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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 26/08/2026

⚡️Italy to supply next-generation SAMP/T air defense systems, Aster 30 missiles to Ukraine in secret aid package, media reports. It will include four SAMP/T NG air defense batteries along with Aster 30 interceptor missiles and seven long-range radars, Italian outlet La Repubblica reported.

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Italy to supply next-generation SAMP/T air defense systems, Aster 30 missiles to Ukraine in secret aid package, media reports

The package will include four SAMP/T NG air defense batteries — capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles — along with Aster 30 interceptor missiles and seven long-range radars, the Italian ...

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/08/2026

⚡️Lithuania allocates 600,000 euros to bring home Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. "Сhildren cannot be used as instruments of war or occupation," First Lady of Lithuania, Diana Nausediene, said.

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Lithuania allocates 600,000 euros to bring home Ukrainian children abducted by Russia

"Сhildren cannot be used as instruments of war or occupation," First Lady of Lithuania, Diana Nausediene, said.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sadiq Khan: "We should seek to rejoin both the Customs Union and the Single Market THIS parliamentary term. The government should also say that we would rejoin the EU after the next general election – effectively putting Rejoin on the ballot paper and letting the British people decide." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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'Brexit lies are exposed, the debate is settled... we must rejoin the EU' - Sadiq Khan

This is searing stuff from Sadiq Khan, and his arguments for the UK to rejoin the EU are as clear and comprehensive as it gets.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Andy Burnham in Kyiv: "Ukraine has been Europe's protector. Not a drain on our security, but a front line of keeping Europe safe. On behalf of everyone in the United Kingdom, днем незалежності україно, Happy Independence Day]... We are with you in this struggle, all the way, heart and soul."

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Useful footage. Have you sent it to your local council?

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 19/05/2026

⚡UK quietly issues sanctions waivers on Russian oil products. The first license permits imports of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian oil if "the products have been processed in a third country," while the other allows the maritime transport of Russian LNG.

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UK quietly issues sanctions waivers on Russian oil products

The first license permits imports of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian oil if

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

...and is it an orange or a norange?

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

On the eve of Easter, 182 Ukrainians returned home from Russian captivity A key feature of this exchange is that the vast majority of those released had been held in captivity since 2022 📹Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Not the whole world. Some of us were still thinking of Ukraine.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/03/2026

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/01/2026

If you can find 15 minutes today, please read this piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com. This is one of the best, most human accounts on the rising authoritarianism in the US, and even more importantly, the steely resistance rising up against it in Minnesota. Breathtakingly good.

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

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Géopolitique @geopolitique.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Menaces de Trump sur nos produits / Scannez votre produit alimentaire pour vérifier si la marque appartient à une entreprise américaine ou à un groupe américain. www.detrumpez-vous.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 22/11/2025

It's been a bit quiet lately when it should be picking up for Christmas. If you're shopping for gifts, have a look at what I do. Everything I make is designed here in Manchester and manufactured in the UK. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Discover a world of bold and colourful prints, homewares and stationery by Gail Myerscough, a surface pattern designer and illustrator. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 12/11/2025

What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true. It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately. If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website. gailmyerscough.co.uk A repost would be lovely too.

A grid featuring nine images of prints, a phone case, a cushion, a T-shirt and Christmas cards and wrap.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

'Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead.' In the summer of 1821, John Constable began making direct studies in the open air of cloud formations. These were mostly made from the high ground at Hampstead village - an ideal observation point.

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You weren't the only one. I'm now putting in a complaint to the Beeb.

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Réforme @reformehebdo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Un documentaire sur les 70 ans de Présence protestante Dimanche 19 octobre, à 10h sur France2, un #documentaire revient sur l’histoire de l’émission télévisée Présence protestante. #protestantisme @francetelevisions.bsky.social www.reforme.net/culture/prog...

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Un documentaire sur les 70 ans de Présence protestante

Dimanche 19 octobre, à 10h sur France2, un documentaire revient sur l’histoire de l’émission télévisée Présence protestante.

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

That would be the same Jeremy Bowen whose pertinent analysis of the situation was rudely interrupted on Radio 4 this morning because the presenter thought the listeners would prefer to know that Trump was walking down the steps of Air Force One.

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I turned it off at that moment too. How bizarre on a radio programme to interrupt the analysis of a respected journalist so we can "listen" to a man walking down a flight of steps.... Surreal moment.

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Lol. I had my own monitor and kept the co2 under 800ppm at all times, even in the depths of winter. 🥶

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

In fact, thinking back to the first year, we had the pupils lining up to have a squirt of hand gel before entering the classroom, and we were not allowed to take ex books in for marking... There was some protocol about leaving them in a safe place for 24hrs...🤷‍♀️

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Yes, just two. The headteacher put one in science and offered the second one to me as she knew I was "into airflow" (her words... Admittedly, my pupils all complained about the permanent gale blowing through my classroom).

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

And then the department for education (UK) provided schools with CO2 monitors so we could assess airflow. They helpfully provided my school with 2 of these monitors (for a school of 900+ pupils).

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I had a line of black tape on the floor at the front of my classroom and no pupils were allowed to cross line. Apparently that made things "safe" for me....

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I remember that all too well: masks in the corridors at lesson changeover, but not in the classrooms....🤷‍♀️

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I must remember to do this next time. Until now, I have simply not dried my hands if a Dyson dryer is all that is on offer.

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

News judgements are failing at The Guardian: I am astonished that on the home page of its website this morning, there is no mention of the Ballymena troubles and the need for Northern Ireland to ask UK police forces to send reinforcements.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The same shirt in the same size (116 fits 5-6 yr olds), but one for boys and one for girls. Look at the difference. No wonder even young girls develop issues with body weight and size...

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CheminsdeFerTC @cheminsdefertc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-histoire/6946582-des-trains-dans-la-guerre.html Le rythme régulier des trains et les destins cabossés des gens engloutis dans la guerre. => #Ukraine. Un film d'Emmanuel Carrère et Lucas Menget

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Des trains dans la guerre en replay - 25 nuances de doc

L'Ukraine est un pays de trains. Comme tous les pays de l'ex-empire soviétique, le pays a développé un réseau ferroviaire immense, puissant, relativement rap...

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Adam Brandt @adambrandt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Please read and kindly consider signing in support of academics at Newcastle University (including from our team in Applied Linguistics & Communication) who are facing the threat of redundancy this summer: www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

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Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Well put. Sadly.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Please repost, if like me, you will never accept Brexit. It harms the British people. It was obtained through foreign interference and by far the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history, and it robs us of freedom and citizenship. #RejoinEU

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/04/2025

The Trump administration’s many erasures—its gutting of agencies, cuts to jobs, deletions of government documents—show how absence can do the work of propaganda, doubling as a threat, Megan Garber wrote in February:

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Control. Alt. Delete.

Government via keyword is not “efficiency.” It is an abuse of power.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky

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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Thank you for posting this little clip. It is so relaxing!

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

These prints by Gail are one of my favourite things about the Smithery office - please do have a look at her wonderful shop.

Three prints by Gail Myerscough on the Smithery office wall

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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Not being British, I have no opinion on UK government policy, but I can say that food writer and MasterChef judge William Sitwell could only have failed to find any value in Latin through sheer obstinate incuriosity. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

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The loss of Latin from schools is a triumph, not a tragedy

The ancient language has little relevance in today’s society so the end of the project to teach it in state institutions should be welcomed

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Dreadful headline. My daughter loves Latin & wants to do it with Russian at Uni.Her Latin helps her pick up other languages as well as enriching her writing in english.She's lucky she's at a private school. State school kids shld have same opportunity to learn it. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

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The loss of Latin from schools is a triumph, not a tragedy

The ancient language has little relevance in today’s society so the end of the project to teach it in state institutions should be welcomed

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Occitanophile @petitejoueuse.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

He should stick to being a restaurant critic....

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