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MadMaudlin

@herdirtytoes.bsky.social
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Retired and building a new life. Embracing Art again, particularly portraiture; hooked on learning about science and rediscovering music. Still learning how to be the person I would like to be. Please don’t DM me unless I know you or invite you to.

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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social 2/- Every day there was a large tray of salad. It went untouched. For a while, they would send it up to the staff room afterwards until they were told they had to throw it away. The cooks bought in some items, but cooked most from scratch. They were not allowed to add salt…
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social 1/- I used to teach SEN children in a (Junior) 15ya. I would regularly sit and eat lunch with the children to promote conversation and cutlery use/modelling. The children chose from a selection of foods. I would often see children choose chips, pasta and bread/pizza together…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 31/05/2026
🚨 The UN climate chief has said an extreme early heat event sweeping parts of western Europe was “a brutal reminder of the spiralling impacts of the climate crisis”, after France and the UK set new temperature records for May on two consecutive days.
theguardian.com
Extreme heat in Europe ‘a brutal reminder’ of climate crisis, UN chief says
Simon Stiell said burning fossil fuels was driving intense heatwaves as UK and France broke temperature records on conse
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/06/2026
Lord Hattersley obituary
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Lord Hattersley obituary
Politician, journalist and writer who was deputy leader of the Labour party for a decade
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Such a cool shot!
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If your dog shits on the floor, do you clean it up or leave it there and spray it with Lysol? That’s the equivalent of a tRump ‘fix’. Spray it with paint but don’t fix what’s causing the algae. That’s why he bankrupted all of his businesses. #ProudBlue #FucktRump #ReflectingPool
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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Born in the 1950s before many life saving vaccines, I personally experienced the depths of childhood diseases and luckily spared the lasting effects from contracting them. Countless others were not. Get yourselves and your children vaccinated. #VaccinesSaveLives @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
On the brink of signing a new memorandum of understanding
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
PM Carney today at Trinity College Dublin said what needed to be said: 🍁 “The post-Cold War order is over.” 🍁 Middle powers must UNITE. 🍁 Canada leads with VALUES, not fear. Heading into G7 with allies. This is what leadership looks like. 🇨🇦 #Carney #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/watch?v=1AJA...
youtube.com
Canada PM DESTROYS Trump in G7 WARNING SPEECH!!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Time to drop a Funny President Obama video! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
www.aol.com/news/green-c...
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Green councillors ‘pushed lies to allow trans women in single-sex spaces’ - AOL
The Green Party has wrongly advised its councillors that trans women are still allowed in single-sex spaces, The Telegraph can reveal.
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it. His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra. Canadians owe him a lot. Pt 1
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 31/05/2026
The truth is, Trump made things a lot worse and has no real plan beyond watching and waiting.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This from the man who spent years hectoring us about how crucial it was for 'our own laws to be debated and made in our own sovereign parliament'.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
£300,000+ a year.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 30 MAY 2026 WE CAN CHANGE OUR WORLD FOR THE BETTER a must see film June 5th GROUNDSWELL How regenerative agriculture & how restoring soil health can combat climate change WOW Living plants actively pump atmospheric carbon into the ground for Healthier Food !
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The UK spends £1.5bn a year renting trains that are worth only £5-7bn and which last for 25 years, a loss of more than £1bn a year. The trains were privatised by John Major in 1994, it's time to end this scam.
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
To all the other portrait artists out there, do you ever find yourself reluctant to finish a painting because you like the half-finished one so much and are reluctant to paint over what is already achieved? Is it a creative choice or cowardice? #portrait #artist
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social No LGBTQ+ group supportted the miners strike in the 1980s. The miners were given incredible support however from the organisation, ‘Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners’ (LGSM).
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
@labourlewis.bsky.social Labourlewis is good to read. I trust, in that case, the reports in the Telegraph are lies. I cannot fathom how an MP, elected supporting the best PM for decades, would turn coat and even contemplate joining the strange animal that is the Greens now since Polanski took over.
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Mother Earth @motherearth19309.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No truer words were ever spoken...
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family
Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Welcome to the world of the rich. Instead of distributing greater wealth and prosperity to underpaid British workers, it seems we've had 50 years of the opposite. Who knew? Voting for 30+ years of the Tories was like turkeys welcoming Christmas #SocialistSunday #ukpolitics #bbclaurak #bbcnews
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/05/2026
Renting has its downsides, but I’ve decided to stop waiting and start living – plants, garden furniture and all | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Renting has its downsides, but I’ve decided to stop waiting and start living – plants, garden furniture and all | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Yes, I could worry about all the money I’ve ‘thrown away’ but, like my fellow renter the Princess of Wales, I’m digging in, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 23/05/2026
A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR TODAY Honestly, voting is like taking a bus. If there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay at home and sulk—you take the one going closest to where you want to be. We can vote better than they can cheat.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.
Nigel Farage
Reform UK is the true party of the workers now If I am prime minister there will be no tax payable on overtime. Millions will be noticeably better off
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This is a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows to get the actual facts about net migration across to the public and call out the bull**** by the likes of Nigel Farage. I’m sure the Sunday politics shows will be all over this…
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Obviously v entertaining watching them trying to find Brixton and esp Herne Hill menacing, particularly when they’re attempting to feel spooked out by, er Brockwell Park, but actually kudos to them for changing their minds extremely quickly and realising what London-hating garbage they’ve been fed.
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Reform has now lost a quarter of its councillors in Cornwall: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Updated list: www.markpack.org.uk/176783/how-m...
bbc.co.uk
Another Reform councillor in Cornwall leaves the party
Jamie Hanlon has left Reform UK to become a Stand Alone Independent on Cornwall Council.
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So after all these deaths and people around the world paying more for gas, the Iranians have access to more funding and will charge for use of the Strait of Hormuz. A mighty military capability is pointless when the 'Secretary of War' is an ex-Fox News drunk and the Commander in Chief is an idiot.
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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Lying in the shade #Dartmoor #Devon
Fallen branch lies on bed of mossy rocks, moss beginning to blanket it. Foreground, ferns, leaf litter. Background, trees, shrubs. Shade beneath the woodland canopy.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Texas solar is projected to beat coal for the first time on the ERCOT grid. This news isn't getting the attention it deserves.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Essential reading. If you have not yet read this, please do. "Narrative Warfare and the Breakdown of Reality" @mariaressa.bsky.social and colleagues.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
GOP Rep Tom Kean Jr. has claimed he’s too sick to do his job in Congress — but he has apparently been perfectly fine traveling, approving staff expenditures, and trading stocks. The combined value of the trades ranges from $50,008 to $190,000.
newrepublic.com
Missing Republican Rep. Has Racked Up Some Odd Travel Expenses
Representative Tom Kean Jr. has been missing for more than two months—but apparently still can travel for his reelection campaign.
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The problem with Capitalism is that, taken to extremes, you are left with a few super-asset-rich men who have depleted the wealth of the working class, the middle class & those who once thought themselves rich. They inevitably fight themselves out. We are well into this play; Act II, final scene.
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@james-j-obrien.bsky.social Don’t be quick to agree that those allied to the pro-women’s groups in the march last week are anti-trans. There is a difference between that & protesting that men, in whatever guise, using sex-based protected spaces, eroding women’s rights & the meaning of woman itself.
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026
COLLINS: You told me that anyone who assaulted a police officer on J6 should go to prison. So why not rule out given them taxpayer money? JD VANCE: ... Well Kaitlan, what I said is we're gonna look at everything case by case C: So why not rule it out? VANCE: I don't rule things out categorically
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A heartwarming reminder that children aren't born racist.❤️ #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Michael @michaelnaphys.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The hard truth we're facing right now is that, if things keep moving in the direction that they are, we're not getting out of this peacefully. Those "checks and balances" haven't worked as much as we've been told they would, because you can't hold accountable those who refuse to respect them. 4/
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Michael @michaelnaphys.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
They even have a slush fund to assist them, paid for by the taxpayer, and a leader who'll gladly pardon them for every violent act they carry out. Intimidation of the opposition, threats of terrorism at polling stations, anything to subvert democracy and make people too afraid to vote. 3/
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Michael @michaelnaphys.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
They've even organized their army better for the next armed assault. The proud boys and oath keepers armed with cans of bear spray and blunt weapons have now been turned into ICE, armed with assault rifles and armored vehicles. They're on stand by in case their "election integrity army" fails. 2/
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Michael @michaelnaphys.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
To those wondering if the GOP is plotting their next insurrection; the first insurrection never really ended. It was never quelled, and has only moved to different phases. The gutting of our institutions, the stacking of the courts with loyalists, the redrawing of maps, these are all part of it. 1/
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It is apparently, ‘radical,’ to understand that Homo Sapiens are either male or female, and one has to be a, ‘GC extremist bully,’ to say so. We are truly in Looking Glass mode; thank you, Lewis Carroll, for the warning.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Rachel Reeves will scrap plans this week to increase fuel duty by 5p a litre from September amid mounting concerns about the impact of the Iran war on the cost of living www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
thetimes.com
Rachel Reeves to scrap 5p fuel duty increase
The chancellor is expected to announce a series of measures to help families and businesses deal with escalating prices caused by the Iran war
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇨🇦🇵🇸AnyOleJoe🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸 @anyolejoe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
For the record; Melania did not meet HER husband in 1998… she met Marla’s husband.
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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MadMaudlin @herdirtytoes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Chocolate eggs only became popular in the 1970s? When I was a child in the early ‘60s I remember queueing at the Thornton’s Chocolate Cabin for a signed egg. Others were also given; the tradition was long established by then.
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