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M. le Vicomte Neil Ryder

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Retired IT guy. Designed and built BT's EU billing system. Francophone & Europhile. #FBPE #GetPRDone #NAFO

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 18/10/2025
This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way. Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
New York Times: "Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday"
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The lesson: Never vote for authoritarians
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How a referendum should be done. electoral-reform.org.uk/the-irish-ab...
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The Irish abortion referendum: How a Citizens’ Assembly helped to break years of political deadlock
In a historic referendum on Friday, the Irish electorate voted with a resounding Yes in favour of removing the Eighth Amendment (article 40.3.3) from the Constitution.Citizens were ask
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Oh.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.
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𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟 ♬ @ecksteinish.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
a protester in an inflatable frog costume faces a line of police in riot gear and the text says Portland, 2025
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/10/2025
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...
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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities "Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US" "The church cannot be silent"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/10/2025
“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel. That's all erased now.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The chap on the left once defended marriage between siblings in a live interview on GB News. By all accounts it was too much even for GB News viewers.
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Kristen Mulrooney @kristenmulrooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trying to explain to my 8-year-old gymnast that I can't do chin ups is so embarrassing. She's like "just pull yourself up?" and I'm like "I can't" and she's like "but just do it? Over and over again?"
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M. le Vicomte Neil Ryder @neil-ryder.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just calculate how much more you weigh than her, and then hang corresponding weights off her ankles.
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M. le Vicomte Neil Ryder @neil-ryder.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Wow! Is the Pope on the right side of history? That's a bit of a sea change, innit?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..." www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...
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Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops
The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote" Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements. Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote
Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election. To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns
The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory! Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2025
🚨 JUST IN: Trump spotted heading to his golf course amid government shutdown
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Trump Heads to Golf Course Amid Government Shutdown
President shuns shutdown talks for golf trip
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months. Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...
Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May
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Scott @smadin.net · 04/10/2025
This really shouldn't be controversial, but if you, as a cop, aren't able to stand stock-still, ramrod-straight, and stone-faced while a civilian screams every insult imaginable an inch from your face but doesn't intentionally strike you, without resorting to violence, you shouldn't get to be a cop
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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
It’s frustrating LLMs are the epicenter of this because if you’re looking for a piece of tech to hate, social media recommender algorithms were *right there* and have done far, far more to break society Tearing those down to the studs and rebuilding wouldn’t suck
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Too bad they furloughed or fired all the workers who could remove it.
Image of an X post from @PenguinSix
 (Andrew Leyden) stating, "The statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has returned to the National Mall today." The post includes three photos: the first shows a statue of two figures in front of the U.S. Capitol, the second depicts a large banner with "FIRST" and the same statues in front of a building with an American flag, and the third shows the statues again with people and cars nearby on the National Mall.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Convinced that most British people want to live in a functioning, decent country where government improves stuff and everyone can thrive. The vast majority want nothing to do with this imported hate and atmosphere of violence directed at people just trying to live their lives.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling he overstepped his authority and violated state sovereignty. The court said Trump’s move lacked any “colorable basis” and was not justified by conditions on the ground.
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TweetLD @tweetld.art · 29/09/2025
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'A despot': Ken Burns signals danger of 'greatest existential threat' to the US right now (AlterNet)
Filmmaker Ken Burns, whose latest documentary focuses on the American Revolutionary War, tells the New York Timesthat the greatest existential threat to the ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...
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ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty
An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Legendary, veteran prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, known for targeting Osama bin Laden and bringing down the Illinois mob, is coming out of retirement to defend former FBI director James Comey.
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Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who took down the mob is coming back
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, 64, served as a US attorney in Chicago for more than a decade, and he is a longtime friend and former colleague of Comey, 64.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2025
It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Zia Yusuf knows less about his own party than I do. Gill is not some rando who once met Nigel. Gill was Reform Leader in Wales and a close ally of Nigel Farage for over a decade before that across two other political parties. This is not something that can just be brushed away.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I may have said it before, but my God, I hate that man. Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too. Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/08/2025
Hamas challenges Israeli account of Gaza hospital casualties reut.rs/4fZ8EKP
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Hamas challenges Israeli account of Gaza hospital casualties
Hamas denied on Tuesday that any of the Palestinians killed in Israel's attack on Gaza's Nasser hospital on Monday were militants.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Reform: We need to ban wind turbines because they might possibly kill rare birds and ruin the landscape. Also Reform:
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Glitter Jedi Fellina @glitterjedi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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John Potter @snakeman49.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
As a YouTube TV subscriber, this makes me so happy: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Fox and Fox News at Risk of Being Pulled From YouTube TV in Carriage Dispute
Fox began warning customers Monday that its channels could be pulled from YouTube TV on Wednesday unless they reach a new deal soon.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A new verb just entered the lexicon. *To Witkoff* - to obsequiously flatter someone in such an overtly embarrassing manner that onlookers squirm with 2nd hand embarrassment. Example: Did you see that Witkoff guy witkoff the President?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I've just watched Dan Wootton's interview with Lucy Connolly and both of them kept making the apparently killer point that there were no riots happening when she sent her tweet... and er.. isn't that kind of the point? I mean she literally admitted to inciting racial hatred.
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