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Lea Roydon

@learoydon.bsky.social
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Ecologist by profession, eclectic by nature. I'm a proud humanist and liberal. I'm interested in conversations about nature, literature, music, comedy, philosophy light, history, and non party politics.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/05/2025
🎶Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses🎶
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
When AI-generated fascism comes to America, it will be accompanied by the flag and missing a little finger.
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I read this five times over for the sheer joy of the famous #MarinaHyde sentence construction and the heavenly burns she delivers. @theguardian.com ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 #ReformUK #Jenkyns #Farage
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Australia you beauty www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
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Australia federal election live: PM Albanese hails 'vote for Australian values' after landslide election win
Anthony Albanese's left-leaning Labor Party has won an outright majority in parliament, according to the latest counting
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Don't you love it when your favourite podcast goes through every topic you've just discussed with your partner while saying 'why does nobody talk about this'? Also, glad that @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com is back on the show again! @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/71xU...
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Hair Cult 100: Trump’s crappy century
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Let's not go the American way!!! #TacticalVote #LocalElection #UkElection #StopFarage #StopTheFascists tacticalvote.co.uk
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How To Vote To Stop The Tories
This site shows which way you should vote to stop the Tories from getting into power again
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Oh, wow...How was this written in 1909? Incredible. The prescience of so many writers from the turn of the 20th century never ceases to amaze me. Especially because many people don't think about this stuff even now! #BookSky #Books #E.M.Forster #Sci-Fi #Dystopia #AI #Reading
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/04/2025
"'The Trump administration is rewriting some of history and making covid-19 out to be a political event rather than a biological event that happened.'" ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social on the administration's "Lab Leak" webpage: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-turn...
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Trump Turns COVID.gov into MAGA Fan Service
It used to provide medical information. Now it’s just Fauci hate and lab leak theories.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
President Macron refused to shake demonic Trump's little hand at the Pope's funeral. Showed solidarity with Ukraine and President Zelenskyy.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/04/2025
I love talking to Sarah Longwell www.thebulwark.com/p/nothing-is...
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Nothing is True, Everything is Possible (with Anne Applebaum)
Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have been marked by a lot of aspiring autocratic behavior—like deporting a legal resident without due process, targeting his political enemies, to walking right...
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Highly recommend this to everyone who's wishing that #Trump dies and thinks that'll be the end of it. It's much bigger than that. And I imagine Project 2025 would go on even more smoothly with someone like #Vance as a President. Great job @bunkerpod.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4W9K...
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Project 2025 – What's coming next from the new 'deep state'?
The Bunker · Episode
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/04/2025
Wow. China just called out the Trump administration for blatantly lying about the existence of any ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and China.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How was this show made in 2019 and how did I miss it? Incredibly prescient! Did you talk about it in The Rest is Entertainment, @richardosman1.bsky.social?
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Tom Morello @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It’s THEATRICAL THURSDAYS! Each week, a new film to watch, ponder, and discuss. Today’s recommendation is THE MOON IS DOWN, the 1943 film adaptation of the John Steinbeck book. When Fascism comes suddenly to a small town people find out who they really are and what they’re really made of.
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Yes... You're not exeptional, #USA.... You've elected a real life dictator who was clear about his intentions from day 1... youtu.be/JN1oBfg0fwI?...
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The Emergency Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
My boy 🤩
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Europeans watching Americans being shocked every day by #Trump and #Musk behaving like dictators... #Maga #Totalitarianism #Fascism #RipUSA
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is an absolute gem! #HannahArendt #reading #politics #Thought open.spotify.com/episode/5j4p...
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Eichmann In Jerusalem: The House Of Justice
Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz · Episode
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
By "free speech," the Americans mean creating a media environment in your country dominated by American digital fascism preparatory to right-wing regime change. Vance essentially said as much in Munich. Give in now, forget about sovereignty later. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal
‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but sources say his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Absolute legend! #SlavojZizek youtu.be/1CS7EoRMhfs?... #Trump #Vance #USA #MAGA
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Slavoj Žižek: Trump is a liberal fetish
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My friend's been creative ☺️
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/04/2025
'That's all, folks...' Excellent work by Peter Schrank for The Times. 👏
A cartoon in the style of Looney Tunes, using the iconic frame of wile e coyote running off a cliff. But instead of wile e coyote, it's Donald Trump who has run off the cliff and he's holding a globe that's in the shape of a bomb.
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J Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Nero POS!
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Tesla Takedown UK @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
One thing you can do today to help stop Elon Musk? Write to @octopus.energy and get them to stop leasing Teslas: templates and CEO email address here: www.teslatakedown.co.uk/about-5
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Octopus | Tesla Takedown
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Sounds familiar...? Communist or not, dictatorships are all alike... Vaclav Havel, On the Theme of an Opposition, 1968 #Trump #USA #GOP #Republicans #Musk
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It got warm in March, I lost control of my senses, walked around underdressed, got sunburnt and then got annihilated by freezing winds on the coast. Can I get my citizenship now? 🇬🇧 🇬🇧⌚⌚ #English #British #Gammon
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Our little tool is very clever because it sends your email to your MP directly from your own email client. Please do remind yours that we (& the EU) can reduce the impact of tariffs through 🇬🇧🇪🇺 alignment www.hey-mp.uk
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Hey MP! 🙋 from Best for Britain
Reach out to your MP quickly and easily.
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Indeed, expand your thinking #America. Read books, read @theatlantic.com and @anneapplebaum.bsky.social specifically. And learn some bloody history, for crying out loud...! #reading #history #usa #Trump youtu.be/OXkG8Kqxhwk?...
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Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum discuss the Signal group chat | New Orleans Book Festival
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/03/2025
This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban. May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
People are taking things into their own hands
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Loved the latest episode of @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social and really glad that @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com is back as I missed her quibs (still laughing at the left endlessly analysing the right, and the right just saying 'Look at these Jews!' That was spot on!) open.spotify.com/episode/0lVE...
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Budget: The Grim Rachel – plus Hegseth’s WhiskeyLeaks
Oh God, What Now? · Episode
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/03/2025
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
A picture of Vladimir Putin holding his phone
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Marina Hyde, the queen of burns and the the definition of cool 😎 (cough! @richardosman1.bsky.social ) #Trump #Musk #USA #Maga www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump: the president making anywhere but America great again | Marina Hyde
The US stock market is spooked and his henchmogul’s companies are floundering. Has the great dealmaker been building up … the wrong nation, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Souds familiar? The right just follows the whine pattern of flipping out when someone dares to crticise anything they do @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social #VaclavHavel, Evasive Thinking 1965 (Open Letters). #Trump #Musk #RipUsa #Dictatorship #Resist #SpeakTheTruth
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What a shit show. And of course Truss retweeted it with some gibberish nonsense about a leftists conspiracy. What a strange world we live in. It's like being on psychedelics. But not in a good way...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Nigel Farage is once again serving the people of Clacton by travelling 4,000 miles to raise money for a Fascist moron.
Headline says nigel farage is to speak at a fundraiser for donald trump, having now done 800 hours of work not related to being an mp.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/03/2025
Britain’s antiquated voting system is feeling the strain. Could Nigel Farage’s march on Westminster politics build unbearable pressure for change?
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How Nigel Farage could smash open Britain’s electoral system
He’s an unlikely pin-up for electoral reform campaigners — but a 2029 surge that’s not matched by House of Commons seats could see Farage turn up the heat on a “rigged” system.
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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What perfect albums came out when you were 16?
The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs cover artThe Cult, Electric album artSonic Youth, Sister cover artRed Hot Chili Peppers, Uplift Mofo Party Plan cover art
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
👀 We just surprised Tesla London with a special anti-fascist product launch. They hated it ☹️
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Czechs appeal for EU help with Radio Free Europe after Trump cuts
The US president signed an executive order on Friday to stop funding the American global broadcaster, following criticism from Elon Musk.
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
As an EU national, I absolutely agree with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com that we need to hear more about Europe in our news. Never understood why we have to hear about every fart that comes from America but be kept completely ignorant about countries on our continent...
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#JDVance as a child? #Resist #Trump #Vance #Musk #RageAgaintsTheMachine
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Craig Faanes @craigfaanes.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Lea Roydon @learoydon.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This just made my day...
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