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Mattski

@mattinthehat73.bsky.social
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Wearer of hats, lover of football/music/healthy discussions about politics

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🦋 Shadow Dancer 🇨🇦 🌊💙🏳️‍🌈🎶🌈 @shadowdancer73.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Canada is not the problem
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
You know what? The EU & UK should put tariffs on US goods (from red states) in solidarity with Canada and Mexico. Rather than watching others get bullied and waiting our turn - we should unify against this bullying until the bully drops that behaviour.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If God saved Trump from the bullet, who put the shooter on the roof? I've never understood this.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Brexit liars love to separate the EU up into its various member states instead of counting them as the Single Market that they are. It's like dividing the USA into its different states. Ridiculously dishonest! #BrexitLiars
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The billionaires lining up to plunder America, and the whole world if they have their way.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Turns out a lying half-insane insomniac ketamine freak isn't actually a very reliable ally. Who knew.
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Serial Chiller @firstladynot.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
UK’s newest warrior against grooming gangs
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 04/01/2025
I have deleted my X/Twitter account. I urge others to do the same. It can no longer pretend to be anything other than a danger and harm to our democracy. My full statement is below:
A graphic from a phone notes app. The header reads "Statement on X/Twitter". The body reads:

I have today decided to delete my Twitter/X account – It can no longer pretend to be anything other than a danger and harm to our democracy, and I would urge others to do the same.

I’ve always valued social media as a way to connect directly with people — sharing information, listening to different views, and engaging with communities. Platforms like Twitter have in the past played an important role in allowing MPs to stay accessible, promote transparency, and ensure the concerns of the public are heard loud and clear.

Unfortunately, since Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter/X has become a deeply toxic space that no longer serves those purposes. His actions—spreading conspiracy theories and enabling the spread of disinformation — pose a real danger to democracy and public trust. The blatant promotion of dangerous narratives, including efforts to undermine legitimately elected governments, has become intolerable. Twitter/X has shifted from being a platform for open discussion to a tool for manipulation and division.The same style graphic as previous, with the text continuing as follows:

Musk’s interference in how information is shared — by pushing certain voices forward, reinstating and personally sharing content from accounts that promote hate, while sidelining other voices — has destroyed the neutrality needed for honest, fair public debate. Instead of fostering transparency, Twitter/X is now a platform that actively undermines the values I believe are crucial for democracy.

I cannot continue to use a platform that has become so harmful. After long consideration I have therefore deleted my Twitter/X account.

I’ll continue to find other ways to engage with constituents and communities, and I hope this decision highlights just how urgent it is to push back against the spread of disinformation and the misuse of social media platforms. We need digital spaces that support truth, democracy, and fairness—not ones that tear them down.

This is followed by a signature, and then the author's details - Kevin McKenna MP, Member of Parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey.
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I think I just came.
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Leader of the free world ...
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Mattski @mattinthehat73.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Xmas to all! And wishing for a peaceful and happy New Year too. 🎅🎄🥂🎁🍻❤️
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you're warm and happy, if not, don't be afraid to reach out, either to friends or family or strangers or Samaritans (116 123) there will be people there for you. 🎄
Morecambe and Wise Christmas
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Con men sydesjokes.blogspot.com/2024/03/con…
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The irony meter is permanently broken now.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Richard Tice, whose Reform Party may be about to be funded by Elon Musk, condemning interference in British politics by foreign billionaires
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Never trust the general public to make important decisions.
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Your regular reminder that Hartley-Brewer choses the life of a serial tax fraud, alleged rapist and human trafficker Every. Single. Time......
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/12/2024
New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
'work with a guy who was unemployed.' 🤣
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
maybe if that person who milkshaked Farage had just kicked him repeatedly he’d be happier
Farage says Reform UK MP who repeatedly kicked girlfriend deserves
'Christian forgiveness'
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Dear Nigel: a) you weren't an MP when this happened b) sentencing reflects factors like the severity of injuries caused - ie none c) it was a MILKSHAKE you big cry-baby
Tweet from nigel farage saying we now live in a country where you can attack an mp and not go to prison. Above GBNews article about milkshake attacker getting suspended sentence.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Jeremy Vine commenting on the Jacob Rees-Mogg reality show, "It's brilliant, isn't it" Marina Purkiss, "No it's not.. I'm so sick of the media, whether it's that, or I'm a Celeb, sanitising people who harmed the country" Well said 👏
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 14/12/2024
Huge thanks to everyone who’s chipped in to make LBD interventions happen this year. We’re 100% funded by small donations & refuse big donors to protect us from becoming reliant on any individual source. Wanna help? Link in bio👆
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Just told my girlfriend, "I usually only eat the vowels in alphabeti spaghetti." "Why?" "Sometimes." 🐢💨
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The older I get, the more I wonder at those who capture the blunt, angry numbness of grief. Not just the sorrow; the emptiness, the rage. The tiring, tedious business of running on the spot. I wish Brian comfort, and only hope he knows how many people his words will reach, and help.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The Scots Have Mastered Gritter Truck Names (Terrible Maps on Facebook)
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Media won't acknowledge this video of the farmers blocking an ambulance with its blue lights on so could you could RT it so people see it?
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Santa's workshop
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
LEFT: Elon Musk being evil—and potentially changing the hearts and minds (and votes) of millions of Americans RIGHT: A Google search that took 3 seconds* *That's not an exaggeration; the process of arriving at data exactly the opposite of what Musk presented as hard fact took me exactly 3 seconds
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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
They're eating the frogs, they're eating the crêpes, they're eating the pâtés of the chefs that cook there.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
From the same hypocrites preaching to others for years not to be "the elite" always "sneering and insulting" people's views just because they disagree, and to respect democracy. But also "I WENT TO THE BEST UNIBOBS, OIK!, AND ALSO I DEMAND ANOTHER GENNYLEC! YAH?" Fk'em @marina-purkiss.bsky.social.
Isabel Oakeshott: From a graduate of the University of Portsmouth, with a “degree in marketing”,  half a brain cell sounds about right
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Define establishment 

Because for those of us with half a brain cell

You, Tice and Farage are the embodiment of it.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
@JuliaHB1
She *graduated*?!?!!! 😳
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dave43law.bsky.social @dave43law.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The Christmas Tory 😂
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This poll about another EU referendum isn't going quite the way the Daily Express thought at the moment.
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POLL: Do you agree with Carol Vorderman that there should be a referendum on rejoining the EU?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I think Starmer would be this way regardless of media double standards re politicians’ behaviour. It’s who he is & the restoration of trust is, for him, a matter of national interest. You have to hope it also crystallises into a real reputation for probity & integrity. But it’s far from guaranteed.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
FWIW, I agree it's unfair and ridiculous. But we've seen how media behave to this gov't. We know this would turn into a month-long Kay Burley jamboree. And so does Lou. I know it *feels* outrageous, but it's what actually used to happen before Tories broke everything. Quick resign, quick return.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Ben Habib has quit Reform just as Angela Jenkyns joined. So the moron quotient of Reform remains unchanged.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Reuters 25 March 2024: British farmers protest outside parliament over food imports. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.BBC 25 March 2024: In pictures: Moment tractor convoy reaches Parliament. With pictures of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.Telegraph 26 March 2024: Tractors bring rush-hour chaos to London as farmers stage protest. With picture of a digger outside parliament.Euronews 26 March 2024: 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall. The front one bears a placard: "No Farmers. No Food. No Future."
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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.mov · 22/11/2024
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
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I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.Matthew @MrWeir
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I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
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My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web Appwas wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
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Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"Loic Wright
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I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
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I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year. He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Reckon we can get those numbers higher though ..
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bet you watch it twice ....😂
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Show me any organisation where the staff don't claim expenses for important work-related subscriptions. This is so stupid. Has "journalism" (and I use the word advisedly in this case) completely given up on being a serious profession?
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 25/11/2024
Express poll needs more input. Link takes you directly to the poll, bypassing the Express website, so you won't boost their ad impressions. (Note: ignore the bit where they ask for your email address. It's optional.) xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sad story in The Times about 88 year old farmer, John Kemp-Welch, who works 5,000 acres of difficult hill farming land in Scotland. Fortunately, he somehow found time to be Chair of the London Stock Exchange, a stockbroker for 30 years and on the board of HSBC.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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