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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 15h

This is an incredible photograph credit: Yan Dobronosov/Reuters

A middle aged woman kneels beside a truck on some leaves at night. She is dressed in night clothes and her dressing gown. one hand is in her. lap, while she holds a mobile phone to a banadaged ear with the other. The bandage goes around her head in the manner of a traditional toothache remedy. Her face is badly cut and blood has splashed across her neck and clothes and the knees of her pink pyjama bottoms. She is looking over the camera, feasibly at the destruction caused to her home by a Russian missile, with a look that is both shocked and haunted.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

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Letter: A defence attaché despairs at inevitability of conflict

From Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), Oakham, Rutland, UK

[Photo of Sherlock Holmes and Watson monument at the British Embassy in Moscow]

MARCH 23 2022

The recent article by Maria Stepanova "The war of Putin's imagination" (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 19) was exemplary. However, one jarring note was the unfounded notion that no one expected this aggression from the Kremlin.

I served as the UK's defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016, during which time this long, dark march to war was obvious, the path to conflict lit by the many pronouncements emanating from the dark red walls of Vladimir Putin's palace.

We reported the inevitability of conflict in detail, regularly and with the despair of Cassandra. One of the earliest reports opened with a line from Sherlock Holmes, whose statue stands outside the British Embassy wall: "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast."

The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed. His many declarations were meant to be heard and understood: the colossal rearmament programme, the demand for more complex, more lethal weaponry; the militarisation of society; the distortion and seizure of the popular narrative; domination of education, the media and the courts to exclude contrasting views and, ultimately, the alienation and destruction of those among the Russian people who understood the folly of his declared ambition.

The list is remorseless, the consequences could not be ignored. But they were.

It was not until I returned to the UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.

All was subjugated to the City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth. The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.

I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered.

Carl Scott

Air Commodore (Retired)

Oakham, Rutland, UK

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Why is it that nationalists always have such poor memories?" asks this reviewer of Matt Goodwin's new book 'Suicide of a Nation'. "Perhaps this is not a book that should be judged on its empirical detail..." Read it now, for free, here: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/review-...

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Review: Suicide of a Nation. Immigration, Islam, Identity, by Matt Goodwin.

The ramblings of a pub bore.

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Tend your eggcorns well, that they may grow to become Mighty D'ohks #ssshh

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shardcore @shardcore.org · 13/10/2026

morning

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Stop the boats but the A in boats is crossed out with a Musk X to say BOTS

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#mancityguilty will be shit. Owners happy to keep paying wages as per for a made-for-TV redemption arc will mean sponsor money everywhere so the smaller clubs are happy, Citeh are back in a year, acting vindicated, and the regulars at that level are cheering, 'Bye! We love you! Thnx for the 9-0!'

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I shouldn’t get too close- people will think I’m with the band! I’m joking of course.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ballpoint pen, watercolor, colored pencil, a little crayon, and charcoal pencil.

Our guy pulls up deep in the forest on his 2-speed bike. He’s flanked by tall dark trees and his path is blocked by a massive spider. He lets the Big Fella know it’s on. “Big Fella,” he says. “I fixed my 2-speed. You still wanna race.” Reader, you know Big Fella wants in on that action. Next slide.

Against a starry night sky we see silhouettes of Big Fella and our man racing down a hill. It’s unclear in the drawing who will win but Big Fella is likely about to pull away.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

youtube.com

Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Stanandthat @stanandthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(chef's kiss)

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They all knew ahead of time who he is...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran would one hundred percent hide a zombie bite.

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

just seen balaclavas (as per our 'brave' 'patriot' lads in Portsmouth) described as Nonce Bonnets and I am very here for that

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hang on -Frank Zappa is in Head? How didn't I know that?

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lad looks like the stash was originally twice that size

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I SEE ur Dad's Army, and I raise you... Tommo's Gumbies!

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"You are the problem" meme via Expose Racism

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you don’t know it, @fip.fr is The worlds most eclectic radio station It is a French station, available free online, that has no promos, stings, ads, news or bantz, and the only DJ talk you get is French…

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@fip.fr loving this morning! Did not know any of these- c’est manifique-eclectique!

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Curious to know how the people stupid enough to believe Nigel Farage was 'just like them' and vote Reform in the past will react to the naked bribery of £76m ... probably still stupid enough I guess?

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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When the media tells you the UK is overrun by foreigners or Muslims or immigrants , they are lying to you .

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

...Hang on; so does 'Anti-establishment' just mean 'criminal' nowadays?

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Genuien ottorpunity - no previous experience necer... necess. nerecessa needed.

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'Well, maybe, but first things first— what school did you go to and what clubs are you a member of?'

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They say should never speak ill of the dead, only good. Reform is dead. Good.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

wow. EOTR proving popular. Finally get through to discover I'm in an hour long quue behind 1700 others :((((((

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well... Citizen Tickets don't seem to be doing a great job so far... #EOTR27

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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy #SocialistSunday comrades ✊🏻

Four-panel political cartoon. An older white man in a suit warns two workers, one Black, one white, "Careful. That foreigner wants your cookie." While he distracts them, the workers wrestle the plate of cookies away from him and ultimately share them peacefully together.

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It didn’t feel possible.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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End Of The Road @endoftheroadfestival.com · 27/08/2026

Just 7 days until the last big weekend of the summer

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thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the 25th is gonna finally get used because he's gonna say something unforgivable about her

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Serving a customer at work today, I must have looked a bit distracted because she said sympathetically, 'You look like you have a lot on your mind'. I just nodded and smiled. I was actually placing characters from Porridge on a political compass.

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