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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 19h

I assume all the 'hurty word' free speech warriors that were crying their eyes out over Lucy Connolly will be absolutely furious about the guy who has just been sent to prison for his social media posts about Nigel Farage.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 2d

I see this all.the.time about women’s clothing too. Posts asking for recommendations for natural fibres, well made, well designed, good quality, sustainable but wait, I only want to pay £20 for a dress.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 3d

Relatable

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WOR cester

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 7d

2024: Taylor Swift is the best pop star in the history of the whole world!

2025: Taylor Swift. Meh.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 8d

‘It’s not about the colour of your skin’. Except when it is. It shows how much the far right have emboldened people into naked racism when this gets said out loud.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 11d

Right? It was completely apropos of nothing. I bet these men don’t go up to a random guy and offer their opinion on their looks and intelligence.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 11d

I paid for Royal Mail delivery to avoid Evri for something I ordered and it arrived late and opened with stuff missing.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 11d

@jconnollybooks.bsky.social That conversation between Charlie and Sam in Children of Eve. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 11d

Huh. That reminds me of a fat, middle aged loser of a mechanic telling me I was ‘half and half’ meaning half decent and half intelligent. Where do these cunts get their audacity.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 13d

I remain convinced the Guardian just makes those up.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 14d

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

From Chloe Denkin

01-734 1717 and 1778

E3 ALBANY

PICCADILLY

WIV ORH

4th June 1981

Dear Master,

I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple.

You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt,

At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly.

But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences.

First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened.

You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility

to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate.

As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind.

A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule

against these deep considerations. It is not so.

I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so.

In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room.

Yours very sincerely,

David Emms, Esq., MA,

The Master of Dulwich College.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 15d

SLIVER, DAMMIT

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · 27d

Do they ask if you’re going to do a number one or a number two before they let you use it?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28d

Wait a minute, where is Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to defend our free speech?

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28d

🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · Sep 14

Are they using crayon because they’re too stupid to be allowed spray paint?

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shardcore @shardcore.org · Sep 13

finally we get to see what true patriotism looks like

group of racist melts pissing on a wall. one of them is wearing a st george cross on his arse.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · Sep 13

Next to the fat bottomed girl, presumably.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · Sep 12

People! It’s a slither of snake 🐍and a sliver of cake 🍰. They are two very different things.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Almost no one will have knowingly encountered someone who illegally entered the country, let alone seen them actually arrive on the beach at Dover. They just think there’s a crisis because other people keep telling them there is."

A nation is a shared illusion – so a government has the power to change it

Also this week: who was the first king of England? And my favourite giant semi-aquatic rat.

jonn.substack.com

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · Sep 9

Best thing today

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Sep 9

The knight stood, triumphant, over the prostrate dragon. He raised his sword high above his head and-

"I wouldn't if i were you"

The voice was in his head. Confused, he glanced around. A black cat was cleaning a paw, casually nearby.

He raised the sword again.

"Are you REALLY, really sure?" /1

BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Bailey G. Albreit @baileygalbreit.bsky.social · Sep 5

That tracks.

#cats #catmemes

Cats: [human tries to pet while the cat is asleep but the cat recoils--"Please respect my personal space."
Also Cats: Human is asleep in bed, cat comes and sleeps on their face.

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BethPH @bethph.bsky.social · Sep 4

While the admins of the local social media groups do *nothing* to remove hate speech and incitement despite repeated reports. It’s been obvious for weeks that the far right were inciting on the Epping groups yet the admins all ignored it.