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Mark Hebden

@unionlib.bsky.social
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 11h
Just went to the Coeliac Society website for advice on gluten free diets, first thing it did was tell me to accept cookies. Wounded.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 23h
This international break is far too long... another game next Tuesday?!?!
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 23h
England playing Czech republic and missing a golden opportunity for the fans to chant: Where's your Lovakia, where's your Lovakia...
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 23h
Ian Dunt thinks Burnham's speech was radical and praiseworthy - that's what proves it was centrist empty promises. If Dunt thought it was unaffordable and borderline communist it would be a plan that might change things.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You said it would be easy to get this petrol Del, now I'm on a terrorism charge. I'm gonna kill you!
Rodney and Del Boy looking worried
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think Pep is one of the most overrated things about modern football. Handed a ready made globally competitive team by Frank Rijkard at Barca then managed the team that can outprice everyone else in Germany and handed unlimited funds at Man City. Go manage Derby County and see how you get on.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The twice reduced chicken pie from the co-op that had a rip in the packaging may have been an error 🤮💩
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Harry Redknapp doesn't think Man City should be punished for fiddling the books. That's Harry Redknapp who opened a bank account in Monaco in the name of his dog to avoid tax.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Video of two racists in Blackpool telling a young black man sat on a bench to move on because "women and girls round here don't feel safe". I'm fucking sick of these entitled racist cunts, they want filling in.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One good thing about this Andy Burnham speech so far, he hasn't mentioned sausages once.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me: Is there anybody there Board: Ye fockin' talkin' boot ya wee fanny, get te fock Me: Oh no, this is a weegie board.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always makes me smile: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOqC...
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how the Scottish greet orca whales #orca #killerwhale #scotland #lochlomond
YouTube video by 2 WHEELED SCOTSMAN
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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Rick Astley's playing more gigs next summer. He really could do with a song about being persistent & never stopping.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 29/09/2026
Another stellar edition of ColdType: www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDF...
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio is basically Holden Caulfield and the British media is reporting him like he's not an unreliable narrator.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Except that was absolutely the intent of Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me: Is there anybody there Board: Ye fockin' talkin' boot ya wee fanny, get te fock Me: Oh no, this is a weegie board.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't believe there's not a decent dogging site anywhere between Camden and RAF Fairford, I mean that's 86 miles
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Slipknot touring with Marilyn Manson is a shit decision, both muscially and morally
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The truth about this RAF Fairford incident is going to be hilariously embarrassing when the truth comes out.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nooooo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Famous Huddersfield Railway Station cat Bolt dies in accident
Tributes are paid to Huddersfield Railway Station's senior pest controller Bolt.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We will continue to keep the poor poorer.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm doing an apprenticeship through this company at the moment (I had no idea whose company it was when I signed up via work) and this doesn't surprise me at all. AI marks everything www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd fucking love to go back 28 years... not in relation to Ireland, just generally.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shouldn't UEFA be the ones investigating this? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Israel v Republic of Ireland: FAI investigating alleged racist abuse of Adam Idah
The FAI is amassing high-quality footage of the alleged incident with the aim of presenting evidence to Uefa.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel fans chanted IDF and made monkey noises at black Irish players during the game against Ireland. Ban Israel.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sadly not the last genocide Britain was ambivalent about.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Been to a grief cafe tonight that I've been to many times - three new people who had stories to tell. Everyone is going through so much that you have no idea about. Best wishes to everyone who might be struggling with something!
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The transphobes leading the Labour Party decided to exclude trans women from the Labour Women’s conference. In doing so they excluded a huge number of cis women also; the venue was only 20% full. Labour needs to learn that transphobia harms everyone, including cis women, & not just trans people.
Lots of empty seats at Labour Women’s conference.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well done to the catholics in Drumcree for still being out and blocking the Nazi's from marching.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like chosing the font of a band who chose to fleece their own supporters is very on brand for Labour
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour MPs when they see Nazi's blocking ports: people with legitimate concerns Labour MPs when they see Catholics standing up for their community against hate and division: This is intolerable.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Darren Jones hates the poor, the young, the sick and the elderly
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My fuck as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've just invented a search engine specifically for 80s music.
Kajagoogle
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg saying "there's a protest outside, we don't know what it's about"... did the thousands of Palestine flags not give you some clue Laura?
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you see the word "loyalist campaigner" on BBC News in relation to Northern Ireland and don't know what it means, the shorthand is Nazi.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The reporting of this hate march in Northern Ireland shows just how anti-Catholic our media in Britain still is.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Unrest' is some way to describe three children being murdered in their house after it was burned down by the UVF.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The PSNI have asked Catholics to disperse who are currently blocking Garvaghy Road. The police should be banning the Orange Order's hate march but we all know the PSNI is thoroughly fucking fascist.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
William Morris stated that institutions that once served a useful purpose can become conservative forces defending an increasingly obsolete social arrangement. That sentence could be written solely for the Labour Party
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yamal - skies one over the bar. Sam Matterface: Wow, he's a special player.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't let the fact that all billionaires are bastards blind you to the fact that pretty much all millionaires are too.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This may be the worst ever period for quality English defenders. Every one of them is seriously flawed.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can you imagine the levels of entitled smugness you'd have to suffer at the Labour Party Conference?
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Merthyr Rising 1831: lost document uncovers true story of 'hero' who led revolt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Lost document uncovers story of Merthyr Rising 'hero' Lewis Lewis
New evidence has uncovered what happened next to a man who led a workers' revolt almost 200 years ago.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Next time you have imposter syndrome at work just remember that Lee Dixon is still a TV football co-commentator / analyst. Stealing a wage doesn't begin to describe it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For people sharing the above without context, I'm critiquing by analogy all the things women are asked to do to be safe in reply to a guy normalizing rape culture. Special bonus from @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's new essay.
Sanday is perhaps best known for identifying cultures as “rape prone” and “rape free.” Based on her study of more than 150 tribal societies, she identified what makes a society or culture “rape prone,” “rape free,” or something between the two. It still may come as a surprise to some that “rape free” is even a possibility. She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety, and freedom. When a woman says no, a man stops, an idea that many people struggle to think men are capable of. If a man proceeds to rape, he might, for example, be exiled. Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.

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After her decades-long global ethnographic studies, she turned her sights on American college campuses, studying roles, initiations, party behaviors, hazing, gender attitudes, pornography, male bonding rituals, and more across institutional settings — Greek systems and also athletics. She compiled her findings into an influential book, Fraternity Gang Rape,first published in 1990 and rereleased in 2007, with ongoing work in between. In it, she described how and why some fraternities are rape-prone while others are rape-tolerant or rape-free. She found that fraternity gang-rape shows recurring patterns in which a group of men targets one “party girl,” typically a woman who is already vulnerable.*
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good first half, end to end stuff. I'm reading Kautsky while it's on but come on England!
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