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Suz Brinkman-Wordle

@firmlyaground.bsky.social
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Brit (Grade B). Metaphorist. Snarkophile. Anomalous. Retired Cat Herder and Lost Cause Technician. Culturally incoherent and proud of it. Sorry: can’t follow you (back) if I can’t see some posts of yours.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 17h
Seen the first couple of geezers of the season sporting poppies. They just can’t wait. It’s only a matter of time before the supermarkets have a red-and-black coded seasonal aisle. Remembrance has been fetishised.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just asked an AI thingey to make me a list of everything we could be doing with all the time AI saves us. The response came in the form of a … hang on, there’s something outside with a
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Stuart Budd @stuartbudd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Burnham has blocked a debate on whether to have closer ties with Europe at Labour conference Always watch the actions and not the words of these shysters. The Greens should use this to gain the Holborn & St Pancras seat and paint a vision of a future because Burnham is fecked now. archive.is/YtgOq
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is barbaric. There is no reason for women to be dying from ectopic pregnancies in the U.S. in 2026. Not one.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
British folk. What employment future do you see for the black balaclava-clad oafs currently hounding anyone they find ‘unpatriotic’? If ReformUK have any say, we’re likely to see the horrible, horrible human clearances going on in the US in the name of ‘America’.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bloke on the radio enthusing about ‘smart shopping trolleys’. Like what we need most is more tech driving grocery product sales. And you can sure it’s not lentils or cabbage. Enough. This is all mad.
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Next level gag ✅
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
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brenda-bailey-86.bsky.social @brenda-bailey-86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
💚🌏💚🌍💚🌎💚
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brinkmanship dibs! Wordle 1,920 6/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
British birds that are ‘cheeky’: Robin Jackdaw Pied Wagtail Gull (Herring g. and Common g.) Have I missed any?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Photo by Kevin Gaston: "Having photographed hummingbirds for more than a decade, this is the first time I have documented one taking a bath on dew covered leaves."
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pecksniff’s trikes again eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
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Pecksniff – The MPs’ terror that dare not speak its name: Brexit
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
A century earlier, on 18th Jan 1881 the 'Visiter' ran ashore off Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire. No local boat could be launched due to the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought OVERLAND 6 miles to the bay itself. Through 7ft snowdrifts 200 men cleared the way by hand.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Either the Westminster govt tackles this or there will be death/serious injury to people in our community who represent the very best of us, done by those who embody the very very worst.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nowhere truer than in #Hull, UK, where a trunk road with flyover sections was built to connect the east and west sides of the city while severing the city from its own historic waterfront. Millions have been spent to make this road even faster. Mitigating bridging and landscaping are no remedy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m in the Lake District (a beautiful mountainous and wet corner of England). It feels … decadent.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"snow angel" or the "angel of death," is the rare imprint left by an owl as it swooped down to catch prey
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Windpower …
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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ok I've seen enough. The ai guys are in a millenarian apocalyptic cult. They convinced themselves they were too smart for religion and then looped right around into creating a machine god. No more to it than that.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cake Shed, #Hawkshead #Cumbria #England
Cake Shed, Hawkshead, Cumbria
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026
🇬🇧 It was always a risk that Brexit would lead to the breakup of the UK. 🇪🇺 One of the best ways to avoid that would be EU membership. 📊 It isn't just the people of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland who want membership - our polling shows the majority of people in England want it too.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Village pump with crocodiles, Nenthead, Cumbria, northern England.
Village pump, painted green. Gold crocodile detail on village pump
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Where right-wing intolerance leads, inevitably. Might feel like ‘common sense’ right up to the moment when minority-oppression turns its attention to you or someone you know.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Prompted by a skeet from @racheldeering.bsky.social it occurs to me that all ‘ordinary’ starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) are both splendid and glossy, and yet a different one of the family of Sturnidae (Lamprotornis splendidus)—the Splendid Glossy Starling—is so designated. Seems unjust.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Donald Trump is costing me £2 a litre of fuel now. What a savings.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
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‘Serial Killer Empire’: US Kills 3 in Boat Strike, Bringing Trump Murder Count in ‘Make-Believe War’ to 230 | Common Dreams
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends deadly boat bombings in the Caribbean, claiming to target "narco-terrorists."
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Take your gags to the next level
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Love the Irish🇮🇪
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wish someone would actually go on to say what they call bullshit. I tend to call it cow poo or ‘country pancake’. Farmyard slurry, maybe, if there’s lots standing on concrete.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Lest we forgot: 93 years and 2 days ago this country fought against fascism – be anti-fascist; don't let the black shirts and the rest of the fash win" via The UK Against Hate
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.
Arron Banks 

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Has the runuptochristmas started yet?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The government shlould be extremely strong on why it is wrong to intimidate & abuse RNLI members + push a clear social norm against sharing addresses for purpose to intimidate, threaten & incite, imcluding pushing police to prosecute it, quickly & publicly, and warning of a repeat
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Casts of the heads of two adolescent Inuit, ‘borrowed’ by a skipper in 1847 from Cumberland Sound in #Canada and brought to #Hull. On the way back home, both caught measles (serious systemic infection by Morbillivirus hominis) on a stop in Orkney. Ukaliq, 15, died from it. Memiadluk, 17, survived.
Plaster casts of two young Inuit in #Hull Maritime Museum
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Been too compliant lately. Switching on Artificial Intransigence.
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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Have you noticed how strongly those specs with built-in hearing aids resemble AI specs? I SAID. DONT. YOU. POINT. THOSE. BLOODY. THINGS. AT. ME!
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In their story about how polite the black clothed, face hidden by balaclavas, were to three white ladies on the train….apparently The Times’ top journalists could not investigate even this much. Just as -apparently - they didn’t “know” that ReFuk had commissioned the pre Clacton by election polls
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