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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

You would think most immigrants to the UK were asylum seekers if you listen to the Media but it is less than 4%. And the housing shortage? 1945-1979 - 5,000,000 council houses built. 1980-2025 - 250,000 council houses built. That's why.

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Anti-racist and Watch "twitter" intersect. Glorious history thread from the ever-sartorial Derek Guy.

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Great thread on who really has the rights to our roads and why language matters!

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

@aircanada.bsky.social Hey Air Canada folks, I registered for your Aeroplan triple points offer and booked a return trip London to Toronto last month. You only gave me normal points though... Can you send me the triple offer as confirmed please? Thank you!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Who called it the Dunning-Kruger Effect and not The Bell-End Curve

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Scary when you realise the Johnny Mnemonic movie was set 4 years ago.... @greatdismal.bsky.social

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Crikey! Watched "Philadelphia" for the first time since release (1993). That's a hugely powerful movie. Strewth.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Always a tweet.

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Sadly trashed the wonderful Eurosport along the way....

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Switch the framing: White collar wages have stagnated over the last 15 years and the inflation-driven minimum wage highlights how squeezed the middle really is. 🤷‍♂️

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

‘This is not a political party. It is not democratically organised and run. It is administered as a business, and volunteers are treated as employees. You will pledge your loyalty absolutely, you will not speak unless spoken to, and you will do what you are told.’ Very good interesting read

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Vatican now has an American pope. While the White House has a Russian president.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/04/2025

My family found a home here after fleeing the pogroms in Ukraine. This country accepted us as refugees when we had nothing except the shirts on our backs. We've seen what can happen when we don't speak up about the dangers — it's time to raise the alarm now.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

For all that Reform UK insist their candidate vetting processes are now watertight, @hopenothate.org.uk don't seem to find it hard to uncover some fairly off-piste views among their ranks. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/04/30/r...

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Reform UK's Northumberland Ne'er-do-wells

Another County chock-full of Reform UK's vetting failures...“I feel that my promise to professionalise the party is now on track,” pronounced Reform UK leader Nigel Farage back in September, adding: “...

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Is there a more Saturday night movie than "Critters"? "Tremors" maybe?

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Yeah nah. Time to do a Harvard then Breturn.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

A Caroll diagram consisting of four rectangles arranged in a square.
The Y axis is labelled MOVE and split into FAST and SLOW.
The X axis is labelled THINGS and split into BREAK and FIX

Top left image: (Move Fast and Break Things) Tech Bro
Bottom left image: (Move slow and break things) Runaway Steamroller
Top right image: (Move fast and fix things) Emergency Plumber
Bottom left image: (Move slow and fix things) Grandpa with a toolbox

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Commie Old Party literally the "Reds under the bed" now. So *that's* why they swapped colours in 2000 election. 😂 Remind me which party had the witchunts and McCarthyism again?!

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Always nice to see the barbican of Anglo-Saxon capitalism and never a full-throated supporter of our union, the Economist, recognising a truth long known: The European Dream is real and has been for many years. 🇪🇺 #LandOfTheFree www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now

Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

It's fairly terrible as is the 3. They completely lost the plot after S. Sadly that's what happens when product development requirements are subordinated to the whims of one person. See falcon wing doors on X. That's when the rot set in.

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Brexit was the UK's "Liberation day" both just as damaging as Trump's tariffs and just as helpful to Vlad's overall aims of weakening the West. That Labour are still held in thrall to this Brexit nonsense is astonishing. The World has changed. Move on.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's uncanny how much Donald Trump resembles Old Biff Tannon

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We've now ended up with non-tariff barriers on our biggest trading partner and tariffs from our second biggest trading partner. I'm not sure 'benefit' is the word I'd use to describe that outcome.

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Oh dear. Awful take. There's always a "tweet".... bsky.app/profile/publ...

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Public Sénat @publicsenat.fr · 31/03/2025

« Quand allons-nous mettre en place l’inéligibilité à vie pour tous ceux qui ont été condamnés pour des faits commis à l’occasion de leur mandat ? » ➡️ go.publicsenat.fr/N8m

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"Politicians convicted of embezzling public funds should be banned for life" Marine Le Pen on French television network @publicsenat.fr in April 2013

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Has The Times got a list of crimes that right wing politicians should be allowed to commit with impunity?

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Disappeared. Quite simple. US is lost.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

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Stanley from Yale to Toronto

Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The biggest financial disaster self inflicted by wealthy politicians who would be immune from the consequences. Time to rejoin in some form urgently. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

@edconway.bsky.social Just got today's Material World newsletter. Marvellous as ever on Aluminium. The former British Aluminium plant at Lochaber is epic. The diversion works are something else too. One of many such hydro wonders we built in the Highlands in the 50s-60s.

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

So called exoskeleton is in fact garnish

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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker @f1ruaraidh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

But he's still bombing hospitals and another ten cities last night.... just not power plants. Err ok. Don the Clown. Arse of the deal.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/03/2025

I mean fine, but it’s only because of France that the United States exists.

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