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Polly Hobbs

@pollyhobbs.bsky.social
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BBC re-running their headlines from 3 years ago when Sunak released 10,000 prisoners early over 6 months....oh wait, no, that went off without a media fuss. Labour are releasing up to 5,000 early over a year - due to Tory failure to build prison capacity. They only built 36 net new places a year.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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TERESA @lgbtqiamomma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As a mom of someone with an immune disorder, Thank you. We have remained in quarantine unless required to get infusion or medical checkup. We never stopped wearing NP3 masks 😷 to protect my son. It means a lot when someone proactively masks and self quarantine as a precaution.
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Wearing Is Caring: Mask Up
ALT: Wearing Is Caring: Mask Up
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That’s a hard agree from me. I am genuinely astonished at the number of otherwise sensible commentators who still discuss his latest wild actions as if they’re within the parameters of the normal policy making process.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I saw this at the Dr office #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Dame Rainbow Warrior @damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices
Hospices provide vital care yet are dependent on fundraising. Palliative care costs are lower in a hospice than hospital. UK hospices are in financial crisis, having to drastically reduce specialist s...
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
After a weekend of anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth, our CEO Nick Lowles spoke to BBC Radio 4 about the growing “climate of fear”.
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Masked thugs turning up to intimidate and cause disorder have no place on our streets. I am asking whether our laws are fit for purpose when it comes to groups that organise intimidation and disorder. Political disagreement is part of democracy. Violence and intimidation are not.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Golf’s purpose seems to be to spoil a good walk – & now it turns out golf clubs are stealing our water, too. As the climate crisis accelerates, the last thing we need is this wasteful, water-guzzling, land-hungry extravagance. Ace work by @emmahoward.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One in 12 golf clubs in England broke water extraction rules in past five years
More than 140 clubs breached licences, with a third caught taking water illegally, analysis shows – but no fines issued
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
JAMIE LEE CURTIS recreates her Mom's PSYCHO moment in 2015. Hitchcock’s classic opened 66yrs ago today.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘Love Excels’.
[image description: a poem embedded in an Excel spreadsheet with the words contained within individual cells. Line 3 has words in a single merged cell. Line 4 has text wrapping applied. Line 8 has filters applied to each word]

Love Excels

Let’s spread ourselves on sheets of love
and turn our data into poetry.
Our cells shall merge themselves together
As you wrap your text around me.

Our sum is greater than our parts,
let’s crunch our figures without compunction.
Remove this filter from my heart –
you give me form and function.

We shall frolic among the formulae,
pivot our tables now and often.
I will total all your rows
and you can add my column.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Farage’s ludicrous minions selling what’s left of their souls for coins, while either not knowing or caring that their boss secretly trousered five million for his ‘personal use’. He makes absolute twats of everyone who trusts him. And this James Orr character is supposed to be some sort of genius…
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Everything about the #FarageTapes is wonderful, but perhaps my favourite bit is the notion that Dubai's Dicky Tice-But-Dim, Lee Anderthal, Granny's Krugerrands, Chinchilla the Hun Stella Braverman, or ozempic root vegetable Robert Generic can get people to vote for them. Reform are done.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Britain could cap political donations tomorrow Burnham said he supported donation caps So why is his government briefing against Stella Creasy’s proposed amendment to cap donations? For shame
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 31/08/2026
How tactical voting could defeat Reform UK.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Love you Dolly 🩷
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Heroic.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I used to wonder what the answer to the Fermi Paradox was, but now I realise that every advanced civilisation out there destroyed itself so Muriel in HR could write slightly more impersonal emails. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
JAYNE MANSFIELD had an IQ of 163, spoke 5 languages, and was a more than proficient Violinist, as evidenced here playing Vivaldi's Concerto No. 6 in A minor on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Many centuries ago, people would boil down cattle hide, pig bones, fish scales and chicken gristle to make a paste that women would smear onto their faces, believing it contained the elixir of eternal youth. Oh sorry - that’s TODAY! Watch out for the collagen peddlers!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just to note, Toby Young and James Orr’s Free Speech Union paid the legal bills for this guy who plans to be a future ‘Professor of Eugenics and Race Science’ after ‘the revolution’ Young himself supported ‘progressive eugenics’. They’re not even hiding their fact free racism
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 14/08/2026
A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Farage's by-election stunt wasted enough public money to pay for free dental care for every child in his constituency. Does he care? No. He just wanted to avoid legitimate parliamentary scrutiny of his dodgy bungs. Which he won't. It'll start again immediately. What a cock.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is what Farage and Johnson’s xenophobic Reform and Conservative Brexit campaigns actually did to UK migration. At every point they use their failures as an excuse for the next disaster
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I haven't been to Clacton since I was a child - but @countbinface.bsky.social is making me want to go with these videos.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today is the 81st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima. Yet despite the gut wrenching horror, the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs & still want more. This is madness. #NoMoreHiroshimas @cnduk.bsky.social
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
£18.5 billion - the cost of free social care for everyone paid through taxation £30-50 billion - annual lost tax revenue from reduced trade with the EU because of Brexit Rejoin the EU to fund social care 🇪🇺🇬🇧 😃
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Polly Hobbs @pollyhobbs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is very exciting…I’m exhibiting in the @rwabristol 173 Annual Open Exhibition! My monoprint/collage ‘Push Through’ will be on display at the RWA from 12 September 2026 - 3 January 2027 and will be available to purchase at the gallery or on the website. @RWABristol  #RWA173AOE
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That last 40 minutes felt like watching a composite of a dozen other identical defeats. The crushing sense of inevitability...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov


**UK public support net zero, but underestimate UK achievement to date**

"Thinking about the government's target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, how much progress, if any, do you think the UK has made towards achieving this target?"

**Long way / less than halfway** — 50%

**Don't know** — 28%

**Most of the way / More than halfway** — 8%

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*All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2,040 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 17th - 18th June 2026. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+)*
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I cannot adequately express just how much I despise Kemi Badenoch. I know politicians who fail to read a room and get their tone wrong. I have never come across one with such an unerring ability to adopt the least appropriate stance on every single occasion. She is a twitter troll made flesh. #PMQs
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Something for @andyburnham.bsky.social to consider…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Trump and Rubio announce they will entirely cut HIV/AIDS assistance to the country with the highest number of people living with HIV in the world: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
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Trump administration to phase out HIV funding for South Africa
The State Department said the country had failed to address the president’s concerns about treatment of its white citizens.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I am old enough to remember the Ian Huntley riots when people went out in fury at a White man who raped and murdered two schoolgirls. Except of course nobody did, and if it happened now nobody would. The outrage is selective to their racism, and everybody sees it.
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