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Elaine

@pebsmax.bsky.social
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Cat lover. Shelter volunteer. Retired from the rat race. 🐈‍⬛🐈 please don’t DM if I don’t know you from other platforms. At least ask if you can in public first.

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Brian Coates. @briancoates57.bsky.social · 19h
@reecedinsdale.bsky.social What great friends to have by your side! A brilliant collective effort to save #SaveSquareChapelArts. Absolutely love this! 👏👏🎭💪
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Elaine @pebsmax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Disgraceful. 🤬
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Manchester’s self-styled anti-migrant vigilante Alex 'Robbo' Robinson has found that becoming a far-right social media sensation comes with an unexpected downside: women aren’t impressed. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/the-...
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The woes of a racist thug who 'can't keep a bird' and wonders why | Searchlight
Manchester’s self-styled anti-migrant vigilante Alex Robinson has found that becoming a far-right social media sensation comes with an unexpected downside: ...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has dropped his $10bn charge against the BBC after he was told he would have to give the BBC his Financial Records. Not suspicious at all...
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The UN recently passed a Resolution calling for Global Women's and Girl's Rights, Gender Justice and Equality. It passed by 37 votes to 1. Guess which nation ordered their UN Representative to vote AGAINST ?
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#LateNightThoughts ...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
2027 Calendar - available to preorder now! First 100 orders come with a free exclusive Cold War Steve Christmas card, signed and dedicated to you (or the recipient of the calendar) 👇👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/grea...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social needs to understand that the first job of a socialist government is to reform the more than 1000 page UK Tax Code to a) make taxation in the UK truly progressive, b) close the tax-avoidance loopholes used by the super-rich and c) raise necessary funds to
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#LateNightThoughts ...
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Another example of Trump's BS - according to him, UK and US intelligence had been 'all over this for months' and had been watching the men. The Orange fabulist only has to open his mouth and the world sees & hears what a complete buffoon & arsetwat he really is.
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Five UK nationals arrested near RAF Fairford released on bail
Police say alleged offences could have been committed ‘knowingly or unknowingly’ on behalf of a foreign state
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clint Eastwood, through the years ...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My dog exploded in the bath. russincheshire.substack.com/p/my-dog-exp... Do not eat before. You won't want to after. No paywall.
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My Dog Exploded in the Bath
A true story about fox poo, diarrhoea, disastrous instincts — and the question that led me to write The Wolf That Chews Rocks
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Elaine @pebsmax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Square Chapel for the people
Square Chapel has a strong history of supporting community events and professional performances and is a popular venue in the local community.  Square Chapel was a popular arts centre with good ...
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shabana Mahmood's immigration changes are perverse and should be binned. By making workers less secure and discriminating by income level, they are the antithesis of what a Labour government should be advocating This human story illustrates it: inews.co.uk/news/risked-...
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I risked my life for the NHS. Now I face five years in migration limbo
Paul Awah and his wife came to the UK in 2021 and helped save lives during Covid. Changes to indefinite leave to remain mean they now face another five years of uncertainty
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In my ongoing quest to help #SaveSquareChapelArts in Halifax, I’ve written a short poem. I do hope you like it. 🤞 If so… please repost. Thank you. x
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Elaine @pebsmax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've just signed "IKEA, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch's Talk Radio" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... @StopFundingHate
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown
Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This isn't *just* a sincere and committed actor and director trying to save something of value for a West Yorkshire community. He's backed by experts in the arts and heritage sectors. These are serious people, with an important goal. Let's bring this to as many eyes as possible! 👍
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Nicola Hitchen @nichitchen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Robert Frost was a European
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Elaine @pebsmax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Britain needs to see real change from Burnham's first Budget! It's time to tax the super-rich, and back our communities with the investment they need to thrive. I wrote to the PM to demand better. Will you add your name? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich
Britain needs to see real change from Burnham's first Budget! It's time to tax the super-rich, and back our communities with the investment they need to thrive. I wrote to the PM to demand better. Wil...
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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8...
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Elaine @pebsmax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolutely! Who would bring a child up to do such a horrible thing? Fascists, that who they are.
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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seriously fuck this guy and anyone who supports him Tommo is a fucking psycho
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.thepoke.com/2026/09/22/f...
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The first and last time Nigel Farage dared to face James O’Brien has gone viral again, and it’s still a glorious own
It’s easy to forget that Nigel Farage was once (technically) a colleague of James O’Brien at LBC, before he left the station in 2020 having made inflammatory remarks about Black Lives Matter protester...
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Kev Moore @kevmoore.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Protest song you say?
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can someone explain WTAF the hard-right Christian nationalist Steve Baker, wrecker of lives and MP for precisely nowhere, is on the BBC - yet again? Tonight he was on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social representing nobody but himeself. Gibb and McAndrew at work again I guess. And Nandy will do sweet FA.
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💙Beebs @blue-rosary52.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I miss him so much youtube.com/shorts/p9HF-...
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We were captivated by his humor and charm.#usa #funny #fyp #top #foryou #celebrity #laugh #obama
YouTube video by Bình Trần văn
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"There has been the confirmation - which should not have been needed but looks to have been necessary given so many voters fell for the Brexiters’ fantasy hook, line and sinker - that Brexit has been an enormous mistake" || Business Editor Ian McConnell #RejoinEU
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Another Disappointing Day in The Obituaries @deadlyvices.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Quite right. No representation without taxation.
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ten years after the “advisory referendum” Britain now knows the full extent of lies spouted by Conservative Party politicians and far right political groups. It’s time to reverse the damage once and for all. This 👇🏼
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Dogsofbluesky I've managed to find a way to sell these for 25% off and avoid Amazon "Like Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', but about dog idiocy" "Puts me very much in mind of the late, great Douglas Adams" "Very, very, very funny" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads russelljonesauthor.com
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The Wolf That Chews Rocks by Russell Jones
Dogs, science and chaos. Buy the illustrated hardback direct for £18.99.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
tonymurray1964 You see, Richard, your problem is that Reform is, basically, a bunch of horrible bastards doing horrible bastard things in a conspicuously horrible bastard way. In general, people don't like horrible bastards. I hope that's cleared things up for you Richard, you horrible bastard.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Isn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe an immigrant to Monaco? Happy to be corrected on this of course …. And do British people abroad only consider themselves “expats?” And never “immigrants?”
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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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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
Tell Burnham: Canada's Getting Closer to the EU - We Don't Want to be Left Behind Sign the petition now: bestforbritain.org/petition/tell-bu…
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you, Tony. Should I fail in my attempt to salvage #SquareChapelArts… it won’t be from a lack of trying! 🙏🏻
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You already know what we think...! #RejoinEU
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The cogs are still turning in my attempt to put #SquareChapelArts (Halifax) back on its feet. 🙏🏻 I’m flabbergasted by the offers of support & levels of backing I’m receiving. What sort of society are we if we fail to champion the arts & culture? Thanks, you good people. Stay tuned!
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