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John Rankin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙💛🤍🍀🍀 🇵🇸

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Ditching Twatter and looking to the sky for inspiration. Woke as fcuk. Made in Glasgae, perfected in Yorkshire. Love my family, doggy, and #LUFC.

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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 8h
One too many “O”s in the title
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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So accurate
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 16/09/2026
Active duty soldiers posted photos to CBS showing destroyed US bases across the Middle East, with nearly 60 aircraft lost and $3.7Bn in equipment damaged – the whistleblowers say defenses simply aren't working. Human collateral damage must be a part of this.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.
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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Boy George is delighted to announce he's touring with Ed Sheeran
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026
All of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts and his touring band have dropped out of the remaining dates of his ‘Loop’ tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.
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James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's crimes against music have now been overshadowed by his crimes against truth, justice and solidarity. What an absolute puppet. Shameful cowardice. We won't forget. Respect to Macklemore. Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊️
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I wonder if Burnham is ruing the day he allowed this to happen?
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, ‘humbled’ by contributions from billionaires as Harborne addresses ‘media speculation’
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fesshole works by you submitting your confessions. Contribute here: b3ta.com/addfess
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Janey's legacy lives on in Ireland, ready for the orange. I dunno, lads. Having blimps of Netanyahu and Epstein porking him vigorously might suggest he's not welcomed by the public.
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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.
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For years, Stephen Lennon has asked supporters to trust him and fund him. A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, made with HOPE not hate, has raised serious questions about his finances. I’ve added my name calling for a full investigation. Will you? secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For yrs, Stephen Lennon has asked supporters to trust him and fund him. A Ch 4 Dispatches investigation, made with HOPE not hate, has raised serious questions about his finances. I’ve added my name calling for a full investigation. Will you? secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/... Please s & sh 🙏🏼
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The #RNLI has now had to tell its volunteers they should feel empowered to shut shops or even lifeboat stations if they do not feel safe. Is any politician going to explicitly state how horrifying and sick this is? Whilst Farage and Jenrick look away and chuckle... 🤮 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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RNLI reviews security after protests in Dover and Portsmouth
Volunteers were targeted online after it assisted in the rescue of people crossing the Channel on Sunday.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 08/09/2026
Two things: one, no, it won't, because cancer isn't one disease with a single cure that's just waiting to be found, and two, why is the economics editor writing about tech, and indeed health research, when he clearly knows fuck all about either subject? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant
Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.
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John Rankin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙💛🤍🍀🍀 🇵🇸 @shabba73.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A fascinating insight by an ex PM I know little about. At 88 he was sharper than many half his age.
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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Viz top tip reading: “Tech enthusiasts. Save money on expensive Meta Glasses by buying a pair of normal glasses and then adding your name to the Sex Offenders Register.”
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years' Make no mistake, this is going to be an unprecedented and catastrophic weather/climate event Harvests will be especially badly hit Without wishing to sow concern, stocking-up in advance would be judicious www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On this day in 1939 the Second World War was declared. The war lasted six years and was the most widespread conflict in history with more than 100 million people from over 30 different countries serving in military units.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Gradwin @gradwin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Fucking Elon Musk, one of the worst cunts on the planet, has like 20 kids or some shit.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 28/08/2026
Say what you like about Dolly Parton, she was never portrayed on a single episode of South Park.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
that’ll be quite enough, 2026. improve your aim and get back to us.
'ROCKY HORROR' STAR TIM
CURRY
DEAD AT 80

Tim Curry - the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" - has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/08/2026
A note from Dolly Parton to Eminem in 2022.
Screenshot of a tweet from @Eminem dated 25 August 2026. His text reads: "I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it.  Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words." Below that, he has included an image of a note signed by (or on a stationery of, or electronic stationery of) Dolly Parton. Her note reads:


Marshall (Eminem),

Congratulations on your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don’t know a lot about rap music, I’ve come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that I hope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you but I have always felt some unexplained connection to you like I know you somehow. I had hoped to meet you at the show but you know how nuts those things are, personally I hate ’em and I missed my chance but maybe someday we’ll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you’re doing because you do it so well and no matter how complex your world may be just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don’t even know.

With love & respect,
Dolly Parton
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Greensleeves @greensleeves.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The BBC is promoting RefUK as a govt in waiting, when RefUK have 8 MPs, only 3 elected, the other 5 defected from the Tories. Lib Dems have 71 MPs but are ignored. Ofcom is supposed to ensure impartiality of the BBC - the national broadcaster - so clearly Ofcom is complicit in this political bias.
Text 'Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing'.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The fact that Trump's white-supremacist regime is defending the white-supremacist piece-of-shit who started the witch hunt against Jason Arday just proves that the whole thing was a racist "DEI" campaign designed to intimidate Black academics. And UK media danced along like rats for the Pied Piper.
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U.S. Condemns Ghent University's Retaliation vs. Professor Cofnas | RealClearPolitics
<p>The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University's retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.Th...
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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A film about the Epstein files would make Malcolm McDowell’s Caligula look like Mary Poppins.
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Can someone teach Rooney how to pronounce Muharemovic please?
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
💥 Israel is dropping bombs on civilian areas in Taybeh, South Lebanon—despite a so-called “ceasefire.” No justification. No military targets. Just terrorism, destruction and war crimes in broad daylight. 8/22/26 @sarahabdallah.bsky.social
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Double Down News @doubledown.news · 11/08/2026
I Questioned Israel: 48 Hours Later I Was Sacked
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I Questioned Israel: 48 Hours Later I Was Sacked | Sangita Myska
THE ISRAEL INTERVIEW MEDIA WANT TO BAN
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Their depravity is beyond comprehension.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And the West does nothing. No actually that's unfair. It continues to support it.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026
Some outcomes are bigger than politics.
Graphic with a blue background and the headline “Cleaner air. Healthier lungs.” At the top is the Mayor of London logo. A photograph shows two children running along the Thames with Tower Bridge in the background.

Text below reads: “A landmark study by Queen Mary University of London found that, following the introduction of the ULEZ, lung growth in children in Central London accelerated, helping them catch up with children outside the capital.”

At the bottom, the source reads: “Source: thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(26)00163-5/fulltext”
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Over 100 joined the annual Reclaim Our Moors walk on the Duke of Rutland’s Moscar Moor this morning. Land stolen from the people 200 years ago. Driven grouse shooting must end. We need to restore and rewet our uplands. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
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We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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big-cat-diesel.bsky.social @big-cat-diesel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is why they still vote for him.
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
this is important to add
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Genius
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Kathleen Pearson @m-lefae23.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
LOL! What everybody is thinking about this guy-'Stupid Fuck!'
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A characteristic lack of concern about consent
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