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Teacher. Music fan (CD, vinyl). Politics (left leaning/re-joiner/anti-Tory, anti-Farage, anti-Trump). Taking a second chance to make a first impression.

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@david8hughes

Wife: don't forget to pick the kids up from school

Me: it's Saturday, they're both upstairs

Wife: it's Wednesday & we have 3 kids
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20h
A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐
Main on Sunday front page: 

"As one of Kemi's top female frontbenchers calls them 'instruments of suppression...
UK HANDS OUT 1,000 HIJABS TO CHANNEL MIGRANTS"
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am deeply saddened that the "Zionism is Racism" motion has passed.
As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights.

We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.

We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation.

We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government.

And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way. 

We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't even think it is excitement anymore, I think it's relief that the concept the MPs have to sell is simple enough for them to understand, because it's the only idea the party has had for 20 years now
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This thread is why “you have to vote Polanski to send Labour a message on their xenophobia/transphobia etc” is not simple. For starters, you’ve got a nakedly antisemitic motion as the top priority. If this passes, you can’t ask genuine anti-racists to vote for a party that endorses things like this.
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Those numbers seem accurately dismal and nowhere near as positive a narrative as the press has recently been pushing re the 'Keminaissance'
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's *definitely* a fortnightly strip in Private Eye to be made out of this
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cheering myself up with some prime Green Day, Homecoming, and some highly underrated post-prime material in the shape of The Static Age.
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sad to see that the high preponderance in Bexhill of nutbags with signs opposing 5G, masks, tax, contactless card payments and anything else they can think of, merrily giving out copies of disgusting danger rag The Light. And they all get to vote.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JFC the attention-seeking, victimhood-mining Farage Pity Party will be UNBEARABLE, won't it.
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Best record shop, yes, but worst website in the world goes to @resident-music.com. Every RSD, every sale, every event. Your site simply doesn't work. Some bargains, but my browser wouldn't load my basket, so logged in on a different browser and everything's sold out. Utterly, confoundingly useless
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Buying on Facebook marketplace "Are these still available" Yes "Great, I'm interested, whereabouts are you" (Postcode) "I can come 4pm ish, What's your address" (Address) Later "Really sorry, got held up, can I come tomorrow instead" FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU TO DEATH I HATE YOU JUST FUCKING DIE
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Colin Green @colingreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ll start: Plastic - New Order Funky Dollar Bill - Funkadelic Guilty Conscience - Kneecap Chequeless Reckless - Fontaines DC Blood Money - Primal Scream Jobseeker - Sleaford Mods
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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A spontaneous and natural interview
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🟡 Print Edition Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism By Karam Bales The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism
The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 24/09/2026
*Yelling as I drive away from the petrol station without paying* "Sorry about this! My AI has gone rogue!"
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hot take, I know, but cider is quite nice
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So I was trying to teach my 10 year old about Suede, like any good dad, and said "One of them is @richardosman1.bsky.social's brother" Who? "You know who" (he loves Pointless. I show him a picture, fig 1) He looks like Vic Diamond from Thelma the Unicorn "Who?" (He grabs my phone and produces fig 2)
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Sesh Nadathur @seshnadathur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some people near where I live put this one up during the world cup
St George's cross in a window, with "Not Reform Just Football Fans" written on it
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now, if I see a private house with a big St George's flag outside I instantly think 'a racist lives here'.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I feel a sea shanty coming on
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Parents Are You Tired Of Your Child Doing This?
Big text at the top says "Parents! Are you sick of your child doing this?"
We see a drawing of a child whose body is sticking out of various parts of a room, his legs through the floor, his arm through one wall, his upper torso and face through another, scowling and sticking his tongue out and saying "fie! I will not be bound by the limits of the physical form!"

In a second panel, the large text says "end the daily hassle and all those little headaches by encasing your child in the cube!"

The boy is now hovering upside down inside a 3 dimensional cube, still scowling, but now fully intact, saying "you're a fool to think these constraints will hold. Once I am free of this prison, you have signed your own doom."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's supposed to be an arts center, they have been removing actual artwork and replacing it with this propaganda kitsch. 2/2
A gold picture of Elon Musk with an inspirational quote. Musk looks like a skeleton. The quote is unreadable. Absolute fucking dreck.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Also, he purged the Kennedy Center of a collection of African art that was given in tribute to JFK, but he installed this, from the Tony Montana Meets Saddam Hussein Collection.
Indescribably, almost parodistically ugly, vulgar, gold-foil relief art, straight out of a dictator's cocaine palace, of Trump raising his fist and saying "Fight! Fight! Fight!" after having his ear grazed by a bullet, and of RFK Jr. with some croaky quote next to him. The art pieces look like something you could unwrap to reveal artificially flavored chocolate from five Easters ago.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
A mocked up FBI wanted poster with six variations of Bugs Bunny dressed as hilarious women

Left to right:
Classic housewife bugs bunny in a peach dress with French curls and a blue bonnet 

Sexy snow bunny bugs bunny in a form fitting yellow ski suit & red lipstick 

Classy rocket bra bugs bunny in a pink blouse and a choker and red heels and a blue skirt 

Green nightgown bugs bunny looking alluring 

Cavewoman bugs bunny in an orange tattered one piece slip making a come hither expression 

Flapper bugs bunny in a red dance outfit and a big bowler hat
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Abolish ICE
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Dr Caz 🌳🇪🇺 🇺🇦🔸 @drcj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
rnli.org/support-us/g...
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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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gec236.bsky.social @gec236.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
.. banning charities the likes of RNLI that save lives 😞 .. what a fucking monster he is 🚨.. this is the week .. this is the time when it really really got serious Fascism is truly here .. this government has to do something now .. where the fuck are they ?
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Kbrown: This Is Very, Very Serious
ALT: Kbrown: This Is Very, Very Serious
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Having another chart as bad as this is probably impossible
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m not saying the politically engaged overestimate the importance of things they are interested in to the public but
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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys
A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house.  A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it.  It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.
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Your Sinclair @yoursinclair.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Always wanted one of these.
Your Sinclair T shirt showing the logo with the tag line "It's crap! (In a funky, skillo sort of way)"
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Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 24/08/2026
At least YS got to have a "Goodbye" to it's readers unlike many other mags. It was indeed crap, in a funky, skillo kinda way.
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Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 07/05/2025
As were all the cool kids. YS was crap... In a funky, skillo sort of way.
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🕹️ Davey Sloan 👾 @sloanysoft.itch.io · 28/02/2025
It's crap! In a funky skillo sort of way
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Gary @garylm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For some reason this song came into my head when reading the Ed Sheeran stuff. 40 years old and still as relevant as ever youtube.com/watch?v=8kDv...
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Sitting On A Fence
YouTube video by The Housemartins - Topic
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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
See, now I am wishing that Keir had not resigned. Because now this guy is leaving his exile in Russia and coming over TO MY PATCH!!! I JUST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA www.workerspartygb.org/george_gallo...
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George Galloway for Holborn and St Pancras
building a new working class politics
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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh Christ Oh God NO (Signalled intention but still No NO) novaramedia.com/2026/09/14/g...
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George Galloway to Stand in Byelection in Attempt to Defeat Green Leader
George Galloway has signalled his intention to come out of self-imposed exile in Russia in order to oppose Green leader Zack Polanski in the byelection for Keir Starmer’s former seat.
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Loyle Carner is fantastic. He deserves better than to be applauded by the Canary of all publications
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yet again, I'm faced with the thought that Every Time by @davidfordisdead.bsky.social is almost certainly the best song anybody has ever written and performed youtu.be/ikdJVSL26Sc?...
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"National sovereignty" The nation in question is, of course, Russia. Fuck you, Workers Party.
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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great news for those who enjoy America but don't find it quite 'acid rain'-y enough
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🔴 More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals. “If that isn’t a massive corruption risk I don’t know what is.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...
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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Imagine the good you could do with £72 million pounds. Now imagine what Reform will do with it. Shocking and depressing AF that two Labour Prime Ministers have allowed this to happen. The short sightedness is unforgivable
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