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"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." Terry Pratchett “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant” - Harlan Ellison

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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you see this, post a character that starts with W
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We should all do our bit to save water, says an interviewee on BBC Radio 4’s Today. Of course we should. However, people are unlikely to be enthusiastic about helping out the water firms, which have given ~£80 billion to shareholder, built no reservoirs and poisoned our rivers and seas with shit.
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name to make sure Burnham keeps his word. water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/s/AvlgZH
water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org
Stop the water industry rip-off
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name.
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A depressing reality as a journalist is that often the most valuable stories are the ones the social media algorithm/people care the least about. One of my worst performing videos for Mother Jones is about a family of asylum seekers who had a father deported by ICE. It is likely my best work.
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ICE Took Him. Now His Family Lives in Fear.
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tim and Daisy from Spaced
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I just took action to ask my MP to push Ofcom to do its job. Email your MP today! stopfundinghate.info/get-involved...
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Tell your MP to help fix Ofcom – Stop Funding Hate
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
With so much awful news, here is something to brighten your day:
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
NO TO PALANTIR! Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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Email your MP to demand no Palantir in our NHS
Palantir faces scrutiny for human rights abuses as MPs debate its £330m NHS data contract on 16 April. Urge your MP: no Palantir in our NHS. Act now.
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Left: Nigel Farage suggests that Alex Pretti was openly carrying a gun Right: Evidence shows Alex Pretti had a phone in one hand, and the other hand was empty
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Theo Arman @theoarman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Boycott Estée Lauder now! Its owner is the oligarch pushing for the annexation of Greenland. Boycott their owned brands whilst you’re at it.
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products .
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The solstice approaches. (21st December, and then it's back toward the sun!)
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
SO TRUE 👇👇
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna. Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up. Like if you want Mone on trial. RT if you want them both facing the music.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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BrianinFrance @brianinfrance.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Starmer is being badly advised. That is blatantly obvious from his abysmal ratings, and from the frequency which which he steps on rakes. The UK desperately needs a leader to effectively combat RefUK, not compete with them to see who can be the most vindictive towards minorities & the vulnerable.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change" "All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern" "I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened" "And I get more scared every single day"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end. But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy. (Times)
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Farage to abandon manifesto's big plans for tax cuts

Extracts: 
Farage will break with his manifesto pledges of £90 billion in tax cuts as he attempts to bolster his party's economic credibility.
The leader of Reform UK will promise not to reduce taxes before reducing spending, deep cuts to the civil service and a ban on borrowing to fund government expenditure in his first big speech on the economy next month.

"Reform will never borrow to spend, as Labour and the Tories have done for so long; instead, we will ensure savings are made before implementing tax cuts.
I will have more to say on all this in the coming weeks."

Speaking on the campaign trail before the Caerphilly by-election to the Welsh parliament on October 23, he did not respond to demands to name his shadow chancellor but suggested he would soon be able to draw on backing from the business community.
Several high-profile figures from industry have privately indicated they would be willing to serve in a Reform cabinet, party officials said
Farage said: "We will be launching between now and the budget, a new campaign — an economic campaign ... it's going to be very impactful. It'll another high-profile individual coming into politics from outside of politics, who's been supremely successful in their world." Promising a "total change of attitude" on the economy, he said: "We are not a party dominated by corporate thinking. The Tories and La-bour are both dominated by corporate thinking."
The IFS has questioned whether
Reform's economic plans are credible warning last year that the party had overestimated how much it could save through spending cuts: "Even with the extremely optimistic
assumptions
about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up."
Right-leaning think tanks have also urged the party to set out more credible policy. The Institute for Economic Affairs last month called for Reform to
"put some serious economic policies on the table".
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
you.38degrees.org.uk
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill. Farage is still silent. It’s deafening. #ReformRussianBribes
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
History repeats.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
UK Electricity price 2023 - Highest in the World UK Electricity price 2024 - Highest in the World UK Electricity price 2025 - Highest in the World Energy is the most profitable Industry in the UK making £130bn, ahead of Banking on £82bn and Landlords on £80bn You pay for it all
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
@66samus.bsky.social Just to say I used your link to start Drumeo today, so thanks for that. Not really into metal, or double bass, but love your energy and joy in playing drums, so thanks for the inspiration x
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Cascade Shopping Centre in Portsmouth is censoring the Stop Starving Gaza posters Lush have stuck on their own shop. Boycott this disgusting Genocide loving place.
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will un-cunt the weekend. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
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Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate
Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Benjamin Netanyahu - utter cunt
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Nigel Farage demonstrates he doesn't understand how the covid vaccines work "They basically lied to us.. Having the jab did not stop you from passing on covid.. Did not stop you from catching covid again"
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right.
Women’s rights are under threat from the far right. Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention. A vote in Parliament could ...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 03/06/2025
Share and Enjoy!
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
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Plasticfree NW Leeds- Climate Kirsty 🐟🐝🇪🇺 @plasticfreenwleeds.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Finally! Thank you @teamlabouruk.bsky.social I have to say your decisions haven’t me and many others happy with you recently but this I can get behind!
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
RETWEET if you stand with Judge Hannah Dugan!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/04/2025
Government can act fast when it wants to.
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British Steel live: UK PM Starmer aims to pass emergency law in one day to save British Steel
A source says the UK government is looking
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Anna Lipphardt @anneli17.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Freiburg, Germany, Central Station Bookshop (right @the center of the shop‘s entryway): “This is a selection of books which are banned at schools in the US“. #UniteAgainstBookBans #FreedomToRead @ala-pla.bsky.social @librarypolicy.bsky.social
Fotograph shows a table with covers of books translated into German:
back row: 5 books by Sarah J. Maas
middle row: Toni Morrison, Bluest Eyes; Steven Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Orwell, 1984; Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants;
Front row: Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why; Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; Art Spielman, Complete MAUS; Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid‘s Tale; John Green, For Alaska.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Just 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4 trillion held by 70% of the population combined. The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined. Rich have hijacked govts. Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
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Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope
'The government needs to recalibrate policies'
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Gareth Priest @creepingtiger.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Demand Spotify Remove Andrew Tate’s Harmful Courses on How to Traffic Women
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Londoner in Colchester @jetraven.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Tax the rich FFS.... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Don’t punish the vulnerable’: Labour MPs uneasy over planned welfare cuts
Ministers say ‘unsustainable’ rise in spending must be tackled but many backbenchers fear changes will not work
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