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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 23h

I don't know why they don't turn their guns on their officers.

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 1d

Shabana Mahmood will warn on Wednesday that the UK’s failure to control its borders is eroding trust not just in politicians but in the state itself.

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 1d

… saw it was a cockroach. I felt sick and ended up vomiting.”

— yeeeugh!

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 1d

… in the driver’s cab of their bus. The individual concerned claims they did not reveal their name because they feared repercussions.

“I went to take a sip from my drink and felt something in my mouth,” the driver said in the video. “I spat it out and …

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 1d

… the capital’s bus drivers, is calling on Transport for London and its bus operators to improve cleanliness standards across the network.

One video, posted by the LBF website on TikTok, appears to show a driver who discovered several cockroaches inside a drink they had left …

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 1d

London bus drivers have claimed the capital’s buses are riddled with cockroaches — with photographs appearing to show the insects hiding in seat cushions and floor panels.

London Bus Forums (LBF), a message board and campaigning organisation for …

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 2d

When Simon Rowling-Tide Jenkins rights for the Guardian he usually writes unutterable nonsense. On the few occasions I have seen him in The Times he has seemed very sensible.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Simon Jenkins: Now in the midst of Rowling-tide, I pray for the souls of liberty's saints

Simon Jenkins: Harry Potter, horoscopes, Halloween, Guy Fawkes ... reason needs all the friends it can get in a land of pagan fundamentalists.

www.theguardian.com

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-group-...

Trans group 'BASH BACK' targets Brighton Centre - FiLiA has “blood on their hands”

'BASH BACK', a "trans-led direct-action project", has targeted the Brighton Centre ahead of this weekend’s FiLiA Conference to “to prove trans people will not be intimidated”, adding FiLiA should “exp...

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

The sad thing is that there are many people trying to normalize what they euphemistically call MAPs.

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

It's a great name: making their violent intentions totally clear.

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

Activists from Bash Back, which describes itself as a "trans-led direct action group", posted a statement saying it was behind the vandalism.

— “Bash Back”? No implication of violence there, none at all!

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

Masked figures were seen in online videos smashing windows and spray-painting the building, ahead of a three-day event billed as one of the largest grassroots feminist gatherings in Europe.

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Trans activists vandalise FiLiA feminist conference in Brighton

The Bash Back action group said it vandalised a Brighton conference venue ahead of the event.

www.bbc.com

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

Vladimir Putin has told his Azerbaijani counterpart that Moscow will compensate Azerbaijan for its part in accidentally downing an Azerbaijani passenger plane.

— “Its part”? 100%!

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Putin admits Russian role in 2024 Azerbaijani jet crash, offers redress

Putin told Azerbaijan's Aliyev that Russia will provide 'compensation' for the deadly crash caused by its air defences.

www.aljazeera.com

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

One of two men accused of plotting to kill Jewish people in Manchester "hero-worshipped" the man behind the 2015 Paris attack in which 130 people were killed, a court has heard.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Terror accused 'hero-worshipped' 2015 Paris attacker - BBC News

Walid Saadaoui planned to kill as many people as possible in Manchester, a court is told.

www.bbc.co.uk

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 5d

Two men accused of plotting to kill Jewish people in Manchester planned to cause "untold harm" after buying assault rifles capable of killing hundreds of people, a court has heard.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Men 'plotted to do untold harm to Jewish people in Manchester'

Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein planned to kill as many Jewish people as they could, a trial hears.

www.bbc.co.uk

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 7d

Some good news!

However “Despite Bahonar’s statement, government mandates for compulsory hijab persist

“The persistence of Article 638 and the possibility of localized enforcement mean that ambiguity and risk remain for Iranian women navigating public spaces.”

niacouncil.org/senior-conse...

Senior Conservative on Expediency Council Says Mandatory Hijab No Longer Enforceable in Iran – NIAC

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

Yesterday was the war criminal's birthday. I saw many idiots praising him. Tacitus was prescient:

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

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“Oh Allah, break their words, shake their feet, disperse and tear apart their unity and ruin their houses and destroy their homes.”

www.thejc.com/news/imams-d...

Imam’s ‘destroy Jewish homes’ sermon is not a crime, say police - The Jewish Chronicle

Met Police urged to re-investigate speech made near to an east London Jewish community

www.thejc.com

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

Just two weeks after Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel last year, a preacher at an east London mosque – located near a sizeable Jewish community – told his followers: “Oh Allah, curse the Jews and the children of Israel. Oh Allah, curse the infidels and the polytheists.

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

… Singh wrote that “it is not logical or rational to interfere with the religious freedom of one group (Sikhs, as well as many others) to defend the sensibilities of another group (Muslims) from subjective forms of offence”.

gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

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The NSO warns that a definition could risk censoring Sikh history, given that central points of its historical narrative refer to oppressive Muslim rulers.

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

… (and indeed other religious and philosophical) beliefs and practices which would offend people of the Islamic faith, and would fall afoul of any definition of ‘Islamophobia’, but which are important and sometimes even central to the manifestation of the supposedly offending faith.”

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

… It has led to concerns of a de facto blasphemy law that would stifle freedom of speech and criticism of Islam, and could also hinder efforts to tackle grooming gangs.

Lord Singh of Wimbledon, the NSO’s director, wrote: “There are countless examples of Sikh …

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gablodian.bsky.social @gablodian.bsky.social · 8d

Oh what a tangled web weave when first we pander…

The NSO claims it is discriminatory and puts other faiths at a disadvantage, as it would interfere with the rights of Sikhs and other religious groups to freedom of thought and religion.

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