Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 17hSeen 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. 151
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament) 24757425
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just 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 000
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleStuart Budd @stuartbudd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Burnham 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 77923
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleLady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek. 376135893860
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleMonica @softtail65.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It is barbaric. There is no reason for women to be dying from ectopic pregnancies in the U.S. in 2026. Not one. 981221719
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 25/09/2026British 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’. 000
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bloke 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. 020
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleNick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great 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 301468410
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The 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. 81999244
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On 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. 563910733
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordlePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏 21576482130
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-Wordlebrenda-bailey-86.bsky.social @brenda-bailey-86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026💚🌏💚🌍💚🌎💚 16512
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Brinkmanship dibs! Wordle 1,920 6/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 140
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This 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. 1161821723
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 19/09/2026British birds that are ‘cheeky’: Robin Jackdaw Pied Wagtail Gull (Herring g. and Common g.) Have I missed any? 010
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A 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 671278507
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleCaroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Photo 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." 593116519
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Pecksniff’s trikes again eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...eastangliabylines.co.ukPecksniff – The MPs’ terror that dare not speak its name: BrexitIn which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life 110
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleJames @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026A 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. 16938
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Either 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. 11311
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Nowhere 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. 021
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A minor detail is missing from the headline. 1213162837252
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’m in the Lake District (a beautiful mountainous and wet corner of England). It feels … decadent. 010
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-Wordlepmamtraveller.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 533872714
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleGoku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ok 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. 261158203
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Cake Shed, #Hawkshead #Cumbria #England 040
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleBest 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. 51520177
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Village pump with crocodiles, Nenthead, Cumbria, northern England. 010
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Where 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. 021
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Prompted 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. 120
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Donald Trump is costing me £2 a litre of fuel now. What a savings. 010
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Remember: 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.commondreams.org‘Serial Killer Empire’: US Kills 3 in Boat Strike, Bringing Trump Murder Count in ‘Make-Believe War’ to 230 | Common DreamsUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends deadly boat bombings in the Caribbean, claiming to target "narco-terrorists." 31144251904
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-Wordleebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Love the Irish🇮🇪 467266345726
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What 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 🙄. 3830111001
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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. 010
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026James 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...subscribe.bylinetimes.com#LightUpTheDark – Byline TimesDark 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... 16527321
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleAnti-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 26129
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers. 2812020527
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The 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 10324121
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Casts 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. 020
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Been too compliant lately. Switching on Artificial Intransigence. 020
Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Have you noticed how strongly those specs with built-in hearing aids resemble AI specs? I SAID. DONT. YOU. POINT. THOSE. BLOODY. THINGS. AT. ME! 010
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 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 🧵) 4123751264
Reposted by Suz Brinkman-WordleFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In 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 714357