Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Urgh no - apparently my hobbies and interests are “maintaining an organised home environment” like some 1950s housewife which, to be clear, I am not… 020
Reposted by SimoneAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When this young man was one of the greatest players in the world, his country rewarded him with racism and double standards. Then Chelsea bought him, and benched him, at his career peak. This is all that needs to be written about him www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comDecline and fall: who will believe in Raheem Sterling now?The former England winger could face a prison term next month and his career collapse raises many questions 2547
Reposted by SimoneSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people. 1819584
Reposted by SimoneNatasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...thenerve.news‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant stormNatasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats 8291115
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’ve got a few of those must-watch things…any of the Die Hard films (regardless of the time it’s on), any fascist getting thumped, and this…. You’re welcome, world…😁 bsky.app/profile/film... 110
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026 Going to continue thinking it’s about a guitar and weeping 😂 000
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Oooh Jane, cracking shout. Seen them live a few times and this is always my favourite. 😁 130
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Very true. While my guitar..is one of my absolute favourite songs so to hear it played by Prince, one of my favourite artists, is like when the stars align. Music is ace 😁 010
Reposted by SimoneDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People do have "legitimate concerns" about things like housing, rising cost of living, NHS waiting lists etc. That's absolutely fair. Despite political and media rhetoric, absolutely none of those concerns are solved by attacking asylum seekers and other migrants. 1/ 116566
Reposted by SimoneAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Proscribe the extreme far right groups before it's too late" via The UK Against Hate 611928648
Reposted by SimoneNicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...nicolakelly.substack.comThe RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroesI have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like. 341522492
Reposted by SimoneOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago. 681758598
Reposted by SimoneFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“There’s an unwritten rule that says disabled people should just be grateful for what we’re given by the state, lest be scroungers or burdens. I say unwritten. It’s written in newspapers most weeks.” My col. on the care users fighting for the right to go abroad. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAn effective ban on disabled people leaving Britain? You read that right, and we will not settle for it | Frances RyanThis scandal shows there are many who don’t expect us to live rich lives – and that paternalism lives on in disability services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan 312341
Reposted by SimoneAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Indeed. And they always bring out the “but we don’t know who they are?” nonsense….which is only ever applied to non-white people, of course. This country is infuriating. 010
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ha ha! Definitely! Just seen the parish councillor or whoever he is on Sky News, saying that everyone is welcome in Piddington in answer to a question about whether Danny Tommo should visit the village..wut 🙄 120
Reposted by SimoneHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059812392
Reposted by SimoneNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The snobbishness about this comes in part from the fact you can no longer pay all your bills doing a minimum wage job. If you work 35hrs a week you should be able to pay rent, pay utilities, buy food & have a little left over for a few beers on a Friday. This never used to be a controversial view. 14666187
Reposted by SimoneTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"His hilariously controversial opinions, that he has every week, to a deadline...it's almost as if they weren't real." 1620015
Reposted by SimoneDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It would be no surprise if we saw more black clad far right thugs making threats this weekend. Likes of BBC actively giving them a prominent platform, and Labour Ministers and MPs spouting tripe about "legitimate concerns", is giving them what they want and helping "normalise" this racism. #r4today 721055
Reposted by SimonePo-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The BBC is doing a bit of PR for Danny Thomas 89740
Reposted by SimoneFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m on Opinion newsletter duty this morning and I wanted to start with a few words on The Telegraph’s toxic “How having a disability became cool” article. 410332
Reposted by SimoneClinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026PM: Pharmacy First makes a huge difference "especially for... those who are vulnerable". CVF welcomes it, but has concerns: e.g. You take methotrexate and get a sore throat. It might be a sign of a dangerous drop in white blood cells. 111 suggests Pharmacy First, so you go. 1/chemistanddruggist.co.uk‘A better Britain’: PM hails five new Pharmacy First conditionsNHS England has confirmed the five new Pharmacy First conditions that were promised in the 2026/27 pharmacy contract. 31311
Reposted by SimoneMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/09/2026RNLI volunteers put themselves in harm’s way to save lives. They should never face abuse or threats for doing so. That includes the crews based on the Thames, who respond to hundreds of incidents every year. They deserve to be thanked, not attacked.bbc.co.ukAbuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief saysPeter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity. 552278554
Reposted by SimoneClaire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Remember you all to watch Channel 4's 'Dispatches' at 10pm on Wednesday in which an investigative team spent a year investigating the finances of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, raising serious questions about the high-profile right-wing campaigner. 13514
Reposted by SimoneIan Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026On what would have been his 80th birthday 🎂 With thanks to the talented @happytoast.co.uk for this treasured art. #ReadyFreddie 0757
Reposted by SimoneM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You’d never know that White British men are responsible for the vast majority of crime in the UK 19327
Reposted by SimoneMiles King @milesking.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A thoughtful return to @thenerve.news by Stewart Lee, for some bizarre reason, Ofcom has decided to uphold a complaint against, from the Tufton Street mafia. How about GBnews or the nazi Hellsite known as X? www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le... Sent from my iPhonethenerve.newsStewart Lee: Ofcom won’t touch GB News. But now it’s demanding a right of reply for jokesThe regulator has ruled against me over a mistake I made about an ex-Tufton Street campaign manager on a comedy show. The consequences seem like bad news for off-the-cuff banter 1249
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026@zackpolanski.bsky.social Hi! Was wandering down memory lane as a result of this pub thread and found out (from Wikipedia) you had studied at Ridge Danyers College in Marple - I worked there until October 1998 so did our paths cross? 😁 @owenjones.bsky.social went there too!! 000
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It was one of those places where everyone turned round and looked at us as we walked in 😬 Once they realised how much we were going to drink though, they welcomed us with open arms 😂😂 Became our local. 010
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This has sparked some lovely memories for me - I used to work in Marple (1997/98) and I think we drank in the Bull’s Head. From their website, it looks fancy now but I remember going in for the first time, asking for a bottle of Bud and having to blow the dust off it!! 😂 100
Reposted by SimoneBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She 1852281403
Reposted by SimoneM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026When a journalist wrote something heinous on X and I challenged them not once did they say actually I apologise that was wrong. The final straw was Marina Hyde’s article about Jeremy Clarkson singing the n-word was no big deal. She said I didn’t speak for all Black people and many agreed with her 410323
Reposted by SimoneEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26 10628191393
Reposted by SimoneTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%. 16589364
Reposted by SimoneGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Here are a few actual facts about welfare payments in the UK in response to fairly nasty, baseless headlines like the below, which are numerous and unfortunately widely believed by the UK population. 🧵 1115894
Reposted by SimoneGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258 Please share. TY x 2156176
Reposted by SimoneNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I didn’t discuss Jason Arday on my show for this exact reason. If he had been white and behaved unprofessionally it would have been handled internally by his employers. As it is, it became clear that certain commentators wouldn’t be satisfied until he was dead www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found deadJason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said. 35777173
Reposted by SimoneWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Why is this allowed to be said in America without any accountability? Why are even Democrats so quiet about this? 2192017465
Reposted by SimoneDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The UK Home Office policy of dispersing asylum seekers to places far from support is an old and perfidious policy that has contributed to racist violence 525468
Reposted by SimoneEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22 671254656
Simone @simonecarbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026You’ve been listening into the conversations I have with my mother, over and over and over…sigh… 030
Reposted by SimoneUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 07/08/2026The right to seek safety exists for the moment life changes overnight. It’s the emergency exit for when home is no longer safe. And it’s a right that belongs to all of us. 02010
