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Rascal 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 @badrascal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Folk with legal knowledge in Northern Ireland. With us having no health power of attorney yet, how do we ensure that a named person is the only person who gets to make health decisions for us if we are incapacitated? (shares would be appreciated)

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

99.9% of DNA is shared by all humans, which obviously means difference exists only in the remaining 0.1%. Yes, it's another 'Edge Case War'... rolandmcs.substack.com/p/edge-case-...

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The Edge Case Wars

Have the culture wars been misnamed?

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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tragically, Jason Arday died after a vicious press campaign over the last weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the rotten culture of the press, and any role it had in his death. Add your name now: hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press

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Demand an inquiry into the culture of the press

Jason Arday died after being relentlessly hounded by the press. Demand an inquiry into press culture now.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've just signed "Kopparberg, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch’s Talk Radio" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ko... @StopFundingHate

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/06/2026

Firefighters in Co Down dealt with what they believe was a deliberate blaze at a former convent building described as a "beautiful and iconic part" of Downpatrick.

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Firefighters tackle blaze at former Downpatrick convent

Firefighters in Co Down dealt with what they believe was a deliberate blaze at a former convent building described as a "beautiful and iconic part" of Downpatrick.

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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

'Keep away' - Huge fire engulfs historic Convent Of Mercy in Downpatrick - live updates The fire was first spotted at around 7pm

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'Keep away' - Huge fire engulfs historic Convent Of Mercy - live updates

The fire was first spotted at around 7pm

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Tonight I light a candle against the darkness of hate, racism and sectarianism. Belfast is a city that I've spent half my life working and socialising inn. Bullocks to the fascists.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/06/2026

There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Over the past year, my 850-page Trump-Epstein Scandal epic PROOF OF DEVILRY—whose chapters get released as I have material to release—established that Trump took charge of hosting parties where girls were trafficked. 24 hours ago this bombshell dropped:

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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We’ve been asked by a few to provide some resources on where people can help out or get help. This won’t be an extensive list & we have probably missed some. But hopefully it’s a start! Feel free to drop in the comments any we may have missed. ✊🏻❤️

RACE RIOTS RESPONSE INFORMATION

- SUPPORT SERVICES -
Migrant Centre NI
North West Migrants Forum
Law Centre NI
HAPANI: Horn of Africa People's Aid Northern Ireland
Wave Trauma Centre
Victim Support NI
Counselling All Nations Services
Migrant Workers Union NI
Belfast Soup Kitchen
The People's Kitchen
South Belfast Foodbank
Larder Foodbank The Trussel Trust
The Salvation Army

Details available on social media & Google

- FUNDRAISERS -

Anaka Womens Collective are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised.
gofundme

A GoFundMe setup to help a family business in Ballyclare damaged due to attacks

Links available in our stories/ comment sections /threads

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There last few weeks shows how deeply principled and decent people can be, even when going through the most terrible pain. Their grace stands in stark contrast to those who would exploit their suffering for political gain.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

"party of law and order" 🔹Lockhart stood with masked xenophobes on Saturday and later accused the police of causing the problem. 🔹LINO Robinson defended her on Monday. 🔹Robinson was nowhere to be seen in his constituency on the day of the riots, or today, where most trouble occurred.

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WestScot @westscot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This says it all, really

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026

All buses are stopping in Belfast after 5pm and no trains after 6pm. Get yourself home folks.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026

Sammy Wilson lying in the House of Commons, saying that illegal immigrants are the root of our problems but they are taken by the hand by the government and given what they need. Imagine saying people who arrived 5 minutes ago are the root of Northern Ireland's problems.

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The areas most associated with anti-immigrant violence didn't emerge from nowhere. For decades, parts of loyalism have been linked to paramilitary organisations involved in drug dealing, extortion, intimidation, pogroms, and territorial control. 2/

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Treating loyalist gang reps as respectable voices that need elevated & listened to, a history of pogroms being ignored by the British state & media, combined with social media owners egging on racism on a global scale was terrifying for so many last night - but it’s an on going problem - not a 1 off

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This just appeared in the Bowtown, Newtownards.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Nigel Farage’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Speech Is a Sign of Reform’s Growing Desperation The Reform leader's descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is the mark of a politician and party which fears its time at the top of British politics may soon come to an end, argues Adam Bienkov...

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Nigel Farage’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Speech Is a Sign of Reform’s Growing Desperation

The Reform leader's descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is the mark of a politician and party which fears its time at the top of British politics may soon come to an end, argues Adam Bienkov

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Americans really need to ask themselves is this the bottom of it all, the worse it gets?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/01/2026

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

What is going on at the BBC?

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/11/2025

X is not above the law. The plaything of the world’s richest man won’t take down illegal posts on X – but no-one’s above the law. Join the fight: goodlaw.social/6pw6

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Farage's protégés, colleagues & close friends. Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground: “He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’

Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Farage in Scotland: it should make our collective stomachs heave that this repulsive and dangerous extremist has come to spread his poison in our country. Anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter My column in the Herald today

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Billy Bragg on fire

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2025

"Foreign-born UK residents are much more likely to be of working age than the UK-born — and thus less of a fiscal burden. They tend to be healthier, and are much more likely to have a university degree." 🇬🇧Britain would be weaker without multiculturalism. on.ft.com/4gxvEB1

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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Incredible paragraphs from Allison Morris here

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

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BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

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Lily O’Farrell @lilyofarrell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Here’s a cartoon I did about the far-right weaponisation of vawg. If you’d like to share it with someone who’s not on social media, there’s a PDF link at the bottom of this thread. Thank you!

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Hiro! @a-dragon-from.space · 24/08/2025

Article headline: "National Flags Have Started Lining Our Streets - Who Is Putting Them There, And Why?" me: £100 says it's racism fourteen paragraphs into the article: "the co-founder of the movement has ties to the English Defence League and Britain First" 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮

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