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Old guy trying to be at peace with his age. Vegetarian, growing (some of) his own food. Reduce, repair, recycle, re-home.🇬🇧🇺🇦

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Containers of cyanide swilling around the North Sea are why you should be sceptical of any politician promising a bonfire of regulations.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
👑 Jane Fonda with a mic drop "Empathy is not weak or "woke." And, by the way, "woke" just means you give a damn about other people."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
"Hundreds, if not thousands of people" have gathered in London to voice their support for Ukraine. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #UKprotests #StandWithUkraine
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Dark Pence is back.
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Dlyn @dlyn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
As an American ... DO NOT COPY Anything about our health care. Anyone saying you need to do this is not looking out for your interests.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
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Luke E Holman @lukeeholman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🎉 Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬👩‍🔬✨ 🌍🚀 I’m incredibly lucky to work with some amazing women in science! 💙 If you’re not following these fantastic researchers yet, you definitely should! 📢 🔗 www.un.org/en/observanc... #WomenInScience #STEM #RepresentationMatters
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science | United Nations
The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.
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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Costco promotes diversity while selling hot dogs complete with a drink for only $1.50 while paying their employees $30 an hour. They should be the ones to run the U.S. government.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Mexico and Canada just gave a masterclass in handling Trump: let him brag, give him a face-saving win, and walk away having conceded nothing. The Big Picture unpacks how this strategy could keep him in check on the world stage.
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The Care and Feeding of Donald Trump
Two world leaders just demonstrated how to beat Trump at his own game, and others should follow their lead
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
THE SHOCKING state of NHS dentistry in England is today again laid bare Where is Gov’ts promised plan to fix it @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social? If you’re one of 13 million people struggling to access NHS dental care share this jaw dropping report & join me in asking him youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
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THE SHOCKING state of NHS dentistry in England has today - again - been laid bare
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
DOGE is a trojan horse for Elon to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If he actually wanted to cut waste, he'd look at the massive tax loopholes, government contracts, and subsidies that benefit the wealthy and large corporations. Watch my latest video: youtu.be/2hVMghqarHY?...
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The REAL Waste That DOGE Should Cut
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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greymlin.bsky.social @greymlin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
How is America taken over by a bunch of incels looking like supporting actors from a poor taste 80s’ comedy? How are americans so unwilling to defend their state when attacked by such losers? This is worse than anything I’ve ever seen in any country and I’m East European…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights — ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Reform UK take the lead for the first time in the new Sky News/YouGov poll. Reform: 25% (+2) Lab: 24% (-3) Con: 21% (-1) LD: 14% (nc) Green: 9% (nc)
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Nichole @coley2839.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Who has run security clearences for musks staff? I imagine people would pay a pretty penny for all that info they have been given access to
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
So the world's richest man spends a fortune backing Trump and is given the go-ahead to... -Run an "efficiency" agency despite having billions in govt contracts -Replace civil servants with his own cronies -Gain access to sensitive Treasury payment systems See the problem?
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Loud & Clear @laudandclear.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An astonishing exploration of the reality of ‘DEI’ in this excellent @drkevinfong.bsky.social podcast about 1970s NASA. The testimony from older male astronauts on how female excellence changed their minds is memorable. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
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New Frontiers
Podcast Episode · 16 Sunsets · S1 E4 · 56m
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
With reports having found that Britain is THREE TIMES more likely to arrest climate activists than other countries everyone should watch this shocking film👇 The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s case is due anytime now youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...
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Labour Government backs Tory power grab by appealing Liberty High court victory
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Gosh, I remember when we had an actual president instead of a loudmouth bully who won't take responsibility for his actions.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Norway says it will arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country. Yet another reason to love Norway.
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Good morning!
"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or l am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excellent post
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky "EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Nazi Germany arrested anyone who was suspected of being a Jew, and seized Jewish children to ensnare their families. In Trump's America they arrest anyone suspected of being an immigrant, and try to seize immigrant children at school.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
America has chosen a drunk Far Right Christian Nationalist philandering entertainer accused of sexual assault to be in charge of the most powerful military in the world. What could possibly go wrong? We’re about to find out.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth showing off his christian nationalist tattoos
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like CHURCHES don't. - Ricky Gervais
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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cdlane.bsky.social @cdlane.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 24/01/2025
The Israeli media has now reported on how Declassified exposed a secret Israeli army delegation to Britain and confronted them on the streets of London. Two days later, not one UK corporate media organisation has covered this highly significant story👇
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Nothing could say guilty more than this.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 23/01/2025
‘A tiny cabal of men and women control almost all of newspaper coverage.’ ‘The population is being groomed.’ @mrjamesob.bsky.social hits out at Rupert Murdoch’s influence over UK media.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
WOW! The number of @bsky.app users just hit 29 MILLION! 👏 IT’S HAPPENING. LET’S DO THIS!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I’m really not crazy about Twitter’s new logo.
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“It is alarming that the government is happy to negotiate with China but won’t even look at a better trading arrangement with our closest neighbours in Europe. This is an act of economic negligence” Ed Davey www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/econom...
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'Economic Negligence': Labour Slammed For Rejecting EU Offer Of Closer Trading Links With UK
"We’re not seeking to participate in that particular arrangement," said a government minister.
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Nor am I!
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