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Martin Dean

@martinddean.bsky.social
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Rhinos Cricket & stuff. Bloke with own views

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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Anyone spoken to @southleedslife.bsky.social or West Leeds Dispatch? There are long standing Leeds groups in this space
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
My grandad was a member of Antifa, at Arnhem in Sept 1944 www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump to sign order designating antifa a terrorist organization
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order as soon as Monday designating the antifa movement a "terrorist organization," the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The UK is welcoming Donald Trump, hope he see's it.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It seems unlikely that the richest men in the world are so worried about footing the bill for decent regulation of the online space that they’ve signed up pliant politicians to invent a non-existent ‘free speech crisis’. Until you remember just how greedy you have to be to become that rich…
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
You too can read this garbage. The bloke incited violence. He is free to do it but not without consequence archive.ph/rAheD
archive.ph
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
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Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pilargomez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I see Reform are playing the hurt victim again. Apparently they can say the most outrageous things about anyone including whipping up hate against a whole group of people on the basis of their immigration status but can’t bear to hear that their leader is a Putin apologists.
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God @thegodshow.com · 15/08/2025
Bless these Alaskans!
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I am not supporting them. But designating them terrorist is nuts
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Isn't motivation a mitigating factor. In cases of vandalism eg of coal trains, juries found climate activists not guilty because their motive mitigated their action.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
You have failed to construct any argument to support your pov. Just rudeness. My position is perfectly sensible. The phrase terrorism should be reserved for terrorism. Not peaceful direct action. Not vandalism, not non lethal violence.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Blowing up buildings was what that was drafted to mean. Not vandalism
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Wrong. I very much am not alright with it. Those actions are criminal and should be dealt with by the courts They are not terrorism. Your attempt to say it's terrorism or nothing is wrong
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The first part is way too broad
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
They did not have the objective of killing people. Terrorism should be reserved for that. If they committed other offences they can be appropriately charged
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Climate denier buffoon gets a reality check - his damage already done. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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British farmers face ‘catastrophic’ harvest, warns Jeremy Clarkson
Former Top Gear host says a lack of rainfall is severely affecting UK crops
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Physical attacks are not terrorism "six people aged 20-30 years old were arrested on suspicion of a range of offences including Section 18 wounding with intent, aggravated burglary, burglary and criminal damage."
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Idiotic. Being a terrorist means trying to kill people. Anything else is a dilution of the phrase
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
six people aged 20-30 years old were arrested on suspicion of a range of offences including Section 18 wounding with intent, aggravated burglary, burglary and criminal damage. Not terrorists
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Front Page of the Day: He will not be deterred. #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Just sayin’
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
But is that most effective for service organisation? If the pop is low, you will lose economies of scale. No reason why a single authority cannot have multi site delivery under an efficient management structure.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
That last point was so true at Headingley. Including just going out to play as soon as the ground was fit, not announcing a start time in 15 minutes.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Wow what a sad aggressive person you are. 3 opportunities to send me to an informative article, not taken. Goodbye
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Interesting because the point about vpns came from an article by the guardians technology correspondent. Ie the id checker could be honest and the vpn not. You clearly have no idea how the various techs work. I would like to find out to make a proper asessment
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Twelve men have been charged with child sex offences. I’m sure all the ‘concerned parents’ will be out in force any time now. Unless there’s something… different about these perverts..?
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Threat
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
No idea what you are talking about. Yoti is GB based and covered by gdpr I have asked multiple times for direction to analysis of issues with estimation but answer came none. There is a treat that vpns will sell or use logs, so no free pass
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Complete tosh
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Very poor article. No analysis of why the far right owned Twitter has chosen to require age verification way beyond the scope required, as what seems a deliberate strategy.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
213 square miles (551 km 2)
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Leeds is 800k and works fine.
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Sean1965#bluecrew @seamus1965.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Farage wants him locked up for life.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Who are "the residents" in this article. Why would they have the right to stop adults who want to gamble? Residents is usually code for tiny no's who respond to planning apps. Not adverse to stronger controls on multiple outlets for councils.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is England!
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Well played England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/07/2025
imagine telling the columnists who wanted to send in the army on some inner-London kids in 2011 that fifteen years on they'd actually be pro-riots
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Maybe they need to read the bible
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Or just don't use the ai tool
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Only the speccie could describe a far right reform type as a local mum
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Fascinating BBC story about Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying a local street is blighted by immigrations living in shared accommodation, only for locals to suggest this is bollocks. Political lesson: take on church wardens and sensible pensioners at your peril. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MP's claims about street problems anger residentsBut an open letter written by the warden of St Michael and All Angels church, Robert Littler, claimed Pochin was trying to fulfil a "personal agenda".

Mr Littler, who has lived in the street for 30 years, accused the MP of "scaremongering and hate-stirring and talking down a town which you were elected to represent".He added: "My own daughters, aged 27, 20 and 18 respectively, walk our family dog at all hours of the night and feel very safe."

Mr Littler said the HMOs had existed for years, housing many types of people, "mostly white British".

He suggested Pochin could not know if there were any illegal immigrants in the properties unless she asked for their documentation.

Lynne Delaney, 74, who has lived on Greenway Road for nearly 40 years, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service, external Pochin did not speak for her.

"The only anti-social behaviour I've witnessed is high-spirited teenagers who tend to grow out of it," she said.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Proscribe the Spectator
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
@polcurrency.bsky.social the second test is at Edgbaston lads. AI nil. Wisden 1 www.wisden.com/series/world...
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ENG vs IND, 2nd Test, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Jul 02, 2025, Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, 2025 | Scorecard, Live Score, Ball-By-Ball Commentary And Results | India tour of England, 2025
Get live match score : England vs India match scorecard. Read all cricket news and updates on Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, 2025 on Wisden
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Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @acscricket.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
RIP David ‘Syd’ Lawrence. He played 5 Test matches for England taking 18 wickets at 37.55. In all first class games he took 515 wickets at 32.07. In List A cricket he took 155 wickets at 26.43. He also played in one ODI taking 4 wickets at an average of 16.75. #cricketcounts
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This is long overdue, and welcome. Council funding has been slashed overall - but as well as more, it also needs to be rebalanced to focus on need ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Labour to shift council funding towards poorer areas
Ministers say current funding rules fail to account for higher service costs in more deprived places.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Beautifully poised at Headingley
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
From today, it’s Sir Sadiq Khan to you Reform UK bellends. 😂
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The Advonet Group @advonetuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
There are just a few spaces left at our free #SelfAdvocacy event on Friday! Learn how to empower people and communities by helping them to speak up for themselves and their rights, as well as how to use self-advocacy resources. To book a free place, please visit tinyurl.com/empowermentsa
An invite to our Self-Advocacy event on Friday 13th June 2025.
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Martin Dean @martinddean.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is such garbage I can't be arsed to feed it into archive
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