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@gardeningbookworm.bsky.social
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European,35+years in the UK. Pottering in the garden,embroidery and reading are daily essentials. Detests all right-wing nutters. Strongly believes in the right to protest. 💙 📚 🌱 🇪🇺 #FBPE 😷🇺🇦🌻

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1h
Next time a Reform UK Councillor blames the Tories for anything, show them this.
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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK
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European Briton 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺 #RejoinEU #FBPE @europeanbriton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brexit in one picture #RejoinEU
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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 43m
My approach (mid to upper primary) was a third of my class will have some form of ASN. How do I make my classroom accessible to the needs I’m most likely to see? Consider sensory needs & access to support materials to start. Most of those considerations were beneficial to the whole class.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3h
US artist Hillary Waters Fayle, known for creating fine embroideries on real leaves #womensart #AutumnWeek 🍂
A photo of a line of the same species of green leaf each with a botanical embroidery of the same flowering plant
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Christine Carroll @christine12.bsky.social · 18m
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1h
In the most unsurprising news. 🙄 Hopefully Powell will scrap this daft idea.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 9h
3 days to go to our march for Palestine in London. Join us 12 Noon, Saturday 10 October at 12PM at Victorian Embankment. 🇵🇸 (Palestine Solidarity Campaign)
International Day for Palestine THREE YEARS OF GENOCIDE
STOP ARMING ISRAEL SANCTIONS NOW
Demonstrate 12 noon
Saturday 10 October
Victoria Embankment London
3 DAYS TO GO
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As for me, the prize for the best quote of 2026 goes to the Italian journalist Michele Serra, because he said: "Americans are very lucky because wherever they go to bring freedom, they find oil."
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h
How can something be so frightening and yet so funny at the same time?
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11h
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 18h
"I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back. —The King of Injustice." This is what the US has become in the eyes of the rest of the world. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Statue of a naked Trump goes on display at European Parliament
The statue titled the 'Orange Plague' (pictured) depicts US President Donald Trump overweight and naked holding a long gold club and sitting on the shoulders of a shorter man.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 5h
Fiji son wishes you all a Happy World Octopus Day.
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 5h
How on earth did this happen? As a programme leader, I used to check all module grades were entered and work my students’ degree classifications out by hand before the exam board, just in case of anomalies. #AcademicSky
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Family of student who took his own life say university ‘will be held to account’
Ethan Scott Brown died after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate from the University of Glasgow
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4h
Al Jazeera just described the most chilling aspect of Israel's war - the deliberate destruction of Palestinian childhood: "This is part of the psychological war on the Palestinian people. It is not the behavior of a perverse soldier - it is repeated, filmed, diffused. It is permitted by the system.
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Safe Air Schools UK @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social · 10h
Hampshire children are testing positive for COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through respiratory particles in air ✅ Keep unwell children away from school ✅ Ventilate. Monitor CO₂ to know ventilation is good. Below 800ppm is good ✅ Use HEPA filtration where needed 1/3
School children climbing stairs
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h
Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government
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Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government
President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any ‘conflict’ after reports of work in Republika Srpska
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 13h
I've seen Rachel Parris in other stuff (Austentatious) and she's been terrific. Pretty sure this will be too.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 12h
The stranger in the asylum hotel may be frightening. But the evidence points somewhere much closer to home. 84% of rapes and sexual assaults in 2025 were committed by a partner, family member or someone known to the victim. Asylum seekers have too much to lose. Stephen McNair with some statistics
Patriot Platform demonstration
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TallBikeGuy @thetallbikeguy.bsky.social · 12h
There are so many ways in which this is shockingly dangerous. Pure essence of motonormativity.
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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 14h
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Free festival invites Norwich to discover the city’s rivers this October half term | Norwich City Council
A brand-new festival, Where the River Meets Us, will bring six days of activities to riverside and neighbourhood locations across Norwich from Monday 26 to Saturday 31 October.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 15h
Love this
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 21h
I've just finished a report which saying a 50mph speed limit on a rural single carriageway A-road with direct accesses and priority junctions is incompatible with Vision Zero and should be 40mph maximum and even that's too fast for side impact risk for drivers - it should be 30mph and redesigned.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 16h
Brazil and Bolsonaro have no right to the destroy what is left of one of the lungs of the Earth as its destruction will impact us all and every living being on the planet already in melt down This is a declaration of war on the entire planet
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 15h
Still struggling with my mental health tbh, especially around low income & ‘failing as a human’ (this may be internal ableism tbh) BUT Dave my garden robin now comes to say hi every day,even when there are mealworms outside step for him. He seems to like visiting me. He lifts my mood a lot tbh:
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14h
If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h
Mary Mary' Vase by UK ceramics artist Kitty Shepherd #Womensart
Ceramic vase with white large dots and simple flower motifs, the vase rests on a grey surface and is against a grey background
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 17h
Anti-migrant activist Levi Mason is set to speak at a demonstration in Telford on Sunday. The event is organised by Telford Patriots and Alexandra Whyte, whose sister, Rhiannon, was killed in 2024 by an asylum seeker. But Mason's violent past cannot be ignored. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/07/c...
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Convicted Domestic Abuser Set to Speak at Telford Demo – HOPE not hate
Warning: This article contains a graphic description of domestic violence.  Levi Mason, an anti-migrant activist from Liverpool, is set to speak at a Telford ‘Enough...
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 20h
EXCLUSIVE: That Reform UK Internal Investigation in full: 'Did you do anything wrong'? - 'No' 'Great'!
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 23h
20 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia. She exposed the brutality of war. She gave a voice to its victims. And she refused to be intimidated into silence. This cost her life. But her memory is carried by so many to this day.
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B in the Netherlands @bnetherlands.bsky.social · 16h
Recently spotted in Amsterdam. #Amsterdam #RIPSchippers #SesameStreet
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 18h
The Tories want an Iron Dome?
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 21h
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As I’ve said from the start, this motion was all kinds of stupidity for the @greenparty.org.uk Their deputy Welsh leader has quit and the leader is considering their position. Labour has said they won’t now consider working with the Green Party. Good job. 🙄
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𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂 @andychester.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon. Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September next year. Inspirational!
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Nancy Sawyer Fox @speedyfingers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Banned books week #bannedbooks
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Helen Whately went on Channel 4 News to explain Kemi Badenoch’s new plan for diagnosing what has gone wrong with Britain. Krishnan Guru-Murthy had a rather obvious question: “How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?”
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Jane Hambrook @jedijane18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Afternoon walk in St James’s Park #StJamesPark #London #nature @theroyalparks.bsky.social @lnhs.bsky.social @nationalparkcity.bsky.social
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I went to see the Bayeux Tapestry and was lucky enough to avoid the queues and the crowds on a press viewing. I tried to put aside a hundred preconceptions from history books, illustrated plates and internet pics, and to look at it afresh as work of sequential art. >
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Racism is a ‘made-up word’, says Restore Britain co-founder Restore Britain is led by Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, who left Reform UK in March 2025 after repeatedly clashing with Nigel Farage www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/raci...
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Racism is a ‘made-up word’, says Restore Britain co-founder - Politics.co.uk
Charlie Downes, a co-founder of Restore Britain, has claimed that “racism” is “a made-up word used by the enemies of Western civilisation”. In a post on X on Tuesday, Downes wrote that the word is use...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Proportion of people in Great Britain vaping who never smoked doubles in four years
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Proportion of people in Great Britain vaping who never smoked doubles in four years
More than 1 million people in Great Britain now vape despite having never regularly smoked, ONS data shows More than 1 million people in Great Britain now vape despite never having been regular smokers, with rates nearly doubling in just four years, according to figures that health experts describe as concerning. About 5.4 million people aged 16 and above in England, Scotland and Wales (9.9%) used e-cigarettes daily or occasionally in 2025, Office for National Statistics data showed. Vaping was highest among those aged 25-34 (16.4%). Continue reading...
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Karl Catchpole has responded to East Anglia Bylines, defending his comments about Enoch Powell and Tommy Robinson and confirming he shared a post about David Lammy. He tells us: “My Party are happy with my personal opinions”.
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Reform leader says removing whip from Norfolk councillor would be ‘a waste of my time’
Concerns about Karl Catchpole’s social media posts were raised with Reform before his election and subsequent committee appointment
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Interesting piece IMHO Dutch people are a) very friendly and b) very hard to make friends with Small country, no great tradition of going away to uni or moving around for jobs, very high membership of small local sports clubs etc => if you haven’t known us for fifteen years, you’re not coming in
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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
We've had a great time working with Brent Council on a project exploring how artist-led creative storytelling can help bring the benefits of early years reading to children under two. The project, funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social, found that creative storytelling has some real potential👇
A pink and yellow graphic with a photo of a baby reaching for some colourful ribbons. Text says: 5 ways artist-led storytelling can enhance story and rhyme sessions.
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Paul van de Vijver @paulvdvijver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Heemstede | Favoriet rondje langs landgoederen 💧 Onder: Huis Leyduin met Kaukasische vleugelnoot. Vanaf de Belvedère keek men ooit uit op de Noordzee aan de ene zijde en het (nog natte) Haarlemmermeer aan de andere kant. Meer: www.landschapnoordholland.nl/natuurgebied...
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B in the Netherlands @bnetherlands.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you'd like to know more about what's currently happening with dual nationality in the Netherlands, last week's Dutch News podcast is well worth a listen. It features a fascinating (and troubling) interview with the founder of the SNBN, which represents Dutch nationals living abroad.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BT to buy the broadband supplier TalkTalk in a £400m deal. BT is already the biggest provider with 30% of the market. If the deal is approved by the competition regulator, it would be bad news for customers. Less competition, less choice, higher prices.
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BT to buy broadband supplier TalkTalk in £400m rescue deal, saving 900 jobs
Virgin Media O2 complains of ‘stitch-up’ over rival provider, which has 1.5m customers
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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