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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also the "countries they'll never visit" is a joke, given the proportion of stories outside of the UK or USA is virtually nil, unless there's an actual war on, maybe.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Went through the same disappntment when I found out if his name wasn't actually Justin Beaver
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.
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George Jedras @koz581.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you for being a 'decent' human being Ms. Owen when so many other people who can stop the Palestinian Genocide are silent!
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that being a faithful Christian, or Jew, requires slavish obedience to whatever Israel's leaders do is as unbiblical as it is morally repugnant.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The (particularly) stupid thing about this is that if you actually read the parts of the Bible which talk about the Kingdom of Israel, God is pissed off at them nearly all the time. Hardly any kings get pass marks
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fruit pastille lollies are the worst for this. Tiny bit of blackcurrant at the start then all the rubbish flavours
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Don't Negotiate With Insurrectionists @wonderdogabides.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Being from a small town in Scotland, I can tell Elon that this has never happened, ever, and that he's a drug addled bawbag-eyed corned beef faced wank stain.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When your targets are laughing along with the joke, it's time to pack it in.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As ever, Civilization 2 sets the standard: youtu.be/XqPC08cPGJw?...
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Civ 2: Anarchy
YouTube video by yootoobnewbie
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talk TV and GB News broadcast hate, the media was out of control this summer tearing apart the life and achievements of Jason Arday: nothing from Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary. Racists in Piddington vote to leave the UK, and up she pops, clapping like a seal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm sure he has some pals in Russia who could put him up
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It irks me that they're still called Mini Cheddars when they're clearly the standard version now. Cheddars should be renamed Big Mini Cheddars.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I literally had to run a marathon for my Dad to tell me he was proud of me.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Son of an MP sounds like a horrific insult.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
OnlyCunts would have been a much more accurate renaming, given who actually still posts on there now.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Anonymous billionaire donors are Reform Uk's biggest asset.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I still don't really believe banquette is a real word rather than just an Alan Partridge joke.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’s in this context that we’re being asked to believe the press has hounded yet another minor public figure to death for fun, for a laugh, but also in the public interest, and reminded we should be mindful of the vital role they play in our society. I would ask: *for whom* do they play that role?
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It's open season in the press again and that's fine, I guess. But press freedom remains a vital thing and it needs to be defended.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yes, women are oppressed by patriarchy. No, trans women are not sleeper agents of that patriarchy trying to access stolen valour.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
(As with transphobia before TERFs, there is already significant prejudice bubbling under from the usual sorts. The difference here is that we'll get ostensibly "liberal" voices becoming increasingly intolerant of neurodiversity and trying to frame ableism as progressive.)
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And for most people who talk about "British culture" - that's what they're referring to.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ctrl+Z has saved my arse more times than I could possibly count.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There needs to be more urgency from the police to investigate + prosecute this clear incitement to xenophobic violence against asylum seekers, the platform + the online regulator Ofcom & ministers to cut off & prevent this malicious & unlawful content inews.co.uk/news/vigilan...
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🔞🏳️‍⚧️::515::🏳️‍⚧️🔞 ( weekly goal $5/ $500) @515art.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Selma to Montgomery marches were in 1965, there was *very much* a national debate about who could use which fuckin bathrooms...
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Wasn't til my late 30 I learned it doesn't have an R in it. I'd always assumed it was like Argos (somewhere the owners would never ship, presumably)
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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Like the article exclusively cites specific examples of threats from the right, but vaguely implies a broad spectrum of abuse, particularly with "trans issues". If you can't be honest about who's threatening you, or how it's dragging your reporting to the right, how can anyone ever trust you?
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Grampa Simpson's Stern Warning
Alt: Grampa Simpson - "and it'll happen to you"
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
youtu.be/9jBlE5F7r8I?...
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Not the 9 O'Clock News One Legged Men Shoplift Shoes
YouTube video by Highland Sparkle
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Proper group of death stuff this. Caramel log would beat 90% of other biscuits, but gotta play what's in front of you.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Or for viewers in Scotland - Dunfermline.
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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You're laughing. Keir Starmer's free flight to the world cup final has been cancelled and you're laughing.
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Marcus Wellington-Boot @funglethegnole.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Strangely the people who obsess about wearing a poppy tend to be the same ones who call for Britain to go to war every time another country does something they don't like. It's almost like they forgot.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Always said if I went on this (or deal or no deal) I'd use the eeny meeny minie mo method. It works just as well as the cod psychology bullshit.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
And wheels/tyres like this! images.fineartamerica.com/images/artwo...
Whitewall car tyre with a striking red circle and shiny silver hub
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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It is NOT a “loophole” that Commonwealth citizens who have been permanent UK residents since before 1973 cannot be deported. It was Parliament’s deliberate decision in the 1971 Immigration Act. It is based on hundreds of years of free movement between the Commonwealth/Empire, abolished in 1973.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If the OP can successfully pronounce Milngavie without googling I'll concede the point.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Public to decide asylum cases as Mahmood pledges to speed up decisions
The Home Secretary will set out plans for a new independent body made up of people from a range of backgrounds with training similar to magistrates.
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Gustav Gnahler @gustavgnahler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
heartbreaking to see a once proud scottish football mascot reduced to turning tricks like this
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Games console release cycles are far too short as well. We'll never see anything like the jump from 6th to 7th generation again.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12/06/2026
The interest focus of U.S. "business journalism" isn't real people, labor, technology, or whether the technology even works, it's unchecked wealth accumulation. And it's not subtle.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
He was good on Eurotrash though
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Could rebrand it as a food gloryhole. Get the pornhub generation on board.
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Steve Jackson @stja.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"We could colonise Mars..." is just a billionaire response to "there's nothing left for me to buy". Once you've built your earth survival bunker, how do you up it? Billionaires are basically Bond villains.
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
youtu.be/1TGv9YftAWQ?...
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Billy Connolly - Incontinence pants
YouTube video by Comedy Boutique
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Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Also annoying is "praise for the author's previous work" - this one not up to much, then?
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