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Project manager, Interest in social Justice, class and inequalites. Also important stuff like rugby, sport and useless facts. EFC for my sins.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's an argument for scrapping the £100K salary limit for childcare but saying those on £100K salaries are uniquely hard working is bollocks. Workers on the early bus on their way to cleaning, caring, hospitality jobs work just as hard. Tories believe wealth is acquired by virtue. It ain't.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Welsh language and Class: Paradoxes and Contradictions - Common/Wealth share.google/ePHH55EFFDfB...
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The Welsh language and Class: Paradoxes and Contradictions - Common/Wealth
This blog is hard to write. Not just because it’s a rare paid opportunity, and I’m worried it just won’t be good enough, but because […]
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once again: anyone who thinks rape victims come forward for any reason except telling the truth at great fucking cost to themselves is a brainwashed bastard
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The Israeli army is burning more land and destroying more homes.. nothing is spared.. the Israeli demolitions are widespread & systematic, part of an apparent campaign to turn the area into barren & uninhabited land" Zeina Khodr reporting from southern Lebanon
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uppergwladysblu.bsky.social @uppergwladysblu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👀 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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EU removes two oligarchs from Russia sanctions list as deadline looms
Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman delisted in what Ireland’s EU presidency calls ‘a difficult compromise’ for the bloc
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Defence minister Luke Pollard: ".. that will be for defensive actions, where all actions will be in compliance with international humanitarian law" Yes, over the last 3 years we've all seen just how committed to international humanitarian law successive UK govts have been.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah yes, the Saudis are renowned for their respect for human rights and international humanitarian law ... Just ask the thousands they've bombed and starved in Yemen, the unarmed protesters they killed in Bahrain, the thousands of dissidents they hang, Jamal Khashoggi ... oh, you can't
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Stuart @stuartguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That Andros Townsend video is wild, looks like those groundsman in the Thai league are keen to get on with the job 🤦🏼‍♂️
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it ok for management to phone students asking them to take modules not validated on their degree because they’ve sacked people and can’t staff the modules listed? A working day before teaching starts? Hypothetically, obviously.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
lowering youth crime rates by increasing poverty which is a primary driver of youth crime rates. labour are the stupidest party in politics. just thick, thick, people.
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 18/09/2026
The Madness of King George has NOTHING on this
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Are Chelsea the new Spurs?
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
open.spotify.com/track/77BOEF...
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HIND'S HALL 2 (feat. anees, MC Abdul, & Amer Zahr)
Macklemore, anees, MC Abdul, Amer Zahr · HIND'S HALL 2 (feat. anees, MC Abdul, & Amer Zahr) · Song · 2024
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A win and dibling was a positive
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still no Graham!!
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 16/09/2026
All the good eggs support Ed x
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wolves bullying us. Or just out working us?
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are team losing faith in Barry?
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I do rip Barry, but he does need someone around him. Or we need other attacking the box. To many just "waiting" around.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Garner and kdh seems a little off pace. Maybe team just lacking some energy.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Looking slow again
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
open.spotify.com/track/1zOgXn... Just incase your wonder why Macklemore got shunned by the ginger. Singing the truth
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HIND'S HALL
Macklemore · HIND'S HALL · Song · 2024
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Because Israel has damaged/destroyed over 90% of all buildings in Gaza people are forced to take shelter in unsafe buildings. One of those buildings has collapsed, killing at least 10 people. Others, including children, are trapped under the rubble.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People are now being regularly sent on 'unpaid work experience' Not only is this in effect slavery, it is also STEALING actual PAID jobs. Their solution is to make the problem even worse, but it also makes more profit for them.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Either that a red for both, or nothing.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Last point, I love pickford. But his distribution was poor today. Drop levels.. Maybe that the team, but often long passes to far, the right foot slider???
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Il take a draw, but that was winnable, easily. So I cant be happy, with accepting a draw, that we played shit in. Against a shit team. Shit x100000000.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
2 shit teams. Branthwaite kept us in 1st half.. Myes refuses to use subs. So so so shit. And in back to Barry can fuck off.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pickford? Got the shits from the team
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I mean this with good intentions. Can Barry go down with cramp and get taken off. Make moyes make a decision. Bc hes doing fuck all.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
See JOb is back to RB.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Grelish ability to hold the ball and take us upfield.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why is johnson not off. ? And barry?
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Moyes doing moyes things, and refusing to make subs.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Johnson just doesnt have any defensive awareness
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Put the youngster on up front. Get Johnson off aswell. Make some subs. Please. We are fucking awful.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is barry not even allowed to stretch a leg to stop a pass. ?
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ok. Going to blame the kit (I like it for leisure) is it like the old Man U, grey kits that blended into the crowd?
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John Audsley @byrdsman75.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Im not getting one bit of enjoyment out of this game I suspect im not alone 🧐
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And this point, id happily go 4 cb. Andn Grelish, dibling, Graham. Upfront
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So many areas to improve in, yet still 0-0. Barry-poor. Can walk around when he scores like haarland George/ johnson have to defend. AMN/Myko exposed. Centrally need shut gaps in def. But they have kept us in game. Worse iv seen us play for long while.
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GR @garethrichards1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You'd think we have played together before. So open in def and not able to to strong 3 attacking passes. Amn and myko havnt played FB, barry decide not to run channels. And so slooooooooow.
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