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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️

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**NO DMs** Maths tutor, nature enthusiast, wife, and mother. Eye for a bargain - love all second-hand shopping - currently doing 'No new clothes for a year'challenge. Reduce, reuse, recycle. **NO DMs**

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21h
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/10/2026
We have the best-named machinery ever.
The back of a wheeled trailer with a red sign saying "Trailer Swift"The back of a wheeled trailer with overhanging leaves and a green sign saying "Elizabeth Trailer"The back of a low trailer with a plastic water container on top and a plastic tap. The sticker across the bumper reads "Splash Gordon"A bright orange wheelie trolley with the name "Jack Sparrow the Sack Barrow" printed in white on the side
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Kev Moore @kevmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She’s not wrong.
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone else having a problem with loading Bluesky this evening?
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nick Clegg is now worth an estimated £100m and has joined the board of a data centre companies with ambitions to become a $1trn hyperscaler. So propping up a Tory-led austerity coalition seems to have worked out quite well for the guy.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 27/09/2026
Millionaires who breathlessly announce that they are leaving the country because a social policy subject risks mildly inconveniencing them should never be allowed back over the border.
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Any tips for a visit to Seville, from the Bluesky hive-mind? Not going to be visiting the mosque-cathedral, having spent several hours in the one at Cordoba!
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/09/2026
I believe trying to define what Englishness is to be a mug’s game. Any attempt to introduce precision results in absurdity. But angry white men in Union Jack underpants do not have a special insight. If your definition is more inclusive it is not watering down any objective standard.
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes you're out sightseeing, and you see a sign in a shop window that you just can't argue with...🤷🏻‍♀️
A neon sign in a shop window in Madrid saying cunts are still running the world
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nonsense! Gas prices have risen across Europe, Africa & the Middle East. It’s not peculiar to Britain. What Monaco-based tax avoider Ratcliffe is trying to do is blackmail the UK govt to bung him some taxpayers’ money by threatening to close some his Hull plants www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices
Ineos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US.
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No one likes a braggart, obviously, but my husband and I celebrated our 30th anniversary yesterday and we both still quite like each other. No mean feat these days!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well,we just got back from a lovely wedding. Very old school, no tiktok, Instagram or Facebook in sight. Just lovely people having a wonderful time and living in the moment. A joyous day!
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve given it a lot of thought, analysed all the statistics, conducted in-depth research into the human condition, and I’m now ready to share the single piece of guidance that, if only more people could follow it, would make the lives of millions of people – probably billions – immeasurably better.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swans might have one of the most underrated landing techniques in the animal kingdom. Original post
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/09/2026
"Milka" is a portmanteau of the original two main ingredients: "Milch" (milk) and "Kakao" (cocoa). In the present day, sugar and cocoa butter have replaced them as the main ingredients. And they wonder why kids aren't as healthy as they were. Also it should now be called "Sucbutt"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation. Looking very foolish again, UK.
EU suggestion of Canadian membership

2 of the letters 

Sir, Gerard Baker is right ("Grin and bear it, Andy, and stick with Trump", comment, Sep 18)……

….The problem is that the US is neither as reliable nor as reliably friendly as it once was. If it is willing to impose tariffs on friends, that economy becomes rather less reassuring. If the US prevents the UK regulating to protect our children, those new industries are not as positively transformative as we may have thought. And if Washington no longer thinks European security is its concern, then all that military might counts for little as far as we re concerned. Ultimately, the UK has little choice but to try and limit its dependence on a partner that is far less reliable than it was, and to do so, in part, by working more closely with its European neighbours. Managing this without further irritating the US president must be the ambition.
Anand Menon
Professor of European, KCL; director, the UK in a Changing Europe

Sir, Mark Carney's address to the European parliament was
extraordinarily impressive. It was a vision of what politics can be when it looks beyond the next poll, election or headline. Carney spoke of Europe and Canada building something together based on democracy, freedom, sovereignty and resilience. He offered both a dream and a practical route towards it: co-operation in defence. energy, critical minerals, technology, Al, trade and education. What struck me most was the clarity and scale of his thinking. He spoke of the challenges confronting western democracies but did not simply complain about them: he asked what could be built in response.
His metaphor of the forest was particularly memorable: a single tree mav be brought down by the storm. but a forest will endure because its roots are interconnected. I am 80 and I cannot remember recently hearing a western political leader speak with quite this combination of ambition, seriousness and intellectual clarity.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I worked in a factory with a part-time lifeboatman once. His beeper would go off every now and then and he'd drop whatever he was doing and RUN out to his car. No-one would say a word, we'd just work around him, what with the guy being an actual real life hero and everything.
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've signed, have you?
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely delightful! 😁
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cody Dahler
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cody Dahler @britishmuseum.bsky.social
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jason Watkins' Agent sighs. He glances at his laptop screen. The email arrives. Subject: Casting for 'Head of Piddington Parish Council'
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Piddington thing must be so annoying for twee British film producers as "village declares independence" is the perfect setup except for the toxic racism.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come, little leaves," said the wind one day, "Come o'er the meadows with me and play; Put on your dresses of red and gold, For summer is gone and the days grow cold." - George Copper
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Ed Sheeran to represent Piddington at Eurovision
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/09/2026
@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: “Carney is treating the EU as the strategic asset it is, and the UK must do the same, going much further than the status quo to signal our intention to apply for membership. Voters want it, our economy needs it, and Burnham can deliver it.”
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Liatris ligulistylis, also known as meadow blazingstar, is irresistible to Monarch butterflies. They flock to the purple flower for the August/September monarch migration: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform leaders in Wales: Mark Reckless: Tory, then UKIP, then Tory (again), then Independent, then Brexit Party, then Abolish the Welsh Assembly (his own job), then Independent (again) and then Reform Nathan Gill: 10 years for accepting pro-Kremlin bribes Dan Thomas: arrested for assault
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Roses are red High soars the lark
Telegraph headline: Aggressive goats, with taste for human urine, are airlifted out of park. Image shows mountain goats in slings dangling from a helicopter over trees
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
c.org/2DdtxtMwt7?s...
c.org
Sign the Petition
Stop Big Billionaires Buying British Politics
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know these are very different things but from allowing stupid flavoured vapes, to deciding to do fuck all to help students on crippling loans & doing nothing about huge political donations it’s really feels like politics in this country has given up. It’s always too late & always too small.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tohid Azimi photography "Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk flying straight toward me!"
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Jammy Scones 🐦‍⬛🦋🐿️ @pontyoriginal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A bit late to all the 'me in the 80s' shenanigans, but better later than never! 😁
A youthful me with a delightful Bob Holness, after filming Blockbusters in the 1980s
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