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Thérèse

@tiggertherese.bsky.social
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European, veg grower, archaic surfer, economist & extremely appalled ex-central banker. RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either. mastodon.social/@tiggertherese pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/78439…

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23h
The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 3h
Labour shouldn't relax about that.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 3h
Yes, there were several independents at the GE.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 5h
This isn't nearly as bad as I expected from the Sack Zack media campaign today. Labour really shouldn't be relaxed about this result.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 6h
Oh. I only just remembered there was a by-election. Holidays, eh? 🤣
A Cornish beach. The sky is mostly blue but the sea looks like a washing machine because it's very windy.A Cornish beach. The sky is mostly blue but the sea looks like a washing machine because it's very windy.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 6h
I just got sent a @yougov.co.uk poll asking exactly the same question. 🫣 Sometimes you know "the right answer" regardless of what you actually think. (Which wasn't one of the ultra simple options suggested, of course.)
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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 6h
Yesterday, 17 people were brought to safety aboard the Oyvon after more than 10 hours at sea on a black rubber boat. They came from Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and The Gambia. Among them were 8 minors, including 6 unaccompanied minors, a 4-year-old child and a 1-year-old baby
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I delivered some for a couple of years around 2005 despite not being a member. It was insane. People would rush out of their houses and threaten not to vote Lib Dem if they got any more leaflets! When I mentioned this I was told Lord Rennard was a campaign genius and said we must deliver them all. 🫣
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph
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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This something sort of inevitable about BBC execs getting excited about stuff that everyone else was sick of 20 years ago.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your periodic reminder that John Redwood was a Fellow of All Souls.
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David Bowie News @davidbowienews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
David Bowie, New York City, 1996, by Albert Watson. From the Surreal series Albert did with Bowie in and around his old studio in the Meatpacking District of the West Village in Manhattan.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Consider yourself lucky. The Lib Dems used to carpet bomb Highgate with endless leaflets. 🫣
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bit windy today.
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paul Foot (1995) on Jeffrey Archer the serial liar wp.me/p15p2Q-hN8
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Paul Foot on Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer who has died aged 86 was not a lovable rogue but a serial liar who ended up being sentenced to 4 years in prison for perjury. Even The Times lengthy obituary gives full details. Befo…
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe something to do with so few people having such a vast share of the planet's money and resources and power over individuals and governments and accelerating climate change?
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 07/10/2026
Noticing the nights drawing in? 🌙 October brings a big shift, with most of the UK losing over 2 hours of daylight this month. Do you enjoy the cosy evenings or miss the longer days?
Map of the UK showing daylight lost during October by region, with colored bands and city labels and values (Lerwick −2h40m; Stornoway −2h30m; Oban/Aberdeen −2h20m; Belfast/Glasgow/Newcastle −2h10m; Hull/Manchester/Birmingham −2h; Cardiff/London/Southampton/Plymouth −1h50m).
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
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Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life Eva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen work spanned six decades: Saint made her screen debut opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated thriller North by Northwest, and in one of her last screen appearances played Superman’s adoptive mother Martha Kent in the 2006 superhero film Superman Returns. A family spokesman said on Tuesday that Saint had died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. Continue reading...
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history
Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dressSide mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary GrantThe open back of the red roses dress
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 06/10/2026
Pleased to report that my page is a) basic b) largely impersonal and c) wrong. Still creepy as shit, though.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
why is anyone allowing these arseholes to do this?
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TweetJohnnyBoy @tweetjohnnyboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thought you'd seen the last of this lying gobshite. A fake patriot, a fake veteran and an incompetent disaster at the Ministry of Defence
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RIP George Fenton. youtu.be/L9l8kwEg_p0?...
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Tv Theme Shoestring (full Version)
YouTube video by tvtestcard
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not sure I believe the extremely marked difference between Aldi and Lidl here. 🤔
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The wheel spins as it should.
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Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament
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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How very dare you! Remebering the great Donald Pleasence while referring to Austin Powers is like remembering the great Paul McCartney while referring to 'Ebony and Ivory'. Or remembering the great Stevie Wonder while referring to 'Ebony and Ivory'.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apart from all 60-70-80 year old Green voters in places like North London. 🤷
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PJ Taylor @thepjtaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Check the byline... bsky.app/profile/thep...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ringo starr once described a young Jeffrey Archer as "as a nice enough fella, but he's the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it" which seems like a fitting epitaph for the man.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 05/10/2026
Decades of protest groups: US BOMBERS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY US Administration: here’s exactly what it will take for us to remove our bombers from your country
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Or whatever they were up to. 🤣
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1/ Albert Einstein sometimes described himself as a Zionist & wanted Palestine to be a safe haven for Jews. But he abhorred ethno-nationalist Zionism & foresaw its destructive consequences. This is the now dominant form of Zionism that the Green Party motion refers to but it is is not the only...
For Netanyahu, the presupposition is that Israel must stand as a Jewish state, something that Einstein did not approve of. Yes, Einstein was a self-proclaimed Zionist, but as with so much else, Einstein’s view was non-standard. Einstein thought that Palestine should be a multi-cultural nation which could serve as a safe space for Jews in danger to flee and in which there would be Jewish institutions, especially Hebrew University, which he saw as a potential beacon of pride for Jews around the world if it could be made into a world-class research university. But the idea of an exclusively Jewish state worried Einstein because it would take Judaism and marry it to nationalism, something that could rot Judaism from the inside.

As a child in turn of the century Germany, Einstein had developed a loathing of nationalism and the jingoistic militarism it bred. The heart of Judaism as Einstein saw it was an appreciation of the other as a full human being. Jews since the Diaspora were always minorities and this meant that Jews had acquired a sense of what it meant to be marginalized and thereby an ethic based on empathy and mutual recognition. If real estate became a golden idol to be worshipped, it could cause harm to the ethic that lay at the core of Judaism itself.

Of course, Einstein’s vision is not that which shaped the region, but it was not a fight Einstein failed to take up passionately, arguing publicly and vociferously with those who would be the founding fathers of what has become Likud, Netanyahu’s political party. Their nationalistic ideology and their glorification of violent means led Einstein to denounce them. It was nationalism that fed anti-Semitism, Einstein contended, to adopt such a stance ourselves would cause us to ignore the lessons our history should have taught us.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hurrah for red diesel thieves! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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No 10 says RAF Fairford is 'safe' after US withdraws bombers
US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base last week.
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️
The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did you weave Angela Rayner in? Sure did boss, real cool and relatable just like you asked for Great....wait what? #CPC26
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
THE TAPESTRY IS HERE #CPC26
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry, I refuse to be snide - this is the greatest moment in British political history #CPC26
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is that Gordon Brown? 🤣
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Apsana Begum MP speaking words that need to be heard. Stand up to racism, resist fascism, together.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And it's more and more impossible to avoid things like palm oil in some products, eg washing up liquid.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And check that they're real reviews. Loads of well known companies' websites are stuffed full of "incentivised" or "influencer" reviews now. (Sainsbury's, Waitrose etc.)
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I thought Mr Spock, but not because it made any kind of sense.
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh. Shows how little I know. I thought they'd given him oversized Mr Spock ears.
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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The sentence for detonating a bomb a few metres from houses on a suburban residential road in the early evening seems entirely reasonable. It was sheer luck that nobody was injured or worse. Perhaps Sarah should explain what sentence this terrorist should have received?
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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I (eventually) watched Succession for almost nothing by renting the DVDs from my local library.
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