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Elle

@kindofnorthern.bsky.social
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Proud member of the activist blob and tofu eating wokerati. Hate culture wars, extremists and shrink wrap plastic. Like cheese, gifs and cheesy gifs. 🇬🇧🇮🇪 immigrant in 🇳🇱.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Robert Jenrick chasing a guy in his ridiculous videos, who stole a bottle of Coke. This is the same Robert Jenrick who helped his mate avoid paying £40 million in tax when he was Housing Secretary.
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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@opiniumresearch.bsky.social 🚨 Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll 🚨 Labour hits 30% for the first time since November 2024, opening up a 5-point lead over Reform. 🌹 LAB 30% (+2) ➡️ REF 25% (+1) 🌳 CON 17% (n/c) 🌍 GRN 11% (+1) 🔶 LD 9% (-1)
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Germany has 415 days worth of diesel stocks (thanks to policy), while the UK has just 42(!) days worth (no policy, and totally dependent on Trump's US for imports). From a great explainer on diesel shortage by @edconway.bsky.social on LinkedIn. lnkd.in/p/eTg6HBQs
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📽️ Why, you might be wondering, is everyone quite SO obsessed with diesel? I mean, the G7 literally just held an emergency meeting about it. The short answer is: this is existential - both for… | Ed C...
📽️ Why, you might be wondering, is everyone quite SO obsessed with diesel? I mean, the G7 literally just held an emergency meeting about it. The short answer is: this is existential - both for Donald ...
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well that was a sweary bike ride into the city, what with every tourist either walking in front of my bike, or being on a bike on the wrong side of the road. Good morning!
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper
Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, I think the best way to avoid botched executions is to stop executing people.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The more desperate he gets, the more ludicrous he sounds.
Donald J. Trump O+
@realDonaldTrump
I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night! The rest of the time is just to make sure it stays that way. President
DONALD J. TRUMP
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Farage, you’re just tedious now love. Like a broken TV screen in a rundown American motel that can only play really shitty infomercials. You’re a stuck knob.
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Nigel Farage Finds It Boring
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thoughts and prayers.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
So much of the British right has just become about insta-react getting likes on X dot com.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s dark, wet and warm here, which might excite some people but I’m not enjoying it.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good. It’s quite literally landfill.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very serious topic and all that, but some of the Fairford comments on here are properly brew spitting funny. Good work, everyone.
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Nick of the Northbank @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Perhaps they were just dogging. The ultimate act of British integration.
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Have you got a copy of Fly Tipping by RAF Fairford? You do? Oh that's wonderful. My name? Fairford. RAF Fairford.'
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Been talking to my mum lately about acceptance vs action and the futility of raging without moving to one or the other. She’s heeded the advice and decided on her first application: sending feedback to the Holland’s Pies team on the declining quality.
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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"how dare you call us mixed race!!", shout the Anglo-Saxons
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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when the far-right piles on other rightwingers for not being racist enough, that's called getting reesmogged
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Whatever virus this is, it’s kicking my arse. No fever but achey and totally knackered. Not Covid but feels adjacent. Urgghh.
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Grogu on a Rock, Tuesday After Christmas
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I guess they stopped the boat.
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Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks
Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Crumpets were the one thing I forgot at the expat shop today (shout out to Kelly’s in Amsterdam, they even stock Sherbet Dib Dabs). Did remember to get mushy peas, though.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Enjoying a glass of red and listening to the gorgeously voiced @traceythorn.bsky.social while the roast cooks. What Sundays were made for.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Says a British immigrant in Monaco who only lives there in order not to pay his fair share of taxes. I feckin hate these people with every fibre of my feckin being…
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How can there be sooooo many streaming services and still nothing to watch when you’re in bed with the lurgy? And why do they all have the same seasons of Law & Order that I've already watched a 100 times?
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Sad Cat Lounging
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
have I mentioned lately that oligarch-owned media consolidation is bad
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Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)
The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have legitimate concerns about closing lifeboat stations. But do only the thugs' "legitimate concerns" about migrants being saved from drowning count?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just Zia Yusuf having a pop at his parents.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I told you Eurovision was just the first step.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Truly inspiring woman leaving a huge legacy. Best wishes to her friends and family.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m saddened to hear of Bonnie Greer’s death, she was a passionate advocate of the arts, culture, education, and decency in society, and she will be missed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77
Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think Donald Trump deserves more heat than Ed Sheeran, but maybe it's just me. Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel The package includes 40,000 one-ton bombs and would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel (Gift Article)
The package includes 40,000 one-ton bombs and would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Extremist Dutch farmers created multiple fires next to highways today, endangering traffic. Finally, some arrests were made. Also today, objects like steel pipes were thrown on railways, in 30 different places, bringing trains to a halt. The suspicion is that these terrorists were farmers as well.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
3 support acts have now dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Oops Moment
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Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NOS now reporting farmers may have been behind the operation to sabotage the Dutch railways. If this turns out to be true, it would be the most spectacular own goal and pretty much kill off any lingering sympathy for the farmers' cause in the wider population. nos.nl/artikel/2631...
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Boerenactivisten mogelijk verantwoordelijk voor sabotage op het spoor
Bronnen melden aan de NOS dat boerenactivisten en hun sympathisanten betrokken lijken te zijn bij de verstoringen op het spoor. Die waren er op 35 plekken in het land.
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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dutch railway network disrupted by sabotage to tracks www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/dutc...
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Dutch railway network disrupted by “sabotage” to tracks - DutchNews.nl
Train services across the Netherlands were disrupted on Tuesday morning in what network operators suspect is an act of co-ordinated sabotage. ProRail, the company responsible for managing the track…
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Major incidents here in NL with rail sabotage and road fires on our budget day. Yet unproven, but chatter is it’s farmers protesting nitrogen reductions. I’m sure you can imagine the reaction from right wing parties & press. After all, they hate it when climate protesters block roads.
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Tumbleweed Rolling in the Desert
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums
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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You know that smug feeling you get when your bad feelings about a well loved public figure turn out to be correct? In completely unrelated news, how about that Ed Sheeran.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another brilliant episode. Funny and insightful, like being at the pub with the smartest people you know (who are also somehow still relatable and not condescending arseholes - other podcasts take note).
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s been a dark news day and to top it off, HEMA have decided to make Nijntje (Miffy) a knife wielding serial killer.
Miffy The Rabbit (Nijntje in the original Dutch) dressed in a black robe and wielding a knife. It’s very disturbing and disrupted my HEMA trip to buy new bike lamps. Won’t be able to look at her the same way again, if I’m honest. Expecting to have rabbity killer dreams tonight. Better not eat any cheese.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, for a moment there we had the fleeting possibility that women of all shapes and sizes might be confident enough not to pour all their resources, potential and time into fitting an incredibly narrow beauty aesthetic. ‘Thank goodness that didn’t happen’ says Michael Deacon.
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Slim, beautiful women are back in fashion. Thank God for that
After years of using 'inclusive' models to appease the woke crowd, advertisers have realised that people are attracted to attractive people
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