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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 12h

The only downside to Aldi Lemon Zest shower gel is that I smell like a freshly mopped floor

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, ladies

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 5d

This really needs to be said and understood. What makes it worse, if possible, is that it is not coming out of any genuine crisis or emergency. It is a deliberate attempt to whip up anger and grievance in order to capitalise upon it & in Jenrick's case purely to advance his leadership ambitions.

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 6d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 3d

I can accept the calibre if it can be worked into an EM2…

Lefties can be accommodated in God’s Chosen Configuration and it was downright public school establishment not to do it in the SA80.

People bleat about the trigger but it was good for a battle rifle, TBH. That said, never tried an AR

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 3d

The first time in 40 years British defence procurement made sense.

However I sense there may be an end to the bullpup era afoot. Shenanigans be damned- give me back my stumpy heavy problem child!

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 4d

I’d love @ledbydonkeys.org to do a version of this about the English feudal system, which gave us austerity, and it’s bastard child, Brexit

Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 5d

Brit here. He was awesome during Brexit- you’re lucky to have him (plus obviously as a sane country you voted correctly). We would benefit from this kind of LEADERSHIP

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5d

Greta Thunberg is not in the Epstein files, but Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump are.

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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 6d

Here we go again! ukdefencejournal.org.uk/milei-turns-...

Milei turns to Falklands as Argentina’s troubles mount

Argentina’s Milei has revived the Falklands claim at the UN. With London distracted and his economy in crisis, he’s gambling on weakness.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 7d

"the number of the stars in the whole of the two million nebulae is such that if stars were grains of sand, the grains would cover the whole of England hundreds of yards deep. Our earth is one millionth part of one such grain, and we bother ourselves over questions of social rank"

Leonard Hill 1930

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8d

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 8d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This needs to be shared widely

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11d

And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on?

Guess where that data looks like it will end up?

In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it!

Larry Ellison’s Oracle!!
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 11d

Follow The Nerve- link below!

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16d

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 16d

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 11d

That’s the only one of the lot I ID’d correctly as I don’t have my glasses to hand

Thank you in any case for keeping the wing count down (unlike my fellow correct-Spitfire-engine-fancier)

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 13d

Long Thread Of The Year (so far)

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 13d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 13d

FWIW, this has been my default view for the last decade or so, and for the same reason give by Tanja, I.e. climate change

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 13d

I have every expectation, and I am not saying this lightly at all, that we will be looking at migrants being shot at borders within a decade.

So I consider it *existential* that we find a better response to migration increases as migration can only go up as an essential human need.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13d

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 13d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 13d

30% drop year over year!

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 13d

Orban is such a contemptible caricature at this point that I am content to leave him to the Ukrainians

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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 13d

He’s the Eichmann of this administration <sideeye to Czech partisans>

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14d

This is amazing. I was in Moldova last year, and saw all the corrupt money Putin was pouring into that country trying to buy the vote. If Moldova stands against this, Europe and democracy wins

George Melashvili 🇺🇦🇬🇪 @mel.ge · 14d

MOLDOVA - won! Kremlin's machinations failed.
Despite #Russia's all-in, they lost in #Moldova tonight 🇲🇩 Great night for #Europe!

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Facts Central @stilldelvingh.bsky.social · 14d

GOOD MORNING!
(Worth caps)

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14d

Moldova 🇲🇩 👍

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