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Hib Bird

@hib-bird.bsky.social
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Based in London after years spent in Wales, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland & Slovakia. Broadly pro-European. Gaslighting people publicly in quote tweets or screenshots is a block.

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 18h
Byline Times has an unusual distinction: sanctioned by the Kremlin and banned from Reform’s conference. Watch Farage say: “I’ve never met the Russian Ambassador.” He had. There’s a Russian Foreign Ministry photograph of Farage meeting Ambassador Yakovenko in 2013.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 18h
When you open a jacket pocket and there's an old 2 hryvna in there 😢
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Most unfunny street in London
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Niall you are seems to act like im trying to trick or smuggle something through. Im literally extreme hardcore pro rejoin. No wonder you are so anti UK govt. If you cant trust a euro-pussy cat like me you probably cant trust a single Brit ever. Read the post again.
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ive never believed the EU has to cave in to UK. More that UK is a different prospect for EU enlargement than say Moldova or Norway - in both good & bad senses. UK's chunk of Defence/security makes a huge difference to EU capability. The EU + UK wants this - both sides can find a way for 1st step.
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Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
David Ornstein reports that the legal battle is expanding beyond top-flight teams. Lower-tier clubs are active, appointing lawyers and discussing a potential unprecedented CLASS ACTION lawsuit against Manchester City. If realized, this would be a first in English, European, and world sports history.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham has started some important conversations. I like this frank approach. A lot of voters when it comes to it though will still vote for prejudice or fairydust.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We can all argue about Burnham's speech but it meant girl twin asking me what the triple lock was and boy twin asking me what my preferred form of PR is. So it's done its work.
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Dragoș Ioniță @dragosionita.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Under the European Commission's plan, economic benefits offered to candidate countries will depend on their support for the EU's foreign policy objectives, with single market access hinging on them not sharing key technologies with hostile states and trade rivals. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
politico.eu
EU to offer single-market access to candidate countries
Economic benefits would be conditional and can be taken away if non-members backslide on democracy or share sensitive tech with unfriendly governments, the plan says.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bloke from Network Rail is on tv explaining how replacing the train shed roof panels at Liverpool Street is letting in so much more light into the station. Whilst Network Rail plans to build a tower over it and bury it in darkness. Make it make sense... #SaveLiverpoolStreet
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kind of impressive how Montenegro will have no connection to the contiguous EU (thanks to Neum) and only about 15km of shared border with any other member state
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One of the most successful things Leave did was reduce free movement to being just another immigration discussion. A lot of well-meaning people on the Remain side got stuck into arguing the case for immigration rather than making the case for free movement.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Suggested City punishment: Each team gets to pick one of their players to steal in a draft process with your place in the draft determined by who played them most recently. Injury to Brobbey and the potential to take Haaland purely coincidental. #SAFC
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have a grave fear that this will be a feature of Burnhamism - delivering random stuff that no one asked for.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It'll be quite something to have to trudge back 2 and a half hours on the train from Preston smelling of Madri and knowing it's directly the Prime Minister's fault.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty sure there's a decent minority of old school Man City fans who'd actually be quite up for a season in League Two
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It'll be quite something to have to trudge back 2 and a half hours on the train from Preston smelling of Madri and knowing it's directly the Prime Minister's fault.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OTD. World Cup send-off that went sour and a trip to posh Harrogate.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a football fan I find Burnham's beer at football drive very odd. It doesn't feel like it's been focus-grouped at all. Most of us don't want it because of people throwing pints up when there's a goal and drenching other match goers.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We know this will happen as we know British fans do this at matches abroad when alcohol is allowed.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have a grave fear that this will be a feature of Burnhamism - delivering random stuff that no one asked for.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a football fan I find Burnham's beer at football drive very odd. It doesn't feel like it's been focus-grouped at all. Most of us don't want it because of people throwing pints up when there's a goal and drenching other match goers.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
International purgatory it is
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wonder how many Wales fans today will be travelling by the rather appropriately named comboio
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wonder how many Wales fans today will be travelling by the rather appropriately named comboio
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ugh we don't want it. No one wants to be lagered in the stands. I hope clubs and/or the league will still just ban it anyway.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are almost no interactions with Rees-Mogg's post on X that are not blue ticks.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
@Jacob_R...•22h
The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We cannot impress on the EU to do anything. If you don't like it, don't go. Or go less often as I am doing this year.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hungary repeats its historic mistake of refusing to accept a Carpathian Basin where it is one of many equal partners. www.kyivpost.com/post/85061?u...
kyivpost.com
Magyar Rejects Zelensky’s C8 Initiative, Says Hungary Did Not Go For a Good Reason
While initial reports listed Hungary among Ukraine’s new C8 partners, Péter Magyar says the country did not sign the summit’s political declaration.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hungary repeats its historic mistake of refusing to accept a Carpathian Basin where it is one of many equal partners. www.kyivpost.com/post/85061?u...
kyivpost.com
Magyar Rejects Zelensky’s C8 Initiative, Says Hungary Did Not Go For a Good Reason
While initial reports listed Hungary among Ukraine’s new C8 partners, Péter Magyar says the country did not sign the summit’s political declaration.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OTD. One of the lowest crowds I can remember at Fratton for a home league game, and the day a Hoffenheim scarf got me in to Union Berlin.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's nothing to be excited about at all is there?
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So glad he never apologized!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russia to 'retaliate' for the retaliation...
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"If you tax everybody to death, they're all going to leave" Jim Ratcliffe has a personal fortune of over £15bn. I don't think he was "taxed to death" before he fucked off. More's the pity.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ruining my weekends since 1995
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
55 minutes coming back by simple Tube and bus, but less fun
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Start the boats
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RAIL Magazine @railmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Among the things I like most about passenger rail routes is the degree they interact with the unique territory, communities and landscapes they serve (in a way that most airport terminals do not). This is Amtrak’s Mardi Gras in downtown Mobile. The vibe is robust and distinct.
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With regard to the potential football-related carnage in south east London today, taking the scenic route to Orient away
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wonder why he's saying this just before a Russian 'election'
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Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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