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Progressive Gamer Brit Neurodivergent Trying to re-find my feet in this dodgy world we share.

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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
If this is how France responds to European wins, then it needs a few years outside of European football. Harsh punishment, but we're not talking isolated incidents, and people died. Let's see whether UEFA want to prevent a short term drop in French TV money more than they want to prevent deaths.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Wrong Washington. Good thinking though lads. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Washington: 250 million honeybees escape overturned truck in US
Master bee-keepers are called to the scene after a truck containing 70,000 pounds of active honey bee hives flipped over.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Cannot praise Merseyside emergency services highly enough for how they've managed the past few days, but I fear the genie was let out of the bottle by rushing with the suspects' demographics.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Online shopping on the way... one item missing. Loaf of bread. NO REPLACEMENT OFFERED? NO BREAD AT ALL IN YOUR GIGANTIC SUPERMARKET???????????
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here's hoping. 🍻 #UKWeather
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If Labour are getting accused of undoing Brexit, they might as well actually fucking undo Brexit! Why is it we can all see this, but they can’t?
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Lots of overcompensation going on today, from every quarter.
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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
📊 "We are in a five - actually six in Wales & Scotland - party system now. Our electoral system is utterly, utterly unfit for purpose in that context" 💬 APPG Vice Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social 🚀 "The first step is setting up that National Commission for Electoral Reform"
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2025
Trans people: somehow too fragile to serve in the military, yet too powerful to compete in sports. Fascism thrives on contradiction.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#FuckFascism #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #FuckFarage #FuckReform
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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Grim but vital thread
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you don’t know how to insult a woman without relying on misogyny to form your insult you need to up your game
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 20/05/2025
Incredible scenes from Kemi Badenoch’s speech on our trade relationship with Europe.
Tim Robinson in a hot dog costume saying “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Even more terrifying than the numbers - the likelihood that Labour will conclude that they need to push even harder to the right instead of setting out why the cult of Farage is wrong, dishonest and corrupt.
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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Govt Green Paper proposes benefit cuts to “get Disabled people back to work” but offers ZERO realistic plans. Instead, they’re cutting PIP which is NOT an employment-related benefit. Sign our open letter: buff.ly/TJI8pM6 #ItsTimeForInclusion
Open letter (text also available at the link)Open letter part 2
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I'm not going to jump for joy at getting a few percentage points back from the value of what we had when in the EU. Nor am I going to jump on the bandwagon of criticising Labour for it due to my fury about their behavior on unrelated matters. Those doing either, truly do need a long summer off.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
When you've 100% completed a game on Steam for ages, and then they add new achievements just because without adding much in the way of new content to enjoy. (RIP Andre Braugher - he was incredible in B99 and it was no age, and no way, to go 🪦 )
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a man in a hospital bed is holding a cell phone and saying how dare you
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It's funny. I don't seem to recall the corresponding BBC headline on Saturday where the BBC recognised that by supporting the EBU's decision on Israel, they were aiding and abetting ethnic cleansing. #BBC #Lineker #Eurovision
A BBC News story

Top:  Picture of Gary Lineker getting into the driver's seat of a car outside a house. 

Below: LIVE 'I recognise the upset I caused': Lineker to leave BBC sooner than planned after antisemitism row
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The BBC will sack Lineker for his humanity but pay Chris Mason and Laura Kuenssberg eye watering sums to rim Tories and push a right wing agenda. We urgently need press reform.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Fernando "I'm the unluckiest driver in the world". Threw away a WDC at McLaren rather than work for it, rejoined a weak Renault in a huff, joined Ferrari who were clearly a spent force, joined McLaren with an unproven engine supplier, then waddled along to Alpine and AM. Grow up.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
F1: make a terrible ultra soft tyre. Pirelli: 👍 F1: why is the ultra soft tyre terrible? Pirelli: 🤷‍♂️
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Yuki Tsunoda has more parc ferme breaching new parts on his car than Fernando Alonso has F1 wins in the past 14.5 years (covering the vast majority of his Ferrari days). Quite the shunt. #F1
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
You just traveled to the Middle East, Donald. They let you go, no issues.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
#Eurovision boycott successfully completed but I will confess to having seen the results. Removing the public vote is not the answer. The answer is to review the threshold at which you exclude a participant. EBU's excuse is that technically KAN are within their rules. If so, the rules are wrong.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I saw this and the Belgian flag on my YouTube feed (other European flags are available), and briefly hoped Eurovision had booked an appropriate intermission act. (political statement aside, legitimately good song). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3w...
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The Offspring - Genocide (Live)
YouTube video by David Gahardy
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Major League Balatro @majorleaguebalatro.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
THE GREATEST BALATRO CONTENT OF ALL TIME? FINAL LIFE, GAME 5, AND ROFFLE TAKES IT! GGs to DrSpectred, Roffle advances to the final! Come catch Edzy vs Nandre! Watch: Nandre POV: www.twitch.tv/nandre Edzy POV: www.twitch.tv/EDZYttv Casting: www.twitch.tv/zainotv
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I love Bearman and he has every right to be gutted, but a red flag light is a red flag light. It was visible as he crossed the line. Don't understand the delay while they figure it out? #F1
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
With talk of a new UK-EU deal what does our polling say about public attitudes to Europe? Firstly the idea of a closer relationship with Europe appeals to a majority of the public. People broadly want our relationship to work better & there’s little appetite for more divergence
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I hope Lance Stroll and Jack Doohan are paying close attention to these procedures. #F1 www.youtube.com/shorts/ZUJmRfyqaIE
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3-year-old predicts Imola 🤣
YouTube video by P1 with Matt & Tommy
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
For those taking a moral stance in skipping #Eurovision this year, stay strong. Come midnight it'll all be over. Eurovision will always be OUR contest, a fanbase grounded in the principles the EBU claims to stand for. If all its broadcasters were covering Gaza properly, we wouldn't be where we are.
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Major League Balatro @majorleaguebalatro.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
MLB PLAYOFFS TOMORROW!!! Roffle vs DrSpectred: 11a ET Edzy vs Nandre/Zain: 1p ET Grand FInals: 3p ET #MajorLeagueBalatro
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
My tried and tested #Balatro routine: 1. Get excited at the start of a gold stake run at the possibility of doing something dumb but fun. 2. Proceed to do something dumb but fun. 3. Lose in ante 7-8 and ponder why I chose to do something dumb. The game never gets old.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
At what point are we allowed to take Gasly's pace seriously? He was fast in FP1 on both tyres used, and the best non-orange car in FP2. Dark horse? #F1
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This would seem to explain ReFUK to a very large extent.
YouGov: 23% of Britons say they at least sometimes confuse their left and right
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I wish there were a way to like, split your posts into a couple of buckets (short of having two accounts). I don't care much for follower count, but it's hard to imagine too many people seeing anything I say that's entirely unrelated to politics, unless they have a high tolerance for politics talk.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Will be interesting to see if any mileage is done on the hard tyres in practise. The teams want the race to be a one-stopper, and if so want to understand that hard tyre well. But if two-stop is optimal (possible with these compounds), surely it's preferable to run two hard tyres in the race. #F1
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Young Labour members have a message for Keir Starmer: fix our broken voting system. 53% of Labour voters agree: we need Proportional Representation. Featuring young campaigners Ed, Katie, Melodi and Mattie. 🌹 ✍️ Sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Isn't this literally what 99% of people who bet on horses do? #F1 www.youtube.com/shorts/ZUJmR...
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3-year-old predicts Imola 🤣
YouTube video by P1 with Matt & Tommy
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Hope Pirelli's tyre selection helps give Imola the farewell it deserves. #F1
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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our campaign's carolinejc.bsky.social said: "Disabled people...face disproportionate impacts from these Green Paper proposals. We must learn from the past and avoid the catastrophic consequences that can arise from ill-informed benefit changes." Sign our open letter: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
Our open letter (full text available at the link)Agree with our response? Sign our open letter (link in post) #ItsTimeForInclusion
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I love #Eurovision and what it should be about, and in that spirit I watched last year despite the elephant in the room as I felt that expressing displeasure was the correct form of protest. Can't bring myself to pay any attention to it this time around.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Body - give me three or four days. Mind - I need to be kept busy It would seem the horrors of the last day have changed my general routine in no way whatsoever.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Many, many, many moons ago, I was fit enough to run 10ks and half marathons in respectable times. That's a distant dream nowadays. I'd take the hour after a half marathon over how I'm feeling now any day of the week. 😩
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
In the back stretch of a 24-hour mission to do something which is the equivalent of three days' hard work and I'd known about for months, but physical and mental health meant leaving it until I was pushing the bounds of feasibility before starting. Now pushing the bounds of human caffeine intake.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It is deeply irresponsible for organisations to continue to use X as their primary social media platform.
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I can only assume the Lib Dems or Greens have something major to talk about this morning, because this is the sort of thing the Bojo Backed Conservative board of the BBC tend to instruct their minions to talk about if they want to avoid covering something else.
Case quacked: Flying duck caught by Swiss speed camera is repeat offender
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Hornet @hornetgx.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Now that's what I call a perfect weather week.
Sunny and room temperature (19-22 degrees) outside every single day - and nice and cool at night to allow a cooloff if needed.
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