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@chipchidster.bsky.social
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Just a middle aged dad in the UK ranting into the void. All opinions are my own.

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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No, arresting ‘Danny Tommo’ won’t make him a martyr. *Not* arresting him will fuel his agenda.
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Britain... It's a class act. 🎩 Privately Educated: Senior Armed Forces 63% Senior Judges: 62% House of Lords: 52% Foreign Office Diplomats: 53% Newspaper Columnists: 50% Political Commentators: 47% Leading Podcasters: 45% BBC Executives: 38% General Population: 7% elitistbritain.suttontrust.com
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Elitist Britain 2025
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
YouGov’s latest poll: 628 out of 632 constituencies in Britain want to rejoin the EU. It couldn’t be clearer: It’s time to talk about EU membership. Read more: bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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chipchidster.bsky.social @chipchidster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
(Fixed it for you BBC) Monaco resident who doesn't pay UK tax complains about the UK but is unwilling to be part of the solution www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am wheezing I laughed so much 😂🤣😂
Hot EU girl walks past Hot Canadian boy with DJT as the Pissed off GF - taken from the famous meme
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
PSA
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims
An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Thom Tillis is Toast. @thomtillisistoast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And, woke 1 is dead? Putting a paycheck on the line due to manifest injustice? I think that's progress. Would have been possible, in our day and age, for people to see a way out? I can't even talk about the iniquity of extremism and left in the right.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why isn’t there a total moratorium on all reporting on Reform until after the multiple investigations into their finances have been completed? Free propaganda for potentially corrupt liars should be banned. It might make them think twice before breaking rules and taking the piss out of all of us.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.
Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026
#Clacton
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Isabel Diogo 🇵🇹 @isabeldiogo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
É isto 🤷 (recebido por WhatsApp)
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The problem is that the super-rich have opted out of our society and taken our money with them to build their own. So the question is, how do we get back what they've stolen from us? And how do we defend ourselves when they try to stop us?
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 07/08/2026
The tide is turning. Time to Briturn #StrongerTogether
Image of UK flag saying 'Briturn'
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 06/08/2026
😂 It’s true - Nigel Farage is a thin skinned baby.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We need to act now.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
More about sharing thst upskirting photo, from Gina Martin.
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I brought the "upskirting law" into affect in 2019.
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Le'ts talk about that image JK Rowling shared.
She did this to humiliate artist Freda Wallace. That is a specific motivation we included in the Voyeurism Act. We fought for, and included it "specifically* because...
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men often upskirt women (it is overwhelmingly men) to "punish" them for their bodies, clothing and for being a woman, by humiliating them.
That's called misogyny and it's what we're witnessing Joanne do here: transmisogyny.
It goes like this:
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1. Target someone you dehumanise
2. Assert power with demand (Joanne wanted to debate Freda, for me a man wanted a "yes to his advances)
3. If they refuse, punish them by capturing a "humiliating" image of their body
4. Share it to exert power and humiliate
Exact same logic.
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Bin Bin and the Count of Dodgy Crypto
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What’s the bet that the billionaire bigot doubles down and chucks even more ‘small change’ (aka £10,000’s to regular people) at her expensive lawyers to “speak to the manager” and appeal the case - because privileged, entitled bigots can’t bear to be wrong!? 😖
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If a tree falls in a forest, has it really fallen if JK Rowling threatens to sue anyone who says it has?
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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Time for all my friends to be spammed with this again.
Meme with text above a mosaic depiction of Odysseus lashed to the mast of his ship as his men hold their shields. The meme text reads:
odysseus: we now set out on our odyssey.
sailor: [raising hand] what's an odyssey?
odysseus: a long journey named after the only survivor.
sailor: oh ok wait what.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
One of the few media reports about the attacks on Amnesty International by anti-trans campaigners.
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TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups
“They have sued organizations into the ground.”
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
JKR vs Amnesty International is a concise but shockingly perfect summary of the twilight years of her career.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is what JKR is offering to pay for a lawsuit over. Spread it far and wide.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 13/07/2026
We stand with Amnesty International UK. Freedom of expression isn't a one-way street. If organisations demand the right to criticise others, they must also accept the right to be criticised. Read our statement on why this matters for democracy and human rights.
TACC stands with Amnesty International UK.

For years, organisations like Sex Matters have claimed their voices are being silenced. They have presented themselves as champions of free speech, arguing that gender-critical beliefs are excluded from public debate and marginalised by institutions.
Yet when one of the world's most respected human rights organisations published research that challenged their campaigning, their response was not to engage with the evidence or publish a rebuttal. Instead, they publicly declared that they were prepared to sue for defamation.
Freedom of expression cannot be a principle that applies only when you agree with what is being said. If you demand the right to criticise others, you must also accept their right to criticise you.
The consequences reach far beyond Amnesty. If charities, researchers and human rights organisations begin censoring themselves because they fear expensive legal action, then public debate is no longer shaped by evidence, but by who has the deepest pockets and the most aggressive lawyers.
This comes at a time when transgender people in the UK are facing levels of state-sanctioned segregation unprecedented in modern British history. Rather than confronting the human impact of those policies, some organisations appear more concerned with silencing those who scrutinise their role in bringing them about.Many of the ideas and legal strategies now shaping the UK's culture wars did not originate here. They have been promoted internationally by organisations such as Alliance Defending Freedom, which has played a significant role in campaigns to roll back LGBTQIA+ rights and reproductive rights in the United States. Britain should be extremely cautious about importing those tactics into our own democratic debate.
A society does not lose its freedoms overnight. It loses them when powerful organisations can campaign without restraint, yet seek to suppress those who hold them to account.
That is why TACC stands with Amnesty International UK.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
JK Rowling is a Holocaust-denying anti-rights activist, who actively harmed the lives of sexual abuse survivors by leading a campaign of harassment against the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, simply because they both hired trans people and supported trans survivors. It’s that easy, Amnesty.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.
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Wrighty @wrightsnake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nice thing to see on my way home.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Cadbury's should be immediately nationalised and the recipe reverted back to higher quantities of cocoa before the takeover. This should be a national priority.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 19/05/2026
Amazing. There are solutions to climate change and energy shocks - those who hold us back do so for greed and must be held accountable.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
And then point at Farage, and say "this is because of him." Make him the villain he is. Make him responsible, not boastful. It's easy politics. Yes, the Mail will shout. Tell them you don't care. They have FAR less power than a decade ago. They're irrelevant. Britain matters. The Mail doesn't
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Today’s meme
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Droobiee @droobiee.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Turns out not a single phone has actually shipped. Who could have guessed? #whoknew #satire #political
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 24/04/2026
This is really good from Labour, even though it can't be shown on TV.
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
Finally, a real use case for JavaScript
Header: "British woman without cervic and vagina naturally becomes pregnant after reconstructive surgery", with an error code: "JavaScript must be enabled to use this feature".
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 10/03/2026
Exactly this. Make sure you blame the right people
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