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Dissentra

@dissentra.bsky.social
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Swapped Blighty for Cyprus in 2007 - one of my better decisions. Hate what Brexit has done to the UK. Waiting for my Cypriot Citizenship & EU passport.

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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
FFS! When the US went to the polls, just over half of those who voted decided to shit the bed 🙄 Reminds me of Brexit, where 52% of UK voters proverbially shat the bed & two countries were taken out of the EU against their vote.
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Andrew Knight (Fella) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andrewknightfella.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If this is true... this will be the most depraved and evil things either #Trump or #Musk, has done so far... ever I truly hope it is fake. Or at worst a passing comment or vague hint at best
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The author reminds us of “the “smoky room experiment”. In this study, when a person is alone in a room that begins to fill with smoke, three-quarters raise the alarm within minutes. Yet, when surrounded by others who remain passive, only 10% take action. This is the “bystander effect”,
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Mike Bealing @sillytees.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Altar Mitty will be looking for a route back to the UK. I have a lilo, a John Bull repair kit and a winfield jnr cricket set he can borrow to paddle across the Atlantic.
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Andrew Knight (Fella) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andrewknightfella.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Even Boris Johnsons dad knew the score.. #RejoinEU
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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
#TrumpTheTraitorousPatsy
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The Jase @thejase.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Liz Truss tries her hand at stand up comedy with predictable results.
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Please consider contributing to my crowdfunding effort to build a trebuchet powerful enough to fire Liz Truss into the sun
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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 22/02/2025
Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...
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US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters
The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink service after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communicati...
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 22/02/2025
“EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening…This would mean the UK would recover between a quarter and a half of Brexit’s economic hit to UK GDP, which the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has calculated at minus 4 per cent by 2030.” archive.ph/2025.02.09-0...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
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Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot
The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Farage has chosen sides. He bows to the Nazi salute. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/elon...
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Nigel Farage praises ‘hero’ Elon Musk during speech at US right-wing conference
Nigel Farage heaped praise on Elon Musk in a speech at the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in America on Thursday, 20 February, one month after the billionaire suggested he ...
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In this crazy, unstable and dangerous world it is utter madness to remain out of the EU. #RejoinEU #Rejoin
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a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle waving in the wind
Alt: a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle waving in the wind
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The search for Nigel Farage in Clacton enters its 32nd week.
A row of police officers walk in a line across a field, searching for evidence
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So, Farage struts around on stage in the US, slagging off the UK and the EU, blaming anything but Brexit for us being poorer and unhappier and crawling up Trump’s backside… What a repulsive spectacle he is. If you actually could be put in prison here for ‘saying anything’ he’d be my top pick.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/02/2025
And these are the mass graves, in a forest outside Izium, where occupying Russian forces dumped the bodies of the civilians they murdered. 445 bodies were retrieved by the Ukrainian troops who liberated Izium. To witness this scene, in a European country in 2025, shook me to my core.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/02/2025
We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline
Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
For THE LOVE OF GOD, stop taking money from RUSSIANS. We don’t want our politicians OWNED BY RUSSIA. It’s not rocket science & surely by now, we should know better. If you agree, repost.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We've had reports that M&S has had so many calls asking them to stop advertising with GB News that there's now a dedicated team handling messages about this issue 👏👏👏 Lines are open from *9am to 4pm* today and the number is 0333 014 8000 Let's keep this going!
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
General Sir Nick Carter, "Donald Trump has been treating his allies like enemies" "Many of us are feeling deeply uncomfortable about some of the rhetoric" "There's only one thing worse than fighting alongside allies, it's fighting without allies.. Trump needs to remember that"
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 22/02/2025
Europe's politicians are openly discussing how they could tackle the threat of nuclear attack without American help, in a dramatic sign of the deep crisis engulfing the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe targets homegrown nuclear deterrent as Trump sides with Putin
Germany’s Merz says Britain and France may need to “share” their nuclear weapons as America can’t be relied on to defend NATO.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Fairly sick of the sight of simpering British politicians trotting over to America to talk down our country in front of a bunch of braying MAGA fascists If you don't like this Britain, why not go and live in your beloved Trump’s America. (AM I doing this right)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Dissentra @dissentra.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Goats grazing the fields opposite my place last night. #PylaVillage #Cyprus
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Claire Hopkin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇦🇪 @clairehopkin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Adopt don't shop. This in the car on the way home from picking him up from the foster and taking him to his new home!
Puppy retriever and his new mum, whose face is pure joy. Their equally delighted daughter.
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Dissentra @dissentra.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Northern Cypriots Thursday morning after a freak hailstone storm.
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Yvonne Burdett @nannyvon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We went to a really nice pub in Cornwall. Been there many times but never again. That picture of Farage and Trump with their thumbs up was behind the bar and the landlady came down and started talking about how she loves him. He's caused more harm to businesses in Cornwall than any other person
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Gav @socialistdawn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Rachel5742 @rachel5742.eurosky.social · 09/02/2025
I'm sure... @ailsalaing.bsky.social @valeriea.bsky.social @socialistdawn.bsky.social @bsky.pickpear.com @iammardikins.bsky.social @lomquiche.bsky.social @damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social @dissentra.bsky.social @dfarb.bsky.social @natsommers.bsky.social ...all agree... * Did you see what I did there?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is, by some distance, the most unforgivably stupidest thing the government is doing. An easily sellable proposal, which would actually help Brits, and unlocks meaningful negotiation. Irrational and anti-growth.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“Elon Musk said the British Gov’t, elected by the British people just a few months ago, should be overthrown..Elon Musk has to be held to account” Sir Ed Davey 👏
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I just don't buy it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK can win scores of Labour seats in England and Wales, says study
Analysis of a mega poll shows Keir Starmer would lose more seats than Tories amid voter discontent with main parties
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Cooper tying herself up in knots and Philips not good enough to call that out. If rejoining SM + CU are your red lines, you’ll have the highest barriers to trade and the most red tape. Only alignment and greater cooperation (on, say, youth mobility) reduces that slightly. Tired of the lies, Yvette.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“No return to the customs union, to the single market or to free movement and that remains the case” says Home Secretary Yvette Cooper It’s simply impossible to reconcile the governments stubborn & entrenched position on Brexit with its policy of “growth, growth, growth”
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/02/2025
Elon just filed his proposed second amended complaint, asking for "treble damages" for companies illegally [checks notes] not advertising on X... The level of entitlement is insane. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This week Mr Pip has barked at Circumnavigation Elocution French cuisine Cobalt Trews Apples Slings and arrows Outrageous fortune Grimpen Mire Turmeric Flanges The poetry of Sapho Kevin the Chaffinch Holistic anything Tuesdays Staplers Makems and Galashiels
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🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺 @clucksky.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
22 years ago today, we rolled off the night boat to live permanently in France. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine imbeciles like this would ruin the chance of others doing likewise. Listen and weep for your country. It's no longer mine.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A little known part of the British constitution is that this headline must appear in a newspaper at least once a year.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 01/02/2025
Getting real close to a billion posts
999.86M total posts
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Jo Ellis has just posted this video on Facebook, confirming to be a "Black Hawk pilot with Virginia National Guard" and not - as many viral social media posts had claimed - linked to the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
TV shows continuing to platform Fascists - and engaging in cosy, jocular banter
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Dissentra @dissentra.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
#sunset #Cyprus #Larnaca Sun setting behind mount Stavrorouni tonight.
Sun setting behind mount Stavrorouni in Cyprus tonight
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump is an extremely dangerous man--stupid, vindictive, fixated on payback for his enemies. This country will be lucky to survive him.
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Excellent advice.
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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