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Nicola

@craftybookworm.bsky.social
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Loves cats, the rain, books, making stuff, and mending old things. Writes a bit, does some needlework, covered in ink and wrangles pain all the time. Will talk about Eddie the kitten, and Henry his predecessor at length.

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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 7h
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 8h
Oh wow, I adore everything about that dress!
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 11h
This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 16h
What a daft character she is, no doubt she’s loving this confected culture war.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Unlike Russian political refugees, who are vetted to an incredibly high standard by EU Member States, the standard of vetting for a tourist visa is (understandably) variable and far lower, and, I’d imagine, fairly easy to nobble for a very serious intelligence service (Russia has one of those).
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
God. Since @carolecadwalla.bsky.social left it, even the @theguardian.com gets it wrong. There weren’t just four meetings between Banks/Leave EU and Kremlin officials during Brexit: the judge in the libel case concluded at least a dozen
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My take with @goldbergradio.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social on Andy Burnham and why it took so long for the British Government to come clean about Putin’s role in Brexit youtu.be/M8hVq-skssI
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Russia's Brexit Meddling Proven
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’ve done it with baby plum tomatoes, but if you come across one variety you like you can propagate the seeds really easily
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s amazing given that Gove’s ex wife wrote in detail about how Lord Lebedev was there when Gove and Johnson made The Decision. I’d love to hear Dominic Grieve’s opinion of it all too, but he’s too honourable to spill the beans
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
British Conservatives: "Russia has disgracefully interfered in politics in France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and invaded Ukraine. They even meddled in the US elections." Also British Conservatives: "What? Russia! Interfere in Brexit? Ridiculous! Just a tired old conspiracy theory."
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 12/10/2026
For too long, successive governments have turned a blind eye to the huge damage caused by the Johnson-Farage Brexit deal. I really hope this marks a real turning point. x.com/BBCPolitics/...
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 11/10/2026
ok i’m kind of miffed that the russian bot farm problem was this easy to mitigate against and i really wish ukraine had done it years ago now
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Especially how the likes of Boris Nemtsov had a huge following from both Russians and people in the West
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Right?!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It comes after years of cover-ups & denials not least from Boris Johnson who was in charge of MI6 as foreign minister at the time & whose first act as PM was to ennoble the Baron of Siberia. But it also went beyond Johnson & Starmer continued it too. We now finally need some sunlight. 2/
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/10/2026
Once again having to explain my teenage self that inexplicably, we are fighting side by side with the Catholic Church
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Illustration by Badiucao
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I broke Eddie - I was playing him a video of him as a kitten last year when he was squeezing under a bedside table and he became super interested and was all ‘Hang on, the kitten has disappeared. BRING BACK THE KITTEN YOU MONSTER’ despite him being visible and him actually being there at the time.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump's losing it. Look at his eyes, the anger, the fear that his messy deal has been rumbled? His words slaughtering Zelenskyy will only unite Ukraine's public like never before. By "make a deal" he means surrender so he can line his family's pockets yet further.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When Zelenskyy calls Trump weak it isn’t just rhetoric. Trump showed the world how weak he was when he bribed with cash to vote GOP. Putin saw that vulnerability and offered him a crappy deal on diesel as a lifeline. Trump is weak and the West’s biggest enemies can see it.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This 👇
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Glory to Ukraine
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Thomas Grieves @tgrieves.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Here's a brilliant idea! Sanction the US, we've sanctioned Russia for far less (before the Ukraine war). Blacklist Nvidia, Palantir, OpenAI and tell US troops to go home. Starmer, for once, be an example of decency and grow a backbone! (We're a European country, not a US vassal state).
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Petrol and diesel limits for drivers in fuel rationing plan for UK
The National Emergency Plan for Fuel says that a 'Maximum Purchase Scheme' could be introduced to limit the amount of petrol or diesel drivers can buy.
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Smack54 -stop calling it SI- @smack54.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Worse, the amount Trump is so proud of (that Russia doesn't have) is what the US uses in 2 whole days. Sanction relief for 48hrs worth diesel. It's a fucking scam, because of course it is.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We've seen Trump do some shitty things to Ukraine since taking office (Oval Office incident; Alaska summit; Patriot U-turn) but today he's chosen to do a diesel deal with Putin that plays to Russia's economic/warchest advantage and restricts Ukraine's ability to defend itself.
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Nicola @craftybookworm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
youtu.be/K2r0ezF4dT0?... Slept so long by Jonathan Davis from Queen of the Damned
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Jonathan Davis - Slept So Long
YouTube video by Kenneth Clemmensen
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
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Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“AGAIN”
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/10/2026
Yeah, you know what, that’s actually a fair usage of the phrase ‘medieval’. It is medieval and it should have been left in the medieval era.
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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Brian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever.
A paragraph from Brian Blessed’s autobiography:

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these student gatherings.
I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs.
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callook67 @callook67.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not only that, BMW is still owned by the Quandt family who trace their lineage by blood to a Nazi-supporting wealthy industrialist *and* by marriage to Joseph Goebbels and they are still pointedly less Nazi than Tesla.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagine deciding to go out and pitch that the Pope is the Woke Antichrist because he has concerns about AI, when you look like the lovechild of Satan and the guy whose face melts in Robocop. If a homeless guy gave this 'lecture' in Hyde Park, he would be sectioned. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
iamemployedaf: 

"owning a printer" and "actually being able to print something" are two entirely different things
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice little nugget of horror buried in there
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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Teddy the Porcupine talks through his snack youtube.com/watch?v=UGz8...
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"Teddy Bear," the porcupine, doesn't like to share...
YouTube video by Zooniversity1
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Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Strategic knowledge of how Germany could have won WWII is literally just "don't invade the USSR" and any self-respecting woman knows that already
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let's have look at who the British right idolizes. Tommy Robinson: 2 active charges. Russell Brand: 7 active charges Danny Tommo: 8 active charges Andrew Tate: 42 active charges Tristan Tate: 17 active charges Note that all 5 have publicly embraced performative christianity in recent years.
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