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Just me looking at the world with my head in my hands

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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Worth a share on all your social media? youtube.com/shorts/8F3Zr...
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Andy Burnham explains how his changes to the triple lock will impact pensions and why
YouTube video by Andy Burnham
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Francis Eldergill @eldergill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Don’t mention the Iron Dome: comedy genius Kemi on warpath at Tory conference | John Crace
‘It’s a Britannia Shield’ announcement proves no one does farcical improv better than the Conservative leader
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sums up ‘Zionism is racism’ motion perfectly by Caroline Lucas.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well Done Germany! =============== The Cornell University case has highlighted the need to better protect women from rapists. This is a great idea for remote/hidden areas. ----------------------
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Claremont (Blackpool): 🌹 Lab HOLD Wick and East Caithness (Highlands): 🔶 LD GAIN from Ind Amble (Northd ): 🌹 Lab GAIN from Ref Hirst (Northd.): 🌹 Lab GAIN from Ref Long Whatton & Diseworth (NW Leics.): 🌳 Con HOLD Forth and Endrick Ward (Stirling): 🌳 Con HOLD Where is Reform UK? Nowhere.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/10/2026
Exclusive: Is there anything Kash Patel won’t do for Trump before the midterms? @sfitz787.bsky.social reports from inside the FBI.
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Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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Di French @difrench22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s Cheques !!!!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am so happy about what I am hearing that I have lost the ability to speak
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Di French @difrench22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social James you are completely wrong! I went to grammar school and hated every single minute. I was labelled as ‘difficult’ with an attitude problem. Spoiler alert I wasn’t Went to a vocational college to study fashion and then I flew.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The new MRP poll out today shows Progressives who vote tactically to stop Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could push his party into FOURTH place. The poll also shows Burnham’s Labour is winning back left-leaning voters by two to one. WE are the silent majority.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👏😂👇
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Always liked Gary x
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Italian illustrator Annalisa Bollini creates her mixed media scenes with a combination of embroidery, appliqué and paper #womensart
Mixed media artwork with a dog-like creature with wings and on wheels facing left
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
The correct answer to hate ♥️
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.thepoke.com/2026/09/22/f...
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The first and last time Nigel Farage dared to face James O’Brien has gone viral again, and it’s still a glorious own
It’s easy to forget that Nigel Farage was once (technically) a colleague of James O’Brien at LBC, before he left the station in 2020 having made inflammatory remarks about Black Lives Matter protester...
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Nanette 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇨🇺 @nanu4equality.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He’s destroying everything he can. Shame on the ones facilitating him #VoteBlueNoMatterWho
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please share. It could save a life. Thank you. =======================
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Punchy international resistance to racism is spreading #MigrantsWelcome
Huge poster covering scaffolding outside a large building in Germany 
MENSCHEN SIND AUSLÄNDER.
IRGENDWO.
RASSISTEN SIND ARSCHLÖCHER.
UBERALL.
Gemeinsam gegen Rassismus!

translation: People are foreigners somewhere
Racists are assholes everywhere
Together against racismPhoto of a pasted message on a wall. 
People are foreigners somewhere
Racists are assholes everywhere

From Feminist Collages in London Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG63XvCkv1/?stkn=MTNqbnB2dWRwZ2hnYw==
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Di French @difrench22.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social re ADHD Life is like a game of poker. We are all dealt our cards. some of us don’t know the rules but we don’t know we don’t know the rules so we just play.
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Di French @difrench22.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You know you’re stuffed when you send Nadine Dorris out to defend you’re rule bending #reform
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Ministry of Wibble @ministry-of-wibble.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The crypto billionaire criminal pardoned by Trump (Ben Delo) has just given £4m to the Reform 'Party'. And now this new Ch4 exposé has just been released, further cooking his goose... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
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Di French @difrench22.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My nephew made this for me using chat GTP. Took him about 5 mins. Sadly still missing but has been seen locally 😊.
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NUFC Twitter Bot @nufcjournalistbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Newcastle United (@NUFC) Elanga is electric 🏎️💨 t.co/hU3BlLuZ3C
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Whatever the colour of your political persuasion, if this ISN’T your view… you’re on the wrong side. Simple.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wales is about to pass a law allowing them to fire Politicians who lie. They will be the first country in the world where Politicians aren't allowed to lie. It's 2026, it's incredible it has taken so long.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This, by @alexisconran.com, is brilliant & chilling. open.substack.com/pub/scamproo...
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Is your mobile phone listening in on you?
The scary thing is ... it doesn't have to.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 01/08/2026
Theme to these around how much he was invested in the emotional wellbeing of his team. #nufc
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The World Cup without UEFA means no Mbappe, no Bellingham, no Haaland, no Olise, no Yamal It means no England, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium It means no Zidane, Tuchel, Klopp The World Cup this year without Europe would have just been Argentina & Egypt in the final 8 UEFA must hold firm
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 29/07/2026
🚨 BREAKING: A Reform UK councillor in Sunderland has been charged with posting a grossly offensive comment after writing in 2024 that Nigerians should be melted down to fill in potholes
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For our American friends.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A brilliant opportunity for young people in the Liverpool City area. Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. andytaylorfoundation.org/our-work/foo...
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Foot in the Door Liverpool 2026 | andytaylorfoundation.org
FOOT IN THE DOOR LIVERPOOL 2026. Are you aged 18-21, live in the Liverpool City Region and would love a creative job but have no professional experience? Th ...
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Grays Riverside (Thurrock) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 30.2% (+3.8) ➡️ RFM: 28.1% (-5.1) 🌍 GRN: 27.5% (-1.9) 🌳 CON: 14.1% (+3.1) Labour GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2026.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/07/2026
If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you're back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail.
Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon.
The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Millionaires More Radical than Current new new new Labour Government! More than 120 millionaires.. have signed an open letter urging PM Andy Burnham to tax their wealth. The campaign, called 'Proud to Pay' says a 2% tax on wealth over £10m could raise £24 billion a year. #burnham #wealthtaxnow
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's destroying Elon Musk's tiny little mind that this Black Woman Lupita Nyong'o played Helen of Troy in Odyssey. Help me destroy it a little bit more.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/07/2026
“Something fundamental has changed. Nigel Farage for the first time is looking vulnerable” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her latest deep dive into George Cottrell
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Another big upcoming by-election that Reform were widely predicted to win now looks like an easy victory for Labour
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GrumpyGirdle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿〓〓🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🐈‍⬛🐾📚🌊☮️ @grumpygirdle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In December a 1594 edition of Snorri Sturluson's Sagas of the Kings was sold at auction for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner to Erling Haaland. He donated it to the library in Bryne with the request that the book remain open for visitors, so people could read it rather than see it locked away
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Di French @difrench22.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Are you listening Andy Burnham
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please, please, please let this story make the print edition…
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gene @genej101.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Laugh of the day. Science wins every time.
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