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RobLonUK

@robb-uk.bsky.social
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Unashamedly geek / classical music lover / has been known to rant when passionate about something 😉

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14h
This is funny but also truly I think there's a huge number of people who've developed such a serious dependency and driven off such a serious cognitive cliff that I don't think they could get through a normal workday
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 24/09/2026
I know it’s a pretty tired and far from original point by now, but consider this versus someone holding up a Palestine Action sign and muse on which this government considers support for terrorism.
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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Two seconds. That's all it takes to stand up for wildlife. Add your name and help us call catapult crime what it is, animal abuse.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/09/2026
I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026
If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Every time an interviewer has a Reform candidate in front of them who insists they need to legislate against trans women to "protect women and girls" they should bring up the woman who was beaten for protesting at conference. Otherwise they're just shit journalists, bad their jobs.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The headline should read: ‘Masked neo-Nazi paramilitaries take over Dover while police and government stand around with their dick in their hand’
bbc.co.uk
Disruption at Port of Dover due to 'stop the boats' protest
The government says it condemns "the behaviour in Dover" and the hours-long disruption it caused.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
It's just wild that the UK elected a former human rights lawyer as prime minister and things got considerably worse for human rights.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To me, the most eye-opening bit of this recent Reform scandal is that these knobheads literally say that the reason they need foreign money is because British people won’t support them.
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bluesky lets people make lists like “degenerate abusers” full of trans people and does fuck all about it. This is only going to be enforced to protect politicians and harassers getting called out.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Commission didn’t blink at Labour Together using a huge, clandestine millionaire bung to pay for, amongst other things, polls to facilitate an internal party wrecking campaign. Are they going to leap into action now, for a more comically bent version of the same shit?
Have to say, if I was in charge of a regulatory body, and someone had been caught on camera calling us "completely useless... dumb and ineffective" while boasting about breaking the rules we're meant to enforce, I would be doing everything I could to make that fucker rue the day he said it.
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Tone of the Electoral Commission response is not confidence-inspiring about its own role
An Electoral Commission spokesperson said: "The law requires political parties to report... "Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider."
An Electoral Commission spokesperson said: "The law requires political parties to report all permissible donations they accept with a value over E11,180 and all impermissible donations over E500.
"Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider."
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told the BBC: "We're aware of media reporting on Thursday, 3 September involving political party donations and an alleged breach of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 relating to polling. We will assess this matter and any information provided to us."
It is understood the force has not begun an investigation.
Jukes has been approached for comment.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
I wish I could stay longer to keep discussing ways to conceal illegal foreign contributions to my political party, but I'm late to lecturing on ethics at Cambridge University where I am a live-in landlord for multiple students.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/08/2026
When does it stop being 'backtracking' and start being 'lied to get into office'?
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Unpaid labour is not a solution to the youth employment crisis, it is grotesque exploitation. Sainsbury’s made hundreds of millions in profit last year. If there are job opportunities available, they should pay fairly and guarantee full employment rights from day one.
independent.co.uk
Supermarket creates 10,000 work experience roles to help Neets crisis
Andy Burnham commended Sainsbury’s for ‘stepping up’ while his government addresses youth employment crisis
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton is the rare celebrity where every new revelation makes you admire her more, not less
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wonder how much principles go for these days? 🤔
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RobLonUK @robb-uk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh 😞 💔 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrou...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/08/2026
Not fit to lick shit of Dolly's shoe, something Dolly would never have thought but I am quite willing to say.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We should put this sign on every politician's desk
What would Dolly do?
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RobLonUK @robb-uk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Reading through the many (many) tributes to Dolly Parton this morning this one stood out. RIP you wonderful person 💔
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The couple’s return to Britain has stirred something odd and primal in journalists whose fury looks like an obsession ✏️ @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
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The media’s Harry and Meghan hate machine is weird and sad
The couple’s return to Britain has stirred something odd and primal in journalists whose fury looks like an obsession
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
every single time i see this guy it's just a video of him saying "this thing sucks and here's how i'm fixing it", and my god for the merest sniff of something like that from anyone in power here
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Hunt Saboteurs Association @huntsabs.org.uk · 22/08/2026
West Midlands Hunt Sabs recent Substack post delves into detail about the cold hard blood thirsty facts of cubbing. Read more 👉 westmidlandshuntsaboteurs.substack.com/p/snubbing-t...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Cub hunting has started... which means fox cubs will be getting torn apart.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a disturbing development - not nonsense about immigration from an actual newspaper, but nonsense about immigration from a website falsely pretending to be that newspaper. One step beyond the false Guardian headline generator (which too many people were credulous about).
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They’ve finally fired the eugenics guy who set the dogs on Jason Arday. Meanwhile it turns out that he didn’t plagiarise anything and a lot of his supposed “fantasies” were, in fact, true - as ten minutes of Googling would have shown.
Nathan Cofnas
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I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.
The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the
Green Party.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I don't think it would be "rushing to judgement" to see the press hounding people - especially people of colour- has been going on for a long time. Really spineless response from the Prime Minister here that utterly fails to recognise the moment to tackle the press. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jason Arday death 'tragedy on so many levels' says PM
Andy Burnham says the former Cambridge professor's death is a "really sad, sad and sorry state of affairs".
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There’s something just morally foul about this. Concern for a baby is used as a fig leaf to hide the real intent: questioning the cost to Britain of giving shelter to an infant. Compassion comes with a price tag when race is involved in this county now. It’s twisted. Contemptible. Utterly shameful.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Arday found dead and a very large number of British commentators are deleting posts and videos.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Someone just asked “Why waste time reading the book when you can just watch the movie?” and long story short it's perfectly acceptable to remove toxic people from your life.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/08/2026
Posting false information about election candidates is one of the last remaining forms of criminal libel in the UK, fwiw. If your algorithm/AI is bad enough that it isn't immune to this kind of fuck up, it is not ready for deployment! Turn it the fuck off!
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RobLonUK @robb-uk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Most athletes I know aren’t too scared of playing against the other gender In fact, I’ve seen young women run circles around guys on the basketball court The real issue with sports is that men, in general, can’t handle losing to women
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☀️ @stel.energy · 10/08/2026
fun little interaction tip! if you don't know somebody don't say some shit in their replies that you wouldn't say to their face if you ran into them on the sidewalk
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