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Ellis Beck

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Some people think they’re in a bar with a live band, I know I’m an audience member at a small venue (trying to listen above the sound of annoying drunks).

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Confessions of a genocidal Zionist ... via Khalid Zar
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
via The National www.thenational.scot/news/2656573...
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 18/09/2026
The Harris Brothers - Summers Gone [USA, Folk, Country] (196-?): One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Who were the incredible Harris Brothers? Truly transcendent. redd.it/pph72g youtu.be/98lyaNSqPok
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The Harris Brothers - Summers Gone [USA, Folk, Country] (196-?): One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Who were the incredible Harris Brothers? Truly transcendent.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From a party that plans to *retrospectively* remove basic human rights from those already granted asylum and leave to remain *and* demands we flounce out of the ECHR to control immigration, this is some next level arseholery from Jenrick, Tice and Reform.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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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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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
While the police pussy-foot around far right thugs terrorising UK streets ... "Police raided the home of an 84-year-old priest following her arrest last week at a Just Stop Oil protest. Sue Parfitt had been arrested alongside other protes ...” www.facebook.com/novaramedia/... meme via Novara Media
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026
THE REPORT THEY TRIED TO HIDE. Empty shelves. Water shortages. Food security at risk. The government cannot keep hiding the scale of the threat. It must release the report in full and act on it.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No sense of skepticism in this headline or social media post, unless you think quotation marks do the trick. I don't. Why are major media so lame in the face of the most blatant liar in American political history? It's either cowardice or complicity, or both.
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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 05/09/2026
Will the government be proscribing this lot of bell-ends as a terrorist organisation?
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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THE MAKING OF CALLAN: Behind the Scenes Documentary ("This Man Alone")
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why oh why are workers sacked and then executives given huge rises for 'cost savings' ... meme via Taylor Hayes
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." ~ James Baldwin
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show featuring a women-led lineup. Her show raised $10 million and Melinda French Gates pledged another $10 million. Rodrigo said the festival's artists and activists give her hope despite the “regression of women's rights."
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Olivia Rodrigo's festival is uniting women and girls behind nonprofits promoting their well-being
Few superstars are better suited to bridge the gap between Gen Z and nonprofits, which have struggled to build relationships with younger donors.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I was a historian of the atomic bomb decision from 1989-95 and coauthored an 800+ page book on the politics behind the decision. I’ve seen a lot of documentaries, but this is new to me. There were 78 people who survived underneath the explosion. This is how some of them survived. One is still alive.
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Hiroshima Ground Zero: Eyewitness Accounts of 78 A-Bomb Survivors | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, 78 people who were within 500 meters of the hypocenter survived. We visualize what happened at ground zero that day based on rare recordings of eyewitnesses. B...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
via Arrest Nigel Farage
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Economist personal hit pieces are surely just embarrassing for them. What is it about wealth taxes, rent controls and water nationalisation that they're so keen to stop progress? It's time to tackle the climate crisis & end Rip Off Britain.
Zack Polanski and the politics of eternal adolescence.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Speaking from Britain, where our leadership class spent ten years on destroying the left and welcoming the racist far right into the heart of government and media: Insofar as this is true, it will be happen because people like Hillary will make damn sure that it is effective.
NEW: Hillary Clinton: "It's not just about Michigan — but the Republican messaging is: 'communist, socialist.' It's gonna be a VERY effective attack."
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
British children in Nijmegen to visit the graves of fathers killed during the war, #OTD 6 August 1955. Katrina Coombs, 10, of Redcar, Barbara Janik, 12, of Burnley, Georgina Price, 10, of Ludlow, James Smith, 13, of Kirkcudbright, & Geraldine Greenwood, 12, of Bradford. (Daily Mirror via Findmypast)
Black and white photo of five children in a street carrying bags. A boy wears a kilt.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
via Laura Pidcock
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
UK Govt contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules. Why does it have to be either, or? Job creation should not be a trade-off with protecting the environment Govt appeasing corporations whilst planet burns, crops fail, food prices rocket.
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Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?” — David Mamet
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger
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I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger
To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This isn't one of his own songs and is not even his best cover, but I often think of this performance whenever I think of what it means to not phone something in, to really show up for it. Here's Glen Hansard years ago with Markéta Irglová doing Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic."
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Swell season - Into the mystic
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/07/2026
Andy Burnham wants to fix social care. It’s personal for him and for a lot of us too
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Andy Burnham wants to fix social care. It’s personal for him and for a lot of us too
Finally a grownup is in charge who speaks to voters as fellow adults. If he fixes this, he’ll achieve more than most other PMs
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 29/07/2026
Just spotted this. It's misleading and unnecessary, who eats 5/6th of a bag?
A 36 gram bag of cheesy Wotsits, yet on the bag it states above the nutritional information that the serving size is 30g.
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MissTaylor1991 @feminists-areheros.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Sorry America. You don't deserve friends.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Led By Donkeys has received compensation after a giant banner reading "Yes It's A Genocide" was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed. The banner, displayed in Parliament Square in Dec 2024, was taken by GLA reps and later destroyed by waste firm Veolia." via Truth Against Hate
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 28/07/2026
📚 “Concrete Horizons” — By Edoardo Ettorre in Gurjaani, Georgia 🇬🇪 New Street Art That Turns Walls Into Worlds (20 Photos, Vol. 15): worldartutopia.com/new-street-a...
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
More casual insanity served up to us by our government:
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/07/2026
Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?
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Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?
Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff An investigation into what people think about has put the spotlight on the modern mind, revealing thoughts dominated by work, the need for coffee and a strong desire to go back to bed. It also found evidence for four distinct groups of thinkers who spend more time than most either worrying about the world; mulling on household chores and finances; focusing on the mind and body; or the work-hard, play-hard combination of career and pleasure. Continue reading...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Anushka Asthana observed this several times - how come Starmer was so generous and considerate to his peers, and yet he was a relentless bastard to everyone he considered inferior and beneath him? And the explanation should be obvious to anyone who’s had a job, or been to school.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is who you’d expect it to be, but consider how wild it is to say this in a country wrecked by long years of highly ideological austerity cuts. where the vital public services that haven’t been sold as rent-seeking opportunities, have been outsourced to private service companies.
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Burnham can be the failure that Britain needs
Big government must be tested to destruction for serious reform to finally happen
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"New Zealand already generates 85% of its electricity from renewables — and is now adding solar at record speed to reach the 100% clean target that will make it one of the world's first fully renewable electricity systems. New Zealand's electricity grid is alrea..." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We are in an existential #ClimateCrisis, and what does Burnham decide to do right at the start of his premiership when his support is at its highest and he can get away with the most outrageous policy? Drill for more oil and gas in the North Sea! This is more than insane - this is a #ClimateCrime.
Image of Andy Burnham saying "Record heatwaves? - thousands of heat related deaths? Burnhams big solution? More oil. MOre gas. More North Sea drilling.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I'd challenge anyone to read this outstanding book and come away telling me that the Royal Family are a force for good. An in depth and shocking expose not just of the grubby money grabbing dim witted Yorks but the whole Firm and it's acts of self preservation.
Andrew Lownie Entitled
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"What America (EU, UK, ...) currently operates on is debt/wage slavery" via The Atheist Socialist
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Mrs PJ Haverstock @mrspjhaverstock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This book of short stories was super good! Weird, dark, and horror tales from a slightly different perspective. Folk horror fans will especially like this one!
The vibrantly colored cover of the book “Never Whistle at Night: an Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology”.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. it takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.. the depths that were possible in the slowing of motion, the things to see, the depths of things so easy to miss in the shallow habit of seeing." —Don DeLillo, POINT OMEGA
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
One would hope that the police would be given ‘all the resources they need’ to investigate anyone’s murder.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nigel Farage - who has not held a single constituency surgery in Clacton since getting elected - complains that people are 'showing contempt' for Clacton voters ... meme via Truth Against Hate
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Scum. 'Rupert Lowe told Joe Rogan, the world’s most popular podcaster, handguns were banned "because there was a murder up in Dunblane". Rogan asks: "One murder?" Lowe replies: "One murder." 16 children aged 5 & 6 and their teacher were killed by Thomas Hamilton.' www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Rupert Lowe sparks outrage with comments on Dunblane massacre
The Restore leader incorrectly told the world’s biggest podcaster there was just ‘one murder’ during the school massacre in which 16 children died.
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The President calling other countries’ leaders, “bad people” is a convicted felon and sexual assaulter who is covering up his participation in sex trafficking ring.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely
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Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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