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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12h

Reform UK need to come clean about refugees in Wales.

85% of refugees in Wales being supported are Ukrainian and the grand total of ALL refugees being supported is under 3k.

Formal complaint to Returning Officer as Reform is accused of lying about Nation of Sanctuary

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Formal complaint to Returning Officer as Reform is accused of lying about Nation of Sanctuary

Martin Shipton Leading members of the Ukrainian community in Caerphilly are making a formal complaint to the official running the seat’s Senedd by-election, alleging that Reform UK is lying about the ...

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 11h

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 12h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h

Nigel Farage should tell the people of #Caerphilly about how he wants to abolish the Senedd.

Actually, no need, we have a video of him saying it.

(Also about how Fox Hunting turns him on).

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 14h

Ondemand never Did return 😱

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 1d

Imbeciles. Philistines. Anti-scientists. Ghouls.

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 1d

Meh 🙄

Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 1d

I went to an all women club night tonight- never felt so at ease x

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

celebrities as lord of the rings characters: thread

Doja cat in a dress the same shape as the eye of Sauron.

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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 2d

Wishing everyone a slightly early Happy #ComingOutDay! 🏳️‍🌈 (11/10/25) 📕📙💛📗📘💜

photo of a 3 book shelves full of books. The books are all different heights and are ordered in colour order. The colour order is representative of the pride flag.

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 1d

That’s messed up!!

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 1d

(Kinda puts a nice pair of spectacles etc in perspective, doesn’t it?) This is a man who is totally out for himself and who didn’t give a crap about improving the lives of the people who voted him in! Given a free pass by so much of the press because he amused/charmed them.

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Disasters Emergency Committee @decappeal.bsky.social · 2d

The ceasefire agreement in Gaza provides desperately-needed hope and relief for so many people whose lives have been devastated by conflict.

DEC charities and their local partners are now preparing to scale up their work.

Please donate: donation.dec.org.uk/middle-east-appeal

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Prize: “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise+resist.” 1/

Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela+for her struggle to achieve a just+peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2d

“Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.” 2.

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 2d

#otd in 2004, for the first time, a Black African woman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari Maathai's award had come at a terrible price including physical abuse and imprisonment. Her crime? Planting 30 million trees and exposing corruption. 👇

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

Women's History Month - Wangari Maathai - Manchester University Press

To mark Women’s History Month and the publication of her new book Wildly different, we asked historian Sarah Lonsdale to profile the five pioneering women she focuses on, bringing their fascinating st...

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Rebecca J @hipporebecca.bsky.social · 4d

Even if I didn’t have a personal interest in librarians, I would be urging all of you with access to iPlayer to watch this documentary www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... It’s about the censorship of books in US school libraries but also about how right wing money, not facts, is influencing politics.

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union with her daughter Christabel on this day 1903.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Mar 21

Made in Manchester: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), born in Moss Side, founded the suffragettes, yet ended as a Conservative. Historians argue about whether her militancy helped or hurt the women's suffrage movement. She certainly raised its profile. 1/8

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 2d

@liverpool1207.bsky.social might know?

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 2d

Bomb site, on the right, presumably: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

Blitzed: Liverpool lives

This exhibition revealed the devastation the Blitz brought to the lives and city of Liverpool in photographs taken by Liverpool City Police between 1940 and 1941. The photographs were accompanied by p...

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 3d

I emailed a BBC podcast last week asking them to talk about it (they didn’t). Why did Fiona Bruce make light of this and just and move on? Russia is obviously destabilising our country and has been for a long time! This is important.

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Catharina @catharina24.bsky.social · 3d

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Blondie - The Tide Is High

YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 3d

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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