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BarefootFi

@barefootfi.bsky.social

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Please don’t ask me for direct donations I give support via organisations. Left like a Socialist, woke like I'm awake. Anti fascist, anti capitalist, anti racist. Pro humanism. Looking for knowledge, inspiration and humour. Norfolk, UK

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 12d

I think this is helpful right now to anyone freaking out.

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Big Thief - No Fear (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Big Thief

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1h

Reform caught disguising its local election candidates as 'independents'

Reform disguises parish-level candidates as independents to win elections, showing that independent doesn't always mean progressive
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Reform caught disguising its local election candidates as 'independents'

Reform disguises parish-level candidates as independents to win elections, showing that independent doesn't always mean progressive

www.thecanary.co

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to pick 5, I might change my mind but what springs to mind as a child of the TV generation is
Most of the works of Oliver Postgate
Roots tv series
Life On Earth tv series
Meeting my friend Ruth when we were 8 years old.
Getting a Raleigh Shopper.We cycled all over Hertfordshire on our bikes

BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 1h

Turn Left doing a great job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Great to spend weekend at The World Transformed in Manchester.

- Q&A with lots of students
- spoke on a panel about the future of the left
- another event on housing & rent controls.
- hosted a quiz!

Great energy!

And caught up with @turnleftmedia.co.uk

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Reform are Cowards | Zack Polanski Interview at The World Transformed

YouTube video by Turn Left

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3h

More than half a million people marched for Palestine in central London yesterday.

As long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians, we will continue to resist them.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Proscribe the IDF ❌

Green graphic of a large crowd at a protest
Text reads:
Half a million march for Palestine
Signs read:
Stop Arming Israel
Gaza Stop Genocide
Free Palestine
End the siege

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 2h

Greater Anglia comes into public ownership today🎊🎉

Passengers are one step closer to a railway that is run in their interest, not the interest of shareholders from around the world.

Time for a railway that is run for us.

Image of a Greater Anglia train with the text "Greater Anglia brought into public ownership".

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 4h

Nowcast Update: Reform Steady, Labour at lowest & Greens at highest since GE24.

RFM: 351 (+346), 31.0% - (52 Maj.)
LAB: 103 (-308), 20.3%
LDM: 76 (+4), 13.5%
SNP: 43 (+34), 2.7%
CON: 35 (-86), 17.8%
GRN: 8 (+4), 10.2%
PLC: 6 (+2), 1.0%
Oth: 9 (+4), 3.5%

electionmaps.uk/nowcast

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 6h

Sorry but 💀

Our rivers and seas can’t wait FIFTEEN YEARS, Thames Water.

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Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 6h

Andrew has lied about his relationship with Epstein again and again. Charles and William have conspired to protect Andrew for over a decade. We need a Royal Epstein Inquiry NOW. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6h

More than 70,000 people complained over GB News’s use of a hateful, homophobic trope.

This week, the regulator finally acted and declared the channel in breach.
https://bit.ly/4h5ZvAK

goodlawproject.org

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Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 2d

Why should the monarchy be able to opt-out of laws when they want to? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 5h

Clarkson forced to put down his calf after they go down with TB, is he finally waking up to the fact that shoddy testing is one of the main reasons this disease continues to spread..?!

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 5h

. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn

Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn, who Gill now admits paid him to make pro-Russian statements, is not some small-time two-bit player. The Nerve can reveal that Voloshyn is also connected to efforts to destabilise the US

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry couldn’t resist sharing this. youtu.be/CPZjPz7354c?...

How To Solve The Climate Crisis | Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping | Channel 4 Comedy

YouTube video by Channel 4 Comedy

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 10h

The problem Zarah has ( and alot of people on the left) is they have to rationalise the need for Your Party and not just joining the Greens.
So they are trying to come up with redlines. Pretty tough if you were a Labour member until the other day.

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 5h

It’s incredibly frustrating that the Greens have to continue to take ‘Your Party’ seriously because the numbers of supporters were so huge when months later theres still no party, little progress and they still give off such a chaotic and divided vibe. Watching this car crash in slow motion is sad.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 1d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 9h

How about ‘cut him off forever and turn all the evidence over to the police’?

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 7h

But what about all the waste they told us about? What about all the savings DOGE was going to find? What about the promises to cut council tax?
It's almost as if they were just making shit up to fool people, like they did with Brexit.

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 6h

This still baffles me. Why extreme anti trans and TERFS believe trans people are such a threat when all the evidence shows they are the ones most threatened and vulnerable. Only possible explanation is transphobia is a real mental disorder that needs treatment.

IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 7h

This is Graham Linehan, who UKLabour, WesStreeting and every columnist in the country rushed to defend when he was arrested by police, after inciting online violence and smashed a trans girl’s phone. They are even changing the law specifically to protect him. “Just a joke” @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 7h

Fascism and the far right seek to dehumanise, and deny civil rights to whole categories of people.
We’ve been here before, and can use lessons from the past to help defend and protect our friends and communities.
Survival is resistance, never give up ✊

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 7h

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book

"Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law."

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤬🍊💩

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 19h

Oh no!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 19h

They used to ask Corbyn if he would ‘press the button’ if he was PM then use his answer to dismiss him.

BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 19h

Piers really set that up in a rather obvious way didn’t he? Do you want to be PM? Does a woman have a penis? Then thinks he can claim Zack can’t be a serious politician on the basis of that. It’s the same trick they used with Corbyn or any politician they don’t like-contd

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 20h

And you too xx