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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The quiet* of walking on #Dartmoor is one of the main things I love The cessation of other people talking, screen chatter, & once I’ve bimbled enough, the cessation of mindchatter *Dartmoor isn’t silent - wind, grasses, animals, birds, feet in mud or on ice…

Dartmoor in mist with sone small sheep in the background

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 22/01/2025

Immigrants are taking all the best jobs.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Atmospheric in the fog this morning in Glastonbury. Taken on Wick Hollow.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 15/01/2025

Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Vaccines are among the best of inventions. There's a high chance that without them, and the herd immunity they can deliver, you'd either not be here or would face a lifelong disability: *whether or not you had them yourself*. It seems crazy to have to point this out, but we forget it at our peril.

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Oto @oto2.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

📷️Nikon Zf 📸SUPER REFLECTA 55mm F1.4 #photography

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Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"No longer will we be subjected to woke ideas like manners or bedtime or please try for a just a moment to understand that other people matter. If you’re rich enough, you probably don’t even have to potty-train anymore." lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-ballis...

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The Ballistic Ignorance of Elon Musk

We're in for another few years of stupid opinions about sexual violence from overpromoted failsons demanding we take them seriously. None of these men actually care about protecting women.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

X is a completely lawless platform and nobody in British politics is willing to do anything about it.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

To whom are you beholden?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"I want to put the record straight on this," Norfolk said. "It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible. That happened and there was a huge increase in convictions." www.thetimes.com/article/3a2b...

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We still don’t know cause of grooming gangs, says scandal reporter

Andrew Norfolk, The Times journalist who first revealed the abuse in 2011, says there needs to be proper research into the issues that let criminals flourish

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tory bid to force national grooming gangs inquiry voted down by MPs

MPs rejected a Tory amendment calling for a grooming gang's inquiry by 253 votes.

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Colin Baines @colinbaines15.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

brilliant episode (hope Naomi’s starting to feel better now- Xmas lurgy is so horrible) Heard this earlier and thought I would quote it in a post -beat me to it - but I also love the genuine positivity juxtaposition of @iandunt.bsky.social (I know!!) on policy areas (listen to find out which)

Ian Dunt discussing positive legislative changes (listen to the episode to find out which areas in particular)

“We are just not taught, like, it's incredible how, particularly in the sort of mainstream press, there's almost no conversation about any of these things. And yet in 10, 15 years time, we will look back on it and be like, my God, that was a really significant period of sort of full-scale engine room policy change. And apparently at the time, no one had anything to say about that whatsoever.”

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In the real world, if you leave a pub because everybody is screaming abuse, there are constant fights, and you get no service because the spoiled brat of a landlord too busy sucking up to Nazis... nobody accuses you of vanishing into an elitist echo chamber. Same applies online.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I'd submit that the possible next president of the united states being like "I need to be more like Hitler" might be a bigger anti-semitism issue than college sophomores chanting "from the river to the sea palestine will be free" at a campus protest?

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 01/11/2023

We are just shy of 1,000 Bylines followers so please spread the word that the UK's leading Citizen Journalism publication is now live on BlueSky

Map of the Bylines Network covering most of the UK including all of Scotland and Wales.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 13/08/2024

Judge sentences a rioter who, draped in a union flag, ran into police officers “like a rhinoceros”. #riots #uklaw

Judge Christopher Parker told Wheatley: Police officers do not go to work on the basis they should be set upon by idiotic , violent hooligans. Over the last fortnight the country has had the pleasure of watching young men and women from all kinds of heritage and background, striving in France. Well-honed athletes who are proud to be Britons and of whom Great Britain is proud. You chose to don a flag and move at what may be your top speed - but that is when the parallels end.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

silent majority my arse

There has been an 82% reduction in the number of health and care work visa applications since last year. How many Britons view that as a...

Positive development: 16%
Neither positive nor negative development: 10%
Negative development: 64%

Full table of the above figures available here. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2024/08/12/2112e/1

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

The 2nd group, encompasses the first, but also those who have no truck with violence, but are more likely to share idea riots are borne out of of 'legitimate concerns'. This group tend to believe in the notion of two tier policing. They represent around 20% of the public.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Given a binary on whether or not the rioters are 'standing up for' or 'shaming Britain' 73% say the rioters are shaming Britain and 17% say they are standing up for Britain. Around half of Reform voters say that the rioters are standing up for Britain.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Only 14% of the country say that the people participating in the riots speak for people like them - compared to 86% who say they do not. Again Reform voters tend to be outliers here, although a majority still say they do not speak for people like them.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

🧵What do the public think about the riots and those taking part in them? A reflection of legitimate concerns Or the actions of far right thugs? I've written for @FT today on new More in Common polling and focus group research into Britain & the riots www.ft.com/content/4645...

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

What do people think the motivation for the riots are? About 23% say legitimate concerns about immigration, around a third say far right ideology and racism, but the biggest group - nearly half say a desire to engage in violence and criminal damage.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

If you want this site to thrive and draw people away from the Bad Place, retweet liberally. There’s no algorithm here, and a lot of the people still using Twitter depend on it to boost their business. If we boost them, they will come.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

The BBIC have called it... #ElonMusk #Twitter #X

BRITISH BOARD OF INTERNET CLASSIFICATION

This is to certify that
ELON MUSK'S TWITTER / X
has been classified for social media integrity
‘D’
DISINFORMATION
Misleading and manipulated content, hate speech masquerading as free speech, false and debunked claims,
election interference, graphic Karenism, conspiracy theory dissemination, endorsement of cars resembling bathroom pedal bins

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

The key thing to remember here is that the thing he considers to be "messed up" in this scenario is not the bit where lots of people were free to use his platform to call for a nationwide murderous pogrom

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

i'm not often proud of this country, but these headlines have got me feeling some things

BBC headline reads: Peaceful atmosphere at Sheffield Counter Protest

Article image shows hundreds of people crowded together.

Text reads: Around 1,500 people are taking part in a counter-protest in Sheffield this evening.

There is a large and visible police presence. So far, it's peaceful but noisy, with chants of "our streets, not their streets".

Passing vehicles that toot are greeted by cheers from those assembled.

BBC headline reads: No signs of disorder in Liverpool

Article reads:

Hundreds of people are outside an Asylum Link office in Liverpool to support refugees and immigrants.

The windows of the centre had been boarded up ahead of an anticipated protest tonight by far-right groups in the wake of the Southport stabbings.

But so far there's no sign of right-wing demonstrators nor of any violence.

People have been chanting that refugees are welcome here and holding up banners opposing fascism.

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BBC headline reads: Anti-immigration protesters outnumbered in Southampton

Article reads: Around 10 anti-immigration protesters have arrived in Southampton this evening, while hundreds of counter-protestors are marching in Grosvenor Square, chanting "racists go home" and "racism off our streets".

BBC headline reads: 'Bristolians wouldn't allow anybody bring chaos into the city'

Article reads:

We estimate there are now about 1,500 people at the counter-protest in Bristol's Old Market area.

There are lots of signs, "migrants welcome", "hope not hate". There are chants and people climbing on benches to get a better look.

It's really calm and pleasant so far.

One man, Habib, originally from Gambia, told me Bristol is a "very vibrant city, and a very welcoming city".

"Bristolians would not allow anybody to bring chaos into the city. That's why I feel like I'm going to join the Bristolians to stop what is going to happen tonight.]"

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

We voted for an end to the hate and the failure We marched for it. This is the majority. Decent people rejecting racism and hatred. Telling Tories, Reform and their dismal media apologists that they’re wrong. Our country is far better, kinder and brighter than they want it to be.

Headlines from Guardian, Times and Daily Mail - thousands take to the street to confront the far right

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James @northamptonian.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Don’t give way to the right 😉

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Fraser Geesin @frasergeesin.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Hahahaha! Here's the anti immigration protest under a microscope. Wankers.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Nigel Farage is partly right about there being a "two tier" approach to tackling political extremism in the UK. It's just that it is an approach which has let him and his followers' own extremism completely off the hook bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/n...

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The Real ‘Two Tier’ Politics That Enabled Nigel Farage to Fan the Flames of Hate

Nigel Farage and the 'Two Tier' Approach to Tackling Hate and Political Extremism on the Streets of Britain

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The Balderdook @balderdash.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Heartwarming photos and reports of Brits all over the country uniting against the far right. This one is Walthamstow and I’ve seen similar in Derby and Brighton. Civil war my arse.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Former Twitter exec Bruce Daisley has called on the UK government to bring the already-passed Online Safety Act into force immediately to tackle Musk: “If companies don't comply there is the potential for senior leaders of the organisations to be held criminally responsible themselves…

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

You are perfectly free to hold opinions. But some of you are holding bricks.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/08/2024

elon musk's daughter is amazing

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Rich Pemberton @rikofold.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Think I'll hang out here now. Musk has ruined Twitter, it's an unmitigated cess pit right now.

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