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David

@kotfw.bsky.social
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Been off SM now for 5 years. I’m giving this one a go to see if humanity hasn’t yet devolved into a complete pile of pure hatred. Animal lover, retired, woke socialist.

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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Remember, clocks go back tonight. If you're a Tory, back to 1953. If you're Reform, back to 1932. If you're Jacob Rees-Mogg, back to 1741. And if you're Nigel Farage, you just demand that 'Clocks Should Go Back Where They Came From." John O’Connell on X-Twitter…
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LC @lc1summit.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
The press cannot stay silent!
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 26/10/2024
There will be more tax. There will be places it will go. There will be places it won't go. We will know where when it's announced. Then everyone can hyperventilate about actual announcements rather than voices in their heads.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 25/10/2024
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/are-these-...
Instead, what's likely to drive many rank-and-file journalists into a rage this week isn't the preference for a particular endorsement, or even the call to "let readers decide," but the stench of poorly disguised chickenshittedness opportunistically emanating from the C-Suites as somebody they've been calling an authoritarian for years now looks to have about 50-50 odds to return to the Oval Office. The core journalistic issue here is that what these publishers are saying does not seem to be what they actually mean, and the journalists just trying to keep their heads down at these titles are going to get tarred by their so-called leaders' brazen intellectual dishonesty. The stewardship of honest journalism, as ever, belongs to journalists.
May they someday have it.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Former Sky News lead Adam Boulton: “Are we witnessing part of a slow motion coup in the US? Tech Billionaires buy up media and then gag them if they are not pro-Trump, while some use their resources to campaign for him. He in turn will give them more power and money if elected.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Marty Baron, former exec editor of WaPo on the decision not to endorse Kamala Harris: “This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. Donald Trump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner Jeff Bezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/10/2024
It won't be just the LA Times and Washington Post. It will be your employer, your university, your school district, and your local elected officials. They will all cave and engage in anticipatory obedience to fascism because of their cowardice and greed. Your institutions will not save you.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Michael Gove has spent the last 14 years wrecking the country, so it's only fair that he is made Editor of The Spectator and given a BBC podcast so he can continue to spout his dodgy bullshit even when he's no longer an MP.
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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Imagine the shame and embarrassment in taking one up to the counter. You'd have to hide it inside a Sunday Sport or Razzle to try and salvage some dignity. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
independent.co.uk
Boris Johnson’s memoir flops as sales slump despite ‘£2m advance’
Booksellers reportedly left with ‘piles and piles’ of the political memoir, ‘Unleashed’
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Jeez. Water companies raise bonuses to £9.1m despite record sewage discharges www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Water companies raise bonuses to £9.1m despite record sewage discharges
Third of total comprises bonuses at Severn Trent as indebted Thames nearly doubles payouts to executives
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Well done to the courageous Moldovan people for triumphing over Russian imperialist disinformation. If only the UK had done the same during our own EU referendum in 2016. We must defend Western elections against Russian interference as ferociously as Ukrainians are defending against Russian tanks.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
📚👊🏻📚👊🏻📚👊🏻📚👊🏻 A certain disgraced former MP received £510,000 in advance royalties for his mendacity memoires. “Other works of crime fiction are available” #books
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Lots of great suggestions already (thank you!) but so far my favourite is Let the Bodies Hit the Floor vs Teletubbies...
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
This isn’t news. It’s Tory propaganda. Barely bats an eye when Zahawi heats his stables, Johnson freeloads his arse off or McVey takes £18K freebies in 2months. Rayner pays for something expensive herself and The Times wants to shame her. What a nasty, snobby, shit-stirring rag.
Times headline:
Proud socialist Angela Rayner bought boyfriend a suit from royal tailor
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Boris Johnson has crawled out of the woodwork to join Nigel Farage in saying the UK needs a referendum on ECHR membership If UK media is going to give him a platform to spout this boll**** it’s up to all of us to call it out. Share this if you agree youtu.be/QOtcGqDccc4?...
youtu.be
Boris Johnson joins Nigel Farage in saying UK needs referendum on ECHR membership - enough!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/02/2024
Here’s the deal: We stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Annual Halloween plea: Please don't put costumes on your cat if they don't like it! They trust you and don't understand why you're suddenly frightening and hurting them. We have plenty of apps to make funny photos now, there's simply no need to make them uncomfortable for your amusement.
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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Today's inspirational message:
Cartoon by Scribbly G.

Four panels.

1. Two parents. 

Dad: Nemo died!
Mum: We need to replace him before Timmy sees!

2. Later.

A child looking at a goldfish in a bowl. 

Dad (to Mum): Phew! He hasn't noticed.

3. The child is still staring at the goldfish in the bowl.

4. The goldfish stares back at the child.

Goldfish: You're not Nemo!
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 01/10/2024
Some politicians so extreme they should be in prison, says Stephen.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Daily Mail lets Johnson blame Macron for ‘weaponising small boat crisis’ in revenge for Brexit. Exactly why this country is in such a sorry mess. Because Tories take no responsibility for their dismal choices and want us to believe the damage they’ve done is someone else’s fault.
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
I am not hungry, I am bored. I am not hungry, I am bored. I am not hungry...
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David @kotfw.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Putting this up again until someone understands the truth.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Pff. Didn't colour it in though, did he?
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Tony @mrtonybe.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Meanwhile Kemi Badenoch has said she was brought up middle-class but became working-class when she worked in McDonald's 😳 Opposite for me, we were working-class in Middlesbrough until me Mam bought us a Viennetta one day, straight to middle-class 😂
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al-boo @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 17/09/2024
ABBOT: oh my god Diddy got arrested! COSTELLO: did he? ABBOT: I just said that, Diddy got arrested COSTELLO: did who get arrested?? ABBOT: Diddy! COSTELLO: what are you askin me for? did he what? ABBOT: im not askin, i’m tellin you Diddy got arrested COSTELLO: i’m asking, what did he do
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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Photo of a pumpkin pie sectioned into normal pie pieces, with a piece-sized triangular wedge cut in the off-centre middle, intersecting several of the other slices. Caption reads;

"This person took his part, but affected others. He exercised his freedom, but with injustice. Freedom can’t be exercised as everyone wants. Justice disappears when you harm others. I’m not talking about morality, I’m talking about the bad exercise of freedom."

-collected
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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 16/09/2024
My mum and dad had a dog that hurt his leg when he was young and got a lot of attention. Ever after, when he felt neglected, he'd develop a limp. Similar vibe.
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YOLOBirder @yolobirder.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Waxwing vs X-Wing
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 11/09/2024
he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
More marvellous moonlight, courtesy of the genius of Atkinson Grimshaw...
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
My brain still thinks I’m 25 but my body thinks I’m an idiot.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 03/09/2024
“marvin gaye’s clueless ass”
screenshot of someone’s spotify playlist titled “marvin gaye’s clueless ass.” songs include “what’s going on,” “what’s happening brother,” “when did you stop loving me,” “where are we going,” “i don’t know why,” and “why did i choose you”
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Wasonceloved @wasonceloved.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Love it.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
This is now verging on the criminal. Thames Water has racked up £15 billion in debt while dumping sewage in water courses and ramping up payments to directors and shareholders. The absolute failure of privatisation.
Chart showing Thames Water’s rapidly rising debt since privatisation
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David @kotfw.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Had to repost this again
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Kyle McCowin @cortjstr.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
1980 - about 20 years ago 1990 - about 10 years ago 2000 - about 10 years ago 2010 - a couple years ago 2016 - 87 years ago 2019–2023 - last year
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Roger The Dodger @rogerthedodger.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
This is brilliant 😉
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
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Roger The Dodger @rogerthedodger.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Thinking about #dogs 🤔 (Source: Private Eye magazine / Cordell)
Cartoon. Two dogs sitting at a bar with beer glasses.
"This country's going to the cats"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & The British Heart Foundation in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️ 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES! Let’s make it a million!🙏 www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
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David @kotfw.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
I don’t post much at the minute, I also don’t want to live in an echo chamber. But there is only so much nonsense I can take. This was why I haven’t been on any social media for over 5 years. So far I’m liking this place.
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