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David Neil Robinson @ddigitalmedia.bsky.social · 3h

Lol Starmer expressing his only two emotion sub routines

Fake Happiness

And

Self Loathing of his own existence

Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 3h

4. Is it cheating to think 'I know which city I think it must be but I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called and thus I will crack open Google maps?' Because if so, '6 or probably fail'.

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 5h

"I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."
Nigel Farage on Gill's pro-Russian statements in European Parliament.

Here's Nigel Farage & Nathan Gill in European Parliament. ⬇️
They mostly turned up to make pro-Russian/anti-EU statements.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

It’s been more than a decade since we learned that car manufacturers like Mercedes and VW were using ‘cheat devices’.

In that time thousands have died prematurely in the UK alone. So why no action? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/sixteen-th...

Sixteen thousand deaths - and no action

Dieselgate is one of the crimes of the century - so why no action by the Gove

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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Torochi Pochatree @pochatree.bsky.social · 10h

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

www.aljazeera.com

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 10h

The feeling of the Gazan citizen now is that he survived and will not die from the missiles, and also his feeling that he literally lost everything.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14h

This bit in particular: what, our leaders just decided that the UN aid agency were terrorists, then replaced them with mercenaries firing machine guns at starving civilians? Everyone involved needs to be tried for war crimes then sent to prison for decades.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 12h

This is the kind of deal which is going to have people spitting blood and cursing for the rest of the century, and possibly even beyond. "If the bloody council hadn't sold that actual square to a private developer in 2025, we'd have..."

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 14h

Jo Maigham, Peter Oborne. Happens sometimes.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsk... • 2d
"I don't think we can mitigate for climate change."
- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 1d

Yes the important thing to remember about these bastards is that they put blame-avoidance first, ahead of success. See also: choosing whether or not to stop the climate catastrophe.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 1d

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Charlie @cha2ie.bsky.social · 1d

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 2d

And what's the next paragraph say?

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 2d

Well yeah, there's a character limit. Thing is, it's much less of a simplification than a 2-word phase.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 2d

Because of course he did. They all did.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

www.thenational.scot

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 2d

'"Follow your dreams, it worked for me" says lottery winner.'

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11d

These guys now are selling magic beans back and forth to each other with money *they can't possibly afford* each desperate to not be left holding the bag because they all know that:

There is no pivot to a new grift left.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

The billionaires have been organising to seize as much control as they can because they know very well that sooner or later, every democracy on earth is going to recognise that the best place for them is prison, in self-defence.

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 2d

(Current GPEW policy is to transform NATO into a defensive-only alliance and if that doesn't work, leave. You stood for a Corbyn-led Labour party in 2019 which had a 'stay in NATO' policy. It wasn't a dealbreaker for you then...)

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