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Peter The Pensioner

@peter1952.bsky.social
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Retired RAF. Sweary and at 74 too old to care. Son of Irish economic migrants and proud of it Rugby(both codes) Lifting heavy weights Wigan Warriors. Music, Books. Open season on racists and fundamentalists. Keep The Faith #FBPE #Rejoiner#FuckCancer

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
5 October 1891 | A Czech Jewish woman, Olga Žáková, was born in Lažany. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
Vintage photograph of a woman, featuring an autograph. The woman is wearing a striped blouse with a dark scarf.
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rest in peace Olga, we will never forget you.
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We don't have enough aircraft and even if we did, we don't have enough crew.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1941 | Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha Bertha Aussen, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork on 10 September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Vintage black-and-white photo of a little girl with a surprised expression, framed in an oval border.
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rest in peace Margaretha, we will never forget you
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I feel like I'm in a Jefferson Airplane song.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WE will not be silenced! ✊🏾 👭 #IAmJaneDoe #Pinks 🌸
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gosh. There's certainly some mouthy gobshites in the pulpits of America. What a twat.
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My painting NORTHERN CABIN
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was excruciating to watch. She was obviously over promoted in the Tory party but seems to have achieved the impossible by being over promoted in the Reform party.
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Where are people going to live while the council houses are being built? It's a Polanski sound vote without any substsnce. He's right, but someone needs to come up with a solution to the "bleeding obvious"
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Magisterium arrived n the USA
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/10/2026
“Please don’t leave me alone with him.”
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a.creepy fucker
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Because Britain will never be under Reform, you fecking wizened anal polyp
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AliMFreeh @alimfreeh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My favourite poem today on #NationalPoetryDay
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah right… Says man with net favourability rating of minus 45, a shitload of investigations into possible corruption, a team of utter inadequates and with every constituency bar 4 favouring rejoining because we all know how crap Brexit is now. Bore off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage
Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By this morning they were beginning to become a bit dark. Thank you
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you Mark, much appreciated
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was told on the 12 Aug that my 6th mth CT scan showed a tumour on my spine and 2 lung nodes that had grown in size.I was referred to Christies and another scan. I was told today that the spine was a harmless hemangioma and my lung nodes are not cancer and both had shrunk. Cancer free! #FuckCancer
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Burnham today gambled that his willingness to be honest about where he thinks the country has gone wrong and how he plans to set it right again will ultimately be rewarded by a country wearied by a decade of national drift.” ✍️ @adambienkov.bsky.social
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Andy Burnham's Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair
The Prime Minister's emotional and expansive speech opened the door to a genuine shift in our politics, argues Adam Bienkov
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 29/09/2026
🇫🇷 ✡️ An investigation published by French news website #Mediapart claims that Jordan #Bardella, the president of the far-right National Rally (#RN), shared several anti-Semitic messages in 2013.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I cannot say to you truthfully that where we are is good enough. Brexit has done more harm than good. We need to restore a higher level of growth and prosperity for Britain." Britain needs EU membership - only then will we have the growth that our country needs.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "We will contest the next election with a manifesto commitment to change the electoral system, so that everyone's vote counts. And everyone's voice is heard."
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Water is a symbol of what has gone wrong with Britain. A service where the shareholders never lose and the public never win' PM Andy Burnham announces plans for a law change to allow public ownership of water companies 👏
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have you considered a social care compact might benefit pensioners?
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Post of the day
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kegsbreath is reportedly cutting one in five senior military positions while the U.S. is at war. Who decided this was the moment to thin out military leadership? Congress needs to demand answers. #USDemocracy www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...
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Pentagon chief set to announce additional cuts in senior officer positions
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20% cut in the number of positions for generals and ​admirals when he speaks with hundreds of junior service members at ‌Quantico, Virginia, two ...
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's beginning to look like Stalin's Tukhechevsky purge.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So let’s see practical steps to rejoin asap. As global insecurity grows, anything less simply won’t do
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men marking their own homework
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saying isn't doing. But Burnham lifted the omertà on: Electoral reform Wide-scale nationalisation Triple lock pension Brexit So now they're all in play. And that's all positive
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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Musicians playing at an Irish music session in a Cambridge pub, gouache, oil pastel and Daler/Rowney acrylic ink. #Irishmusic #jigsandreels #mixedmedia
Musicians playing at an Irish music session in a Cambridge pub
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 29/09/2026
Burnham has just delivered the most revolutionary vision of any PM since Thatcher When Andy Burnham said he wanted to tear up the last 40 years of political consensus he meant it, says political editor David Madd www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Burnham has just delivered the most revolutionary vision of any PM since Thatcher
When Andy Burnham said he wanted to tear up the last 40 years of political consensus he meant it, says political editor David Maddox
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wrinkled anal polyp putting self aggrandizement before national interest.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Tears Of A Clown 🤡 Danny “Plank” Tommo was derided for his “stupidity” by the judge who imprisoned him for trying to kidnap the wrong man at knifepoint for stealing his drugs in 2016 On the tenth anniversary the judge will surely have to go with “weapons grade moron” for filming his own crime
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More good news 2 Reform Councillors have been suspended from Essex Council this week 🤣😂 Their ‘world class’ vetting seems to still be ensuring they get all the wrong’uns of society in key positions
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Two Essex Reform councillors suspended in a week, party says
The two councillors are suspended for different reasons, the party says.
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you read Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War and was frighten then give her latest Biological War, a go. I've started to wear a mask just reading it
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
4 people were killed after drone struck an office building in Kyiv’s Solomyanskyi district, Mayor Klitschko reported. 7 others were injured, including a child. A person's body in front of a flower shop... why? Just why?? This is evil. World's governments shouldn't just watch them doing this to us!
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With the news brilliant singer songwriter Michael Kiwanuka is recovering from a stroke, remember to "Act FAST" and call 999 if you suspect someone has had a stroke. F = Face weakness. A = Arm weakness. S = Speech problems. T = Time to call 999. Don't delay. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the UK population. The govt can do so immediately by increasing income tax-free personal allowance by £3,000. All it needs to do is to end subsidies to commercial banks.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Peter The Pensioner @peter1952.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the great Americans of the last half century
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 24/09/2026
A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why have so few British front pages?
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/09/2026
A new chapter for London’s buses. I’m launching Buses for London with TfL- the capital’s publicly owned bus company. Starting with Route 6 in 2027, we’ll reinvest profits into better services, safer journeys and a greener network.
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TfL announces capital's publicly owned bus company
Transport for London says one west London route will switch to its own operator from late 2027.
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld Mark #Carney says he has considered possibility of #US military action against #Canada
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Mark Carney says he has considered possibility of US military action
The prime minister described the risk of an action by the country's southern neighbour as remote, but said "it would be irresponsible" not to prepare.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
Checking in on Trump TV 😬
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