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Rich Thrift

@richthrift.bsky.social
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He/him. Londoner. Rants about racism/sexism/the environment/how fucked everything is. Bants about music/football/general life shenanigans. Trans rights = human rights

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Trans mamma bear @transmammabear.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@richthrift.bsky.social please share for awareness if you cant spare £5 nhs in brighton well bn trans kids are being forced to medically detransition on the 31st july whatthetrans have a podcast for us were 55 mins into there latest podcast gofund.me/91da2f27d
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Donate to Emergency Support for WellBN Families, organized by Wellbn Families Fund
Families of trans children urgently need help before a 31 July 2026 NHS med… Wellbn Families Fund needs your support for Emergency Support for WellBN Families
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I saw this show live recently and it was great - well worth a watch!
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Melanie Bracewell: A Little Treat | Full Comedy Special
YouTube video by Melanie Bracewell
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/02/2026
Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core
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Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core
Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 10% of the true number of cases The number of women who are driven to suicide by domestic abusers is being under-reported, and their cases overlooked by police, in what has been described by experts as a “national scandal”. Domestic violence suicides are already growing at such a rate that a woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner. Continue reading...
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
While there are almost 30,000 people on Lambeth Council's social housing waiting list, it 'is taking an average of 572 days to bring unoccupied homes [...] back into use [..] far exceed[ing] the [...] 150 days [target] for standard repairs. One property has even remained empty for 33 years.'
bbc.co.uk
Empty homes: Families 'living in limbo' on Lambeth estate
Vanessa lives in temporary accommodation but there are dozens of empty homes on her Lambeth estate.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Took me a little while, but I managed to track down a classic of our times ...I'd completely forgotten about her wink at the end! Exemplary stuff
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
fund research on menopause you cowards

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Scientists have discovered that men with larger penises are not only more attractive to women, they are also deemed more threatening to men, which is “the first experimental evidence that males assess rivals’ fighting ability and attractiveness to females based partly on a rival’s penis size,” according to a study published in PLOS Biology on Thursday. “In humans, height and body shape are well known to influence attractiveness, but penis size has rarely been tested alongside these traits in a controlled, experimental setup,” said Upama Aich, a behavioral and evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia who led the study, in an email to 404 Media.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“Whistle at the cops, not women” 👏🏻
Graffiti on a toilet wall: ‘SIFFLE LES KEUFS, PAS LES MEUFS”
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/01/2026
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert 🔗⏬
Infographic: Peter Thiel and detail of Palantir’s contracts with UK government departments, agencies and authorities. Where the amount is unknown, the contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend. The bulk of the contracts are post 2018, the Olympics contract dates back to 2012 and some work with unreleased dates could be earlier. Design: Lynsey Irvine
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Someone’s worried about their car getting keyed up 🤣
The back of a blue Tesla. Above the Tesla logo is a sticker that says: ‘I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy’
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A national disgrace #BuildSocialHousing
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Can it, Campbell. Some of us are old enough to remember you're a war criminal. If there was any international law worth the paper it was written on, you and your brother-in-WMD Blair would be behind bars
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Love this! Nice one Celta Vigo www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Why are these football players wearing nail varnish?
Celta Vigo fans and players have been painting their nails to send a clear message that there is no place for homophobia in football.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Gotta be worth sticking a fiver on genocide giblet Starmer
standard.co.uk
Who's the next Traitor? Minister warns as Farage teases Labour defection to Reform
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Medalling fool
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Gonna see Die Spitz in Feb and can't wait! Saw them last year and they absolutely smashed it, and I reckon this gig will be even better! This is pretty heavy, so if you're not into hardcore/grungey/punky stuff, don't click below...
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Die Spitz - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Fucking hell 🤯
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I do love a bit of Schafefreude
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On the lamb: 50 sheep break away from flock and storm German supermarket
Ewes and lambs coaxed out of store in Burgsinn after about 20 minutes, leaving trail of destruction in drinks section
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Virgin and @newschambers.bsky.social giving this the heat it deserves. Feel like I’m loosing my mind
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In news that will sadly surprise no one, the creepy glasses are being used by creepy men to do creepy shit
bbc.co.uk
Smart glasses: 'I was secretly filmed and trolled online'
Footage of Oonagh was posted on social media where it attracted hundreds of sexual and derogatory comments.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
'Imagine if we stopped focusing on giving women “stay safe” tips, and we started giving everyone the tools to build a safer world. If instead of people looking away when women are harassed, we had the steps to intervene safely without escalation.' hassl.uk/products/sup...
hassl.uk
Back HASSL's free online resource launch to tackle harassment at the r
Help fund HASSL’s five stage plan, and launch free online education resources – built to tackle harassment at the root, challenge victim-blaming, and make safer public spaces a shared responsibility. ...
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I once made a joke about an acid meeting an alkali. Unsurprisngly it got cancelled.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Spending the first evening of 2026 listening to Self Esteem and it’s an absolutely stonking start to the year
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Self Esteem - Wizardry in the Live Lounge
YouTube video by BBCRadio1VEVO
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Need to see this irl! Adding it to my Bucket list
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Down to my penultimate tin of beans and I finally understand why people become preppers
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Love this show! Makes me laugh in every episode and cry in most of them
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Big Boys
Jack Rooke's comedy about two mismatched boys who bond at uni. Starring Dylan Llewellyn.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Treated my razor to a new blade this morning and now I’ve treated my hoover to a new bag! The age of decadence is truly upon us
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Gonna launch a social networking app where people can blather on about their key takeaways from the dating scene and call it KinkedIn
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I don't. Because this kind of thing still means someone has *used* AI. There's no ethical reason to generate AI slop.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Am about to attack my soup with a hand-held whisk, so please offer your thoughts and prayers for my kitchen tiles
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 22/12/2025
The future of Thames Water hangs in the balance. Thanks @graceblakeley.substack.com for highlighting just how important this deal is. Ofwat must say NO to Thames Water - email now: weownit.org.uk/act-now/ofwa...
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
'The great feminisation narrative [...] can, and should, be opposed. But to do that we have to name what we are up against. We must expose and oppose the gendered assumptions that still run through much of our society and politics.'
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This ⬇️
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EVAW Coalition @evawuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Solidarity with @rapecrisis.bsky.social, Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre, Centre for Women’s Justice and @bindmans.com bringing this timely and important super-complaint as rape survivors face unprecedented and often multiple-year delays to their cases rapecrisis.org.uk/get-involved...
Investigation ongoing: A super-complaint regarding excessively lengthy police investigations into sexual offences.In the last decade 37,188 sexual offence investigations have taken longer than three years to conclude.More than half of these investigations have taken longer than four years; and many considerably longer.This is a super complaint submitted by Rape Crisis England and Wales, Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre, Centre for Women’s Justice and Bindmans LLP
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
There are 172,420 reasons to come to this panel event at King's College London in the new year. In England alone 172,420 children are homeless + living in temporary accommodation. With @kwajo.bsky.social @danielhewittitv.bsky.social as panellists Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/no-pl...
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I'm doing a raffle to raise money to buy books for two ace schools Tickets are just £2 each! You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend. More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for the schools. TWO POUNDS. Info here. biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex... Please share
A pile of the NINE signed books you can win in the raffle.
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Given my tendency to be messy in the kitchen at the best of times, I perhaps should have steered clear of a recipe requiring some beetroot peeling 😬😭
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INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🌟 Our Christmas Fundraiser is LIVE 🌟 From now until 9 Dec, every donation made to INQUEST via @biggive.bsky.social will be matched at no extra cost to you. We need to raise £30,000 so we can continue supporting families bereaved by state failures & neglect. Donate & share bit.ly/inquestbg25
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Unless you’re a window dresser for Snappy Snaps you’ve got no business trying to avoid George Michael
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Panorama is covering PFAS tonight! Lots of the revelations are based on our work and so I've put together a list of key investigations here so you can dive deeper, if you're interested! Go on, go on... watershedinvestigations.com/watershed-pf...
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Can't claim I enjoyed the video, but am gonna chuck some cash at this all the same, as the idea sounds like a good one www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
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Clean Sheet. Change, From the bottom up. by Clean Sheet - Indiegogo
A toilet roll where 100% of the profits fund fairer housing, climate action and workers' rights
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I guess it’s a fitting epilogue to this book that it ended up being given away to a charity shop
Copy of ‘Spark Joy’ by Marie Kondo on display on a bookshelf
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
👏🏻
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#LivingInLimbo
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Marc Overmars’ disgusting behaviour at Ajax and how Erik ten Hag continues to defend him
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Doing a job application and genuinely considering whacking in a few apostrophe and their/there missteps so they don’t think I used AI 🤯 I’ve certainly gotta keep the em dashes at a premium!
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Sudden Deth (spooky edition) 💀 @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
ACAB includes the gender police
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Fucking grenade-shagging fucks
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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Super Flans!
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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Not a fan of Christmas jumpers as a rule, but I quite enjoyed this one I clocked in a charity shop window earlier!
Green Christmas jumper on a mannequin in a shop window. A gingerbread man is knitted on the front with “Bite me!” in a speech bubble
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