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Prof Michael Rigby

@michaeljrigby.bsky.social
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Quietly retired in Calverstown, Ireland, but still alert, enquiring, and seeking to make a contribution. Health, environment, equity, sustainable progress, governance, and happiness.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Let nothing get in the way of your dreams: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Rest well Bluesky 🖤 A nation pauses: Each morning at 9 o’clock, Kyiv stops. Traffic lights turn red, and the steady beat of a metronome on loudspeakers signals 60 seconds of reflection. Cars idle in the middle of the street as drivers step out and stand with heads bowed to remember those killed.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Perfect response for people complaining about gas prices at work today.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The planet isn't "dying" of natural causes. Forests don't just disappear. They are logged. Oceans don't just choke. They are polluted. Rivers don't just dry up. They are diverted. This is not a tragedy. It's ecocide. And ecocide should be a crime. #StopEcocide
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump regime wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court because it plans to continue committing war crimes. The Trump regime is refusing to allow international election monitors because it plans to continue committing election fraud. They are not being subtle.
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Prof Michael Rigby @michaeljrigby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Everything needs context, and analysis of the balances. Difficult decisions need true friends as sounding boards and validators. I hope you have both balanced reflection and friends. Then, validated decision made, go forward with confidence.
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Prof Michael Rigby @michaeljrigby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Europe we generally do have the advantage of free and informed press. (There are oligarch propaganda sheets too, but we know how to distinguish them.)
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Prof Michael Rigby @michaeljrigby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Let's have some accuracy - it's in France, not 'across Europe' - one focused issue - the level of school funding So disappointing when facts are mangled. How can informed discussion take place when issues are distorted? Seems this is the US problem - sensationalism not factual discussion.
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Tinman @htx-ddkt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Worth noting that anyone against ULEZ is also against the very probable *thousands* of lives that it has saved... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Toxic air death estimates in London drop by 40%, study suggests
A new study suggests estimated deaths linked to toxic air in London fell by about 40% in five years.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 05/10/2026
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal building.
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This British Labour government is arresting peaceful British OAP’s as ‘terrorists ‘.
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Prof Michael Rigby @michaeljrigby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
USAF withdraws. Not a shot fired. People power. news.sky.com/share/13595162
news.sky.com
US removes all Air Force bombers from RAF Fairford
The Gloucestershire air base was the target of a suspected terror attack on 27 September.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Bunkunin @bunkunin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Truth 👇
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why don't you challenge President Obama to a game of Horse, you shit for brains, fat ass pedophile .
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Reform-run Derbyshire County Council blacklisted a journalist after he exposed its £50,000 fence fiasco. Its deputy leader justified the move with a claim he later admitted was wrong. This is Reform’s answer to scrutiny. Attack the press." via Reform Watch
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ex-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Prof Michael Rigby @michaeljrigby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's martial law, sponsored by an uncontrolled dictator.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The truth of this is only shocking to those that have tried to deny the truth of electing a confirmed felon, entitled, spoiled brat, and career criminal who has been a scofflaw all his life. America is getting what it deserves.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Proscribe the extreme far right groups before it's too late" via The UK Against Hate
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Katie @rebelrouser1962.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look at the community notes on this one. 👇
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Prof Michael Rigby @michaeljrigby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mojo fully returned!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why the sour puss? A woman he can’t lunge at or insult? Holding it in is a real bitch, eh?
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just to be clear, two men now control Reform UK. One who lives in Thailand, one who until a split second ago lived in Hong Kong. These aren’t your friends, neighbours and work colleagues.
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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A gentle reminder that more than 30x the number killed on 9/11 have been massacred in just the last 3 years in Palestine... By US weapons, support and funding. Most were women and children and were incinerated by US bombs.
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WCY @wangchungyooon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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