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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not to mention they frequently are the target of thieves.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I had to smile when I saw this in the new game expansion:
Image of a rogue, standing in front of assorted lock-picking items, fel books and poison vials. The NPC is called Thiel, and his title is <Shady Dealer>
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
From the BBC reports, many locals in her area are actually welcoming her move... /sigh Labour need to realise that (a) they need to get a move on sorting out the Economy & taxing the rich who broke it instead of penny-pinching from the poor (b) they're not going to win next election if they don't.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I am so glad I didn't choose to move to Fareham... having a Conservative MP is bad enough, but Reform? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot from an email "P.S. Today’s news that former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK is yet another signal of how Farage is building his party. Not by unveiling new, fresh faces or experts with something to offer the country, but by hoovering up high-profile, disgraced Conservatives politicians with a track record to be ashamed of."
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Do you still think we live in a Democracy?
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Come to Greenland and see the Northern Lights From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Term of the decade? "water bankruptcy" – a state in which long-term water use exceeds resupply and damages nature so severely that previous levels cannot realistically be restored. www.sciencealert.com/world-now-in...
sciencealert.com
World Now in a State of 'Global Water Bankruptcy', New UN Report Warns
The world is entering an era of "global water bankruptcy" with rivers, lakes, and aquifers depleting faster than nature can replenish them, a United Nations research institute said on Tuesday.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Edit: the name of the spreadsheet, looking carefully at the top right, is "Deo".
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
As this is someone else's image. Alt text for those who need it. The image shows many rows and columns of an Excel spreadsheet. Each cell contains one word: "Gloria"
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas Everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXx_...
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I did. www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-kn... violent assaults www.visaverge.com/news/charlot... 44 out of 425 arrests ground.news/article/ice-... 75,000 with NO criminal record
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! downthetubes.net/merry-christmas-an…
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
What happens when people are better at "computers" than the authorities. PS have you seen the video about the Belgian Election, Cosmic Rays and their ability to randomly change 2 to the power of 12 from 0 to 1? (tldr: tallies always need a form of double entry bookkeeping).
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This could have been written about him (particularly the decade it was written): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZm...
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Carly Simon - You're So Vain
YouTube video by Carly Simon
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I was thinking mainly about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_I...
Screenshot of 2 paragraphs from the linked Wikipedia page, starting "In March 2009, the Trump Organization had asked the Council to use its powers of compulsory purchase to acquire some areas of land at Balmedie..."
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Jenn🦋Anne💙Miller😷 @jennannemiller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It's not too late! Days left to #MakeAChildsHoliday ! Please make some time to cleanout your kid's closet and toy chest to donate Before Christmas! You can make someone's holiday!! 💖 #Donate #FallCleanout #ContributeToAKidsChristmas
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Labour do seem to have quite a few good ideas. However they're crap at publicising them, and, in some cases, swayed by big businesses to water them down too far to be effective! For instance, I learnt yesterday that late payments to small businesses from large ones *may* attract mandatory interest
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Good, non-technical explanation of "What IS 'the economy'" 14m youtu.be/1RZGvYUlycw?... "What most people experience on a day-to-day basis... how many shops are closed... how much is a pint of milk...how much money do they have in their pocket" A politician will, normally, not be able to answer.
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Why The Media Is Looking At Economics All Wrong | James Meadway | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Following a competitive pitch process, the award-winning British animation studio Blue Zoo Animation Studio has secured the contract to produce a brand-new Doctor Who pre-school animation for… downthetubes.net/blue-zoo-animation…
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The Hard Agree podcast team have just announced the return of their annual Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol charity podcast, in support of ComicBooks for Kids! downthetubes.net/a-hard-agree-chris…
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Sadly, Oil, and more. www.dw.com/en/saudi-ara...
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Saudi Arabia's oil reserves: Cashing in to the last drop – DW – 07/08/2024
Saudi Arabia has vast oil reserves. But it wants to be carbon neutral by 2060. So will it stop oil production? Far from it! What's going on?
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We should mandate having wind turbines around every golf course ;-)
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Dahn Sarf 'n all. Bin out for collection blew over 3 times last night! (I gave up in the end & set my alarm for 7am to put it out instead).
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
If he cared one whit about the birds, he'd be replacing fossil fuel power. Your president, is sadly your problem to deal with! www.idausa.org/campaign/wil...
Screenshot of part of the linked article "In terms of bird fatalities, there is no comparison between wind or fossil fuel generated power. In the Sovacool study cited above, it was found that wind farms are responsible for 0.3 bird deaths per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity, whereas fossil-fuel power stations are responsible for 5.2 fatalities per GWh. According to those numbers, fossil-fuel power stations are 17 times more lethal than wind farms. At those rates, if we replaced fossil fuels with wind energy, we could potentially prevent millions of bird deaths."
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
(Also: www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved... if you want to donate to someone who does deserve charity at Christmas, or beyond)
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Donate today | Crisis UK​
Your donation can help rebuild lives
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
New WhatsApp scam "Ghost Pairing". Trusted contact > msg e.g. "I found a photo of you" + link > looks like Facebook > ask for "verification code" > allows to link their device to YOUR WhatsApp > spreads to your contacts: www.msn.com/en-gb/money/... Fix: WhatsApp > Settings > Linked Devices & remove
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MSN
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Textbook response. I have respect for people who can recognise verbal traps and respond like this, on the fly and under pressure. effectiviology.com/loaded-quest...
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Loaded Questions: What They Are and How to Respond to Them – Effectiviology
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
If anyone else refused to turn up for work for 6 weeks, they'd be sacked. When exactly are mid-terms again?
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
They saw him coming. (Shame his voters didn't) His (non-) voting record: www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/26352/nig...
Screenshot of the summary of his voting record saying "This person has not voted on any of the key issues which we keep track of."
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Is this not Farage in a nutshell…
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I appreciate it when someone with real knowledge not only contradicts, but pulls apart, the arguments of those who would use their religion to justify doing evil. The misnamed Kirk (Scottish for Chapel), was good at rhetoric, bad at logic (full of fallacies), but not loving as a true Christian.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Hypocrites, the lot of them.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
If you share this thread or images, please credit @thenerve_news. We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support. And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this. 8/ 🙏🙏🙏 www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Sounds like you need to encourage him to debate at Cambridge University... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7y...
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Exactly How Charlie Kirk got SCHOOLED by a Cambridge Student
YouTube video by Rationality Rules
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's not about the tax revenue (£24bn isn't that much). It's about starting to reverse the flow from "up" to "down". Billionaires, and millionaires, have had a good run. Now it's time to make life fair for the rest of us. Labour needs to listen if they want to reverse their polling.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Emperor revealed. State power < Corporate power: avigail.substack.com/p/the-empero...
Screenshot of the section "This brief experiment now appears to be failing for multiple, interconnected reasons. Global crises like climate change and economic collapse don’t respect national borders, yet states remain trapped within them, unable to coordinate effective responses. Modern technology enables both global connection and tribalistic fragmentation—people can communicate instantly across continents whilst simultaneously retreating into incompatible information bubbles that make shared governance impossible. Capital flows freely across borders, whilst human beings remain trapped by borders and passport controls. The most powerful entities shaping our lives are now corporations, not nations. Meanwhile, authoritarian leaders are forming transnational alliances (Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Orbán) that operate outside and against democratic institutions. The nation-state finds itself in an impossible position: simultaneously too small to address genuinely global problems like climate change or corporate power, and too large—disconnected from local communities, captured by elite interests, incapable of responding to citizens’ actual needs. It can neither protect its people from global forces nor represent their interests against domestic oligarchs."
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Did they charged him an eggcess fee for self-inflicted injury?
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
France planning to tax multinationals & tech companies more for taking profit in France. Why can't we do the same in the UK? www.france24.com/en/france/20...
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French lawmakers add tax hike on multinationals to budget bill as tense talks continue
France's deeply divided National Assembly voted through two amendments to next year's budget bill late Tuesday that would double an existing digital tax on global tech giants and establish a 25 percen...
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Dissecting a debate, how mass debaters use logical fallacies, such as Tu Quoque ("you do it too" nah, nah, nah-nah, nah) to present a surface argument that does not stand up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrPn... "Whites are Native Americans" and other gaslighting.
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How to Debate Someone Who's Totally UNHINGED
YouTube video by Rationality Rules
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
So, still waiting for those Brexit Benefits... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEAK...
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Tory Brexiteer gets dunked on by EVERYONE on Question Time
YouTube video by No Justice
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
media.tenor.com
a man with a crown on his head is sitting on a chair
Alt: A laughing elven-like man with a crown on his head, sitting on a wooden chair carved into inter-twined trees. Tolkein-style.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The only two countries that are not signatories to the ECHR are both Communist: Russia and Belarus. Do we really want to join them? Just because it's currently baked into UK law, does not mean that a government led by, say, Reform, would not repeal those laws. ECHR is a safety net. For us.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
29 cases from UK immigrants since 1980. 16 found in favour of the UK Government. 0 cases in the last 5 years. It's not the immigrants' rights they want to remove. It's YOURS. www.coe.int/en/web/compa...
Screenshot of the summary of the 18 Articles in the European Convention on Human Rights from the link.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
More on Russia's connection to Reform
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Not to mention the new scandal with his girlfriend: www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
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Nigel Farage’s partner 'drawn into Brussels fraud probe at Eurosceptic think tank' | LBC
Investigators reportedly uncovered what they described as “serious” financial irregularities at IDDE
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What's up with Farage having multiple jobs? Rather than the one taxpayers are paying him for.
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maryefreeman.bsky.social @maryefreeman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Time for several visits; to remove a copy each time?
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Extreme inequality is poisoning democracy, stalling growth, and fuelling division. At the upcoming Budget, the Government can stop the rot if they tax the super-rich, end the cuts and protect public services. Demand a budget for the 99.9%. taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe...
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Demand a budget for the 99.9%
Extreme inequality is concentrating power in the hands of a few, poisoning democracy, stalling growth, and fuelling division. At the upcoming Budget, the Government can stop the rot if they choose to tax the super-rich, end the cuts and protect public services.
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