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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: Not Everything Has Two Sides The PM said the security services told him Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. The BBC found a pro-Brexit lobby group to rebut things he never said. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/not…

A noir illustration of a dim broadcast studio. Under a single red-tinted light, a set of brass scales hangs perfectly level: one pan holds a thick government dossier tied with red string and sealed with red wax, the other a battered megaphone. A television camera on a tripod watches from the shadows.

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Snowy. @snowy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need so much more of this.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

True 😩😆😂

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse

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Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mission statement: I make beautiful &/or silly things to spread JOY It’s my birthday on Saturday so I’d be really grateful if you’d share this in accordance with the scriptures! FANKS x Art Artofnote.sumupstore.com Greetings Dippyfishcards.etsy.com Misc and Tips ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop #bsnm

Badass wee vamp - available as a card or print at Dippyfishcards.etsy.com

Sing when you’re winning - a Robin pebble portrait with REAL GOLD BITS available on artofnote.sumupstore.com

Cake by the ocean, a Cornwall coast abstract piece from my 2025 St Ives series - available at artofnote.sumupstore.com

Lovebirds - on a Land of Smiles score page - Art of Note series print - original in honour of my late mum. Available at artofnote.sumupstore.com

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Fr. Cannabranna Lammer. @drraulduke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gather round, children. In the year 2022 the Old Empire fell. A mad emperor seized the throne, renamed the realm after a single letter, and made his horse a verified account. The legions fled west across the sea, to a land of blue butterflies.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Marchioness @marquessofailsa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a ban edible: Is this cheating? The Cranberries

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"If there there was a window it was not broken, but it if was broken it was not by Nigel Farage's ball, but if it was his ball he certainly did not kick it, and if he did kick it, it was an accident and he knew nothing about it" said a Reform spokesperson.

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Matt Rees @chalfie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Not here to fuck spiders" is my favourite new phrase.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They've been to Hull and back

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Marchioness @marquessofailsa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

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Stand By Me Boys on Train Tracks

Alt: Stand By Me Boys on Train Tracks

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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Count Binface Announcement, please share

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258 Please share. TY x

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The Phantom of the Mead Hall Bard @themeadhallbard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The problem with rare diseases is that they don't get the funding and attention. But the impact can still be devastating. So, yes, I'm unashamedly seeking publicity for this one.

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Reposting with alt text because it's really good stuff

Three extremely grumpy looking fluffy black and white kittens. Text alongside posted by Mansfield Cat Rescue:

It appears we've once again acquired a collection of feral kittens who have absolutely no idea they're only 500g and look like they've been assembled from fluff and bad decisions.
So, we're looking for feral kitten fosterers.

Requirements include:
• Being shouted at by something smaller than your slipper.
• Accepting that every meal is apparently a hostage negotiation.
• Remaining calm while a kitten with all the physical presence of a teabag attempts to convince you it's a tiger.
• Not expecting "thank you" from tiny individuals whose only hobbies are hissing, glaring and committing crimes against your hands.

These kittens arrive with all the social graces of a drunk bloke outside Wetherspoons at closing time. Your job is simply to convince them that people aren't, in fact, the enemy.

It takes patience, a sense of humour, and the ability to ignore being judged by someone who only learned to use a litter tray last Tuesday.

The payoff? Watching a tiny, furious gremlin gradually realise that chin scratches, warm beds and regular meals are actually rather lovely, before heading off to a forever home as a completely different cat.

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Marchioness @marquessofailsa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hope this isn't you, @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social - I like to think you're better at hiding your stash* *unless this is your contribution to scraps and scrapings...

Picture of a tree in geass baked brown by the sun with a pile of assorted nuts, including walnuts and hazelnuts, sounded round it's base.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Mornin’. It’s hot out there so gonna repeat this one regarding #bees #wildlife and #water. Please #repost. Thanks! BEES NEED WATER! BEES GET STUCK IN AND DIE IN WATER! Here’s what you need to know! Given that they can collect water, their nectar based diet and their ability to generate… 1/11

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Birds shop looking quite nice I think. Surely I’m on the cusp of a lil sale www.chloecumming.com/birds

A grid of bird drawings. Some colourful, some fanciful

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Oliver 💙 @oliverniko.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's my birthday today! I have heard I can ask for reposts of my art, should you wish. 💙

Raven from Fire Emblem is a young, muscular light-skinned man with spiky, layered red hair. He wears a blue tunic over white trousers, brown belts/boots and blue toned armour with gold embellishments. He stands with a sword raised above his head, light hitting him dramatically. Lucius, a young, slim feminine light-skinned man with long blond hair, knees next to him in blue robes with a beige sash holding onto his body. He glows in a heavenly light. A broken staff lays nearby. The background is a dark forest, light cast only on the pair.

A digital, softly painted piece of two Welsh lesbians dressed in traditional attire relax together in a field of daffodils. One reads a book as she lays a limb difference on her adoring partner looking up at her, laid in her lap. The laid down woman strokes a Calico kitten's head. The two are hit with soft, warm sunlight.

A loose soft pastel drawing of a long haired grey cat. It looks upwards, its face hit with a warm light that streams upwards, with long white whiskers. Golden light illuminates the chin.

A softly painted pastel piece featuring a sitting tabby cat. She is hit with a golden glowing light from above and behind, with purple midtones and cool toned green shadows. She has an ethereal feel to her.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has a massive problem with women, and @carolvorders.bsky.social helped expose exactly how deep it runs. No wonder they’re furious - she made them look small, cowardly and contemptuous.

bearlypolitics.co.uk

Sunday Long Read: Carol Vorderman Made Reform Look Small

One by-election exposed a wider pattern: contempt dressed as banter, grievance dressed as common sense, and "protection" offered without rights.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I did a little Tawny Owl

Watercolour and ink owl in warm vibrant reddish browns

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Annatomix @annatomix.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Home Sweet Home Cut, layered and painted wood sculpture, mounted in an 80yr old tool box with original hardware. 17 x 34 x 8 cm

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Costa Rica Kid @zymplex.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Why it’s time for Democratic socialism!

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Well, here's the page where we're selling them. If you change poettee in the address to poettea, you find where the mugs are being sold 🤣 bristolslocalartists.org/shop/poettee/

bristolslocalartists.org

PoetTee - Bristol’s Local Artists

PoetTee is a brand owned by CJK Digital, putting quotes from poems onto t-shirts with graphics designed by their own graphic designers..

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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗 So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old! @55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius

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Marchioness @marquessofailsa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As lovely and spectacular as that thunder and lightning storm was, it made the poor pooch crap and piss herself twice, so it can fuck right off...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

on a similar tip, a welcoming and inclusive pub here in Edinburgh once found that someone had graffitied "GAYZ ONLEY" across their exterior, presumably upset about this aspect of their business. So the pub of course had a sign made, and rebrand themselves as that every June for pride month

a screenshot from google streetview, showing a pub with a sign reading "GAYZ ONLEY". There is a progress pride flag in one window, and a trans flag in the other

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 23/06/2026

the one pride billboard in southern manitoba (rural bible belt region, one of the towns only just had their first-ever pride march last week) was vandalized a few days ago, so they made tshirts of it. lmfao gettem

a billboard of a rainbow that says "pride belongs in the pembina valley" with spray paint scribbled all over it. kinda made it look cooler tbh they didn't do a great job

the same defaced rainbow on a black tshirt. text: "you can't spray the gay away" (pembina valley pride)

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 23/06/2026

just on the off-chance, sharing the link to their shop here www.pembinavalleypride.ca/shop

pembinavalleypride.ca

Store — Pembina Valley Pride

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Johnny Nice Painter @ Eurosky! @johnnynicepainter.eurosky.social · 21/06/2026

Suggestion: at the #WorldCup all national anthems should be replaced with whatever song topped the chart in that country on the same day in 1986.

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Paula Hogan @capecodlady88.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

An Irish blessing… ☘️ "May those who love us, love us.And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts.And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles,So we'll know them by their limping."

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On legitimising yet another pogrom.

Some prefer to step two degrees away from the above conclusion, blaming the violence not on one discrete crime, but rather on long-simmering discontent about “unfettered immigration”, to use the words offered by loyalist MP Jim Allister, in the wake of last year’s Ballymena riots. Such riots are appalling, the argument goes, but their anger reflects a legitimate concern; that immigration has simply gone too far.

Again, we risk demeaning ourselves by pointing out that rates of migration into Northern Ireland have never been connected to any rise in crime, and represent a tremendous benefit to the economy, from workers in hospitality and agri-business sectors to manufacturing and academia. Migrants are most beneficial in the health and care sectors, with 22 per cent of carers in the state coming from outside the UK and Ireland, without whom Tracey Reid, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council, says the sector “could not survive”. Such statistics are, of course, broadly similar throughout the UK and Ireland, and were regarded as truisms until it became seemingly gauche for any prominent newspaper or politician to repeat them, in favour of contorting gymnastically to flatter the perceptions and prejudices of those who just hate migrants for entirely racist reasons. No matter how much they contribute to society, and no matter how few of them there are.

A compelling argument that this is the case can be found in the demographics of Northern Ireland itself. Its current population is just shy of two million. According to the most recent figures available, net migration in the state between 2001 and 2023 amounted to around 62,000 people, including less than 2,400 refugees in secure accommodation. Ballymena, which until this week had been the most prominent site of anti-immigrant violence in the state, sits in the Mid and East Antrim council area, which has seen fewer than 5,000 international migrants settle there this century. Only 3 per cent of Northern Ireland’s population belong to any ethnic minority at all.

For those of us who find the constant discussion of “the immigration problem” dehumanising and dishonest in any context, it’s revealing to see it deployed in places where immigration barely exists, not least for what it might suggest about such legitimate concerns everywhere else. We are left to presume that any number of non-white faces, no matter how few, is a salient enough horror for locals that their concerns become legitimised automatically. Even one, it would seem, is one too many.

Most confusing of all has been the near-total absence of any context regarding who, exactly, is committing all this violence. The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist gangs is particularly odd, given that such groups are fond of signing their work. The LVF, and associated gangs, have for decades sprayed their tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, economic migrants or refugees. Even now their graffiti proudly adorns walls and estates, demanding they be reserved for “locals only”. I’m old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the specially modified home of a severely disabled child because his family was insufficiently Protestant. I’m old enough to remember it because it happened less than two years ago.

When loyalist gangs burned Catholic families out of their homes in past years, there were few stern and sombre pleas that we should understand the arsonists’ concerns. Nor was there a reflexive jolt to place such acts in a context the perpetrators themselves might have liked, perhaps by drawing direct links between their violent acts and the existence of alleged crimes committed by disconnected Catholics many miles away. That this same logic is no longer applied to vast acts of violence against dozens of non-white people of all nationalities in Belfast, purportedly due to the actions of a single man from Sudan, is as preposterous as it is repulsive.

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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

HE's SUCH a patriot... For other countries...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable. Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities. Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A reminder that Infantino said in 2017 that all qualified teams, their fans and officials, need to have access to a host country, otherwise it can't host. There are already numerous (predictable) US visa issues with the World Cup about to kick off and likely more to come.

Infantino was asked about the issue at the time and responded clearly, saying that if teams and supporters couldn’t access a country, there would be no World Cup there.

“We are now in the process of defining the bid requirements,” Infantino said in 2017. “In the world, there are many countries that have bans, travel bans, visa requirements and so on and so forth.

“It’s obvious when it comes to Fifa competitions, that any team — including the supporters and officials of that team — who qualify for a World Cup, need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup.

“The requirements will be clear. And then each country can make up their decision, whether they want to bid or not, based on the requirements.”

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

All referees should refuse to officiate at the World Cup until he's reinstated.

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