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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sheep densities across Europe. Native to southwest Asia, these domesticates are possibly the most effective means of killing off forests and other natural ecosystems ever devised.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
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MsBlueWednesday @msbluewednesday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think we were early guinea pigs in 2016 & still *no-one* has been held accountable for this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
bbc.co.uk
Vote Leave's targeted Brexit ads released by Facebook
The social media ads that helped Vote Leave win the EU referendum are published in full for the first time.
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timwhat.bsky.social @timwhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only benefit of Brexit was that millions of Europeans saw that the EU was not just an abstraction but rather a physical reality, it was not a mere club whose membership you could just cancel rather it was your home.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️JUST NOW: MASS UN WALKOUT ON NETANYAHU
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Does this horrify you? Then you will be smeared as a dangerous, hateful extremist.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
wow I'm shocked that the police leadership are right wing, hearing this for the first time
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why can Far Right racist thugs get away with terrorising the RNLI but other people get arrested for holding signs against Genocide because they are 'terrorists'. Sort it out and get the real terrorist locked up.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026
Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Once again I am calling for an urgent study into the cognitive & psychological effects on Today presenters of reading all the newspapers before 6am every day
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 01/09/2026
End of EU oversight & loss of access to EU-wide laboratory & certification networks are direct contributors to the deterioration of water quality. Industry experts explicitly linked the post-Brexit regulatory environment to the escalation in sewage pollution. www.waternewseurope.com/uk-growing-p...
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UK: Growing protests over post-Brexit water crisis • Water News Europe
High water prices, high leakage rates, bad water infrastructure and water pollution lead to growing protests over UK water crisis
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reform UK MPs who love hobnobbing with the super-rich and utterly despise anyone who is poor have forgotten who their core voters are ... meme via We Demand UK
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Next time you hear a guy down the pub ranting about the immigrant invasion and how they are draining the finances of your glorious country…read this out loud to them!" via Dez Thomas (Meanwhile UK billionaires pay a smaller % of their total wealth in taxes than the average citizen) #TaxTheRich
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thames Water, the poster child of predatory capitalism announces hosepipe ban. TW loses 200bn litres annually to leaks. Dumps tons of sewage in rivers. Paid dividends, neglected investment. No new reservoirs since 1989. Massive hikes in customer bills. Numerous criminal convictions.
bbc.co.uk
Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for 10.1m customers
The water company said the three heatwaves contributed to the ban.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Laura Kuenssberg, Andrew Neil, and the BBC apparatus which gave Cambridge Analytica a chance to undermine @carolecadwalla.bsky.social’s investigation before it was published, called law breaking ‘rule breaking’, demeaned her as a mad cat lady, and fluffed Farage, deserve all the ignominy of history
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A friend’s bf saw the opening post in this thread and said “Was that AI?” and I fear I was perhaps not as calm as I could have been when I replied “OF COURSE IT’S NOT FUCKING AI. AS IF I WOULD EVER EVEN GO NEAR AI. ROD IS NOT AI. ROD SHITS ON AI FROM A GREAT HEIGHT. NOW APOLOGISE TO ROD RIGHT NOW.”
Rod the herring gull, looking indescribably wonderful while sitting on top of a pergola thinking about the novels of Rebecca West.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
One key fact to remember about the glut of "carbon capture" projects is that they the primary reason for these projects is NOT protecting our climate. These projects are a ploy by giant corporations to suck in billions of dollars in taxpayer dollars. The companies don't care if they work or not.
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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 06/07/2026
Declassified researched two years of reporting by seven British media outlets and found only 16 mentions of the phrase Israel lobby without speech marks. Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby? Because they’re part of it. www.declassifieduk.org/why-dont-uk-...
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Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby?
Because they’re part of it.
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Julia @toddlenrant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
londonlovesbusiness.com/capita-share... So much of government 'waste' is due to out-sourcing public services, whether civil service pension scheme to NHS contracts. Capita is one of the worst.
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Capita shares fall after government condemns civil service pension failures - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Capita shares fall sharply after government condemns civil service pension failures amid concerns of further intervention.
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
His name was Mohammad al-Wahidi, one of the Egyptian Relief committee in Gaza. He organised areas, clearing rubble & rubbish, installing a big screen & chairs so the Palestinians could watch the Egypt/Argentina game - to feel a bit of joy. Israel assassinated him an hour before kick off.
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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So it’s a family tradition
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".
A painting which depicts Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What do we think Nigel Farage would have said if an EU politician had taken a £5mn gift just before they were elected, not declared it, put forward policies that benefited the person who gave them the £5mn, changed their story several times about what it was for & got angry when asked about it? 🤔
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is pretty damning
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Down Keir Starmer's Premiership Lest we forget. Important setting the record straight by @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/22/k...
bylinetimes.com
The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Down Keir Starmer's Premiership
The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but ended up falling far short of his own standards, argues Adam Bienkov
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Its a shocking indictment of UK media that people don’t understand what Farage’s policies will inflict on the country - if they did support would quickly melt away youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Earth Element @earthelement.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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The Cruelty We Can’t Afford - How to Prevent Animal Suffering.
Ecologists read a landscape through its indicator species.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Once again, it’s not the vetting that’s the problem. It’s Reform’s DNA that’s the problem. It’s a racist, misogynistic, far right party, led by a corrupt egomaniac funded by crypto/fossil fuel billionaires and christofascists. No one remotely decent would sign up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
'Abysmal': Nigel Farage's
Reform UK suffers another by-election blow
Anti-immigration party hit by candidate's offensive comments and progressive coalition
Nigel Farage, left, with Reform's Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon on Thursday © ReutersThe Makerfield candidate, local plumber Robert Kenyon, was revealed to have made highly offensive comments in online posts, including one from 2019, saying: "I'm sexist, sorry but I am." Reform stood by him, arguing they were made before he entered politics.
"I think the worst aspect of this whole campaign is that [Kenyon] further alienated any women who might have come over to Reform," said one senior party figure.
"It's actually more damaging than not winning the seat... That's going to be captured and then dragged up every time there's an election now. They just didn't vet him sufficiently, it was stupidity."
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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 10/06/2026
Our Daily "Telegraph disinformation check" challenges statements made by The Daily Telegraph by quoting other sources and giving our own editorial view This time, the source is none other than @zackpolanski.bsky.social calling them out. westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/dail...
Post by Zack saying "We're at the point where the Telegraph are literally making up quotes.

I said when veg is sold for pennies in supermarkets, it's a sign someone's not being paid properly.

Farmers being paid a pittance for their produce.

Workers on less than a living wage in supermarkets."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Amazon UK entities' pre-tax profits up from £455m to £555m. It pays corporation tax at an effective rate of 7.1%, headline rate is 25%. Profits shifted through intragroup transactions. UK retailers can't compete with hard-wired systematic tax avoidance.
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Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
Tech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Liz Truss budget is (rightly) cited as emblematic fiscal irresponsibility. But we rarely talk about Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election National Insurance cuts. Not the same scale of mad vandalism. But perhaps more destructive because no one feels able to call them out, so they remain.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Just remembered we've passed the 10th anniversary of this untruthful tweet
Boris Johnson falsely claiming that Brexit will make no difference to British citizens in the EU.
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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I don't know if it's just me, but just dipping a toe into media ("mainstream" and "new") for any length of time now brings with it such an overwhelming sense of rapidly accelerating disintegration that is like a kind of vertigo. A pandemonium. Not internalising disintegration becomes imperative.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Absolutely 💯 Agree…. Supporting Trump is not a political choice. It's a declaration that you could not care less about decency, morality, legality, or truth.
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Earth Element @earthelement.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social youtu.be/fchrqBL-8B0?...
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Elon Musk: A Predictable Tragedy
YouTube video by Barry's Economics
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Earth Element @earthelement.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Psychiatrists warn about dangerous Donald Trump youtu.be/OVjJNlMZwOw?...
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Critical Psychiatric Meeting (May 15, 2026)
YouTube video by World Mental Health Coalition
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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In order to demonstrate that our system is working & is not designed purely to benefit the ultra wealthy and corrupt, it is imperative that Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are both held accountable for the suspicious payments they both received in order to manipulate an election.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...
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#Politics Who gets heard – and who doesn’t – on UK broadcast? | Be Broadcast
New analysis of 1.5m mentions reveals which UK parties are overexposed or underrepresented on broadcast – from Labour and Reform to the Conservatives and Lib Dems.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are… Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.
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