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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/01/2026

much is made of "meat's back on the menu boys" but personally I'm quite compelled by the Uruk Hai complaining about days-old bread, man's been alive for at most two weeks, was grown from some revolting fleshy underground alien womb and already he yearns for a warm baguette

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Attention, extremist , race-hate scum: assuming we can pull you away from feeding heroin to toddlers for five minutes, would you mind awfully not standing a candidate in this seat, so that we can rescue ourselves from electoral oblivion? Thank you, and fuck you

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.

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What needs highlighting is that we were investigated for a Section 5 Public Order Offence with NO aggravated element. The lowest level of public order offence there is. Not hate speech, not incitement, but the lowest Public order offence you can commit. This seems to be omitted.
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Bob Vylan: No charges over Glastonbury comments

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The anti-genocide protests are not made against the Jewish community. They're not even made against Israel per se. They are primarily against *our own government*, and it's complicity in the genocide being carried out by the Israeli state. The home secretary's remarks should be seen in that context.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Even a trace, the merest suspicion of racism in public life is utterly unacceptable and must be ruthlessly why thank you, yes, and the canapés are delicious. Mr Farage’s speech was intriguing, I thought rooted out and utterly destroyed

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Are MPs supposed to conspire with media outlets to orchestrate wild hate Jihads against their own party, trying as hard as they can to ensure their own side loses elections? Are there any other examples of this happening in British history, and indeed in electoral history anywhere on earth.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We're the Lesser Evil voting has to fucking die, because it's obviously not working and the Greater Evil is drinking your fucking blood by making you triangulate towards their miserable view of things because Things Aren't Allowed To Get Better is the underlying animus of most British politics.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians

The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Zarah Sultana to David Lammy: How do you sleep at night? Lammy says Zarah Sultana is "keen on clickbait". What a way to describe genocide.

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

By focusing on immigration and the Reform UK agenda, Labour effectively vindicate the belief that migrants are the reason they aren't better off, with better public services. They are creating more Reform UK voters. It's morally wrong and politically suicidal.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Sure seems like offering a platform of "the Treasury Computer says your life must get infinitely worse but we promise to do horrible things to society's most vulnerable people" isn't a winning political strategy?

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.

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Strike Map @strikemap.org · 14/04/2025

At #NEU2025? Come and say hi at the @gftu.bsky.social stall and grab our latest #StrikeMap merch. Every penny helps us put struggle on the map 📍 #StrikeMap

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Nik @nikofirkin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Useful TL:DR of the conference agenda. If anyone going knows us from the @requirespod podcast from twitter, give us a shout if you want to meet up.

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Nik @nikofirkin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I sleep in a non-manogamy bed. Do you? I sleep in a normal bed with my wife and girlfriend.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 16/03/2025

Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

They’re not even hiding it anymore. (P.S. JFT97✊🏽)

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Nik @nikofirkin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Yes but to Reform voters, he's still standing up for their perceived interests more than anyone else. This didn't work with Johnson, Trump whoever so it won't work here.

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’ve noticed with the Stormzy thing that in a lot of ways it’s the first time younger generations have engaged with the idea of “selling out” as a negative concept. Whereas before they didn’t seem to care about how any artist got their money, now when it has very clear political parallels they do

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Nik @nikofirkin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"It is not clear why the union chose to do this."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/02/2025

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

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Nik @nikofirkin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We should do a space mission to sort it out regardless so it 'brings the world together'

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 07/02/2025

Who are the most popular kings and queens since 1066? 1. Elizabeth II: +74 net score 2. Victoria: +50 3. George VI: +40 4. Elizabeth I: +36 5. George V: +30 6. Richard the Lionheart: +29 7. Charles III: +27 8. Edward VII: +14 Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Every new technology seems to be immediately horrifying or designed so that it can eventually be horrifying youtu.be/32qlv6dKILQ?...

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Lab-Grown Human Brain Living in a Virtual World

YouTube video by Daniel Burger

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Will is right of course. It's also notable that Blue Labour is making a comeback, which seems to happen every time it becomes obvious that Labour has exhausted any popular potential that neoliberalism might have had, but is also controlled by elements that would rather do anything than socialism.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I keep saying this. You can get the net migration figures down, increase violent deportations and do press releases, treat people seeking asylum more abominably, and Nigel Farage’s fans will still be fuming because they saw two Muslim women on the bus. They want ETHNIC CLEANSING.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

once again: we should be very very very skeptical of any purported merciful intentions behind the assisted dying push when this is their policy

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

can any big brain professional politics understanders please explain to me how this is any better than what we had under the tories

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Nik @nikofirkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is me. I didn't pick the title.

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I know it's not surprising to anyone on the left but Starmer's government having the energy and ideas of a government that's been in power 15 years and has a majority of 7 when it in fact has been in power 6 months and has a majority of 156 is really bad and weird.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Israel has dropped more than 85,000 tons of bombs in one year and that is equivalent to almost six bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima"

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Nik @nikofirkin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Companies should not profit from blowing children up with bombs but here we are

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Since the Gaza ceasefire was announced, Israeli bombardment has killed at least 71 Palestinians and injured over 200. The ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu remain active — if he sets foot in the UK, the government must enforce them. War crimes cannot go unpunished.

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Labour announces the details of their plan to recruit 10 000 new police officers:

Headline: 'We're coming for you', English police chief tells domestic abusers.

Subhead: Sarah Crew of Avon and Somerset says early intervention is part of new national approach to rapists.

Image: an official picture of Chief Constable Crew standing at her desk. She is a grey haired middle aged woman who looks absolutely hard as nails.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13/01/2025

VIDEO: “Whenever there is talk about a truce, the Israeli occupation starts acting utterly insane. What is happening is pure insanity in every word. It is wholesale killings. Wholesale killings in Gaza,” said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense.

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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"An unfunded pay award will be disastrous for the profession." Our ballot launches on 1 March. Check your details are up to date: My.NEU.org.uk www.politicshome.com/news/article...

politicshome.com

Largest Teachers Union To Launch Ballot Over Strike Action

The government faces the prospect of a teacher walkout later this year over an 'inadequate' pay offer.

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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"It affects all of us, a two-tier system where we’re not as important as secondary school teachers or academy school teachers." It's time for government to correct this pay injustice for sixth form teachers. #PayUp www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2484424...

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'Just pay and it would be resolved' Why teachers were out in the cold today

Sixth form teachers in Bolton were out in the cold on the picket line on their last of three consecutive strike days today.

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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

New year, new government, schools still burdened with the same old problems... Our message to the government is clear: do the right thing. Schools can't make more 'efficiencies'. Fully fund fair pay now. If nothing changes, our indicative ballot opens on 1 March. youtube.com/shorts/D6mfr...

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New year, new government, schools still burdened with the same old problems...

YouTube video by National Education Union

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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"Teachers are the bedrock of everything else, so if the government want good people teaching they'll have to pay for it." Solidarity to all sixth form teachers taking their sixth day of action today over fair pay #PayUp www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Pay us what we deserve, say striking teachers at Hull sixth-form

Members of the NEU want the government to offer college staff the same pay deal as most teachers.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Day 1 of strikes this week: NEU members in non-academised sixth form colleges are back on strike after action last year, still fighting for fair pay. #PayUp neu.org.uk/advice/membe...

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Sixth form college strikes | National Education Union

Sixth form college members are taking strike action over pay and funding.

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