters)
Mr Farage is under investigation for an undeclared £5m donation from Reform's biggest donor, Christopher Harborne, who is a cryptocurrency billionaire
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires. Reform has received £123.6m since 2019. £61m from Christopher Harborne living in Thailand, mentioned several times in Panama Papers. £44m from Ben Delo, recent returnee from Hong Kong, criminal conviction in the US.
democracyforsale.substack.com
BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Howling into the wind Just Change the Rules you nitwits. I don't think a whip round will get you out of this.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Stop the vote-buying far right "It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said UK mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this & ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy" via Stella Creasey
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Odious bunch
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
JP Morgan billionaire CEO with $43m pay meets Burnham and Healey to oppose UK bank tax rise. Banks making record profits from high charges, measly payment to savers, speculation, wars. What chance of the poor meeting PM/Chancellor to make their case?
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JP Morgan boss meets Burnham and Healey to warn against bank tax rise
Jamie Dimon tells UK politicians before October budget that investment could be at risk, it is understood
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My friend Mark Bingham died 25 years ago today fighting to retake control of Flight 93. He was 31 years old and a wonderful man. youtu.be/iy87OHpO9qQ?...
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Flight 93 Heroes: Mark Bingham
YouTube video by WJACTV
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
UK govts don't lack resources to improve the quality of life. Even if it does not embrace modern monetary theory, borrow, or hike taxes, it can harvest billions by eliminating tax, legal and fiscal policy anomalies. Some suggestions are in the linked article. Poverty is a political choice.
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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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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Armadillo + apple = cuteness overload #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And yet when send parents argue for retention of legal protections for their child's education, we're the entitled grifters. @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social the irony meter couldn't cope on this one.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Aaarrggghhhh
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎼🎵🎶Vaccines Vaccines Vaccines Vaccines (a la Dolly Parton)
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just reading my RNLI magazine that comes as part of our monthly donations. I stand with them too. Thank you
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fantastic
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/09/2026
“These anti-migrant vigilante groups claim that their intention is to protect women and children. This is manifestly false”: why we need to act now against far-right disorder By @hopenothate.org.uk’s @nicklowles.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/britain-fa...
Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform. Stylised image of men in black clothing and balaclavas, with a Union Jack in the background and a rubber dinghy
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They absolutely are.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026
“Thames Valley Police said on Sunday that Bridge has been charged with 14 offences. “ These are the thugs which Farage is not just condoning but, in this case, offering to pay his legal fees. news.sky.com/story/founde...
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Founder of group that put flags on lampposts charged with 14 offences
Ryan Bridge is the founder of Raise the Colours, which has been attaching Union and St George's Cross flags to lampposts in the Midlands and the south of England.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Local village scarecrow trail - and two of them are Handmaids, quite startling as you pass on a quiet country lane.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And yet our local councillor is pushing reform promises with cash bonanzas to everyone from students to pensioners (not the disabled tho, that's conspicuous by absence). It's sunlit (unfunded) uplands.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you enjoyed Chris Packham's Evolution series - you'll love this! 4 billion years of evolution in one evening - I'm live on tour across the UK this November... www.alice-roberts.co.uk/tour
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🤭
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Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How many times does the BBC lead on a murder story with a large headline stating: Man accused of murder 'not guilty,' according to man* Oh, never, right? Because you can see the obvious problem with that style of reportage, right?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Every time [Farage] tries to persuade the country he’s running a serious party and that it isn’t a one-man band, something seems to happen to make it look like a dodgy, third-rate clown show.” What an u̶n̶l̶u̶c̶k̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶i̶n̶c̶i̶d̶e̶n̶c̶e̶/nailed-on inevitability… Ffs enough now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘I can’t be bought,’ Nige tells Reform’s faithful – however different it may look | John Crace
Just as the party leader had hoped to change the narrative, along came Channel 4 News to spoil his conference fun
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Acorn palette. There’s evidence that the human brain really likes gentle colour gradations (probs due to ancient foraging mental reward pathways) so this is for your noggin-pause & zoom in for a tiny break from angsty scrolling with some nice nuts 🌿
Acorns at various stages of ripeness arranged on buff coloured linen so the colours shift gently, with a hand written label & single oak leaf
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
But sure, cut PIP, that will raise huge sums (heavy sarcasm here).
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Now that I'm an MP again I'm wasting no time getting back to work serving my constituents. For example, I'm flying to Washington next week for a party to mark the anniversary of the launch of GB News in the US.
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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s a good idea to be absolutely clear about what will happen if Reform ever get into power. It’s goodbye to Democracy in the UK.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
how surprising that those with power and privilege can see something wonderful so easily, whilst the rest of us squabble for a chance.
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