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Ian Staerck

@ianstaerck.bsky.social
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Primary teacher/book lover (especially children's books)/trail and fell runner/father of 3

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
British fascists are attacking and doxxing the incredible volunteers of the RNLI. Donate now.
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here's another young woman being attacked and beaten by old Reform men consumed by hate. #RefUKkers
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 22/08/2026
Stand by Me was released 40 years ago today 🤍
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today is the day! If I lose, my grift is over and look a right dick. Whereas if I win, my grift continues and I look a right dick.
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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I agree with Farage - it's time to vote *for* ordinary people like him, you and me (all of us privately educated, ex-Tory commodities traders who can pocket a 5 million quid bung like it's a Tesco yoghurt coupon) and *against* the establishment: (comedians with a fuckin bin on their head).
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10/08/2026
@ronnychieng.bsky.social explains climate change for all the visual learners #TDS30
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I know you know this on bluesky, but I posted it on insta so I thought I should post here too. And if it makes someone second guess using AI for these things then maybe it helps.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Your wages will rise... weekly food shops will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy... Politicians both local and national will become more accountable..." A quick reminder of how Brexit was sold to us ten years ago today
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
FIFA Peace Prize winner, Donald Trump Plans to honour the first match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup By striking Iran hard and taking Kharg island
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Farage absolutely determined that more #FarageRiots go ahead
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I am not being hyperbolic when I say (tech) capitalism is alienating (making strangers) of us at a staggering scale. Alienating us from ourselves, each other, touch, feeling, thoughts…from the intimacy and care of touch, bedtime stories, prayers, poems, drawings, community, love
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Brexit vote 10 years on - and the legacy we live with every day. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus | Jonathan Freedland
Ten years after the vote, our economy is battered – and our national conversation darkens by the day. Still, there is reason for hope, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
We must not allow the tragic murder of a
young woman turn into attacks on men
and attacks on the police
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Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Beautiful 💞 😢
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
How many times do we need to “discover” that, if you spend real resources on personal support for young people, you can help them build better lives? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How a borough in Merseyside is bucking the UK's youth unemployment trend
Could personalised early intervention help prevent under-16s falling into the Neet trap?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is Day 90 of Iran supposedly begging for a peace from Trump which is about to get done any minute and is a total surrender by Iran which accomplished all the original war objectives of the US.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Last week, @thenerve.news published #TheHarborneReceipts, a forensic examination in cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations…& how closely they tracked Farage & Johnson’s pro-crypto policy statements. Yesterday, the FT published an editorial making this exact point about Reform. 1/
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/05/2026
NEW The Harborne Receipts: Follow the Money Billionaire Christopher Harborne gave millions to Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson & their parties. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. We mapped a timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations and crypto-friendly announcements by Farage & Johnson 1/
Pic of Harborne with headline Farage Johnson and the Crypto King
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Presumably this Russian assault on him will encourage Farage to call for a full inquiry into every aspect of Russian interference in our democracy??
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/
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Billionaire Christopher Harborne donated millions to Farage and Johnson. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. Is there a connection?
The crypto investor’s £5m gift to Reform’s leader coincided with the party’s new-found advocacy for digital assets – part of a pattern of significant political donations that also included £1m to the ...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’ve decided that I’ll only feature videos of Farage in my content with voice modification, like the BBC did with Sinn Fein in the 90s, to avoid giving them the oxygen of publicity or any illusion of credibility.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Oh God please let his grandad keep turning up with sacks of cash at inopportune moments and we've got a hit show.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Richard Tice will be speaking to Laura Kuenssberg because I'm still afraid of scrutiny. I thought the best person to explain why there is nothing wrong with accepting a £5 million gift would be the man who repeatedly avoids paying tax.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Yes. Well. Plenty of us were pointing out the likely effect of leaving the EU on immigration well before the referendum …and then consolidated by daft immigration policies incentivising small boat traffic.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/05/2026
The kids had a blast with Trump today
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
Today we announce a new policy:


In order to deport all illegal migrants in
Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of
thousands at a time.


Migrants will not be able to leave these
detention centres, and each will be held
there a couple of weeks before being
deported.


So here's our promise:


A Reform government will not put any
migrant detention facilities in any
constituency with a Reform MP.


Nor will we put them where Reform
controls the council.


And of the remaining areas, we will
prioritise Green controlled parliamentary
constituencies and Green controlled
councils to locate the detention centres.


Put simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee yPut simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee you
won't have a detention centre near you


If you vote Green, there's a good chance
you will,


This is an important exercise in
democratic consent, not just for our
mass deportation policy, but for where
the detention centres are placed


Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates
for open borders, I look forward to their
warm embrace of this policy
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Good time to re-up this 🎉
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 10/04/2026
Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is real
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Government is considering scrapping the NHS-Palantir deal. Do you want Palantir out of the NHS? RT if you do. #PalantirOUT
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 20/03/2026
Breaking: Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded
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Elon Musk Misled Twitter Investors Before 2022 Buyout, Jury Says
Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons. North Korea and Israel. One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide. It isn't North Korea.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Did anyone else have @vizcomic.bsky.social as the most prescient political commentators of the day on their 2026 bingo card?
Front cover of the new issue of Viz: a picture of a concrete entrance to an underground structure, plus the words “***INSIDE***
WEVE GONE COMPLETELY BUNKERS! IN OUR NUCLEAR SHELTER SPECIAL!”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.
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The Gregory Brothers @gregorybrothers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
was Pam Bondi trying to un-hibernate Auto-Tune the News?
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Guy who did the Times magazine profile of Peter Mandelson
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2026
Take four minutes out of your day.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
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