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Pete

@spajn.org.uk
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Retired IT bloke. Now riding my bikes, hiking, volunteering for the Wildlife Trust, occasionally hanging out with my rather wonderful children. One day I might get my Moto Guzzi back on the road. Born at 316ppm.

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gaza before and after. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
images comparing Gaza to before and after the ethnic cleansing which Macklemore posted
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I bring worse news. That poor woman who lives in Piddington & who @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interviewed after that ridiculous election has had her address leaked to Tommy Robinson & the Pink Ladies & she’s been doxxed by both of them. Wtaf is going on. These people all need to be proscribed now.
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 19/09/2026
Deeply worrying - as indicated by Trump's "I love the poorly educated", this decline in learning will provide fertile ground to the far right charlatans
theguardian.com
European education powerhouses rocked by falling scores in global study
France and Germany among countries with low Pisa scores, which show how well 15-year-olds use school learning in life
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Masked thugs have put lives directly at risk here. Beyond shameful.
RNLI suspends services in Portsmouth over anti-migrant protests". The standfirst beneath reads: "Volunteers were abused physically and online since bringing 120 migrants ashore earlier this month". Below are buttons showing 4,076 comments. The article's lead photo, taken from above, shows an orange and navy RNLI all-weather lifeboat moored alongside a floating pontoon. A large group of people is gathered on the lifeboat's deck wrapped in foil for warmth
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 16/09/2026
BBC News - Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans - BBC News A whole village of racist NIMBYs, in Oxfordshire. Who would have thought it?
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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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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter...
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 16/09/2026
BBC please take note
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When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads | Peter Walker
As a cyclist I want the authorities to act with clarity. Lime bikes and renters can be annoying, but the true threat is those who dangerously flout the law, says the Guardian’s senior political corres...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm not a religious person, but if there were such a thing as the Antichrist, he would do what Trump does every day. Destroying our beautiful planet and the lives of its people for the sake of A. profit and B. a vengeful urge to destroy what other people love. So yes, demonic is the right word.
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)
J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you fall for this con-man again in November, we’re not sure how to help you. You’re probably beyond help…
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is owned by a few money laundering crypto billionaires. Farage is their greedy little broker. Happy to sell our country out to make even more money for the global tax-avoiding super-rich. Screw everyone else. Screw our rights. Screw our kids’ futures. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
Reform UK Is Now a
Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform's funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage's shady funders
ADAM BIENKOV
TODAY AT 12:36

Photo: Bitcoin Magazine's Frank Corva holds hands with Nigel Farage as he holds up a copy of his proposed Cryptocurrencies and Digital Finance Bill in Las Vegas.Starmer and Burnham's governments have left the door wide open to Delo, Harborne and other crypto billionaires to sweep in and effectively buy up one of our major political parties.
This in turn has an impact on the reporting, which broadly continues to treat these donations as being a massive boon for Farage, rather than being the incredibly alarming evidence of potentially criminal behaviour that it actually is.
This all really matters.
Because whilst the recent reporting of Farage's funding woes appears to have caused the party to dip slightly in the polls, we are still a long way from the general election, at which point the tens of millions of pounds supplied by Reform's shady crypto donors could prove to be an absolute gamechanger.
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prospectmagazine.co.uk
Why holding a placard is terrorism, disruption in a balaclava is not
The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 12/09/2026
Bin Laden won. In the years since 9/11, the USA has systematically dismantled most of the things that made it great.
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Mistakes, mistrust and misdirection: 25 years after 9/11, its dark legacy continues to unfold
The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/09/2026
Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The solution to prison crowding is not more prison cells. Burnham needs to look at why the prisons are full and address the causes. Here are some. 🧵
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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So much truth here! 😢
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Anyone else wondering how many policemen there were under those balaclavas?
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good reminder:
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 07/09/2026
Right-wingers, incels, misogynists... always the victims. Sigh...
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Teaching about respectful relationships in schools? How dare women! | First Dog on the Moon
Matt Canavan reckons feminism and woke genderism push young men toward the manosphere
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026
There's an argument for calling them masked thugs, because that is factually true. There's an argument for calling them pathetic cosplaying loser incels, also true, and laughing at them damages their tough-guy self image and hurts recruitment. There is no argument for calling them protesters.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reminder: When Ukraine asked Israel for help and access to its Iron Dome technology in June 2023, Netanyahu — on record — cited his good relationship with Putin as reason he could not do so.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Dear UK 🇬🇧 government. It’s ok , your vote isn’t going to collapse if you name & shame fascists & racists . It may well increase . Your silence in not standing up to bullies makes it look as if you’re standing with them . Their expression more brutal but you’re playing for the same team 💔
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mid June 2026: Daniel Thomas's Patriot Platform begin recruitment for a "patriotic army" and publicly announce they plan to block Dover. September 2026 The black-clad balaclava-ed Patriot Platform blocks Dover But sure, *spontaneous* 🙄 Looks like terrorism to me.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Does anyone in the UK really believe that masked thugs dressed in black blockading roads and ports AREN'T terrorists. But old grandma's holding signs are?
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djcaress.bsky.social @djcaress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A reference point for what a perilous position this country is in, with organised and funded far right mob squads able to takeover an area, blocking critical infrastructure, terrorising the local community, all without a single arrest being made. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I don’t really understand why Palestine Actiion became a proscribed organization and Tommy Robinson’s blackshirt thugs haven’t been. I mean I do understand, but I’m pretending I don’t because the truth is super depressing.
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 05/09/2026
I suspect Marina Hyde has just alienated a lot of people with this answer: Q: Clearly, politicians are worse than useless. Who would you pick as prime minister? A: JK Rowling." She also admitted to being still on X and that she had heard that Bluesky was "ghastly"
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How posh are you? Do you have a therapist? What would you say to Trump at a party? Marina Hyde answers readers’ questions
We asked you what you most wanted to put to our Guardian columnist. You responded in droves, querying her ‘beef’ with Burnham, who she thinks is this generation’s Hugh Grant, and what she really think...
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 05/09/2026
Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are 'Unsafe' Due to Asylum Seekers – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/02/p...
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Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are 'Unsafe' Due to Asylum Seekers
Force says Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford "are safe" and crime is down, as Reform-run county council launches £150,000 private security patrols over asylum seeker arrivals
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is - in more military language - what Putin set out in his July 2021 article 'On the historical unity of Russians & Ukrainians'. Putin's aims for Ukraine were & are genocidal. No-one in Europe should kid themselves that this is a war for territory, still less 'to prevent NATO expansion'.
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voteinthemidterms.bsky.social @voteinthemidterms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Water company bosses do need to be in prison. Build more prisons for water company criminals. And nationalise the assets so we never have to watch these people steal our water fees and kill our rivers again. Oh, and rejoin the EU which provides a sanctions system against pollution.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s not unlawful to campaign for the de-proscription of a group. It is not terrorism to make a statement of support for direct action, or to silently hold a piece of paper. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. End UK complicity in Israel’s genocide. Join: www.wedonotcomply.org
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Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - Defend Our Juries
🗓️ On September 27th, we are taking the defiance to Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference in Liverpool. For over a year now we’ve been getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act in our thousands for holding paper signs calling on the UK government to reverse their unjust ban on Palestine Action. The new Prime Minister has […]
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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The government of the UK have lost their collective minds.
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 28/08/2026
When FB added emojis to the original thumbs-up like, they took a deliberate decision not to include one that meant "You're a fucking idiot and your post is drivel". Now people use the laugh emoji to indicate this, and I'm worried that the joy of laughter is being corrupted.
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 23/08/2026
I can just feel my mind being controlled
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 19/08/2026
More enshittification. So sad.
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After 25 years, I’m breaking up with The Sims. Here’s why you should, too | Jordan Erica Webber
Now that Jared Kushner and the Saudi Investment Fund have bought The Sims’ publisher, EA, it’s unlikely to remain a game celebrating diversity and inclusivity, says video games writer Jordan Erica Web...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If I can quit Twitter, you can too
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump wakes up this morning threatening to bomb Oman. Welcome to another week with an unhinged madman running the country.
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 17/08/2026
Now the cheerleader is gone, who will save the world? RIP 😢
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The 12th of August marked the start of the shooting season. Beautiful grouse, shot from the sky, for no reason other than 'fun.'
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 13/08/2026
Safety Beach.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Pete @spajn.org.uk · 13/08/2026
I managed to get the 'O2' scam caller to tell me to fuck off today. Which seems like a win, for some reason.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Reform UK councillors in Kent wanted the national anthem played at the end of council meetings, but it blew up in their faces in the most hilariously petty way
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Reform UK councillors in Kent wanted the national anthem played at the end of council meetings, but it blew up in their faces in the most hilariously petty way
Footage from a meeting in July shows opposition party members holding Reform UK to their (every last) word on the national anthem.
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