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That’s fair enough and they are great points So thank you

Sorry I was being a touch facetious Having driven over both, there is a difference I have cycled over Mont Cassel, mind, but that’s more a Flemish berg than a pavé in the Roubaix area

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 5h

"This is deeply irresponsible from a Labour government" Zack Polanski speaks to The National about Labour's approval of new gas drilling.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

What does Kemi Badenoch think the level of immigration should be? Is everybody in the media & politics going to act surprised when the year to June 2026 statistic (on Nov 26th) falls below net 100k for first time this century Best estimate of net migration *now* (4th Q 2026) is zero, or negative

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 3h

Get used to it? It should be in his DNA as a Flandrian

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 19/10/2026

A dramatic image of protesters throwing fireworks and waving Palestinian flags outside the Eiffel Tower has been shared widely online. But it’s not real—it was made with AI. Read our fact check to find out how we can tell 👇

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Viral image of protesters waving Palestinian flags outside the Eiffel Tower is AI-generated – Full Fact

A widely shared image showing protesters with fireworks and Palestinian flags outside the Eiffel Tower isn’t real. It contains an invisible SynthID watermark and there are several visual glitches.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 20/10/2026

You might have seen a video of Palestinian and Jordanian flags being flown from the top of the Eiffel Tower recently. But, this clip was generated with AI and there’s no evidence it shows a real event. Read our check here 👇

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Video of Palestine and Jordan flags flying from top of Eiffel Tower is AI-generated – Full Fact

Footage appearing to show the Palestinian and Jordanian flags flying from the Eiffel Tower contains visual inconsistencies indicating it was created or edited using artificial intelligence.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 5h

Have you seen this image of an elderly French couple in their underwear being shared online with claims they were stripped and robbed during the recent riots in France? It’s AI and there are no official reports confirming the attack. fullfact.org/world/photo-...

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 3h

Niet hier in Londen

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French metrological site down due to potential of its sites being hacked through PHP vulnerabilities

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

My colleague @sianberry.bsky.social is spot on. I know many Labour MPs know the Home Secretary's plans on indefinite leave to remain are cruel and unfair. Now is the time for decent MPs to stand up.

The Green MP Siân Berry has welcomed Miatta Fahnbulleh’s decision not to endorse the home secretary’s plan to make migrant workers wait much longer for indefinite leave to remain. (See 10.44am.) But she urged Fahnbulleh to go further, and to also speak out about separate plans in the immigration and asylum bill. The bill, which is going through the Commons, will tighten various aspects of asylum law, including by allowing the Home Office to recover from some refugees money spent by the state housing them while their asylum claim was considered.

Berry said:

This Reform-inspired bill is a legacy of Keir Starmer’s leadership that will harm communities who want to welcome and support refugees, penalise desperate people for needing support, split up already war-torn families, and force people needing asylum here to live in a state of instability and poverty for decades.

I urge Miatta and her colleagues to do the right thing, and speak up more strongly and sooner against these plans, so we can together force our new prime minister to drop this awful bill.

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 4h

#20Novembre #20November Anyone know anything about this

Poster headed Gen Z Revolution with a list of cities across Europe

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 4h

How easily the initial attack in SE London was ignored because it didn’t fit the narrative

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 4h

Calais and Le Touquet to feature in next year’s TdFF Full course to be unveiled tomorrow

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Ciclismo Explosivo @ciclismoexplosivo.bsky.social · 6h

Está semana volveremos a recordar la carrera, de otro ciclista que dedicó la mayoría de su vida deportiva a sus equipos, está vez hablaremos de Manuel "Triki" Beltrán, Atentos. #bicicleta #deporte #cycling #ciclismo #ciclista

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Darrell @7daz3.bsky.social · 5h

Today is Trafalgar day. Click on the link to find how how news of the battle was delivered to the admiralty open.substack.com/pub/talesofh...

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The Trafalgar way - delivering the news to a waiting nation

The battle of Trafalgar, possibly the most well known and famous English naval battle took place on 21st October 1805.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6h

We've been consistent on no new oil and gas from day one. Unlike Labour.

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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 9h

Paris - Brest... Paris or the subtle association of a famous French pastry and a famous cycling race By Tatsuya Tanaka 📸🚲🍩

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 7h

Doing this the day you announce the end of BBC Scotland TV broadcast is a bit on the nose.

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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 8h

Closing R4 Extra is performative nonsense. No radio should be in danger: the production costs are miniscule and the savings near to pointless. I know the evolution of the BBC is inevitable, but the things to keep going are the things tha optimise use of the archive, no?

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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 8h

France: 50,000 bicycles in 1890, 10 years later there were a million 🚲♾️📈

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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 8h

The *only way* that Labour could have justified Jackdaw as being immediately necessary but still possible within the journey to zero emissions would have been to *simultaneously* announce a reduction of the total amount of carbon emissions produced by the UK by significantly more than it added.

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Aylesbury Vale Dynamos FC @valedynamos.bsky.social · 8h

Keep an eye on our socials over the next few days for Saturday. It’s raining a little bit in the Vale 🟡🔵

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Baby Boy Enjoys Rain with Umbrella

ALT: Baby Boy Enjoys Rain with Umbrella

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 8h

Foodbanks did not exist 20 years ago. We had better worker protections; a functioning social security system; no Air BnBs hoovering up flats; zero hour contracts did not exist; and, years before, student grants. It does not have to be this way. In a wealthy nation, poverty is a political choice.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8h

"I have never seen justice" | Aberfan survivors, 60 years on from the disaster #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBtm5GNlnA

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Aberfan survivors: 60 years on

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 11h

While today marks 60 years since a coal tip landslide claimed the lives of 116 schoolchildren and 28 adults in Aberfan, the disaster lives on not just in public memory, but through the very real risk of landslides in south Wales ✍️Deb Luxton

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60 years after Aberfan, landslide victims still can’t return home

Deb Luxon “I never thought my daughter would hear the same sound the Aberfan children heard that day,” said Tina Honeyfield, standing in her gutted Cwmtyleri living room. While this week marks 60 year...

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Paul Singh 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @paulsingh.bsky.social · 11h

It’s actually not that shocking - what do you expect when you get racism on both the left & right, when you get racist rhetoric being used by politicians, when you get racist language being used by news organisations www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

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Actor describes 'abysmal racism and homophobia' he faced in Chichester

An assault on a cast member of a play in Chichester was "just the tip of the iceberg" of the "racism, xenophobia and homophobia" the cast faced in the town, an actor has claimed.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12h

Jackdaw is climate vandalism. Labour are putting Shell's profits before people and planet.

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Rob Whittle @polkadotrob.bsky.social · 11h

Morning all. Great sky and Lola’s here!😀 (She’s not sulking - she always sits like that.)

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 11h

60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster today: perhaps the most horrific UK event in living memory. A couple of weeks later the river Arno overflowed and caused devastating floods in Florence: the Aberfan parents packaged many of the remaining toys and clothes and sent them to families there.

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The Florence Flood of November 1966

‘So much fear, desperation, ruin, tears … Florence, my dear beautiful Florence, no longer exists’. Loredana Valmori Philip Cooke’s talk is on an unprecedented natural and cultural disaster – the great...

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 12h

The Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 11h

This is truly pathetic from Ministers. Labour’s claim to more than 27 new Jackdaw jobs doesn’t hold up. The green economy is >£100bn a year and growing fast. There is no future in fossil fuels. The Government knows this, but chooses profit for Shell over protecting our climate.

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 11h

Unthinkable that Labour has doubled down on fossil fuels by approving Jackdaw – a total betrayal of future generations & contradiction of govts own climate goals. The science is clear: the only way to secure a prosperous future in the face of climate breakdown is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

I can’t remember what type of train it was. It’s astonishing there is no decent service except from Berlin to Prague. I took the Budapest to Berlin (E) service back then overnight. Not comfortable but only £4 from the Czechoslovak/Hungarian border as it was then

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

A month ago or less I was helping someone who wanted to do a day trip from München to Prag/Pilsen and was astonished you couldn’t seem to do it I remember going from Würzburg to Prag in 1990 by train direct. And I’ve done the Prag-Berlin via Dresden in 1987. Is there that little connectivity?

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Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 20/10/2026

Cycling - zero ticketing revenue since 1867

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Tim Bonville-Ginn @timbonvilleginn.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Tour of Norway 🇳🇴 continues to struggle for funds as they look towards hopefully calendar return in 2027.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

So the corollary of Rubio's claim that there's nothing underhand here, is his suggestion that the US is running out of weaponry, which of course Trump has repeatedly denied. All roads lead down an American cul-de-sac.

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Tim Bonville-Ginn @timbonvilleginn.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Who have been your top 10 breakthrough riders of 2026 across both men and women? I've picked who I think have really stood out with some riders flourishing after a fre years at WT and some exploding onto the scene with pure talent. Plus a super cool graphic too!! veloracycling.com/features/bre...

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Who have been the top 10 breakthrough pro cyclists of the 2026 season?

Discover the 10 breakthrough cyclists of 2026, led by Paula Blasi after her Amstel Gold Race and Vuelta Femenina victories.

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Alberta wants to be Canadian Referendum result latest

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

The Energy Secretary says North Sea drilling “won’t take a penny off energy bills.” The Health Secretary says summer heatwaves put pressure on the NHS. So where’s the Government’s impact assessment? If they don’t have one, they should delay the decision on drilling for oil & gas until they do.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Much easier to blame foreign actors than identify and address the domestic conditions that resulted in this level of violence.

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Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

When the right wing proclaim their support for Jewish people globally, remember it’s a fake veneer. There’s always antisemitism lurking just below that cheap veneer

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Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

As a formerly Esslingen-adjacent individual, the statue (commemorating a famous folk tale) is getting much of its outrage from the villages above the city. Those villages have, let us just say, a reputation. Some days it's 2026 up there in the Schurwald. Some days it's 1626.

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