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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses
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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You would never get the "£50 doesn't even buy a meal quote if the topic was the benefit system, then you would have a guy going "sack of potatoes and a carrot, and you can feed a child for a month at just 3.2 pence per meal"
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Steve Williams @iloatheskies.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A very useful map this one, serving as it does as a stand-in metric for working out which parts of the UK have the weakest patter. And to no-one's surprise at all, it's the South outside London
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026
Edinburgh Central (Edinburgh and Lothians East) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): GRN: 12680 (36%, +29.2) LAB: 8098 (23%, -7.6) SNP: 7702 (21.9%, -19.3) CON: 2262 (6.4%, -10.3) LD: 2168 (6.2%, +2.7) RUK: 1876 (5.3%, New) OTHx5: 455 (1.3%) Valid Turnout: 54.5% Green GAIN from SNP - LL
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our aid cuts have been just as severe. It won't kill as many people because we spent less to start with, and focused a bit less on health/food programmes. But we've got nothing to be proud of here.
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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 04/05/2026
As a Jew, I would prefer that media and Prime Minister use their platforms and power to oppose and prevent concentration camps, rather than accuse a Jewish party leader of anti-Semitism.
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“Voters are blameless and pure and it is 100% on the campaign to win them over” is a view that political campaigns have to hold, but the rest of society absolutely should not.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
*hammering on child’s door* “Turn that racket off! You are actively decreasing the share of my monthly subscription fee that goes to The National!”
Let's say you are a 35-year-old who exclusively listens to indie rock bands. You pay your $11.99 a month. But your 14-year-old kid is on your family plan, streaming Drake
and Taylor Swift on repeat for 8 hours a day. Because of the pro-rata model, your $11.99 does not go to the indie bands you love. The vast majority of your money is funneled directly to the top 1% of pop stars, simply because they command the highest volume of streams globally. The system is rigged to subsidize the mega-stars while starving the middle class
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026
the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
the president of the united states has plot armor
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
checking in on The Discourse
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 18/04/2026
Your landlord is voting. Your boss is voting. Make sure you vote as well. No matter where you live in Scotland, you can vote Scottish Greens on the peach ballot paper. 👉 www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.
Register to vote by midnight on Monday. www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. Let's demand better. On May 7th vote Scottish Greens.
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
MIKE D: Cranial hemorrhage means we got a brain EVERY BEASTIE BOY: BLAND MIKE D: It impairs cognition of the words we EVERY BEASTIE BOY: LUNG
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I know passionate supporters of LGBTQ+ equality in Labour who have felt increasingly marginalised in the party and unable to support the leadership's view. But to see the manifesto include anti-trans policies rejected by their own party conference must surely be the last straw for many.
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them
• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people.
• Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election.
• Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If people were truly committed to their views on the Edward Colston statue they'd be demanding this be reinstated.
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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
trans day of visibility is weird in light of current uk state policy. it's essential on a day to day basis that I'm not noticed as trans, as this would put me at risk if I need to pee. I currently pee several times a day.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
While this would be an unusual outcome for a civil fraud trial, I believe he should be given the death penalty
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/03/2026
really cannot be overstated how much contempt the Israeli government has for left wing Jews in the diaspora Bibi et al would, by and large, actually like us to be targeted so that either we’ll get in line or our corpses will further their political goals
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
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AndyInBrum @andyinbrum.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Oh look, a PM looking to drag us into a catastrophic illegal war in the Middle East under spurious talk of a secret nuclear weapons programme, in order to demonstrate unflinching fealty to a US President widely regarded by the entire world as a bufoon and a moron? Must be a Labour government
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
British people moving back from Dubai should be taxed at 100% until we’ve made up the difference
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2026
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court:
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
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brian pillion @anaphoristand.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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raymz @raymz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
[Erika Kirk leaps onto the stage in diamond encrusted tactical gear and begins sweeping the orchestra section with automatic fire]
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 15/01/2026
They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/01/2026
Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Every one of us has had a car momentarily drive near us without us shooting the driver three times in the head. It is a level of bravery children possess wandering a parking lot. Even chickens cross the road.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I’ve been reading about influential new “conservative intellectuals” or “post-liberals” for at least a decade now and every time it’s just racism with a different hat on. Whatever the spin, it’s always fundamentally the same idea
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r_ephemeral @rephemeral.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
apotheosis of US conservatism
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
how do racists in england insist that zarah sultana can't be english when she has just done the most english thing someone could do - Anglosplain Scotland to Scottish people
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren
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XANwithaplan 🍉 @xanwithaplan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We need a word for the English language to describe feeling like you're in a history book. When a trend, technology, or event is so numbingly idiotic that you can immediately envision someone 50 or 100 years from now learning about this and saying "What the fuck was wrong with people back then?"
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.
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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading.
From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. 
There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. 
Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. 
We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Christmas at the BBC
Title panel: 

CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC.

The Traitors Christmas Special:

Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within?

[Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other]

Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas:

A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies

[Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness]. 


Donald's Big Distraction:

Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else

[Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them]. 

The King's Speech:

We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact

[Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera].  

A Ghost Story for Christmas:

A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees

[Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”]

Christmas Labour Inertia-Time:

Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks

[Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry]

Rightward Drift Christmas Special:

A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage

[Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”]

[Ends]
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Citizens Advice Scotland @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
We’ve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the UK government can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in the UK's potential. 🧵(1/2)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2025
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
To be absolutely clear, this government is evil, and if you are still knocking doors for this party this is basically the last moment for you to stop if you don't want to be seen as evil on a personal basis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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