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Symmaria

@symmaria.bsky.social
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Used to teach Art, now I spend as much time as possible looking at my dog, trees and the sky.

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
The hypocrisy 👀 Sarah Pochin MP bought an £800,000 second home on a Welsh island two days after raising concerns in Parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities.
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communiti
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...
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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter
Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 Please boost, read, and sign if you want to support ✍️ OPEN LETTER: Pause the national rollout of AI-mediated tutoring in England's schools docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND’S SCHOOLS
OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watching David Olusoga’s excellent history of Britain’s slave trade, which begins in the 1500s and spools forward to reveal how much money was made by so many different people www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... B
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga - Series 1: Episode 1
David Olusoga reveals the new research that uncovers how the slave trade was driven by the monarchy, beginning with Elizabeth I, and how a royal monopoly was established.
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's our shameless take on things you wouldn't do as an ally to blind and partially sighted people 👀 What else wouldn't you do?
"You wouldn't pet a working guide dog" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with an icon of a guide dog below."You wouldn't say 'over there' as a direction to a blind person" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with arrows pointing in lots of different directions below.
"You wouldn't jump over a blind person's cane" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with an icon of a person using a white cane."You wouldn't forget to add alt text to your pictures" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with the alt text icon below.
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Symmaria @symmaria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign and share everywhere please. 👇
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨 Can we all agree to totally ignore and destroy the “PolitlcsUK”* account everyone gets their news from now? It’s run by a REFORM COUNCILLOR, and trickles bias and fabricated nonsense in under a neutral guise. Share this. Drop it under friends reposts. 👀 Evidence in next post…. /1
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
oxfordmail.co.uk
Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The financier of the president’s son’s wedding.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/09/2026
🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. He’s supplying covertly-procured information while being supported by the British taxpayer. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...
hopenothate.org.uk
Lennon's Secret Agent
A former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reform conference got off to a flying start
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cambridge University to investigate associate professor connected to Reform funding scandal www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Cambridge University probe into James Orr after Reform donations sting
James Orr stepped down from Reform UK after claims he arranged to have polling paid for by an overseas company
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Re-upping this...
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Symmaria @symmaria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That nice feller? From the Channel 4 sting? Never!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Channel 4 documentary on Reform party donations - www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've just signed an EXECUTIVE ORDER that renames Donald Trump Wiggy Little Hands. Thank you for your attention to the matter.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just a few short days to take advantage of this bargain
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
To support what I do, please consider signing up to my Substack👇 monkdebunks.substack.com/ It's free 👍🏻 However, paid subscriptions and coffee (or tea in my case!) donations (buymeacoffee.com/MonkDebunks) really help 😜 10/10
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair. 

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels. 

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I currently have more stories in the works on Reform's finances - about a dozen strong leads - than I know what to do with... I am working my way through them. Thanks if you're along for the ride!
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Pet Portraits By Hercule @portraitsbyhercule.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New commission finished!! This free-range beef wellington belongs to the wonderfully lovely Charlie Tomlinson.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Turns out it happened on July 23rd. Give him a boost and let's do something nice
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We are now a third of the way into August and it's an August only deal. Permission to panic.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.
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Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
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Symmaria @symmaria.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The good news is that people really love the audiobook version of Notorious. The even better news is that as of today, it's an absolute flipping bargain! www.audible.co.uk/pd/Notorious...
An absolute masterpiece of myth-busting!
Bram : 29 May 2026


Otto English's Notorious is an eye-opening.
hilarious, and deeply researched reality check that
strips away centuries of PR and propaganda from
history's most famous figures. What makes the
audiobook format so spectacular is the perfect
marriage of English's razor-sharp, witty writing and
his flawless narration, his deadpan British delivery
and natural charisma make it feel less like a lecture
and more like a brilliant conversation at the pub. It
is a compelling, fast-paced masterclass in critical
thinking that will completely change how you view
historical icons. If you love history, great
storytelling, or just want an expertly narrated audio
experience that keeps you glued to your
headphones, download this immediately!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I've thought about your POLL so much, my brain went numb (Many people don't know, or assume, that NUMB ends in "b") I prefer DUMBO-crat as it contains the name of 1 of the most popular Disney characters of all-time! You're welcome for my attention to this very important matter! Beloved Icon-MRH
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very Well Said, Bruce….
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Repost from August 2024
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Last week the BBC mentioned in local news that Ryan Bridge and Ben Cullen of Raise the Colours had been banned from putting up flags in Oxfordshire after a sustained documented campaign of intimidation This week Ben Cullen is on trial for making over 70 indecent images of children BBC: *crickets*
bbc.co.uk
Activists agree to stop hanging flags from Oxfordshire lampposts
It comes after Oxfordshire County Council lodged a High Court case to prevent the flag hanging.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 01/07/2026
A British-Indian friend told me how Reform activists threatened to take away her family's passports if they get into power. The rising tide of racism should worry us all. And the politicians who are stoking it must be condemned.
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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Galloway lives in Russia and has done since last year. Feel this has rather gone under the radar.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
thedailybritain.co.uk/james-obrien...
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James O'Brien's takedown of Farage's £5m defence is a must watch
James O'Brien pointed out on LBC that Farage was the majority shareholder of Reform UK when he took the £5m from Christopher Harborne - making his claim that he wasn't in frontline politics at the tim...
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marlasinger3.bsky.social @marlasinger3.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I love the way trump makes his supporters defend the dumbest stuff. Nobody else could prove they’re idiots like he can.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/06/2026
Trump: "Some countries had no mental institutions. The mental institutions were taken -- all of those people were taken to our southern border and allowed to just walk freely into our country under Sleepy Joe Biden."
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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He should do his first post as Labour leader on here and close down his twitter account.
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Presidential or demential?
More puerile shit from the actual president of the United States
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