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Tracy Spottiswoode @tracyfilmwales.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Scrooge leans out of the window and shouts to boy in street ‘You, Boy! What number heatwave is this?’
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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Our hardworking MPs are on holiday & don't want to think about the #ClimateEmergency So, instead of screaming in their faces, which would be rude, I'll send postcards. Use my little ditties or write your own: No new oil The sun has baked the soil You've gone away on holiday And left us all to boil
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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg. #Glorious25th #RiseUp #GNUTerryPratchett
A short sword stabbed into a tussock of grass and with sprigs of lilac around the cross-guard.

Above the sword are the words, "Truth, Justice, Freedom,"

Below, "Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg!"
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.
Life of a Naturalist
 
it’s his birthday
and the sloths are up early for once
the flamingos line up in pink, long-legged salute
the birds of paradise parade in their finest
the elephants blow their trumpets
the blue whales gush with joy
the gorillas act out stories of his visits
the lions lay off the wildebeest for one day
and stand together on the Serengeti plain
the lyre birds sing his voice in tribute
the seals cannot stop clapping
and the ostriches urge us
to listen to him
and not bury our heads in the sand
 

Brian Bilston
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happy Birthday @taliskimberley.bsky.social !
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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’m sure many have drawn attention to the advice given by the Oracle of Delphi to King Croesus of Lydia, that if he should send an army against the Persians, he would destroy a mighty empire. Just not in the way he hoped
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 18/03/2026
The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC
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Murphy's Lawyer @menageri.org.uk · 02/03/2026
To adapt a pome wot someone else writted: It's quite a stong temptation For an armed and warlike nation To call upon its allies and to say: "We invade Iran tonight, "For the news there isn't right, "And we want to put your armies in harm's way."
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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
For reasons unknown, Zack Polanski's FB account has gone Those of us w FB profiles must step up & speak out. Be clear, kind & grounded DON'T feed the trolls DO welcome new joiners Answer good-faith questions Encourage the politically-homeless Bring hope, warmth & good humour #PickUpTheSlack4Zack
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🚨Hiring alert!🚨 I'm looking for three new staff members to join my brilliant team If you're passionate about creating the positive change this country needs, and think you'd be a great fit for any of the roles, find out more and apply Links below ⬇️
Bold text on a green background accompanied by a photo of Carla Denyer. The text reads: Work with me! Hiring 3 roles: 1 executive assistant, 1 media officer, 1 caseworker. Find out more and apply at greenparty.org.uk/jobs
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Sing for the coming of the longest night youtu.be/YPrBie18p1U
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I wil never take ozempic, because what if the time finally comes to eat the rich and I have no appetite?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 28/11/2025
🩵 🩷 🤍 TRANS MISSION 🤍 🩷 🩵 We’re incredibly excited for the announcement of Trans Mission! A solidarity concert for one night only, with an amazing lineup, raising funds for us and Not A Phase – sign up for tickets here 👇 ✨ www.transmissionlive.uk
Poster for Trans Mission at OVO Arena Wembley on Wednesday 11 March – a night of solidarity for a lifetime of change
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
What. The. FUCK!
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I ENTIRELY understand why a party way to the left of Labour needs to exist. I have NO IDEA why it needs to be Your Party, other than ego. The Greens are RIGHT THERE. Corbyn will be 78 at the next election. And it's a shambles. Give up, lads. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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MP Adnan Hussain quits Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’
Blackburn MP criticises ‘struggle for power’ amid tensions between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Good morning to everyone trying to explain Daylight Saving Time to their cat.
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The government of the United Kingdom has declared that objecting to Genocide is terrorism. The government of the United States has declared that objecting to Fascism is terrorism.
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
rump sends troops to invade Portland to distract from the EPSTEIN FILES.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding. Note: Healthcare is still free. If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport. 👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...
Are you trans, want to escape the UK, but only have a British passport?
You can live in Ireland and get an Irish (EU) passport by naturalisation. No visa needed!
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Murphy's Lawyer @menageri.org.uk · 11/09/2025
Larry the Downing Street Cat for US Ambassador.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Princess Anne jist drives around in a beat up landrover. Try to kidnap her and she just tells you to bugger off. Prince Philip used to drive round London in a beat up black cab. They had to take it off him as he kept accepting fares.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998.
The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them. Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Government proposes age restrictions on porn sites. Everyone points out VPNs will get round this. Government goes ahead. VPN usage shoots up. Government proposes banning VPNs. Are they so thick they ignored the warnings, or did they just want an excuse to ban VPNs? Think of the Children!
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 16/06/2025
Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 12/03/2025
The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment. IT IS TIME "Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right." COME "Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?" YES 1/2
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Musk's assault on USAID has stopped the supply of “RUTF” - “Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food.” (Emergency food to save severely malnourished children) This is the new American Dream - to starve the poorest infants in the world to death so that the richest men in the world can get bigger tax cuts.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 22/02/2025
In Oaxaca, Mexico.
Black and white art of Elon Musk making his Nazi salute in a Nazi uniform and dangling from his raised hand is a little puppet Trump with a Pinocchio nose.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
WITCH KING: No man can kill me <Tree blows over onto him>
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Rafe Culpin @rafeculpin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Good Law Project's collection of resources for trans people. goodlawproject.org/support-reso...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵
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George Costigan @georgecostigan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15/11/2024
For those who are meeting us for the first time here on Bluesky, we should say a little bit about who we are. We’re Good Law Project – a people-powered organisation that uses the law to create a better, fairer, greener future for the UK.
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