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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 11h
Especially when they all looked far better before all the procedures...
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 18h
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 15h
So many MAGA women have gone down the Bride of Wildenstein route.
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Liz Truss? Dear God, no!
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don't ask me how, but Wet Wet Wet's 'Sweet Little Mystery' has been bouncing around inside my head since yesterday lunchtime.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Suspended sentence for man found to have a collection of more than 114,000 indecent images of children. Tommy Robinson and co are going to be all over this. They'll be SO angry... Just you wait... Any second now... ...
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 06/10/2026
A year on, the Conservatives are doing better in the polls, but that looks largely down to Reform shitting itself quite visibly in public. So, looking at their conference, is there any substance to this “Kemaissance”? Honestly? I'm not convinced.
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One Year On and the Tories Are Still not Okay
Badenoch’s recovery owes more to Reform falling over than to anything the Tories have done
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Alan Partridge - Quote of the Day @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Idea for a programme...
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'But, Ade! It was two for the price of one! I also had a £20 discount, AND I've banked seven quid to use on a future order! NOT taking advantage of all of that would have been stupid, don't you think?' 😜
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Because he's an arrogant, self-entitled sack of 💩 who thinks he should be allowed to get away with anything and everything.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/10/2026
"The leads to Andrew are not going away, there may be more of them than we currently know about..." Andrew's "brazen" legal action against Thames Valley Police suggests he thinks he's in the clear - but @maitlis, just back from the US, suspects otherwise.
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's a parody about the price of gas having soared (with everything else) since the Iran war, called "Gasoline". It's adapted from the classic "Jolene" by the incredible Dolly Parton who sadly died a few weeks ago, but left an incredible legacy of music, generosity & heart ❤️ youtu.be/WhwPBlI4u0A
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"Gasoline" - Marsh Family parody of "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, on the rising cost of fuel & inflation
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My Night With Reg on BBC Four at 10:15pm. Also available on iPlayer. If you haven't seen this, I can highly recommend it
DRAMA My Night With Reg
10.15pm BBC Four; Now on iPlayer

Kevin Elyot's My Night With Reg was one of the key plays of the 90s. Across three evenings, six gay men discuss yearnings, liaisons and loss in a flow of sharp, witty lines — even as the keynote shifts to melancholy when the spectre of AIDS scythes into their friendship group. Opening at the Royal Court, London in 1994, the play was laden with praise and awards. This beautifully observed adaptation (filmed in 1996) retains the original cast, including John Sessions, Anthony Calf and Joe Duttine. Introducing this screening at 10pm is David Bamber who won an Olivier as the fussy, sensitive Guy.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 04/10/2026
See also: Africa.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Battle of Cable Street became the defining moment in the history of British antifascism. It also changed the law; Parliament passed the Public Order Act 1936, which included a ban on wearing political uniforms in public. We should remember, thank & salute every one of those early anti-fascists.
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police trying to clear the way but the people of the East End got there first.
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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here's an idea. When so-called 'gender-critical' individuals are in tribunals or court, they should be required to read out their own social media posts to a random jury, rather than relying on an agreed statement from GC lawyers. All the cases I have read sound like arguments on a playground.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are people calling this conviction "two tier policing." Er - no. If you set off a politically motivated bomb in a public area and if shrapnel flies about that is terrorism. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, that's just rude. *Gives organisers a Paddington Bear hard stare*
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My sister works in a coffee shop, and it's ridiculous the number of times she and her colleagues have to *cough* remind *cough* parents/carers that allowing their little darlings to charge around a place where hot drinks and food are being carried around probably isn't the wisest idea.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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Tom [PositiveLad] 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 @positivelad.me · 01/10/2026
On my way into the #HIV clinic. Today, after 15 years of pills, I’m moving onto long-acting injectable treatment. Given once every 60 days the jabs will keep my HIV in check and help simplify interactions with meds for my other issues. It’s amazing how fast HIV medicine has moved. #HIVsky #IDSky
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1 man out of 57 men in the group chat did even the bare minimum of sharing the chat log after the fact. None stepped in and stopped it. So yes, all men.
Marisa Kabas •@marisakabas.bsky.social • 1h do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

The Southern Dad
@thesoutherndad.bsky.social
I mean, yeah. A bunch of us are there with you but we keep getting lumped in with rapists. I'm not going to light the fire if you're going to throw me on the stake.
The rampant misandry in online discourse is a big reason Andrew Tate has a huge following of morons and Trump won two elections.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026
Fuck me, the amount of people trying to get this Manchester City cheating scandal to be called 'The Pepstein files' is going to drive me off a cliff. Take a second and think where the joke is here and what you are using to land it. Then stop it.
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Accidentally-on-purpose whacking her with a bag would be entirely justifiable, as well.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Wet Evening, Oxford Street' (1919) by Christopher RW Nevinson
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The closest we have is the PDSA, but not everyone is eligible. www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/t...
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PDSA Treat
Find out how we treat thousands of poorly pets across the UK and how to find out if you are eligible for our free and low-cost veterinary services.
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Warning: This account is hard-right wing and abusive. @lucidr.bsky.social
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a silly sausage Daniel is, eh?!
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who knew that breaching your existing bail conditions, and declaring that you are of 'no fixed abode' would result in you being remanded in custody?
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
The Fairford incident is dominating the news cycle - and the right-wing. Over the past 48 hours we’ve seen speculation, insinuation and implication attempt turn a serious story about security into one about immigration. This is a long one. Make some tea.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
A Dissection: The Fairford Fannywobble
How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.
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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These are some of the hairstyles I wore on Playschool and Play Away with my silver heart and polo earrings 50 years ago. The BBC used to send out instructions of how to bead your hair to look like Floella
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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.
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'We have a massive problem with national security': Farage challenged on Fairford speculation
Reform UK leader told his social media followers the five men arrested after an RAF Fairford situation were "Iranian nationals". Sky's Rob Powell spoke to him after it was confirmed the men arrested are British nationals.
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You'll be spared the outraged 'What HAVE you done to your hair?!' comment, then?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everything went to shit after David Bowie died that January, didn't it?
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Christmas Day.
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yup. When the news about George Michael came through on my phone, I said 'OH, FUCK OFF!', and my sister who was in another room called out, 'Who..? Because the way the year had gone, she just KNEW someone else had died.
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was still mourning Mum (she died in August 2015), so the endless celebrity deaths seemed to hit even harder.
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Farage is doing it again - stoking the flames of hate re the Fairford incident. He's one step way from saying "it's Muslims wot done it" .... but he'll be nowhere to be seen when his idiot supporters head to Fairford to cause trouble. bsky.app/profile/andy...
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2016 was a brutal year, wasn't it?
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When Chaka Khan sings Prince, you know you're in for a treat!
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Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In that case, you definitely aren't running away; you're moving on.
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