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Danny van Read

@dannyvanread.bsky.social
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Leftie liberal, politics, music, books, records. Mental and physical heath, neurodivergence and Dartmoor. Expect tangents.

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Sewage Data Alerts @alerts.sewagedata.co.uk · 29/09/2026
🚨 NEW DISCHARGE NEAR East Looe 💩 South West Water has started discharging raw sewage 0.35mi from this bathing water 📋 This bathing water was rated Good by the EA ⏰ This discharge started at 18:31 🔗 sewagedata.co.uk/?asset=SBB00554
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fining them money is pointless. My bill has quadrupled. Fine them in stock and nationalise cost-free.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bored of this now. Leave disabled people alone you fascist cunts.
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P. Thomas Johnson 🇨🇦🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 @ptomj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Equality Act isn't enough. We need an LGBTQ+ Bill of Rights, as part of a written constitution.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol, he's sticking to the fiscal rules. So anything written above, especially wrt to spending, is subject to ??? and especially gilt interest rate This is the escape hatch clause for genuinely everything in this speech
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’re also half what a person needs to live on. Triple-locking destitution isn’t the gift people seem to think it is.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026
Just imagine: when everyone who works in your city earns a decent amount of money, everyone has money to spend!
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Speaking to unreliable memories of a childhood in the seventies.
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometimes a problem is its own solution.
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watching a talented person pursue their craft is just simple joy.
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stepford PA.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026
pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons
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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want to screech every time I see someone post "why don't they teach media literacy in school?" Well I hate to break it to you but all those Arts & Humanities you systematically defunded and devalued WERE the media literacy.
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Scene LGBTQ+ Magazine @scenemag.co.uk · 28/09/2026
A Devon Pride group transformed a 1,000-year-old Norman castle with a giant rainbow flag at the weekend, creating a striking celebration of LGBTQ+ history, visibility and community.
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‘Queer people have always been here’: Totnes Pride 'captures' historic Norman castle
A Devon Pride group has transformed a 1,000-year-old Norman castle with a giant rainbow flag, creating a striking celebration of LGBTQ+ history, visibility and community. Around 400 people gathered a...
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The weird thing about the whole ‘dementia tax/death tax’ stuff is it implies we don’t already have one. Surely we basically do, we just don’t tell people about it in advance and it’s totally unpredictable and random.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/09/2026
We don't use the term "genocide" too much. In fact, based solely on the legal definition, I'd argue we use it far too little. Maybe if we were quicker to label atrocities as genocides, we would have fewer atrocities.
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It certainly chucked the myth of his singular genius into a flaming skip.
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" was published in November 1925, it was a runaway bestseller, and goes through 85 editions during her lifetime. It spawned a comic strip and offers for a play; to placate her husband Emerson, who was jealous of her solo success, she let him share credit for the play.
A comic strip based on "Gentlemen Prefer Blonde," drawn by Virginia Huget, also ran in 1926
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was hauled off at gunpoint in Myanmar for taking a photograph outside a military building once - I had actually been photographing a puppet hanging in a tree.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CEO: I have invented the off button.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Today’s speech from the Chancellor shows Labour offering more of the same. We need real action to tackle extreme wealth inequality in this country and make the super-rich pay their fair share.
Headline reads: “It’s time to tackle extreme wealth inequality.”
Quote from Ellie Chowns, MP for North Herefordshire:
“The Chancellor used his speech today to repeatedly stress a message of new leadership offering new hope, yet when it came to the substance behind the rhetoric, Britain was once again left with more of the same.
“He made no mention of the extraordinary wealth inequality holding our country back, nor did he state any ambitions for fair taxation of wealth.
“A government serious about fixing our economy cannot afford to look the other way while the uber-rich accumulate ever-more wealth and dodge paying their fair share.”
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
U want buy pot. Good pot very wriggly Www.roseschmits.com
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should've tried to drown some RNLI coastguards mates, it would've taken them a month to think about arresting you
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great review. Read it whether or not you’ve seen the show yet.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
#Reform and their lovely private, insurance based NHS plans.
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Laura Richmond @laurarichmond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A few weeks ago my phone buzzed at midnight - a delivery notification from Evri. I got out of bed, opened the front door, and there in a huge mound on my doorstep were Evri parcels for every address within a half mile radius.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much this. Y’all are bastards of the highest water
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026
Genuinely fascinating to see people invent second-wave feminism from first principles like this, good for them
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Bob @bchristianpoet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some pictures from Totnes Pride #photographer #pride #devon
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Newspaper columnists. Apply for PIP. See how far you get.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Janice, I hope you can see the two middle fingers Im holding up at you all the way from Canada, honey; all disrespect is intentional and intended
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Max Grafe @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They kinda have the podcast name game on lockdown right now
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Tran Girlismo
The Home Page of Tran Girlismo: The Real Podcast Simulator
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Magnificent horse. 🐎
Willow sculpture of a shire horse. Dynamic movement and life.
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Danny van Read @dannyvanread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been looking for new podcasts. Just take a bow for this…
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A clarification: 👬People on Universal Credit 👬Workers 👬Taxpayers Are not distinct groups. c4/10 of those on UC work, many will pay NICs, some also income tax. Everyone pays VAT. Most people pay council tax. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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hawksland.bsky.social @hawksland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tax burden, paltry compared with what paid in 70. 1970 standard rate was 41.25%, higher rates applied over certain thresholds. Top rate of income tax on unearned income was up to 98% during that period.
Rates of income tax 1974-79
Rates of income tax 1979-1989
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me for the Indy: www.independent.co.uk/voices/this-...
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This is the only way that Andy Burnham can beat Nigel Farage
Our polling shows that campaigning to go back into Europe is the only way to stop the electoral map turning turquoise, says Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let us walk the woods as feral possibility space. Let us walk the woods in hope of strange sights, fantastical encounters. Stories we can tell to those we love as an intimate folklore of hope that wonder is still abroad. That we still have places of constant magic. – #DAKilroy
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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