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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Does this mean we can't have pint bottles of champagne now?
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Marcus Brigstocke @marcusbrig.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Having shot us in the foot in 2016 The Brexit Newspapers are today attempting to shoot a bullet through the same fucking hole. Their hope is that the incurious and gullible haven’t noticed how hard it’s been to walk…
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Can't believe Starmer is about to betray Brexit when it has all been going so well.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The UK fishing industry has been hugely damaged by Brexit. It's been an absolute fucking catastrophe for them. THAT was the betrayal. But for the CULT of Brexit truth is always a second ranking issue.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.
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Polly Starkie @pollystarkie.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
If team culture is flagged as an issue by a senior player and you lose 16-0 in an Ashes series, an overhaul seems like the sensible option Lewis and Knight gone and the summer on the horizon. Suspect any captaincy appointment may be interim for now but lots to be figured out
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
So, Heather Knight’s tenure as captain is over. She’s seen off five Prime Ministers and overseen the transition to the professional era. She’s an immense presence in English cricket but no one can stay on after a 16-0 Ashes drubbing. The bigger failure, though, is that there is no obvious successor.
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Possibly the most American thing to have ever happened!
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Tennessee man shot by his dog while lying in bed
A bullet grazed the Memphis man’s thigh after his one-year-old pit bull got his paw stuck in a gun’s trigger guard
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Public opinion of Putin and Trump I'm Spain, France, UK and Italy. For some peculiar reason the graphs look better on their side.
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Do we need any more evidence that they don’t give a shit - Alex Hartley is correct about the arrogance. This isn’t entertaining but down right embarrassing #EndvSa #cricket
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ffs - have they learnt nothing #endvsa #cricket
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
No need for subtlety here.
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Its corruption is plain sight - anywhere else this would be rightly condemned and investigated…………
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X to pay Donald Trump $10m to settle lawsuit over Capitol attack – report
President brought suit under X’s previous leadership after he was banned from platform following January 6 events
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... They literally want make it easier for people to profit whilst making others sick - you voted for this America, hope you have a decent medical syst………….. oh wait
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Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules
US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This.
A quote from the writer AR Moxon from 2017. He wrote:

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after.
Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We knew this kind of stuff was coming, but it doesn't make it acceptable. Purging science is an attack on democracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sites
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
5 drops and counting - it’s a feature not a bug of the English game at the moment. Changes are needed as they won’t win anything needing to create 20 wicket taking chances per innings #Ashes #AusvEng
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump fired 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head & 3k air traffic controllers. Now there’s been a fatal accident. He was supposed to be updating the public but instead gave an incoherent, shameless rambling speech blaming DEI hires and politicised a tragedy. He truly is a despicable waste of piss
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I’d like to see them try and take off my wedding ring.
Tweet from user Cadence reports that the Idaho State House passed a resolution 46-24, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and reinstate marriage as only between one man and one woman. Includes a screenshot of the resolution text from the State Affairs Committee.
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Good to see Englands men are just as inept in throwing games away under the guise of slogging #engvsind
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Normally, now would be the time we in this house start thinking about fixing a gin and tonic, but due to The Cricket that was brought forward today to around nine this morning.
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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I'm so tired of it. Neil Gaiman claiming autism. Musk claiming autism. Autism doesn't make you do terrible, terrible things. Stop. Blaming. Autism.
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Alison Mitchell @alison-mitchell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Well that is a nadir for England #AusvEng
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Must be so hard for billionaire Musk trying to cope with the undiagnosed neurodivergence that he blames for all his shit far right behaviour. Should write a book about his difficulties, could call it “My Struggle” or something…
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Good to see Englands fielding is at its usual standard #Ashes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
They put a toddler in the White House.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Show me someone pretending that Prince Harry hasn't kicked Rupert Murdoch's arse from here to eternity & I'll show you a Murdoch lackey/Trump apologist/bare-faced liar. Some people may even fit all three categories!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Exactly. And film yourself doing it for social media!
User post states, "If what Elon did wasn't a Nazi salute then do it tomorrow at work."
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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Weird how some of the crowd all seem to make the same accidental arm gesture at the same time.
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is a message to everyone defending Elon Musk over his sieg heil at the Trump Inauguration. TLDR: His Nazi Salute isn't what make him a Nazi, his support for Nazis is. The salute is just a garnish.
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Innocent mistake or blatant dog-whistle? : Elon Musk
YouTube video by Femi
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The day marked a personal tipping point for Trump, who has now pulled out of more international agreements than Playmates. Ouch - Marina Hyde does it again 😂😂😂
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So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps | Marina Hyde
Confusing and capricious, he started as he means to go on. To all the leaders pledging to work with him: good luck with that, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Oooh a counter attack #Ashes
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simonstokes-f1.bsky.social @simonstokes-f1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Poor cricket from England here - lazy in the field and just terrible batting - Ashes are already gone and now avoiding a whitewash will be a good result………
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Aatif Nawaz @aatifnawaz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
280 all out feels like an over achievement from 44 for 4 but an under achievement from 217 for 4. #NZvENG
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Caribbean Cricket Podcast @caribcricket.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One wider issue is the general lack of 3 Test series for most nations How good would it have been for WI vs BAN to go to a decider, with BAN going for a series win and West Indies fighting to defend the honour of the region? A 2-Test series takes away that sense of victory
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Richard Porter @sniffpetrol.com · 02/12/2024
Dear The Daily Telegraph, How dare Jaguar destroy their proud heritage by releasing a pink car with a comically long bonnet. Yours, Peter Jambon-Fumé
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 26/11/2024
I see the Twitter Cling-ons have been circulating a petition demanding another General Election based on their perception that what was promised before the election isn't what is manifesting now. It's taking all my discipline to not go over there and spam them with: YOU LOST, GET OVER IT.
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