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John Jaggidas Forristal

@jaggidas.bsky.social
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Compassion for all creatures. Billionaires are destroying the planet. Vegan power.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brexit opened Pandora's box of hatred. Every movement animated by bigotry invariably ends up targeting the same vulnerable groups and minorities.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/10/2026
He says Britain is a toxic place to do business, I say he’s a toxic person - and should have no voice here. Right now he wants Billions more in defence contracts - a tax exile who calls Britain toxic - wants more money from us. FU Jim.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/10/2026
Jim Ratcliffe (I won't use his honorary title) is a great example, made billions here, moved to Monaco to avoid paying billions in tax - why do we honour him.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/10/2026
Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 05/10/2026
🔭 M104: The Sombrero Galaxy's Tidal Streams Credit & Copyright: Engelbert Vollmer ap261005
A starfield has an bright blobby mess in middle. Running vertically through the very middle is a dark streak. A diagonal ring of brightness surrounds the central blob.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” Including services aimed at providing protection against domestic violence. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…
Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is that meant to be wee Bobby Jenrick on the floor crying?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
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Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The End of the World According to Jonathan Pie. It's basically a live doom-scrolling session, except it's me on a stage with an interval halfway through. Tickets: JonathanPie.com.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
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Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW | the UK has decided to end taxpayer support for power stations burning chicken waste. but now what happens to 600,000 tonnes of poo? @grilledmedia.bsky.social is back www.grilled.media/chicken-poo-...
grilled.media
Chicken waste crisis looms as UK axes subsidy for burning poo
With 600,000 tonnes of chicken litter facing an uncertain future, the poultry industry has warned of a 'waste management crisis'
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Britain's intensive poulty industry is implicated in the ecological collapse of... rivers and lakes. They profit from cheap chicken sold through supermarkets and fast-food chains, yet taxpayers have provided >£640 million to subsidise the burning of the vast quantities of manure they generate."
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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For most of the world, commercial whaling belongs to a brutal past. For Iceland, it may soon become one... #animalrights #veganism #activism
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The Last Harpoon
Iceland prepares to leave commercial whaling behind, while Norway and Japan remain increasingly isolated
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/09/2026
President Trump tells reporters that he will get gas prices down to below $2 a gallon, but only after the midterms.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 10/09/2026
"That would be funny if it wasn't actually so f**king sick." "This is at a memorial speech, and it was to honour those who died on September the 11th, and of course Trump turns up and makes the whole thing about him" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/trum...
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‘Trump’s 9/11 lie would be funny if it wasn’t so f***ing sick’ | The News Agents
Donald Trump says he was pulled from the rubble of 9/11. Everyone knows this isn’t true.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 10/09/2026
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Emer McLysaght: 9/11 was the last day of my New York summer. It will never leave me
After turning on CNN, we watched in horror as the second plane hit the South Tower
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2026
"This is not a complicated story to tell. Democrats are going to beat the ever-loving tar out of Trump-loyal Republican candidates. Which, by the way, will be all of them." From the recent archives:
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Dear Panicrats: You’re Going to Win
It doesn’t matter if Republicans try to rig the game or steal the House.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AI is becoming harder to control – can humans stay in charge. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
AI is becoming harder to control – can humans stay in charge?
AI agents went on an uncontrolled hacking spree, leaving some in the industry worried
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daniel Thomas sent his Patriot Platform militia to the Daily Mail today because they published this exposé on him archive.ph/LlO4H
dailymail.com
The convicted kidnapper leading sinister migrant protesters
Daniel Thomas's solidly middle-class upbringing appears to be very different from the men he claims to represent.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas
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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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John Jaggidas Forristal @jaggidas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/G4KQx...
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Why your government is going bankrupt
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been under way into other donations.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: “The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/09/2026
The fire department in Austin, Texas, says that it has concerns that Tesla’s new Cybercab could block city streets because the unusual self-driving car doesn't have a steering wheel or other traditional human controls that firefighters would use to move it in an emergency.
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Tesla Cybercab draws concern from Texas fire department over lack of steering wheel
Firefighters were trained to move the robotaxi with its touchscreen. One captain who took the training says it’s “not the silver bullet” and wants federal standards.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 08/09/2026
SPAIN’S population will be the only one among the European Union’s major economies still projected to have grown by 2100, new figures show. Eurostat’s latest projections put Spain’s growth at just 1.3% between 2025 and 2100, from 49.1 million to 49.8..
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Spain's low fertility rate offset by migration growth
Pedro Sanchez has said Spain needs immigration to fuel its growing economy and offset a low fertility rate, with the EU set to shrink.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Are heatwaves major *natural* disasters, as @theguardian.com writes, or largely and increasingly man-made ones, linked to human emissions of greenhouse gases and land use? The editorial puts much focus on the framing around heatwaves, but these words matter too!
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The Guardian view on extreme heat: its scale should be a wake-up call to us all | Editorial
Editorial: With thousands dead across Europe this summer, it’s time to recognise heatwaves as the major natural disasters they are
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Listened to a BBC programme on charter cities, Honduras to Sierra Leone to Dubai to outer space. But not one guest mentioned the mechanism doing the same job in the UK: 90+ free zones since Brexit, created by secondary legislation, no vote required. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-consen...
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The Consent Gap: What the BBC Left Out of Its Own Charter Cities Episode
A BBC programme on Paul Romer’s charter city idea spent close to an hour moving from Honduras to Sierra Leone to Dubai to outer space, with four guests, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Tom W.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.
Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers
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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Plant many more trees in cities now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cities in Great Britain most vulnerable to extreme heat revealed
OS index examines which ‘urban heat islands’ suffer the most – and which cope the best with rising temperatures
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He’s not wrong.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is what happens when the soul merges with the violin: the music running in your veins. Original post
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not now, son of Krakatoa/Krakatau. Yellowstone next? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Volcanic ash cloud halts flights at five Indonesian airports, including Jakarta’s
Anak Krakatau eruption disrupts 301 flights, affects fishing and some school activities
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John Jaggidas Forristal @jaggidas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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From The Jungle to Ag-Gag: How the Meat Industry Still Fears the Truth - Center for Nutrition Studies
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It fails to recognise that individualised stockpiling ahead of a major shortfall creates a monstrous inequality of outcomes. Some families would be fine, as long as they can protect their stores from looters. Most would not. Social breakdown would happen in days. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot
I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/09/2026
have written about this before and, given the population of this website I guess I need to make that point carefully, but at what point do we start looking at how those kids got parented? am absolutely not doubting The World is also to blame but surely it can't be just that?
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some 'people'... probably bots are saying just let the billionaires get on with AI it will benefit you. Just let the billionaires get on with it is what we have been doing for 50 years. Are YOU doing better? No, only THEY are doing better.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 29/08/2026
Will the most ornery state in the conservative Midwest, one of the places that brought Trump to power, finally reject his politics? The state fair holds the answers: ft.trib.al/28nSxYt
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The UK GDP has grown 3x since 1970 (factoring in inflation and population increase). Are you wealthier? No because it has all gone to the very richest, we DON'T want even more money for them that never trickles down. We want things to function for US.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Print edition in today's @bradfordtanda.bsky.social 📰 When #ReformUK figures complain #Brexit failed, check if they blame architects #Farage & Johnson. 85% of those calling it a failure hold them accountable—not civil servants or the #EU! 📉🇪🇺 #WestYorkshire #Bradford #UKPol #RejoinEU 👇
A scanned letter to the editor in the Telegraph & Argus print edition, dated August 26, 2026. The headline is "Brexit scapegoat hunting".

The letter argues that one-time Leave voters agree Brexit hasn't delivered. It cites a YouGov survey showing the public sees Brexit as a failure by a ratio of 5 to 1 (61% failure vs 12% success). It mentions an upcoming September 2 Westminster Hall debate secured by SNP MP Pete Wishart, noting that Reform UK MPs like Nigel Farage likely won't attend.

The author criticises devotees for hunting for scapegoats, such as Boris Johnson blaming the civil service for visa surges, and hardliners blaming a "punitive" EU for customs checks that British negotiators explicitly chose by leaving the Single Market. It states that 85% hold Johnson and the Conservatives responsible.

Below the text is a photo of a frowning Nigel Farage with the caption: "Reform UK leader Nigel Farage makes a statement to the media at the party."
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/ilkleyn...
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Letter: Main architects of Brexit failure are Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson
SIR - Many one-time Leave voters agree Brexit hasn't delivered on its promises. A June YouGov survey shows the public sees Brexit as a failure…
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Stéphanie Taberner 🔶 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 @singlesfield.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It would discriminate against the children of diplomats, the children of military personnel based abroad… basically the very people who represent our country proudly and bravely. The essence of patriotism. Reform UK Ltd is just a bunch of ignorant, vile, and stupid TRAITORS.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Is £3 trillion of national debt a problem, or a sign of success and the finance sector's confidence in the government? I wrote this infographic. AI created the image.
An infographic on the UK's national debt.
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