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Andrew Plant G0MBL

@plantfamily.net
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Retired IT technician. Reject AI🚫. Radio amateur (mainly FT8 & other digi modes) and a late convert to cruising (ships, not the other kind!). I live in Ramsgate UK. Intensely introvert: hate sarcasm & 'banter'. I'm Socialist, Humanist & Woke. Open Borders.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outstandingly dishonest even by Nigel Farage's standards. Farage knows that the men arrested at Fairford would not have been released if they were still suspected to be terrorists. He's stirring up fear, hatred & resentment against both immigrants & the police. Pure malice.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shocking to hear some on the left wanting triple lock scrapped, as if it's some unaffordable luxury! UK state pension is one of WORST in Europe!! MIN wage is £25k but pension is LESS THAN HALF THAT at £12k! 1m elderly living in poverty! Judge a country by how it treats it's old & vulnerable! #gmb
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
This whole article is so bleak. Maybe try accepting your kid for who they are?
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I doubt whether Nigel Farage's older supporters will be happy when they learn that Reform UK plan to abolish the state pension and our NHS ... meme via Drew Flanagan
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...
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BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared
While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yet Lisa Nandy Sec of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport of the UK 🇬🇧 apart from declaring her concerns over anti-Israel bias at the BBC is so reluctant to comment on BBC editorial standards that one wonders if Robbie Gibb actually appointed her .
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would argue this is attempted murder. I would hope and assume the police are now involved with an arrest in the very near future. . www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 21/09/2026
50 years ago today I and my family left Northolt and moved to Ramsgate. I had no idea Ithen 'd still be here half a century later 😮
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The fact that many of the people on UC are also working is not mentioned until way, way down in this Times story. Same for the detail that lots of previous benefits have been phased out and rolled into UC. But above all, the TPA is a pressure group funded by people who avoid and evade tax.
One in five adults are on universal credit
More than seven million people are claiming the UK's main benefit, including a million people in their twenties, Taxpayers' Alliance research says
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Daisy Eastlake, Political Reporter
Monday September 21 2026, 7.00pm, The Times
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 21/09/2026
A lot of drivers in #Pegwell #Ramsgate apparently unable to read 'Road Closed ' signs
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who supported Brexit then fucked off to Monaco to avoid contributing a penny of his £15 billion fortune to public services makes the mistake of thinking anyone gives a shit what he thinks.
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Wiltshire @wiltshireuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Solar farm to be built near M4 despite concerns #Wiltshire #BBCNews
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Solar farm to be built near M4 in Wiltshire despite concerns
Powering 1000s of homes with renewable energy was judged to be most important by planners.
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So you can go to jail for throwing soup at a painting or sitting on the pavement with a piece of cardboard saying "End the Genocide" but if you block one of the emergency services or beat a coastguard crew member unconscious Lisa Nandy from the Labour Govt will pop up to offer a sympathetic ear?
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 16/09/2026
Just had someone claiming to be from HelloFresh knock on the door trying to get me to sign up for their service. I've heard from them and thought they were legit, but never heard of them cold-calling for business...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 08/09/2026
Does solar minimum mean less space weather? The Sun may be heading towards solar minimum, but space weather isn't going quiet just yet🌞⚡ Discover why space weather events can still occur even as solar activity declines ➡️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/do...
Green aurora lights up a starry night sky above a lake and distant hills, behind title of Met Office blog post "Does moving towards solar minimum mean less space weather?".
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Danny Tommo who organised the Blackshirts in Dover [is funded by] the Middle East Forum think tank. MED is Greg Roman ex-employee of Israeli Ministry of Defence & Israeli Foreign Ministry. Either MI5 are turning a blind eye or they are in on it" via Gordon Liddle
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Jesus was a refugee, who fled to Egypt to escape King Herod. He praised the Good Samaritan - someone who helped an outsider. He said "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." You can't be a Christian and anti-migrant.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These are the masked far right thugs who - parade the streets terrorising women & girls they say they want to protect - get outraged at Muslim women covering their hair meme via We Demand UK
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/09/2026
Migrants and refugees should be welcomed and treated with dignity and respect, not met with balaclavas.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So Kent Police knew about the fash mobilising 24 hours prior to the event? nicklowles.substack.com/p/did-kent-p...
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Did Kent Police ignore a 999 call?
Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information.
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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jeremy Vine on radio 2 inviting comment on the thugs last night, literally suggested that you might phone in if "you think they've got a point, because the government clearly isn't doing enough to curb the small boat crossings". How fucking dare you use my licence fee for this fascism
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Will the organiser of the domestic terrorism that has started to blockage British ports, Danny Thomas, encouraging agitators, or the the band of merry thugs participating be traced down, charged & proscribed by the authorities in the same way apparent extreme left wing organisations seem to be"
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔴 NEW The BBC Is Just Nodding Along By Patrick Howse Read below. ↓
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW | On fascism on the streets and the front-pages… STOP THE BLOKES With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/stop-the-b...
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Stop The Blokes
With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Stop being part of the problem and wake up to the Real issue" via Gary Lind
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Labour MP & ex-immigration minister Mike Tapp here, telling the racists they’re right, & criticising them only for going about it wrong & being insufficiently appreciative of the government’s efforts to placate them, and also equating racists with the targets of racism
Dover knows better than most the pressures immigration and border disruption can bring. We have lived on the front line of the small-boats crisis for years. We have also endured queues and gridlock caused by changes to cross-Channel travel.
So the last thing Dover needs is another group deliberately blocking our roads.There is another irony.
Small-boat arrivals this summer were down 46% compared with last year. Government action is starting to work: stronger cooperation with France, more disruption of smuggling gangs, more arrests and more returns.
People have every right to protest about immigration. They have every right to demand stronger borders. But intimidating a town in balaclavas and blocking one of Britain’s most important ports? That isn’t the way to do it.
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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wonder if balaclava clad domestic terrorists being labelled ‘protestors’ is part of the BBC style guide? Can’t upset the knuckle-draggers now, can we?
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Will Home Secretary now prioritise arresting Reform UK conference & Patriot Platform Dover thugs over harassing vicars against genocide ‘I was aggressively assaulted. I am not doing great. I still have hair falling out. I have had a headache for about three days now' metro.co.uk/2026/09/06/i...
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s Monday & Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood still has no response to hundreds of masked men blocking ports first in Dover now Portsmouth . No speech about keeping our communities safe , increasing the UK terror threat level , a crackdown on protest or calls to proscribe Patriot Platform 😳..
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 06/09/2026
Going through my CD collection (yes, I'm that old 😂) and came across this gem by Art Garfunkel. Haven't listened to it in years open.spotify.com/album/6yfDZc...
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Everything Waits To Be Noticed - Album by Art Garfunkel | Spotify
Art Garfunkel · album · 2002 · 13 songs
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 06/09/2026
Do you take us all for fools Kent Police? Since when did a 'spontaneous protest' involve hundreds of men wearing identical dark clothes and balaclavas? Hundreds of men arriving by train in obviously organised groups constitutes a 'spontaneous protest' - really🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another wtf reaction to Dover this time from Kent Police . So again 👉 At next peace ☮️ march please wear black paramilitary gear, balaclavas & block all roads. No arrests will be made .
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Alice Lastname @wantstobehidden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We need a full enquiry as to why these men were allowed to go home. They held Dover hostage and yet zero arrests were made.
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Black-clad Dover protesters condemned for ‘dressing up in costumes’ by minister
Business secretary says masked anti-immigration protest was ‘not something we would want’ on British streets
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Dear UK 🇬🇧 government. It’s ok , your vote isn’t going to collapse if you name & shame fascists & racists . It may well increase . Your silence in not standing up to bullies makes it look as if you’re standing with them . Their expression more brutal but you’re playing for the same team 💔
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Where @metpolice.bsky.social are anti-terrorist police arresting these terror spreading thugs when you need them Didn't you know they were going to Dover? Have you spent too many resources infiltrating Animal Rights groups or worrying about people who don't like genocide & child mass murder ...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026
So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt
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Alice Lastname @wantstobehidden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not protestors. Thugs. ICE wannabe, fear mongering thugs. @kentonline.co.uk do not call them protestors.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Home office has this wtf reaction to Dover ‘ The right to peaceful protest is fundamental to our democracy, but we condemn the behaviour in Dover & the travel disruption it has caused. ‘ At next peace ☮️ march pls wear black paramilitary gear, balaclavas & block all roads. No arrests will be made .
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Contrast this with the multiple arrests police have made on pensioners in the UK for holding signs protesting genocide . Not sure why police didn’t intervene here, maybe Reform get to police themselves . Any arrests ? Or do we continue to indulge the mob as an expression of legitimate concerns 🙁?
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 05/09/2026
#BreakingKindSongs [Please use the hashtag!⤴️] #MusicChallenge Day 5️⃣ - Song reminds you of someone from your past. Gerry Rafferty Don't Speak of my Heart D www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuej...
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Don't Speak Of My Heart
YouTube video by Gerry Rafferty - Topic
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