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Holy Flowerpots

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Let’s all be nice to each other. We only have one planet so please take care of it. Medic, musician, Middle Earth (Birmingham UK)

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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Polish government destroys Russia's paid influencer Tucker Carlson for his promotion of the idea that Europe should've surrendered to the Nazis in the same way Tucker has surrendered to Russian money.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘The Lance Armstrong of English football’ sums it up well.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
US military intelligence = contradiction in terms
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
GB News is the propaganda wing of Reform UK
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Nisbet Bryce @nisbetbryce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
More accurate headline would be "Oil billionaire annoyed that Britain is moving towards renewables and wants rich to pay their taxes" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The increasing levels of misinformation we’ve seen online have gone beyond fever pitch and are reaching their tendrils straight into the real world now. Two volunteers, who are doing good, honest work, have been put at risk." open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
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The Far Right Has Put RNLI Volunteers In The Crosshairs
Online misinformation about Channel rescues is no longer just poisonous rhetoric, it’s putting real people at risk.
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
‘Thuggish’ is not a strong enough adjective for this group.
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
youtu.be/-n91lSO0wJQ?...
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Hong Kong Phooey Intro
YouTube video by Derek S
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Two tier policing. Arrest retired folk peacefully protesting genocide in Gaza. Allow right wing thugs to block streets and ports. I know which group presents the real threat to democracy and the so-called “British way of life”, which these vigilante bullies preposterously claim to be defending.
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What fun to see KGM skewer Nadine Dorries on C4 News
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Compare with this infamous game to round up Jews from 1930s: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/object/obj046/
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians.
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well that Reform conference dinner will have lost its flavour. And C4’s Paul Macnamara will likely have his accreditation withdrawn.
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I hope the undercover reporter has good security #channel4news Some of Reform’s supporters aren’t very forgiving
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026
This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think the Telegraph misspelled “the highly respected leader of Camden Council” in the headline.
Somali refugee tipped to face Polanski in Starmer by-election
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"champions of free speech" latest
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Brexit also exposed the UK to a form of pressure that EU membership had shielded it from." 💊 @vvelyvyte.bsky.social reflects on the UK-US medicines deal and argues the terms are a hidden cost of Brexit 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-uk-us-me...
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The UK-US medicines deal and the hidden costs of Brexit - UK in a changing Europe
Vilija Vėlyvytė argues that the UK-US medicines deal which will see the NHS pay more for new medicines is an unexpected cost of Brexit.
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The very thing in Birmingham that is causing hyperventilation among its opponents
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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Breaking the rules
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Now, in response to alerts from the UN's #Methane Alert and Response System, Turkmenistan has started plugging the leaks There's much more to do, but it's an "incredible first step" The 2nd biggest mega-leaker, the US, is doing nothing @unep.org 3/3 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A minority of the singers in this concert can actuallysing in tune.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.
The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 25/08/2026
If you want proof god doesn’t exist, Donald Trump is 80, and still President. 😢
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I've got transgender people. I've got gays. I've got lesbians...
I know and love them all, and I do not judge. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton."
— Dolly Parton in 2023
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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Need we say more?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Amidala talking to Anakin meme. 
1st panel, Anakin asks 'do you like plums?'
2nd panel, Amidala says 'yeah, I'm actually saving some for breakfast'
3rd panel, Anakin stares
4th panel, Amidala looks horrified
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ministers told…..by people with fossil fuel interests? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK risks running out of gas by 2030s, ministers told
Government assessment warns of supply shock that could leave homes and businesses without gas within a decade
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Full marks for the typo. Chef’s kiss for the reply.
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform UK policy on PIP
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Liars gonna lie
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Again. And in Welsh. #dontlightabbq
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Jules @jules111985.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
At least while an eclipse is going on it isn’t so blooming hot!
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Go away clouds!
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Holy Flowerpots @holyflowerpots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
First Contact (no Borg though)
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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Once again. More money was spent on the Embankment cycle way in London in one year than in all of active travel in the West Midlands.
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