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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 21h

For too long "Treasury Brain" has prevented governments from pursuing truly transformative agendas. No 10 North is a welcome first step on a path that could lead to a new culture in government. One that could allow us to rebuild democracy, public ownership and resilience in our public services.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Plenty of "decent centre-right politicians" have left the Tories over the last decade on principle. Most of them however did not since fundamentally their adherence is to retaining power, as the right always craves. If your politics evidently lies beyond that line, you're of no value to democracy.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Has anyone ever done a study on whether autistic people are better at using reaction GIFs?

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Clutchest thing I've ever done in this game

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Has humanity ever seen so many GDP projections around a piece of technology? Around anything at all for that matter? Maybe I'm wrong but this strikes me as a weak way to advertise your product. It's all getting very abstract...

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Front of the top deck on the new superloop service in Havering feeling like the Top G

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The media ecosystem as is can't really hold people accountable anymore. Farage makes a sensationalist short video for social media, sends a crony to downplay/undermine his words in some MSM interview to quell the institutional backlash, which the audience for his social media content entirely miss

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/06/2026

This is a miserable start to Pride month. All indicators show that the EHRC’s new code of practice will contribute to the erosion of LGBT rights in the UK. Ministers and the EHRC must show how they will protect trans people and those who don’t conform to gender stereotypes.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Why have we become so ubiquitously absorbed by celebrity culture that we must discuss whatever comes out of their noise holes, no matter how inane it may be?

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The meta now is to wait for some big exogenous event > increase prices far more than is justified by said event > never lower prices when the event passes > 'what are you going to do? Not drive? Not use electricity? Not eat?'

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Had a dream that England lose to Brazil in the Quarters of this world cup I look up the seeding and we are literally due to play them in the quarters I've had prophetic dreams before... If I'm right I'm buying an octopus costume, some flags and putting a lot of money on bet365 for the semis

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 02/04/2026

Universal Basic Income — like Social Security — isn't about creating dependency; it's about ending it. It gives people the leverage to negotiate better wages and better conditions. It turns the labor market from a coercive "choice" into an actual choice. That's the freedom we should be fighting for.

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🤔Could it be? Reform quietly shelving a vote-winning policy the moment former Tory Robert Jenrick becomes Treasurer? The party that cosplays as “for the people” is bankrolled by & takes their orders from the same kind of profiteers who’ve run our water system into the ground.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Does every political party have people with humiliation fetishes that just *love* to go out on the broadcast rounds the day after a by-election to brag about how proud they are to have lost it? "Yes actually we cracked open the champagne at 5am when we found out that 5 people had voted for us"

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It actually must be quite sad to be someone who can't take sincere and candid art and just enjoy it. That there must be subtle messaging or restraint in something in order for it to be provocative or worthwhile to engage with whatsoever... Anyway guess I'm gonna get into Bruce Springsteen!

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The "collapse of liberal democracy" is simply the result of "socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor". People don't trust institutions, because they're the middle men systematically keeping this status quo in place.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

What's it going to take to get twitter banned in the UK? If you made an AI webapp that didn't stop users from making deepfake child sexual abuse images, it would surely not last? Just please put it in the bin and set it on fire, good job to the MPs standing up for this cause

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The thing is, I actually hadn't heard of elf on a shelf

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

When I tell people I work at a magnet factory, I usually have to explain that we do complex engineering and it's actually quite technical and difficult But to be fair this morning I am trying to pick up paperclips with magnets we're trying to make rn, so, maybe my whole career is a joke, actually

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

"House owners", as in, well under 1% of house owners. Many of whom will undoubtedly be (often foreign) investors. So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The electorate aren't whiney babies, they're struggling. Just because Reeves has done the most notable actual tax hike since the 70s doesn't make up for the half century of trickle up economics that preceded it. What point are you even making? That the public sector is actually well funded now?

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Details aside, I never really understood why there's a need to just assume history is inevitably cyclical. New things can happen and new patterns can develop. We can influence the curve of history, it's naïve and intentionally defeatist to suggest otherwise.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Some kind of effort should be made to reconnect schoolchildren with the practise of farming - mainly animals. It's the worst example of how the modern world has babied us and detached us from reality, and it's been done without computer or internet technology.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

All aboard the merry-go-round, yet again, for the ride of conflating the Israeli govt. with Jewish civilians everywhere, and for conflating condemnation of anti-semitism as somehow needing to be balanced with the actions of the Israeli state. This is exactly what the terrorist would have wanted.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I would wager that if you were to poll Brits, you would find that they vastly underestimate the number of CCTV cameras in the country, and wouldn't know we're on of the most surveilled countries in the world

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I wonder if any of my calls have indeed been used for training and monitoring purposes

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Profoundly depressing that foreign social media platforms that are clearly damaging British society are not banned because successive govts would rather avoid irritating Facebook users than provide space for a regulatable British tech firm to plug the gap left behind by banning it

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I always love it when people get up on their high horse about this, because I do know lots of people who were Tories for decades and are now Reform and let me tell you, getting to know them is a highly instructive and helpful experience with many useful lessons. Give me a minute here.

lain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.so... • 17h
It's got to the stage where if 'you don't know anyone whose voting for Reform' you need to broaden your social circle.
Or, perhaps, reflect on what it is about your behaviour that means your friends don't feel able to be open with you about politics.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just summarises how corporate our mostly private university sector has become now, I wonder how much these consultants made off of students and the taxpayer

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Booted up Akinator to escape to the past, but there is just no running from the present

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This conversation about a wealth tax is ludicrous. Look at what happened to the countries that use one. You don't see any rich people in *checks notes* Switzerland and Norway now do you!

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Bluesky, define: "post-autism"

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Science journalism in mainstream media outlets strikes again

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

1/3 There are two truths about the IDF that feel almost paradoxical, which is why discourse is a mess The IDF have killed countless innocent Palestinians, protect violent settlers, and have raised Gaza to rubble The existence of the IDF has meant Jews in the Israel & MENA haven’t been wiped out

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Why does MSM keep asking what she thinks lmao, she's not a Road Dahl character, she's an infantile lunatic

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I personally feel very sceptical about people no longer caring about "whether the artist is human or not" People already consume content due to WHO is making it, even if you can find better quality content doing the same thing, but made be lesser known people

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This cat is my favourite guy

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Have the done some silly maths again and just banned people coming from the 12 countries with the fewest people coming to the US to maximise political capital with minimal real consequences?

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Great grassroots campaign to help the survivors of one of the most brutal prisons to ever exist, Assad's Sednaya in Syria. Please consider donating to support those who were brave enough to stand up and ask for freedom in the face of brutal persecution: tasharuky.com/en/p/219

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12/05/2025

I think there's a divide between people who think posting is fun and people who think it's praxis and if you think posting is a way to make real change, and not a way to shoot the shit with your online friends, it's a great way to drive yourself insane and act like an asshole

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Knew I'd forget something for my holiday Bloody forgot to rinse Tesco for the heavily reduced Easter products to eat on the flight didn't I

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Labour try to win this guy's vote challenge (impossible) youtube.com/shorts/NO46F...

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LBC caller: "You might think I'm racist but I'm not"

YouTube video by LBC

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The rights we take for granted – eight-hour days, weekends and safe workplaces – were won by workers of the past, who organised and fought for them. This #InternationalWorkersDay, join a union and stand up for a better future for all workers. www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union

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TUC Union Finder: Find Your Union >>

Tell us about your work and we'll find the right union for you.

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Picky @counterpicky.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Genuine question for the women out there - to whatever extent that you are attracted to after Olly Murs (whether it's less or more than before Olly Murs), how much of that is a more nebulous "it's attractive that he's evidently driven and hard working" rather than actually liking his physique?

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