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@endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social

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‘Every great action begins with the statement of what is.' Will dance for cake, but no DMs please.

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · Jun 22

A song a day until every Nazi dies …
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Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 2h

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2h

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 8h

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h

Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.

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Peter Barden @peterbarden.bsky.social · 12h

Stop the big boats 🛥️

Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 15h

1970's: CEOs earn 20 x more than average worker
2025: CEOs earn 122 x more than average worker
The richest 1% own 50% of entire country's wealth.

Obscene inequality has been normalised.

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve a horrible feeling America is one guardsman panicked reaction away from a protestor bloodbath 😕

Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 19h

Lunatic social Darwinist says what?

Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 19h

Crikey. That gateau sounds wonderful!

winnie the pooh sitting at a table with a bowl of food and a spoon

ALT: winnie the pooh sitting at a table with a bowl of food and a spoon

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 21h

My aunt was the best cook I’ve ever seen. Sundays at my aunt’s meant waiting patiently as the adults talked, before being let loose on the sweet table which always had at its centre a glorious pavlova. How the meringue maintained its structural integrity with that much cream and fruit was a miracle.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

Sacked eight years ago for secret 'Israel' meetings, Priti Patel is still shilling for Zionism

Former Tory minister and permanent sociopath Priti Patel has been on the BBC repeating standard Zionist fictions about Palestine marches
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Sacked eight years ago for secret 'Israel' meetings, Priti Patel is still shilling for Zionism

Former Tory minister and permanent sociopath Priti Patel has been on the BBC repeating standard Zionist fictions about Palestine marches

www.thecanary.co

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 23h

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 23h

A song a day …

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THE CURE - JUST LIKE HEAVEN (40 LIVE - CURÆTION-25 + ANNIVERSARY)

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Really important reminder of how Reform aren’t just Little Englanders, but part of an international far-right network which wants to take away fundamental rights we all take for granted - and wants to use “free speech” as a lever

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 1d

Never a problem in our house. My grandfather was at Gallipoli in WW1 and never allowed Churchill’s name to be spoken. Ever.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 1d

What a time we had …

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Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (Official Video)

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 1d

Keep ceding ground by seeking to understand that viewpoint and the voices that claim that ground will drown out decency and sanity. The ability to understand the motives the caller is prey to is hardly difficult; the ability to resist their effect however, is an existential struggle.

Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 1d

Nerds are going to kill us all 🙄

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2d

My colleagues report that the group - Alliance Defending Freedom - has also been supplying the Trump administration with attack lines presenting the UK government as hostile to free speech

They are why JD Vance started talking about abortion clinic buffer zone cases in Britain

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Dave @endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social · 2d

A song a day …

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Hazel O'Connor - Will You - TOTP 1981

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10d

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours.

It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.

See TrumpActionTracker.info